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Item Building More Diverse Collections for Younger Readers(2020) Bliss, Joanna Russell; McMichael, JonathanResearch 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.Item Explore Census Data – An Introduction and Demonstration(2020) Morland, Marna; Shank, PaigeAmerican 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.Item High-quality Diet of Journals: Comparison of Top-ranked with Most-used Journals(2020) Harker, Karen; Hergert, Chris; Byrne, SephraUNT 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.Item Keeping Readers Engaged and Connected with the Rivera Book Award(2020) Delgado, Priscilla; Murillo-Sutterby, SandraThe 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”.Item Copyright & the Preservation of Video Collections in Libraries(2020) Dewitt-Miller, Erin; Guerrero, Steven; Duke, LindsayThis 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.Item CTLC 2020 Keynote Speaker: Tracie Walker-Reed(2020) Walker-Reed, TracieTracie 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!Item Remote Reference: A Practitioner’s Guide(2020) Graff, Rebecca; Heuer, Megan; Jenkins, SarahIn 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.Item Connecting Digitally with the Tejas Star Reading List(2020) Gaylor, Elizabeth Ibarra; Lamoglia, Dolores; Delgado, PriscillaLearn 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 visitsItem Audience Warm-Up: Engage Your Audience Before You Present(2020) Dominguez Baeza, VictorWhether 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.Item 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.Item 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, JaimeMartin 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.Item Work-Life Balance for Librarians: Avocations Informing the Vocation(2020-08) Whitmer, Susan; Rumohr, Suzanne; Crawford, Laurel SammondsCome 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.Item Pedagogy for Practical Library Instruction – An Online Program(2020-08) Roy, Meranda M.While many librarians find themselves with teaching responsibilities, few have received sound pedagogical training. This leaves many librarians to learn on the fly or through trial and error when in the classroom. Although effective for some, others are left seeking additional professional development opportunities to grow their pedagogical knowledge. To address this, an online program was developed for academic librarians that introduces pedagogy. A variety of topics related to university teaching and student learning are covered including course design, meaningful and measurable objectives, learner-centered instructional strategies, formative assessments that drive instructional practice, inclusive teaching practices that create positive learning environments for learners, and more. This program encourages asynchronous communication with others, provides practical and easy to implement teaching strategies, examples from library instruction sessions and case studies, as well as opportunities to practice and receive feedback on newly acquired or refined skills. During this presentation, I will describe the overall outline of the program, the structure of the modules, and the implementation plan for this program.Item Accessing and Preserving Texas Information in TRAIL(2020-08) Sare, Laura; Rohrig, TomThere is an open resource that all library types in Texas can access. TRAIL – the Technical Report Archive & Image Library - contains over 300 items about Texas. These range from biological surveys to water, to mineral deposits, to of course oil. Technical Reports might not be the first information resource people think about, but many federal agencies have published reports containing information on many different topics. Technical Reports communicate research in science and technology, technical development, and contain valuable information serving specialized audiences of researchers. Scholarly research papers often summarize research findings but technical reports often lay out the detail and data of research. This presentation will introduce attendees to the TRAIL Project and why this is a unique source for a variety of topics such as Texas oyster beds to saline water conversion. Technical reports have always been challenging to discover because of inconsistent and differing dissemination practices, no title level cataloging, and series level records with no holdings making it difficult to get technical reports via ILL. Member libraries of TRAIL are collaborating to digitize federal agency technical reports in print and micro-formats and cataloging them at the item level and depositing them in the HathiTrust and University of North Texas digital repositories where they are viewable to anyone in the world. Attendees will learn about Technical Reports and TRAIL’s mission, as well as how to publicize this free resource to their patrons.Item Literacy Technology Skills in the Latino Community from Secondary School to College(2020-08) Hernandez-Badia, Rosenid; Perez, LeonidesThe Latino community is the largest minority in the United States (US). Many of them enrolled in high school and college. There are a series of factors that can impact the Literacy and Technology Skills. There are four major factors that play an important role in the students throughout their school life toward college and beyond: Technology, Research, Soft Skills, and College Readiness. How do these factors impact the Latino community and their Technology Literacy Skills? Then, how can the library and librarian help? Literacy and Technology Skills begin in the library through our extensive programs supporting each of the four factors that facilitate both present and future success for our students.Item Collaborating on Scholarship(2020-08) Brannon, Sian; Sassen, CatherineScholarly research gives us insight into the future of libraries. A considerable amount of this research results from collaborative projects. However, collaborative research projects may crash and burn if not well planned. Learn how to choose team members, facilitate collaboration and organize all the elements of a project to create a successful publication or presentation. Also included are administrative responsibilities, thoughts on handling problems, and examples of delineating responsibilities.Item Knowing and Growing: Promoting Research Autonomy and Collaboration Through Instruction(2020-08) Johnson, Stacy H.; Kim, Dianna; Strickland, SusanSession presenters, academic research and instruction librarians from an R-3 university, will discuss developing an active and reflective inquiry-based library instruction activity to provide students with skills to effectively read and interpret scholarly articles. They will explain how librarians can collaborate with stakeholders and students to provide practical research experience through a one-shot instruction session adaptable to suit learners across disciplines. The librarians’ interactions with students revealed that they do not understand the structure and composition of academic research articles and lack the ability to efficiently read and interpret findings. To address this, the librarians developed a one-shot group activity “Anatomy of a Scholarly Research Article” to assist students in increasing their research acumen regardless of discipline. The librarians will discuss collaborating with faculty to use the instruction activity for courses in Fall 2019 and Spring 2020. They will also describe how the activity can be modified to suit various contexts and can help researchers at all levels examine their own process and benefit from collaborative, inquiry-based, active and reflective research practice.Item To Meet or Not to Meet: How We Really Feel(2020-08) Brannon, Sian; Leuzinger, JulieMeeting science is a relatively new phenomenon with empirical research and there is nothing relating to libraries in this literature. Come and find out the predictors of success for productive meetings, what academic librarian perceptions of effective meeting leadership are, and learn about the “best practices” for meeting participation and leadership.Item Lights, Lines, Lyrics & Library, It Can Be Done!(2020-08) Hernandez Badia, RosenidThe new librarian empowers learners with diverse skills and literacies. Collaborating with teachers promote innovative practices. Combining forces and talents will ensure equal the practice of tech/literacy and learning opportunities for all types of learners. This class will give you ideas in how theater can collaborate with the librarian, create school wide projects, and more.Item Facilitating Teamwork(2020-08) Lobley, MarlaMarla Lobley will share the team building efforts that have been successful at Linscheid Library at East Central University. The library has 1 director, 5 librarians, 7 full time staff and 20+ students. Due to the team building efforts, the library has been able to collaboratively create a strategic plan, build escape rooms and implement a website redesign. The presentation will outline the process that facilitated successful collaboration including: identifying individual strengths, establishing ground rules, increasing comfort level with healthy confrontation, and building trust through one on ones. Participants will receive ideas and materials that can be applied in any library setting.