ASiL Proceedings
Conference Archive
37 sessions
Other Duties We Wish Were Not Assigned: Total Library Reboot
Mary Jordan, Cynthia Horne Wise
Did you lose the use of your facility for 2 years for repairs? Do you know what your entire collection looks like boxed up and on pallets? US TOO! A logistical look at th…
Hazel-Rah's Leadership Skills for Library Staff
Katherine Williams
Library personnel often find themselves in situations where they must demonstrate leadership abilities in order to solve a workplace issue or to help uphold the library's…
Gadgets and Lockers to the Rescue: New Modes of Service Delivery
Shandra Jones, Eric Brower, Justin Ellis
Demand for technology and A/V equipment experienced huge gains at the Georgia Tech Library. "Gadgets," our equipment lending service, provides access to specialized techn…
Counting Our Patrons - Highlights and Hurdles from an Academic Library's Journey
Scott Pfitzinger
In the last five years, our library has used three different methods for counting our patrons every hour that we're open. For many years we used a clicker-counter that pr…
Analytics: Tips, tricks and time saving ideas
Solomon Ameen
Assessment can be wildly difficult. Leadership wants clean, easy to read visualizations which can take a lot of time to create, or re-create. Oftentimes the easiest data…
Access Services Orientation for the Inexperienced Employee
Jalesia Horton
With turnover and new incoming employees of all sorts, libraries are continually training and bring them up to date on information. But how are you training non-Access Se…
Scavengedy (Excite Your Training Approach)
Jai (James) Washington
Scavengedy is a trademarked gamification training initiative for your student workers that encourages information literacy through serendipitous discovery and intrinsic m…
Designing and launching user-centered services
Mia Partlow
Learning how to effectively communicate with users is an ongoing challenge for libraries, and it can be tempting to take a product-first approach to improving our communi…
Access Services 2.0 through Employee-Directed Planning
Briana Knox, Seti Keshmiripour
Access Services Departments experience constant change in their service delivery, usage, and technology environment. Micro adjustments to staff roles and department struc…
Why Would a Patron Do This?! A Trauma-Informed Approach to Supporting Student Workers
Sagan Wallace
Student employees are our front-line workers, yet many of them may not have the work history and life experience necessary to prepare them for handling interactions with…
To Forgive, Bill, or Trade: Reconciling our consortial D2D to move forward
Phoebe Walker, Kaitlin Kehnemuyi
This talk will look at how consortia(s) have handled reconciliation projects with unmediated ILL requests. It is based on real world experience from a consortium that rec…
The Great Migration - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Tipasa
Lynne Colbert
Our library recently made the decision to migrate from Illiad to Tipasa. Our motivation for the move was a recent merger with another university and discovering Illiad no…
Student Affairs Policy and Library Policy a helpful connection
Austina Jordan
Writing clear policy is an essential part of library management and planning. Every institution has a student handbook, often written and overseen by student affairs. Thi…
Shift Happens
Kimberly Smith
Shifting is a fact of library life. Often, this physical component of stack maintenance falls to the Access Services staff who may not have the time or energy to complete…
Reel Them In: How to prioritize Instagram Reels in your library social media strategy (and why you should)
Laura French
Add creativity, relatability (and a whole lot of fun) to your library social media presence through Instagram Reels.
Rapido Early Adopter Program: Experiences and Considerations from a Participant's Perspective
Shelly Hypes
After decades of navigating multiple platforms and accounts with outdated user information and no LSP integration, we have begun exploring a less fragmented approach to r…
My post-retirement plan didn't include returning to start a diversity program but...
Kimberly Sheldon, Karen Manning, Stella Richardson
I'd been fully retired for 3 whole months when the new Dean asked if I would return to create a library diversity program. I agreed, and with the assistance of a great pr…
Maintaining Services and Building Excitement Before and During a Total Building Renovation
Jacob Gordon, Sara C. Kern
How do librarians continue to meet their community's needs without a library building? This session will share the experiences of the librarians at a small liberal arts c…
Introducing Shared Print: What Resource Sharing Librarians need to know
Ben Walker
This presentation is proposed by the Subcommittee on Resource Sharing of the Shared Print Marketing of Partnership Working Group. Our presentation will spell out what Res…
Inter-Institutional Mobile Hotspot Lending Program
Alva Jones
In Summer 2021, seven state universities were awarded a State Library LSTA EZ Grant to develop an inter-institutional mobile hotspot lending program. Grant funding has en…
Implementing New Approaches to Reserves Service Delivery at the UC San Diego Library
Kymberly Goodson
Impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with library renovations and an intentional move toward greater self-service, where feasible, recently sparked significant cha…
Filling the Gap: A Focus on Accessibility and Curriculum in Equipment Lending
Briana Knox, Emily Akers
In recent years, academic libraries have invested in filling technological gaps experienced by students through the circulation of laptops, calculators, and other equipme…
Engaging with Equity: A Participatory DEI Initiative for Student Employees
Natasha Finnegan, Amy Jones
Our academic library is committed to providing services, collections, and programs that promote affirmation, respect, inclusion, and understanding. In response to events…
E-Book Lending and Borrowing: Now and Future Considerations
Krista Higham
Can I lend e-books? How do I borrow e-books? As a result of consortial agreements, Millersville University has a license agreement to lend full e-books from a small numbe…
DE-Why?: The Importance of Inclusion Initiatives in an Academic Library Setting
Kylie Bailin, Kate Pitts
In 2021, our library adopted a DEI plan which includes supporting inclusive collections/ programming and accessibility in physical and virtual environments. Since this pl…
Creating the Silver Lining - Using Disruptions to Your Advantage
Debbi Carrizal, Kayleen Lam
Everyday disruptions are inevitable, whether it's the text during a meeting, email during lunch break, or a student stopping by as you're walking out the door. Most inter…
Cancelled - Establishing your digital resource navigation with a UX focus
While many libraries offer digital services, understanding how they effectively play into a space's current physical offerings can be key to strengthening your collective…
Best Practices for Equal Access to Library Online Events
Keith Manuel, Kestrel Ward
As of January 1, 2009, the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA) has required state and local governments and employers of 15 or more to provide equal op…
Authentic Leadership: What it is, Why it Matters, How to Make it Yours
Amy Lee Heinlen
From first-year first-semester student workers to long-time staff members, everyone brings with them unique perspectives, skills, and life experiences to their work in ac…
Addressing Receiver Apprehension in library patrons asking for assistance
Karlene Clark
Receiver apprehension is the anxiety patrons feel when approaching someone for help. There are different types of ways in which people process information, some of which…
(Virtual Presentation) Ideology in the Servicescape:
James Waters, Eleanor Cleveland
Borrowing strategies for customer service training, staffing models, and service point design from the retail service industry is a common theme in the scholarship and re…
(Virtual Presentation) From DVDs to MP4s: How COVID changed our reserves video service for good
Carli Agostino
With the switch to online learning, the demand for streaming access to films exploded at Carleton forcing us to quickly change our workflows and adapt to a new and confus…
(Virtual Presentation) Expanding Equipment Lending for Student Success
Matthew D'Apice
We will discuss how expanding equipment lending services in both the variety and number of items available positioned our library to adapt to the new hybrid instructional…
(VIRTUAL) It's Time: Eliminating E-Reserves and Investing in Faculty Empowerment
Ali Gomez
In the Fall of 2021, our university was ready for drastic change. Coming out the other side of a cyber-attack, an ongoing pandemic, and several leadership changes, we fin…
(VIRTUAL) Funding and Experience Optional: Developing an Academic Library Outreach Plan
Christopher Marcum
Are you interested in turning your goals and objectives for Access Services outreach into an actionable plan but unsure where to begin? In this 45-minute presentation, an…
(Cancelled)Re-envisioning the structure of Access Services: A discussion of where we started to where we are today
Joanne Rumig
What started out as a vision for Access Services turned into a newly structured department that encouraged collaboration, building relationships, and providing opportunit…
(CANCELLED) Library Security: From Community Service Officers to Students to Contracted Guards
Lindsey Xanthopoulos
Learn how Circulation Services worked with Library Administration and the University's Office of Emergency Management to develop a funding and service model to establish…