Hosting Art Exhibits to Enhance Student Engagement at a Commuter Campus

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Presentation

Abstract

A commuter campus library hosted an art exhibit in November 2019 to increase engagement levels of local high school and university students and to involve them in scholarly activities. The exhibit displayed student, faculty, and staff submissions on campus. The artists submitted their work digitally through the Nighthawks Open Institutional Repository (NOIR). When the physical exhibit opened in the library, a digital exhibit opened on NOIR. The project had two main goals: increase student awareness of library services and encourage student involvement in scholarly activities. The physical exhibit and promotional materials were used to meet the first goal. The institutional repository aided in meeting the second. Through the submission process the students began thinking critically about their work. The submission form required them to assign keywords to their work and write a brief artist statement about their piece. The submission process also gave the students some experience submitting to scholarly publications and creative journals and acceptance emails included links to scholarly publishing and presenting opportunities. Data collected via surveys from the event participants attempted to measure the impact that the event had on awareness of library services by participants.

Presentation Description

A commuter campus library hosted an art exhibit in November 2019 to increase engagement levels of local high school and university students and to involve them in scholarly activities. The exhibit displayed student, faculty, and staff submissions on campus. The artists submitted their work digitally through the Nighthawks Open Institutional Repository (NOIR). When the physical exhibit opened in the library, a digital exhibit opened on NOIR. Data collected via surveys attempted to measure the impact that the event had on awareness of library services.

Conference Year

2020

Start Date

29-5-2020 10:30 AM

Location

Online (Room 1)

End Date

29-5-2020 11:30 AM

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Hosting Art Exhibits to Enhance Student Engagement at a Commuter Campus

Online (Room 1)

A commuter campus library hosted an art exhibit in November 2019 to increase engagement levels of local high school and university students and to involve them in scholarly activities. The exhibit displayed student, faculty, and staff submissions on campus. The artists submitted their work digitally through the Nighthawks Open Institutional Repository (NOIR). When the physical exhibit opened in the library, a digital exhibit opened on NOIR. The project had two main goals: increase student awareness of library services and encourage student involvement in scholarly activities. The physical exhibit and promotional materials were used to meet the first goal. The institutional repository aided in meeting the second. Through the submission process the students began thinking critically about their work. The submission form required them to assign keywords to their work and write a brief artist statement about their piece. The submission process also gave the students some experience submitting to scholarly publications and creative journals and acceptance emails included links to scholarly publishing and presenting opportunities. Data collected via surveys from the event participants attempted to measure the impact that the event had on awareness of library services by participants.