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Promising Practices in Adult Guardianship in Ohio: Featured County Profiles
This accompanying document profiles the five Ohio counties (Butler, Cuyahoga, Franklin, Lorain, Stark) featured in the brief and provides more details about their innovative guardianship practices. -
Promising Practices in Adult Guardianship in Ohio
This research brief highlights innovative strategies used by five Ohio counties to address common challenges in adult guardianship. -
K-12 Choice-Favoring and Public-Favoring Stories
This article focuses on how language favoring educational choice shapes U.S. educational policy. We outline key features of some dominant narratives, providing several examples and showing how these stories contradict ... -
Where do we go from here? Expanding the reach of your gaming events
"This chapter utilizes case studies from various institutions to explore methods of deepening student engagement with games. We begin with exploring ways to engage with student input, then move into how games can support ... -
Supplemental Material for study on using multiple monitors in introduction level programming courses
This entry contains our supplemental material, including Data and its analysis, for our study investigating multiple monitors as an intervention in early programming educational laboratories. -
Mentoring in Academic Libraries.
The authors, who have each engaged in mentoring in higher education, surveyed academic librarians in 2017 on their mentoring experiences. Those findings are placed alongside best practices drawn from the literature to ... -
Make the Grade: Integrating Making into the Higher Education Curriculum
Makerspaces provide an avenue for individuals and groups to independently create projects, learn how to use equipment, and tinker away. However, they can also be used by students to complete making-related assignments ... -
Assessment, Analytics, and Analysis: Demonstrating the Impact of LMS Embedded Librarians on Student Learning
The Ithaka S&R US Library Survey 2016 documents that library directors are committed to supporting teaching and learning services in terms of staffing and budget. They are equally committed to supporting student success, ... -
Transform the Path of a Library Career: Empowering Librarians Through Mentoring
Mentoring empowers the next generation of librarians to assume positions of leadership and expertise in our profession. Successful mentoring requires a combination of commitments from library administrators, professiona ... -
Library Services in Learning Management Systems
The learning management system (LMS) has become a standard part of the higher education infrastructure, both for online and face-to-face courses. Continuing growth in online course offerings and the mobility of ... -
Making Ends Meet: What Library Makerspaces Need to Succeed
Makerspaces can be easy to start in academic libraries: just buy a 3D printer and you’re in business, right? But before you start collecting tools and technologies, what questions should you ask, and what possibilities ... -
Have It Your Way: Designing a Library Makerspace to Support Creativity and Innovation
Makerspaces are growing in many types of libraries, but have you considered adding one to your library? The creators of an academic library makerspace will share their progress over two years, starting with a 3D printer ... -
Embedded Librarianship: Commnicating Our Crucial Value
Academic libraries spend millions on emerging technologies, digital and print collections, and hiring staff with subject and technology expertise. How do we signal stakeholders this sizable investment is worthwhile when ... -
Creating Order from Chaos and Fostering Collaboration: Documentation, Cross-training, and Continuous Operations in Multi-service Point Libraries
In 2018, a library reorganization consolidated several previously separate units into a single department. The newly-created unit sought out a method for documenting and disseminating existing practices, with a goal of ... -
DECIDING, DOCUMENTING, AND DISSEMINATING LIBRARY POLICIES AND PRACTICES: A CASE STUDY FROM A NEWLY-CREATED LIBRARY UNIT
Staff turnover, varying practices across service points, and consolidation of previously independent units are three starter reasons to document common practices. This session will address the development of central ... -
A Heaping Scoop of Literacy, with a Side of Gamification
The workshop described in this chapter combines gamification with information and data literacy instruction using an “escape room”-style format. Undergraduate students escape the room by successfully completing timed ...