(via Chapel Cowden, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
Please join us for the annual ACRL Science & Technology Section Research Forum & Poster Sessions! Attendance is free and open to all.
This year’s sessions will be presented virtually via Zoom.
STS Research Forum
Date/Time: Thursday, June 17, 1:00-2:00 PM CDT
Registration Link: bit.ly/stsresearch2021 (deadline Tuesday, June 15)
Two presentations will be given during the forum and each will have about 20 minutes to present and 10 minutes for Q&A.
“Evidence-Based Recommendations on How to Incorporate Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility into Science Librarian Job Postings” will be presented by Joanna Thielen and Wanda Marsolek.
“Racial Equity in Academic and Public Libraries” will be presented by Kristyn Caragher and Tatiana Bryant.
STS Poster Sessions
Date/Time: Monday, June 21, and Monday, June 28, 1:00-2:00 PM CDT both days
Registration Link: bit.ly/stsposters2021 (deadlines Thursday, June 17, and Thursday, June 24)
Each poster session will have 10 brief presentations and will be followed by a one-week asynchronous session where attendees can comment and ask questions about the posters and the presenters will respond. Posters for each day are listed below.
Monday, June 21
“Collection Development for Librarians in a Hurry”, Amanda McCormick
“Bibliometric Analysis of Faculty and Graduate Students Research in Food Science and Technology”, Lutishoor Salisbury, Jeremy Smith & Yang Tian
“Affordable, Accessible and On Point: Specialized Regional Conferences as Professional Development Opportunities”, Jennifer Hart, Bethany McGowan & Karen Hum
“Research Data Management and Support: What do Campuses Need?”, Jessica Martinez, Jylisa Doney, Rami Attebury, Marco Seiferle-Valencia & Jeremy Kenyon
“Are Ada, Katherine, Sally, and Sophie On-Shelf?: Holdings of Award-Winning Juvenile STEM Works in ARL Libraries with a Special Focus on Female-Themed Titles”, Andrea Pritt & Bernadette Lear
“The Format That Time Forgot!!! The Return of the Microcards”, Jen Kirk, Mel DeSart, Laura Sare & Sinai Wood
“Open Access, Open Minds: Measuring Institutional Participation in OA Publishing”, Wyld, Kira and Lynly Beard
“Incorporating Science and Technology Information Literacy into an Existing Media and Information Literacy Course”, Jennifer Horton
“Growing a faculty bibliography: Considerations for harvesting data from repositories”, Rebecca Hedreen, Diana Hellyar & Scott Jackson
“Integrating Social Justice Issues into a Flipped Classroom Activity”, Carmen Cole
Monday, June 28
“Doing Critical Reading in Engineering: A Case Study of Approaches to Critical Information Evaluation for Engineering Librarians”, Kate Mercer & Kari D. Weaver
“Current vs Ideal: Investigating student space needs in an academic library environment”, Sara Gonzalez, Laura Spears, Valrie Minson & Jean Bossart
“Services and standards collections provided by ARL academic engineering libraries”, Marie Speare
“Examining Research Data Management Awareness & Practices of STEM Research Faculty and Graduate Students across [institution redacted] Campuses”, Andrea Pritt & Briana Ezray
“The Value of Republishing Scientific Literature in Institutional Repositories”, Sue Ann Gardner, Paul Royster & Linnea Fredrickson
“Use of bibliometrics data to understand the relationship between Open Access and impact of research articles in Covid-19 related studies”, Xiaoju Chen, Neelam Bharti & Matthew Marsteller
“Converging Academic Librarianship with Large-Scale Transdisciplinary Research Projects at a Midwestern University”, Nathan Filbert, Maria Sclafani, Meghann Kuhlmann, Aaron Bowen & Ethan Lindsay
“Priming Ourselves: Providing STEM Mentorship in a Remote Environment”, Dawn “Nikki” Cannon-Rech & Shainaz Landge
“Grappling with Unknowns: Building Empathy through Interrogating Preprints in Information Literacy”, Penelope Wood & Je Salvador
“Evaluating sources to open up conversation about systemic racism in an information literacy chemistry course”, Alyssa Young
Please contact the Committee Co-Chairs (Chapel Cowden, chapel-cowden@utc.edu, and Jessica McClean, https://askalibrarian.library.txstate.edu/form.php?queue_id=1065) with any questions.