Contributed Papers

Slidecasts (Asynchronous): Slidecasts are asynchronous recordings of PowerPoint presentations synched with real-time audio for sessions presented at the face-to-face conference in Philadelphia. Every contributed paper presented in Philadelphia has been recorded as a slidecast. These slidecasts are available below. Click on a title to view it.

• “Hanging Together”: Collaboration Between Information Literacy and Writing Programs Based on the ACRL Standards and the WPA Outcomes


• A Declaration of Embeddedness: Instructional Synergies and Sustaining Practices in LMS Embedded Librarianship


• A Declaration of Survey Interdependence


• A More Perfect Union: Campus Collaborations for Curriculum Mapping Information Literacy Outcomes


• Are All Reference Interactions Created Equal? How Gender Might Matter to Our Users


• Ask Them – They’ll Tell You! Eliciting Student Perspectives to Improve Services


• Assessment and Accreditation: Libraries enter stage left


• Book Lovers, Technophiles, Printers, and Pragmatists: The social and demographic structure of user attitudes toward e-books.


• Borges Envisions the Library’s Future


• Building a “Town and Gown” Collaborative Partnership to Promote Diversity and Literacy: A University Library’s Involvement in the National African American Read-In Chain Literacy Initiative


• Buried in the Clutter: An Analysis of Information Literacy Content on Academic Libraries’ Web Pages


• Capturing your Community: partnering with local booksellers for collection development and events


• Delivering a WOW User Experience: Do Academic Libraries Measure Up?


• Do Screencasts Really Work? Assessing Student Learning through Instructional Screencasts


• Do you see what I see?: Comparing Student and Librarian Perceptions of Learning Outcomes


• Evolution of Scholarly Communication: How Small and Medium-Sized Libraries are Adapting


• Fags, blacks and Hutterites: Challenging prejudice and stereotypes with the Human Library


• Fair Use Is Not Civil Disobedience: Rethinking the Copyright Wars and the Role of the Academic Library


• From Embedded to Integrated: Digital Information Literacy and New Teaching Models for Academic Librarians


• Harmonic Convergence: Using the Tuning Process to Build Relationships and Transform Information Literacy


• Harnessing Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing in the Service of Disaster Response and Recovery


• Helping the Hand that Feeds You: Supporting the Research Needs of Campus Executive Officers


• How does switching to a Discovery Tool affect circulation?


• Incorporating Language Skills Strategies into Library Instruction for ESL Students


• Information Literacy: Reinvention for Digital Natives


• Is the Devil You Know Better than the Devil You Don’t Know: Issues in Academic Library Leadership Recruitment


• Job Hunting: What Search Committees Want You to Know


• Learning Together: A Cross-Disciplinary Partnership


• Librarian 2.0: It’s All in the Attitude!


• Librarians as Teacher Leaders: Definitions, Challenges, and Opportunities


• Library Confidential: Boundaries and Benefits of Demystifying Student Appointments for Faculty


• Lies, Damned Lies, and Copyright (Mis)Information: Empowering Faculty by Addressing Key Points of Confusion


• Lightning in a Bottle: Managing Ideas to Spur Innovation


• Listening to Students: A User-Centered Assessment of Incoming Graduate Students’ Research Skills


• Literacies Lightning Round: Integrating 21st Century Literacies into the Curriculum


• Millennial Librarians: Who They Are and How They are Different from the Rest of Us


• New Metrics of Engagement for Academic Libraries


• No more design by committee: Strategies for building lean mean web project teams


• Opening Pandora’s Stream: Piping music into the Information Literacy classroom


• Outreach, marketing & digital literacies: using social media to blur the differences


• Put the pencil down: using student podcasts to assess learning in a for-credit research course


• Re-Inventing Reference Service


• Reference Desk Renaissance: Connecting with Users in the Digital Age


• Reference philosophy in a mobile world: evidence for service provision and sustainability


• Retracted Publications in Biomedicine: Cause for Concern


• Scary, Exciting or Something In-Between: How do Next Generation Academic Librarians Perceive Institutional Change?


• Selecting print vs. electronic resources for researchers in the humanities: collection development with limited resources


• Show me the data! Partnering with instructors to teach data literacy


• Stepping Up Your Game: Responding to Evolving Regional Accreditation Standards


• Stop the Madness: The Insanity of ROI and the Need for New Qualitative Measures of Academic Library Success


• Talkin’ ’bout my generalization: confronting assumptions about attitudes toward reference service in the changing library workforce


• Taming Lightning In More Than One Bottle: Implementing a Local Next-Generation Catalog Versus a Hosted Web-Scale Discovery Service


• The Ancient Library at Alexandria: Embracing the Excellent, Avoiding its Fate


• The Budgetary Importance of Building Relationships.


• The Limits of Democracy in Academic Libraries in a Revolutionary Age


• The Role of Professional Identity in Building Relationships between Library and Information Technology Units


• Towards Demonstrating Value: Measuring the Contributions of Library Collections to University Research and Teaching Goals


• Uncovering the IL Disconnect: Examining expectations among librarians, faculty and students


• Unraveling the “Mystery” of the Library: A “Big Games” Approach to Library Orientation


• Unsuccessful Does Not Equal Failure: Evaluating the Decision Making Process of Formal Library Instruction Initiatives at a Distance Learning Center Library Using Principles of Design Thinking


• Using QR Codes in the Library: The Library Audio Tour


• When Interdependence Becomes Codependence: knowing when and how to let go of legacy services


• Wiki Pushing for Doubters: A Successful Applied Model (developed by a reluctant late adopter)


• You can lead them to water, but you can’t make them drink. Using crowdsourcing to lead library patrons to extended library services relevant to their search criteria.