Session Description:
Peer-to-peer evaluation of instruction is an important tool for librarians who are committed to developing their teaching skills and to improving their students learning experiences. Our team approach of building a flexible peer-to-peer teaching model encourages sharing knowledge and experiences, enriching teaching practice, and promoting experimentation within the classsroom. This offers the opportunity to extend professional development for all participants, whether they are new to the field or instructional librarians with years of experience.

Benefits/Objectives:

• Describe the advantages of ongoing professional development through sharing knowledge and expertise across disciplines
• Recognize the benefits of using the peer-to-peer model to evaluate and improve teaching, and apply this collaborative approach to strategies that can impact teaching practice
• Adapt and use the peer-to-peer model to constructively evaluate instruction in their home institutions

Presenters:
Diane Clark, University of Alberta Libraries, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Lindsay Johnston, University of Alberta Libraries, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Virginia Pow, University of Alberta Libraries, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Angelique Mandeville, University of Alberta Libraries, Edmonton, AB, Canada

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Are core journal lists relevant in today’s world? Are they a useful measure against which to compare local collections? How are core lists created? Join us as we review the historical context of core lists, give an overview of current trends in collection assessment using existing metrics, discuss and critique methodologies for creating lists, and brainstorm potential new measures together.

Benefits/Objectives:

• Historical and contemporary trends in use of core lists in serials collection development
• Methodologies for developing core titles lists
• Critique of existing measures

Presenters:
Robin Paynter, Portland State University Library, Portland, OR, United States
Rose Jackson, Portland State University Library, Portland, OR, United States
Laura Bowering Mullen, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, United States

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This formal debate will present arguments on the relevance of the MLS degree to the future work of the academic library. Is the MLS a fundamental and beneficial credential or an unnecessary anachronism not linked to library success?
Benefits/Objectives:

• attendees will understand the key benefits of the MLS degree to work of the academic library
• attendees will understand why some are questioning the value and relevance of the MLS degree
• attendees will learn about the wide range of new professional assignments based in the academic library

Presenters:

James Neal, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
Liz Bishoff, BCR, Aurora, CO, United States
Arnold Hirshon, NELINET, Inc., Southborough, MA, United States

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AUDIO ONLY - Resolved: The Master’s Degree In Library Science Is Not Relevant to the Future of the Academic Library

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As the information world evolves, the skills, expertise, and job titles and duties of librarians change with it. Today, data, GIS, and metadata experience are requirements appearing in job descriptions. Our session will bring together academic librarians in newly created data librarianship positions to discuss our position mandates and our challenges. We will pay particular attention to the acquisition and use of technology, concluding with how librarians can assess and meet their users data needs.

Benefits/Objectives:

• Learn about successful procedures smaller institutions have used to justify the addition of a data librarian in order to advocate for the creation of a position at your university.
• Develop approaches for libraries without a dedicated data services librarian in order to meet the needs of data users at their libraries.
• Learn what basic data analysis programs are available (both free and commercially available) in order to assess the cost-effectiveness of developing data services.

Presenters:
Lynda Kellam, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, United States
Sheree Fu, Claremont University Consortium, Claremont, CA, United States
Susan Metcalf, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, United States

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Session Description:
Be your own designer! Using the talents of your staff and easy to learn 3D modeling software a library redesign can be implemented under tight deadlines and at substantial savings. Reducing reference collection shelving to improve site lines, adding additional tables for laptops to increase wireless usage are easy solutions. Improve the space, improve the place!

Benefits/Objectives:

• The participant will learn how to organize a project in house to revamp library space
• The participant will discover how easily acquired software tools can assist, plan, and record the design process
• The participant will understand how to optimize redesign for patron satisfaction, reducing site lines and adding laptop space.

Presenters:
Monique Andrews, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States
Rhonda McGinnis, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States
Mike Sensiba, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States
Mike Hawthorne, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States
Crystle Martin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States

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The IMLS-sponsored ALSTARS program at the University of South Florida School of Library and Inforamtion Sicence admitted around 30 students who were interested in becoming academic librarians and put them through a special curriculum in the LIS School and a fellowship program in one of the co-sponsoring academic librart systems. The panelists will discuss the ALSTARS program to educate future academic and research librarians from the viewpoint of instructors, site supervisors, and the students.

Benefits/Objectives:

• The audience will discover new ways to enhance cooperation between LIS programs and academic libraries.
• The audience will be able to discuss ways that academic librarians can further the education of future librarians.
• The sudience will leave understanding a new model for the education of future academic librarians.

Presenters:
Vicki L. Gregory, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States
James Ascher, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Shantrie Collins, University of Tennessee Library, Knoxville, TN, United States
Claudia Dold, Florida Mental Health Institute Library, Tampa, FL, United States
Cynthia Kisby, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States
Derrie Perez, University of South Florida School of Library & Information Science, Tampa, FL, United States

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Session Description:
The READ Scale is a six-point scale tool for recording vital supplemental qualitative statistics gathered when reference staff assist users with their inquiries or research-related activities by placing an emphasis on recording the effort / knowledge / skills / teaching etc utilized by library staff during a reference transaction. Panelists will discuss using the READ Scale (Reference Effort Assessment Data) at their institutions to record reference statistics and the implications for service and assessment.
Benefits/Objectives:

• How the READ Scale can be implemented locally

• How the READ Scale can record value / impact of reference services and supplements current statistic gathering practices
• How READ Scale data can be used to address organizational / staffing / training issues

Presenters:
Bella Karr Gerlich, Dominican University, River Forest, IL, United States
Lynn Berard, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Elaine Westbrooks, University of Nebraska, , , United States
Kevin McDonough, Northern Michigan University, , , United States
Gretchen Revie, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, United States

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Session Description:
A panel of instruction librarians from the University of Southern California (USC) will present on the use of improvisational techniques applied to library instruction. Humor is often mentioned in the literature as one form of active learning that increases immediacy, and therefore engagement, retention, and learning in the classroom. Panelists will share a practical application of this concept by drawing on the training they received from a real-life improvisational coach in the entertainment business.

Benefits/Objectives:

• Discover what an improvisational coach in the entertainment business can teach a librarian in order to broaden your perspective on a librarian’s potential skill set.
• Observe how instruction librarians applied improvisational skills to their classroom in order to experiment with these techniques in your own teaching.
• Learn the key findings in the literature on applying humor to library instruction in order to evaluate the application of humor as a teaching technique in your own classroom. In addition, 4. Laugh with us in order to learn how to make your students laugh and become more actively engaged.

Presenters:
Susan Gardner, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, United States
Felicia Palsson, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, United States
Nikki Julian, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, United States
Norah Xiao, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, United States

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Session Description:
Each year more and more of our collection becomes electronic - journals, reference books, monographs. WHAT IF… we transformed our collections solely to electronic? …we threw out traditional collection development practices and instituted patron initiated purchases of entire books, or chapters? …we worked through aggregators to acquire all monograph content electronically? How would these transformations affect our collections, budgets, reserves, ILL, and job descriptions? Engage in a lively debate about such opportunities, threats, and challenges.

Benefits/Objectives:

• Critically evaluate existing collection development practicess to determine if they promote or prohibit the procurement of electronic content in one’s own library
• Discuss and debate the opportunities and challenges presented by patron initiated purchasing through electronic aggregators
• Determine how the library and library staff, (reserves, ILL, collection policies, liaison work, etc) will be impacted by instituting solely electronic collections and how to plan for these changes

Presenters:
Sue Polanka, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, United States
Alice Crosetto, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States

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Session Description:
Seattle’s Pike Place Fish Market is famous because it transforms mundane encounters into memorable user experiences. If they can do it, so can academic librarians. Three librarians well versed in user experience theory and practice will provide an overview of user experience practice, connect it to the routines of academic library services and discuss the advantages of a User Experience Librarian position. Explore ideas for turning your everyday library services into great user experiences.

Benefits/Objectives:

• Design library services with the user experience in mind in order to create memorable experiences that keep users returning
• Distinguish a user experience from traditional library service in order to establish an appropriate set of practices to improve the user experience
• Examine the role of a User Experience Librarian in order to identify best practices in creating this new position.

Presenters:
Steven Bell, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Brian Mathews, Georgia Tech Library, Atlanta, GA, United States
Valeda Dent Goodman, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

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