ACRL 2013!

Here are my notes from my ACRL 2013 conference. Many program's handouts are available for anyone to view on this website.  I hope you will find something here useful and applicable:

Help them help themselves: Developing interactive tools to help faculty deal with copyright and fair use (presentation)   Presenter Mike Priehs, Coordinator for Scholarly Communications & Copyright at Wayne State University shared some awesome resources:

• DigitalCommons@WayneState 
• Copyright@WayneState – great resources with a copyright decision tree, fair use checklist and other great info! 

Keep It Streamlined for Students: Designing Library Instruction for the Online Learner Presenters are from U of MD, sharing ideas about scalable way to reach online learners:

• 10 libs and staff, 20-30 students per class, about 4-6 classes a semester.  
• Identify one key class in each dept to hone in on. Like a research methods or intro class. 
• Set a week long library online classroom instruction. Called it a library conference. All asynchronous - find evaluate cite... Integrate and reflect, formative assessment.
• Active learning, have them do exercises and tailor it to a particular class 
• Designed instruction through an article by  Neal Toporski, and Tim Foley, “Design Principles for Online Instruction: A New Kind of Classroom,” Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education 5, no. 1 (2004).

This Library Orientation is Fun!: Building a Successful Virtual Tour Experience for Students Presenters from App State libraries, download the game files:

• how to orient 500 students, w 3 librarians, 75 students, 4 hours! 
• created a 360 degree panorama of the library, videos w interaction of librarian and students showing tools and resources; built with JavaScript, jquery, and huggin (a free for 350 panorama stitcher)
• students view panoramic, view some videos, click on hot spots, little puzzle piece fills in, as all pieces fill in they then have to go there and retrieve something physical from the library, then they can take the quiz at the end ( totally online students can bypass this) 

Panel: Hacking the Learner Experience: techniques and strategies for connecting with your instructional ecosystem 

Brian Mathews: Hacking is pushing the envelope. Ex: Talked to adviser in mechanical engineer dept who didn't think they needed library support. They talked through the student’s process of "how would I get through this whole program" and found areas of need and support once they dove in the whole process. Curriculum mapping across disciplines (using mindomo) Goal: look at 360 degree view of the students experience through school and find new ways to support them, partner up, what skills do they need, and how can we tweak our instruction to meet these needs:  Build a learning network (it staff, tutors, librarians, etc...)

Lauren Pressley: Learner taxonomies - a standard categorization, took look at three:

• Blooms taxonomy (since 1950s) 
• Perry taxonomy (1968) - dualism, first year believe profs know all. Then contextual realism as they fight against and for what they want to know in second and third year. By fourth year, they accept others different opinions, and see commitment with contextual realism. Aka, design for freshman is much different that for seniors. 
• Kolb (1984) - more holistic and experiential learning. Concrete experiences, observe and reflect, form abstract concepts, test in new situations. (do-observe-plan-think) all learners come in and different places and can start at any stages and they are all in your room at once. 

Andy Burkhardt: inquiry based learning, Teaching attitudes and habits of mind, not just tools and tips (lift long learning). Learner centric - with content as secondary. Information self - who are they in info process- ask them "where do you like to get info". "how do you search" (filter bubbles, Ted talks) Question centric : though students are usually wanting answers we need to have them think of questions (MikeWesch!) create good questioners Teachers become co-learners: let's us inquire together!

SustainRT
The new group I helped get started is the Sustainabilty Round Table of ALA (will be official as of July!) We hosted a round table discussion and a walk event at ACRL.  Lovely discussion on what various libraries were doing and where the new SustainRT group should head. Some things to check out:

• Human Library  
• ASU’s aeroponics showcase in the library  
• Fellow SustainRT leader, M. Charney is teaching a Library Juice Press online course: The Sustainability Movement on Campus: Forming a Library Action Plan for Engagement 
• ACRL 2015 in Portland will be Sustainable Communities Theme! 

The walk was great despite the cold temps and wind with about a dozen librarians, walking the canal trail, viewing the art, and with a fabulous tour guide – a local Indy children’s librarian!  Check out some great photos by Susan Sharpless Smith including this one:

The Art of Problem Discovery - adaptive thinking for innovative growth and discovery. Presenter Brian Matthews.  Really good session and worth reading his paper here. My key takeaways:

• what is it that people really want, the outcomes? not the process.  EX: people do not want to buy a drill but drill a hole and need the drill to do so. 
• How do we become better listeners than sales? What are the struggles of all our users, including faculty? how can we apply evolutionary ecology, lean manufactury, emotional cartography to libraries?
• We are/can be problem solvers! Reach into other people's boxes not just "outside the box"
• Lateral thinking:  vertical ideas, intentionally disrupt something. EX: ref desk, not thinking about its' value, but eliminate it as a thought and then challenge yourself to learn how things would function if it never existed.
• Who to follow on twitter: Nextweb, fastcompany, wired

Panel:  “Love your library”: building goodwill from the inside out and the outside in
Definitely check out their awesome handout and ideas. Good for many in a library to consider. Key takeaways:

•  library workshops -  used images created by fine arts students, w/ contribution to students artists, with back of handout having workshop listing; about 1/4 size of sheet of paper; added fb and twitter links - lots of marketing and attention grabbing, beautiful!
• Anonymous white board for suggestions to library out of site of the desk; they take photos of questions and answers "conversation wall"
• Social media monitoring - hoot suite dashboard w many terms to refer to the library
• Teeny tiny orchestra, showed Silent films in the library & a Toy piano festival highlighted that discipline on campus (UNCG could do cello music festival)
• Created 2d large scale images of themselves around the library to remind people that real people are here (tattle tape on them to not get stolen) including tech staff and behind the screens people too. 
• Library hot dog outreach cart to be mobile around campus; create and use google map for location points. Also use this for other outreach!
• ExCiting food event- collaboration w writing center - recipes were the citation examples pulled from archives, a website, interviews, book - all found in the library. Also info on citing libguide, Plagiarism. another ediable book festival
• Re:book2013 - contest for students to take a book. Remake it. Win again! Helps them rethink what libraries are and how to reuse and not throw away stuff

OER (Open Educational Resources) Panel Session
CSU Stanislaus Library: 

• Workshop on Affordable Leaning Solutions: covering  OER, Copyright Ereserves, Creative Commons, Fair Use,  and Accessible Services. 
• Workshop/Libguide on future of the book.  
• Partner w faculty dev center. Web space for faculty showcase. 
• Create reading lists of materials on web pages instead of using textbooks.  
• Challenge students to find their own best materials rather than worry about an open resource going away!

CSU San Jose Library:

• Affordable solutions w partnerships campus book store- get list of all books faculty order, and match them up to ebooks in library.
• Partner w FTLC on summer workshop for faculty on using OER in courses 
• Ideas: Embed map into YouTube to do digital storytelling
•  Partner e vendors like NYT   - use them as textbook! -  for certain classes (16 week subscription of wall st journal instead of textbook for a class!) 
• Partners OER providers (Florida, California are using this): such as Merlot- require them to put content into Merlot, and encourage librarians to become a peer reviewer in Merlot
• Use  academic pub -  they will put copyright info on page to educate on high costs to users! 
• Moocs for flipped course model using "course site"  (free tool) in blackboard 
• Cataloging OER resources into libcatalog like Hathi Trust etc.

Poster Session: One Search to Rule Them All: Mapping the Literature on Discovery & User Experience By Courtney Greene & Kate Moore. Check out here:  http://Bit.ly/1search