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Walking the Tightrope: Balancing Student’s Desire for Textbooks & the Library Budget
This chapter provides an overview of how academic libraries can adequately budget for and manage textbooks circulated to students through a print course reserve service. -
What Information Literacy Means to Me: Collaborating with Faculty to Understand Student Perceptions of Information Literacy
This presentation recounts the experiences of The Faculty Learning Community for Improving Student Research Literacy, a community of professors and librarians at Miami University (Oxford, OH). Community members created a ... -
When Librarians Rank Last: First-Year Student Research Readiness, Library Intimidation & High School Experiences
What happens when high school students don't have access to librarians? In fall 2021 we conducted a survey of first-year students at two Ohio public universities. We hoped to learn about incoming first-year students' ... -
When You're Forced to Go Digital: Zinemaking Online
In spring 2020, universities found themselves navigating an unprecedented and sudden shift to online learning. Librarians have played a crucial role in connecting students and faculty with digital tools and resources during ... -
Where do we go from here? Expanding the reach of your gaming events
"This chapter utilizes case studies from various institutions to explore methods of deepening student engagement with games. We begin with exploring ways to engage with student input, then move into how games can support ... -
Will Lightning Strike?
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With the Help of Students and Donors
(2015-01-30)This poster featured reflections on the first eighteen months of a long-term student-powered project to digitize a large and still-growing cultural heritage collection. Included were strategies developed for anticipating ... -
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means...Copyright myths, misnomers, and misconceptions
Copyright law permeates almost every aspect of librarianship and does much to help academic libraries offer a wide variety of services and resources to patrons. Unfortunately, there are many myths and misconceptions about ... -
Zine Scene: Engaging Students in Power and Resistance Narratives Through Zines
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. ... -
Zines As Outreach For Art Kids and Ecologists (And Everyone In Between)
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 ...