Highlighted Publications & Presentations

An ACRL poster called Making the Connection: Conducting Virtual Focus Groups with Distance Adult Learners (2011) by Jennifer Castaldo and Christine Patterson.

This poster describes how these librarians held telephone focus groups with students from across the U.S. from Excelsior College, one of our partners.  Much was learned about the process including, best practices for gathering attendees, how to schedule meeting times when students are located in different time zones, techniques for collaborating with the Assessment and Telecommunications units, aspects of facilitation, and specifics about how to properly code transcripts.

A Streamed webinar called Finding Medical Information Online. Presented by Susan Payne (2010)

This talk provided an overview to three popular and publically-available search engines — PubMed, Medline Plus, and Google. Understanding the search features of each resource will help you locate and evaluate medical information online more efficiently. Beyond comparing these search engines, this talk will explore advanced search techniques, such using PubMed’s saved searches, how to share lists of articles via PubMed, and how to measure how often an article has been cited.

An Off-camp poster session called A Model for Embedding Library Resources into Online Learning (2010). Presented by Anita Norton and Jennifer Castaldo

The poster, Collaboration Leads to Integration: A model for embedding library resources into online learning, describes how we work with one of our partners, Excelsior College, to collaborate at the ground level of the course development process. 

The Value of Virtual Libraries: Creating Effective Access to Information
Presented by Susan Payne, Barbara Pralle, and Judy Smith (November 18, 2008). Location:  JHU Montgomery County Campus.

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