Bryant & Stratton College News

Joseph Dudley presented a virtual poster session titled “The All-Virtual Academic Library” at the 2024 TCC Worldwide Online Conference, April 16-18 and published a review of From Cataloguing to Metadata Creation: A cultural and methodological introduction by Mauro Guerrini in Technical Services Quarterly (Volume 41, 2024 – Issue 2).

–Joe Dudley, Bryant & Stratton College

Case Western Reserve University News

Joanna Voss and Amy Pawlowski (OhioLINK),  Brian Gray (Case Western Reserve University), and Dan Pollock (Delta Think) presented the analysis used by OhioLINK and OhioLINK CIRM to monitor and make decisions in the open-access environment. The presentation “The Evolving Value of OhioLink’s Journal Packages in a Complex OA Landscape: A Framework for Local Resource Decisions” is now available via YouTube.

–Brian Gray, Case Western Reserve University

The Ohio State University News

Katie Blocksidge and Hanna Primeau’s article “Adapting and evolving: Generation Z’s information beliefs,” was included on the American Library Association (ALA) Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT)’s Top 20 of 2023 list. The Top 20 Committee has been reviewing and selecting the best literature about library instruction since 1986.

In their article, Blocksidge and Primeau explore how Generation Z undergraduates align with Brenda Dervin’s (1976) information assumptions, finding that students are aware of information overload, and that informal sources can be valuable parts of the research process.  Students are making meaning of information within their own contexts, and this extends into their work in higher education.

–Katie Blocksidge, The Ohio State University, Newark Campus