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The Role of Knowledge Brokering in Fostering Connections Between Educational Research, Policy, and Practice
This chapter introduces knowledge brokering as a concept and set of practices focusing on its applications, strengths, and challenges in education. The chapter is divided into five sections. First, we consider the sorts ... -
Harnessing Pandora's Box: At the Intersection of Information Literacy and AI (IFLA WLIC 2023 Proceedings)
A group of four librarians from varied disciplinary backgrounds came together to examine issues of artificial intelligence and large language models. We are of the opinion that Pandora's box has been opened. Students will ... -
Uncovering the protest paradigm through visual framing: A media literacy lesson for college students
Much is made of the proliferation of fake news in media literacy education. With good reason, we worry about unreliable news reporting and its effect on political participation. However, instruction that focuses on the ... -
Learning Apprenticeships in the Media and Information Literacy Classroom
Inspired by the apprenticeship model of teaching and learning, two academic librarians report on their efforts to place current events at the center of a semester-long media and information literacy course. Join them as ... -
News Literacy Concepts for First-Year Students
Since first-year students are more likely to engage with mainstream news rather than fake news and disinformation, presenters in this session will introduce news literacy concepts and activities designed to help students ... -
Fast, Free, and Functional: An Overview of Freely Available Online Citation Tools
Freely-available citation tools are popular with students because of their speed and convenience. Some offer the ability to copy and paste a URL and some only allow for manual entry of citation elements. This article offers ... -
Enabling New Interactions with a Library's Digital Collections: Automatic Gender Recognition in Historical Postcards via Deep Learning
The Walter Havighurst Special Collections from University Archives & Preservation at Miami University’s King Library has a growing collection of over 600,000 historical postcards, with approximately 30,000 digitized, ... -
Researching Lead Exposure Effects on Substance Use Disorders: My Passions in Environmental Health Equity
With underlying neurological effects of lead (Pb) on learning and neuron firing, which is seen in consequential developments of learning disabilities, could the comorbidity of ADHD and SUDs be determined, in part, by Pb ... -
Mineral identification numbers for librarians, explained through a short history of Dana's classification scheme
Many chemistry librarians are likely familiar with chemical identifiers, such as CAS Registry Numbers or InChI strings, that serve as unique IDs for chemicals, which attempts to overcome the challenges in searching the ... -
How finding your question and following your curiosity can naturally craft your research identity
This talk will emphasize how developing a research identity can begin with a single question. The speaker will share the backstory to a current research project, they didn’t set out to do, that started this way. It involves ... -
The National Survey of Area Agencies on Aging: 2022 Results
This report presents the findings from the 2022 National Survey of Area Agencies on Aging. This report provides key findings from the survey related to the following topics: service provision and populations served, social ... -
The Federal Proposed Standard for Nursing Home Staffing: How Does It Impact Ohio's Nursing Homes?
In response to concerns about direct care staffing challenges in nursing homes across the nation, on September 6, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed new federal rules to establish minimum ... -
Success on the Small-Scale: Non-Traditional Tours Targeting Students in Transition
A Student Success Librarian outlines an unconventional approach to an academic library tour. In this newly adopted student-focused model, small-scale tours serve as a setting to share study tips for every style and space, ...