Building Research Confidence: A series of Unworkshops

This six-part series of Zoom-based, participant-driven "unworkshops," scheduled to begin Sept 1, is aligned with stages of the research lifecycle and is targeted at graduate students in any discipline. Each unworkshop focuses on a broad theme, and discussions will be driven by the interests and needs of those in attendance. All unworkshops will be held at 3:00 p.m., and materials will also be made available asynchronously for students who cannot participate in real-time. The series runs from Sept 1 – Nov 10, 2020. Librarians from the University Libraries will facilitate.

 

Registration links, dates, and details on each of the sessions are available below:

The entire series at a glance: https://unl.libcal.com/calendar/unworkshop

Sept 1, Part I: Project managing your research https://unl.libcal.com/calendar/unworkshop/part1

Sept 15, Part II: Imagining and developing your research topic https://unl.libcal.com/calendar/unworkshop/partII

Sept 29, Part III: Discovering fundamental information https://unl.libcal.com/calendar/unworkshop/BRCpartIII

Oct 13, Part IV: Managing, storing, and organizing your research https://unl.libcal.com/calendar/unworkshop/BRCpartIV

Oct 27, Part V: Systematic approaches to reviewing the literature https://unl.libcal.com/calendar/unworkshop/BRCpartV

Nov 10, Part VI: Preparing for sharing your research https://unl.libcal.com/calendar/unworkshop/BRCpartVI 

Then, in the three-week mini-session, we plan to reprise the “best of” the above (based on participant interest and demand), on Weds., Dec., 2, 9, and 16, time TBD.

Register to participate in the unworkshops.  We will require a minimum of 5 registrants at least 24 hours in advance for each session to run. Sponsored by the University Libraries.

 

Creating Informed Learners in the Classroom – Project Call Out

Do you have students who struggle to effectively use evidence in your class projects, efficiently use disciplinary processes to make decisions, or value and make use of different types of information in your course?

The Creating Informed Learners in the Classroom (CILC) project will help you create or enhance student projects and learning activities that teach your students information strategies to help them succeed in the course and beyond.

A collaboration of Purdue University, University of Arizona (UA), and University of Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL), in the CILC project you will pair up with a librarian from your institution to develop a student project that you will implement in one of your courses in Spring 2021 or Fall 2021.

CILC project meetings will be held online. Participants from all three institutions will attend four 75-minute Zoom meetings taking place on Tuesdays at 2 p.m. (EST), 1 p.m. (CST), or 11 a.m. (MST) starting the last week of September. Leveraging our collective wisdom, we will work together on the following topics:

• September 29^th - Overview & Identifying Learning Goals
• October 6^th  - Scaffolding Learning Activities & Assessments
• October 13^th - Assessment Rubric Working Session
• October 20^th - Student Project Presentation and Rubric Completion

To keep the project on track, all participants need to attend at least three of the meetings.

Upon completion of the CILC project, you will receive a $1000 stipend.

More information and the application form is available on the CILC project website at http://sites.lib.purdue.edu/cilc/. Applications are due by Tuesday, September 11^th.

When you fill out the application, please mention if you have a specific librarian at your institution with whom you are interested in working.

If you have any questions about the project, please contact us at cilc@purdue.edu.

This project (Academic Librarian Curriculum Developers: Building Capacity to Integrate Information Literacy across the University) was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services  (RE-13-19-0021-19).

 

UNL Libraries Reopens August 17

The University Libraries will reopen campus locations (Love Library, Architecture, CYT@Food, Engineering and Music) starting on August 17. All library locations, except Math and Geology libraries, will reopen with limited hours which will expand when in-person classes begin on August 24. To check the hours of operation of all library locations including the Adele Hall Learning Commons, visit: https://go.unl.edu/hours-reopen

The Libraries has put a number of safety measures in place to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission by managing the density of library locations and adhering to social distancing protocols.  

In order to manage the density of library spaces, all locations will be open only to UNL students, faculty and staff with current NCards. Community users and non-UNL researchers can access the UNL Libraries by appointment only, for example if they have a need to access the Archives & Special Collections, to use subscription electronic resources on site, to use government documents, or to consult with a Libraries faculty or staff member. 

The reading rooms for the Library Depository Retrieval Facility (LDRF) and the Archives & Special Collections will be open by appointment only to all users. 

Other safety measures include:  

·       An average of 56% reduction in seating to manage density and promote proper social distancing

·       Plexiglass barriers and floor signs at ASKus service points

·       Prioritizing online collection access

·       Limiting access to physical materials

·       Continuing item/book/article delivery (you request, we retrieve)

·       Quarantining all materials for at least four days between uses

The Libraries will continue to offer HathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS) for the fall semester, as it provides access to almost half of our collections to users regardless of their location, an important consideration for providing equitable access to the students and faculty not returning to campus this semester. Maintaining ETAS requires the Libraries to restrict access to the physical collections of anything in our collections that is represented in HathiTrust. This means that book stacks in Love Library and all other library locations will be closed, and no in-library use or stacks browsing will be allowed.

The Libraries will continue to offer our robust digitize-on-demand services, primarily for journal articles, book chapters, or other excerpts needed for classroom use or research purposes. Use our document delivery forms to request any materials not available for immediate online access. We will pull the item for you and either deliver a chapter/journal article electronically or deliver the book to the nearest open campus library for you to pick up. 

There are many other ways Libraries faculty and staff can help users including:

·       Zoom- and phone-based research consultations and advanced research support

·       Teaching partnerships and collaborations for building students' research and information skills 

·       Research help through ASKus via phone, email, and chat-based  

As Claire Stewart, dean of libraries, explains the goal of the reopening plan is to provide the broadest possible access to expertise, collections, and spaces while prioritizing the safety of faculty, staff, and students.

“We understand some of the measures put into place may be difficult, especially limiting direct access to materials on our shelves, but limiting that access minimizes the risk of transmission. More importantly, it allows us to provide more equitable access, keeping the HathiTrust ETAS open for all users whether they are on campus or located in western Nebraska,” said Stewart.

Read the full proposal about the Libraries plan.