Live sessions are longer (20-50) presentations and were given “live” throughout the day of the TCAL 2022 conference. To view the recorded presentation, click on the “Access Recording” link below the presentation title. Links to supplemental presentation materials provided by the presenters can be found following the presentation description.
Bridging the Mind and Body: A Mini Pantry Collaboration Within the Library
10:00 – 11:00 am EST
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Our presentation will focus on the budding partnership between the UMBC Albin O. Kuhn Library and the Retriever Essentials, the on-campus food bank. We will examine the campus demographics, specifically campus food insecurity statistics, and how that contributes to the overall need for the Library mini pantry space. In addition, we will also discuss ways to identify key partners, an ideal location, and the best pantry model to implement.
The urgency of this initiative encourages us to include “tips to getting started” at your own campus. Usage statistics will also be briefed and best practices including the need to include culturally inclusive foods will be reviewed as well as our next steps for the mini pantry.
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Jasmine Shumaker
Reference & Instruction Librarian, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Jasmine Shumaker is a Reference & Instruction Librarian at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and a Master in Library and Information Studies from the University of Oklahoma. In her current position, Jasmine supports Visual Arts, Economics, Entrepreneurship, and Public Policy students, faculty, and staff with research needs. Jasmine’s research interests include the emotional labor of Black women in librarianship, as well as retaining Black librarians in the field. Prior to joining academic librarianship, she worked as an Adult Services Librarian with the District of Columbia Public Library, and was the Business Librarian for the Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center in Baltimore, Maryland. In her spare time, Jasmine enjoys listening to podcasts, hiking, and traveling.
Semhar Yohannes
Science Reference & Instruction Librarian, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Semhar Yohannes has been a Science Reference and Instruction Librarian for a decade. In her current role at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), she teaches library instruction sessions, conducts reference consultations, and has developed workshops and other outreach initiatives. In 2018, she obtained her Master of Public Health (MPH) degree with a concentration on health literacy in young adults.
Charting Courses, Wiring Communities: Strategies and Tools for Building Community in the Remote Workplace
2:00 – 3:00 am EST
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Since the onset of the COVID pandemic, library leaders were immediately tasked with facilitating an increasing number of online meetings. Though some work events now are beginning to resume in face-to-face modalities, many events will maintain their remote modality going forward. This virtual session will introduce three approaches to facilitation of online meetings to increase participant engagement, whether you are hosting supervisees, colleagues, students, or the public, with the goal of disrupting a one-directional flow of information and engaging attendees. The three approaches for revitalizing Zoom or Teams meetings that I will present are: adaptions from human-centered design activities, Priya Parker’s concept of designing events with purpose, and rituals for virtual meetings from the book of the same title by Ozenc and Fajardo. There will be a brief participation implementing some of the tools in this virtual session.
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Jean Boggs
Reference & Instruction Librarian/ Associate Professor, Community College of Baltimore County
Jean Boggs is an Associate Professor at the Community College of Baltimore County. She presented European Americans’ advocacy for Native Americans as well as the deep mischaracterization of indigenous America in the telling of stories that created the cultural history of the American West at an interdisciplinary conference on memory and identity at Fontbonne University. In 2016, she presented at Coventry University, England at the Cycle of Life in Art, Literature, and Science Symposium her presentation, Last Scenes: Painters’ Last Paintings. She presented on how bookplates mirror the contemporaneous feminism of the Gilded Age at the American Culture Association/Pop Culture Association National Conference. Boggs earned a Creative Commons Certificate for Librarians in 2018. Her co-written chapter, “Lessons from Hogwarts and Beyond: Harry Potter and the Endemic of Media Bias,” is forthcoming in a Rowman & Littlefield book on pop culture and libraries this year. She co-presented at TCAL in 2017.
Chatbots in US Libraries: Current Practices and the Prospects
12:00 – 1:00 pm EST
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The COVID-19 pandemic led many libraries to curtail in-person reference services, but instead provide the services via online live chat. The problem is that the service hours are limited to normal business hours, and yet the patrons expect immediate engagement with online live chat. Therefore, many libraries globally turned to a chatbot as a virtual reference librarian. However, the practice has been adopted by less than a handful of libraries in the United States. We interviewed two of these libraries to learn from their chatbot experience and see what the prospects for chatbots in the US libraries are. Our findings may be useful for libraries that are considering a chatbot for their reference services in that they describe what the adoption experience was and what the actual experience was running it in practice.
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Soo-yeon Hwang
Assessment and Analytics Librarian, Towson University
Soo-yeon Hwang is the Assessment and Analytics Librarian at Towson University. She has a PhD in Communication and Information from Rutgers University, and MS in Information from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her professional experience includes software development, technical writing, testing (QA), and technical support, as well as web services and user experience librarianship. Her interests include time use with information, everyday use and social implications of information and communication technology, library technology, information system design, usability and user experience, and library assessment.
Lisa Shen
Director of Library Public Services, Sam Houston State University
Lisa Shen is the Business Librarian and Director of Public Services at Sam Houston State University (SHSU). She has an MLIS from McGill University and is currently a doctoral student for higher education leadership at SHSU. Her research interests include information behavior and evidence-based library and information research.
Foundations of Music Researching: Rethinking Graduate Methods for the 21st Century
2:00 – 3:00 pm EST
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This presentation will share how a graduate level required bibliography course was redesigned to align with the research needs of working artists rather than PhD-bound students. It will also share our collaborative development process for shifting the course to a fully online asynchronous format. Library faculty and instructional designers collaborated to develop a project management plan, create learning objects, and design assessments that incorporate the ARCL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education and challenge students to rethink what research is and how they create and consume it as performing artists.
This session is designed for librarians who want to:
• Develop non-positivist approaches to teaching required information literacy courses for performing artists
• Re-think what “research” means in a performing arts context
• Model successful development of meaningful asynchronous online courses and learning modules for musicians and other performing artists
• Foster successful collaborations with teaching and learning experts at their home institution
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Andrea Morris
Engagement and Outreach Librarian, Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
Andrea I. Morris is a musician, scholar, and information professional based in Baltimore, MD. Passionate about chamber music and public education, her work centers on advocacy for, performance of, and access to contemporary classical music. She holds dual Master’s of Music degrees in Oboe Performance and Musicology from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University where she was a recipient of the Grace Clagett Ranney Prize for chamber music, and was a member of the honors ensemble Zenith Winds. Morris also earned degrees from the University of Denver in Oboe Performance and Information Science.
Valerie Hartman
Sr. Instructional Designer, Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
Valerie has worked in higher education in demanding positions across Johns Hopkins University. Solid editing and visual design skills, reinforced with a strong background in pedagogy and technology, allow her to present key messages with clarity and style rooted in best practice. She partners with faculty to create learning experiences that motivate students, improve comprehension, and foster the application of new skills. She earned a BBA in finance and management from the University of Houston and a Master’s in professional writing from Towson University. She is currently working towards a doctorate in Instructional Technology at Towson University with research interests in online learning, neuroeducation, and universal design for learning.
Kathleen DeLaurenti
Director, Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
Kathleen DeLaurenti is the head librarian of the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University’s Arthur Friedheim Music Library. She previously served arts librarian, open education coordinator, and scholarly communication librarian at the College of William & Mary. She has been active in the Music Library Association (MLA) Legislation Committee as a member since 2009 where she has also served as chair of the Best Practices for Fair Use in Music Collections task force. She has also been a member of the Copyright Education sub-committee of the American Library Association (ALA) and is the 2015 winner of the ALA Robert Oakley Memorial Scholarship for copyright research. DeLaurenti is currently serving as the inaugural Open Access Editor of MLA and is the current chair of the Atlantic Chapter of MLA. She holds an MLIS from the University of Washington and a BFA in vocal performance from Carnegie Mellon University.
Middle Managers’ Role in DEI Initiatives
12:00 – 1:00 pm EST
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Middle managers often are overlooked when it comes to the implementation of DEI initiatives. Middle managers play key roles with these as we are often the ones hiring, recruiting, retaining, and implementing policies created by administration. The presentation will also touch on working with human resources and administration to create and sustain cultural shifts.
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Whitney Buccicone
Director of Discovery Services, Special Collections, University of Virginia
Whitney Buccicone is the Director of Discovery Services, Special Collections, at the University of Virginia Library. She manages the team responsible for acquisitions, cataloging, archival processing, and University Archives. She holds two masters’ degrees (Library Science and Arts Administration) from Indiana University.
Overview of State Library Resource Center Services
10:00 – 11:00 am EST
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The Enoch Pratt Free Library’s Central Library in Baltimore is the Maryland State Library Resource Center (SLRC). Since 1971, we’ve provided resources and services to libraries in Maryland, and we have tools and collections to support you and your students. Join us for an overview of the SLRC services that can complement your own. Among other things, you’ll learn about our unique collections, the Digital Maryland program, Statewide Interlibrary Loan and Delivery, and our collection of State Documents. We’ll tell you how to find out more, and how to connect with us to help your students to access our collections. Add one more tool to your toolbox! Find out what’s available from SLRC.
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John Jewitt
Manager, Social Science and History Department, Enoch Pratt Free Library, State Library Resource Center
John Jewitt is the manager of the Social Science and History Department at the State Library Resource Center, and the liaison for SLRC’s professional development offerings. He holds an M.L.S from the University of Maryland, and an M.A. in History from the University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K.
Jodi Hoover
Digital Resources Manager, Enoch Pratt Free Library, State Library Resource Center
Jodi Hoover is the Manager of Digital Resources for Enoch Pratt Free Library/State Library Resource Center. She has worked with image & moving image collections in special, academic and public library collections. She holds an M.L.S. from University of Maryland, College Park and an M.F.A in Studio Art from Towson University.
Special Collections, Living Collections: Poetical Collaborations among Colleges and Departments
10:00 – 11:00 am EST
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In 2019, Cook Library acquired roughly 6,000 volumes of poetry. In April 2023, it will inaugurate its first ever Poetry Library. The collection, and the space itself, has the ability to transform our notion of inter-departmental and -collegiate collaboration by shifting research from empirical, objective methodologies toward poetical, non-objective interactions I call “creative literacy,” the locus of critical poetics and creative problem-solving—with poetry, poesis, as its guide. Poesis, bringing something into being that did not exist before—as opposed to synthesis, the combination of ideas to form a theory or system. With these guiding principles in mind, I wish to demonstrate the efficacy of allowing a poetical-as-critical imagination to render new relationships among typically disparate academic cultures. Ultimately, I wish to discover the possibilities of the academic library as an incubator, a “see what happens” lab of literary experimentation.
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Christophe Casamassima
Reserves Specialist, Towson University
Christophe Casamassima is the Reserves Specialist at Towson University’s Cook Library. For 18 years he has been collecting poetry in its various forms, from books to handmades to (really!) baseball cards, and donated the Baltimore Poetry Library collection in 2019, which consists of roughly 6,000 volumes and objects. He is also the founder/publisher of Furniture Press Books in Baltimore, and the author of five collections of poetry, including the forthcoming Mostly Surfaces (SubPress, 2022), and Totems (New Materialist Press, 2023).
Surfing the Possible: Liaison Partnerships
12:00 – 1:00 pm EST
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Many libraries have a strong librarian liaison program that serves as a communication bridge between the library and academic departments. Salisbury University (SU) Libraries not only has such a strong program, but also enjoys having reciprocal departmental faculty liaisons to the library. The presenters will share their many unusual and creative liaison efforts that SU Libraries have done. This round table-like presentation explores the idea of strengthening partnerships with different departments through the liaison program. The discussion is intended to stimulate ideas for both new and experienced liaison librarians.
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Mou Chakraborty
Director of External Library Resources, Salisbury University
Mou is a liaison to several departments and oversees distance library services. Her professional interests include but not limited to distance learning, information literacy, OERs, copyright, customer service training and issues, international students and education, etc. An active member in multiple library associations, Mou has presented at many conferences nationally and regionally, conducted interactive workshops on customer service, and has published articles and previously a book.
Stephen Ford
Coordinator, Dr. Ernie Bond Curriculum Resource Center/Education Librarian, Salisbury University
Stephen serves as liaison to departments within the SU Seidel School of Education since 2005, currently Early & Elementary Education, Education Leadership, and Secondary & Physical Education. With 16 years at SU, he has served as Instruction Coordinator and now directs the Dr. Ernie Bond Curriculum Resource Center (CRC), one of the three SU Libraries. Stephen has served in SU shared governance as a Faculty Senator and in leadership as the Faculty Senate President. He has served on national, state, university, and library groups/committees, and is currently the library representative on the General Education Oversight Committee charged with implementing a new General Education Model at SU, set to begin in fall 2024.
Using Open-source, Interactive Tools for both Library Instruction and Student Research Presentations
10:00 – 11:00 am EST
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Try a new thing. Use a new thing. Then inspire others. Check out some of these open-source tools to make your presentations interactive and interesting. PowerPoint is so yesterday. Instead, try StoryMap, Timeline, Genially, or other interactive and animated programs. Then inspire your students to use these tools in their college research presentations.
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Marcey Jastrab
STEM, Instruction, & Assessment Librarian, McDaniel College
Marcey’s first job as a young teen was a page in the local public library. She should have known then that libraries were going to be an important part of her life. Over the years, she has worked in public libraries, special libraries such as The National Library of Medicine, and now as an academic librarian. This diverse library experience gives her a unique perspective in librarianship. She especially loves working with students. Watching them go from nervous and lost researchers to confident students giving amazing research presentations makes her heart sing