Posters
Title: A Collaborative Story: Librarians and Activists Partnering to Preserve Local History
Presenters: Sara Cummins, UW-Madison SLIS
Melissa Nicolas, UW-Madison SLIS
Molly Khan, UW-Madison SLIS
As graduate students at the UW-Madison School of Library and Information Studies, we are interested in presenting the results of our independent study this spring at the WAAL Conference. We are creating a digital library using the Viewshare platform, a relatively new application, piloted by the Library of Congress to display the zines and political ephemera from the Madison, Wisconsin InfoShop library. The InfoShop’s most prominent collections are the local zines and topic files. These materials, often solicited by the Wisconsin Historical Society, are thought of as one of the largest zine collections in the United States. We are interested in investigating the functionality of Viewshare for librarians involved with multifaceted digital collections.
Title: Teen Issues Teen Reads Digital Library
Presenters: Brianna Berendes, UW-Milwaukee SOIS
Rebecca Lewis, UW-Milwaukee SOIS
Teen Issues Teen Reads is a digital library that focuses on finding reading materials for teenagers. In an academic setting, there are required reading materials and exciting teens about it is difficult to do. Teenagers are at the stage where they want to find books for themselves. This digital library would provide an opportunity to discover who they are as a reader and encourage reading outside of the school.
By utilizing a digital library, teachers can not only encourage reading that will cover topics of education and overall health for students, but can also encourage discussion, self-confidence, and social interaction between students. Digital libraries are a way for teachers to encourage reading and provide students some chance for self-control and direction in their own lives.
Title: Library Presence in a Learning Management System
Presenters: Dawn Haggerty, Herzing University-Kenosha
Joe Davies, Herzing University-Online
Students at Herzing University have access to library databases and resources through a tab in the Blackboard learning management system. A recent series of usability studies across the university revealed differences in how users interacted with this content, depending in part on whether they were enrolled in the Online-only program, or were taking courses online through the Kenosha campus. This poster will discuss those results, share the methodology and results of the usability testing for the library site in Blackboard, and discuss changes being planned and implemented based on the study.
Title: BadgerLearn: Explore Wisconsin’s Collaborative Learning Space and Training Portal
Presenter: Sara Gold, WiLS
BadgerLearn is a joint project by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s Resources for Libraries and Lifelong Learning (RL&LL), Wisconsin Library Services (WiLS) and the Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (WPLC). It is intended to be a place where academic, school and public librarians and library staff members can discover & access resources of professional value. Examples of recently added materials include:
- Streaming tutorials from ebook providers, including OverDrive, EBSCO and Freading
- FAQ's on copyright
- Database and Information Portals
- Digital Audio Books
- Messaging Tools
- Reader's Advisory
- Statistics
In addition, for each library type, there are established forums for the exchange of ideas and information. BadgerLearn is a collaborative project and we are looking for library and system staff willing to contribute content and/or help with our continuing development efforts. Are you a classification guru? Do you love making Camtasia or Jing tutorials for stuff in your spare time? Does your library have some great training materials you'd like to share? We'd love to hear from you. Please stop by and find out more about BadgerLearn.
Title: DAM it! Building a digital asset management program at the UW-Madison Center for Limnology
Presenters: Liz Krznarich, UW-Madison SLIS
Lori Steckervetz, UW-Madison SLIS
The transition from paper to digital document generation has left many organizations with heaps unidentifiable electronic files lurking on servers, individual computers and external media. Though they may contain valuable content, such files are often all but inaccessible due to lack of effective organization and management. While costly digital asset management (DAM) products and services are available to fill this void, few options exist for small organizations with limited budgets. At the UW-Madison Center for Limnology (CFL), digital photo collections amassed by long-serving employees presented a particular challenge. Blending library, archives and information technology perspectives, UW-Madison SLIS students assisted the CFL in assessing its needs, evaluating tools, and creating a plan for managing digital images. Addressing issues such as selection criteria, metadata input, and search/retrieval functions, this poster illustrates the process involved in developing the program and suggests tools and methods for initiating small-scale DAM projects on a shoestring budget.
Title: MERIT IT Training Program
Presenters: Anjali Bhasin, UW-Madison, MERIT Library,
Maegan Heindel, UW-Madison, MERIT Library
Robin Amado, UW-Madison, MERIT Library
Carrie Wolfson, UW-Madison, MERIT Library
In Spring 2012, UW-Madison MERIT Library offered instructional technology trainings to Madison Metropolitan School District schools and UW-Madison faculty, staff, and students. As a new initiative, instructors learned how to use Google Applications including but not limited to Google Earth, Google Books, and Google Documents. The trainings focused on how Google Applications could be used for pedagogical purposes including improving the writing process, peer review, and collaborative work.
Title: Grade “A” Paper? The Library May Reward You!
Presenters: Mary Frenn, Marquette University Raynor Memorial Libraries
Nia Schudson, Marquette University Raynor Memorial Libraries
For 15 years, Marquette University Raynor Memorial Libraries have been doing just that via the Maria Dittman Library Research Competition. We promote outstanding academic library skills by sponsoring a student paper contest that rewards excellence in library research with a $200 prize. This poster session will illustrate the committee’s process by which winners are chosen using various criteria and rubrics. This contest celebrates the life of Maria Dittman, an inspirational librarian who taught thousands of MU students the value of effective library research skills.
Title: Analysis of Reference Styles Specified by LIS Journals
Presenter: Karen Davies, UW-Milwaukee SOIS
Errors in the references of published journal articles have been reported for years. This study reviewed the instructions on referencing provided to authors by the journals.
The journals were identified from the Journal of Citation Reports database (Thomson Reuters) subject option "Information Science and Library Science". This lists sixty-five journal titles.
The study reviewed the bibliographic style required by the journal (such as APA, Harvard and Chicago); determined whether links to further bibliographic information were provided; identified if reference examples were provided; and determined whether journal(s) refer author(s) to previous articles for “guidance” on the style required for referencing.
Journals were excluded if they did not have a web page; if they did not provide an online version of “Instructions for Authors”; or if the journal website were in a foreign language.
Title: Library as blog host
Presenters: Marc Boucher, UW-Baraboo/Sauk County
Ann Vogl, UW-Baraboo/Sauk County
In the Fall of 2011 the Library at UW-Baraboo/Sauk County piloted a WordPress blog service for the campus to use as an educational platform to enhance and share learning at the college and beyond. The pilot phase has allowed the library staff to learn a lot about the pitfalls and possibilities of hosting this tool. This poster will describe the process, share examples and open up new avenues for your library to serve as an invaluable resource to your campus.
Title: Integrating Campus Bookstore into Library Operations
Presenters: Marc Boucher, UW-Baraboo/Sauk County
Ann Vogl, UW-Baraboo/Sauk County
The UW-Baraboo/Sauk County campus could not support operations of a campus bookstore due to low volume. In a search for a solution to provide students with support and access to bookstore materials, the Library took on added functions. The library now sells branded gear, some supplies and facilitates purchasing of materials for students through their financial aid. This experiment has not been without its pitfalls, but overall has been an overwhelming success.
Title: WiLS Regional Community Meetings
Presenter: WiLS Staff
In late 2010, WiLS worked on a four-futures scenario planning process, which develops multiple scenarios of what might occur in order to generate ideas about each future state. In order to advance the discussion of the scenarios and what they mean for the community, WiLS decided to take the exercise on the road.
This past October, WiLS sponsored 6 informal half-day sessions in Rice Lake, Waukesha, La Crosse, Wausau, Oshkosh and Fitchburg. These sessions assembled librarians from across the state within many types of libraries. Sessions included brief presentations from fellow library staff, a discussion about moving the Wisconsin library community more toward adaptability (a scenario of the four-futures planning process), and plenty of time for networking and sharing. Librarians had the opportunity to build relationships and partnerships, hear about new projects and successes in other libraries, and share ideas on library services in the area and state.
This poster will share the many outcomes that came out of the sessions, particularly the strategic planning exercises and best practices.
Title: Virtual Library Instruction
Presenters: Steven Baumgart, UW-Madison Memorial Library
Tina Ngo, UW-Madison SLIS
As part of the process to provide virtual library instruction to a psychology class at UW-Madison, we created an interactive tutorial that accommodates different learning styles and simulates the leveling up process in game play.
While some learners best absorb new material by first receiving a lecture-style overview, other learners prefer to acquire new knowledge through direct hands-on activities. The interactive tutorial we created allows users to determine their own learning paths, either by starting with the instructive tutorial modules, then going on to hands-on practice, or by starting with the real-life simulations of database searching, then going on to the tutorials when they fail to perform required tasks.
In addition, this interactive tutorial simulates game play, in which learners “level up”, or progressively unlocked modules based on performance in the previous activity module, culminating in a certificate of completion.
Title: The Changing Landscapes of Wisconsin – Statewide Historic Aerial Photographs Online
Presenter: Jaime Stoltenberg, Robinson Map Library, UW-Madison
From 2008-10, teams from UW Digital Collections, the Wisconsin State Cartographer’s Office, and the Robinson Map Library in UW-Madison’s Geography Department successfully collaborated on the “Changing Landscapes of Wisconsin” project. Funded by the Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment, this project focused on archiving and creating web-based access to the oldest comprehensive aerial photo survey of Wisconsin, acquired by the US Department of Agriculture in the 1930s. This rare photo collection provides a snapshot of Wisconsin’s landscapes seventy years ago, and has become a baseline dataset for understanding important environmental, social and economic changes over time. The goals of the Changing Landscapes project were to digitally preserve the degrading paper photos, and to create the widest possible accessibility for the photo collection, which is heavily used by researchers, students, environmentalists, genealogists, planners, engineers, and the general public, both in Wisconsin and beyond.
Title: Information Literacy for the Technical College
Presenters - Adam Brisk, WITC Superior
Alison Stucke, WITC Superior
Technical colleges offer hands-on, real-world higher education. Traditional "academic" information literacy learning isn't enough for technical college students: they must master finding, evaluating, and using resources specific to their career fields. They also need to know how to talk with their future customers/clients/patients about information sources.
The librarians of the Learning Resources Center of Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College - Superior present this poster as a "Boolean" map of their information literacy instructional program. The poster reveals the unique considerations, methodologies, resources, and outcomes of information literacy instruction in the technical college setting.
Title: Campus Collaboration: Social Media Usage and the Library
Presenter: Sarah Leeman, UW-Madison SLIS
As Web 2.0 tools become more widely used across campus departments, social media provides more than just an inexpensive form of marketing. Though new users may struggle to develop content, for most libraries, this is not and should not be the case. Twitter, Facebook, and other tools provide a prime opportunity to interact with students, academic departments, and even campus administration. Social media platforms are a venue not just to advertise, but to generate discussion, share pictures and ideas, and create a buzz of excitement and interest that users can access and participate in at any time.
In this poster, I will illustrate best practices of social media interaction, and the importance of cultivating an online presence and voice for the library. I will also show examples of how libraries and library programs on the UW Madison campus have successfully used social media marketing campaigns to extend branding and outreach and further interact with the campus community.
