Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation
Conference Strand
Outreach and Partnership
Target Audience
Higher Education
Second Target Audience
Higher Education
Location
Session 1 Papers
Relevance
This proposal focuses on virtual library instruction, focusing on information literacy concepts, including locating, searching, and evaluating sources, and acknowledging that information has value by learning how to cite it properly.
Abstract
Note to reviewers: This proposal is for a presentation that builds on what I meant to present at the 2021 conference. Due to a storm, a black-out occurred, and I couldn’t get back online in time to present most of it because my computer was so slow. The GICOIL moderator kindly offered me a break-out room at the end of the day, but only two people showed up, and an informal conversation was more suited. This proposal expands on that presentation and elaborates on what I did this year. I have a much faster computer now and will log in quicker if this ever happens again.
Abstract:
Over three years, the Department of Teaching and Leading and Psychological Sciences liaison librarian has evolved her virtual instruction to graduate online education students by scaffolding it into different levels; and recently for undergraduate psychological sciences students. What initiated advocating for an optional one-shot webinar for students in their asynchronous Master of Education program’s seminal course grew into offering three different library instruction levels throughout the program. See the previous presentation abstract for more info: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2021/2021/12/
Since then, the librarian has collaborated with a colleague to differentiate virtual EndNote training: Basics (Level 1) and Advanced (Level 2) for online education students. She was coping fine with the workload until Psychological Sciences also started needing asynchronous online instruction for the seminal undergraduate course in the Spring and the Fall. She began suffering from burnout after implementing a similar yet different model and continuing the same workflow outlined in the 2021 presentation. The librarian needed to strategize to meet the needs of the considerable increase in students, the faculty she collaborated with, and her mental wellbeing.
Find out how each level has evolved to look like for library instruction, APA, and EndNote. Learn the instructional modes and formal assessment to evaluate progress. Also, learn the advantages and challenges of differentiation for asynchronous coursework and the steep learning curves, including serving two diverse populations and preventing burnout. Finally, hear collaboration efforts to modify the online library instruction with new faculty taking over the courses while looking after herself in the process.
Presentation Description
Learn how a liaison librarian initiated and evolved virtual instruction to graduate online education students by differentiating it into different levels and modes and then adapting it to an undergraduate psychological sciences population. Discussed will be how the instruction has evolved, complementing it with being embedded online in the courses, the advantages and challenges of differentiation in an online environment, and current plans to develop the programs to make them even more motivating.
Keywords
virtual library instruction, information literacy, online students, graduate students, undergraduate students, embedded librarianship
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Kubicki, Josette M., "Leveling up, nearly falling, & getting back on the ladder: Differentiating library research, APA & EndNote instruction for even more online students while not hurting yourself in the process" (2022). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 6.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2022/2022/6
Leveling up, nearly falling, & getting back on the ladder: Differentiating library research, APA & EndNote instruction for even more online students while not hurting yourself in the process
Session 1 Papers
Note to reviewers: This proposal is for a presentation that builds on what I meant to present at the 2021 conference. Due to a storm, a black-out occurred, and I couldn’t get back online in time to present most of it because my computer was so slow. The GICOIL moderator kindly offered me a break-out room at the end of the day, but only two people showed up, and an informal conversation was more suited. This proposal expands on that presentation and elaborates on what I did this year. I have a much faster computer now and will log in quicker if this ever happens again.
Abstract:
Over three years, the Department of Teaching and Leading and Psychological Sciences liaison librarian has evolved her virtual instruction to graduate online education students by scaffolding it into different levels; and recently for undergraduate psychological sciences students. What initiated advocating for an optional one-shot webinar for students in their asynchronous Master of Education program’s seminal course grew into offering three different library instruction levels throughout the program. See the previous presentation abstract for more info: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2021/2021/12/
Since then, the librarian has collaborated with a colleague to differentiate virtual EndNote training: Basics (Level 1) and Advanced (Level 2) for online education students. She was coping fine with the workload until Psychological Sciences also started needing asynchronous online instruction for the seminal undergraduate course in the Spring and the Fall. She began suffering from burnout after implementing a similar yet different model and continuing the same workflow outlined in the 2021 presentation. The librarian needed to strategize to meet the needs of the considerable increase in students, the faculty she collaborated with, and her mental wellbeing.
Find out how each level has evolved to look like for library instruction, APA, and EndNote. Learn the instructional modes and formal assessment to evaluate progress. Also, learn the advantages and challenges of differentiation for asynchronous coursework and the steep learning curves, including serving two diverse populations and preventing burnout. Finally, hear collaboration efforts to modify the online library instruction with new faculty taking over the courses while looking after herself in the process.
