OPAL - PALNI Conference 2020

(Access Password: Joint 2020) Funded by a PALNI Innovation grant, Making Cultural Heritage Artifacts into 3D Digital Objects Using Photogrammetry, is a project that demonstrates creating 3D digital surrogates of analog materials is possible with affordable equipment and the use of open-source processing and editing platforms. Photogrammetry provides a non-contact approach to digitize materials found in Special Collections and University Archives, which helps ensure the long-term preservation of cultural heritage materials in addition to sharing out materials more broadly for increased academic research and community engagement purposes. This project highlights how smaller institutions with limited financial resources and limited staffing can feasibly engage with 3D technologies and 3D digital object creation. This presentation will showcase the outcomes of this grant project, highlight the current best practices of photogrammetry, and inform participants about new technologies that can be incorporated into a classroom setting.
Librarians, cultural heritage practitioners, academic faculty, instructional technologists, and students may benefit from:

• Recommendations on methods and equipment for low-cost 3D digital object creation;
• A preview of and opportunity to express interest in an open photogrammetry training course;
• Examples of collaboration models for cultural or educational institutions;
• Strategies to apply agile development in digital object management and creation.

(Access Password: joint2020) Are you an instruction librarian looking to improve your information literacy teaching skills and assessment process? In this listen and learn session, the Reference & Instruction Librarians from the University of Saint Francis (USF) will share how they integrated and assessed information literacy concepts that were introduced in the first-year seminar. You will learn how to incorporate results-driven, active learning exercises into coursework and how to evaluate the impact of information literacy instruction. The Reference & Instruction Librarians from the University of Saint Francis will report the outcomes of their two-year study of the effectiveness of information literacy instruction in USF's first-year seminar.

(Access password: F9LbY^1Z) Working with online learners offers opportunities and challenges for library engagement. However, one of the most important factors in motivating online learners is the development of a community. What does that mean as an academic librarian? Libraries traditionally have a "place" in all courses at varying levels. How can we guide our services to match the needs of an external audience to give them the choices they want at the point of need? How can libraries help foster a community to improve motivation and student learning? In this listen and learn, we’ll quickly overview these motivational factors for online learners and re-frame them in context of librarianship through a discussion of diversified practices for library services designed for online learning that benefit an entire campus. By the end of the presentation, viewers will have a broad understanding of student motivational factors and ideas for how to align library services to meet those needs. This session’s intended audience includes anyone who works within the areas of instruction and programming, particularly those charged with serving both on- and off-campus student populations.

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Description: Often, budget cuts and staffing reductions mean added responsibilities for librarians. While this may mean that librarians have to take on roles that are not traditional librarian jobs, it can also present an opportunity. Over the past several years, librarians at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary have expanded the library's work to include more robust writing support, online courses, workshops, and video series. We've even taken over management of the campus bookstore, which comes with its own set of challenges. Come to this session to hear how we have taken these challenges and turned them into opportunities to position the library (and librarians!) as an indispensable resource for our students and faculty.

Audience: Library staff tasked with absorbing new responsibilities, or curious about expanding library services in non-traditional ways.

Learning Outcomes:

• Learn about the ways AMBS Library has expanded services into various academic support areas 
• Learn how to increase the visibility and improve perceptions of the library's services 
• Consider how your library might expand its services to better support your students

Inspired by central Ohio public libraries, in the spring of 2018 Packard Library decided to experiment with hatching and raising baby chicks for a few weeks in the library. Through collaboration with the school’s animation department, the chicks served to engage library visitors and provide live models for students to draw for CCAD’s Cafe Sketch program. In addition to these duties, the babies also had the added benefit of providing stress-relief during end-of the year exams and projects. Join us as we discuss the ups and downs of housing 5-6 live animals in the library and how the program has progressed to becoming a successful annual occurrence.

(Access Password: joint2020) The Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI) has developed an open access survey to gather information on how institutional stakeholders -- administrators and faculty -- perceive the library in terms of its Educational Role and Contribution to Institutional Effectiveness, as defined by ACRL Standards. Survey results often confirmed the acceptance of the library as an educational partner, but demonstrated that stakeholders were generally unaware of the role that the library plays in student and faculty retention and success. In light of the recent COVID-19 pandemic and the social, educational, and financial fallout, it may be even more important for us to be ready to communicate the library’s value to our administrators and faculty. The Value Survey provides us with the baseline for beginning that conversation.
You will be introduced to the survey and will learn how to implement it at your institution. You will walk away with a clear understanding of how the survey can help you identify gaps in institutional knowledge of the library and therefore of its value, and be introduced to the PALNI Toolbox resources to help tell your story.

(Access Password: joint2020) Are you looking to fine-tune or design an information literacy program at a small school? During this session, two PALNI librarians will share their collaborative experience designing an Information Literacy program in support of a new curriculum at Franklin College. Using the "Understanding by Design" concept coined by McTighe and Wiggins, these librarians strategically planned an information literacy program closely aligned with curricular and student learning outcomes, ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, and ACRL’s Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices. Learn about their use of backward design to create the IL program, including assessment design, learning outcomes, scaffolded instruction, and lesson plans. By the end of the session, participants will be able to define backward design and will have viewed examples of how they can use it in the development or management of their information literacy programs. 

(Access Password: 3MWb$ajP) Whether you’ve diligently worked your way through the ranks to the top of the org chart, or have been thrust into a leadership role unexpectedly, sometimes it’s hard to know where to begin once you’ve arrived. What fire do you put out first? How do build trust among your team? What do those financials from Accounting even mean? How will your former peers react now that you’re their boss? Can you really turn a challenging workplace into one with a more positive culture? I’ll answer these questions, share examples of successes and lessons learned, and provide some resources, strategies, and tactics that have helped me on my journey in leadership as I’ve learned to act with agency and lead with authenticity.

(Access Password: joint2020) A common misunderstanding about private colleges is that there is no need for affordable course materials such as open educational resources (OER). Given the higher tuition price tag, isn't the cost of textbooks just a drop in the bucket? Drawing from recent literature, national data, results from PALNI’s pilot student textbook survey, and further anecdotal evidence gathered from PALNI Affordable Learning participants, this presentation aims to dispel this myth. This session will demonstrate that students at private institutions are quite concerned with and negatively affected by the costs of textbooks, and that many of their faculty are in fact receptive to lowering textbook costs in pursuit of increased student success.

(Access recording password 7ZET1#S#) This presentation examines the planning process of implementing 12 workshops supporting all students in any discipline. The process was informed by lessons learned from previous workshops, which were created from the results of an in-depth analysis of five years of the literature review section of graduate theses, a survey of graduate students and faculty, and two years of student assessments in workshops.

The formation of the series was a partnership of librarians and teaching faculty to deliver the one-hour long workshops. The workshops covered various topics, such as organizing information, forming research questions, creating search queries, analyzing literature and writing an abstract. Each workshop was a stand-alone session with individual learning objectives and assessments, but the design allowed for scaffolding and some concepts were reinforced in other sessions. Several students contacted the organizer requesting workshop materials thereby indicating a need for instruction. Results showed that students found the workshops extremely useful.