• Roll for initiative: Using library game nights to empower student leaders 

  Morgan, Abi; Boehme, Ginny

  Academic libraries provide valuable programming for their campus communities. This programming often springs from collaborations with other campus centers, but we sometimes overlook the fact that student organizations can ...

• Discussions at a Distance: Autonomy in Asynchronous Course Assignments 

  Birkenhauer, Laura

  After instructing a typically in-person, first-year experience course in an asynchronous, online format for the first time due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this instructor sought student feedback on both the modes of discussion ...

• Effects of high school location on first-year students’ research confidence and college readiness 

  Morgan, Abigail; Yarnetsky, Jerry

  In Ohio, K-12 public school funding models have been ruled unconstitutional four times due to the great discrepancies among districts from different economic and geographic areas. One of these discrepancies is often the ...

• Faculty-librarian partnerships within a course-based first-year research experience program 

  Boehme, Ginny

  Miami University offers several avenues for undergraduates to participate in research, the First Year Research Experience (FYRE) program being one of them. Created a decade ago, the program currently takes the form of a ...

• Building Your Brand and Communicating for Collaboration in a Brand New Role 

  Birkenhauer, Laura

  Newly created roles in libraries are an exciting opportunity, but can also be confusing: for colleagues, your campus and community. The confusion is only compounded when a position breaks with tradition or is built on ...

• Future Focused Outreach with Campus and Community Collaborations 

  Birkenhauer, Laura

  In changing times, outreach efforts play a major role in meaningfully connecting users to the academic library of the 21st century. Collaborations, both on- and off-campus, are vital to the success of such endeavors. This ...

• Digital Wellness: Strategies for Supporting Student Well-Being Online 

  Birkenhauer, Laura

  With 24/7 device access and frequent social media use proving problematic to the success of our students, this poster presents an argument for digital wellness instruction in libraries, potential campus collaborators for ...

• Advisors as Allies: Connecting Libraries and Academic Advising 

  Birkenhauer, Laura

  Nearly every college student is assigned to and familiar with how to communicate with their academic advisor; unfortunately, the same cannot be said for most students and their liaison librarian. Though librarians and ...

• Systematic Reviews and Evidence Syntheses 

  Jacobsen, Anna Liss

  Invited presentation on systematic reviews, evidence syntheses, and a librarian's role on evidence synthesis teams.

• (Re)Building​ ​Alliances: Advocating for art methodologies in digital collections collaborations 

  Hilles, Stefanie; Wegner, Alia Levar

  Advocating for art disciplinary methodologies in collaborations with digital collections librarians, especially in academic libraries, is a vital skill. While art librarians have refined and transformed their relationship ...

• Exhibiting STEAM: Engaging Art Librarianship in the STEM Narrative 

  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, and science has used artistic techniques to expand knowledge. Since STEM ...

• Libraries Are Not Neutral: Implementing Social Justice and Critical Information Literacy into One-Shot Instruction 

  Hilles, Stefanie

  The United States is finally listening to the Black Lives Matter Movement. After the tragic murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and far too many others at the hands of police, white Americans are recognizing the ...

• When You're Forced to Go Digital: Zinemaking Online 

  Hilles, Stefanie

  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 ...

• Experiences of Palliative and End-of-Life Care among Older LGBTQ Women: A Review of Current Literature 

  Valenti, Korijna; Jen, Sarah; Parajuli, Jyotsana; Arbogast, Annabelle; Jacobsen, Anna Liss; Kunkel, Suzanne

  Background: Understanding end-of-life (EOL) and palliative care continues to grow. However, little attention has been paid to the experiences, preferences, and needs of older lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer ...

• Transitioning statistics help desk service from in-person to remote: Exploration of risks and opportunities 

  Jacobsen, Anna Liss; Millard, John

  Objective: Examine initiative to transform student staffed, in-person statistical help desk service from physical to remote service. Setting/Resources: Miami University Libraries have offered a student staffed statistics ...

• Team teaching anatomy using innovative technology: A case study 

  Jacobsen, Anna Liss

  Objective: The aim of this paper was to describe a novel team teach approach to teaching an anatomy class using a 3D computer graphics (3DCG) tool. Setting/Participants: Participants were 38 Speech Pathology and Audiology ...

• Maker Services in Academic Libraries: A Review of Case Studies 

  Nagle, Sarah Beth

  Makerspaces and maker-centered learning have surged in popularity in higher education and particularly academic libraries in recent years, following trends that initially emerged in primary and secondary education and ...

• Information Inspiration: Creativity Across the Disciplines in Academic Libraries 

  Dahlquist, Mark; Hilles, Stefanie; Nagle, Sarah

  Placing new emphasis on makerspaces, digital scholarship and publishing, and inventive ideation-centered instruction, academic libraries have in recent years turned their attention to inspiring and supporting creativity. ...

• An Introduction to the Creative Commons: Creation, Licensing, and Use 

  Myers, Carla S.

  Copyright permeates almost every aspect of the creation and use of Open Educational Resources (OER). Given academic librarians role in championing the OER movement and promoting the ethical and responsible re-use of ...

• An Introduction to the Creative Commons 

  Myers, Carla S.

  Creative Commons (CC) licenses provide those creating copyrightable works with an opportunity to outline terms under which others can reuse them, eliminating the need for users to seek permission for their use of the ...

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