Online Northwest 2013 took place at the CH2M Hill Alumni Center at Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR.
The keynote address was given by Virginia Eubanks.
Session 1
Accounting for Taste: An eTextbook Experiment
Presenters
- Cheryl Cuillier, University of Arizona Libraries
- Jason Dewland, University of Arizona Libraries
Abstract
In Fall 2012, the University of Arizona Libraries launched an eTextbook pilot project with the Courseload eReading platform in a 300level accounting class. Students received a free copy of the professor's annotated eText, subsidized by the library. We’ll share lessons the library learned about student perceptions of eTexts, faculty involvement, licensing terms and costs, eReading platforms, functionality, printing limits, assessment, accessibility, and campus politics.
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Creating New Partnerships: Strategies for Growing Your Repository
Presenters
- Karen Bjork, Portland State University
- Sue Kunda, Oregon State University
- David Isaak, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research
- Kay Vyhnanek, Washington State University
Abstract
Academic institutions, as well as private corporations, have taken on the responsibility of building institutional repositories in order to collect, manage, archive and provide access to the intellectual work taking place on their respective campuses. Over the years, building or procuring a repository has become fairly straightforward. Filling it hasn't. Convincing faculty and academic units to contribute their research and scholarship is still a struggle for most repository owners and requires equal parts determination, imagination and perspiration. Join four repository managers from OSU, PSU, WSU and Kaiser Permanente as they share their experiences attempting to fill the repository. Attendees will leave this session with practical strategies for working with campus stakeholders as well as unusual and novel approaches to gathering content. After their individual 5-10 minute talks, the presenters will answer directed questions from the moderator and audience.
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Choose Your Own Screencast: How to Reach All Skill Levels Using Screenflow and Youtube Annotations
Presenters
- Stephen X. Flynn, The College of Wooster
Abstract
Screencasts are a popular way to teach information literacy and promote library services, but are linear in presenting information. What if users could interact with a screencast based on their interests and skills? Borrowing from the Choose Your Own Adventure format, the College of Wooster Libraries is creating beautiful and engaging screencasts that serve multiple learning outcomes. Attendees will learn about our methodology to create these screencasts and how to use YouTube's annotation features.
Getting Students Ready for Distance Learning
Presenters
- Barbara Oldham, Wenatchee Valley College
- Claver Hategekimana, Wenatchee Valley College
Abstract
Presenters will show a viable solution that goes beyond self-evaluation surveys to teach students basic skills they need to succeed in an online course. The success of the course is attributed to alignment of course objectives with content, assessment, and continuous improvement. Students were also exposed to basic information literacy concepts and services available to distance students. Presenters will share lesson learned and participants will learn something they can adopt and customize for their schools.
Session 2
API Hackery: Customizing Your Users’ Experience Using APIs
Presenters
- Nicholas Schiller, Washington State University Vancouver
Abstract
This presentation will demonstrate how librarians can use APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to customize search and other library services to their patrons' specific needs. We will walk through the steps of a practical application of an API from problem identification, to API selection, to customization and implementation. Some coding knowledge is necessary to work with an API on your custom project, but less than you might think. Some time spent w/ Codecademy's code year PHP and Javascript will be enough to get started. In the session, we'll be working at an introductory level.
From Can of Worms to Online Collection: Digitizing the Oral Histories of the Tacoma Community History Project
Presenters
- Justin Wadland, University of Washington Tacoma
- Hilary Robbeloth, University of Puget Sound
- Alison Lane, University of Washington Information School
Abstract
This presentation will share a practical approach to the challenges and opportunities of making oral histories available online. We will share our own experience of wading into what at first seemed to be intractable complexity but ultimately became a rich way for the UW Tacoma Library to support the educational mission of our campus and connect with local communities.
Mobile Stats Are Not Enough: What Do Mobile Library Site Users Actually Do?
Presenters
- Hannah Gascho Rempel, Oregon State University Libraries
- Laurie Bridges, Oregon State University Libraries
Abstract
Good mobile websites are designed around an understanding of the context of what the user is expected to do. But what exactly are our users doing on our mobile library sites? User stats only provide part of the story, so Oregon State University librarians set out to solve this mystery by actually asking users what they do on our mobile site. The answers to this question are the first step in a usability study and will help us make smarter design decisions, decide what services to feature, and figure out what new tools might enhance our users’ mobile library experience. Come learn what we discovered so that you too can move beyond just guessing what your mobile users are doing to really knowing.
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Science is a Moving Target: eScience, Team Science, The Data Deluge and More
Presenters
- Jason Wirz, Oregon Health & Science University
- Amanda Whitmire, Oregon State University
Abstract
This presentation will be structured around the research cycle, beginning with experimental hypothesis, moving to data collection, analysis/writing, publication and finishing with scientific networking and collaboration. As we walk through the cycle, we will introduce and discuss many of the concepts that shape modern research. From big data, small data, curation and ontologies to open laboratory notebooks and team science initiatives, participants will come away with a working knowledge of the key issues surrounding eScience.
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Session 3
No One is Leaving Without You…or Me Knowing: Interactive Classroom Assessment Techniques (iCATs) Using Clicker Technology
Presenters
- Dale Vidmar, Southern Oregon University Hannon Library
Abstract
Assessing student learning “after” instruction sessions is essential to understanding what students learn. However, interactive classroom assessment techniques (iCATs) are perhaps more important to measure "real-time" learning of students "during" an instruction session to insure intended outcomes are achieved before students exit the classroom. This session will explore iCATs using clickers as a formative approach to interactively assess both students’ prior knowledge as well as what they take away from an instruction session.
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Building Oregon: Leveraging Mobile Technologies to Present Digital Collections
Presenters
- Evviva Weinraub, Oregon State University Libraries & Press
- Laurie Bridges, Oregon State University Libraries
Abstract
Using funds provided through LSTA, OSU Libraries & Press is building a webbased tool, optimized for use in a mobile environment that takes University of Oregon's Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest digital collection, and makes it accessible to users in the mobile landscape, leveraging the tools and capabilities that the mobile environment provide. The nature of mobile tools allows us to push out library content to users in new ways, meeting the user where they live --in the digital world. Once the mobile tool has been created, OSU Libraries & Press will release the framework in an open source code repositories, for other libraries or cultural institutions with digital collections to use to mount their own digital collections or repurpose existing digital collections in a mobile environment.
Librarians Are the Gateway: Academic Social Media Applications for Scholars
Presenters
- Lorin Flores, Texas State University San Marcos
- Lisa Ancelet, Texas State University San Marcos
- Terrence Edwards, Texas State University San Marcos
Abstract
The emergence of social networks designed specifically for academia is a fairly recent trend. Academic social networking sites combine "traditional" features of social networking with practical research-oriented functions such as organizing papers, bibliographic management, and pdf annotating. Librarians need to step forward at this new opportunity to collaborate and connect with faculty and students. Librarians have a role educating members of the academic community in the use of scholarly social networking sites.
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Kickstarting Your Ideas: A Look at Crowdfunding
Presenters
- Anne-Marie Deitering, Oregon State University
- Rachel Bridgewater, Portland Community College
Abstract
Rock bands looking to fund their new album, inventors hoping to raise money to produce a new product, and nonprofit groups seeking support for their causes have all found success using crowdfunding websites. As these sites have matured and entered the mainstream, however, many are asking probing questions about accountability and sustainability. This session will explore the practical, legal, and ethical issues that might be involved with crowdfunding for library projects and initiatives.
Session 4
Worth a Thousand Words: Infographics for Librarians
Presenters
- Michele DeSilva, Central Oregon Community College
Abstract
Infographics are a way of representing complex data or processes in a way that users can understand quickly and simply. They are becoming increasingly popular, and there are many ways from marketing to reporting use stats that libraries can harness infographics' potential to tell compelling, visually interesting stories. In this session, participants will learn about ideas for using infographics, free online tools for creating and distributing infographics, and best practices for creating infographics.
Meaningful Space in a Digital Age
Presenters
- Ben Malczewski, Ypsilanti District Library
Abstract
Extracting from the ALA book The Library 2025, the author considers our relationship with our physical surroundings and objects from a multidisciplinary perspective (behavioral/neurological) and reflects on their roles in creating experience and memory, as well as inward/outward concepts of identity, self, and community. We’ll then graduate the idea to address how the library's notion of content (from analog to digital) will undergo a further evolution to "dynamic," and introduce how concepts such as "dialectal design" and the "occasioning of space" will play vital roles in capturing and projecting the essence of the Library.
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Ditching Textbooks: The OER Faculty Fellowship at Lane Community College
Presenters
- Jen Klaudinyi, Lane Community College
Abstract
Textbooks: expensive, static, out-of-date, longtime vexation to students (and libraries). Led by a geeky librarian, and backed by student government, some instructors at Lane Community College are doing something about it. This presentation will describe the OER Faculty Fellowship, which incentivizes instructors to drop textbook requirements and incorporate free, online, Open Educational Resources instead. The fellowship’s flexible, asynchronous, and self-paced model could also be applied to other faculty development initiatives information literacy, perhaps?
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Digital Literacy and Libraries: Insights from a Tutor-Facilitated Learning Model
Presenters
- Kimberly Pendell, Portland State University
- Elizabeth M. Withers, Portland State University
Abstract
Concerns about the digital divide have shifted from simple access to digital literacy. Digital literacy includes skills ranging from using a mouse to evaluating website information. Public libraries are a key venue for digital literacy program implementation, especially for hard-to-serve populations. Researchers from Portland State University are studying the effectiveness of an online and tutor-facilitated digital literacy learning model for adults. The researchers will discuss this program and share insights from their fieldwork at a public library in Austin, Texas.
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Session 5
Lightning Talk: From 3×5 to LCD: Considerations and How-tos for Conducting Online Card Sort Studies
Presenters
- Emily Ford, Portland State University
Abstract
What is an online card sort and why use it? Why not? What should libraries consider when designing usability studies that incorporate online card sort methods? Using a recent experience conducting an online card sort study as a framework, the pros and cons of conducting online card sort studies will be examined, and practical tips and how-to knowledge will be offered.
Lightning Talk: Flipping the Distance Classroom
Presenters
- Amy Hofer, Portland State University
Abstract
A “flipped classroom” assigns lecture learning for homework and uses in-person class time for hands-on practice with the instructor’s support. It’s an exciting model, but how can it work for distance students? Portland State University’s Senior Inquiry program offers high school seniors a PSU Freshman Inquiry course at their schools for college credit. This lightning talk outlines how the Distance Learning Librarian at PSU used LibGuides, Google Docs, YouTube, and lots of friendly reminders to help teachers flip information literacy instruction for these distance students.
Lightning Talk: We Ditched our Kindles and You Can, Too!
Presenters
- Jane Nichols, Oregon State University
- Uta Hussong-Christian, Oregon State University
Abstract
For the last two and a half years, OSU Libraries & Press (OSUL&P) circulated Kindle ereaders as a way to offer our students and faculty a popular reading collection. Although all OSU students, faculty and staff can get a card at the local public library just blocks from campus, our collection continuously shows high demand. From an initial staff-selected collection of about 60 titles the collection has grown to over 600 largely patron-selected titles and consistently has a filled wait list; clearly this niche service has found an audience! So, why ditch our Kindles in favor of...tablets? Come find out how we re-envision this service and hear preliminary results of this new tablet lending program.
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Lightning Talk: TechShowcase: A Case Study of eReaders on Display
Presenters
- Nate Pedersen, Deschutes Public Library
Abstract
An overview of a pilot program at Deschutes Public Library in Bend, Oregon where we have installed a "TechShowcase" that displays six eReader devices for customers to handle. (Kindle, Nook, iPad, Thrive, Galaxy, Sony Reader) The TechShowcase gives the public a chance to interact with a variety of eReaders before committing to a purchase. It also provides an opportunity for customers to learn about digital downloads offered by the library.
Lightning Talk: Assessing a Library Situation: Using Google Forms Surveys to Assess What People Think, What They Want, What They Know, and What They Think They Know
Presenters
- Kim Read, Clark College
Abstract
Get to know your library situation with free online surveys. Any type of library can quickly and easily create, conduct, and share surveys with Google Forms. In this lightning talk, we will look at surveys for event planning and surveys for information literacy instruction planning and assessment.
Lightning Talk: The Dog & Pony Show (AKA Demonstrating the Value of Your Library)
Presenters
- Lorie Vik, Eugene Public Library
Abstract
Are you interested in thinking about new ways to get people to experience the value and impact of your library? Hear how Eugene Public Library used technology to promote its value to City staff. We taught them to fish, and we offered to fish. We were not surprised to find out that people like it when you save them time and money. Hear what we did and how we did it.