Poster Sessions
The Path to Powerful Poster Presentations
Conference attendees are invited to visit the poster sessions scheduled during no-conflict time on Wednesday and Thursday in the hall outside the exhibits. Poster authors are eager to share their knowledge, skills, experiences and creative energy with colleagues. Poster topics focus on improving library services, digital treasures, blogs, wikis, getting kids to read and working with collaborators. Attending the poster sessions is a great way to learn from your peers and build on the work that they have done.
Think of the poster session as a dessert buffet filled with lots of goodies just waiting to be sampled. Stop by and talk to 17 expert chefs to have your taste buds tickled without the associated calories.
Take the path to the hall outside the exhibits; authors will be available to talk about poster content on:
Wednesday, April 30 – Even Numbered Posters
10:30-11:00 a.m. and 2:30-3:00 p.m.
Thursday, May 1 – Odd Numbered Posters
From 9:30-10:00 a.m. and 2:45-3:15 p.m.
1-Improving Library Services: A Path to Excellence
Alice Weber
Library research is a great way to share knowledge, obtain evidence, clarify decision-making, improve library service, and promote effective management. This poster explains the benefits of doing research, why it's important to report research results, outlines the research process, and suggests resources and tools to do research.
2-Digital Treasures from the Mountain West Digital Library
Cheryl Walters
Large-screen presentation highlighting new collections in the Mountain West Digital Library, the UALC-sponsored repository for our region's most valuable, unique, and interesting digital images, texts, manuscripts, maps, and sound bytes.
3-If the Mountain Won’t Come to You… Office Hours in Academic Departments Increase Librarian/Faculty Collaboration
Deg Farrelly
What do you do if you’ve built it, and they don’t come? Libraries increasingly provide services and technology interfaces that minimize users’ need to go to the library. Web-based databases, digital document delivery, e-reference, and electronic reserve make library resources available 24/7. Meanwhile, faculty members juggle ever more complex priorities. Heavier teaching loads, larger class sizes, growing service commitments, and increasing research expectations make it progressively more difficult for faculty to find time to spend in the library. In this pressurized, fast-paced, grab-and-go environment collegial, collaborative, and consultative relationships between faculty and librarians may receive short shrift. Librarians, who may already promote themselves and library services to the faculty they serve, can no longer remain secluded in their silos, waiting for faculty (or students) to come to them. This presentation shares how one librarian, by establishing office hours in faculty members’ academic departments, increased: interaction with the faculty, course-integrated library instruction sessions, assistance to faculty research, and collaboration in the development of course content and assignments. The presentation covers successes and outcomes as well as problems and pitfalls, tips and techniques you can use to “go to the mountain”.
4-MedHome Helps Children With Special Healthcare Needs
Jeanne Le Ber
This poster informs librarians about the MedHome Portal so that they can direct their patrons to this online resource for children with special healthcare needs. The website development team encourages discussion and collaborations to improve the implementation of the site.
5-Spanning the Distance with Wiki's
Jill Sodt
Universities are increasing distance education programs. Wikis offer librarians a dynamic platform to provide the most current and relevant resources to this growing population. See how ESU is utilizing a wiki for reference services.
6-Be There & Be Relevant: Building Community Partnerships for Impact
Joel M. Poppleton
Expand the influence and impact of your library by building mutually beneficial partnerships with groups in your community. This session will give you bite-sized tools to heighten library awareness and develop advocates in your community.
7-Continuing Education and Training Opportunities
Grace Chen
Poster will provide information, including website addresses, for training opportunities, library degree programs, internships, and certificates. Handouts will be provided.
8-One Book Henderson 2007: A One Book Model
Laurie Orton
Henderson Libraries shares its first one book one community experience. Get ideas for your event including promotional materials, ads, funding sources, programming ideas, website features and evaluations. Take samples for inspiration.
9-The Utah Library Association Business Round Table (BURT)
Leticia Camacho
The purpose of the roundtable is to provide a forum for information sharing, networking, and continuing education for library employees who provide business reference service or are interested in such service. In this forum business reference employees will be able to share common problems and concerns. Members will have professional development opportunities such as presenting papers, panel discussions or other activities geared toward the provision of business services.
10-“How d’ya find anything to READ in this place?”: Promoting Unrequired Reading in an Academic Library
Linda Keiter
Describes a coordinated program at an academic library, primarily targeted at undergraduates, which encourages reading beyond the curriculum. Our group makes entertaining and enriching books more readily available and demonstrates the rewards and pleasures of a “good read.”
11-Blogs, Books, and Jimmy Stewart's Accordion: Student Outreach During L. Tom Perry Special Collections' 50th Anniversary Celebration
Maggie Gallup
This session highlights how the L. Tom Perry Special Collections created and executed their 50th Anniversary "Top 50 Exhibit" at the Harold B. Lee Library in October 2007. In an effort to involve students in the celebration, curators solicited votes for the campus community's favorite Special Collections items via the library blog, then displayed them in a rotating exhibit.
12-The Prestini Collection at Utah State University: a Pathway to Design
Michelle Mascaro; Liz Woolcott; Julie Grover
10,000 books, 545 ln. ft. of available space, 2 art librarians, 3 cataloging staff, 6 assorted library workers, and 1 meticulous donor. Follow the process of the James Prestini Design Collection from receipt to shelf.
13-Open Journal Systems Bridge the Publication Gap
Nancy T. Lombardo; Jeanne Le Ber; Stephen Mossbarger; Allyson Mower and Julie Quilte
This poster will describe the use of the Open Journal Systems as a publication mechanism for the library's quarterly newsletter and to provide online submission and peer review management for a digital repository. Details of the system architecture will be explained. An electronic demonstration of the workflow will be provided. Examples of peer reviewed resources and a sample of the online publication will be displayed. The Eccles Health Sciences Library investigated existing tools to facilitate online publishing efforts. Requirements included the ability to submit articles and resources electronically, manage review and copy editing processes, create a customized look and feel and publish selected resources. The Open Journal System was selected and implemented for two distinct projects within the library. The first application was to produce an online quarterly newsletter, the second was to provide online submission front end and peer review for a digital repository. Customized page content supporting workflow was developed for the two projects. Staff were trained on the system and reviewers were recruited for the projects. Peer review of the digital library materials is underway and the first issue of the online newsletter is planned for August of 2008.
14-Computer lab power management and how it can save you money and energy
Nathan Poell
Virtually all end-user computer equipment now sold are ENERGY STAR compliant devices. Compliance with this standard, however, provides zero benefit to your organization if the devices’ energy-saving features are not enabled, and very frequently they are not. This poster presentation will explore the ENERGY STAR standard itself, explain how its various power management features can enable you to easily and dramatically cut your computer-related electricity usage and expenditures, and provide case study examples showing how much money organizations similar to yours have saved after implementing these features.
15-Leer Es Poder! Reading is Power with Board Books and Stethoscopes
Susan Hamada
Salt Lake County Health Department and Library Services provide Early Literacy education in partnership with the University of Utah Pediatrics Department at the South Main Clinic. The clinic serves a clent base that is 85% Spanish speaking. This poster depicts a unique collaborative partnership and the partners commitment to promoting reading.
16-Utah Kids Ready to Read!
Susan Hamada
The utah Kids Ready to Read poster and small carpet mat will be displayed along with handouts to help librarians promote early literacy skills in library programs. Attendees will be able to learn about the activities of this partnership between the Utah State Library, the Provo City Library, the Salt Lake County Library System and the Salt Lake City Pulbic Library.
17-Communicate and Connect: Reflections on Our Experiences as Collaborators
Tania Toro
Please stop by the ULA/MPLA Joint Conference Reflection Wall! Take part by writing your own reflection and read those of others. note: we would like to use a wall in a high traffic area, we will provide materials and ideas for participants to create a mosaic.
18- Using the “Information Rx” Process to Refer Parents of Newborns with Metabolic Conditions Identified by Screening to the Genetics Home Reference Web Site for Health Information
Joyce A. Mitchell; Denise E. Beaudoin; Nicola Longo; R. Logan
Parents of children with a possible genetic diagnosis need help to access information. Providers also report not feeling competent to discuss conditions included in newborn screening panels. The Genetics Home Reference Web site (GHR) offers consumers and providers accurate information about genetic conditions, including disorders identified by recommended screening tests. This study seeks to determine parental reaction to receipt of an “information prescription”, and the perceived usefulness of information found on GHR. Key questions include whether use of GHR increases parental understanding of conditions, encourages parent-provider communication, or prompts further information seeking behaviors. Parents of affected newborns will receive a prescription to visit GHR and be invited to participate. After obtaining informed consent, participants will be asked to complete a demographic survey and visit the site. At six weeks, participants will complete an online survey about their user experience. Results will be analyzed using descriptive statistics and frequency responses. Referral to GHR may optimize medical management of affected newborns, ultimately improving outcomes.