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Creativity: A Toolkit for Academic Libraries
Nancy Falciani-White
Creativity is a complicated concept that has a variety of connotations: for some, it’s fun, a little crazy, maybe unpredictable. For others, it’s disruptive, irritating, and perhaps even threatening. It is sometimes associated with the color blue. More seriously, because of its ability to add depth and breadth to experiences, creativity has been linked with a higher quality of life in the creative person as well as in those with whom they interact. It is essential for organizations, governments, and everyday life because it is integral to how we solve problems, reinvent ourselves, determine new ways to do things, or develop a new system, product, instructional technique, or e-resource management tool. It has been suggested that creativity is essential to innovation and strategic planning in libraries. It is because of creativity that we are able to move beyond the status quo and thus improve ourselves and our profession.
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Leading Together: Academic Library Consortia and Advocacy
Irene M.H. Herold
Overall, the goal of this volume is to begin to fill the gap in thinking about the power of academic library consortia advocacy that is neither legislative nor government policy directed, providing a sampling review of the current landscape of consortia advocacy work, a consortium and other groups’ advocacy frameworks, a workshop curriculum which may be used to develop an advocacy plan, and thoughts for the future. There is strength in a consortium voice. It provides the opportunity to lead together under a unified plan. This does not mean that individual libraries abdicate their contribution and role in grassroots advocacy, but rather reinforces the concept that each library contributes to the consistent messaging to influence and persuade for the agreed-upon goals of the consortium.
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Sharing Spaces and Students: Employing Students in Collaborative Partnerships
Holly A. Jackson
I find it rather fascinating how much libraries have grown and evolved in recent years, from focusing on collections to an increased emphasis on community space to the inclusion of maker spaces, academic success centers, learning commons, and other areas within the physical library space. Especially in academia, the partnerships in which the library participates often involve the use of library space in some regard, whether the partners are already in the library, move into the library, or spend time in the library for the partnership.
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Learning Beyond the Classroom: Engaging Students in Information Literacy through Co-Curricular Activities
Silvia Vong and Mada Vrkljan
Learning may begin in the classroom for some students, but it does not always begin or end there. College students are afforded many opportunities to engage in meaningful experiences to enhance their academic life from clubs, work study, and community outreach to academic events. To confine the idea of learning to a stereotypical classroom not only restricts librarians to teaching information literacy (IL) in a lecture hall or computer lab, it also limits students’ imagination and application of IL concepts to the course assignment. Students should be able to extend key concepts from a course assignment to any aspect of their lives, including co-curricular opportunities (e.g., fake news, Facebook ads, newspaper articles, etc.). However, when IL is only introduced during class time or enters the minds of students when the professor prompts them for an assignment, students may only relate IL concepts to their college studies. Co-curricular learning can be a way to engage students with the knowledge abilities and to develop their dispositions presented in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.
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The Library Assessment Cookbook
Aaron W. Dobbs
Assessment, like cooking, is something of an art with a creative dash of qualitative and quantitative data crunching for texture and flavor. Combining complimentary dishes into tasty meals leads to good reviews and repeat customers. Assessment examines how what the library provides impacts and/or is perceived by users and guides strategic planning discussions and development of future services or resources.
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The DAM Book Guide to Digitizing Your Photos with Your Camera and Lightroom
Peter Krogh
The need to digitize photo collections is shared by families, companies, and other institutions. Visual media play an ever-increasing role in our understanding of history, and in our daily communication. And the visual history stored in your photo collection provides context and connectivity that transcends the written word. Digitizing the collection is essential to both preserving this history, and sharing it with others. If you are responsible for a collection of photos, then this book is for you.
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The DAM Book Guide to Organizing Your Photos with Lightroom 5
Peter Krogh
This book helps you understand the process of organization according to those three layers: storing, tagging and creating. This universal framework is clear and easy to put into practice. In fact, this philosophy is at the core of Lightroom’s design.
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The Geology of North America, Volume G-3: The Cordilleran Orogen: Conterminous U.S.
The Cordilleran orogen lies on the western part of the North American continent and rims the northeastern Pacific Ocean Basin. That part of the orogen covered in this volume extends between the Mexican and Canadian borders, with some consideration of the geology on both sides of the border, and from the offshore continental borderlands of the Pacific eastward as far as the Black Hills of South Dakota and the mountains of west Texas.
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The Geology of North America, Volume D-2: Sedimentary Cover - North American Craton: U.S.
This volume is devoted to the Phanerozoic sedimentary strata covering the largely, but by no mean exclusively, crystalline rocks of that part of the North American craton in the United States (exclusive of Alaska).
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