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2017
Friday, March 31st
10:30 AM

Keynote Address: The Next 50 Years - Libraries of the Future

Lisa Carlucci Thomas, Center for Social Innovation

Chateau Sugarloaf Hill, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia PA

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

11:30 AM

Leading Change

Debbie Gaspar, Rowan University

Chateau Sugarloaf Hill, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia PA

11:30 AM

Leading change draws on soft skills, technical skills, and organization acumen. Implementing change is challenging as planning must address existing practices and the web of interpersonal relationships. How can leaders anticipate and plan for the impact on staff members as they guide them through the three steps of organizational change?

Open Educational Resources: An Initiative at Bucks County Community College

Mary Ellen Bornak, Bucks County Community College
Jacqueline Burger, Bucks County Community College
Linda McCann, Bucks County Community College
Bill Hemmig, Bucks County Community College

Chateau Sugarloaf Hill, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia PA

11:30 AM

Bucks is engaged in a two-year strategic initiative to transition sections of 10 gateway courses to the exclusive use of resources that are free to students. Librarians play a key role in guiding the identification, evaluation and promotion of OER and library resources and in the interpretation of licensing.

1:15 PM

Beam It!

Amanda Adams, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Sharon Whitfield, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University

Chateau Sugarloaf Hill, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia PA

1:15 PM - 2:00 PM

The Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU) Library is using BluuBeam technology, a proximity beacon, to engage patrons and push information to them. CMSRU librarians send “beams” to supplement the curriculum and provide resource assistance virtually. The CMSRU Library received the Health Sciences Librarian Project grant funding award from the Middle Atlantic Region (MAR) of NLM, National Institutes of Health (NIH) to engage in this research. The goal, which is not yet complete, is to assess whether students’ use of library resources during case-based sessions changes when libraries send supplemental material, library tutorials, and reminders of resources that pertain to their current case via BluuBeam.

Faculty Perceptions of the Student Honor Code: The Gap Between Use and Non Use

Kevin Hunt, Goldey Beacom College

Chateau Sugarloaf Hill, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia PA

1:15 PM

In this poster, researchers from a private college’s information literacy (IL) team will share their first wide-scale course-integrated deployment of a series of online interactive information literacy modules to all sections of a first-year English course, Critical Writing II (CWII).

Information Literacy Assessment for 1st Year Composition Students: A Case Study of Three Deployment Mode

Russell Michalak, Goldey-Beacom College
Kevin Hunt, Goldey Beacom College
Monica Rysavy, Goldey-Beacom College

Chateau Sugarloaf Hill, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia PA

1:15 PM

In this poster, researchers from a private college’s information literacy (IL) team will share their first wide-scale course-integrated deployment of a series of online interactive information literacy modules to all sections of a first-year English course, Critical Writing II (CWII).

Newspaper Digitization on a Shoestring Budget

David McAllister, Gwynedd Mercy University

Chateau Sugarloaf Hill, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia PA

1:15 PM

This poster presents the work done digitizing and indexing the Gwynedd Mercy school newspaper. It examines the lost-cost technology employed to create a web-based, searchable database of newspaper articles.

Transforming Outdated Spaces into Engaging Environments

Diane Skorina, Ursinus College
Christine Iannicelli, Ursinus College

Chateau Sugarloaf Hill, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia PA

1:15 PM

Unknown and Underused, Sad! Making the Curriculum Lab Great Again

Melissa Correll, Arcadia Univerity

Chateau Sugarloaf Hill, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia PA

1:15 PM

Arcadia University’s Landman Library hosts a Curriculum Lab to support students in the School of Education, but the space and its collection are underused. This poster details the current project to revitalize the space, in direct collaboration with faculty and students in the School of Education.

2:00 PM

Cutting the Fat: How to Lose 50,000 Books in 12 Months – Guaranteed!

James Humble, Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary
Chelsea Post, Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary

Chateau Sugarloaf Hill, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia PA

2:00 PM

Recounts the planning, methodology, and implementation of a large-scale weeding and shifting project that was done within the space of a year to clear out an area of the library building earmarked for re-purposing.

Space Upgrades: Review, Plan and Implement

Susan Fink, Rowan University

Chateau Sugarloaf Hill, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia PA

2:00 PM

Library administrators need to be able to demonstrate their department’s impact and value. An initial step in this assessment process is conducting space and usage studies. Rowan University Campbell Library’s study has helped influence decisions that impacted building renovations and services and began quantitatively demonstrating the library’s value.