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The Impact of Social Media on COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Acceptance: Data Analytic Approach
Get PDFThere is still a great deal of vaccination hesitancy among different populations in the U.S. including health workers, government officials, minorities and marginalized communities. The politicization of the COVID-19 issue made it difficult to contain the infection and led to an increase in the spread of COVID-19 misinformation and conspiracy theories on the internet and social media. Misinformation about COVID-19 and its vaccine hindered efforts to fight the disease and continue to impact measures to contain the pandemic. In this paper, we examine the factors impacting vaccine hesitancy and acceptance in the United States. Data collected from CDC website and Twitter hashtags, #COVIDvaccines was analyzed, and the results have shown that vaccine hesitancy is largely influenced by personal opinion rather than scientific knowledge. Safety and side effect was the major impacting factor followed by misinformation and conspiracy theories.
ALISE RESEARCH TAXONOMY TOPICS
big data; data visualization; information literacy; information use; social media.
AUTHOR KEYWORDS
COVID-19 vaccine; misinformation; conspiracy theory; fake news; vaccine hesitancy
The Query Search Method: An inquiry-based approach for reference and information services
Get PDFThis paper presents an inquiry-based pedagogical approach to teaching the reference interview and query search process for the reference course in the library and information science (LIS) curriculum. The Query Search Method (QSM) is a methodology grounded within a theoretical framework that synthesizes the tenets of literacy studies, critical librarianship, and librarian practitioner inquiry. In the reference course at two ALA-accredited library science programs, the QSM was employed as an iterative search process that actively applies advanced search techniques with online public access catalogs, subscription databases, bibliographic networks, web-based search engines and other online resources. The QSM can be taught in reference courses to fortify pre-service librarians with strong search skills that incorporate social skills that are socio-culturally competent with a critical lens and are immediately usable across various platforms, bridging the gap between library users’ access to and use of contemporary technologies as literate citizens in an interconnected digital world
Centering Care: Aunties as Praxis within the Academic Space
Get PDFIn coming to care and community work, we want first to ground ourselves in our positions. The identities we share are those of BIPOC (one of us is Afro-Caribbean, and the other is a member of the Nipmuc tribe) Ph.D. students within the field of Information Studies, prior Academic Librarians, and non-Maryland residents. In her book Community as Rebellion, Dr. Peña posits that one of the roles of BIPOC women is to be aunties to our colleagues, students, and ourselves. As defined by us, the use of Auntie refers to those within our communities who provide guidance, mentorship, and care inside and outside of legally defined familial or biological relationships. While the term “Auntie” has a racially charged history in the U.S., Dr. Peña’s call, points toward a radical community notion of the term Auntie that centers the experience and understandings of BIPOC communities. This poster investigates the ways in which the structural systems of white classist, heteronormative, patriarchy affect our relationship within the academy and our research and the ways we take on the roles as our own Aunties to build community, center care, and move towards a more liberatory and equitable academic space
Smellscaping Guiyu
Get PDFOnce the largest e-waste recycling and processing town in the world, Guiyu, China, was characterized by a pungent, penetrating smell of burning chemicals and plastics, commonly referred to as Guiyu Wei by both locals and officials. Shrouded in the environmental terror of unidentified toxins and chemicals, breathing had become a precarious bodily (re)action that constantly put people’s lives at risk. Taking Guiyu as its center case, this essay documents two “smell walks” in Guiyu conducted by the local community and me, respectively. It presents a prolonged material afterlife of data that is intimately intertwined with the life and livelihood of the local workforce and community and tracks the production of desensitized subjects. How do we represent a particular kind of smell or a specific form of olfactory experience? How can we communicate this message with a larger public that has little knowledge of what life is like within a chemically polluted environment? This project seeks to think about these questions in artistic terms, conceiving research-creation as an integral methodology. Through the Guiyu-inspired art series, “Synesthesia (unfinished),” I explore various possibilities of olfactory representation and the emergent relationships among smell, the environment, and our sensorium. As the centerpiece of this project, I envision “Smellscaping Guiyu” as an immersive installation that takes visitors beyond their intimate sensory knowledge and immerses them in the unfamiliar olfactory milieu fabricated by chemicals and elements from Guiyu, one of the “shadow places” at the corner of the world
Changing Activism: Hal Baron Lays Out Strategy for Civil Rights in Public Housing
No full textThis issue of SourceLab introduces readers to Changing Activism: Hal Baron Lays Out Strategy for Civil Rights in Public Housing, a Civil Rights Era memorandum written by Hal Baron that argues for fair housing in Chicago.
This publication is part of the digital documentary edition series SourceLab, based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Our Editorial Board conducts rigorous peer-review of every edition
YouTube Expectations in a Canvas World: Educational Video Online and in Higher Education
Get PDFHow do students’ previous experiences with online educational video shape their expectations of online learning in higher education? Through this exploratory project, we look for ways to bridge the gap between student expectations and the norms of faculty practices in online instruction, which often include recorded video lectures. Our literature review indicates the prevalence of online video in students’ lives before they enroll in master’s programs, and we argue that these prior encounters with online education form an understudied context for student learning in higher education. Expert studies of U.S. online activity indicate the frequency with which users turn to YouTube for answers, and recognized online educational video companies from Complexly to Khan Academy to PBS Studios figure strongly in the resources that people turn to for online learning outside the academy. By analyzing the norms of prominent online educational videos and the production companies that create them, we identify the rhetorical norms of this media. One notable feature of online video production that students see before higher ed is that it is team-produced. We direct attention, through practices identified in the literature and in our experiences in online educational settings, to ways that faculty can respond to this cultural gap to improve learning and instruction. Understanding students’ preceding experiences with online informational videos, collaboration, and drawing on university resources that support media production are among strategies faculty can use to bridge the expectations gap.  
Data Literacy Proficiency and Its Importance: A Survey Study on Perceptions of Academic Librarians in the U.S. and Canada
Get PDFIn this poster, we report preliminary results from a survey of academic librarians in the U.S. and Canada on their perception of data literacy for their work practice. Our survey was distributed in August 2022 to librarians from member libraries of the Association of Research Libraries, Canadian Association of Research Libraries, Oberlin Group, as well as through various LIS listservs. We received 338 valid responses. Our focus is on the impact of library membership, librarians’ educational backgrounds, and percent of data work on librarians’ perception of the importance of various areas of data literacy. Significant library membership differences occurred both in the percentage of their job involving data-related tasks (H(3) = 9.146, p = .027), with ARL librarians having the highest mean rank, and in respondents’ importance rating on research data principles (H(3) = 10.534, p = .015), with CARL librarians having the highest mean rank. Librarians who had a non-MLS degree rated their data proficiency as significantly higher than respondents with MLS and another degree and people with only an MLS degree (H(2) = 8.815, p = .012). Percentage of data-related work was positively correlated with self-rated data proficiency (rho(n = 253) = .641, p = .000), the level of data literacy needed (rho(n = 262) = .352, p = .000), and various importance ratings of data literacy areas including programming skills (rho(n = 251) = .268, p = .000) and data processing & visualization (rho(n = 253) = .185, p = .003). Further analysis is currently in progress
How are Archives-Related Agencies in the United States Representing “Social Justice” on their Websites Based on Political Leaning of the 50 States? : An Exploratory Content Analysis to Discern Propositions for Archival Education
Get PDFContemporary archives-related agencies in the United States increasingly recognize the entrenched reality of archival work that has historically stayed privileged and biased while representing a semblance of neutrality (Society of American Archivists, 2020). Hence, today many call for rectifying the lapses of the past and a need to center social justice in their special collections, illustrated in a recent emergence of community archives, preservation literacy programs, community archives consulting programs, and co-stewardship efforts (Caswell et al., 2017; Caswell, Cifor, & Ramirez, 2016; Flinn, Stevens, & Shepherd, 2009; Liew, Goulding, & Nichol, 2020). How are major state archives-related agencies representing “social justice” on their websites to reflect this mandate and what its correlation with the political leaning of the state based on the national political elections since 2000? This qualitative evaluation explores answers in its application of website content analysis of seven information offerings in three categories that include (Mehra & Davis, 2015): information sources (collections, resources), information policy and planning (assigned role, strategic representation), and connections (internal, external, news and events). Mapping a taxonomy of social justice representations with illustrative promising practices and case examples are of value to archives-related agencies and others struggling with finding relevant and effective “how to’s” of operationalizing social justice actions during current politically turbulent times in ways that are deliberates, systematic, action-oriented, and community-engaged (Mehra, 2022). Implications of discerning propositions for archival education are also identified to bridge gaps between teaching, practice, social justice, impact, and political actions (Mehra & Winberry, 2021).
 
The Changing Landscape of Technical Services Education: Innovative Online Pedagogy, EDI, & Competencies
Get PDFTechnical Services (TS) has been undergoing many changes in response to societal, technological, and institutional shifts as are many areas within LIS. In addition to understanding changes in cataloging standards, technical services staff must have cultural and behavioral competency to meet the needs of increasingly diverse user populations. To prepare LIS students effectively, technical services educators must continually adapt and update their courses.
The Technical Services Education SIG session will include a panel of three educators who will discuss current areas of importance in TS education: innovative online pedagogy, EDI (equity, diversity, and inclusion), and core competencies.
Susan Rathbun-Grubb will report on the development of a new online course supported by a University of South Carolina Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) Innovative Pedagogy Grant. This includes collaborating with a CTE instructional designer in preparation for teaching the course in Spring 2024. This presentation will describe the creative process and the proposed course plan including objectives, topical coverage, pedagogical strategies, and assessments. Dr. Rathbun-Grubb is interested in having a conversation with attendees about their best practices for teaching TS management online in a student-centered seminar format.
Lesley Farmer will present on the incorporation of EDI into the Organization of Information course in California State University Long Beach\u27s Teacher (school) Librarian program. An explicit EDI strand was developed for the course, including readings/videos for each module and corresponding learning activities. Students have responded very favorably by actively identifying and addressing EDI issues and by seeing themselves as necessary change agents for social justice. This presentation explains the process, the results, and useful resources.
Karen Snow is leading an effort to revise the American Library Association’s 2017 Core Competencies for Cataloging and Metadata Professional Librarians and will report on the status of the endeavor. This includes determining if the 2017 Competencies are sufficient for current cataloging and metadata professionals. Dr. Snow will discuss how TS educators help provide a good foundation of cataloging and metadata competencies that best prepares our students for such a rapidly-changing field.
After the presentations, audience members will be encouraged to ask questions and offer their own experiences and ideas concerning this area of LIS education. These presentations align well with the ALISE 2023 conference theme of “Bridge the Gap: Teaching, Learning, Practice, and Competencies.
Pedagogical Trends in Librarian Support for Open Science Practices in Higher Education
Get PDFLibrarians have an opportunity to collaborate with faculty and students in supporting and teaching transparency in research. Much of the focus in librarianship has been on supporting research practices, for instance, open access publishing, research data management and guidance on pre-registration of studies (Sayre & Riegelman, 2018; Sayre & Riegelman, 2019) or finding and using open access resources for instance, demonstration of Open Educational Resources (OER). However, there is a shift to embed the research practices of open science (OS) and transparency into teaching in higher education. Since open science practices focus on making research processes and data open accessible to the public, librarians can help to educate students and faculty on the benefits of OS practices and provide resources on how to incorporate OS into teaching.
This poster describes the results of an exploratory study focusing on the trends in librarian teaching support for OS practices in higher education. A mixed methods sequential exploratory design was used where a semi-structured interview and survey were administered to describe the current trends in librarian support for teaching OS at higher education institutions. The results indicate that academic librarians have varied approaches to teaching OS and different opportunities to collaborate within institutions. There were common pedagogical OS topics and perspectives on teaching OS practices in higher education