Professional Librarian Posters and Presentation Material
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Presentation material and Posters created by Professional Librarians of the Brock University Library.
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Selling Infrastructure as a Service to faculty
(2020-10-23)Presentation material for session presented at 2020 Access Conference for session entitled Selling Infrastructure as a Service to faculty. Abstract: Libraries aim to provide tools and platforms to support the research ... -
Accounting students and information competence: evidence from course syllabi and professional accounting association competency maps.
(Special Libraries Association, 2009-06-15)As Brock University’s business liaison librarian, I have had some success integrating information literacy in the business administration curriculum. However, there have been very few requests for instruction in undergraduate ... -
Visualize your doppelgänger: using information graphics to benchmark AACSB-accredited business schools.
(Special Libraries Association, 2013-06-10)A poster presented at the 2013 SLA Annual Conference, Business & Finance Division poster session, June 10, 2013 in San Diego, CA. -
Revolution or evolution? Lessons learned from a business syllabus study.
(Special Libraries Association, Business & Finance Division, 2015-06-16)Although the business school student population at Brock University was growing, requests for traditional in-class information literacy instruction (ILI) sessions were declining as faculty made room in the curriculum for ... -
How To Fulfil All Our Lending and (Our Patrons’) Borrowing Dreams
(Ontario Library Association Super Conference 2020, 2020-01-29)Collaborative Futures (CF), a project to implement a shared library system for 14 Ontario universities, is about radical collaboration. The CF Shared Resources Working Group will discuss dreaming big to create, sell, and ... -
To Jupyter and Beyond: Computational Notebooks in the Library
(2020-01-29)Have you heard of Jupyter? Better yet, have you heard about how computational notebooks can be used to teach technologies and are part of the reproducible science movement? This session will show you the Juptyer platform ... -
Are we walking the talk? Tensions between librarians' values, academic freedom and open scholarship
(2019-06)Open access - the practice of freely sharing scholarly outputs online -- is steadily garnering support across the research community. At academic institutions, libraries are usually the standard-bearers for this trend, ... -
Cluster Computing for Humans -OR- Have you heard of this HPCPack?
(2019-05-30)Presentation material from code4Lib North 2019, held at McMaster. -
Git It Done with GitHub: Digital Scholarship with Open Tools
(2019-06-03)Presentation material from Lightning Talk done at Digital Odyssey, 2019. Held in North York Central Library. Event sponsored and organized by Ontario Library and Information Technology (OLITA), a division of Ontario Library ... -
Codifying Academic Freedom: An Examination of Collective Agreements for Librarian Specific Language
(2018-05-30)Academic Freedom is a foundational component of the modern University. The notion is brought to life and exercised through a very particular article of the collective agreement. This article almost always provides a well ... -
Beyond CRAAP: Critical Thinking in the Age of Fake News
(2019-01-30)In this age of fake news, clickbait, and alternative facts, how can we equip students to find the truth? While fake news is not a new concept, its ubiquity has made it increasingly difficult to distinguish between what is ... -
Engaging Faculty to Advance Campus Open Access Policies: Strategies and Lessons Learned
(2019-01-30)As champions of creating more equitable systems for sharing scholarly research, libraries are typically the leaders in developing open access policies at their institutions. This work aligns with evidence that effective ... -
Brock’s New Digital Scholarship Lab: Partnering and Collaborating for Success
(2019-02-01)Brock University will open a new SIF-funded facility in the spring of 2019 dedicated to transdisciplinary research, commercialization and entrepreneurship. The new Rankin Family Pavilion at the front door of the campus is ... -
Personal Librarians: can we help with student retention?
(2018-03)A strong body of research shows positive correlations between use of library resources and student success amd retention. Research on retention also shows the importance of students feeling connected to their university ... -
Publish, don’t perish: tips for evaluating journals
(2018-06-12)So, you want make sure you publish your research in a “good” journal? Maybe your role includes advising others on how to select appropriate publication venues? It’s tricky navigating the complex and rapidly shifting terrain ... -
Gathering Library data and creating visualizations the easy way!
(2018-02-02)Statistics and visualizations are important tools Libraries use to tell their stories. This poster will present a statistics capturing and display package that runs on the bare minimum: Google Forms, D3, and HTML. The ... -
“I think this is a great program”: using qualitative and quantitative data to assess a personal librarian program
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I didn't become a worse Librarian when I became a Grad Student
(2017-05-11)Presentation made at code4Lib North 2017 at University of Ottawa. Looks at the process and reflections of continuing education and graduate studies for mature students. -
Diving into the ACRL Framework: Engaging Graduate Students with Threshold Concepts
(2015-06-16)Librarians face many challenges when planning instruction for graduate students. Masters and PhD students typically arrive in their programs with wide ranging research skills and backgrounds. They may have assumptions about ...