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Item A Very Embedded Librarian: Using Captive Audiences (and a Bus) to Build Collaborative Relationships(2014-07-16) Carroll, Alexander JThe first step to creating collaboration opportunities is building relationships with faculty. For science librarians at major research universities, this poses a significant challenge as research faculty often work at research sites far from campus. This talk will highlight the experiences of a science librarian who, along with several other new faculty hires, embarked on a statewide bus tour of a number of university affiliated research sites. The talk will demonstrate how taking advantage of captive audience opportunities can give a librarian access to faculty who otherwise might never open their doors to collaboration.Item Are Ebooks Used Equally Across the Disciplines?(Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) Annual Meeting, 2013-07-22) Gray, Teddy; Carroll, Alexander JItem A Case Study of Narrative Marketing and Appreciative Inquiry in a Special Library(The Librarian’s Association at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (LAUNC-CH) Annual Research Forum, 2013-05-09) Carroll, Alexander JWhile libraries employ marketing in various forms, the challenge is keeping up with the rapidly changing discourse concerning marketing that exists outside of the library and information science (LIS) field. This research examines an innovative approach to marketing undertaken by the North Carolina Biotechnology Center Library. The case study specifically investigates the implementation of narrative marketing and appreciative inquiry within the framework of previously established best practices for library marketing. This research demonstrates how implementing narrative marketing enables libraries to conduct evidence based librarianship, and documents the entire process used by the North Carolina Biotech Library to create a narrative marketing plan, from its initial development to its implementation. This process included an internal assessment of the library's service offerings, as well as a survey of the library's users. The data gathered enabled the library staff to justify which services to emphasize in the library's narrative campaign.Item Preparing Medical Students for Residency: Efficacy of Evidence Based Medicine Instruction(Medical Library Association, 2014-05-18) Carroll, Alexander JOffering library and bibliographic instruction to medical students is a critically important component of medical training. The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) and the Accreditation Standards and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) both identify literature searching skills and evidence based medicine (EBM) as core competencies need by medical students. The AAMC’s Medical School Objectives Project declares that prior to graduation, medical students must have demonstrated “the ability to retrieve…, manage, and utilize biomedical information” to enhance patient care (Lynn, 2010, p. 122). In order to meet these goals, medical and instruction librarians must assume an active role in medical school curriculums. By becoming involved in the training of medical students, librarians can ensure that future practitioners will have the requisite skills needed to develop a commitment to using EBM in patient care. This literature review examines the efficacy of current EBM instruction within medical schools. Several articles are examined that look into whether residents and junior doctors are retaining the EBM training they received in medical school, and if these individuals are applying EBM skills to enhance patient care. The review then transitions into looking at some instruction technologies and pedagogical techniques that can be used to enhance the effectiveness of EBM instruction for medical students.Item The Retweet of Academia: Using Twitter to Improve Information Literacy Instruction(University of Maryland Annual Innovations in Teaching and Learning Conferenc, 2014-04-25) Carroll, Alexander J; Dasler, RobinPrevious educational literature contends that undergraduate students need more basic instruction on citation and plagiarism. Meanwhile, citation management systems such as EndNote Web, Zotero, and Mendeley are becoming increasingly robust and sophisticated. As a result, libraries have begun to create systematic support for integrating these software applications into their service offerings. The confluence of these two trends suggests an opportunity for libraries to shift the emphasis of their citation instruction. Rather than focusing on specific mechanics of citation styles, libraries can emphasize instruction on the topics of plagiarism and citation more broadly. Librarians should use this opportunity to develop new instructional models and pedagogical methods for delivering citation and plagiarism instruction that have relevance for students today. By using Twitter to depict citations and bibliographies as the “Retweet of Academia,” librarians can offer classic bibliographic instruction in an innovative and exciting way.Item The Retweet of Academia: Using Twitter to Improve Information Literacy Instruction(The Innovative Library Classroom 2014, 2014-05-15) Carroll, Alexander J; Dasler, RobinPrevious educational literature contends that undergraduate students need more basic instruction on citation and plagiarism. Meanwhile, citation management systems such as EndNote Web, Zotero, and Mendeley are becoming increasingly robust and sophisticated. As a result, libraries have begun to create systematic support for integrating these software applications into their service offerings. The confluence of these two trends suggests an opportunity for libraries to shift the emphasis of their citation instruction. Rather than focusing on specific mechanics of citation styles, libraries can emphasize instruction on the topics of plagiarism and citation more broadly. Librarians should use this opportunity to develop new instructional models and pedagogical methods for delivering citation and plagiarism instruction that have relevance for students today. By using Twitter to depict citations and bibliographies as the “Retweet of Academia,” librarians can offer classic bibliographic instruction in an innovative and exciting way.Item The Retweet of Academia: Using Twitter to Improve Information Literacy Instruction(ALISE (Association for Library and Information Science Education), 2014-01-21) Carroll, Alexander J; Dasler, RobinPrevious educational literature contends that undergraduate students need more basic instruction on citation and plagiarism. Meanwhile, citation management systems such as EndNote Web, Zotero, and Mendeley are becoming increasingly robust and sophisticated. As a result, libraries have begun to create systematic support for integrating these software applications into their service offerings. The confluence of these two trends suggests an opportunity for libraries to shift the emphasis of their citation instruction. Rather than focusing on specific mechanics of citation styles, libraries can emphasize instruction on the topics of plagiarism and citation more broadly. Librarians should use this opportunity to develop new instructional models and pedagogical methods for delivering citation and plagiarism instruction that have relevance for students today. By using Twitter to depict citations and bibliographies as the “Retweet of Academia,” librarians can offer classic bibliographic instruction in an innovative and exciting way.