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The WPWV/ACRL Virtual Spring Conference 2022
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
9am-3pm
Live Virtual Conference
Schedule At-A-Glance
Schedule
9:00am – 9:30am Business Meeting and Welcome
9:30am – 10:20am Presentation: Research as Reflection: How to Reconnect Students
to Themselves through Engaging Information Literacy Instruction
OR
Presentation: Introducing Project Management to the Library
10:30am – 11:20am Presentation: Beyond Diversity Committees: Reshaping
Procedure and Culture for More Inclusive Hiring
OR
Presentation: Professional Blind Spots: Improving Information
Literacy Instruction through Cross-Departmental Collaboration
11:30am - 12:00pm Library Shorts:
1. Libraries and Archives in Support of Natural History: Using
Historical Records to Rule out a Local Extirpation of Bobcats
(Lynx rufus) in Ohio
2. Tailoring the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy to
Your Campus: Lessons from Implementation Science
12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch Break – Talk with WPWVC-ACRL Leadership
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1:00pm – 1:50pm Presentation: Putting Together the OER Puzzle: Rethinking OER
Programming to Improve Impact and Engagement
OR
Round Table: Library Programming: Assessing, Reflecting, and
Communicating Impact
OR
Round Table: Person-Centered Library Management: Fostering
Engagement and Well-Being in All Library Staff
2:00pm – 2:50pm Library Shorts:
1. I and Thou: Diversity Through the Lenses of Perception
2. Impact of Credit-Bearing Information Literacy Instruction: A
Review of Research
3. Shedding Light on Research and Advocacy Opportunities for
Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
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Full Schedule & Zoom Information
9:00am – 9:30am Business Meeting and Welcome
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9:30am – 10:20am 50-Minute Presentations (Select One)
Presentation: Research as Reflection: How to Reconnect Students to Themselves through
Engaging Information Literacy Instruction
Catherine Baldwin, University of Pittsburgh
Description: The Covid-19 pandemic caused tremendous upheaval. Two years in, emerging
young adults struggle with daily life, feeling disconnected, worrying about the future, and
lacking faith in their ability to control their own lives. Today's students began university life
within a culture of lockdowns, masking, online learning, hybrid courses, and unpredictable
stresses. It is expected, therefore, that faculty are witnessing fallout, with many university
students experiencing mental health issues adversely affecting academic performance.
In acknowledgement, educators must adapt teaching methods to reinvigorate students' curiosity.
Empowering students through meaningful engagement gives purpose to learning, answering the
internal question, "So what?" Instruction services librarians possess a unique position to foster
student participation in research grounded within personal interest. By connecting research to
real world scenarios, involving personal choice and self-leadership, and collaborating on
engaging learning experiences, faculty may rekindle in students a sense of hope and personal
empowerment for a positive path forward.
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OR
Presentation: Introducing Project Management to the Library
Dennis Smith, West Virginia University
Description: This presentation will discuss how WVU Libraries introduced project management
principles into our libraries' operations. It will discuss how these principles helped facilitate
better coordination, cooperation, and transparency.
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10:30am - 11:20am 50-Minute Presentations (Select One)
Presentation: Beyond Diversity Committees: Reshaping Procedure and Culture for More
Inclusive Hiring
Lynne Stahl, Jessica Dai, & Alyssa Wright, West Virginia University
Description: In 2020, WVU Libraries convened a task force to review, interrogate, and
document existing hiring practices to make faculty hiring more inclusive and equitable. In
addition to examining official practices, the task force worked to identify and address common
assumptions that affect search practices. With the understanding that this work must be iterative,
the task force created a faculty search guide and other documentation for future search
committees.
The guide provides practical recommendations for conducting searches, such as using inclusive
language in job ads and rubrics to mitigate bias. Though equity and inclusion work might
nominally “belong” to diversity committees, this systematic approach worked to institutionalize
equity in the hiring process by involving all members of every search committee.
In this presentation, we will review the process and impact of developing faculty search
guidelines and situate hiring practices within the context of larger “diversity work.”
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OR
Presentation: Professional Blind Spots: Improving Information Literacy Instruction through
Cross-Departmental Collaboration
Richard Brzustowicz & Caroline Silver, Carlow University
Description: The Library at Carlow University has been collaborating with instructors who
teach first-year, basic skills courses. The instructors are seeking “just in time” basic information
literacy instruction for their students. Solution: We have formed a team of librarian, instructional
designer, and instructors to develop asynchronous modules that can be integrated into already-
existing courses. Six modules have been developed and tested. Based on data collected from
these pilot modules, we are looking to develop modules appropriate for graduate-level courses.
This presentation will describe our process, the feedback of both students and faculty, and our
plans for moving forward.
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11:30am - 12:00pm Library Shorts (2)
Library Short 1: Libraries and Archives in Support of Natural History: Using Historical
Records to Rule out a Local Extirpation of Bobcats (Lynx rufus) in Ohio
Nicholas Gardner, WVU Potomac State College &
Ryan Shell, Cincinnati Museum Center
Description: Historical record collections are not often utilized by STEM researchers and
typically promotion of their digitization is targeted toward researchers in the humanities and
social sciences. Here, we show how having access to digitized historic newspapers provides
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previously unavailable occurrence data which suggests bobcats (Lynx rufus) were never fully
extirpated in Ohio in the late 19th century as commonly thought. This hypothesis is
complemented by field work which has recovered new bobcat subfossil remains in western Ohio.
Librarians and archivists who organize and care for historic records should explore for
opportunities to promote the value of these collections for STEM research and create
partnerships with researchers who do not traditionally utilize their collections but would benefit
from the rich data contained within.
Library Short 2: Tailoring the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy to Your Campus:
Lessons from Implementation Science
Lauren Herckis, Carnegie Mellon University
Description: This paper offers evidence-based recommendations for tailoring the ACRL
Framework for Information Literacy to your own campus context. The Framework offers diverse
supports for infusing information literacy and concepts throughout higher education curricula.
Research from the learning sciences demonstrates that the translation of evidence-based
principles into enacted practice is non-trivial. That is, it may be easy to read the theory but it's a
lot harder to determine how best to apply it in a given context, with a specific set of students,
faculty, or curricula. Lessons derived from the Diffusion of Innovation Framework and from the
growing field of Implementation Science can inform and support our efforts to implement
evidence-based educational strategies, practices, and reforms across diverse contexts.
Community-engaged, multi-level implementation plans can support efforts to deploy practices
and dispositions for each of the six frames, enhance educational experiences, and integrate ideas
about information literacy with broader campus conversations.
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Moderator: Rhonda Donaldson
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12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch Break – Talk with WPWVC-
ACRL Leadership
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1:00pm – 1:50pm 50-Minute Presentation OR Round\
Table (Select One)
Presentation: Putting Together the OER Puzzle: Rethinking OER Programming to Improve
Impact and Engagement
Jessica Dai, Lynne Stahl, & Beau Smith, West Virginia University
Description: This presentation will discuss the process and outcomes of developing, presenting,
and assessing a new OER workshop series aligned with Open Education week. Previously,
librarians at this institution have taught standalone OER workshops throughout the semester with
varied results. After using a project plan to develop and assess programming for Open Education
Week geared towards graduate students and faculty, librarians found that this year’s weeklong
OER-themed workshop series improved attendance and fostered collaboration for presenters and
participants, many of whom attended multiple workshops together. Workshops in the series
addressed topics ranging from teaching with Wikipedia to platforms for publishing open
materials; attendees’ disciplines included Business, Education, Health Sciences, and more.
Additionally, the series scaffolded open education concepts for those interested in, but new to
open education, applying for an internal OER grant.
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Moderator: Rocco Cremonese
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Round Table: Library Programming: Assessing, Reflecting, and Communicating Impact
Theresa McDevitt, Tedd Cogar, Indiana University of Pennsylvania,
& Li Teng, University of Wyoming
Description: From welcome activities for the new student to end-of-semester de-stress activities
for those continuing, academic libraries offer programming designed to support student
academic success and well-being. Such programs can be transformative for students, but
demonstrating that value is not always easy.
Doing pre and post-surveys, holding focus groups, or counting attendees, storytelling, micro-
assessment, and free response boards, are just some of the ways that people attempt to get a
picture of what is happening. Dull primarily numeric or glossy photo rich annual reports are
ways to report impact, but does anyone read them?
In this round table discussion, an outreach librarian and two Student Affairs professionals who
have collaborated with her on library programs will share the lessons they learned in terms of
event planning and lead a discussion on best practices in ways to measure and report how library
programming impacts our students.
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Round Table: Person-Centered Library Management: Fostering Engagement and Well-Being in
All Library Staff
Amy Lee Heinlen, Duquesne University & Kate Wenger, Chatham University
Description: From first-year first-semester student workers to long-time staff, everyone brings
unique perspectives, skills, and interests to their work in academic libraries. Join us for a
discussion of person-centered library management strategies that supervisors, new and seasoned
alike, can practice to empower and motivate any member of staff while cultivating a team
grounded in inclusivity. Some questions we will explore include:
In what ways have you built on the existing interests and skills of your employees?
What techniques have you used to foster community and relationships among your staff?
What successes and/or struggles have you had in building an inclusive workplace?
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Moderators: Amy Lee Heinlen & Kate Wenger
2:00pm – 2:50pm Library Shorts (3)
Library Short 1: I and Thou: Diversity Through the Lenses of Perception
Ethan Marek, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
Description: Martin Buber’s seminal work, "I and Thou", is the basis for my philosophical
examination of the underpinnings of human perceptions of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The
lenses of our perception form how we interact with the world around us. By realizing the
existence of such lenses, we can be aware of their impact upon our perception and how we
interact with other people.
In Buber’s position, we can see people two ways. We see other people as fellow beings like
ourselves on this journey called life, or as not fellow compatriots but rather as the other and that
which is diametrically opposed to oneself. By examining the lenses of our perception, we can
view how we see people as the other or not, and consequently how we interact with them. By
seeing people as fellow humans like ourselves we can better strive for equity and inclusion in all
we endeavor to do.
Library Short 2: Impact of Credit-Bearing Information Literacy Instruction: A Review of
Research
Kelly Diamond, West Virginia University
Description: This lightning round will provide a critical overview of research on credit-bearing
information literacy instruction’s impact on students, particularly focusing on academic and
affective impact. Taking a credit-bearing course generally increases students’ confidence using
library resources and decreases anxiety. Students who take credit-bearing information literacy
courses also tend to perform better on post-tests and receive higher grades in subsequent
research-writing classes. However, research regarding other markers of academic success is
mixed. Presentation will conclude with brief discussion of research limitations and future areas
for study.
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Library Short 3: Shedding Light on Research and Advocacy Opportunities for Individuals with
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Jo Dienst, Duquesne University
Description: For vulnerable populations, access to information is often obscured by many
invisible barriers in existing systems and practices. These barriers put individuals at a
disadvantage when it comes to getting the support they need in order to be equipped to live a
healthy and fulfilled life. One population with unique informational needs such as these is
individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). In order to rouse interest and
support in both research and advocacy contexts relating to IDD issues, a library guide was
developed at Duquesne University. The guide is dedicated to bringing these needs to the
attention of professionals, aspiring professionals, and the general public. This is achieved by
providing research and background resources for those interested in studying IDD issues and by
outlining several IDD advocacy opportunities and organizations.
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