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Ideas for Action: Creating and Collaborating for Inclusive Teaching
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
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
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
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
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 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. ... -
Deconstructing Neutrality: Hope Olson, Classification Bias, and the Library of Congress Fine Arts Range
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 ... -
The Prejudices and Antipathies of Art: Teaching Students about Bias in the Library of Congress Fine Arts Classification During One-Shot Instruction
From recent controversies surrounding the pejorative subject term “illegal aliens” to the former use of insulting terms like “yellow peril,” it is clear that the Library of Congress Classification System and its subject ... -
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' ... -
Revival of a historic bibliography for a modern bibliographic analysis
Conducting a bibliographic analysis on the complete works of an individual has the potential to reveal patterns and themes that are otherwise obscured. Assembling a bibliography for contemporary authors is somewhat ... -
Analyzing unexpected success of a data visualization video series
Abstract: About a year ago, the library created a series of 17 YouTube videos on data visualization. These presented practical skills on making graphs and diagrams in Google’s Sheets and Slides, and Microsoft’s Excel ... -
Revising and rethinking asynchronous data literacy modules: Addition of practical data visualization skills for students of all abilities
Previously a group of librarians created a set of data literacy modules. These were designed to be online asynchronous, taken either in unison or separately, mostly for STEM disciplines with hopes of being useful outside ... -
Building Your Network
Social mixers and elevator pitches may be where your mind goes when you think about networking, but there are many ways to connect with others in libraries that fall outside of the conventional wisdom. The NMRT Online ... -
Connecting Commuter and Military-Affiliated Students to Campus and Community
A student success librarian describes two successful programs implemented during the 2021-2022 academic year targeting commuter and military-affiliated students. Each program was implemented in close partnership with ... -
RecrEational REading: Reflections on a Digital Leisure Reading Pilot
After initiating a shift in leisure reading purchasing from leased print titles to E-book and E-audio titles in response to the events of 2020, librarians reflect on a year of the pilot project: How was the collection ... -
Critical Consumption: Empowering Students to Evaluate Sources in a One-Shot Session on Introductory Consumer Marketing Research
Instruction in library resources and research for the introductory marketing class is one of the most requested one-shot sessions from the business school at Miami University, a large public school in the Midwest, with ... -
Toward a Framework for Information Creativity
Recognizing the importance of information literacy in defining the primary focus of library instruction, this paper suggests the potential utility of a complementary principle of information creativity. Employers and ... -
Student Health and Wellness and the Library
The COVID-19 pandemic made clear that student health and wellness is a priority for every area of campus, including the library. As students continued to struggle with stress, anxiety, and other mental health concerns after ... -
Creating Museum Exhibits Faculty-Librarian Collaboration within a First-Year Research Course
Integrating information literacy (IL) into credit-bearing courses is not a new topic for librarians, but few are able to go beyond the traditional one-shot session. Some are able to become embedded in a class, with varying ...