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The School of Information Sciences had multiple faculty members and researchers participate in the 2018 Charleston Library Conference, which brings together a cross-section of librarians, publishers, researchers, academics, and others involved with libraries and scholarly publishing, every November in Charleston, South Carolina. This year\u2019s conference was Nov. 5-9; it is a large conference, with attendance around 2,000 participants in 2017.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere aren\u2019t very many conferences that are attended by both library and information sciences (academics) faculty and library practitioners, or a lot of opportunity for us to talk to practitioners at conferences,\u201d said Rachel Fleming-May, associate professor and SIS director of graduate studies. \u201cI go to Charleston specifically to engage with practitioners and to learn what they\u2019re doing, and what kinds of questions they may have. I bring that back to my teaching and to my research.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fleming-May was one of several people from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to speak on the panel \u201cThe Winds of Change: A New Model for Specialized LIS Education.\u201d Other participants included: Chancellor\u2019s Professor Carol Tenopir; SIS alumni and research associates for the Center for Information and Communication Studies (CICS) Jordan Kaufman (\u201918) and Brianne Dosch (\u201918); SIS alumna and CICS research associate Amy Forrester (\u201916); and Regina Mays (\u201909), UT assessment librarian and SIS alumna. Professor Dania Bilal and Chancellor\u2019s Professor Suzie Allard participated in the proposal for the presentation.<\/p>\n
This session focused on SIS\u2019s specialized \u201cExperience Assessment (UX-A)\u201d program, funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21stCentury Librarians Program, which supplemented MSIS\u2019s students\u2019 existing program with curricular and co-curricular experiences focused on preparing them for careers in user experience and assessment. UX-A provided participants with mentoring, on-site practicum experience, and specialized skills. Twelve SIS students participated in the first round of the program, which began in 2016; five new students joined UX-A in August 2018, to complete the grant period.<\/p>\n
The presentation was highlighted in an article by Charleston Conference blogger Donald Hawkins for the website and publication \u201cAgainst the Grain.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kaufman and Fleming-May also presented, \u201cA Dream of Spring: Academic Libraries\u2019 Services to Graduate Students,\u201d sharing research regarding academic libraries\u2019 services to graduate students, as focus at academic libraries often centers heavily around the needs of the larger undergraduate population or faculty.<\/p>\n
Tenopir was on another panel, presenting \u201cDemonstrating Library ROI: Success Stories and Strategies to Replicate in Your Library.\u201d The panel consisted of librarians who shared strategies on how they successfully told their ROI story internally and externally regarding the value of the library in a campus community without using student outcome measures.<\/p>\n
Also presenting at the Charleston Conference was Assistant Professor Xiaohua \u201cAwa\u201d Zhu. She presented, \u201cBuy, Subscribe, or Borrow? Consumers\u2019 Use Preferences for Information Products,\u201d which investigated consumers\u2019 notion of ownership, the perceived importance of owning information products, their preferences for obtaining different types of media content, their subscription and cancellation behaviors, and the perceived importance of a range of different features of information products and subscription services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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