While the world reeled through a global pandemic in 2020, work still moved forward (much of it from home) and the Circulation-Courier committee is no different. We all worked through Issues related to shutting down borrowing and lending; we learned more than we could ever imagine related to issues pertaining to the quarantining of materials; we...
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At the start of the academic year, the library made plans to alter its services and implemented a series of safety protocols to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus in its spaces. Library staff transformed all instruction services, altered one-on-one reference support, reconfigured the layout of library spaces, and changed the expectations for... Submitter Email: |
Near the beginning of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic in March 2020, many libraries closed their physical buildings and suspended in-person services, necessitating a dynamic shift in library instruction services. For academic libraries, this shift resulted in new or expanded virtual presences, including virtual conferencing technologies (such... Submitter Email: |
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic presented challenges to many academic library access services units in both the continued delivery of in-person services but also in the continued hiring and training of library student assistants. Given the fundamental access services responsibilities library student assistants often complete, such as... Submitter Email: |
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What's Idea Lab? What does it do? How are we, MOBIUS librarians, involved? What has it to do with Sierra? Why should you bother? Why are we asking so many questions? Join us for a discussion of what Innovative Idea Lab is and what it can do. Submitter Email: |
In 2016, the Library of Congress's announcement that they would replace the subject heading "Illegal aliens" launched a firestorm of controversy and legal action. Five years later, that subject heading remains, and some libraries find themselves taking matters into their own hands-- not just for that subject heading, but for others that might be... Submitter Email: |
At the beginning of 2020, Fontbonne had a fledgling institutional repository (GriffinShare Digital Commons) and a mandate to make it relevant in a period of shrinking budgets and increasing disconnection. I will open this session with a brief tour and an overview of some of the surprising things we have accomplished during the last year. (In spite... Submitter Email: |
Robin started prepping for a Fall 2020 implementation in Spring, before shutting down due to COVID-19. Once we returned to campus in Summer 2020, Robin reached out to our Educational Technology department to see if they were willing to and ready for a Fall 2020 implementation. With CARES funding coming in, they were buying lots of distance... Submitter Email: |
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Have you ever struggled with developing awesome ideas in getting library resources marketed to Students’ and patrons? Do you feel like you’re missing opportunities with your displays and flyers? Let’s have a roundtable discussion and everyone has an opportunity to voice what has worked and what hasn’t worked. In this session let’s prove that two... Submitter Email: |
The University of Missouri–Kansas City (UMKC) Special Collections and Archives (SCA) holds a variety of born-digital content, including content on removable media in a wide array of formats from 5.25-inch floppy disks, to Zip disks, to DVD-Rs. Preserving this content presents a unique set of challenges, particularly as hardware and software become... Submitter Email: |
Publishing is essential for medical and scientific research, but it can be a daunting task for the authors. They must choose relevant research topics, familiarize themselves with the current research, use language that is both subject appropriate yet not so niche the article is unreadable by other disciplines, and ensure the formatting appropriate... Submitter Email: |
The MOBIUS E-Resources Open Forum is an opportunity to participate in discussions about current issues relating to e-resources in libraries. Join us to share your experiences and hear from others on the problems/trends/issues affecting the availability, access and usage of e-resources. We’ll also provide an update on the work of the committee... Submitter Email: |
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'Your Next Great Read' is a readers advisory service provided by TCCL. Using an online survey, our patrons tell us about their reading preferences, interests, and history, and our library staff put together a list of authors and titles tailored to their responses. As opposed to a quick on-the-spot recommendation while interacting at a service desk... Submitter Email: |
In 2018, a group of libraries, consortia, information organizations, and developers came together to create a new and open approach to library resource sharing systems. From these conversations, Project ReShare was born. ReShare, now actively being tested by libraries in Pennsylvania’s PALCI consortium, is a community-owned, modular resource... Submitter Email: |
Whether your library is large or small there are often opportunities to move into a position of leadership. Sometimes the move to leadership is not really a choice but one of necessity for the library. What does the role of a library administrator entail and how does one successfully transition into administration? While each institution has... Submitter Email: |
In 2020, the Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley library launched a campus-wide reading program with the intent of expanding worldviews through the voices and perspectives of marginalized groups. As this initiative influenced collection development, library staff began to question the contents of the collections that already existed. A... Submitter Email: |
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The development of the embed program is the result of a 2017 survey distributed to graduate faculty and students to better understand faculty and student needs regarding research and writing support. The results of the survey indicated that faculty's greatest concern was writing and student's greatest concern was research. Library and Writing... Submitter Email: |
The committee will take some time to review the work completed during the last year. We will focus on the membership survey that was conducted in 2021 and the future plans for the shared MOBIUS ILS system. Submitter Email: |
During the rapid shift to online programming... Submitter Email: |
I will discuss traditional methods of web evaluation librarians have used when teaching students (checklists, CRAAP test) and recent critiques of those methods. I will then describe techniques I have drawn on (SIFT, lateral searching) to develop the method I currently use, which I refer to as "move up and move sideways". I will explain this method... Submitter Email: |
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Librarians at Webster University began a textbook affordability project in an attempt to relieve some of the burdens that purchasing textbooks can place on students. Studies show that high textbook costs can negatively impact student outcomes, and we knew from our own experiences that the difficulties of obtaining print textbooks in a timely... Submitter Email: |
Information Literacy instruction has become an integral part of the academic library information landscape, however, it is also up to librarians to advocate for the time and space to introduce these concepts to students. Faculty buy-in can be hard to get when there is already only so much time to accomplish their own goals for the classroom while... Submitter Email: |
In 2020 a new cohort of MOBIUS OER System Leaders started working together on expanding and improving our consortial open educational resources initiatives. Join us in this session to get to know the System Leaders and learn more about what we have been up to this year. We will discuss the results of the landscape survey we conducted in late 2020... Submitter Email: |
Participants will share and discuss ideas about various instructional methods in teaching informational literacy whether it be a one-time bib session, a dedicated general education course for credit, or anything in between. Discussion will feature elements of “the information wheel” developed by Susan Curzon and Lynn Lampert, authors of Proven... Submitter Email: |
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The Missouri Historical Society (MHS) has an extensive collection of published memoirs, letters and diaries. These have the potential to help researchers locate first-hand accounts of nationally-experienced events such as wars or the Great Depression. They can also enhance understanding of local events such as the building of the Arch. However,... Submitter Email: |
Virtual Reality is quickly becoming accessible to the general public and it's uses have yet to be fully explored. My presentation will cover available hardware options, available software for fields in both academic and public libraries, and the benefits associated with using the technology. In my presentation I will also share about the study we... Submitter Email: |
I will show our website and a few more intricate ones. Demonstrate some of the functions of the software so that even those who are not web designers can see that anyone can build a website. I will also touch on the ability to modify some things with HTML if the library wants something that is a little more technical. The handout if we can have... Submitter Email: |
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Each year thousands of academic libraries complete ACRL’s Trends and Statistics Survey. Libraries across the country use the survey for benchmarking, understanding trends, and advocating for better resources. In this session, members of the survey editorial board will present selected results from the 2019 survey, with maybe a peek at 2020... Submitter Email: |
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Many public libraries have gone this route, but have academic libraries followed suit? Questions I would offer to the roundtable discussion would be:
If you have gone fine-free, what has worked well? What hasn’t gone well? What are key factors/implementations to keep in mind? What would be the hiccups of going fine-free? What is the... Submitter Email: |
The MOBIUS consortium staff, the membership, and the board have worked hard to accomplish the goals of the MOBIUS 2018-2021 strategic plan. A strategic planning team led by Edward Walton listened to the membership to learn about our needs and hopes for the future, and developed a 2021-2024 plan based on this input. You will hear from incoming... Submitter Email: |
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Last June, MOBIUS received a Missouri State Library grant to assist in implementation of Vital, Innovative's digitization content management system, for 20+ libraries that committed to using the platform. While having a software platform is a fantastic first step, it takes a lot more than that to create and maintain long-lived digital collections... Submitter Email: |
In this session, librarians from Ozarks Technical Community College will reflect on the relative success of several new service initiatives introduced in response to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. From curbside pickup to self-checkout and from Zoom drop-in hours to the Research Concierge Service, we will share what resonated with our students,... Submitter Email: |
Finding ways for libraries to reach students was difficult enough when they were on campus, with the increase in online only students it has become that much harder. Worksheets and videos can help, but don't engage students with active learning techniques and don't have a way to assess student learning. Using H5P, an open source interactive... Submitter Email: |
Have you ever been asked to teach an online library course but don't know where to start? What if you've inherited an online course that needs a major overhaul? Two librarians from Metropolitan Community College will discuss their efforts to update and rewrite an online library instruction course that was hosted on Blackboard. Assessment of... Submitter Email: |