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Spicing up the Orientation: Promoting Brill Science Library
This poster describes “Follow The Silk Road….to the Science Library”, a new orientation for the Brill Science Library at Miami University. The orientation combined many important ingredients including outreach, information ... -
Smart Searching: An Online Information Literacy Tutorial Tailored Specifically To Introductory Engineering Students
A common problem facing librarians today is convincing students about the world of information beyond Google. Traditional library instruction is a reasonable answer, but tends not to be effective. First, introductory science ... -
Gettin' Hot in Here: Using Global Warming to Connect the Library with the Community
Who knew that a topic as controversial as global warming could bring people together? GAIA (Global Awareness and Information Access), a year-long series of events, with global warming as the central theme, provided students ... -
What Information Literacy Means to Me: Collaborating with Faculty to Understand Student Perceptions of Information Literacy
This presentation recounts the experiences of The Faculty Learning Community for Improving Student Research Literacy, a community of professors and librarians at Miami University (Oxford, OH). Community members created a ... -
Do They Really Know? Collaborating with Faculty on Information Literacy Assessment
This poster will recount the experience of Miami University's Faculty Learning Community for Improving Student Research Literacy, a group of professors and librarians who work together on incorporating information literacy ... -
Campus-wide partnerships to improve students’ academic integrity iQ
Miami University’s iQ (short for integrity Quickstart) is a newly created online tutorial that guides students through different scenarios about academic integrity and research issues. Each scenario introduces the student ... -
Joining forces with Faculty to Foster Information Literacy Best Practices in the Classroom
Faculty often are frustrated by the quality of student research, including low scholarly resource use and lack of evaluation skills. Miami University (Oxford, OH) has created a faculty learning community (comprised of both ... -
Integrated Information Literacy Assessment using ePortfolios
ePortfolios continue to gain strength in higher education as a viable and relatively quick method for assessment of student work. Miami University recently implemented Chalk & Wire as its ePortfolio system for the entire ... -
Engaging with Wikipedia via Article Creation
The dichotomy of Wikipedia: many love it, and many others love to hate it. While students may not entirely understand the process behind Wikipedia, they do know that they can get information fast (and generally of high ... -
Capitalizing on University Resources for Easy and Economical Information Literacy Assessment
ePortfolios continue to gain strength in higher education as a viable and relatively quick method for assessment of student work. Miami University (Oxford, OH) recently implemented Chalk & Wire as its ePortfolio system ... -
Using LibGuides 2.0 & Video Creation Tools to Provide Distance Learning
How do we ensure students have access to library instruction and librarian support when they’re in an online course? Learn tips for using LibGuides and video creation tools to offer information literacy and library ... -
Using Visual Literacy to Demonstrate the Impact of Technological Space
Learn how we assessed the visual literacy skills of students in relation to the use of our technological spaces in the Libraries. We will share the rubric we created to assess student poster presentations at the annual ... -
Preservation Outreach Through Non-Traditional Instruction and Engagement
This poster will present outreach initiatives undertaken by the library’s preservation department to promote library preservation among students and patrons. In collaboration with special collections, the preservation ... -
Student Perceptions as a Method to Improve Information Literacy
Purpose When considering the information literacy skills of students, faculty (and librarians) often make assumptions as to what students know, understand, or why they act as they do. To help alleviate these misunderstandings, ... -
Quality and Engaging Student Research Projects: A Student Development Theory Approach
Research projects can cause struggles for students, faculty, and librarians alike. While assumptions are made as to why these struggles occur, we propose that looking at student development theory can further assist in ... -
Reimagining Info Lit Assessment: An Inexpensive and Easy Method for Measuring IL Skill Progression
How information literate are our students? How can we tell if their skills are improving during their college years? Standardized IL tests are available (iCriticalThinking and SAILS), but each requires a considerable ... -
Visual Literacy Assessment: Engaging Students to Improve Success
Does library engagement of students contribute to their success? This poster will highlight our study of the impact of library services on the development of visual literacy skills. Our research process and results will ... -
Assessing Technological Self-Efficacy to Support Student Learning
Technology usage is a vital, and often expected, prerequisite for student engagement and learning. Knowledge of various technologies is assumed, but is that really the case? One way to examine this is by surveying Technological ... -
Sustainably Supporting Assessment Work with Communities of Practice
This session brings together five librarians to discuss their recent projects assessing student success and learning, as well as the communities of practice--the ACRL Assessment in Action learning community environment and ...