Now in its 17th year, Brick & Click (#BCLC17) is a one day, session-based event covering innovative library technologies, practical library solutions, and other timely academic library topics. Brick & Click supports academic information needs of on-ground/online students, library professionals, and paraprofessionals. Visit the FAQ webpage for more information.
The conference is held at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. Registration is limited in order to maintain the advantages of a small conference, so register early! To register visit: www.brickandclick.org
2017 Electronic Proceedings are now accessible!!!
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How does developing an information literacy program to fit within a university’s strategic plan result in discovering how to create library instruction sessions that actively engaged students and contributed to their learning?
This session will be useful for librarians looking to develop an information literacy program or anyone looking for ways to develop more engaging learning activities to use in one-shot library instruction sessions.
Implementing and living with a NextGen catalog not only changes searching and retrieval, but it may prompt a reconsideration of a library's priorities and organization.
Operating from three distinct but interlocking perspectives, this session will cover the lived experiences of three librarians (Black woman archivist, a White woman anti-racist public librarian, and a Black woman academic librarian) navigating collection development and collection development policies in a profession that is 85.2% White. This program will also provide strategies for accomplices and white librarians to support their colleagues and implement anti-racist collection development strategies at their institutions.
Over the years librarians have added “teacher” to their list of job duties. Most librarians have not had extensive training in instruction, including learning theory and pedagogy. In this session, the presenters will provide an overview of one learning theory, constructivism, and share how librarians can put this theory into practice in one-shot instruction sessions using educational technology tools that provide opportunities for student engagement and assessment of student learning.
Reference can be complicated when you are not meeting face-to-face. Are we actually answering our patron’s questions? Are all the librarians answering the questions the same way? Are the interactions positive or negative experiences? And how much effort is actually put into chat interactions? Rockhurst University’s Greenlease Library looked at two years of library chats and used simple natural language processing techniques to explore user behavior and learn about the most popular topics. This presentation covers the process used, and what was learned from the data.
Diversity is one of the core values espoused by libraries but in addition to serving diverse populations libraries must also develop strategies for ensuring that their collections embody diversity.
Starting with the 2016 Presidential election, fake news has grabbed a lot of headlines. Teaching students how to identify and avoid fake news, however, is merely treating the symptom of a larger problem. Join us to discover how we partnered with the School of Journalism to launch a campus-wide initiative to raise awareness of critical media literacy among students, faculty, and the greater community.
Learn about an approach to library instruction that favors hands-on, structured activities over lectures or demonstrations. In this teaching style, the majority of class time is devoted to activities designed to guide students through the process of exploring and thinking about information resources. Session attendees will learn how to implement an activities-based approach to instruction as well as how to design classroom activities that can improve student learning and engagement. The presentation will include example activities created using online tools such as Qualtrics and Google Forms. Presentation Link with Activity Examples
The proliferation of “fake news” and “alternative facts” in our current political culture has prompted librarians to ask themselves what more they could be doing to combat misinformation and encourage information criticality among their students and patrons. In this session, the presenters will share practical, actionable ideas inspired by the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education frame “Authority is Constructed and Contextual” and the work of innovative librarians around the country.
In order to engage students beyond the occasional one-shot library instruction session, the MU Libraries Instruction Committee developed a series of information literacy modules. This presentation will focus on the creation and delivery of these interactive learning tools, and how inclusion of modules within the curriculum supports information literacy.
In early 2016, Springshare released LibWizard, an extension of the LibSurveys tool that adds the capability of creating fully interactive tutorials. In this presentation, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Virtual Learning Librarian will discuss how he and his colleagues are using LibWizard to develop an active learning environment as part of the new virtual information literacy program. All librarians currently using LibWizard or considering the tool will benefit from the description of the tutorial design process, explanation of various LibWizard features, and examples of active tutorials.
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Learn how your library can use staff discussion groups to build emotional intelligence skills and increase awareness of diversity and inclusion issues. Emotional intelligence is a valuable set of skills in the workplace which can be built through carefully structured readings and discussions. It is also not easy to hold difficult conversations on important topics like diversity without first establishing trust and a culture of communication on a personal and vulnerable level. Discussion groups are a great way to grow emotional intelligence skills and hold conversations on difficult topics.
In 2016, the members of the Learning and Research Department at UMKC Libraries decided to focus collectively on improving customer service for reference services users A year of exploring student feedback and best practices followed, culminating in the creation of six customer service values to guide reference efforts. The presenters outline these values, highlighting their development, subsequent training, and assessment.
This presentation reports on lessons gleaned from analyzing evaluation results from a large, multi-section course. Participants will learn about simple methods useful for interpreting quantitative data and how to apply qualitative methods to efficiently analyze open-ended response data. Managing big-data evaluation projects is not as hard as you might think.
Students are used to having information at their fingertips that’s mobile friendly and catered to their specific needs - so why aren’t we meeting them where they are? Learn how to align your institution’s LibGuides with best practices and how to integrate LibGuides into your LMS. Integration increases student usage, encourages collaboration with your teaching faculty, and is an excellent platform to support online programs. Link to Presentation Content
This presentation will highlight the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s School of Law experimenting with 360-degree cameras to capture interactive high-paced activities inside and outside of the courtroom.
This lightning round session will address strategies for developing and presenting engaging but brief, one-shot sessions that provide just-in-time instruction.
Universities are full of incredibly talented students. Why not collaborate with those students to revitalize library services and spaces? Have a great architectural and design department? Team up with them to design and renovate a library space. Need a new perspective on marketing? Hire a marketing student as an intern. Make the most of the talent that is available to you while also helping students to add projects to their portfolios: help them, help you.
This presentation offers a synopsis of actions and initiatives conducted by a small team dedicated to creating a sustainable web archives program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. Presenters will discuss details of the planning and implementation phases, as well as ongoing efforts and challenges.
Have you ever built a great online module or LibGuide only to have the collaborating faculty vanish after it’s finished? How about creating an awesome student or faculty workshop only to have an empty classroom that is impossible to assess? Come hear about our hard lessons on dealing with ghost faculty, impossible assessment strategies, and building an organizational culture that is not adverse to failure when seeking to improve library services. We’ll share the smart steps we’ve taken to keep relationships strong both in the library and across campus.
This presentation highlights a faculty-librarian driven, discipline-specific plan for incremental student mastery of skills. This approach encompasses learning objectives and research strategies from freshmen to senior/masters level. Scaffolding, project-based learning, and pre-post assessment are primary features of this strategic information literacy initiative. Attendees will gain specific strategies for implementing a collaborative, tiered, discipline-specific approach at their institutions. Presentation Link
Do you want to start a makerspace but didn’t win that large grant for the technology? Using the framework of iterative design, the presenter will discuss strategies for creating and growing a makerspace--including building a funding stream--developing supportive faculty and departmental relationships. The session will also contain information about marketing these new services & technologies to faculty, staff, and students in order to build capacity alongside demand.
The experience at a Disney World is defined by practicality: emphasizing touch points - all the little places where the user comes into contact with service - to provide a seamless and congruent experience. Dibner librarians describe their attempt to employ this strategy to make the Dibner Library a better experience for the user.
Discover lessons learned regarding a large-scale digitization effort to make the University of Kansas Libraries’ theses and dissertations collection available online.
The Infomania Journalism course at the University of Kansas is a good example of why an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. With aid from the Libraries, Journalism faculty at the University of Kansas developed the course to prevent the debilitating impact of information overload. In this session, we will share how we co-designed inventive assignments and assessments to foster critical information and media literacy among future journalists, advertising agents, and strategic communicators.
What makes for a successful classroom learning environment? Today, information literacy and fake news are key areas of teaching for academic librarians in which creating an active learning environment becomes paramount. In this session participants will learn multiple ways classroom dynamics can influence student learning outcomes by utilizing several teaching methods to encourage student participation.
