Brinkman, StacyStacy Brinkmanhttp://hdl.handle.net/2374.MIA/52052024-03-14T19:49:23Z2024-03-14T19:49:23ZZines As Outreach For Art Kids and Ecologists (And Everyone In Between)Vonnahme, ErinSentieri, CarlyBrinkman, Stacyhttp://hdl.handle.net/2374.MIA/60702017-04-03T14:09:32ZZines As Outreach For Art Kids and Ecologists (And Everyone In Between)
Vonnahme, Erin; Sentieri, Carly; Brinkman, Stacy
Zines provide a unique outreach opportunity for librarians across disciplinary boundaries and functional roles, offering a low barrier for entry (Can you fold and cut? Great! You’re almost done!) and transdisciplinary appeal. These DIY, be-whatever-you-need-them-to-be teaching tools and learning objects create a dynamic energy as easily as they foster quiet contemplation through drawing and writing. Want to share your research about rising nitrogen levels in area lakes? Your journey to body posi behavior? Try zines.
This poster will highlight the efforts of librarians and staff across Special Collections and public services departments at a mid-sized, Midwestern liberal arts university. For more than a year, we have been working to connect zines to students directly in the classroom (through courses like Drawing for Non-Majors and Introduction to Creative Writing); to campus communities through our standing, monthly zine workshop series; and to the broader community through annual events like our Women’s History Month celebrations and makerspace.
Information Literacy Through Site-Specific Installation: The Library ProjectBrinkman, StacyYoung, Sarahttp://hdl.handle.net/2374.MIA/58012016-03-08T15:24:17ZInformation Literacy Through Site-Specific Installation: The Library Project
Brinkman, Stacy; Young, Sara
This article describes how a collaborative, multifaceted, site-specific installation helped to develop information literacy in studio art students. Through the process of planning, creating, and installing the project, students learned to find and evaluate many different kinds of information, from design ideas to historical precedents, site plans, and business plans. As a public installation within a library, students learned to consider the economic, social, and legal issues involved with the context of their audience and location. Finally, the conceptual framework of the installation encouraged students to think critically about the role of libraries in today’s information and technology-saturated society.
Building Trust to Relieve Graduate Student Research AnxietyBrinkman, StacyHartsell-Gundy, Ariannehttp://hdl.handle.net/2374.MIA/58002016-03-08T15:24:17ZBuilding Trust to Relieve Graduate Student Research Anxiety
Brinkman, Stacy; Hartsell-Gundy, Arianne
Minding Your Ps & Qs: A Q-Methodology WorkshopBrinkman, StacyMessner, KevinShrimplin, AaronWaller, JenWaller, Jenhttp://hdl.handle.net/2374.MIA/52032016-03-08T15:24:20ZMinding Your Ps & Qs: A Q-Methodology Workshop
Brinkman, Stacy; Messner, Kevin; Shrimplin, Aaron; Waller, Jen; Waller, Jen
Librarians are continually turning to new metrics to evaluate services, impact, and priorities. Q-methodology - a hybrid of qualitative and quantitative research techniques - is a systematic study of subjectivity that enables researches to understand user's beliefs or attitudes about particular issues. This workshop will train librarians to utilize Q-methodology through hands-on activities. Librarians will learn tangible skills that they can use to assess services, collections, and initiatives at their home institutions.