Embedded Files
opening
opening
8:30 - 9 am
Room 2258
Registration and Continental Breakfast
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9 - 9:10 am
Room 2254 (Auditorium)
Opening Remarks
Opening Remarks
morning keynote speaker
morning keynote speaker
9:10 - 10 am
Room 2254 (Auditorium)
Wendy Holliday— What is an Educated Person?: Information Literacy and Student Success
Wendy Holliday— What is an Educated Person?: Information Literacy and Student Success
The purpose and value of a college education has increasingly focused on credentials and employability. Utah legislators and businesses call on the state's higher education institutions to produce graduates who can meet workforce needs. In this landscape, the question, "what is an educated person?" is often answered in instrumental terms. What does this mean for information literacy as a foundation of a general, liberal education? This keynote will explore the tensions in our current discourse on student success and the role of information literacy in navigating those tensions.
Morning Breakout Sessions
Morning Breakout Sessions
We’re trying something different with breakout sessions this year, with moderated dialogues around a topic rather than formal presentations. Please see the topics and corresponding discussion questions below, and come prepared to ask questions and share ideas.
10:10 - 11 am
Room 2267
ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education — How Are We Using It?
Moderated by Elise Silva, BYU Lee Library. Discussion questions to consider:
- What types of sessions are you teaching that reflect the framework?
- What conversations are taking place on your campuses about the framework--in the library, with faculty, with other institutions?
- What do you like about the framework? What has been challenging?
- How is the framework limiting? What about using other frameworks? Are discipline-specific frameworks used?
10:10 - 11 am
Room 2295
Getting Started as a Researcher-Librarian — Aligning Librarian Identities, Roles, and Passions
Moderated by Donna Ziegenfuss, University of Utah Marriott Library. We will reflect on and discuss our roles as librarians and as researchers:
- What do you value the most about being a librarian? A researcher?
- What interests do you have as a librarian and a researcher?
- What connections do we see between our roles and interests as librarians and researchers?
- How could we integrate our interests and our work as librarians and researchers? If possible, imagine what that might look like in a year or two.
11:10 - Noon
Room 2267
Technology in Support of Instruction
Moderated by Brandon Patterson, University of Utah Eccles Health Sciences Library. This session will begin with participants sharing current projects related to technology at their libraries. We’ll then discuss the following questions along with others that may arise:
- What technologies are we using to effectively reach students taking online classes that include library research?
- How are the different institutions’ IT department supporting the library’s technology?
- How are you working with instructional designers and other educational technologists?
11:10 - Noon
Room 2295
Making Research Connections
Dialogue moderated by Annalee Hickman, BYU Hunter Law Library. This session will include two parts: a dialogue to discuss how to make research connections and examples of it being done, and a connection portion to allow participants to put into practice the theory and examples discussed.
- Dialogue
- How are you making connections with other librarians and/or faculty in and outside of Utah to facilitate research?
- Is there a resource available for librarians that helps with connections?
- Are librarians viewed as being able to be in research circles outside of the library? If not, how do we get there?
- Connection
- Participants will divide into small groups based off research interests to provide a networking opportunity for people to connect with others interested in similar research topics and to form potential collaborations between institutions.
Noon - 1 pm
Room 2258
Lunch
Lunch
afternoon keynote speaker
afternoon keynote speaker
1:10 - 2 pm
Room 2254 (Auditorium)
Holt Zaugg— Assess Yourself: So, Why am I Doing This?
Holt Zaugg— Assess Yourself: So, Why am I Doing This?
This presentation will discuss the four components of research and assessment (design, data collection, analysis, and dissemination) in the context of assessing libraries especially instruction within the library. It cover pitfalls and some biases connected with research and assessment and offer some suggestions to prevent, overcome and account for pitfalls and biases. The presentation ends with discussion for the reasons and motivations for conducting assessments.
Afternoon Breakout Sessions
Afternoon Breakout Sessions
2:10 - 3 pm
Room 2267
What We Learn from Students
Dialogue moderated by Rachel Wishkoski, Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library, and Rachel Wadham, BYU Lee Library. Discussion questions to consider:
- How well do you feel you know your student population and its various communities? What mechanisms does your library have in place for you to get to know your students’ needs and perspectives? How do you use these mechanisms?
- What do you wish you knew about your students? What could you do to go about getting that information?
- How has hearing from students in formal and informal ways validated, challenged, or given you insight into your teaching? Are there any times you’ve been surprised in the classroom or in your interactions with students?
- What strategies do you use to assess and incorporate student perspectives and needs into your teaching?
- What goals will you set for yourself after our discussions today and then how will you evaluate your success in meeting your goal?
2:10 - 3 pm
Room 2295
Assessing Library Programs and Services: Successes, Failures, and Questions
Dialogue moderated by Linda Jones, Dixie State University Library. Discussion questions to consider:
- What assessments are you using in order to assess the Framework?
- How do you take the assessment data to the higher ups so they know that you are part of the bigger picture?
- How do you assess programming and outreach?
- Aside from stats, how do you assess reference services?
- How are you assessing your current collections?
- What have you tried and it failed? Did you scrape it or revamp it?
- What have you tried and found a surprising success?
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