This is my 2nd ACRL Conference and I think I learned more in 1 preconference today than the entire conference in Baltimore.  This is no way detracts from the great ideas I got last time, but the preconference on Outreach to International Students was entertaining and educational!  John Hickok from California State U Fullerton discussed a great 3-prong approach for outreaching to both international students and domestic ESL students.  I am excited to take what I learned back to the University of Northern Colorado, get some more librarians involved and expand our efforts working with ou international population!!  John shared handouts, tips about cultural issues, ideas for meeting and mingling with students and student groups, and demonstrated communication techniques through the use of video vignettes showing bad vs good instruction and reference interactions.  This preconference was worth it!!

You can read more about John’s techniques by checking out the recent ACRL publication Practical Pedagogy for Library Instructors: 17 Innovative Strategies to Improve Student Learning, edited by D. Cook & R. Sittler.  His is chapter 17 -  Bringing Them into the Community: Innovative Library Instructional Strategies for International and ESL Students (Ina side note also check out chapter 12, that’s mine on plagiarism instruction; and yes this is a shameful plug but I figure what the heck)!

While not 100% new I’m still new enough to forget that ACRL feeds you breakfast!  So remember tomorrow that the exhibit space will probably have breakfast pastries, coffee, and H2O available in the morning!

I hope everyone is off to a great start this week!  If you have not done so, you must check out the Seattle Public Library on 4th Ave.  I’m there (here?) now!  It is a fantastic building.  As of 4:30 today they’ve checked out over 6,000 books (it is displayed on the 5th floor monitors)!  Neon green escalator, bright orange chairs, tons of glass, lots of space, nice friendly staff, internet, and full to the brim… I love it!

–Lyda Ellis

Instruction Librarian, University of Northern Colorado

Session Description:
Are your daily decisions justifiable and based on real evidence? This preconference introduces Evidence-Based Librarianship (EBL), a process grounded in the concept that daily practice should be based on up-to-date, valid, and reliable research. Learn applications of EBL in a variety of contexts, how EBL relates to other assessment techniques and identify challenges and issues related to implementing the process in your library.
Benefits/Objectives:

• Apply EBLIP protocols in a variety of domains in order to facilitate library-wide data-driven decision making.

• Relate EBLIP to other assessment techniques available in order to find the best evidence for decision making.
• Identify the challenges to implementing EBLIP in their libraries in order to institute change if appropriate.

Presenters:
Jeanne Davidson, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Denise Koufogiannakis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Megan Oakleaf, Syracuse University, Syracuse University, NY, United States
Jonathan Eldredge, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Pam Ryan, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

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Session Description:
Libraries are full of people with talent, insight, energy, and ambition who dont necessarily have formal authority. This highly interactive preconference will allow each participant to develop an influence plan for a real situation . Participants will leave with specific, concrete, ethical strategies to use both immediately and in the future. Group discussions, case studies, written exercises, and lecturettes will help participants discover how to shape others opinions without manipulating them or relying on authority.
Benefits/Objectives:

• Create a comprehensive plan to influence a specific person/group without using authority

• Craft meaningful messages that are relevant to and appropriate for your audience
• Deliver a clear call to action that prompts your audience to follow through on a request

Presenters:
Melanie Hawks, J Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

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Session Description:
Problem solving while managing change is key to effective team building and organizational success. The process begins with an understanding of one’s self. With practical applications based on individual profiles from the Klein Group Instrument for Effective Leadership and Team Participation, Kirton’s Adaption-Innovation Inventory, and the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, successful problem solving will be illustrated through active participant interaction, providing a better understanding of the value of diversity in the process for those in and aspiring to leadership roles.

1. Participants will develop self-knowledge as they review their Adaption-Innovation style, personality preferences and KGI profile.
2. Participants will develop an appreciation for the value of diversity in problem solving styles, personality preferences, decision making and leadership
3. Participants will use their new knowledge in interactive activities designed to illustrate how to apply A-I theory, personality type theory and leadership skill in their own professional development and in their work environment.

Presenters:
Carol Ritzen Kem, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
Cheri Brodeur, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States

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Session Description:
The ubiquity of electronic resources, digital technologies, and revolving formats has made understanding copyright fundamental to understanding academic libraries. Scholarly communication, open access, ILL, e-reserve, preservation, digital libraries, teaching, and user-generated content share a legacy of challenges governed by copyright. This session is about understanding copyright, applying it, and your questions. Participants will engage in discussions about their work and learn how to use copyright law for resolving day-to-day challenges in the library community.
Benefits/Objectives:
1:) Understand basic copyright principles and more sophisticated applications, including how to distinguish and address ownership and use issues and how to share opportunities with colleagues and others to better understand these principles and apply them in their work.

2:) Identify copyright issues in the library and related environments and recognize how different interpretations of the law may raise different expectations of how copyright ought to apply to the range of diverse stakeholders in the academic community and beyond.

3:) Apply learned principles to practical issues confronting librarians and others in their related learning communities, with learning activities involving analyzing fair use as it applies to electronic reserves and other scholarship, how library exemptions permit a range of preservation, replacement, and copying activities, and how “”distance education”" and web-based learning activities can fit within other exceptions.
Presenters:
Dwayne K. Buttler, J.D., University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
Donna L. Ferullo, J.D., Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Kenneth D. Crews, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
Janice T. Pilch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States

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Session Description:
This pre-conference program will offer a comprehensive model-program for outreaching to International and ESL students in academic universities. The population of these students is rapidly growing, and they have special needs. An innovative 3-step approach will be presented: 1)outreaching to them through exciting cultural meetings; 2)establishing partner networks with other-culture libraries to assist; 3)customizing reference & instruction to this special-need population (i.e., cultural/language cues to be aware of during reference & instruction)
Benefits/Objectives:

• Understand, and be able to re-state, the unique challenges and needs of International & ESL students

• Understand the 3 outreach steps, and be able to propose how they might be adapted to ones own library setting
• Recognize, and be able to identify some of the key reference/instruction tactics for assisting International & ESL students

Presenters:
John Hickok, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, United States

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In this session participants will learn how to brew up a rubric that is just right for evaluating student work. Everyone will get hands-on experience in the full process of rubric creation, use and evaluation. Attendees will leave the program energized with new skills to improve instruction. The presenters will provide a menu of ideas on how to use rubrics for other types of assessment and a bibliography for further reading.

Benefits/Objectives:

• Participants will improve their instruction design by learning to create a rubric in order to pinpoint gaps in student information literacy skills
• Participants will design a rubric based on ACRL Standards in order to apply best practices to assessment of student work.
• Participants will learn how to test the efficacy of rubrics in order to develop confidence in their newly acquired skill

Presenters:
Sue Phelps, Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, WA, United States
Linda Frederiksen, Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, WA, United States

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