Session Description:
Sherman Alexie is a prolific novelist, poet and screenplay writer and has been hailed as one of the best young writers of his generation. In his lectures, he tells autobiographical tales of contemporary American Indian life laced with razor-sharp humor and bits of history, pop culture and social commentary. Alexie’s best known works include The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Smoke Signals, and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.
Presenters:
Sherman Alexie, Screenplay Writer, Chicago, IL, United States,

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Learn new ways of using traditional library statistics such as door counts, seating, circulation and instruction to enhance your library assessment program, to improve current services, programs and resources or to expand or create new ones. Not using LibQUAL? Not a statistician? Join us and explore applications that require only a willingness to be creative and to use basic Excel features. Increase your accountability and make your statistics work for you.

Benefits/Objectives:

• Identify new ways of using library statistics in order to achieve short and long term goals
• Learn to incorporate statistics as benchmarks into strategic planning and assessment to show administrators how the library is achieving its mission on campus.
• Identify and learn to use NCES statistics and other public data for peer comparisons

Presenters:
Margaret Fain, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, United States
Jennifer Hughes, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, United States

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Session Description:
This workshop will provide an introduction to electronic resources management in libraries. The emphasis will be on workflows and teamwork, purchasing and administering electronic resources, and utilizing third-party management products. The presenters will provide an orientation to the essential components of managing electronic resources and strategies for doing it well.

Benefits/Objectives:

• Attendees will recognize the evolving role of electronic resources in libraries

Session Description:
This workshop will help librarians establish solid instructional structures for incorporating multimedia technology into classroom activities, projects, and information literacy curricula. While addressing various elements that impact and influence the effective integration of multimedia in the classroom, attendees will apply what they are learning through a variety of active learning exercises and walk away with the beginning stages of an activity, project, or assignment.

Benefits/Objectives:

• Identify various types of multimedia technologies in order to better assess appropriate technologies for use in the learning environment.
• Implement effective instructional principles in order to create sound instructional activities and projects for students.
• Develop a scaffold for instructional activities and projects in order to address potential barriers that hinder effective instruction.

Presenters:
Jennifer Sharkey, Purdue University Libraries, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Catherine Fraser Riehle, Purdue University Libraries, West Lafayette, IN, United States

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Session Description:
Each of us sees, feels,and thinks of different imagery when we read the phrase Standing on the Edge. And so it is with CHANGE. In the workshop, you will gain an enhanced understanding of how you react to change personally and techniques that can help you play an effective, proactive role in change. You will also be equipped with models to develop change plans that create a more agile organization.

Benefits/Objectives:

• Learn the patterns and commonalities that people share when going through change
• Increase understanding of how flexible each participant is in coping with change
• Examine a change model and evaluate its application to an institutional situation

Presenters:
Elaine Jennerich, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Sue Baughman, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States

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Session Description:
A structured, interactive overview of the scholarly communication system to underpin individual or institutional strategic planning and action. Four modules will focus on new methods of scholarly publishing and communication, copyright and intellectual property, economics, and open access and openness as a principle. Appropriate for those with new leadership assignments in scholarly communication as well as liaisons and others who are interested in the issues, and need foundational understanding.

Benefits/Objectives:

• Understand scholarly communication as a system to manage the results of research and scholarly inquiry and be able to describe system characteristics, including academic libraries and other major stakeholders and stakeholder interests, major types and sources of current stress and evolution, and key indicators of size, complexity, and rates of change
• Enumerate new modes and models of scholarly communication; business models; research & social interaction models (from blogs, curated websites, etc), and peer review models and examples of the ways in which academic libraries have or can initiate or support those models
• Be able to select and cite key principles, facts, and messages relevant to current or nascent scholarly communication plans and programs in their institutions, e.g. as preparation for library staff or faculty outreach, to contextualize collection development decisions

Presenters:
Lee VanOrsdel, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, United States
Joy Kirchner, University of British Columbia Library, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Molly Keener, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC, United States
Sarah Shreeves, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States

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Session Description:
Libraries have felt the assessment buzz in recent years. Assessment is best when done early and often; in the real world, projects may fall short of this goal. Time constraints often push assessment to the margins of a project. This workshop will teach librarians to design an assessment project plan through the principles of good project management. Participants will learn to structure and define assessment projects, overcome challenges, and become familiar with project management softwares.

Benefits/Objectives:

• Develop strategies for managing an assessment project team and defining roles within the project team in order to work efficiently and effectively given a strict timeline.
• Identify scope, goals, priorities, audience and timeline for an assessment project in order to create an assessment project plan.
• Understand how and when to use project management software in order to maintain communication and accountability with an assessment project team.

Presenters:
Jennifer Rutner, Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY, United States
Joanna DiPasquale, Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY, United States

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Session Description:
Exposure to primary sources can fundamentally enhance undergraduate education. Librarians can play significant roles in this process. This workshop will approach that challenge from various perspectives. Workshop participants will work through exercises designed to help them consider how best to incorporate primary sources in their instruction. Participants will learn strategies to promote the use of primary sources, to articulate student outcomes for instruction sessions, identify appropriate active learning techniques, and use simple assessment methods.

Benefits/Objectives:

• By the end of the Primary Sources workshop, participants will create a curriculum that will engage the intended audience in order to promote their understanding of primary souces.
• By the end of the Primary Sources workshop, participants will develop student learning outcomes and active learning techniques for instruction sessions on the definition, identification, use and interpretation of primary sources in order to design content that will achieve the learning outcomes.
• By the end of the Primary Sources workshop, participants will develop an action plan that will foster the integration of Special Collections expertise on primary sources into general education courses.

Presenters:
Stephen MacLeod, UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, CA, United States
Cathy Palmer, UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, CA, United States
Becky Imamoto, UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, CA, United States
Melanie Sellar, UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, CA, United States

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Session Description:
Got a great idea for a digital project, but just don’t know how to get started? This session introduces both novices and experts to action planning for digital projects with a particular emphasis on integrating emerging social networking technologies such as blogs, mash-ups, and widgets into digital projects. Participants will understand the differences between emerging technologies, follow an action-planning process for digital projects, and gain confidence to turn a great idea into an actionable project.

Benefits/Objectives:

• Participants will learn the difference between emerging technologies (widgets) and their uses
• Participants will learn how to follow an action-planning process to turn ideas into actionable goals and objectives
• Participants will gain the confidence to plan a digital project that integrates emerging social networking technologies and tools

Presenters:
Ira Revels, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States

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