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Launching a Chat Reference Service Amid a Global Pandemic
(2020)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) ... -
Five Years of First-Year Composition: A Librarian Reflects
(2020)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 ... -
CTLC 2020 Keynote Speaker: Tracie Walker-Reed
(2020)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 ... -
Audience Warm-Up: Engage Your Audience Before You Present
(2020)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 ... -
Scavenger Hunts, Zoom & Trolls: Lessons Learned from Virtual Outreach
(2020)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 ... -
Comparing Teamwork & Collaboration Competencies between a Technology in Art Education course and an Engineering Project Management Course
(2020)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 ... -
High-quality Diet of Journals: Comparison of Top-ranked with Most-used Journals
(2020)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 ... -
Connecting Digitally with the Tejas Star Reading List
(2020)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 -
It’s Elementary! Using Children’s Television to Teach Information Literacy
(2020)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 ... -
Remote Reference: A Practitioner’s Guide
(2020)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, ... -
Keeping Readers Engaged and Connected with the Rivera Book Award
(2020)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 ... -
Diving in, flipping a Workshop from In-person to Virtual, fast!
(2020)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 ... -
Explore Census Data – An Introduction and Demonstration
(2020)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 ... -
Building More Diverse Collections for Younger Readers
(2020)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 ... -
Copyright & the Preservation of Video Collections in Libraries
(2020)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 ... -
Pedagogy for Practical Library Instruction – An Online Program
(2020-08)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 ...