Undergraduate Research & the Academic Librarian: Case Studies and Best Practices, Volume 2

Undergraduate Research & the Academic Librarian: Case Studies and Best Practices, Volume 2

Merinda Kaye Hensley (Editor), Stephanie Davis-Kahl (Editor), Hailley Fargo (Editor)
$120.40
Publication Date: March 13th, 2023
Publisher:
Assoc of College & Research Libraries
ISBN:
9780838939338
Pages:
362

Description

“This second volume of Undergraduate Research & the Academic Librarian: Case Studies and Best Practices provides colleges and universities with a set of models that inspire and enrich undergraduate research, demonstrating the contributions of academic librarians to student success.”
—From the Foreword by Janice DeCosmo

Undergraduate research is a specific pedagogical practice with an impact on teaching and learning, and the definition of what counts as research continues to expand to include different types of projects, mentors, and institutions. Diversity, equity, and inclusion in librarians’ work with students and faculty are present and growing. Collaborations between faculty, librarians, and students are furthering student knowledge in new ways. This community and an awareness of students’ non-academic challenges demonstrate the library’s contribution to students’ overall sense of belonging within their institutions.
 
This second volume of Undergraduate Research & the Academic Librarian—following 2017’s first volume—contains 22 new chapters that explore these expanded definitions of research and the changes wrought in the profession and the world in the intervening years. Five sections examine:

  1. First-Year Undergraduate Research Models
  2. Cohort-Based Models
  3. Tutorials, Learning Objects, Services, and Institutional Repositories
  4. Course-Based Undergraduate Research Collaborations
  5. Building and Sustaining Programs 

Throughout the book you’ll find lesson plans, activities, and strategies for connecting with students, faculty, and undergraduate research coordinators in support of undergraduate engagement and success. Undergraduate Research & the Academic Librarian, Volume 2, captures both the big picture view of undergraduate research as well as the front-line work in the classroom, at the reference desk, and online.

About the Author

Stephanie Davis-Kahl is the University Librarian & Copyright Officer at The Ames Library at Illinois Wesleyan University. She provides leadership and long-term planning for library services, collections, human resources, and facilities, including the Center for Engaged Learning. She represents the library within the Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries of Illinois, the Center for Research Libraries, and the Library Publishing Coalition. She earned her BA in East Asian Studies from Oberlin College and her MS in Library Science from the University of Illinois. In 2014, she received the Distinguished Librarian Award from the Education & Behavioral Sciences Section of ACRL.

Hailley Fargo is the Head of Education & Outreach Services at Northern Kentucky University. In this role, she leads a team of librarians to provide information literacy through course-based instruction, credit bearing courses in the Library Informatics bachelor’s degree program, and through outreach efforts across campus. Hailley got her start in supporting undergraduate research during her time as the Student Engagement Coordinator at Penn State, where she worked to coordinate an information literacy award across 20 campuses. Hailley is also a co-founder and Editorial Board member of LibParlor (libparlor.com), a platform for building a community of researchers in LIS. She earned her BA in English from Coe College and her MS in Library Science from the University of Illinois.

Merinda Kaye Hensley is Associate Professor and Research Programs Liaison and Instruction Librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Merinda leads several library initiatives related to undergraduate research and serves as an advisory board member for the Office of Undergraduate Research. Merinda is active in ACRL, having served as the Chair of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) Information Literacy Module Review Task Force (2020-2022) and as Senior Fellow of Information Literacy for Project Information Literacy. She earned her BA in political science and environmental policy from the University of Arizona and her MS in Library Science from the University of Illinois.