Preconferences

Decision Making: Is Your Expert Opinion Enough?

Thursday, March 12, 2009, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Description: Are your daily decisions justifiable and based on real evidence? This preconference introduces Evidence-Based Librarianship (EBL), a process grounded in the concept that daily practice should be based on up-to-date, valid, and reliable research. Learn applications of EBL in a variety of contexts, how EBL relates to other assessment techniques and identify challenges and issues related to implementing the process in your library.

Learning outcomes:

• Apply EBLIP protocols in a variety of domains in order to facilitate library-wide data-driven decision making.
• Relate EBLIP to other assessment techniques available in order to find the best evidence for decision making.
• Identify the challenges to implementing EBLIP in their libraries in order to institute change if appropriate.

Speaker(s):  Denise Koufogiannakis, Collections & Acquisitions Coordinator, University of Alberta; Megan Oakleaf, Assistant Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies; Jonathan Eldredge, Library Knowledge Consultant, University of New Mexico; Pam Ryan, Head, Science & Technology Library, University of Alberta

Type of audience: Practitioners in all types of academic libraries at all levels, i.e., any librarian making decisions that impact library users

Cost: ACRL member - $145; ALA member - $185; Nonmember - $225; Student - $75

Effective and Exciting New Information Literacy Outreach Efforts to International & ESL students

Thursday, March 12, 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Description: This preconference will offer a comprehensive model-program for outreaching to International and ESL students in academic universities. The population of these students is rapidly growing and they have special needs. An innovative 3-step approach will be presented: 1) outreaching to them through exciting cultural meetings; 2) establishing partner networks with other-culture libraries to assist; 3) customizing reference & instruction to this special-need population (i.e., cultural/language cues to be aware of during reference and instruction).

Learning outcomes:

• Understand, and be able to restate the unique challenges and needs of International & ESL students
• Understand the 3 outreach steps, and be able to propose how they might be adapted to one's own library setting
• Recognize and be able to identify some of the key reference/instruction tactics for assisting International & ESL students
  

Speaker(s): John Hickok, California State University, Fullerton

Type of audience: Instruction & Reference Librarians (any/all who have international & ESL patrons)

Cost: ACRL member - $125; ALA member - $165; Nonmember - $205; Student - $75

Intention to Action: Influencing Others When You Don't Have (or Can't Use) Authority

Thursday, March 12, 2009, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Description: Libraries are full of people with talent, insight, energy, and ambition who don't necessarily have formal authority. This highly interactive preconference will allow each participant to develop an influence plan for a real situation . Participants will leave with specific, concrete, ethical strategies to use both immediately and in the future. Group discussions, case studies, written exercises, and lecturettes will help participants discover how to shape others opinions without manipulating them or relying on authority.

Learning outcomes:

• Create a comprehensive plan to influence a specific person/group without using authority
• Craft meaningful messages that are relevant to and appropriate for your audience
• Deliver a clear call to action that prompts your audience to follow through on a request

Speaker(s): Melanie Hawks, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah

Type of audience: Targeted at non-managers but also appropriate for managers

Cost: ACRL member - $145; ALA member - $185; Nonmember - $225; Student - $75

Managing Change, Diversity, and a Multi-Generational Workforce: Developing Effective Problem Solving and Leadership Skills

Thursday, March 12, 2009, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Description: Problem solving while managing change is key to effective team building and organizational success.  The process begins with an understanding of one’s self. With practical applications based on individual profiles from the Klein Group Instrument for Effective Leadership and Team Participation, Kirton’s Adaption-Innovation Inventory, and the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, successful problem solving will be illustrated through active participant interaction, providing a better understanding of the value of diversity in the process for those in and aspiring to leadership roles.

Prior to the preconference, the 32 item Kirton Adaption Innovation Inventory (KAI) which measures thinking style as distinguished from thinking capacity or competence, the 93 item Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI form M) which generates a detailed personality preference report, and the 62 item Klein Group Instrument (KGI) which assesses leadership, negotiation orientation, task focus, and interpersonal focus will be distributed to preconference participants. When returned and scored, detailed individual profiles will be prepared for distribution at the preconference. Interpretation of results and interactive activities will lead to insight into group interaction in problem solving teams or work environments, to an understanding of personal style and preference, and to an appreciation of the strength of personality and problem solving diversity in a complex environment.

Learning outcomes:

• Participants will develop self-knowledge as they review their Adaption-Innovation style, personality preferences and KGI profile.
• Participants will develop an appreciation for the value of diversity in problem solving styles, personality preferences, decision making and leadership
• Participants will use their new knowledge in interactive activities designed to illustrate how to apply A-I theory, personality type theory and leadership skill in their own professional development and in their work environment.

Speaker(s): Carol Kem, University of Florida; Cheri Brodeur, Coordinator, UF/IFAS Program Development and Evaluation Center, University of Florida

Type of audience: General attendees. Personal growth, career development, and problem solving enhancement can benefit individuals at any stage in their professional career.  An experienced administrator and a new employee will both benefit from the preconference.

Cost: ACRL member - $185; ALA member - $225; Nonmember - $255; Student - $85

The Assessment Baristas: Can We Start a Rubric for You?

Thursday, March 12, 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Description: In this session participants will learn how to brew up a rubric that is just right for evaluating student work. Everyone will get hands-on experience in the full process of rubric creation, use and evaluation. Attendees will leave the program energized with new skills to improve instruction. The presenters will provide a menu of ideas on how to use rubrics for other types of assessment and a bibliography for further reading.

Learning outcomes:

• Improve your instruction design by learning to create a rubric in order to pinpoint gaps in student information literacy skills
• Design a rubric based on ACRL Standards in order to apply best practices to assessment of student work.
• Learn how to test the efficacy of rubrics in order to develop confidence in their newly acquired skill

Speaker(s): Sue Phelps, Washington State University Vancouver; Linda Frederiksen, Access Services Librarian, Washington State University Vancouver

Type of audience: All librarians interested in assessment.

Cost: ACRL member - $125; ALA member - $165; Nonmember - $205; Student - $75

Thinking Critically about Copyright: Who Needs It (and Why?)

Thursday, March 12, 2009, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Description: The ubiquity of electronic resources, digital technologies, and revolving formats has made understanding copyright fundamental to understanding academic libraries. Scholarly communication, open access, ILL, e-reserve, preservation, digital libraries, teaching, and user-generated content share a legacy of challenges governed by copyright. This session is about understanding copyright, applying it, and your questions. Participants will engage in discussions about their work and learn how to use copyright law for resolving day-to-day challenges in the library community.

Learning outcomes:

• Understand basic copyright principles and more sophisticated applications, including how to distinguish and address ownership and use issues and how to share opportunities with colleagues and others to better understand these principles and apply them in their work.
• Identify copyright issues in the library and related environments and recognize how different interpretations of the law may raise different expectations of how copyright ought to apply to the range of diverse stakeholders in the academic community and beyond.
• Apply learned principles to practical issues confronting librarians and others in their related learning communities, with learning activities involving analyzing fair use as it applies to electronic reserves and other scholarship, how library exemptions permit a range of preservation, replacement, and copying activities, and how "distance education" and web-based learning activities can fit within other exceptions.

Speaker(s):  Dwayne K. Buttler, J.D., University of Louisville; Kenneth D. Crews, J.D., Ph.D., Director, Copyright Advisory Office, Columbia University; Donna L. Ferullo, J.D., Director, University Copyright Office, Purdue University; Janice T., Pilch, M.L.S., Associate Professor of Library Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Type of audience: We are structuring this learning opportunity to benefit a wide range of librarians who hold diverse responsibilities. We will begin with the fundamentals of copyright and move to advanced topics in order to best address existing knowledge and to accommodate beginners who are encountering copyright for the first time. We also will explore underlying social policies influencing copyright laws and thereby library practices.

Cost: ACRL member - $145; ALA member - $185; Nonmember - $225; Student - $75