1- Short Session Description: Much of academia, especially in libraries, has either fully embraced or is turning toward digital means for most areas of communication and teaching. This session will submit that, although technology has huge benefits, something is being lost in translation. How can libraries help foster real dialogue and interaction between students/patrons and faculty/librarians? Can a communal hivemind still be created through bringing people together and what would that look like? Perhaps the best means of evolving our digital selves is to look back and draw from the analog world.

2- Session Style/Format: Interactive. Some introductory talking to present the issues, then mini breakout groups to create some potential solutions or pathways to solutions. Format is open to modification. Perhaps on site creation of pictorial storyboards?

3- Takeaways: New connections/ideas. Initiative to adopt and expand on non-digital methods of pedagogy.

4- Organization. I would like to initiate a CFP.

5- Contact Information - Robert Spinelli rspinelli@abcnash.edu

1- Short Session Description. (~100 words)

For many librarians who cover STEM areas it can often seem as though we are speaking a different language from our patrons, even those who have STEM backgrounds are likely covering topics they never studied in-depth. Through a scientist-librarian game and a share out from science librarians this session will aim to provide STEM librarians with tools and tricks for closing this gap and helping with deeper engagement with these patron populations.

2- Session Style/Format (e.g. lightning talks, make/hack/play session, etc.)

The session will be a combination of interactive, scientist role-playing, and panel discussions by science librarians

3- Takeaways: Describe any takeaways, skills, outcomes, and/or interactive elements!

Participants will learn a set of techniques for engaging with STEM populations, unique to the different populations

Participants will leave having attempted to view their interactions from the STEM practitioner's side via the role-playing element

Participants will leave feeling more comfortable with the language and culture of STEM fields

4- Organization. Fully formed (i.e. you have people in mind or chosen to co-organize) or will you initiate a CFP for co-organizers/presenters?

I will put out a CFB for STEM librarians, particularly ones who worked as STEM practitioners before becoming librarians. I do have a background as a mathematicians so will be able to cover that topic.

5- Contact Information - Name of primary contact + email!!!

Samuel Hansen Mathematics & Statistics Librarian University of Michigan

hansensm@umich.edu

Short Session Description. (~ 100 words)

• It’s been 19 years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed and libraries are ideally situated to lead the charge on continuing the initiative to make our built and online environments more universally accessible to all. Are you interested in taking action and making your library more accessible and inclusive for all, including persons with disabilities, but are you feeling overwhelmed about where and how to start? Attending this session will provide an opportunity for participants to hear from (at least) one large academic library’s experience and will give participants an opportunity to consider how their own libraries are embracing the movement to make spaces and resources more universally accessible.

Session Format & Style. Facilitated discussion / round-table.

• Takeaways. Participants will leave with an understanding of how at least one library is intentionally building a more proactive culture of inclusion through accessibility. Participants will also have time to reflect on their own library’s accessibility work and to begin forming a plan of attack to ensure their libraries are accessible to all. A resource handout and link to other presentation materials will be included for future reference.

Organization. 

• At the moment, I am proposing to lead this on my own, but it would be great to co-facilitate and I’d be happy to recruit additional organizers.

Contact Information. Lauren Kehoe | lsk221@nyu.edu | 212.998.2509

1- Short Session Description. (~100 words) 

Enter the realm of elearning and academic libraries and take on one of our world’s roles to fight the resistance to information literacy among the ranks of academia. In this session, players will role play using personas to flesh out the challenges around elearning from a variety of perspectives. Then in small teams, players will design solutions to those challenges using all the charms and spells that elearning has to offer. The Dungeon Masters of this session will also share about their own initiative to tame the dragon of information literacy. NB: no dragons will be harmed during this session.

2- Session Style/Format (e.g. lightning talks, make/hack/play session, etc.

Hands-on workshop OR small group breakout

3 - Takeaways:

Participants will takeaway:

• A sense of relief from having fully explored and shared the challenges of elearning in academic libraries
• Concrete solutions and ideas for overcoming those challenges 

4 - Organization:

Fully formed

5- Contact Information:

Angela Henshilwood - angela.henshilwood@utoronto.ca

Tracy Zahradnik - tracy.zahradnik@utoronto.ca

Title: Getting the Key to the Castle: Implementing a Strategic Process to Level Up Student Learning Outcomes

Short description:

Do you feel like you are stuck at the same level with your teaching by covering the same skills (or almost the same skills) in your library sessions? Do students complain that every library session covers the same content? Are you looking for a better way to track and assess what students are learning? In this interactive workshop, you will learn how to establish a structured approach that allows you to “level up” student learning outcomes.

Session Style/Format: Interactive Workshop

Takeaways

Through a series of hands-on activities, you will identify the right skills to teach at the right time and create learning outcomes that move students through the trajectory of a course, major, and even graduation.

Organization: Fully Formed but open to partnering with others

Contact Information

Jennifer Sharkey, Head of Information Use and Fluency, jsharke@ilstu.edu

What makes a game worth playing? In a word: Agency. Whether you’re in a D&D party or researching a topic of interest, having the ability to direct your own actions creates a deep level of engagement. Story Map helps you create that engagement by giving you the tools to create an environment ripe for exploration and content discovery. This workshop will introduce participants to Story Map and guide them through the process of developing their first story and map. Takeaways include the beginning of their own story, a handout on how to develop the story further, and a list of resources for working with Story Map.

1. Short Session Description.

   Explore a variable, student-centered information literacy lesson plan that brings students into the ACRL frame(s) Authority is Constructed/Contextual and/or Scholarship as a Conversation. This lesson casts undergraduate students as both researchers and creators of information to familiarize and demystify the process. Facilitator will share prior experiences, lessons learned and ideas for adaptation. Bring the limitations and parameters of your institution and a willingness to explore possibilities. In this active and collaborative session, we’ll work together to customize this idea to your students.

2. Session Style/Format Hands-On Workshop. 
3. Takeaways:

   Attendees will explore the provided lesson plan and consider how a similar lesson could work at their institution.

   Attendees will collaboratively discuss and adapt the provided lesson plan to their instructional situation. 

   Facilitator will share lesson plan and experience, then lead collaborative activities where participants consider how lesson plan could work in their situation. Lesson plan found here https://www.projectcora.org/assignment/cast-your-students-scholars

4. Organization: Fully Formed- Facilitator Anaya Jones, SNHU
5. Contact Information: Anaya Jones eLearning Librarian Southern New Hampshire University r.jones2@snhu.edu

1. The PFW Library Orientation Team would love this opportunity to share how we have implemented gaming into our Freshman Orientations. We were faced with the opportunity to engage our students early in their academic careers, and so we chose to use Escape Rooms and open gaming zones to do so. We will present our knowledge, gained through trial and error, in the form of interactive gameplay, handouts, and Q&A. We would be bringing some cheat sheets for building an Escape Room, as well as running a small group of volunteers through the game itself. After doing so, we would give a short presentation on what we found to be the strengths and weaknesses to our approach, and then open the floor for questions.
   
2. Session Style - Interactive Demo of our current Escape Room, followed by a short presentation, ended by Q&A
3. Our takeaway would be the knowledge gained, as well as handouts giving details on how to build an Escape Room.
4. We are a fully formed group.
5. Contact information - Bonnie Hauser - Co-Lead Organizer, Purdue Fort Wayne Library, millbr02@pfw.edu

1- Short Session Description:  This workshop will lead users through creating and hosting annotations using the local IIIF annotation server located here: https://github.com/dnoneill/annotate. The workshop will demonstrate how to host annotations in a user owned website. It will also examine how to find IIIF resources, creating annotations, and the reuse and scholarly implications of the resources.

2- Session Style/Format: Workshop

3- Takeaways: Ability to create annotations and take the skills and tools learned back to your organization and scholars.

4- Organization. Fully formed.

5- Contact Information - Niqui O'Neill (doneill@ncsu.edu)

1.) Short Description: In libraries we are always looking for innovative ways to tell others the stories we learn from the data we analyze. In this interactive session, participants will work closely with one such tool: the Google Visualization API. Together we will examine the possibilities available to us with the API, with a substantial amount of the session devoted towards writing code with the API itself. Along the way we will connect what we are learning with how the API has been implemented into a Database Usage Tool at the University of Michigan - Dearborn, offering a practical example of how this API has been used in academic libraries.

2.) Session Format & Style: Make/Hack/Play Session

3.) Takeaways: Participants will be spending time developing Javascript code that uses Google's Visualization API, allowing them to learn introductory concepts about the API and giving them quick steps to start their own quest to build a data visualization tool. In addition, participants will be given a mapping handout that offers insight into design thinking, recommended data formatting tips, and planning worksheets for their data visualization tool. Finally, we hope to help participants build a "party of questmates" among fellow participants in the session to help support each other in their continued development beyond the conference session.

4.) Organization: Fully formed

5.) Contact: 

Tim Streasick

streatim@umich.edu

313.593.5567