Poster Sessions and Reception
Wednesday, April 16
5:30 - 7:30 PM
Hors d’oeuvres with Cash Bar
Atrium
Finals Week at College Library
Last fall, staff at UW-Madison College Library organized a series of events to ease the stress of finals week for our students. With help from campus partners, students benefited from daily events designed to reduce tension and make final exams just a bit more bearable. From free coffee and treats, to koosh balls and visits from Bucky Badger, our finals week programming boosted student morale and generated good will toward the library. http://college.library.wisc.edu/news/expanded/finalsfall07.
Kelli Keclik, Carrie Kruse & Dave Luke, College Library, UW-Madison
Rethinking Librarianship
Opportunities exist for librarians all over the university if we step outside our box of librarianship. To illustrate this, I will trace my journey at UW-Platteville as the education librarian--how my journey began with a new director who gave a small inroad of teaching an introductory computer course that later led me to teach in Wuhan, China in a TESOL program, and co-present a paper this summer in Oxford, England.
Regina Pauly, UW-Platteville
Informal Information Seeking as Done by College Students
With this poster I seek to answer the question: where do students go when they have burning questions they need to answer? Not necessarily questions that require the assistance of books, journals, other scholarly materials, questions related to school life, school work, and life in general. Hypothesis: the internet. To answer this question more readily though, we will be gathering information via survey and observation of several web forums.
Rebecca Buchmann, Carroll College
WLA Intellectual Freedom Round Table
Intellectual freedom is the foundational principle for the LIS profession. Its importance reaches all aspects of the field and all types of libraries. Yet, it is often overshadowed by emerging technologies, political will, new bills and laws, and other “practical” issues of the day. This poster will remind the conference community about the value of a strong professional commitment to IF, describe the role and activities of the IFRT, and offer valuable resources on IF.
Elizabeth Buchanan, School of Information Studies, UW-Milwaukee
Building a(n) (Info)Common(s) Culture
Ebling Library recently ventured into the world of information commons, developing a collaborative technology area. But unlike libraries that build from the ground-up, Ebling absorbed a neighboring informatics lab. While some prep work was needed, the lab moved with comparably little set-up. The challenge was that the lab culture also transferred, bringing a different view of customer service. This poster explores the evolution of the InfoCommons culture that developed from these disparate approaches to service.
Ryan Schryver, Rhonda Sager & Michael Venner, Ebling Library, UW-Madison
Electronic Resource Cooperative Purchasing Models
Our members vary in size from 2000 to 6000 FTE, so it is imperative that we keep prices fair for both our smaller and larger libraries. Upon reviewing the professional literature, I have completed a comparison model using several formula calculations. I am interested in sharing with academic librarians how we negotiate and calculate our electronic resource prices and eager to learn how other library groups negotiate and calculate prices too.
Rebecca Dougherty, WISPALS Consortium Coordinator, Gateway Technical College
More than Tickmarks: Using the READ Scale to Record Reference Transactions
In February 2007 the Lawrence librarians participated in a study of the READ (Reference Effort Assessment Data) scale conducted by Lynn Berard of Carnegie Mellon and Bella Gerlich of Georgia College and State University. This study tested the validity of the six-point READ Scale as a tool for gathering statistics that would reflect the effort, knowledge, and skills required during a reference transaction. After participating, we adapted and adopted the scale for our own use.
Julie Fricke, Antoinette Powell & Gretchen Revie, Lawrence University
Flow-Charts for Weeding the Monographic Collection at an Undergraduate Academic Library
In managing monographic weeding, one must consider the specific campus and a process which assures faculty their needs are being met. This session presents flow charts tracking the weeding of collections at the McIntyre Library in response to space needs and disciplinary research method. The charts show decisions based on use statistics, electronic bibliographic tools, faculty involvement, and refinements to accommodate main stacks and special cases such as the Instructional Media Center and Storage collections.
Dr. Janice M. Bogstad & Katie Tvaruzka, McIntyre Library, UW-Eau Claire
Rasmussen College Library System
Rasmussen College Library System (Rasmussen College Library System) is a network of librarians and resources serving the students, faculty and staff of Rasmussen College. We offer print and audio-visual resource collections at each of the 13 locations nationwide. Together, the RCLS seek to fulfill our mission through excellent customer service to our students, faculty, and staff by using innovate online collaborative tools, such as Ma.gnolia.com, collection development collaboration projects, and use of an internal blog.
Karen Eckberg, Rasmussen College, Green Bay
Developing a Research Skills Course
During the fall of 2006, Polk Library and the English Department at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh collaborated in developing a pilot course focusing on research skills. Conceived as a one credit graded lab attached to an existing upper level composition course, the course was taught during the 2007 Fall Semester as part of an Advanced Composition for the Humanities.
Marisa Finkey, Polk Library, UW-Oshkosh
The More you Click…Engaging and Assessing
UW-Milwaukee librarians use Student Response Systems (AKA Clickers) as a tool for engaging students in the learning process and to assess students’ information literacy skills. Our use focuses on effective implementation of Clickers in one and two-shot course integrated instruction sessions. Clicker presentations are designed to emphasize the learning goals of the session and are posed prior to instruction and/or throughout instruction. Students, instructors, and librarians have responded favorably to clickers here at the UW-Milwaukee Libraries. Examples and data from ENG 102 (Research and Composition) and ENG 205 (Business Writing) will be provided.
Kate Ganski, Molly Susan Mathias, Kris Midthun and Kristin Woodward UW-Milwaukee Libraries