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Strengthening the Culture of Learning Outcome Assessment in LIS Programs through Student Self- Assessments
Get PDFSelf-assessment empowers students to take ownership of their learning by assessing strengths and weaknesses in each area of competence they expect to achieve. This poster will illustrate perspectives gathered from a comprehensive examination and literature review to explore how LIS programs employ self-assessments, empowering students to understand their learning and competencies. Additionally, it aims to determine what lessons LIS programs can learn from other disciplines when creating an effective platform for facilitating student self-assessment.
The review revealed that LIS programs use self-assessment tools such as self-reflective essays and journals, often combined with other direct assessment methods. Other professional disciplines, such as Medicine and Engineering, employ technology-based personalized self-assessment tools, aiding students in self-assessing at different program milestones. However, literature and best practices emphasize that self-assessment should not be individualistic but should be collaborative, involving peers and instructors.
In addition to self-assessment methods, the review highlighted the importance of metacognitive awareness to ensure the accuracy of self-assessments and help students become more mindful of their learning. Many professional programs support students by facilitating rubric-guided judgments, self-rating, self-efficacy inventories, and metacognitive awareness inventories. LIS programs can adopt best practices from other disciplines to enhance the effectiveness and accuracy of student self-assessment practices
“Life Is Too Short Not To Speak the Truth”: Framing Accountable Community Collaboration Within HIV/AIDS Archival Work
Get PDFThis poster shares findings from semi-structured interviews with 25 archivists and curators working with LGBTQIA+ archival materials and collections within institutional and community settings. Focusing specifically on collections that include HIV/AIDS-related material, this project explores how practitioners build, curate, and sustain these collections against the backdrop of the epidemic’s memory and the ongoing realities of the virus within culture. This poster reports directly on findings related to the role of community accountability within the work of these practitioners. The poster identifies how such work informs and is informed by questions of archival ethics, embodied identity, and notions of evidence and truth relating to archival documentation. The poster highlights how practitioners understand the care and consideration it takes to build meaningful relationships with LGBTQIA+ community partners and how such actions can conflict with the traditional methods of archival facilitation. Example conflicts relate to questions of institutional production metrics, extraction-based preservation, and objectivist orientations to describe and access those identities within the collection. The poster provides practical and theoretical interventions for archivists working with or planning to work with LGBTQIA+ communities to ensure more accountable work. It emphasizes how event-based framing, such as the HIV/AIDS epidemic, can advance and hinder this endeavor. The poster highlights potential areas for further exploration related to other historically marginalized populations within archives whose presence in archival collections might benefit from community collaboration in nuancing archival work around such moments.
Who Does Gen-Z Trust with Their Finances? A Comparative Analysis of Influencers vs. Traditional Celebrities
Get PDFSocial media platforms have become key channels for disseminating unverified financial information, such as cryptocurrency advice, credit card recommendations, and investment tips (FTC, 2019; Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, 2023; U.S. SEC, 2022; U.S. SEC, 2023). Understanding how Gen Z evaluates financial information from influencers and traditional celebrities on these platforms is essential, as it directly impacts their susceptibility to misinformation based on perceived source credibility. This study addresses the research question: How do Gen-Z individuals evaluate financial information presented by influencers compared to traditional celebrities? To explore this, the study will employ a qualitative approach, conducting interviews and performing thematic analysis on the transcripts. Participants will be randomly selected, with a target of 20 interviews for the pilot study or fewer if data saturation is achieved. The study is grounded in source credibility theory, which examines information sources\u27 perceived attractiveness, expertise, and trustworthiness. The findings aim to contribute to the existing literature (Kaabachi, 2021) and enhance financial literacy among Gen-Z individuals in the United States. Furthermore, insights gained can guide policymakers in addressing ethical challenges related to financial information on social media and help regulate information dissemination practices
Libraries’ Environmentally Sustainable Practices and Services in Three States
Get PDFThis article reports findings from an exploratory survey study of libraries in California, Florida, and Georgia on their day-to-day environmentally sustainable practices and related services, along with the respondents’ perception of library’s role and challenges in promoting environmental sustainability. Findings from this study show that the most common environmentally sustainable practices in these libraries are Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, and energy saving practices. Many libraries have taken individual actions, such as the 3Rs, or held programs on environmental issues. However, not many libraries were considered to have established policies or systematically address environmental issues. The respondents view library’s role as primarily the information providers and educators. Lack of money, staff time and subject expertise are the top challenges faced by libraries when promoting environmental sustainability in their community followed by competing priorities on library’s plate as well as a concern that promoting environmental sustainability in their community might be viewed as a political charge. Findings from this study contribute to the understanding of library’s roles and environmental sustainability, and inform the design of future studies on this topic and provide ideas on how to better support libraries.
Investigating Mobility, Place, and Information Access Through an Ethnographic Study of Vehicle Residents’ Information Practices in the United States
Get PDFThroughout the United States, an approximated one million people currently inhabit vehicles parked in publicly accessible areas as their primary method of housing. This dissertation explores vehicle residents’ information seeking practices and barriers to information access. Library and Information science (LIS) research has not developed theory related to place, mobility, and information access, despite living in a hyper-mobile world. LIS primarily centers online information behaviors, limiting potential impact on larger populations that face unique barriers to information access. While some studies constructed theory to address the function of place in information behavior, few interrogate how place and mobility impact information access despite geographic mobility serving important functions in various theory constructions. To address the importance of place and mobility in the context of information access, I conducted a multi-method, ethnographic study. Completing two rounds of deeply embedded fieldwork from June-October 2023 in Santa Cruz, California (CA) and from January-February 2024 along the Southern CA and Arizona (AZ) border, I used participant observation, information horizon interviews, and guided tours and photographs of participant’s vehicles to explore vehicle residents’ information practices and information source preferences. I determined my key findings in Spring 2024; they reveal that participants experience micro-fractures in their information landscapes when moving through new information environments. Identifying vehicle residents’ information practices and most used information sources can help public libraries and other information institutions implement improved support services for this growing population as public libraries are well positioned to bolster information access on behalf of its communities
“Well, That’s What She Gets…”: Black Teenage Girls’ Sexual and Reproductive Choice in Young Adult Literature
Get PDFUsing Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) this article explores the discourse around Black girl sexuality, teenage pregnancy, and teenage motherhood as depicted within Black authored young adult literature
Critical Connectors: Libraries Developing Community-Engaged Research Partnerships
Get PDFAcademic libraries can serve as critical campus and community connectors, developing sustainable collaborative models and lasting partnerships by responding to community information needs with library and university resources. Librarians can help break down silos and address systemic injustice in local communities through innovative outreach, community engagement, and curricular integration of critical information literacy. In this case study, a Business & Entrepreneurship Librarian and an Assistant Professor of Business Communication will detail a class project they developed in partnership with a local entrepreneur to support the success of a local Black-owned business, help address the racial wealth gap, and provide a valuable engaged learning experience for undergraduate students.  
Intentionally Equitable: Translating the Universal Design for Learning Principles to Academic Library Outreach
Get PDFEquity in student learning experiences is a key concern in academic libraries, yet there is a striking lack of literature and frameworks addressing equitable academic library outreach. This gap exists despite the important intersection of library outreach with student learning, success, and wellness across multiple university units. This paper addresses this challenge by examining Universal Design for Learning (UDL)—a standard increasingly accepted in academic libraries for promoting equity in information literacy instruction and pedagogy—for its potential applicability in the domain of library outreach.
Although originally intended for instructional contexts, the UDL principles are shown in this paper to be relevant to, and practicable in, library outreach initiatives. The paper reviews a selection of the literature on academic library outreach, accessibility, and equity, highlighting the need for more structured consideration of these critical areas. It also presents a detailed examination of UDL guidelines and checkpoints, providing outreach-related examples and short case studies from the author\u27s own programming and outreach experiences that exemplify the effective application of UDL principles in library outreach.
This exploration not only extends the potential use of UDL beyond traditional instructional settings but also serves as a foundation for academic librarians and researchers to further develop and refine practices promoting equity, accessibility, and inclusivity in library outreach efforts
Nightmares and Dreams on Progesterone: Trans* Embodiment and Intermedia
No full textThis essay theorizes the connection between trans* embodiment and intermedia, using historical intermedia practice and score-based creative practices by artists such as Yoko Ono, CA Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, Dick Higgins, and Allan Kaprow, as precedent. This paper describes foundational thought to my work as a trans* intermedia artist and serves as an introduction to Nightmare and Dreams on Progesterone: Action Art Scores for Trans Becoming; a text work of 150 poetic action art scores designed for, and birthed from, trans* becoming. Each score is generated from dream journal entries translated into instructions that complicate the art/life divide. As I began taking progesterone as part of my hormone replacement therapy, I started experiencing vivid dreaming as a side effect. As my body changed, so did my dreams. These dreams, from my own trans* subconscious and altered by transsexual action, often directly engage with my identity or arts practice as subject matter. When translated, the scores are written poetically and have a diverse range of abstraction, for example:
Score #77: Fellowship
Three queer people talk about visibility The most beautiful woman in costume makeup Takes several ladders to climb towards
Score #58: Insane Clown Posse
Come out to your family
Score #69: Huge
A trans woman Surrounded by other trans women All bathing
I believe avant-garde art practices can be liberatory for trans* bodies and that this methodology and these performances have the potential to be instructional for other trans* people for coming into their identity. This introduction provides an intimate portrait of myself as an artist, including biographical information on my Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) journey and how it has affected my creative practice
Trans/Locatability: Performing Public Appearance in Locative Media
Get PDFThe promises and perils of visibility dominate many contemporary conversations about transgender life; this essay considers the ways in which locatability works alongside visibility to regulate the sphere of public appearance, informing who can safely appear and in what spaces they can or cannot do so. The locative performance Appear to Me (2020), written by gender-expansive artist eppchez yo-sí yes for the Philadelphia company Swim Pony, shows how such performance can challenge dominant constructions of location that involve the violent displacement of marginalized populations, as well as locative technologies—such as the Global Positioning System—that help create and sustain these constructions. Through a smartphone app that uses GPS to trigger audio cues, Appear to Me guides listeners along the Delaware River Trail in South Philadelphia, where they encounter the voices of people displaced from the waterfront, including street queens, houseless queers, and the land’s Indigenous Lenape inhabitants. I discuss how the performance both engages the politics of appearance on the textual level and performs new possibilities for appearance through its appropriation of GPS technology. In doing so, it enacts a trans epistemology of location I name trans/locatability: a multiply-emplaced, gender-expansive position of safety and solidarity that asserts the right of all bodies to appear in public without harm