• Growing Together: Legitimizing creativity through cross-departmental collaboration 

  Calabrese, Cara; Nagle, Sarah; Stepanova, Masha

  Technical Services (TS) Staff have been interested in learning more about other departments and using the tools the library has to offer, but can lack the freedom to engage during their scheduled hours. TS has scheduled ...

• Planning your Technical Services Retreat: Have fun and get stuff done! 

  Calabrese, Cara; Nagle, Sarah

  The Technical Services (TS) Librarians were looking for ways to support staff’s professional development and growth. They hit on the idea of a TS Retreat and began research and planning. Initial research showed that retreats ...

• Creating Inclusive Makerspaces 

  Nagle, Sarah

  As more universities embrace makerspaces as catalysts for creativity and innovation, the higher education community has the opportunity to address issues of inclusivity and intentionally create spaces that encourage ...

• Demonstrating Impact of Library Makerspaces: Examples and Future Directions 

  Nagle, Sarah; Kouse, Cara

  A common challenge for library makerspace organizers is demonstrating the value and impact of makerspaces to administrators, patrons, communities, and even other library staff. The value of makerspaces can be difficult to ...

• Creating in Quarantine: Making Online During COVID-19 

  Hilles, Stefanie; Nagle, Sarah

  During spring 2020, universities found themselves navigating an unprecedented and sudden shift to online learning. Librarians play a crucial role in connecting students and faculty with digital tools and resources during ...

• Making Connections: Multidisciplinary Makerspace Curriculum Integrations 

  Nagle, Sarah

  By partnering with faculty to incorporate maker learning into the curriculum, academic makerspace organizers have a unique opportunity to impact scholarship across their institutions. Maker-centered learning is beneficial ...

• Making Changes: Sustaining Innovative Services During a Pandemic 

  Nagle, Sarah

  Many libraries across the country are faced with the challenge of re-opening our doors in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some might encounter budget cuts, while at the same time the pressure to meet our universities’ ...

• A Series of Fortunate Events: Planning Great Maker Events 

  Nagle, Sarah

  No matter the type of makerspace, holding maker events can be a key tool for attracting new users, securing funding from stakeholders, and building a community in your space. However, coordinating effective and inclusive ...

• Maker Literacy & the ACRL Framework 

  Nagle, Sarah

  Academic library makerspaces enable maker-centered learning experiences that hold enduring benefits to students from all fields of study. Some may wonder, however, how maker literacy fits within traditional library information ...

• Building Library Communities through Makerspace Engagement 

  Nagle, Sarah

  Makerspaces and other experiential learning labs are a growing addition to libraries of all types. But in order to ensure they are a lasting part of library services, these spaces must be more than just the technology and ...

• An Inclusive and Creative Service for Experiential Learning 

  Chapin, Lori; Nagle, Sarah; Tzoc, Elias

  As workforce requirements continue to transform, innovation and experiential learning are increasingly important topics in higher education. In this presentation, we showcase how a university library department has leveraged ...

• Makerspaces: Hubs for Interdisciplinary Learning 

  Nagle, Sarah

  Makerspaces and maker-centered instruction continue to grow in academic libraries. However, it may not always be clear how makerspaces support the missions of academic libraries, or how they further the goals of information ...

• Ideas for Action: Creating and Collaborating for Inclusive Teaching 

  Nagle, Sarah; Morgan, Abigail

  The process of embedding anti-racist practices into library instruction is vitally important, especially as we and our students navigate ongoing systemic injustices at our institutions, in our communities, and on a national ...

• Remaking the Makerspace: Transformational Student Training 

  Nagle, Sarah; Chapin, Lori

  In a library makerspace, student training can be less straightforward than traditional library environments. Students are required to be aware of a wide variety of tools, techniques, software, and patron interactions. ...

• Building with The Bauhaus: Integrating art and maker education 

  Hilles, Stefanie; Nagle, Sarah

  The Bauhaus, a German art and design school active from 1919-1933, changed how artists and designers are educated. Previously, art students were typically trained at Royal Academies where they learned by copying the masters. ...

• Beyond the Land Acknowledgement: Indigenous Language Revitalization, Student Activism, and Critical Theory in STEM Librarianship 

  Hilles, Stefanie; Boehme, Ginny

  Throughout their history, libraries have participated in white supremacist power structures that privilege white knowledge over that of other cultures. While humanities and social science librarians are becoming more ...

• Creative Deconstruction: Using Zines to Teach the ACRL Framework 

  Hilles, Stefanie

  Zines not only record the narratives of counter-cultural movements and preserve the voices of marginalized people, their creation and history can also be used to implicitly teach students elements of the ACRL Framework ...

• Zine and Be Heard: Engaging Design Students in Social Justice through Zines 

  Hilles, Stefanie

• Zine Scene: Engaging Students in Power and Resistance Narratives Through Zines 

  Hilles, Stefanie

  Zines, from Punk and the Riot Grrrls to contemporary zines created by people of color and the LGBTQ+ community, are inherently intertwined with social action and countercultures seeking to subvert and resist authority. ...

• Deconstructing Neutrality: Hope Olson, Classification Bias, and the Library of Congress Fine Arts Range 

  Hilles, Stefanie

  Neutrality is one of the founding principles of library classification; however, systems reflect the biases of the people and societies that created them. Library neutrality is, in fact, a myth. This presentation will ...

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