ACRL @ ALA Annual Conference

Details about ACRL's activities at the upcoming ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois, July 9 - July 15, 2009.  Details about Annual Conference registration and housing are available here.

President’s Program: Advocacy in Today's Environment

Monday, 1:30-5:30 p.m.
Come hear the Advocacy Guru, Stephanie Vance, and learn how to "work the system and beat the odds" at the ACRL President's Program at the ALA Annual Conference. Learn why advocacy matters, how you can advocate effectively for policy changes, develop a strong message, and why you should follow up and continue advocacy efforts throughout the year. Most importantly, hear from Stephanie why you need to develop new ways to advocate.

Speaker: Stephanie Vance, Advocacy Guru, Advocacy Associates, LLC; Prue Adler, Associate Executive Director, Association of Research Libraries; Emily Sheketoff, Executive Director, ALA Washington Office; Michael McLane, Visiting Program Officer for Legislative Advocacy, ACRL; Tony Driessen, Shareholder, DeWitt, Ross & Stevens, S.C.

Preconferences

• Discovering Digitization: Defining Your Path to Digital Access - Friday, July 10, 2009
  Understand the components of successful digitization project planning by discussing specific examples. Topics include project planning, digitization and image processing, and cataloging and metadata.
  
• Instructional Design for Librarians: The What, Why, and How of ID - Friday, July 10, 2009
  Gain an understanding of instructional design principles. These principles can help you design effective and high-impact teaching environments from semester long courses to one-shot library instruction classes to the effective use of signage and website design.
  
• The Not-So-Distant Librarian: Online Library Instruction to Engage Students and Faculty - Friday, July 10, 2009
  Learn about practical tips and tools for designing and implementing online library instruction that addresses a variety of learning styles and engages students through active learning exercises, and fosters faculty buy-in.

   ACRL 101 & Membership Meeting

Saturday, 8:00 a.m.- 10:00 a.m.
ACRL leaders will provide information on how academic/research librarians can navigate the ALA Annual Conference as a first-time attendee. The first 30 minutes will be a membership meeting, followed by the orientation program

   Closing the Gap: Making Information Literacy Seamless Across K-16

AASL/ACRL Interdivisional Committee on Information Literacy
Saturday, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
The alignment between ACRL's Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education and AASL’s Standards for the 21st Century Learner will be presented. Short presentations will follow highlighting effective collaboration between K-12 and higher education library personnel to bridge the information gap. The session will close by sharing resources to facilitate similar collaborative efforts, including a presentation about the Committee’s toolkit.

   Black Studies and Information Technology

ACRL-AFAS
Sunday, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
The program is divided into two parts: a panel session beginning at 8:00 am and a keynote presentation beginning at 9:45 am. The panel consists of three vendors who will discuss marketing and business considerations for creating their products and demonstrate features of various Black Studies databases. The keynote presentation will be about community informatics and Black Studies.

Speakers: Abdul Alkalimat, Professor of African American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Stephanie Garrett, Editor, History and Black Studies, Alexander Street Press; Sarah Nash Brechner, Senior Product Manager, ProQuest; Elaine L. Westbrooks, Associate Dean of Libraries, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

   African, Asian, and Middle Eastern Studies Librarians in Academic Libraries: Challenges, Expectations, and Rewards

ACRL-AAMES
Saturday, 1:30-5:30 p.m.
Program will cover different aspects of the field including collaborative collection development & library services; digital collection development; innovative reference & information literacy instruction techniques; marketing, advocacy, & future trends; legal & social challenges. The purpose of the program is to share experiences, learn effective strategies to overcome challenges, and bring awareness amongst peers and aspirants to the field of the uniqueness of Area Studies Librarianship.

Speakers: David Magier, Associate University Librarian for Collection Development, Princeton University; ER Tise, Senior Director of Library and Information Service, Stellenbosch University; James Simon, Director of International Resources, Center for Research Libraries; Lauran Hartley, Tibetan Studies Librarian, Columbia University; Anchi Ho, Assistant to Chief, Asian Division, Library of Congress; Liladhar R. Pendse, Librarian for Slavic/Eastern European Studies & South Asian Studies, UCLA; Moderator, Binh P. Le, Associate Librarian, The Pennsylvania State University - Abington

Presentation: Ellen Tise
Paper: Ellen Tise
Presentation: Anchi Ho
Presentation: Liladhar Pendse
Presentation: James Simon
Speaker Bios

   Chicago's Ethnic Mosaic: Cultural Identity and Neighborhood Change

ACRL-ANSS
Sunday, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
The colorful mosaic of Chicago's ethnic communities has always been socially fluid as older neighborhoods have become occupied by newer migrant groups. This program will feature an interdisciplinary panel of speakers who will discuss Chicago's complex ethnic spaces, how they have changed over time, and how they affect the culture of Chicago today.

Speakers: D. Bradford Hunt, Associate Professor of Social Science and Associate Dean, Roosevelt University; Janet Smith, Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Policy Program, University of Illinois at Chicago; John Koval, Senior Research Fellow, DePaul University

   More Than Paper: The Small Press and the Artist's Book

ACRL-Arts
Sunday, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
This program will focus upon three primary aspects of the Book Arts: the aesthetic elements involved in production, distribution and sale of fine letterpress books and other materials and their artistic and cultural value as objects, the cultural and historical significance of small press publications in the realm of literature, and the role libraries must play in preserving these resources, and promoting their availability for scholars and laymen alike.

Speakers: Sally Alatalo, Professor, The School of Art Institute of Chicago; Jeff Weddle, Assistant Professor, The University of Alabama; Elisabeth Long, Co-director, Digital Library Development Center, University of Chicago

   FYE: Connecting First-Year College Students with the Library

ACRL-CJCLS
Saturday, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
A nationally recognized educator will identify best practices leading to student success in First-Year Experience programs. Librarian panelists will suggest strategies for integrating the library into these college programs for freshmen based on their own institutional experiences.  This program is co-sponsored by the ACRL College Libraries Section.

Speakers: Donna Younger, Director of the Learning Center, Oakton Community College; Judith Arnold, Coordinator for Information Services, Wayne State University; Carrie Croatt-Moore, Reference Librarian and Instruction Coordinator, Wayne State University; Sarah Greene, Librarian, Tidewater Community College; Olga Conneen, Director of Library Services, Northampton Community College; Moderator, Lora Mirza, Associate Library Director, Georgia Perimeter College

Presentation: Donna Younger
Presentation: Olga Conneen
Presentation: Sarah Greene
Presentation: Judith Arnold and Carrie Croatt-Moore

Program Flyer

   Our Town, Common Ground: Academic Libraries' Collaboration with Public Libraries

ACRL-CLS
Sunday, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Successful town-gown relationships between academic and public libraries exist in communities of all sizes throughout the United States. With such collaboration, everyone benefits. This program will address how academic-public library collaborations start, what nurtures their growth, how they are sustained, what unique situations arise through the partnership, and the responses libraries receive from their respective constituencies. Opportunity for questions and discussion between panelists and the audience will be provided.  This program is co-sponsored by the Public Library Association and the ACRL Community and Junior College Libraries Section.

Speakers: Keith Washburn, Dean, Library and Learning Resources Division, Lorain County Community College; Janet Stoffer, Director, Elyria Public Library System; Sarah Palfrey, Director, Summersville Public Library; Judy Neale, Coordinator of Community Outreach, Cameron University; Susan Hall, Associate Professor, Mississippi State University; April Heiselt, Assistant Professor and Service Learning Coordinator, Mississippi State University; Robert Wolverton, Jr., Associate Professor, Mississippi State University

   Retaining Distance Students from Diverse Groups in Higher Education: How Can Libraries Help?

ACRL-DLS
Saturday, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
The purpose of this program is to explore how the provision of library services affects the retention of distance learning or off-campus students from diverse groups. How can libraries promote and implement services that aid in retention?

Speakers: Thomas Abbott, Dean of Libraries and Distance Learning, University of Maine at Augusta; Merodie Hancock, Vice President/Executive Director, Off-Campus Programs, Central Michigan University; Kathleen Walsh, Dean of the Library, National-Louis University

   Librarian/Scholar: From Research Question to Results

ACRL-EBSS
Saturday, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Have an idea for a research project, but don’t know where to start?  Our learned panel will inspire you to think critically about your research question, methodology, research process and publishing/presenting your results.  Insight on best practices and common missteps in the process will be provided, while active researchers in our field will share their experiences with qualitative and quantitative research.  Join us as we explore how to become skillful and motivated researchers.  This program will be followed by the EBSS Research Forum.

Speakers: Peter Hernon, Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College; Robert V. Labaree, Head, VonKleinSmid Center Library, University of Southern California; Penny Beile, Head, Curriculum Materials Center, University of Central Florida

   Building "Balanced" Collections

Committee on Ethics
Sunday, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
The Library Bill of Rights states: "Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation." However, with limited budgets, librarians cannot buy everything, and poor purchasing decisions inadvertently can exclude materials for the reasons essentially proscribed by the Bill of Rights. This program will explore the pitfalls of respecting the Library Bill of Rights call to build a "balanced" collection. This program is sponsored by the ACRL Committee on Ethics.

Speakers: Byron Anderson, Acting Associate Dean for Public Services, Northern Illinois University; Nancy Kranich, Instructor, Rutgers University; Bob Nardini, Group Director, Client Integration & Head Bibliographer, Coutts Information Services; Alan Mattlage, Librarian III, Art & Architecture, University of Maryland

   Illuminating New Instruction Research: Applying Research to Practice

ACRL-IS
Sunday, 3:30-5:30 p.m. 
This program will shed light on the thinking processes central to the development of an evidence- or research-based instructional practice. Panelists will use recent instruction-related research as the basis for an interactive discussion. Panelists will summarize the findings of 2-3 studies and collaborate with each other and the audience to apply those findings to an instructional scenario. Using “think-aloud” strategies, the panelists will highlight how they identify key elements from research to improve instructional practice. This program is co-sponsored by the ACRL Community and Junior College Libraries Section.

Speakers: Randy Hensley, Student Learning Programs & Services Librarian, University of Hawai’I at Manoa; Heidi Julien, Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton; Merinda McLure, Applied Human Sciences Librarian & Assistant Professor, Colorado State University; Michelle Morton, Librarian, Cañada College

Bringing the Immersion Program Back Home

ACRL-Immersion Program Committee
Saturday, 3:30-5:30 p.m. 
Find out what the ACRL Immersion program can do for you and your institution! Immersion Program alumni will describe significant learning experiences gained from the program, and how they applied this experience to transform their teaching and their IL programs. Discover the benefits and outcomes of the Immersion Program and gain insight into the application process through the panel discussion and poster sessions. This program is sponsored by the ACRL Immersion Program Committee.

Speakers: Amy Mark, Coordinator of Library Instruction and Associate Professor, University of Mississippi; Jim Hahn, Orientation Services Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Monica Fusich, Head of Instruction and Outreach Services, California State University, Fresno; Merinda Kaye Hensley, Visiting Assistant Librarian for Instructional Services, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Program Flyer (pdf)

Academic and Intellectual Freedom Climate on Campus: Are Our Freedoms Secure in the Next Generation?

ACRL-Intellectual Freedom Committee
Saturday, 3:30-5:30 p.m. 
Four panelists will explore threats to freedoms on our campuses, how to inspire students to discover and explore intellectual freedom as central to the teaching and learning experience, the importance of teaching students to be the next generation of intellectual freedom and First Amendment defenders, and how academic librarians can form partnerships and mount effective campaigns to keep the fight for freedoms alive while engaging students in the process.  This program is sponsored by the ACRL Intellectual Freedom Committee.

Speaker: Shawn Healy, Resident Scholar, McCormick Freedom Museum; Megan Fitzgerald, Program Director, Center for Campus Free Speech; James Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian, Columbia University; Barbara Fister, Professor & Academic Librarian, Gustavus Adolphus College

 Academic Librarians and International Librarianship

ACRL-International Relations Committee
Saturday, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. 
Well-known academic librarians will be invited to speak on the importance of international librarianship for academic libraries and librarians. The speakers will also discuss the importance and need of cooperation among professionals and libraries in the fast changing world with limited resources and budgets for academic libraries and high inflation. This program is sponsored by the ACRL International Relations Committee.

The program is co-sponsored by AAMES, SEES, the Asian /Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA), the ALA Black Caucus, the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA), the Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT), ALCTS International  Relations Committee (IRC), ALA Near East and South Asia Committee, ALA International Relations Committee, and REFORMA. 

Speakers: Jay Jordan, President and CEO, OCLC; Beverly Lynch, Professor, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, Univesity of California-Los Angeles; Winston Tabb, Dean of University Library, The Johns Hopkins University; Robert Wedgeworth, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Moderator, R.N. Sharma, Dean of the Library, Monmouth University

   Open Access Digital Initiatives in the Humanities: Creation, Dissemination, Preservation

ACRL-LES
Saturday, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
As librarians and humanities faculty become increasingly involved in the creation and development of online resources, humanities librarians are strategically placed to use their knowledge, talents, and capabilities to create, organize, and exploit the resources we have at our disposal. Expert panelists involved with e-text creation and visualization projects, open-access journal publication, and resource development will discuss initiatives and issues in the burgeoning world of digital humanities.

Speakers: Laura Mandell, Professor of English Literature, Miami University of Ohio; Angela Courtney, Librarian for English Literatures, Indiana University, Bloomington; Robert W. Melton, Literature/Humanities Bibliographer, University of California, San Diego; Dino Franco Felluga, Associate Professor, Department of English, Purdue University; Chad Curtis, Librarian for Literary Studies and Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, New York University

   Political Engagement: Facilitating Greater Participation in Civil Society

ACRL-LPSS
Saturday, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Democracy requires a well-informed citizenry willing to participate in political activities such as voting, campaign work, contacting officials and community work. Recognizing dropping rates of participation in civic life, higher education organizations have begun programs to encourage greater political engagement by today’s students. Find out more about these efforts and discover how libraries can facilitate development of lifelong critical thinking and research skills needed for citizenship.

Speakers: Elizabeth Hollander, Senior Fellow, Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Tufts University; Nancy Kranich, Lecturer, School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University; Holly Sorensen, Assistant Director, Des Plaines Public Library; Joanne Griffin, Business Reference Librarian, Des Plaines Public Library 

Session audio
Presentation: Nancy Kranich
Presentation: Holly Sorensen and Joanne Griffin
Bibliography

   Designing Effective Research Surveys

Research Committee
Saturday, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Regina McBride, Ph.D., Dean of Library and Information Services, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, presents a program designed to assist academic librarians refine research design skills. The program involves: developing research questions, selecting research methodologies, and designing the research study. Topics include: developing useful questionnaires; techniques for conducting telephone interviews and focus groups, and constructing surveys to get the information needed. A PowerPoint presentation, participant discussions, hands-on exercises, and handouts of sample research designs are included. This program is sponsored by the ACRL Research Committee.

Speakers: Regina McBride, Dean of Library and Information Services, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Moderator, Ruth Vondracek, Head of Research & Innovative Services, Oregon State University

   Documenting Tragedy: Special Collections on the Front Line and on the Front Page

ACRL-RBMS
Sunday, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
This session deals with institutional crises in the form of tragedies and the role that archives and special collections play in responding to these events. These responses serve the crucial function of documenting such events in their immediate aftermath. They also, however, play a role in helping the institution manage and respond to the event. Because these events are often emotionally charged and involve intense public and media scrutiny, the archival and library response can be challenging. The participants in this panel all have first hand experience in such matters. This program is co-sponsored by the Society of American Archivists (SAA).

Speakers: Edward L. Galvin, Director, Archives and Records Management, Syracuse University; Tamara Kennelly, University Archivist, Virginia Tech; Jennifer Paustenbaugh, Associate Dean of Libraries for Planning and Assessment, Oklahoma State University; Aaron D. Purcell, Director of Special Collections, Virginia Tech; Steven Escar Smith, Associate Dean, Collections and Services, Texas A&M University

   Big Science, Little Science, E-Science: The Science Librarian's Role in the Conversation

ACRL-STS
Monday, 8:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.
The program will explore the science librarian’s role in the emerging conversation concerning data and data curation in scientific research. The panel is designed to raise awareness and to empower librarians to approach faculty members about these issues.

Speakers: Chris Greer, Director, National Coordination Office, Networking and Information Technology Research and Development; Melissa Cragin, Project Coordinator, Graduate School of Library & Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; John Saylor, Director, Engineering Library, Cornell University; George Djorgovski, Professor of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology

   Millennials in Graduate School: How Do We Support Them?

ACRL-ULS
Saturday, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Millennials, those born between 1982 and 1994, are finishing college and entering graduate school. Surveys suggest that these students use libraries heavily and are less than satisfied with the experience. What do these digital multi-taskers want and expect, and how can university libraries support their needs? This program will bring together a panel of speakers to discuss trends in graduate education, the expectations of this cohort and the successful approaches that will engage them.

Speakers: Susan Gibbons, Vice Provost and Dean, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester; Joan K. Lippincott, Associate Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information; Barbara Dewey, Dean of Libraries, University of Tennessee

Presentation: Susan Gibbons
Presentation: Joan Lippincott

   Situating Area-Studies Librarianship in a Globalised World: New Directions, New Collections

ACRL-WESS
Monday, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Foreign-language studies share academic space with cultural studies, ethnic studies, and comparative literature. Area-studies programs are morphing into global studies and other inter-disciplines and cross-disciplines. Films, detective fiction, children's literature, and graphic novels have joined the academic and cultural canon. Our speakers will discuss the new canon and help us think through the transition to the new international-studies curriculum as we re-shape our collections and our libraries' support for these new areas of teaching and research.

Speakers: Christopher Bush, Assistant Professor of French, Northwestern University; Christine Ingebritsen, Professor, Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington; Sabine Engel, Director, Center for German & European Studies, University of Minnesota; Moderator, Stephen Corrsin, Chief of Acquisitions, The New York Public Library

   Gaming, Film, and Ephemera: Women’s Studies and Academic Collections

ACRL-WSS
Monday, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
The panel will address mixed archival collections at the Schlesinger Library, the UIUC Gaming collection, and experiences conducting research on African American women and film. This program will address collection management and research strategies related to popular culture collections in academic libraries. Many collections directly relate to the history of women, gender, and culture, but they involve complex issues of access and preservation. Speakers will consider questions of how academic institutions collect and maintain these materials, as well as the experience of how researchers access and use them in scholarship.

Speakers: Angela Winand, Assistant Professor, African American Studies, University of Illinois at Springfield; Diana King, Associate Librarian, UCLA Arts Library; Marilyn Dunn, Executive Director, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University; Lisa Hincliffe, Associate Professor & Head, Undergraduate Library & Coordinator of Information Literacy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign