by Kay Kirscht
Quick Summary
Check out this list of library professional development opportunities taking place in March that are available through Level Up!
Level Up!: Your source for library professional development information.
MEET HARRIET TUBMAN (Rescheduled Event)
Wednesday, March 10, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
If you could step back in history, with whom would you like to have a conversation and lunch? If Harriet Tubman is your choice, please join Kathryn Harris as she presents her first-person presentation as "Harriet Tubman". Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most famous Conductor on the Underground Railroad and Ms. Harris tells her life story, including not only her own escape to freedom, but also the trips she made back South to free her family and others so that they could also experience the "sweet taste of freedom."
PRESENTER: Kathryn Harris
EXPLORING BLACK DIGITAL HISTORY
Thursday, March 11, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Digital humanities, defined as the application and intersection of digital technologies with the disciplines of the humanities, offers new methods of access for intellectual inquiry. Olivia Peacock will share about her efforts to create Digital Black History, a free searchable listing of digital Black History projects that have been created by individuals and institutions. This website not only curates those projects, but also lets users use keywords to search for the appropriate resources to supplement their research. Dr. Jan Davidson (Cape Fear Museum, NC) will describe a new online map and timeline which pieces together a timeline of the events that led up to the 1898 Wilmington Massacre.
Olivia Dorsey Peacock is a creative technology professional whose work focuses on African American genealogy and history. She holds BS and MS degrees in Information Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a minor in African American Studies. In 2019, she launched “Digital Black History,” a searchable directory of Black History projects. Learn more about Olivia’s work at OliviaPeacock.com.
Dr. Jan Davidson earned her Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in 2000. Davidson worked at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (2000-2005) as the historian for the exhibit America on the Move. She has served as the Cape Fear Museum’s historian since 2005 and is particularly interested in African American history.
PRESENTERS: Olivia Dorsey Peacock and Dr. Jan Davidson
PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR LIBRARIES: TEAM-BASED PROJECTS
Friday, March 12, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Registration closes Thursday, March 11, 2021
Libraries very often have project-based work that calls upon its current staff to provide the necessary skills to complete. This series will introduce library staff to the concept of what a project is and the basics of project management. This series will break out the various levels of a project from start up, planning, execution, monitoring, to closing out with each session. Project management terminology and methodologies will be discussed. Join us for all sessions or some of the sessions in the series. Registration will be for each individual session. Each event runs from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
PRESENTER: Linda Mork, Minitex
ESSENTIAL TOOLS FOR HEALTH LITERACY
Tuesday, March 16, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
In this brief course, we will cover the basics of finding and evaluating health information online, including government and NGO websites intended for use by patients and families with different needs and reading levels, and more advanced sources for those who may want to delve deeper into health and biomedical research. We will go over some basic guidelines for evaluating health information reported in the media and beyond, and for questions to ask your health providers. In this brief course, we will cover the basics of finding and evaluating health information online, including government and NGO websites intended for use by patients and families with different needs and reading levels, and more advanced sources for those who may want to delve deeper into health and biomedical research. We will go over some basic guidelines for evaluating health information reported in the media and beyond, and for questions to ask your health providers.
PRESENTERS: Angela Jones - Biomedical Information Specialist at Atrium Health & Beth Auten - Health & Human Services Librarian at UNC-Charlotte
CANVA FOR FREE GRAPHIC DESIGN AND MARKETING
Thursday, March 18, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Tired of spending lots of time developing social media graphics and marketing materials for your library? Get an overview of how the free version of Canva can help you create easy and attractive graphics. We will look at examples, learn to use the various elements, and design a graphic together!
PRESENTER: Courtney Bippley, Reference Librarian at Durham Tech Community College
SUNO LIBRARY 1, COVID 0: A PROACTIVE APPROACH TO OFFERING LIBRARY RESOURCES AND SERVICES
Thursday, March 18, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
COVID-19 has required necessary adjustments for libraries across the country. Its rapid effect on the world called for immediate flexibility and viable options for continuing to provide library resources and services in the safest environment possible for everyone. Proactivity, planning, and teamwork played an intricate part of the Leonard S. Washington Memorial Library's strategy for the continued offering of library resources and services.
PRESENTERS: Shatiqua Wilson, Director, Laurie Gaillard, Catalog Librarian / Assistant Professor, Tariana Smith, Reference Librarian / Assistant Professor, and Erika Witt, Interim Circulation Librarian / Adjunct Professor Southern University New Orleans
SPECIAL TOPICS IN COPYRIGHT: SHOWING MOVIES ON CAMPUS AND IN THE CLASSROOM
Tuesday, March 23, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Showing movies on campus and in the classroom, whether physical or virtual, requires consideration of several provisions of the Copyright Act as well as potential licensing restrictions from film distributors and streaming services. During this webinar, we will tackle questions about public performance, streaming video, and the DMCA exemptions allowing the “ripping” of DVDs. Attendees will leave with strategies to employ when responding to the demand for showing films at campus events and in the physical and virtual classroom.
PRESENTER: Christine Fruin, Atla Scholarly Communication and Digital Projects Manager
FREE BUT NOT CLICHÉ: VISUAL RESOURCES FOR EVERYONE
Thursday, March 25, 10:00-11:00 a.m.
In this interactive webinar, you’ll learn where you can find free graphics, photos, and illustrations that go beyond the most popular free image sites like Pixabay and Unsplash. We’ll review several free resources for photos that feature models that are BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, and/or plus-sized. You’ll learn how to use Google Images’ newly updated search tools to discover open images. And we’ll cover how to reuse and fully attribute all of this rich free and Creative Commons-licensed material for both nonprofit and commercial purposes. You’ll come away with both wonderful new sources for illustrating your projects and the skills to confidently and legally make the most of them!
PRESENTER: Lindsay O'Neill
CARLI UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH WEBINAR SERIES, #1
Thursday, March 25, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
10:00 a.m. CST: At the Heart of Learning: The Library Research Scholars and Adobe Scholars Program
11:00 a.m. CST: The Library's Synergy with Campus Coordinators of Undergraduate Research
At the Heart of Learning: The Library Research Scholars and Adobe Scholars Program, presented by Ava Brillat & Lauren Fraliger, University of Miami Libraries
At the Heart of Learning: The Library Research Scholars and Adobe Scholars Program at the University of Miami Libraries pairs librarian faculty mentors with undergraduate researchers to provide a yearlong program of engagement with library resources, with the goal of creating an intellectual product on a topic of their own devising. In this webinar, the co-managers of the program, Ava Brillat and Lauren Fralinger, will detail the structure of the Library Research Scholars and Adobe Scholars program, the mentoring process, and the incorporation of ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.
The Library's Synergy with Campus Coordinators of Undergraduate Research, presented by Merinda Hensley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Campus coordinators of undergraduate research support the pedagogic mission of their institution with a driving commitment to the praxis of disciplinary research, through both specialized programs and course-based offerings. While there is abundant room for librarians to design a wide spectrum of support (e.g., instruction, collections, student symposiums and awards, publishing), how can we better align library support to the perceived (read: getting to know one another better) needs of undergraduate research coordinators? In this presentation, Merinda will discuss several intersections between the Library and the Illinois Office of Undergraduate Research including a lively discussion on refining the definition of undergraduate research, why analyzing results from two campus-wide surveys of the undergraduate researcher experience isn't enough, and what happens when students do not own the data they want to publish in the institutional repository.
PRESENTERS: Ava Brillat & Lauren Fraliger, University of Miami Libraries; Merinda Hensley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR LIBRARIES: SOFTWARE TOOLS
Friday, March 26, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Registration closes Thursday, March 25, 2021
Libraries very often have project-based work that calls upon its current staff to provide the necessary skills to complete. This series will introduce library staff to the concept of what a project is and the basics of project management. This series will break out the various levels of a project from start up, planning, execution, monitoring, to closing out with each session. Project management terminology and methodologies will be discussed. Join us for all sessions or some of the sessions in the series. Registration will be for each individual session. Each event runs from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
PRESENTER: Linda Mork, Minitex
SESSION 1 OF 2: DIGITAL PROJECT SKILLS: FROM DIGITIZATION TO PRESERVATION
Tuesday, March 30, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Are you planning a digital project/program at your organization, but unsure where to begin? Attend this class to learn about digital imaging (scanning), metadata standards and best practices, and how to protect and preserve the content you've digitized. This 4-hour virtual course will take place on two separate dates. Session 1 will take place on March 30, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. Session 2 will take place on April 1st, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Optional exercises will be included between sessions, and by the end of the class, you will know more about:
- Digital image basics
- Digital imaging standards and best practices
- How to assess user needs for description and access
- Types of metadata, international standards (including Dublin Core) and best practices
- How to store and protect your digital content
- The resources needed to build and manage a successful digital preservation program
This introductory series is for staff of any library, archive, museum, or other organization planning or already working on digital projects. No previous knowledge about digitization, resource description (metadata work), or digital preservation is assumed.
Please note: scholarships are available to staff facing budget challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Contact Sara Ring (ring0089@umn.edu) for more information.
Presenters: Sara Ring, Minitex
DECOLONIZING SUBJECT HEADINGS AND COLLECTIONS II
Tuesday, March 30, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
This one-hour, interactive webinar serves as a follow up to the December 2020 presentation “Decolonizing Subject Headings and Collections.” The presenters will address issues raised by attendees of the prior presentation as well as questions posed by participants for the current session. The upcoming webinar will be a discussion with attendees on practical aspects of addressing biases within cataloging and libraries. To enable a wider ranging dialogue tailored to participant needs, attendees are encouraged to submit questions or comments prior to the session.
PRESENTERS: Ann Hallyburton (ahallyb@wcu.edu) and Paromita Biswas (pbiswas@library.ucla.edu)
CARLI UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH WEBINAR SERIES, #2
Tuesday, March 30, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
10:00 a.m. CST: Partnering to Support Students in Remote Research Experiences
11:00 a.m. CST: Research Consultations in a Pandemic Environment
Partnering to Support Students in Remote Research Experiences, presented by Rebecca Starkey, University of Chicago Library
COVID-19 has impacted many aspects of undergraduate life, including the chance to participate in mentored research experiences. How can students engage in rewarding research opportunities off-campus during a pandemic? The University of Chicago Library was approached by the College Center for Research and Fellowships to collaborate on a new campus initiative to help undergraduates engage in remote research experiences. The resulting projects included a new website for mentors and students partnered in remote research, and a workshop to prepare undergraduates to conduct research online. Although arising from necessity, the collaboration provided a new way to highlight the library’s role in creating and sustaining meaningful undergraduate research experiences.
Research Consultations in a Pandemic Environment, presented by Joanna Kolendo & Rosalind Fielder-Giscombe, Chicago State University Library
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and a rapid shift to predominantly remote learning at Chicago State University, the need suddenly arose to migrate all reference and instruction services to an entirely virtual environment to continue to assist students with research papers and other academic projects. To meet the moment, reference and instruction librarians at the Gwendolyn Brooks Library at CSU leveraged cloud-based software long in use for other purposes and learned how to utilize video conferencing applications effectively to meet the ongoing information needs of students and faculty remotely. While they witnessed a decline in demand for drop-in reference services and bibliographic instruction despite the availability of those services virtually, they experienced a considerable increase in research consultation requests. This session will focus on the following:
- Appointment scheduling platforms,
- Springshare LibWizard vs LibCal Appointments
- Virtual research consultations via Zoom and GoToMeeting
- Benefits and drawbacks of video conferencing applications
- Data collection and data trends
- Lessons learned
PRESENTERS: Rebecca Starkey, University of Chicago Library; Joanna Kolendo & Rosalind Fielder-Giscombe, Chicago State University Library
CARLI UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH WEBINAR SERIES, #3
Wednesday, March 31; Thursday, April 1, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
10:00 a.m. CST: Inclusion and Equity through Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs)
11:00 a.m. CST: JEDI Inspirations for Undergraduate Research: Leveraging Library Connections to Diversify Student Research and Researchers
Inclusion and Equity through Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs), presented by Gina Hunter, Illinois State University
Undergraduate research experiences are associated with a number of positive academic, professional, and personal development outcomes. The impact of undergraduate research experiences, however, is limited because they usually involve relatively few students in one-on-one independent study or internship experiences. Students from under-represented or under-served backgrounds are often the least likely to get access to intensive research experiences. Furthermore, most students get access to these research experiences only late in their undergraduate careers which is often too late to allow them to make an informed decision about their educational or career trajectory. Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) have emerged as a way to make authentic research experiences accessible to larger numbers of students. CUREs have been defined as “learning experiences in which whole classes of students address a research question or problem with unknown outcomes or solutions that are of interest to external stakeholders” (Dolan n.d., 3). While the term CURE is most often associated with STEM fields, similar efforts are found in a variety of disciplines across the curriculum.
In this presentation Gina Hunter, Illinois State University, offers a brief overview of CUREs and provide examples from sciences, social sciences, and humanities. She examines the value of CUREs for increasing diversity, equity and inclusion in undergraduate research programs, and suggests resources for further learning.
JEDI Inspirations for Undergraduate Research: Leveraging Library Connections to Diversify Student Research and Researchers, presented by Roxane Pickens, University of Miami Libraries
This presentation addresses ways that college and university libraries can inspire a more diversified portfolio of undergraduate student research and researchers by critically and creatively engaging justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) principles, especially by leveraging strategic collaborations with library and other academic partners to pique student interest and support their processes of exploration and analysis. Key points of discussion will include how to support student research on topics that advance knowledge and understanding from antiracist, feminist, and decolonial contexts, as well as topics that consider popular and contemporary cultural expressions. Additionally, strategies for engaging student populations that may not consider themselves researcher material, or that on paper might not be seen as such, will be presented. Based on work that we do at University of Miami Libraries through our Learning Commons and in collaboration with partners like the Center for the Humanities, Office of Learning Innovation and Faculty Engagement, and American Studies Program, this presentation will be a case study and exchange of ideas for promoting undergraduate research that is grounded in interdisciplinary practices, demystified enough to appeal to a wider range of potential students, and addresses information literacies from a more just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive framework.
PRESENTERS: Gina Hunter, Illinois State University; Roxane Pickens, University of Miami Libraries
