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2024
Land Grant / R1: Community over Commercialization, Erica Finch, Christy M. Glass, Noah Langenfeld, Jayme Walters, and Stephanie Western
From Reliance to Resilience: Teaching Versatile Research Strategies, Stephanie Western and Katie Strand; Bridging the Gap
2023
It's Time for an EAD Glow Up! How to Make Finding Aids More Attractive to Users, Paul Daybell, Liz Woolcott, Kelly Rovegno, Andrea Payant, Becky Skeen, and Heather Housley; Conference of Intermountain Archivists
Public Scholarship, Open Science, and CC-Licensed Research, Erica Finch; CC Global Summit
Library Instructional E-Resources as OER: Finding the Right Home, Erica Finch, Niki Fullmer, and Stephanie Western; ACRL 2023
APCs and 123s: Estimating How Much Your Faculty are Spending on Article Processing Charges., Erica Finch, Lindsay Ozburn, and Becky L. Thoms; ACRL 2023
When Does Your OER Program Become a Library Publishing Program?, Erica Finch, Becky Thoms, and Stephanie Western; Library Publishing Forum
Assessing the Foundation: Beginning a Dialogue Between High School Educators and Academic Librarians, Niki Fullmer and Katie Strand
The Revised DACS Principles in Action: Applying Modern Practice to Legacy Description, Ryan Lee, Rebecca A. Wiederhold, Becky Skeen, Paul Daybell, Heather Housley, and Kelly Rovegno; Conference of Intermountain Archivists
Strengthening Your (Dublin) Core for Stronger User Discoverability (and Possibly Abs), Andrea Payant, Paul Daybell, Liz Woolcott, and Becky Skeen; Utah Library Association Annual Conference
We're Bringing Spacers Back: Secondary Processing at Utah State University Archives, Kelly Rovegno, Heather Housley, Paul Daybell, and Becky Skeen; Conference of Intermountain Archivists
Library After Hours: Reinventing the First-Year Experience, One Epic Party at a Time, Katie Strand, Niki Fullmer, and Paul Daybell; Workshop for Instruction in Library Use (WILU)
None of Our Business: Critically Examining Power Dynamics and the Role of Libraries in the Information Industry, Alex Sundt, Stephanie Western, Erica Finch, and Becky Thoms; Association of College & Research Libraries National Conference
2022
Analyzing Discoverability in an MPLP World: How Levels of Description Impact Findability, Anna-Maria Arnljots, Paul Daybell, Kurt Alan Meyer, Andrea Payant, Becky Skeen, and Liz Woolcott; Digital Library Federation Forum
On Your MARC, Get Set, Code!, Anna-Maria Arnljots, Paul Daybell, Kurt Alan Meyer, Andrea Payant, Becky Skeen, and Liz Woolcott; American Library Association–Core Forum Webinar
University Treasure – Collections of Secrets: How Utah State University Libraries Modernized Their University Archives, Paul Daybell, Quinn Gerber, Heather Housley, Kelly Rovegno, Becky Skeen, and Liz Woolcott; Utah Library Association Conference
Avoiding a "Level of Discontent" in Finding Aids: An Analysis of User Engagement Across EAD Levels, Paul Daybell, Andrea Payant, Becky Skeen, and Liz Woolcott; Utah Library Association Conference
Level Down to Level Up: The Impact of Item-Level Description on Finding Aid Discoverability, Paul Daybell, Andrea Payant, Becky Skeen, and Liz Woolcott; Society of American Archivists Research Forum
Media Moguls: Finding and Using Creative Commons Media in the Classroom, Erica Finch; Bridging the Gap
Research Impact Fluxkit: A Playful Exploration of Research Assessment, Erica Finch; LACUNY Institute
None of Our Business: Examining the Economics and Business Dynamics of the Library and Information Industry, Jason Folkman, Alex J. Sundt, Robert Heaton, Erica Finch, Stephanie Western, and Nick Gittins; Utah Library Association Conference
You Feel Special When You Get a Library Card: Replicating Latinx Students' Public Library Feelings in Academic Library Spaces, Niki Fullmer; 2022 ULA Annual Conference
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Collaboratively Navigating Information Literacy Instruction in the Classroom, Niki Fullmer and Katie Strand
Optimizing a Library Website for Student Research: Comparing User Metrics Between Encore and Google Scholar, Lindsay Ozburn, Ryan Bushman, Kade Stevenson, Margaret Winward, and Liz Woolcott; Library Assessment Conference
Engaging ≠ Engagement: Assessing Students' Behaviors Following Gamified Orientation, Katie Strand, Makenzie Boatright, and Pamela N. Martin; 41st Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience
Open Educational Resources: Wherever, Whenever, Forever, Stephanie Western; Bridging the Gap
Datapalooza 2022: Data Management 101, L. Wynholds, Erica Finch, Jeffery S. Horsburgh, Willa van Dijk, Motasem Abualqumboz, Camilo J. Bastidas Pacheco, and Amber S. Jones; Datapalooza
2021
MARC-y MARC and the Coding Bunch, Anna-Maria Arnljots, Paul Daybell, Kurt Meyer, Andrea Payant, Becky Skeen, and Liz Woolcott; Utah Library Association Conference
But Were We Successful? Using Online Asynchronous Focus Groups to Evaluate Library Services, Rebekah Cummings, Lindsay E. Ozburn, Andrea Payant, Michael Shelton, and Ryan Bushman; Utah Library Association Conference
‘Theses’ Going to be Good!: A How to Guide on Dealing with Large Complex Cataloging Projects, Paul Daybell, Becky Skeen, Liz Woolcott, Melanie Shaw, and Seth Westernburg; Utah Library Association Annual Conference
Past Perceptions, Present Usage: Latinx Students and Academic Libraries, Niki S. Fullmer and Brittany Paloma Fiedler; ACRL 2021
Presidential Records & Materials, Jen P. Kirk
The Format That Time Forgot!!! The Return of the Microcards, Jen P. Kirk, Mel DeSart, Laura Sare, and Sinai Wood; ACRL Science & Technology Section
Homeward Bound: How to Move an Entire Cataloging Unit to Remote Work, Andrea Payant and Becky Skeen; Utah Library Association Conference
Library Structures as Sites to Rethink: Using Established Workflows to Open a New Understanding of EDI Unit Culture, Dory Rosenberg, Erin Davis, Jessica Sandberg, and Katie Strand; ACRL Conference
Cataloging Broadsides & Posters, Becky Skeen; Utah Library Association, Technical Services Roundtable webinar series
Just Keep Cataloging: How One Cataloging Unit Changed Their Workflows to Fit the Pandemic Remote, Hybrid, and In-Library Work, Becky Skeen, Andrea Payant, and Liz Woolcott; American Library Association–Core Interest Group Week
2020
Why Is My Heart Beating So Fast? Librarian Experiences With Teaching Anxiety, Britt Fagerheim and Kacy Lundstrom; LOEX Online Conference
Iiwalaawiiloxhbakaa (How We Lived): The Grant Bulltail Absáalooke (Crow Nation) Stories Collection, Nick Gittins and Andrea Payant; ULA Fall Workshop
Beyond Books 2: Cataloging Archival Materials, Nicole Lewis, Allison McCormack, Becky Skeen, and Rebecca A. Wiederhold; ULA Fall Workshop
Learning Analytics With Library Instruction Data and Student Data, Kacy Lundstrom and Britt Fagerheim; Library Assessment Online Conference
Make it a Win-Win: Managing Student Employee Experience in Library Publishing Efforts, Rebecca Nelson and Becky Thoms; Library Publishing Forum
MWDL Training Resources Task Force Committee Report, Andrea Payant; MWDL 2020 Summer Conference
Project Management: A Library Perspective, Becky Skeen; Online Audiovisual Catalogers Conference
Braving the Conversation: Facilitating Discussions on Diversity & Inclusion, Katie Strand, Dory Rosenberg, Erin Davis, and Jessica Sandberg; Utah Library Association Fall Workshop
From Anecdotes to Data: Leveraging Our Assessment Toolkit to Determine How a New Curriculum Measures Up, Rachel Wishkoski, Alex J. Sundt, Katie Strand, and Deanna Allred; LOEX
2019
Crowdsourcing Metadata Practices at USU, Anna-Maria Arnljots, Andrea Payant, Becky Skeen, and Randy Williams; Utah Library Association (ULA) Conference
Learning from Failure: Growing Roses of Success, Alan Buss, Craig E. Shepherd, and Shannon M. Smith; Association for Educational Communications & Technology Conference
Facticity, or Critical Thought in Contentious Times: A Library/University Partnership, Britt Fagerheim; ACRL National Conference
New Methods and Lessons Learned at the Library Assessment Conference, Robert Heaton and Lindsay E. Ozburn; Merrill-Cazier Library Table Talks
Gov Docs are Special Too!: Incorporating Historic Government Documents into Instruction and Outreach Programs, Jen P. Kirk; Utah Library Association Fall Workshop
Powell 150: Exhibit Panels, Jen P. Kirk and Jennifer Duncan
Gov Docs are Special Too! Primary Source Instruction using Government Information Collections, Jen P. Kirk, Megan Graewingholt, and Sarah Dobransky; Federal Depository Library Conference
Academic Libraries, Government Information, and the Persistent Problem of Jargon, Jen P. Kirk, Alex J. Sundt, and Teagan Eastman; Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)
Beyond Books: Cataloging Special Format Items, Nicole Lewis, Alison McCormack, Becky Skeen, and Rebecca A. Wiederhold; Utah Library Association Annual Conference
A ‘Culture of Assessment’ Planning Toolkit: Blueprints to Organically Grow Assessment Capacity and Support, Lindsay Ozburn; American Library Association Poster Session
Who is Tracking What and Why? A Process for Centralizing the Tracking of Patron Interactions, Lindsay E. Ozburn and Kacy Lundstrom; Association of College and Research Libraries Conference
'Capitol'izing on Opportunities: Creating Collaborative Library Spaces through Partnerships with Campus Organizations, Lindsay Ozburn, Jen Kirk, and Teagan Eastman; American Library Association Poster Session
MWDL Training Resources Task Force Committee Report, Andrea Payant, Ken Rockwell, Lindsey Memory, Liz Woolcott, and Paula Mitchell; MWDL 2019 Summer Conference
Wisdom of the Crowd: Successful Ways to Engage the Public in Metadata Creation, Andrea Payant and Becky Skeen; American Library Association Midwinter
Research Data Management at USU, Betty Rozum and Andrea Payant; UALC Professional Development Retreat
Introduction to Block Programming with Sphero Robotics, Craig E. Shepherd, Shannon M. Smith, and Alan Buss; Association for Educational Communications & Technology Conference
Catalog Local: One Library's Look at How Local Classification Schemes and Subject Headings Affect Copy Cataloging, Becky Skeen; ALA Annual Conference 2019
Let's Chat: Analyzing a Year's Worth of Info Desk Chat Transcripts, Katie Strand and Rachel Wishkoski; USU Libraries Assessment Forum
Sink or Swim? A Case Study Approach to Teaching Information Evaluation, Katie Strand and Rachel Wishkoski; LOEX Annual Conference
Taking up the Baton: Reflections on Guest Conducting as the Instructor of Record for a Music History Course, Rachel Wishkoski; Mountains-Plains Music Library Association Annual Meeting
From the Stacks to the Syllabus: Librarians Teaching Credit-Bearing Courses in the Disciplines, Rachel Wishkoski, Clint Pumphrey, and Randy Williams; Association of College & Research Libraries Conference
Formulas for Reflection: Using Safiya Umoja Noble's Algorithms of Oppression to Engage Student Learners, Rachel Wishkoski and Liz Woolcott; Utah Library Association Conference
2018
Where the Sagebrush Grows: Capturing University History in Institutional Repositories, Dylan Burns; American Library Association Annual 2018
Where is Government Information? The complex Relationship Between Libraries & Federal Repositories, Dylan Burns and Jennifer Kirk; Federal Depository Library Conference
Building Collaborations for Student Research Through Open Access, Dylan Burns and Becky Thoms; Open Repositories 2018
Can You Scan This for Me?: Making the Most of Patron Digitization Requests in the Archives, Jennifer Duncan, Andrea Payant, and Darcy Pumphrey; Digital Library Federation Forum
Pizza with a Side of Outreach: Re-Invigorating Library Outreach at Distance Campuses, Teagan Eastman and Erin Davis; Distance Library Services Conference
Virtual Reference Power Boost: Conducting a Chat Transcript Analysis at Utah State University, Teagan Eastman, McKenzie Hyde, Katie Strand, and McKenzie Hyde; 2018 Utah Library Association Conference
Don’t Venture Alone: Collaboratively Navigating Authentic Assessment, Teagan Eastman, Katie Strand, and Kacy Lundstrom; Library Instruction West 2018
The (Workflow) Map is not the Territory, Robert Heaton and Liz Woolcott; American Library Association Midwinter Conference
Creating a Government Information Network in Utah – Updates from the Regional Coordinator, Jen P. Kirk; Utah Library Association Conference
What is in those Compact Shelves? Auditing and Quantifying a Government Documents Collection, Jen P. Kirk; Federal Depository Library Conference
Basics for Newcomers: Navigating Government Information, Jen P. Kirk, Hayley Johnson, and Ashley Dees; Western States Virtual Government Information Conference
Unlocking Student Engagement: Success and Failure in Redesigning a First-Year Library Orientation, Pamela N. Martin, Katie Strand, and Teagan Eastman; LOEX Annual Conference 2018
Assessment and Visualization Tools for Technical Services, Andrea Payant, Becky Skeen, and Liz Woolcott; 2018 ULA Conference
Retooling Your Story: Using Visualizations to Demonstrate Impact, Andrea Payant, Becky Skeen, and Liz Woolcott; Association for Library Collection & Technical Services (ALCTS) Pre-Conference at the American Library Association Annual Conference
The Charles Potts Collection: Cataloging a Cultural Movement, Becky Skeen and Kurt Meyer; Utah Library Association Conference
Building Expertise From Within: One Department's Look at New Ways to Cultivate Cataloging Knowledge for their Staff, Becky Skeen and Liz Woolcott; ALA Midwinter
Investigating Open Education and Promotion & Tenure in the United States, Becky L. Thoms, Dylan Burns, and Joshua J. Thoms; Open Education Conference
Uncovering the Soil Surveys, Sandra Weingart and Jen P. Kirk; USAIN 2018 16th Biennial Conference
Bohemian Rhapository: Developing a music program archive in the IR, Rachel Wishkoski and Dylan Burns; Music Library Association 2018
2017
VOCAB for Collaboration: How “Work Language” Can Help You Win at Teamwork, Bianca Biesinger, Andrea Payant, Darcy Pumphrey, Sara Skindelien, Randy Williams, Rachel Wishkoski, and Liz Woolcott; UALC Professional Development Retreat
Beyond The Publishing Social Contract: University Presses and the Institutional Repository, Dylan Burns; Electronic Resources and Libraries 2017
How to Rate a Book: Goodreads, Taste, and Reading in the 21st Century, Dylan Burns; Book History and Digital Humanities
More than a Mausoleum: The Library at the Forefront of Digital Pedagogy, Dylan Burns; Utah Symposium on Digital Humanities 2017
Ghosts in the IR: Integrating Student folklore into our online Collections, Dylan Burns and Alex J. Sundt; Association of College and Research Librarians
Library E-Learning Tools: Developing Student Research Skills, Erin Davis and Teagan Eastman; ETE E-Learning Workshop
Librarians and Instructional Designers as Partners: Advancing Institutional Missions, Teagan Eastman and Erin Davis; Utah Academic Library Consortium Professional Development Workshop Presentation
Wayfinding Meets Library App: What Students Want From a Mobile Library Experience, Teagan Eastman, Whitney Lewis, and Breanne Krystine Litts; Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Forum
Getting LibGuide UX Just Right: Balancing Consistency, Nutrition, & Taste, Teagan Eastman and Alex J. Sundt; Designing For Digital 2017
Digital Strategies for Personalizing the Book-a-Librarian Process, Britt A. Fagerheim and Alex J. Sundt; Designing for Digital
Your Librarian: Breaking Down Barriers with Emotional Design, Britt A. Fagerheim and Alex J. Sundt; Designing for Digital
Collaborating in the Academic Library: Reports from a New Government Information Librarian, Jennifer Kirk; Depository Library Council Meeting & Federal Depository Library Conference
Memes of Resistance, Election Reflections, and Voices from Drug Court: Social Justice, Ethical Cataloging, and Digital Humanities at Utah State University, Margaret Kruesi, Lynne McNeill, Andrea Payant, Sara Skindelien, Jeannie Thomas, Randy Williams, and Liz Woolcott; American Folklore Society