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- Becoming a Good Neighbor: Befriending Instructional Designers and Campus Distance Learning FolksWalz, Anita R.; Metko, Stefanie (2016-04-21)On our campus, a bridge connects the main library and the university group which operates the campus learning management system (LMS), trains faculty to use educational technologies, and collaborates directly with faculty who are exploring teaching online. Two librarians were tasked with developing a positive working relationship with the units in this group. This poster explores a handful of stories exhibiting the merits, lessons learned, and types of contributions librarians willing to collaborate directly with non-library educational technology departments might encounter. Including: building trust as an iterative process, learning from and together, connecting colleagues "across the bridge," new topics for instruction, influencing policy, addressing copyright and LMS, making the library visible via LMS, developing open educational resources, policy and politics, and so on.
- Beyond the closed system with Omeka and DPLANg, Wen Nie (2019-06-22)The poster briefly introduces the project background, Omeka system workflows, issues, and system design solutions with limited resources. This poster is mostly used by library and museum professionals who are considering a platform for their digital content in the planning phase. Beyond the closed system with Omeka and DPLA poster was presented in CALA Annual Conference Program on June 22, 2019.
- Changing Perspective by Providing the UnexpectedHall, Tracy Michelle; Hall, Monena (2013-04-05)In recent years, much research has been done on the changing roles of the library in the academy, focusing heavily on the revitalization brought about by rapid technological trends, information literacy, and overall changing understanding of student learning in the 21st century. While these initiatives are all vital contributions toward student outcomes and overall academic success, theLibrary is exploring new initiatives that improve student services, promote outreach and campus collaboration and change campus-wide perceptions of the library. Through these new initiatives,we foster an internal cultural shift, building a new sense of community within the library as people work across departments and rank to ensure that these events are both of interest to the student body and prove successful foundations for future growth. Outreach endeavors implemented by the library this year and already widely appreciated by both students and campus departments include a partnership with veterinary medicine program to bring in therapy animals, a campus-wide Scavenger Hunt, grilled cheese and coffee service during finals week, and a Banned Books read out. Likewise, in April of 2012, the Library partnered with the Office of Undergraduate Research to present the 10th annual Undergraduate Research symposium. Expectations were hopeful for a goal of 500 students to attend our first annual Game Night. Final numbers far exceeded our expectations and students raved about how much fun they had. Another popular event sponsored by the Library was the first annual scavenger hunt. A team of 16 people from across the library collaborated to create a list of 150 clues that sent students to all over campus and town. The students were given 4 days to complete the Hunt, with the instructions that photos of the teams completing the clues were to be turned into a Dropbox account and shared with the Library. Over the course of these four days, 24 teams equaling 160 people turned in approximately 2,600 photos. During finals week, Spring 2012 the Library partnered with the Veterinarian Medicine program to bring in dogs and cats trained through the campus therapy animal program. This was so successful during finals that in July 2012 we began bringing in the therapy animals once per month. Approximately 100-125 students attend this event each month. Additional recent outreach endeavors implemented and proposed by the Library include a Virtual Read Out in support of Banned Books Week, the newly minted Research on the Edge speaker series, various partnerships with the Office of Undergraduate Research, the English department, Residence Life, Tutoring and Student Career Services. By reaching out to our campus community the library is working to break down old-fashioned perspectives by providing the unexpected. By allowing the library to be seen as welcoming and forward thinking, we provide academic encouragement for our campus community at large. Acting on these outreach plans is also in line with our library’s strategic mission, as fresh examples of how we, as an academic library, are continuing to evolve to meet and exceed student expectations.
- Collaborating to Build, Adapt, and Evaluate Open Educational Resources (OER)Walz, Anita R.; Russell, John Morgan; Grey, Kindred (2021-02-04)Although most instructors are concerned about the cost and fit of their course materials, many may not be willing or able to switch from the traditional publisher model due to a range of reasons including lack of time, knowledge, resources and support, institutional factors, and [un]willingness to change (Lashley, 2019; Conole & McAndrew, 2010). However, some instructors are able to reach their course material goals related to consistency, affordability, and fit by adopting collaborative approachesto authoring and adapting open educational resources (OER). Grant-funded and collaborative OER development approaches are increasingly offered by institutions of higher education. These initiatives aim to reduce costs to students and enable improved academic achievement due to increased student and instructor engagement, and better-fitting course materials (Walz, Jenson, and Salem, 2016; Colvard, Watson, and Park, 2018). OER are freely and publicly available materials for teaching and learning released under a license (such as a Creative Commons) that allow no-cost adaptation and sharing (Hewlett Foundation, n.d.). While evaluation and impact of such resources is a relatively young field, early research shows positive outcomes. Namely that OER are of equivalent quality or better than commercially published materials (Clinton and Khan, 2019), showing no instructional harm and eliminating course material costs, and have a disproportionately positive impact on Pell-grant eligible and first-generation students (Colvard, Watson & Park). Collaborative OER project support can include a range of financial incentives, development coaching, project management, copyright, open licensing, and publishing consultations, access to related software, graphic design, and assessment-related support for instructors. Completion and use of such curriculum resources has the benefit of decreased costs and potential for improved student academic achievements. Since 2014 the University Libraries at Virginia Tech have incentivized and supported faculty projects that create or adapt OER and publicly share them with the world. The intended audience of this poster includes instructors and potential collaborators who are considering creating or adapting open educational resources and want to know more about the process of a collaborative development approach to OER and potential benefits to them and students. The process as presented is a high-level sequence of overlapping steps undertaken by one or more members of our time in creating Significant Statistics. This presentation also lists significant areas of inquiry which commonly arise and require decisions in such a project, and benefits as reported by students and realized so far by the instructor.
- Comparative Study and Expansion of Metadata Standards for Historic Fashion CollectionsNg, Wen Nie; Smith-Glaviana, Dina; Miller, Chreston; McIrvin, Caleb; Westblade, Julia (2023-06-25)The objective of this poster is to enhance the metadata standards applied in historic fashion collections. This is accomplished by expanding the controlled vocabulary and metadata elements to encompass the Costume Core and rectify any inadequacies. To achieve this goal, several methods are employed, including the incorporation of new descriptive terms to enable the precise description of artifacts during the re-cataloging of a university fashion collection in Costume Core. Additionally, new descriptors are identified through a technique called word embeddings, which involves using pre-trained natural language processing models to extract data from a conceptual latent space. Finally, crowdsourcing through surveys is conducted to gather insights into the usage of metadata for describing dress artifacts. Additionally, the presentation provides a preview of the Model Output Confirmative Helper Application, which streamlines the review process. It also highlights the commonly used metadata standards in the historic fashion industry, sample metadata supplied by respondents, and partial potential metadata to be appended to the Costume Core. As a result of the project, the expanded Costume Core is more comprehensive in describing fashion collections. It can be widely adopted by the fashion industry, promoting consistent metadata and increasing metadata interoperability.
- Composition, Digital Literacies, & Instructional Design: Creating Open Resources TogetherMcNabb, Kayla B.; Griffin, Katlyn; Feerrar, Julia; Becker, Tim; Robertson, Chloe; Awotayo, Olayemi; Zaldivar, Marc; Becksford, Lisa (2021-02)In this session, we (the Composition Program, the University Libraries, and TLOS) will outline our goals in creating a series of educational modules through our Pathways grant-funded project, discuss how the project shifted to address unique challenges presented by COVID-19, share lessons learned and feedback that we received from users, and look toward the future possibilities for this collaboration. Throughout this session, we will create space for attendees to brainstorm and share how they could apply our experience in their own collaborations and ask them to consider the impacts and benefits of fostering these kinds of collaborations on their campuses.
- Creating a Community of Residents: A Blueprint for Starting a Multi-University Residency Program and Ensuring its SuccessWright de Hernandez, Anthony; Barrientos, Quetzalli (2016-08-11)In 2014, the libraries at four Universities decided to collaborate and develop a multi-university residency program, called the Diversity Alliance. The goal was to give each university’s resident(s) a broader educational experience, the opportunity to learn about the profession beyond their individual institution. With input from each of the universities, this poster will discuss the why and how to create a similar program for any institution(s) considering forming a multi-university residency program.
- Creation of an Incentivized Course for Managing Your Online Scholarly IdentityMiles, Rachel A.; Mazure, Emily S. (2024-11)Librarians at a large research-intensive university in southwest Virginia in the United States developed an online asynchronous course on how researchers can manage their online scholarly identity. It explains the importance of understanding and efficiently using scholarly identifiers and profile systems and also guides participants through the process of creating and maintaining scholarly profiles and identifiers, with a goal to have participants complete specific activities. To encourage completion of those activities the course was designed with specific incentives; for example, credits earned from the course can be used by faculty to complete the university’s computer-refresh program, which enables them to acquire a new computer after a four-year period. The content was developed in the institutional professional development Canvas platform and was thus available internally to faculty and graduate students. Participants can self-select which modules to complete. Additionally, participants can submit proof and receive credit for completing specific tasks like registering for ORCID, linking IDs across profile systems (e.g., Scopus, Google Scholar Profile, Elements profile, etc.), completing profile details like education, academic positions, scholarly works, and so on. This course is intended as a pilot that we expect to expand upon. The future goals of the course will be to cover two additional strategies for boosting online scholarly visibility: increasing discoverability and openness of scholarship and promoting work through social media and other online channels.
- CyberBioSecurity through Leadership-as-Practice DevelopmentKaufman, Eric K.; Adeoye, Samson; Batarseh, Feras; Brown, Anne M.; Drape, Tiffany A.; Duncan, Susan; Rutherford, Tracy; Strawn, Laura K.; Xia, Kang (2022-03-28)CyberBioSecurity is an emerging field at the interface of life sciences and digital worlds (Murch, 2018). The solution to the global cyberbiosecurity challenge is not merely technical; society needs cyberbiosecurity professionals who engage in leadership with a boundary-crossing approach that involves collective effort. Such an approach emerges from leadership-as-practice development (LaPD), characterized by its efforts to “change patterns and thinking that could transform a culture of mediocrity to one of excellence and resilience'' (Raelin, 2020, p. 2). While LaPD has been used in some professional learning contexts and it aligns with some signature pedagogies of the professions, the opportunity remains for embedding LaPD in graduate education to meet the needs of emerging fields. The objective of this proposed project is to catalyze transformative cyberbiosecurity graduate education in a way that increases cognitive integrative capability among cyberbiosecurity scientists and professionals. As noted by Pratch (2014), “leaders who possess integrative capacity are better able to assess problems and find workable solutions than those who do not” (p. 1). In this project, we intend to embedding LaPD in online graduate and train-the-trainer modules, testing various pedagogies associated with boundary-crossing graduate education. The approach will include use of collaborative leadership learning groups (CLLGs), which are “anchored in practice, bringing together learners who can identify and work together on the challenges they face collectively” (Denyer & Turnbull James, 2016, p. 269). Our specific research questions include: What signature pedagogies best support the emerging discipline of CyberBioSecurity education? To what extent do collaborative leadership learning groups (CLLGs) increase students’ cognitive integrative capability?
- DESIGN THINKING for Visualizing Acid-Base Chemistry - Documenting a user-centered approach for designing and developing an ADA compliant online tool for visualizing acid-base chemistryStamper, Michael J.; Briganti, Jonathan; Brown, Anne M.; Dietrich, Andrea M.; Godrej, Adil N.; Schreiber, Madeline E.; Walz, Anita R. (2019-07-17)This project created an online tool, that we call “The pkAnalyzer”. It enables the exploration of acid-conjugate base distributions in an easy to use Web interface. This project is also an example of the disciplines of Arts and Design into the STEM sciences, i.e. STEM to STEAM, and University Libraries commitment to faculty, students, and staff throughout the Virginia Tech system, in the areas of data visualization and design services to aid in the research process and communication of results. Beyond the functionality of the tool, this project involved the planning and designing a custom, modifiable, and attractive user interface (UI) and visualization that are "user-friendly", and incorporate the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), and falls with the Federal Governement’s Section 508 guidelines pertaining to creating and maintaining information and communications technology (ICT) that is accessible to people with disabilities relating to vision. Using a "Design Thinking" approach, all aspects of the design of this tool – User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Interaction Design (IxD), Graphic – were taken into account, and developed to enhance the user's experience using the tool, and undertanding of a complex chemical concept that is widely used in the basic and applied sciences and engineering.
- Developing Teaching Proficiencies for New Instructors Through a Learning CommunityHall, Tracy Michelle; Barb, Christopher; Gilmore, Tracy; Hall, Monena; Henshaw, Neal; Lawrence, Anne S.; Meier, Carolyn; Miller, Rebecca K.; Moyo, Lesley; Munson, Jennifer M.; Ogier, Andrea; Thum, Sara (2013-02-06)Preparation and training for teaching roles within the Virginia Tech library environment.
- Expanding Digital Preservation Infrastructure: A Collaboration between MetaArchive and KeeperTechWang, Hannah; Kinnaman, Alex (2022-10-12)The MetaArchive Cooperative and Keeper Technology will present on their work to apply open-source technical infrastructure advancements from the commercial sector to MetaArchive’s community-based digital preservation infrastructure, in an effort to bolster flexibility and sustainability. This poster will cover the first requirements gathering and design phase of the project.
- "Full of Jersey Lightning:" Spirituous Histories, Cocktail Tastings, and Creative OutreachDietz, Kira A. (2017-04)Beginning in 2012, Virginia Tech Special Collections started acquiring materials related to cocktail culture in America. The “History of the American Cocktail Collection” includes cocktail manuals and bartenders guides, books on social activities and entertaining, and a variety of items documenting the history of cocktail ingredients, creation, and consumption, as well as resources on individual spirits, the medicinal and alcoholic history of bitters, temperance/Prohibition, and advertising. Since late 2015, and most recently in the spring of 2016, archivist Kira A. Dietz has organized and hosted two outreach events on campus—a pilot and an invited program—that consisted of both a presentation and an historical cocktail tasting, designed to spread word of the collection to the campus community. This poster will share a bit about the collection, the programs, future goals, and some lessons learned/advice for developing creative outreach whether you’re incorporating food or not!
- How Do Electronic Laboratory Notebooks Inspire Researchers?Pannabecker, Virginia (2015-10)OBJECTIVES: This research poster explores if and how electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) platforms include features that may facilitate researchers in: collaborating; incorporating research literature in laboratory practices; or implementing best practices in research data management. It also looks to discover what other features are important to researchers when using an ELN. METHODS: This research poster begins a 3-step process to explore researchers’ use of electronic notebooks – particularly within health and life sciences (with inclusion of literature results from chemistry, engineering, and computational sciences), and within academic institutions. This poster includes results from the first two steps: 1) a scan of 100 Twitter and Google postings, blogs, and comments regarding use or interest in electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs) by from researchers, generating a list of initial ‘features of interest’ criteria for ELN platforms, primarily for academic researchers, with some inclusion of industry perspectives. 2) Next, a literature review was conducted in eight research databases using the following keywords (in title, abstract, and index terms): Electronic lab notebooks OR electronic lab notebook OR electronic laboratory notebooks OR electronic laboratory notebook OR e-notebook* OR eln platform. Results of these two steps were reviewed for relevance, and then reviewed and labeled by themes related to research data management, literature use, and collaboration, as well as additional themes that were addressed. Platforms noted multiple times within the review were added to a table that addressed some key initial priorities (cost, subject area, academic/industry focus). A handout listing these and some additional ELNs discussed with references discussing each was created from the review results. Finally, an open Zotero group and library is linked from the poster to share the full list of review citations. RESULTS: The review of online postings and research literature uncovered a variety of themes of interest related to using ELN, for academic institution researchers (and industry researchers) in health and life sciences. These themes include the areas of focus for this review: research data management facilitation, collaboration, and incorporation of research literature in laboratory notes and workflow. Within each of these, further aspects are described. An additional theme uncovered that is not described in detail in the poster is educational use of ELN. DISCUSSION: This review of ELN focuses on the perspectives of laboratory researchers in academic institutions, focusing on researchers in health and life sciences, with inclusion of articles and view points from industry researchers. Key benefits of ELN platforms for academic researchers include increased productivity, and support for Good Lab Practices (GLP) and reproducibility of results. Additional priorities include: free or lower cost platforms and open source or flexible platforms that lend themselves to customization for tool and software integration, and for multi-disciplinary use. Platforms that can be used to collect, document and track, analyze, store, and create archival files for multiple data formats are important. The ability to collaborate with others, including permission-level settings and security for online data and file sharing is significant, as is support for overall project and lab management (including equipment and sample tracking). Improved searching of data and files, including use of standardized or customized metadata is a benefit of ELNs, as is the ability to include links to or files for related resources, such as research literature and protocols. Educational uses of ELN were also frequently found in the research literature review results. Concerns include loss or corruption of data and difficulty of using electronic devices in some lab environments. Industry researchers have a stronger focus on Quality Control, Quality Assurance, regulatory compliance features, and Intellectual Property claim support. Limitations: This review began with a narrow understanding of the topic and thus the literature search did not include all terms that could be used. Also, coding would increase in effectiveness if conducted more than one time and by more than one reviewer. Next Steps: Further plans for this project include development of a survey to explore use of and interest in ELN at the author’s institution, with possible extension to other institutions – to further determine best avenues for library and/or general institutional support in the use of ELN by students and researchers in the academic environment and in collaboration with industry.
- How might a bureaucratic information system (BIS) provide leadership for an organization?Haugen, Inga (2024-03-27)
- The Impact of Virtual Exhibit On Promoting Collaboration Among Regional PartnersNg, Wen Nie (2023-06-25)The poster highlights an innovative project design that emerged during the pandemic to create a hybrid in-person and virtual exhibit by utilizing partners' digital collections. Virginia Tech University Libraries led the project aiming to promote partner collaboration and increase the visibility of art, science, and cultural heritage materials of Southwest Virginia. The exhibit showcases six collections contributed by campus and regional partners, featuring over a hundred interactive digital objects, including photographs, journals, paintings, 3D geology minerals, and various 3D insect specimens. In addition to discussing the exhibit's background, themes, challenges, appropriateness, and effectiveness as a promotional tool, the poster also explores its impact on promoting collaboration among regional partners, the lessons learned, related work that resulted from the exhibit, and potential future projects. The presentation will include a text paragraph explaining the exhibit's background and a simple business chart poster that presents statistics obtained from Google Analytics and Artsteps website for interpreting the effectiveness of the virtual exhibit.
- Literacies and Campus ContextFeerrar, Julia (2018-05-08)This poster, presented at the Innovative Library Classroom 2018, describes approaches to digital literacy program planning. The poster details a process of exploration and framework development, facilitating feedback conversations, and putting a framework into action.
- Making It Easier: Reducing Perceived and Real Barriers to Finding and Sharing Open Educational ResourcesWalz, Anita R. (2015-10)Perceptions of time and effort required to locate open educational resources (OER) remains the most significant barrier to wider faculty adoption of OER. This poster reflects my current thinking regarding what librarians can do to make finding and sharing openly licensed resources easier.
- Meet them where they are: Improving outreach to graduate studentsBecksford, Lisa (2018-05-08)
- Native American Literature in Collection DevelopmentStovall, Connie; Shaffer, Christopher (2007-06-01)