2023 Annual Conference Session Abstracts
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Keynote
Title: Defending the Freedom to Read
Location: Peggy V. Helmerich Browsing Room (Library 2nd Floor)
Presenter:
James LaRue
Executive Director of the Garfield County (Colorado) Public Library District
Summary: Author of On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the US (Fulcrum, 2023), LaRue has dealt with over 1,200 challenges in his career as a public library director and former Executive Director of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. This talk will focus on the four reasons library resources are challenged, what tactics are used to impose censorship today, and why public engagement is essential to challenge resolution.
Block 1: 10:45 – 11:30
Title: Teaching Information Literacy across Generations: Grandparents University at the OSU Library
Location: Room 206 (Library Classroom)
Presenters:
Adam Schovanec
Oklahoma State University
Holly Reiter
Oklahoma State University
Summary: Grandparents University is a three-day experience for OSU alumni and their grandchildren to experience “college life” by living in a residence hall, choosing a “major,” and attending “classes” and social events. In Summer 2023, the OSU Libraries hosted a major, “Exploring the Modern Academic Library.” As part of the major, a graduate student in Learning Design and Technology and former K-12 teacher teamed up with a librarian to present a session on information literacy. They faced the challenge of having to teach multiple demographics at the same time: grandparents, who ages varied widely, and grandchildren ages 10-13. This presentation will share how the session was designed and taught, as well as lessons learned through the experience.
Title: Recruiting, Hiring, & On-Boarding Non-MLS Liaison Librarians: A Case Study
Location: Room 109 (Event Room)
Presenters:
Sarah Robbins
University of Oklahoma (Norman)
Amanda Schilling
University of Oklahoma (Norman)
Summary: A case study of how the University of Oklahoma Libraries recruited, hired, and then on-boarded three Science Liaison Librarians who held advanced subject degrees but no Masters in Library Science. This study provides suggestions for modifying job postings, interview processes, and on-boarding to appeal to non-MLS subject experts and to fully inform them of the scope of liaison work.
Title: From Ph.D. to Library: Parallels and Divergences between Data Librarians and the Researchers They Serve
Location: Room 109 (Event Room)
Presenter:
Danielle Kirsch
Oklahoma State University
Summary: One of many challenges for data librarians is bridging the gap (often as much physical as philosophical) between researchers and the providers of research-oriented services. Data librarians possess much of the knowledge and skills necessary to assist researchers throughout the lifecycle of their projects, providing assistance on everything from data management and sharing plans to the eventual archival of various research products. However, librarians and researchers do not always speak the same language or prioritize the same outcomes for research products. As someone nearing the completion of a Ph.D. in biology and serving as a Research Data Specialist in an academic library, I can contribute perspectives as both a researcher and research support staff. Using my own personal experience as well as evidence from empirical research, I will discuss problematic divides and promising overlaps between researchers and data librarians and recommend strategies for more effective cooperation between these two groups.
Title: Making It Known: Marketing and Outreach in an Academic Library Makerspace
Location: Digital Scholarship Center (Lower Level)
Presenter:
Karl G. Siewert
University of Central Oklahoma
Summary: Karl has been in charge of the Innovation Studio, the UCO Library makerspace, for the past year. One of their primary goals was to increase awareness of the Studio’s existence and improve traffic and usage in the space. Learn what they tried and how it worked in this entertaining presentation.
Title: Academic and public library makerspaces’ online services and programs during and post-COVID
Location: Digital Scholarship Center (Lower Level)
Presenter:
Yong Ju Jung
University of Oklahoma
Summary: COVID-19 has forced many services and educational opportunities to be moved to remote and online settings, and makerspace services and programs, in which in-person, tangible interactions are essential, were no exception. Based on my previous research (Kim et al., 2020; Kim et al., 2023; Jung et al., in review), this presentation will share what challenges library makerspaces experienced during the pandemic, what strategies they used, and what opportunities they found with the online transition. I will also talk about design principles and guidelines for online services and programs for library makerspaces and maker programs.
Block 2: 11:45 – 12:30
Title: Teaching Research: Mindmapping and Pathfinding Techniques & Tools
Location: Room 206 (Library Classroom)
Presenter:
Michelle Owens
Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology
Summary: Today’s students need advanced information/data seeking and sorting skills to support their personal and professional writing and research. Mind mapping and pathfinding techniques help students conduct balanced analysis and reduce the tendency to cherry pick sources. This presentation will focus on teaching best practices and provide a resource list of free and low-cost tools for students and librarians.
Title: Internal Needs Assessments: A Worthwhile Endeavor?
Location: Room 109 (Event Room)
Presenters:
Dr. Angela Sample
Oral Roberts University
Dr. Daniel Isgrigg
Oral Roberts University
Carolyn Prescott
Oral Roberts University
Summary: In 2020, the Oral Roberts University Library Needs Assessment Committee conducted six months of investigation, including an internal examination of the Library and an external study of Library resources, services, and staff. This Needs Assessment was unique in that a team of Library faculty and staff conducted it. Internal members of an organization rarely perform needs assessments for many reasons, including inherent bias and the potential distrust of those not on the assessment team. This process was complicated due to the COVID-19 pandemic during the period of data collection. The presenters will discuss the process, the benefits and some of the downsides of an Internal Needs Assessment. They will also describe how they navigated the tensions inherent in an internal assessment. Finally, they will present some of the recommendations that the Library has implemented. They will also explore some long-term benefits from a perspective three years later, and will discuss future plans.
Title: Education Over Restriction: Toward a More Balanced Perspective of Youth and Digital Media
Location: Digital Scholarship Center (Lower Level)
Presenter:
June Abbas
University of Oklahoma
Summary: Media use is a part of most youths’ lives in the U.S. and many other nations, however, many parents view media as monolithic and overwhelmingly negative, dismissing the subtle nuances of youths’ relationships to media. Parental perspectives are a key influence on youths’ digital media practices, yet their views are largely absent from the scholarly and professional narratives. The purpose of this research was to investigate parents’ concerns about their children’s digital media use as a starting point for developing more fully informed scholarly and practical conversations about youth and media. Dr. Abbas will present findings from an Institute for Museum and Library Services funded research project designed to understand more about the role of media in family lives, the tensions felt in families, and how libraries and librarians serve as media mentors.
Block 3: 1:45-2:30
Title: Leaving the Mess: Epistemology and Ethics in Media Literacy Instruction
Location: Room 206 (Library Classroom)
Presenters:
Chris Rosser
Oklahoma Christian University
Kimberly Cannon
Oklahoma Christian University
Summary: “Authority is constructed and contextual.” Thus spake the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy (2016), an assertion that rightly guides information and media literacy instructors as we form and inform students, empowering them to navigate an ecosystem rife with mis- and disinformation. Yet as danah boyd famously argues in her 2018 SXSW EDU keynote, how we teach media literacy can become an “assertion of authority over epistemology” that undermines skills we intend to sharpen by not recognizing and valuing fundamental differences among how individuals within communities make sense of the world(s) we inhabit. Just as authority is constructed and contextual, so also are evaluation and interpretation, sense-making constructs that determine how, why, and where we consume and create information. boyd asks, “How do we teach across epistemologies?” At COIL 2023, Kimberly Cannon and Chris Rosser engage boyd and her critics to describe the mess of epistemology and ethics in media literacy instruction; we then suggest how instructors might leave the mess, offering strategies to promote community and trust deployed in an exemplar gamified media literacy course entitled Eat, Play, Love: Adventures in the Information Ecosystem. Participants will: 1) identify current challenges for media literacy instruction; 2) encounter gameful design as a pedagogical strategy for navigating challenges; and 3) be challenged to attend to how we think about and encounter other minds, whether mediated digitally or face to face. We believe our use of media and of devices that mediate a tethering of self to a world of others can initiate among us generative orientations necessary for human (well) being, even across epistemologies.
Note: danah boyd does not capitalize her name, and we defer here to her preferences.
Title: Goldfish in a bowl: Teaching privacy literacy to undergraduates
Location: Room 109 (Event Room)
Presenter:
Holly Reiter
Oklahoma State University
Summary: Free coffee in exchange for your personal data. Wifi that tracks your movements across campus. Apps that mine data across your device. For college students today, giving up personal data is simply the cost of being online, both for personal and educational purposes. And while students may care about maintaining their online privacy, many do not have the tools to practice good data privacy habits, because they simply have not been taught them. In this presentation, we will explore what privacy literacy is, why librarians are perfectly poised to offer data privacy instruction, and look at examples of data privacy lessons that the presenter has used in their own credit-bearing information literacy course.
Title: The Ultimate Power Couple: Academic Libraries and Institutional Research
Location: Digital Scholarship Center (Lower Level)
Presenters:
Michelle Owens
Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology
Caitlin Cundiff
Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology
Summary: The Institutional Research (IR) department isn’t just about accreditation and federal reports. From professional development and literacy instruction to surveys and assessments, the university research and accountability department(s) can be the Blake Lively to the academic libraries Ryan Reynolds. Join Michelle Owens and Caitlin Cundiff from OSUIT in talking about the many ways the academic library and IR department(s) can work together and become the “it” couple on-campus.
Block 4: 2:45-3:30
Title: Framework Literacy: Understanding, Implementing and Integrating the ACRL Framework
Location: Room 206 (Library Classroom)
Presenter:
Jay Edwards
University of Oklahoma
Summary: The ACRL Framework for Information Literacy was introduced in 2015, and since then library professionals have developed a myriad of ways of incorporating the Framework, including active methods of teaching these concepts directly to learners, or working these concepts into previously developed practices. How can we integrate the Framework into library instruction, reference and other services? Over the last eight years, how have Oklahoma librarians already done so? Where have we found success? Is there anything missing in the Framework? Is it time for the ACRL to update it? Join in on an exploration of the concepts within the Framework, where learners will evaluate the language of the Six Frames, and discover methods to apply these ideas into library services.
Title: Inclusive Metadata: What It Is, Isn’t, and Other Things Catalogers Want You to Know (this presentation has been withdrawn)
Title: SynthesAIzing Discoveries: Emerging Tools for next-level research instruction
Location: Digital Scholarship Center (Lower Level)
Presenters:
Chris Rosser
Oklahoma Christian University
Michael Hanegan
Oklahoma Christian University
Summary:
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are new and exciting, evoking buzz and triggering anxiety. What about less-known AI tools that synthesize information, tools with transformative potential for how we teach info and research skills? We approached an expert with our timely question: What do we need to know about how AI empowers research and sharpens information literacy skills? Our expert—an AI tool called Perplexity—responded by asserting that ChatGPT and other generative AI tools are “neither inherently good nor bad when it comes to finding and using information. Instead, they represent a new way in which we can interact with information.” Perplexity then centered the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy (2016), reminding us of the importance of understanding scholarship as an ongoing conversation; this, for us, begs a looming question: How do we meaningfully engage AI—and teach others to engage AI—as a conversation partner for next-level research? At the COIL Annual Conference, Michael Hanegan and Chris Rosser will introduce hearers to the potential of synthesizing AI tools like Perplexity for empowering learning and research, emerging tools that will profoundly inform new approaches to information literacy instruction. Our AIm is to equip instructors with tools and tactics for engaging synthesizing AI as a next-level partner for leveling up research.
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