Short Session Description:

Together we'll use building toys like K'NEX, Tinker Toys, and blocks to create activities for visualizing abstract concepts in information literacy. The emphasis will be on facilitating hand-ons, creative learning opportunities wherein students build models of relational concepts, such as the research process/cycle, scholarly conversation, organizing information, information creation, etc.

2- Session Style/Format: Make/Play Session

3- Takeaways: You come away with sample lesson plans for integrating these activities into your classroom teaching, as well as hands-on experience using these fun tools as your students would.

4- Organization. Fully formed 

5- Contact Information - Samantha Snair, ssnair@lesley.edu

1 - Description: Last year, the University of Kentucky Libraries planned a number of campus activities around a common theme: Curiosity. The goals were to highlight the importance of curiosity in education and to provide opportunities for collaboration within the Libraries and between the Libraries and campus. For this workshop, we’ll describe our theme goals and activities, and lead participants through the process of developing ideas to host their own library-wide theme. Through small group discussion and sharing, participants will develop ideas on topics such as: What theme might work at your library? Which campus partners might collaborate with you? What kinds of activities might you develop?

2 - Session Style/Format: Hands-on workshop (but we are open to other suggestions!)

3 - Takeaways: Participants will leave with a planning document they develop during the workshop, with specific ideas for hosting a library-wide theme at their own institution.  

4 - Organization: We have a group (members of our theme planning group).

5 - Contact Information: Jennifer Hootman (jlhootman@uky.edu) and Beth Kraemer (kraemer@uky.edu)

Session Description: Our library users have grown up with influencers, YouTube stars, and professional “amateurs.” How do we create fun and visually appealing content that captures their attention and meets expectations?

We have limited time, we don’t necessarily have strong backgrounds in areas that would help with this (e.g. marketing, video, graphic design), there are few who can provide us with support, and buying tools is expensive and sometimes difficult. We know some tricks and workarounds, but what is everyone else doing?

Session Style: This would be an interactive session that’s one part poster session, one part collaboration/play.

We’d like everyone to share a library material (whether you rolled a 1 or a natural 20) that they’ve made, how they made it, things they learned, and what they'd do better the next time. We’d also encourage folks to post materials that they want to make but don’t know how to tackle. It could be print or digital - poster, handout, PowerPoint, LibGuide, tutorial, video, potion, etc. The session would have time learn from each other through discussion and collaborative feedback.

Takeaways: Our idea at the moment is to have each item posted on an easel pad sheet so that everyone can view the item/link to the item with room to write suggestions and feedback. Still working that out. At the end, we’d take photographs of the materials to share.

Organization:  Call for Participation

Contact Info:

Maggie Nunley – mn3fa@virginia.edu

Ashley Hosbach – aeh5mg@virginia.edu

Christine Slaughter – cs7ww@virginia.edu

1. At Westfield State University, we created an online role playing game to serve as a tool to gather assessment data on first-year students' retention of information literacy concepts and skills. I will explain how we created the game and ask a volunteer to play the game for a minute or so. In the game, you play the role of a student conducting research for an environmental science paper and encounter "NPC's" that give advice (some good, some bad).

Here's the URL:http://legacy.lib.westfield.ma.edu/rpg/story.html

2. Pecha Kucha

3. Attendees will learn about the program Storyline (from Articulate) and how to embed Surveymonkey assessment questions into the game

4. I plan on giving the Pecha Kucha but may invite a coworker to present with me.

5. Oliver Zeff, Instruction Coordinator.  Westfield State University, Westfield, MA.

1. Short Session Description: Treasure-seekers of all types can find opportunities for shaping community at the library. This workshop will provide a space for participants to explore methods for developing inclusive programming at their institutions. After discussing two new diversity initiatives at Emory Libraries, attendees will reflect upon the needs of their student populations and develop an action plan aimed at empowering and enriching underserved campus communities. In doing so, the workshop will facilitate dialogue around issues like representation, inclusivity, and authority within the academy.

2. Session Style/Format: Workshop

3. Takeaways: Participants will examine projects aimed at enriching and empowering traditionally underserved student communities. They will reflect on opportunities and challenges related to diversity, equity and inclusion programming at their institutions. Takeaways will include:

• Resources and readings
• Project brainstorm document
• Individual action plan

4. Organization: Panel is fully formed.

5. Contact Information: Sarah Morris, Head of Instruction and Engagement, Emory University Libraries, sarah.e.morris@emory.edu

Erica Bruchko, African American Studies and United States History Librarian, Emory University Libraries, berica@emory.edu

1. Description: Too often, presentations incorporate components that are not accessible for all attendees. For example, fonts that are too small or hard to read, colors without sufficient contrast, or poor use of the microphone. In this session, attendees bring a presentation they’ve given or plan to give and work to make it more accessible. The session will start with an overview of best practices in accessibility, then move to hands-on time with the attendees’ own work. Attendees will also be invited to partner up, in the event that they do not have their own presentation or laptop available.
2. Format: Hands-on workshop.
3. Takeaways: Attendees will leave with an improved presentation and a handout with accessibility best practices. Attendees will 1) understand the essentials of print accessibility in order to prepare slides that are visually pleasing and readable, 2) recognize the needs of individuals who are Deaf/deaf or hard of hearing in order to meet those needs, 3) consider carefully activities that require movement or mobility in presentations in order to create an accessible environment.
4. Organization: I plan to post a Call for Participation if selected. At least three presenters are needed to make this session successful and four presenters would be better.
5. Contact information: Beth Daniel Lindsay, blindsay@sbc.edu

1. Short Session Description.

   As educators at a variety of institutions use library resources in course development to creatively lower costs for students librarians have learned all of the ways licensing, linking, and tracking those resources can go awry. Responsible and sustainable use of library resources in course development differs widely based on institutional size and course development model. Join this session to hear from librarians who work with faculty and instructional designers to facilitate use of library resources in courses. Panelists will discuss important considerations, resources/instruction for course designers, and what works well for their institutions, faculty and students.

2. Session Style/Format Collaborative Panel
3. Takeaways: Attendees will leave session with knowledge of how common licensing, linking and tracking procedures and support and hinder library resource use in course design and what sustainable solutions look like for different institutions.
4. Organization: Partly Formed- Looking for Panelists with varied experience leveraging library collections in course development

   Anaya Jones – SNHU – Course Development by Instructional Designers with Faculty as Subject Matter Experts, large institution
   Torrie Raish, Pennsylvania State University, eBook program with Canvas Integration vrc112@psu.edu

5. Contact Information: Anaya Jones eLearning Librarian Southern New Hampshire University r.jones2@snhu.edu

1- Short Session Description: Three different interactive segments will combine into a session aimed to help make participants more adventurous in their workplace.

2- Session Style and Format:

Segment The First: You rolls the dice, and you takes your chances.

Small group scenarios for fundraising using dice

(You roll a 10 and discover a $25k endowment. What's your next move? Alternatively, you roll a 1 and your budget is cut by 30%, what do you do?)

Second Segment: Gaming out risk v. reward when dealing with innovation.

All participants would huddle for a walkthrough of a game theory chart entailing different outcomes a sample Library might encounter.

We'd then brainstorm best practices in real time using an electronic classroom poll or old school voting.

Third Segment: Numbers tell the story, but they also cast a sleep spell.

Learning how to secure a bigger budget by using more flavor text and fewer statistics OR players seldom state they're a level 20 cleric to their longtime DM since that's obvious.

Exercise: What's the best story someone ever told you? Why did it stand out? How many qualitative arguments do you make at budget time? How do you tell your story throughout the year? Do you agonize about this as much as a prospective student does over their admissions essay?

3- Takeaways:

Participants will get to know one another better.

Participants will have a better idea of how innovation occurs and understand that risk is not necessarily a dirty word.

Participants will improve their approach to securing funding by working together to develop a qualitative approach.

Participants will gain confidence.

There will be digital materials that participants are free to use. Best practices will be compiled in house and dished out to participants as an electronic document after the conference ends.

4- Organization:

I'm willing to do this on my own or as part of a group that the Collective helps form.

5- Contact Information: BWS Johnson abesottedphoenix@yahoo.com

1. Short Session Description: While there is significant focus in the library literature on serving military veterans and active-duty military service members in libraries, there is little attention paid to another important military-affiliated group comprised of over 2.6 million individuals: military dependents, or the spouses, children, and other family members of military personnel. In this roundtable discussion led by a former “military brat” (child of a military service member), attendees will learn more about military dependents and their unique needs, participate in an activity designed to build empathy around this topic, and share successful strategies and generate new ideas for connecting with military dependents in libraries.
2. Session Style/Format: Roundtable
3. Takeaways: Beyond the connections made through the roundtable with others interested and active in this subject, participants will leave with knowledge and ideas on the topic of military dependents and libraries and tangible takeaways in the form of a handout.
4. Organization: Formed
5. Contact Information: Laura Birkenhauer, crosbylm@miamioh.edu

1- This session will teach participants what scenario planning is, what makes it different from other planning styles and techniques, and how it can be used effectively in libraries (and DMing). Participants will work with examples of scenarios and write some of their own in a condensed version of the scenario planning process.

2- workshop

3- Takeaways: Participants will learn what scenario planning is and how to implement it in their library, with hands-on practice using parts of the process. 

4- Organization. Initiate a CFP for co-organizers/presenters 

5- Contact Information - Alex Harrington, aharrington@pennstatehealth.psu.edu