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Bridging Gaps: Creating Workshops for STEM Librarians at the University of Maryland
(2025) Mikovits, Madelyn
STEM Librarians face unique challenges serving their constituents, and many students and current STEM librarians feel unprepared to address them. Past research suggests that many of these challenges come from a lack of education in their subject specialty, a need to be interdisciplinary across the sciences and research methods, and not having the proper context for issues in STEM. As an MLIS student interested in serving the sciences, I was curious to know if those issues were being addressed by the STEM Librarians at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD). This project sought to identify and address those challenges through a series of interviews and workshops. All six librarians employed at UMD’s STEM Library were interviewed in-person and via Zoom about their educational and work experiences, and the communities they serve. They expressed a wide variety of needs; some needs, like those surrounding open data and data visualization, were already being addressed by other departments on campus. However, other needs, such as improving outreach and engagement techniques and improving faculty understanding of student use of artificial intelligence, were not already being directly addressed. Taking this information, under the guidance of Lindsay Carpenter from Research Education, I developed two workshops: the first is aimed at understanding and teaching STEM faculty about how to talk to their students about artificial intelligence. STEM faculty have a unique relationship with artificial intelligence but, according to their Librarians, do not understand how their students are engaging with it. This workshop seeks to bridge that gap for faculty so they may better understand how to talk to their students about this new technology. The second workshop brings subject specialists at the University of Maryland, College Park together to hear from panelists about their outreach experiences, in-person at the STEM Library. The panel includes a mixture of librarians and a representative from the Libraries’ Communications department.
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Primo Instructional Videos
(2025) Irvine, Emily
Over the summer of 2024 UMD libraries transitioned to Primo. This meant the library catalog looked totally different, had new features, and old features looked different visually. The TLS department, in order to support this transition, made instructional videos on how to use and navigate the new Primo catalog. These videos required collaboration between multiple departments in order for the videos to fully come to fruition. Instructional videos are important, but both the work needed to create them is often underestimated. Additionally, how to make them the most accessible and useful is not given enough attention. With my poster, I hope to explain why instructional videos are important, using the Primo videos as an example. First, I want to discuss instructional videos, or how to videos, broadly. Then, I want to briefly explain how the Primo catalog is different, and what features and new parts of the catalog we needed to explain in our videos. Thirdly, I will spend the most time and space discussing the process we went through at TLS to make the videos. I will include a discussion of what we did, what I personally did, and what other departments did. I will discuss both the tools we used and our rationale as to why we did what we did.
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Bridging the Gap: Connecting the University of Maryland Extension Community with Library Resources
(2025) Smolonsky, Nora
In conjunction with Isabella Baxter, UMD’s Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) Librarian, I have enhanced the Library’s AGNR Research Guide to include robust resources specifically curated for University of Maryland Extension (UME) staff and community members. UME is a non-formal education system within the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Maryland Eastern Shore campus. Through an analysis of Ref Analytics on LibInsights, I identified three needs of the UME community that UMD Libraries can support: accessing library resources off-campus, professional development, and research tools. UMD’s AGNR program is headquartered at the College Park campus, but UME operates at UMES, since the UME community is connecting to the libraries remotely, the LibGuide serves as an asynchronous learning tool that will answer many of their frequently asked questions and bridge the gap between their programming and UMD Libraries. My poster presentation will include information about how the libraries can continue to identify and support the needs of UME and off-campus user groups more broadly through asynchronous instruction.
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"Extra! Extra! Read all about it!": Collection Assessment of UMD Libraries’ Major U.S. Newspapers
(2025) Kadis, Lexi
Newspapers are some of the most frequently used resources in the University of Maryland (UMD) Libraries. As a large academic library, UMD Libraries has vast newspaper collections that are spread over many formats (print, microfilm, and digital) and online databases, so it is easy for students, faculty, and staff to get confused with how to navigate these resources. Consequently, many users submit reference questions related to locating newspapers or specific articles. As a HiLS graduate student using UMD Libraries’ newspapers in her own Master’s thesis research, I was interested in learning more about the different ways that newspaper resources are presented to users. Working with Sarah Clinton-McCausland, Librarian for Journalism, Communication, and Open Education, this field study project aimed to audit and access UMD Libraries’ newspaper collections and aggregate this information in the pages of a new LibGuide for Newspapers.
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Polly Smith's Library: Processing the Books of Jim Henson's Costumer Designer at the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library
(2025) Segal, Lottie
Polly Smith generously donated her costume design library to the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library. These books will eventually be a great boon to costume design students but first they have to be processed. I have spent the Spring semester going through these books and assessing their condition and content to be added into the collection. This poster will explore the project, the steps I took, and the future of Polly Smith's library. It will show interesting books and talk about the challenges I faced.