2020 CTLC Conference

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Diving in, flipping a Workshop from In-person to Virtual, fast!
(2020) DeZouche, Elizabeth; Villareal, Cindy
Before COVID-19 came to the United States, the Texas A&M International University’s (TAMIU) Sue & Radcliffe Killam Library had planned on having an in-person RefWorks Workshop for the TAMIU community. The workshop was designed in collaboration between the Killam Library and the TAMIU Advancing Research and Curriculum (ARC) Initiative. Then COVID-19 came requiring many, like us, to switch all teaching and learning to the virtual environment. In under a month we turned plans for an in-person workshop into a two-session virtual webinar. Without teamwork, collaboration, and many virtual meetings this initiative would have been a failure. Dive in with us to hear our tips and see how we pulled off flipping our in-person workshop to a virtual webinar success.
Building More Diverse Collections for Younger Readers
(2020) Bliss, Joanna Russell; McMichael, Jonathan
Research has shown that children exposed to diverse books, especially those that have cross-racial groups, have better acceptance of children of other ethnicities as compared to those not exposed to diverse books. This has been a focus of public and school libraries for some time, as seen in the We Need Diverse Books program and other organizations advocating for diverse books in publishing, classrooms and libraries. Unfortunately, academic libraries and the role of their collections in training new educators has been largely absent in these conversations. With that in mind, a team of librarians at SMU Libraries analyzed our Juvenile Collection using the Diverse BookFinder suite of tools. We evaluated our current collection, recognized its strengths and gaps and are now using this analysis to improve our collection development practices. This presentation will take participants through how to use these tools and adapt them for an academic library context. Finally, we will discuss future opportunities of this initiative.
Explore Census Data – An Introduction and Demonstration
(2020) Morland, Marna; Shank, Paige
American FactFinder went offline on March 31, 2020, so librarians will be turning to the new Explore Census Data platform at data.census.gov to help patrons find the census data they need. Marna Morland and Paige Shank from the Government Documents Affinity Group will lead a 50-minute session demonstrating this new tool. An electronic handout will be provided.
High-quality Diet of Journals: Comparison of Top-ranked with Most-used Journals
(2020) Harker, Karen; Hergert, Chris; Byrne, Sephra
UNT librarians will present a follow-up on the work shared at the 2019 CTLC Conference, regarding compiled data from the Journal Citation Reports and its comparison to UNT holdings. In last year’s presentation, “Are your students & faculty eating what’s best for them? Evaluating the quality of your most highly-used ejournals”, techniques used to extract the titles and metrics from JCR and our ejournals lists were explained, and then compared using ISSN for matching. In this presentation, the librarians will add journal usage data to provide a more complete answer to the original question posed last year. While they will provide some details on how the data was put together, the presentation will focus less on the technology and steps for gathering this data, and more on the results and the limitations of such an analysis. This presentation will be most useful to academic librarians who are interested in comparing the determining how valuable highly-ranked journals are to their primary users.
CTLC 2020 - Lightning Talks
(2020) Sewer, Carla M.; Johnson, Melissa; Williams, Isaac; Ossom-Williamson, Peace; Khan, Hammad Rauf; Mount, Jonathan; Guintivano, Jeff
CTLC Lightning Talks
Keeping Readers Engaged and Connected with the Rivera Book Award
(2020) Delgado, Priscilla; Murillo-Sutterby, Sandra
The Rivera Book Award was founded in 1995 at Texas State University to recognize exemplary, authentic Mexican-American literature for youth. Now celebrating its 25th year, the award has recognized dozens of titles and has engaged readers in various formats. Attendees will learn about the award, how to access online resources for the award-winning titles using TeachingBooks, a children’s book resource database, and will learn how one middle school used Flipgrid to create short videos that highlighted a section of award winner “They Call me Guero”.
Copyright & the Preservation of Video Collections in Libraries
(2020) Dewitt-Miller, Erin; Guerrero, Steven; Duke, Lindsay
This session will include an overview of Section 108(c) of the Copyright Act which addresses preservation of audiovisual material in library collections. It will also provide an introduction to the Academic Libraries Video Trust (ALVT), a crucial tool created to address issues of the preservation of Section 108 material. A brief summary of an extensive ongoing review of the UNT Media Library collection of VHS for Section 108 status will also be discussed. Section 108 is especially relevant to libraries with VHS collections. Preservation and continued access to the material on VHS is a crucial issue, as much of this content has never been released to other formats and is therefore in danger of being lost entirely. The Academic Library Video Trust (ALVT) is a shared repository for videos protected under Section 108. Member institutions can upload or access replacement copies of audiovisual material that falls within the guidelines of Section 108 (deteriorating, obsolete, and unavailable for purchase). The UNT Libraries are a Founding Benefactor Institution of ALVT and the UNT Media Library has been working to preserve at-risk items in its VHS collection and share them via ALVT since 2018. Evaluating each title for preservation led to the identification of hundreds of unique and valuable at-risk titles eligible for digitization.
CTLC 2020 Keynote Speaker: Tracie Walker-Reed
(2020) Walker-Reed, Tracie
Tracie Walker-Reed is the recipient of the 2019 American Library Association’s “I Love My Librarian” award and has 15 years of library experience. She is the current Library Media Specialist at H. Grady Spruce High School in Dallas, Texas. Be inspired by her collaborative approach to literacy, which empowers her school and community!
CTLC 2020 - Poster Presentations
(2020)
CTLC 2020 - Virtual poster presentations
Scavenger Hunts, Zoom & Trolls: Lessons Learned from Virtual Outreach
(2020) Brents, Madison
The Research and Engagement team of Willis Library aims to connect with students through fun and educational outreach events. The sudden closure of the library due to Coronavirus complicated this mission. To overcome the distance, the Graduate Services Assistant Outreach Coordinator, in collaboration with other GSAs and the Student Engagement Librarian, implemented several virtual outreach events. These events utilized Zoom’s video conferencing technology and aimed to be entertaining while also promoting the library’s virtual reference services.
2020 Conference Program and Schedule
(2020) CTLC Conference Planning Committee
2020 CTLC Conference Program
Remote Reference: A Practitioner’s Guide
(2020) Graff, Rebecca; Heuer, Megan; Jenkins, Sarah
In recent years, the approaches to providing reference help have changed, and practitioners must learn and hone skills to keep up. While we used to respond to questions in-person and over the phone, we now add chat, texting, and video to the mix. Data from a 2019 RUSA survey show that most librarians do not feel adequately prepared to handle the newer remote reference platforms. Because of physical distancing, such competencies have become essential. After demonstrating the need for training, we will cover best practices for interacting remotely. The user’s experience of remote reference is significantly different than in-person. We will emphasize how to consider the patron’s point of view during interactions, in order to better assist them. For example, chat interactions should communicate in writing what we cannot through expression. Another aspect of ensuring excellence is consistency among staff. After determining performance standards and training staff to achieve them, quality control measures must get implemented. We will discuss ways of systematically bolstering staff’s performance when assisting patrons. Building a positive feedback loop helps to connect expectations to action. Participants will leave feeling more confident in their abilities to use different reference modes and to keep the patron’s experience in mind when providing reference remotely.
Launching a Chat Reference Service Amid a Global Pandemic
(2020) Diaz, Sarah
The University of North Texas Libraries’ live chat service launched March 18, 2020 –ahead of schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic The service was developed and implemented by a team made up of six graduate students (GSAs) in the Access Services Department, supervised by the Student Engagement Librarian.
Disaster Relief in an Academic Library Archives
(2020) Barera, Michael; Livingston, Preston
Connecting Digitally with the Tejas Star Reading List
(2020) Gaylor, Elizabeth Ibarra; Lamoglia, Dolores; Delgado, Priscilla
Learn about the Tejas Star Reading List and how you can connect students digitally with the bilingual and Spanish titles on this reading list as well as scheduling virtual author visits
Audience Warm-Up: Engage Your Audience Before You Present
(2020) Dominguez Baeza, Victor
Whether a public, private, or academic librarian, some form of presenting has increasingly become part of the job. Your presentations are often around an hour long, and when planning it seems like an hour is just not enough for all the activities you want to include. You settle on your program and then your audience begins to arrive. It’s time to begin so you do an awkward introduction of yourself and then dive right into your material. You and your audience are cold, and the attendees may not know much about you just as you may have no idea who they are. Your hope is that things will go well and that your strategy will engage your audience. Well, why not warm up the room before you actually start? You can warm up the audience with casual conversation prior to your program, or have pre-presentation activities planned. You can learn who is attending, why they came to your session, and what they are hoping to learn. That way they are thinking about the topic before you start, and you can have an idea of who is in your audience, what they expect, and what they are bringing to the presentation. Warming up the crowd can help improve the presentation, create a personal relationship between speaker and audience, and make the session more fulfilling and engaging.
It’s Elementary! Using Children’s Television to Teach Information Literacy
(2020) Crane, Ashley B.
Getting learners to recognize, develop, and practice the knowledge and skills they need to be information literate is hard. What if we exposed learners to those concepts at their most basic level? In this session, learn how one teacher librarian used segments from preschool and children’s television shows to build a foundational understanding of information literacy in a freshman level, for-credit college course. The presenter will share how these multimodal lessons connected to learners’ prior knowledge and experiences while engaging their critical thinking skills and allowing them a look at their world through the eyes of an information literate individual. Potential opportunities for use in one-shot library instruction and in K-12 libraries and classrooms will also be discussed. Participants will have the opportunity to collaboratively build a list of television shows for possible future use.
Comparing Teamwork & Collaboration Competencies between a Technology in Art Education course and an Engineering Project Management Course
(2020) Wallace, Martin; Hulla, Ryan; Chivers, Morgan; Alexander, Amanda; Cantu, Jaime
Martin Wallace, Morgan Chivers, and Ryan Hulla will present the results of a student teamwork and collaboration study, using an “assembling effective teams” homework assignment and a semester-long, teambased academic library makerspace project. Students in two upper-level undergraduate classes, Technology in Art Education and Engineering Project Management, took self-assessment-surveys at the beginning of the course and again after having completed their makerspace projects. Results show that students in both courses significantly overestimate their competence in the pre-course survey. Engineering students rate themselves higher in both pre- and post-surveys than art education students. There are signs that the “assembling effective teams” homework assignment has a significant effect in student self-ratings. Other signs show that the project has significant effect on teamwork and collaboration. Prior makerspace experience appears to have no effect at this sample size.
Five Years of First-Year Composition: A Librarian Reflects
(2020) Whitmer, Susan
Five Years of First-Year Composition: A Librarian Reflects, is an academic librarian’s review of teaching information literacy to English composition classes. The reflections are based on classroom instruction, worksheet assessments, and student feedback. The goal of this study is to share pedagogical information with new instruction librarians and to create connections with first-year faculty.
Work-Life Balance for Librarians: Avocations Informing the Vocation
(2020-08) Whitmer, Susan; Rumohr, Suzanne; Crawford, Laurel Sammonds
Come prepared to move as three active librarians demonstrate how belly dancing, bicycling, and yoga inform their librarianship and illustrate the concept of work-life balance. As an antidote to our 24/7 plugged-in culture, these multi-generational librarians will discuss how their leisure pursuits (avocations), enhance their librarianship (vocation). Each librarian has their own interpretation of the work-life balance issue. Work-life balance involves paying attention to the mental, physical, and social aspects of life. In this session, attendees will learn how to encourage employer support for work-life balance by asking for flextime, integrating avocations into library programming, and adding off-duty activities into performance reviews. The librarians will also offer strategies in how to carve out time for non-work activities as well as how to discuss work-life balance issues with supervisors.

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