Virtual Posters are like standard conference posters, just presented virtually. To view a poster (on or after July 20), click on the title of the poster.
Building a Unique Collection through Collaboration
The UMB Digital Archive (DA) is the institutional repository for the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), the health sciences and human services campus of the University System of Maryland. This poster will focus on a unique collection within the DA. Nine years ago the University of Maryland School of Social Work collaborated with the HSHSL to create the EA Archive. Its purpose is to provide a global repository for the field of Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) to preserve historical documents and share current publications and presentations. Materials accepted for inclusion must have a significant focus on historical or current EAP topics, including workplace COVID management, occupational alcoholism programs, occupational health, workplace social work, occupational nursing, and other programs closely related to EAPs. This poster will highlight the evolution of the EA Archive and discuss the role of each partner.
Patricia Hinegardner
Associate Director for Resource Development and Access, Health Sciences and Human Services Library, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Patricia Hinegardner has worked at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HS/HSL) for over 30 years. She has held a variety of positions that have provided her with a broad perceptive in librarianship. In her current appointment, she is the Associate Director for Resource Development and Access, providing leadership for the three departments within the Division including Collection Strategies and Management, Resource Development and Sharing, and Metadata Management. Under her leadership several major projects have been developed including the UMB Digital Archive and the UMB Data Catalog. Ms. Hinegardner is a member of the Medical Library Association. She has published articles, presented posters and has been active on professional committees at the local, regional, and national level.
Na Lin
Head, Resource Development and Sharing, Health Sciences and Human Services Library, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Na Lin is the head of the Resource Development and Sharing Department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HS/HSL). Her responsibilities include managing the services of the UMB Digital Archive (the University institutional repository), the UMB Data Catalog and the Resource Sharing Unit. She has published articles, presented posters and has been active on professional committees at the local, regional, and national level.
Piloting an Open Access Publishing Fund for Early-Career Researchers
Many researchers may support the principle of Open Access (OA) but are unable to afford publishing fees for OA journals. The library set aside $25,000 of discretionary funding to explore the feasibility of aiding early-career researchers who wished to publish in OA journals. By providing this funding the library hoped to:
• Promote publishing by early-career researchers
• Enable authors to retain their copyrights
• Accelerate the online availability of peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles generated by the Institution’s researchers
• Raise campus awareness about the benefits of open access
This poster describes the Library’s process in establishing and administering an open access publishing fund for early career researchers and the results to date.
Steven Douglas
Head, Collection Strategies and Management, Health Sciences and Human Services Library, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Steven Douglas is the Head, Collection Strategies and Management at the HSHSL. In this position he oversees the work of selecting, acquiring, and providing access to the HS/HSL’s information resources. Before joining the library staff in 2001, he was a college instructor.
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Emily F. Gorman, Health Sciences and Human Services Library, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Andrea G. Shipper, Health Sciences and Human Services Library, University of Maryland, Baltimore
James Stephens, Health Sciences and Human Services Library, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Mary Joan (MJ) Tooey, Health Sciences and Human Services Library, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Reaching Out While Building Up: How One Library Promoted Their Services During Construction
Hosting events and programs can be a valuable way for an academic library to create partnerships and introduce students to library resources, but what if construction makes holding traditional programs in-person and online programs impossible? This poster will discuss how one academic library successfully held three program series to reach a campus’ in-person community while their building was actively under construction.
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Joyce Garczynski
Assistant University Librarian for Communication & Digital Scholarship, Towson University
Joyce Garczynski is the Assistant University Librarian for Development & Communications at Towson University’s Albert S. Cook Library in Maryland. In this role she teaches journalism students about the research process, manages her library’s social media, and oversees the library’s community outreach. She obtained her Master’s Degree in Library Science from the University of Maryland, College Park and has a Master’s in Communication from the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Teo Catindig
A-LIST Student Leader for Outreach, Towson University
Teo Catindig is a student in the A-LIST Program at Towson University’s Albert S. Cook Library in Maryland. Their position directly relates to events and outreach as a student representative of the library, collaborating with campus organizations and other student leaders. Teo is pursuing a degree in Sociology at Towson University and expects to graduate in Spring 2023.
Rolling Back the Stacks: A Reference Overhaul
In 2022, librarians at McDaniel College’s Hoover Library undertook the project of overhauling the reference collection, which took up significant space on our first and most communal floor. This poster demonstrates the approach to planning, enacting with, and sharing the process with the campus community to improve space use and collection engagement.
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M. Elizabeth Davidson
Associate Director & Head of Public Services, McDaniel College
Elizabeth Davidson is Associate Director & Head of Public Services at Hoover Library, McDaniel College. She received her BA in International Studies in 2008 and her MSILS in 2011 from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Prior to her work at McDaniel, she served as Library Director at Mitchell College in New London, CT. She is interested in effecting positive change in the library field from all levels of employment, and has contributed to the podcast Break Room Chats, a resource from LLAMA’s New Professionals’ Community of Practice, and serves as an annual mentor for the Mentoring program run by ALA’s New Members Round Table. She has presented at the Connecticut Library Association Annual Conference, the American Library Association Annual Conference, The American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, and the Towson Conference for Academic Libraries. Her complete CV can be found at: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1902-4179
Your Resource is in Another Library: Gamification Strategies in the University Library
This poster will explore the creation of an interactive RPG video game developed at the University of Maryland’s Terrapin Learning Commons (TLC). The game is designed to support information literacy and library instruction, and builds on a physical game used in an introductory course intended to assist freshmen students with the college transition. In an effort to make the “gamified” library orientation available in virtual space for hybrid or online classes, the TLC partnered with Gennifer Godley, a Research & Teaching Fellow and MLIS graduate student, to build a role-playing video game using RPG Maker software. Through solving puzzles, the game teaches students how to locate and use physical and digital library resources, as well as navigation strategies for library branches on campus. The poster will review the game development process, including learning outcome creation, narrative and game design, and user assessment.
Gennifer Godley
Teaching and Learning Services/Research and Teaching Fellow, University of Maryland, College Park
Gennifer Godley is an MLIS student and Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she teaches information literacy skills to undergraduate students. Her research interests include critical pedagogy, support services for LGBTQ+ populations, neoliberalism in the academic library, and emerging technologies as a means of student outreach. Outside of the library, she spends time writing, reading comics and manga, building cosplays, and keeping her five dogs entertained.
Sharona Ginsberg
Head of Student Engagement Services, University of Maryland, College Park
Sharona Ginsberg is Head of Student Engagement Services and the Terrapin Learning Commons at the University of Maryland Libraries. Most recently, she published Terrific Makerspace Projects: A Practical Guide for Librarians, co-authored with Juan Denzer of Syracuse University, and presented Let the Games Begin: Escape Room-Style Library Orientation as an ALA GameRT webinar along with Morgan Bond and Kate Jones of SUNY Oswego. She has presented at numerous conferences including ALA Annual and the International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces. She spends time reading a lot of spec fic and comics, playing video games, and hanging out with her dog, Bilbo Waggins.