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Augustana College’s Tredway Library takes pride in its moniker of being the living room of the campus. However, like many others, the library faced a decrease in student engagement in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic; moreover, situational factors such as reduced campus communication outlets and several curriculum redevelopments compounded the situation by limiting both messaging opportunities and library capacity to respond to student needs. Survey data collected from senior students over the past five years underscores an initial decrease and steady regrowth in self-reported sense of belonging within the library, aligning with the pandemic and post-pandemic library engagement data.

Tredway librarians prioritized the development of targeted wellness-related collections and programming centered on giving students resources and spaces to simply be, rather than be in an act of becoming, in response to expressed gaps in student support. These projects, ranging from the expansion of a leisure collection to include self-care materials to curating lego sets for passive community programming and even to the present reimagining of a defunct computer lab into a wellness lounge, have each invited and engaged students throughout the development and realization processes. This presentation will overview Tredway Library’s path to developing our wellness initiatives with this active student buy-in, along with some pros, cons, and advice regarding each of the projects we have undertaken so far.

Presenters:

Kaitlyn Goss-Peirce (she/her) is a Research and Instruction Librarian for the Humanities Division at Augustana College's Thomas Tredway Library, where she also serves as the Library Instruction coordinator. With prior experience in public libraries and archives, one of her passions is enriching the library's role as an accessible third space. She earned her Master's of Library and Information Science from Simmons University. 

Garrett Traylor (he/they) is a Research and Instruction Librarian and Assistant Professor at Augustana College's Tredway Library. He is the library's outreach coordinator and liaison to the Arts & Communication Division, to the business, Spanish, and Swedish programs, and to the Augustana Prison Education Program. He previously worked at Illinois College for five years after earning his master's from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Traylor's varied research interests have led to publications on topics such as video games, Scandinavian cinema, adaptation theory, and poetry, and presentations on AI, wellness, and zines. Happy husband, dad to two, and dog dad.

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Hosted by CARLI

As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms how knowledge is created, shared, and reused, leaders and members of the open movement are at a crossroads that will define the future of access to knowledge and shared creativity. The application of copyright law to AI training is complex. Around the world, there are exceptions and limitations to copyright that give latitude to AI training, but laws vary significantly. Since CC licenses are copyright licenses, it follows that the application of CC licenses to AI training is similarly complicated. Hear the latest thoughts about the relationship between AI, copyright, and the existing CC licenses and legal tools. Then, learn about the latest developments on a project we are currently calling CC signals: a proposed framework to help content stewards express how they want their works used in AI training—emphasizing reciprocity, recognition, and sustainability in machine reuse. We plan to allow time for discussion and Q&A.

Presenter: Shanna Hollich

As Learning and Training Manager at Creative Commons, Shanna Hollich supports all Creative Commons programs and projects by identifying and developing professional development and learning opportunities that are relevant to CC’s mission, including (but not limited to) the CC Certificates. Prior to joining CC, Shanna worked for 15 years as a librarian across multiple institutions – K-12 school, public, government, and academic. They have worked in public/access services, technical services and cataloging/metadata, and administration, ultimately serving as director for the John Stewart Memorial Library at Wilson College and the Guthrie Memorial Library in Hanover, PA. Their research during this time primarily involved copyright reform, cultural heritage, open access, open education, and social justice.

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Sponsored by LibraryLinkNJ
 

Have you made a career change on your path to academic librarianship? Do you deal with feelings of impostor syndrome, uncertainty, or otherness as someone newer to academia?

Join this session, presented by three librarians who successfully transitioned from youth services to academic and medical librarianship by embracing their “inner unicorn,” the unique skills developed in their previous roles. We will discuss how academic librarians can use prior work experiences to their advantage in new positions, embracing an abundance mindset and battling back against impostor syndrome.

Topics will include successes, challenges, and strategies for navigating job transitions and finding support with time for open discussion at the end.

Speakers:

Mary Kamela is a Student Support and Engagement Librarian at the University at Buffalo. She transitioned to academic librarianship after five years working in K-12 school libraries. As a member of the University at Buffalo Libraries’ Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences team she serves as a liaison to the Department of Communication and University Honors College. Her research interests include information literacy pedagogy, instructional technology, and extracurricular academic library programming.

Joel Shoemaker, Medical Librarian, HPC International, Inc., has a master’s degree in Library and Information Science from Dominican University and a specialization in Consumer Health Information from the Medical Library Association (MLA). He has a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education and a minor in Theatre Arts and Drama from Eureka College. Joel has more than fourteen years of experience as a librarian in medical, public, and primary school libraries. He is a magician and has published four books.  
 
Justin Crossfox is a User Experience and Outreach Librarian at SUNY Buffalo State University. After 18 years in public libraries, primarily working in children’s librarianship, he made the jump to academia and joined the faculty at Buffalo State. As a member of the Reference and Instruction unit, he does reference consultations, desk hours, programming, and teaches credit bearing courses. He currently serves as a Senator on the Buffalo State Senate, and chairs both the Grant Allocation Committee and Senate By-Laws and Elections Committee.

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Sponsored by FLVC

Ex Libris will perform maintenance on our I-Share Alma and Primo VE environments to apply the latest Quarterly Feature release.

This upgrade will occur between 2:00am-3:00am Central.  Access to your environment may be unavailable during the time of installation.

Primo VE semi-annual indexing is ready.

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