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    Cross-Curricular Collisions: Academic Libraries as Catalysts for Collaborations on Campus
    (2024-06-04) Grauel, Liz; Ziedses des Plantes, Erik
    The changing landscape of higher education and increasing demand for multi-skilled employees in today’s workforce have exposed opportunities for cross-disciplinary and cross-curricular engagements in university classrooms. At the same time, budgetary constraints and shifting institutional structures present challenges to adopting and integrating such holistic approaches to research, teaching, and learning. This presentation discusses the connective function of academic libraries on university campuses, including librarians’ roles as curricular and pedagogical partners to teaching faculty and facilitators of interdepartmental research. Liz Grauel and Erik Ziedses des Plantes, librarians at the University of Dayton who serve as liaisons to the schools of business and engineering, will share their experiences in cross-curricular engagements between business and engineering programs. We discuss our developing approaches to cross-curricular library instruction and engagements with teaching faculty of different disciplines, and invite attendees to share their experiences within their own institutions. This session explores the cross-curricular student engagements that may be expanded and supported through the consultative and collaborative position of academic libraries on college campuses, building on the growing interest in such activities.
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    Visual Images as a Gateway to Scholarly Inquiry in Information Literacy Instruction
    (2024-06-03) Gamtso, Carolyn White; Paterson, Susanne
    In this interactive session, participants will engage in activities that use student-generated questions about visual images as entry points to research literary criticism of Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. The presenters collaborated on a student-centered, inquiry-based information literacy lesson (IL) focused on visual literacy, critical thinking, and research question design in an introductory literary analysis course. The co-instructors decentralized the classroom by empowering students to ask probing questions about illustrations from an early 20th-Century edition of Hamlet. Workshop participants will experience the presenters’ lesson firsthand by using the Right Question Institute’s Question Formulation Technique (QFT) as a springboard to research question development, keyword generation, and library resource exploration. Through facilitated activities and discussions, participants will learn about instructional strategies that inspire students to follow their own research interests, enabling them to direct class discussions and determine lesson outcomes. Finally, participants will reflect upon how such strategies could be applied in their own library and classroom contexts.
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    Preparing Tomorrow's Educators with the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy
    (2024-06-04) Ayton, Kieran; Gurjar, Nandita
    This presentation will demonstrate how an academic librarian and Education faculty member used the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education to create multi-modal text sets with pre-service teachers to incorporate aspects of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Specifically we will use the Companion Document to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education: Instruction for Educators to show how the “Information Creation as a Process” frame applies to teacher preparation and pedagogy practices. Academic librarians can work with K-12 preservice teachers to incorporate implicit teachings of this frame into K-12 social studies lesson plans that require Common-Core based standards and state level curricular standards to teach students how to become part of a healthy democracy. Multimodal text set creation is a guided inquiry strategy that bridges and connects the overarching goals of the ACRL framework and teacher preparation standards to develop students’ abilities to be critical consumers and creators in the information ecosystem. The audience will take away strategies for connecting college students with their local public libraries and samples of interdisciplinary lesson plans and multimodal text sets from the course. Visit our libguide at: https://library.ric.edu/eled436
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    Building on Data Services Skills to Create a Bibliometrics Pilot Project
    (2024-06-03) Chaput, Jennifer; Clement, Ryan

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