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Talent Within: Building Library Leaders Through Staff Development
No full textStaff development is the cornerstone of a vibrant and responsive library system that meets the needs of today’s students. In lean times, spending effort on staff development can often be overlooked beyond the initial training of new staff members. We will share our development of two key staff training initiatives addressing first-year staff members and future library leaders. Semester-long, New Team Member Training focuses on group work and how individuals can be productive contributors to the library system. Year-long, Team Leader Training focuses on leadership development and the skills needed to lead our library into the future. We will share the structure and foundations of our trainings including how we incorporated diversity learning opportunities into our curriculum. We will also showcase our online resource to promote staff development for all levels of our organization. Participants will walk away with tangible ideas to implement on your campus
Designing for the forgotten: A look at how the built environment may be able to help reduce some triggers associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
No full textHow Much!? Estimating the cost of an assignment in an organic chemistry class.
No full textPoster presented at Special Libraries Association 2015 All-Sciences Poster Session, Boston, MA, June 15, 2015.Objective: To estimate the library costs of completing an assignment in an organic chemistry class.
Methods: Students in Chemistry 254: Organic Chemistry for Majors were required to write a paper on an organic name reaction (a reaction named after the chemist who discovered it). This study attempts to take a holistic account of various costs associated with completing this assignment. Upon submission of their papers, students’ bibliographies were collected. Different price estimates such as cost per use of the particular journals and interlibrary loan cost for the individual articles were used to determine a range of possible costs for each article a student cited. An estimated cost of a librarian’s time in delivering SciFinder training sessions was factored in, as was the cost of each student having access to SciFinder
Educational Expertise, Advocacy, and Media Influence
Get PDFThe efforts of many advocacy organizations to advance their preferred policies despite conflicting evidence of the effectiveness of these policies raise questions about factors that shape successful policy promotion. While many may like to think that expertise on an issue in question is an essential prerequisite for influence in public policy discussions, there is a traditional disconnect between research evidence and policymaking in many fields, including education. Moreover, the efforts of many policy advocates suggest that they see advantages in other factors besides research expertise in advancing their interpretation of evidence for use in policymaking processes. We hypothesize that some of the most influential education-focused organizations are advancing their agendas by engaging media and drawing on individuals who possess substantial media acumen, yet may not possess traditionally defined educational expertise. Thus, we hypothesize that media impact is loosely coupled with educational expertise. In fact, in analyzing various indicators of expertise and media penetration, we find a weak relationship between expertise and media impact, but find significantly elevated media penetration for individuals working at a sub-sample of organizations promoting what we term “incentivist” education reforms, in spite of their generally lower levels of expertise. We find these organizations are particularly effective in engaging new media forms by going directly to their audience. We consider the policy implications in the concluding discussion