ARLD Day 2010
Promoting Presence: Creative Collaboration in the Library
The day will include breakfast, lunch, and several breakout session options, and will wrap up with Table Talk to share what we’ve learned.
What to expect:
- Keynote Speaker: David Silver from the University of San Francisco
- Special ARLD Day feature: Representatives from the Minnesota Historical and Cultural Grants program and the Minnesota Digital Library will be available to talk about initiatives and opportunities for academic libraries.
- Lunch with your colleagues
- Afternoon breakout sessions: Learn about innovative projects happening in the upper Midwest
Keynote speaker
David Silver, Associate Professor of Media Studies, University of San Francisco
“Getting Students’ Bodies and Ideas into Libraries”
How do we get college students into libraries? How can we have students work with librarians to design exhibits in their library? What will entice them to contribute their intellectual labor to libraries?
About David Silver
- Director of the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies, an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture.
- Co-director of the September Project, a grassroots effort to encourage events about freedom in all libraries in all countries during the month of September.
- Teaching and research interests include digital media, contemporary cultures, and social movements.
- Teaches Digital Democracy, Digital Journalism, and Intro to Media Studies. Along with Professor Melinda Stone, David serves as faculty advisor for USFtv
Keynote speaker links to check out:
- Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies: http://rccs.usfca.edu
- The September Project: http://theseptemberproject.org
- Silver in SF: http://silverinsf.blogspot.com
Breakout Sessions
Click on a session title to view the presentation.
- Academic Support through Peer Learning: Building a Collaborative Program
Speakers: Jody Gray and Kate Peterson, University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota Libraries have partnered with the Multicultural Center for Academic Excellence and the SMART Learning Commons to provide the Peer Research Consultant (PRC) Program. The PRCs provide one-on-one academic support for undergraduates in three locations. The PRCs are recruited from a pool of diverse students with a strong academic record. The goals include supporting U of M Student Learning Outcomes and the vision developed by the Office for Equity and Diversity. Presenters will describe the development and pilot phase of this program in the fall of 2009, and provide an overview for creating a similar peer-learning program in your library. - Bus Boycotts, Government Printing, and Mars: Using Collaborative Exhibits to Connect Collections and Curriculum
Speakers: Heather Tompkins and Margaret Pezalla-Granlund, Carleton College
Curricular exhibits are a powerful mechanism for connecting the collections of the library with the teaching and learning goals of the college. At Carleton College, librarians and exhibits staff collaborate to create exhibits that support the curriculum and encourage interdisciplinary connections. Collaborative curation engages students’ information, visual, and quantitative literacies. Presenters will highlight one of their recent projects as a way to explore what elements contribute to a successful program. Attendees will come away with concrete ideas and strategies for planning, coordinating, and promoting library exhibits on campus and working with faculty and students. - Collaborating with Graduate Students to Improve Library Systems and Processes
Speaker: Rachel Wexelbaum, St. Cloud State University
A graduate student in the Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Department must complete a capstone project for his degree. The library has problems with its existing shelving and inventory system. Why not connect and collaborate? Presenters will address how academic librarians can connect with graduate students at their institutions to gather information on how to solve problems within the library, as well as how they can mentor graduate students in scientific disciplines. - Inviting Collaboration to Encourage Life-Long Learning
Speakers: Lyndi Finifrock, Carole Cragg, Ann Gannon, Will Keillor, and Betsy Dadabo, Bethel University
Learn about the Bethel University Library Marketing Team’s efforts to engage the academic community in creating a shared vision of the library as a center of active, life-long learning. Presenters will focus on how they have developed partnerships across campus by facilitating Primetime@BU Library, an ongoing presentation series in which faculty and students share their research, publications, or study abroad experiences. You will leave this session with practical examples of ways to successfully begin and facilitate ongoing events in collaboration with the academic community. - Library Art Galleries: Drawing In New Users & Partnerships
Speaker: Rachel McGee, St. Mary’s University of Minnesota
As library resources and services shift online, librarians are challenged with attracting users to the physical space. Library programs such as visual art galleries offer a means for drawing students, their ideas, and art to the library, promoting library services, increasing usage, improving facilities, and developing partnerships. This presentation will provide an overview of establishing a library art gallery while tracing the presenter’s collaborative experience in developing Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota’s library art gallery, Art on Park. - The New Normal: New Collaborations within the Library and Beyond
Speakers: Andrea Koeppe, Diane Knights, Marianne Hageman, and Eric Kallas, University of St. Thomas
Multiple examples of collaborative experiences will be delivered in a “lightning round,” with a focus beyond the now-traditional model of an Information Commons and instead looking at collaborations among library departments and throughout the university. Much has been said about embedded librarians in the classroom, but UST librarians are also working with other departments on campus, such as the Career Office. Circulation and Reference are two groups that have traditionally sat across from each other, and we hope to meld their services in ways to provide the best support for students. To produce today’s more useful and dynamic subject guides, liaisons need to collaborate with Virtual Services staff, serials staff, and catalogers to acquire and manage appropriate online and print resources.
Directions
The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum is located nine miles west of I-494 on State Hwy 5, four miles west of Chanhassen on Hwy 5, and ¼ mile west of the intersection of State Hwy 41 on Hwy 5 (map and directions).
Event Details
- Friday, April 23, 2010
- 8:30AM–4:00PM
(registration, breakfast, and networking: 8:30–9:15AM) - Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
3675 Arboretum Dr
Chaska, MN 55318 - Twitter hashtag: #ARLD10
- $60 MLA members
$75 nonmembers
$30 students
Prices increase by $10 after April 16