• Sliding Into the Future: An Exhibition of Deaccessioned Slides 

  Stefanie, Hilles

• Sparking Change: Zines and Social Activism 

  Hilles, Stefanie

• First Year Research Experience (FYRE) and Miami University Libraries 

  Boehme, Ginny; Floyd, Nate

• Building STEAM: Collaborative Outreach and Engagement with Art and Science in the Academic Library 

  Hilles, Stefanie; Boehme, Ginny

  Art and science are often thought of as separate and unrelated disciplines. However, art has frequently been influenced by scientific discoveries while science has used artistic techniques to expand knowledge. This ...

• Rapid Review of Social Communication Assessment Tools for Transition-Age Adolescents 

  Poll, Gerard; Turner, Chloe; Petru, Janis; Maskalunas, Caitlyn; Jacobsen, Anna Liss

  Social communication ability is vital for students’ successful transition from high school to post-school settings. The aim of this project is to systematically review the literature on social communication assessments for ...

• Advances in Anatomy Teaching in Higher Education 

  McMurray, Matthew; Jacobsen, Anna Liss

  Anatomy instruction is essential for pre-health students. In addition to traditional methods, the use of digital virtual and mixed-reality tools has grown, but evidence demonstrating their overall effectiveness is inconclusive. ...

• Online Classrooms: Is the TEACH Act Enough? 

  Myers, Carla

  As the scholarly communications universe continues to change and expand, it’s increasingly important for librarians to understand and be able to advise on complicated copyright issues in an accessible and relatable matter. ...

• Show me the Money! Or Not? Making Sense of the Fourth Factor of Fair Use. 

  Myers, Carla

  The fair use exception, found in Section 107 of US copyright law, is frequently utilized by librarians looking to reuse the works of others to provide services and resources to patrons (e.g. digitization projects, academic ...

• The Rise of Content Farms 

  Shores, Mark

  The article offers information on search engine content farms which gather and analyze web traffic to conceive topics that people are searching for over the Internet. It states that content farm articles offer little ...

• Library Service to Urban Appalachians: Opportunities and Rewards 

  Shores, Mark

  The article presents the opportunities of incorporating the U.S. urban Appalachians literature and library service to the service itself and the librarians. It notes that by exploring the history of urban Appalachians, ...

• Capturing Appalachia: Building a Collection of Photographers' Work 

  Shores, Mark

  The article offers information on the collection of books of Appalachian photography in the Appalachian region. The collected works of Appalachian photographers were published in book form by university presses and publishers ...

• Free Range Databases 

  Shores, Mark

  An overview of freely-available bibliographic databases including: when to use them, their drawbacks, and how to find them. Includes short reviews of a handful of these resources and whether or not their content is indexed ...

• Free Range Databases 

  Shores, Mark

  Overview of some of the freely-available subject-specific bibliographic databases, their features and drawbacks.

• I Saw it on YouTube: Representations of Libraries and What We Can Learn From Them 

  Shores, Mark

  Free video hosting services like YouTube are a popular platform for libraries to post their online tutorials and promotional videos, but are also venues for fictionalized satirical depictions of situations at public service ...

• The Laptop has Left the Building: Serving Your Students with 24-hour Laptop Checkouts 

  Shores, Mark

  Even though computer ownership in the United States has steadily increased over the last 10 years, many college students still do not have access to a computer at home. And because a lot of coursework requires using ...

• Garbage In, Garbage Out: Citation Generator Tools 

  Shores, Mark

  Students may not always know how to do thorough research but they sure do find out quickly that EasyBib, BibMe and other free citation tools can supposedly make their lives easier. The citation tools in subscription ...

• Phrases for the Front Line: What to Say When the Going Gets Tough 

  Ritchie, April; Shores, Mark

  Whether you work the front lines of customer service, or manage those who do, knowing what to say during difficult times is critical. This session will explore the idea of keeping a mental toolbox from which we can quickly ...

• Mind the Sharks: Guiding Faculty Through the Sometimes Perilous Waters of Open Access Publishing 

  Shores, Mark

  Open access, predatory journals and conferences can ensnare unwary tenure-track faculty trying to complete their scholarship responsibilities. Articles and proposals accepted by these entities can hinder instructors from ...

• On Course: A Critical Assessment of a Textbook Affordability Initiative 

  Resnis, Eric; Bazeley, Jennifer W

  As the need for higher education has increased in the preceding decades, so have the costs associated with it. Our institution has implemented numerous affordable learning initiatives in response, including an OER adopt/adapt ...

• Avoiding the “Axe”: Advancing Affordable and Open Education Resources at a Midsize University 

  Bazeley, Jennifer W; Haynes, Carolyn; Myers, Carla S; Resnis, Eric

  INTRODUCTION To address the soaring cost of textbooks, higher education institutions have launched a number of strategies to promote the adoption of affordable and open educational resources (AOER). Although a few models ...

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