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Slides From Wrap Up Session, Jamene Brooks-Kieffer

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The symposium wrap up was facilitated by Jamene Brooks-Kieffer (Kansas), who recapped each session and the overall themes of the event. She utilized a garden metaphor to explain that all data services exist in different landscapes and that not every idea will transplant into every library/garden. Brooks-Kieffer then directed participants through a free-writing exercise about taking one idea to transplant to their libaries, ending with participants partnering up to help each other be accountable to transplanting this symposium idea after the event. These are the slides used during the wrap up session.

Lesson Plan For Reusing Data, Mdls15 Participants

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The teaching data management discussion focused on creating lesson plans for different data management instruction sessions. Participants picked audience, form and length of the session, and topic and then crafted a lesson plan to fit the session. This lesson plan was produced by symposium participants and covers reusing data.

Lesson Plan For Dmps For Early-Career Researchers, Mdls15 Participants

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The teaching data management discussion focused on creating lesson plans for different data management instruction sessions. Participants picked audience, form and length of the session, and topic and then crafted a lesson plan to fit the session. This lesson plan was produced by symposium participants and covers DMPs for early-career researchers.

Lesson Plan For Introduction To Data Services, Mdls15 Participants

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The teaching data management discussion focused on creating lesson plans for different data management instruction sessions. Participants picked audience, form and length of the session, and topic and then crafted a lesson plan to fit the session. This lesson plan was produced by symposium participants and covers an introduction to data services.

Lesson Plan For Data Organization, Mdls15 Participants

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The teaching data management discussion focused on creating lesson plans for different data management instruction sessions. Participants picked audience, form and length of the session, and topic and then crafted a lesson plan to fit the session. This lesson plan was produced by symposium participants and covers data organization.

Lesson Plan For File Naming, Organization, Storage, Mdls15 Participants

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The teaching data management discussion focused on creating lesson plans for different data management instruction sessions. Participants picked audience, form and length of the session, and topic and then crafted a lesson plan to fit the session. This lesson plan was produced by symposium participants and covers file naming, organization, and storage.

Lesson Plan For Intro To Hathi Trust, Mdls15 Participants

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The teaching data management discussion focused on creating lesson plans for different data management instruction sessions. Participants picked audience, form and length of the session, and topic and then crafted a lesson plan to fit the session. This lesson plan was produced by symposium participants and covers an introduction to Hathi Trust.

Lesson Plan For Dmps For Students, Mdls15 Participants

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The teaching data management discussion focused on creating lesson plans for different data management instruction sessions. Participants picked audience, form and length of the session, and topic and then crafted a lesson plan to fit the session. This lesson plan was produced by symposium participants and covers DMPs for students.

Template For Lesson Plans, Heather Coates

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The teaching data management discussion focused on creating lesson plans for different data management instruction sessions. Participants picked audience, form and length of the session, and topic and then crafted a lesson plan to fit the session. This is the template for the lesson plans developed during this session.

Resources For Teaching Data Management, Heather Coates

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The teaching data management discussion focused on creating lesson plans for different data management instruction sessions. Participants picked audience, form and length of the session, and topic and then crafted a lesson plan to fit the session. This is a handout listing resources for teaching data management.

Outline Of Teaching Session, Heather Coates

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The teaching data management discussion focused on creating lesson plans for different data management instruction sessions. Participants picked audience, form and length of the session, and topic and then crafted a lesson plan to fit the session. This document provides an outline for how the session was run.

Outline Of Partnerships Session, Brianna Marshall, Mdls15 Participants

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The goal of the partnership discussion was to create 30-second elevator pitches to convince different campus groups to partner or take advantage of the library's data services. All MDLS participants brainstormed a list of potential partners, picked 7 for targeted pitches, and then wrote the pitches. This is the outline of the overall session and contains a list of over 25 potential campus partners.

Elevator Speech For Research Office, Mdls15 Participants

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The goal of the partnership discussion was to create 30-second elevator pitches to convince different campus groups to partner or take advantage of the library's data services. All MDLS participants brainstormed a list of potential partners, picked 7 for targeted pitches, and then wrote the pitches. This is the elevator pitch for the Research Office.

Elevator Speech For Grad School, Mdls15 Participants

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The goal of the partnership discussion was to create 30-second elevator pitches to convince different campus groups to partner or take advantage of the library's data services. All MDLS participants brainstormed a list of potential partners, picked 7 for targeted pitches, and then wrote the pitches. This is the elevator pitch for the Graduate School.

Elevator Speech For Library Administration, Mdls15 Participants

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The goal of the partnership discussion was to create 30-second elevator pitches to convince different campus groups to partner or take advantage of the library's data services. All MDLS participants brainstormed a list of potential partners, picked 7 for targeted pitches, and then wrote the pitches. This is the elevator pitch for library administration.

Elevator Speech For Subject Librarians, Mdls15 Participants

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The goal of the partnership discussion was to create 30-second elevator pitches to convince different campus groups to partner or take advantage of the library's data services. All MDLS participants brainstormed a list of potential partners, picked 7 for targeted pitches, and then wrote the pitches. This is the elevator pitch for subject librarians.

Elevator Speech For Campus It, Mdls15 Participants

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The goal of the partnership discussion was to create 30-second elevator pitches to convince different campus groups to partner or take advantage of the library's data services. All MDLS participants brainstormed a list of potential partners, picked 7 for targeted pitches, and then wrote the pitches. This is the elevator pitch for campus IT.

Elevator Speech For Campus Deans, Mdls15 Participants

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The goal of the partnership discussion was to create 30-second elevator pitches to convince different campus groups to partner or take advantage of the library's data services. All MDLS participants brainstormed a list of potential partners, picked 7 for targeted pitches, and then wrote the pitches. This is the elevator pitch for campus deans.

Elevator Speech For Tenure-Track Faculty, Mdls15 Participants

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The goal of the partnership discussion was to create 30-second elevator pitches to convince different campus groups to partner or take advantage of the library's data services. All MDLS participants brainstormed a list of potential partners, picked 7 for targeted pitches, and then wrote the pitches. This is the elevator pitch for tenure-track faculty.

Study On Crime And Investment In Latin America And The Caribbean, Luisa Blanco, Christabel Dadzie, Coline Dony

Luisa Blanco

Investment is a key determinant of economic growth. This relationship underpins the growth diagnostic and constraints analysis methodology used by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and United States Government Partnership for Growth initiative with the purpose of identifying the binding constraints to growth in a given country. Recent growth diagnostics undertaken for El Salvador (2011), Guatemala (2013), and Honduras (2013) find crime and citizen insecurity to be binding constraints to growth and investment in those countries (Acevedo et al. 2011; World Bank, 2012). The approaches taken in these growth diagnostic analyses are based on indirect proxies and shadow prices of …

Outline Of And Results From Curation Session, Margaret Henderson, Mdls15 Participants

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The data curation discussion focused on evaluating datasets for curation. Margaret Henderson led participants through an exercise to judge the curation value of different example datasets and facilitated discussions on navigating the intricacies of curation at their institution. This document gives the session outline and results of discussion.

Grassroots Strategic Planning: Involving Library Staff From The Beginning, Anne Marie Casey

Anne Marie Casey

Strategic planning is often considered a managerial tool. The management of an organization surveys the environment and develops a plan that they introduce to the organization as a whole. Most modern organizations seek employee involvement in the planning process and feedback to some degree with varied results. But for one academic library, employee involvement in the development and execution of the strategic plans has been a vital part of the processes. The Hunt Library at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has been developing strategic plans for several years with active input from the librarians and staff. This case study chronicles the different …

Strategic Priorities: A Roadmap Through Change For Library Leaders, Anne M. Casey

Anne Marie Casey

Twenty-first century academic libraries need to adapt on a regular basis because external forces such as increased pressures from the institution and accreditation organizations, emerging technologies, or budget reductions create new conditions. In a twenty-year period ending in 2008, academic library spending shifted substantially from physical to electronic resources and from staff and student salary lines to professionals, signaling profound changes in the way libraries do business. “Then just as academic … libraries were settling into these new behaviors, the worst recession in seventy-five years occurred, forcing many … to concern themselves with survival and making difficult decisions based on …

Leadership Institute For Academic Librarians, Anne Marie Casey

Anne Marie Casey

The Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians (LIAL), which offered its first institute in 1999, is a collaboration of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.[i] Intended to provide participants with the tools and insight needed to improve effectiveness and respond rapidly to a changing environment, LIAL is held each year for one week in August on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[ii]

The need for leadership programs for librarians was recognized by John Collins, a librarian at Harvard University, who had …

Public-Public And Public Private Partnerships In Transportation, Janet K. Tinoco

Janet K. Tinoco

Graduate students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU), Daytona Beach, FL partook in a research effort for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Kennedy Space Center (KSC), examining partnerships in real property. The students researched relevant public-private partnerships (PPPs) and public-public partnerships PuPs in space, air, rail/road, sea, and utilities -- nationally and globally.

Do You Know How Your Children Are? International Perspectives On Child Abuse, Mistreatment, And Neglect, Gordon A. Crews, Angela D. Crews

Angela Crews

The purpose of this article is to offer a brief overview of the state of children internationally as it pertains to their levels of abuse, neglect, and needs. The enormity of this topic is obvious, but it is hoped that a basic understanding and appreciation of the definitions, nature and extent, and myriad issues involved can be derived.

A Primer On How To Launch An Institutional Repository Successfully, Larry Sheret, Thomas L. Walker Ii, Gretchen Rae Beach, Jingping Zhang

Gretchen Rae Beach

This is a case study about the implementation of an institutional repository (IR) at Marshall University. Libraries have always collected information from a worldwide marketplace and have disseminated these resources locally. The IR has created a new function for the library by making it practical to acquire locally developed resources and to disseminate them freely worldwide. This has altered the traditional role of librarians and suggests a broader set of implications for the future usefulness and relevancy of the IR as doors open to new partnerships that will strengthen the university and the library’s place within it.

Fearless Friday: Jasmine Santana, Christina L. Bassler

SURGE

In this week’s Fearless Friday piece, SURGE would like to spotlight Jasmine Santana ’16!

Jasmine is a currently a senior IDS major who focuses on socio-linguistics. In other words, she critically analyzes the use of language through various perspectives, such as from the point of view of Africana Studies or Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. A Latina woman from Washington Heights in NYC, Jasmine definitely felt a change in her surroundings once coming to Gettysburg. However, the presence of white-culture did not deter Jasmine from becoming the Fearless Leader we see today. [excerpt]

Laterality Enhances Numerical Skills In The Guppy, Poecilia Reticulata, Marco Dadda, Christian Agrillo, Angelo Bisazza, Culum Brown

Sentience Collection

It has been hypothesized that cerebral lateralization can significantly enhance cognition and that this was one of the primary selective forces shaping its wide-spread evolution amongst vertebrate taxa. Here, we tested this hypothesis by examining the link between cerebral lateralization and numerical discrimination. Guppies, Poecilia reticulata, were sorted into left, right and non-lateralized groups using a standard mirror test and their numerical discrimination abilities tested in both natural shoal choice and abstract contexts. Our results show that strongly lateralized guppies have enhanced numerical abilities compared to non-lateralized guppies irrespective of context. These data provide further credence to the notion that …

Re-Thinking Survey Promotion: It's Not Just About The Numbers, Kristen S. Shuyler, Jonathan Reed, David Vess

Libraries

Promoting a survey - it's all about getting people to click on it, right? Not always. This session will describe the promotion campaign we designed for the James Madison University Libraries' 2015 LibQUAL+ survey. Ultimately, this campaign was not just about the survey - it was about how we want our campus to feel about the Libraries.

Libraries commonly engage their user communities by gathering users' feedback. Analyzing and acting on user feedback can lead to the responsive design and (re)development of library services, spaces, and programs. Our campaign placed that value of "responsiveness" front and center, with two taglines: …