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Master Health Literacy: A Participant-Focused Program in Development
(Virginia Tech, 2017-10-23)
BACKGROUND
Many of us face anxiety and uncertainty when it comes to health concerns. To help address this, three librarians at a research university are working with partners to develop a Master Health Literacy (MHL) ...
Optimize Access to Your Published Research: Author Rights for Life & Health Sciences
(2014-10-27)
As VT Life Sciences & Health Sciences faculty, researchers, and graduate students, your work is geared towards addressing questions, problems, and discoveries that are important to Virginia communities, and to our global ...
Preconference: Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) for Libraries
(Virginia Tech, 2015-10-21)
This presentation was given as a preconference session at the Virginia Library Association Annual Conference 2015.
Librarians of all types can benefit from learning about the Open Educational Resources movement: what ...
VLA Writing Academy
(2016-10-26)
The Virginia Libraries Editorial Board invites participants from all types of libraries or library degree programs to this hands-on Writing Academy session. Join us for a discussion of writing goals, the writing process, ...
Creative Convergence: Conducting a Systematic Review Project Through Cross-Institutional, Distance Collaboration
(2014-10-30)
Objective: To reflect on a cross-institutional systematic review project: What are effective collaboration methods for geographically dispersed research teams?
Methods: Conduct a scoping literature review on effective ...
Text and Data Mining for Systematic Reviews: Investigating Trends to Update Collaboration Services
(2016-09-27)
When discussing project planning for systematic reviews and meta-analyses with faculty and graduate students, librarians sometimes hear wistful inquiries about automated approaches. Systematic reviews (SRs) require management, ...
Wherever You Are: Engaging Learning Experiences for Distance and Online Learners
(Virginia Tech, 2017-05)
This presentation formed one part of a 5-person panel presentation on Engaging Strategies to Teach Information Literacy to Distance Learners, sponsored by the Educational Media and Technologies Section of the Medical Library ...
RIS as Part of a Larger Environment of Systems
(Virginia Tech, 2017-08-16)
In 2011, Virginia Tech Libraries launched a DSpace-based institutional repository service called VTechWorks. In 2012, the Libraries began to explore integration of the repository with the university’s Electronic Faculty ...
A Framework Tasting: Trying Out a New Vintage in Info Lit
(Virginia Tech, 2015-05-12)
Join your colleagues for a Conversation Starter and explore ways to apply the proposed ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education in course support. The proposed framework moves away from prescriptive, ...
Flipping for Health: Hands-On Library Research Sessions
(2014-10-30)
In Spring 2014, a health sciences librarian planned five library research sessions for undergraduate and graduate courses, using the flipped classroom method. This lightning talk will summarize sessions and present example ...