Browsing 2020 CTLC Conference by Title
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Accessing and Preserving Texas Information in TRAIL
(2020-08)There 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Collaborating on Scholarship
(2020-08)Scholarly 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. ... -
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 ... -
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 -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Data Services in the Age of Scalability and a Pandemic
(2020-08)As higher education institutions in the United States began to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by moving classes online, emptying residence halls, and authorizing remote work, academic librarians were tasked upon helping ... -
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 ... -
Documenting Library Work: Lessons We Can Learn from Technical Writers
(2020-08)Have you ever tried to write a how-to manual or other documentation for your library’s processes? Have you gotten overwhelmed trying to figure out where to start, or too busy keeping up with your day-today work to take a ... -
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 ... -
Facilitating Teamwork
(2020-08)Marla 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...