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Social Crafting: Building Community, Creative Expression, and Individual Resilience
Librarian Claire A. Miller explores the science and practice of making, crafting, and creating in groups. From story-time craft projects to adult stitching circles, crafting as part of a group offers benefits for both individuals and communities. The practice of crafting together can help fight digital abstraction, connect socially, and build our personal reserves of patience, resilience, and tolerance for mistakes.
Learn how to build, facilitate, or host your own social crafting event! Start the process of planning your own event from space considerations and budgeting to suggested craft projects and marketing ideas. Explore how social crafting can be adapted to fit a wide range of spaces, user groups, and organizational goals.
Participants are encouraged to bring a craft or coloring page of their own to work on during the presentation.
A Virtual Visit to the Sauk Valley Community College's Learning Commons
CARLI's Public Services Committee continues to explore shared library learning spaces with a virtual presentation by SVCC Learning Commons Library Coordinator Jackie Hanson, Library Coordinator Kelsey Head, Writing Center Coordinator Zak Forkner, and Tutoring Center Coordinator Jenny Brown. Sauk Valley Community College is a small, rural Community College located in northwest Illinois. The Learning Commons department is made up of the library, writing center, and tutoring center.
Building a High-Engagement Library With Your Campus Learning Management System
This webinar will describe the benefits of gaining in-depth access to your campus’ learning management system with specific examples of how you can use that access to improve instruction sessions and reference interactions, guide collection development, and inspire specific faculty outreach opportunities. The focus will be on the Canvas learning management system. Beyond technical integration, we will discuss how to leverage LMS data to foster deeper collaborative relationships with faculty across various disciplines. We’ll examine how visible library presence within course shells can demystify research for students and streamline the teaching process for instructors. Join us and walk away with a practical roadmap for transforming the LMS from a static directory of links into a dynamic, data-driven hub for student success.
Presenter: Mykaela Tackett is the Instruction and Technology Librarian at Stanly Community College. They see their role as an opportunity to smooth the road for students who are new to the modern higher education environment. Students have described Mykaela in fond terms, including “energetic,” “enthusiastic,” and “unhinged.”
Learning Objectives:- Identify opportunities to raise the profile of library resources in the campus learning management system and improve instructional outcomes based on this approach.
- Review assignments and curriculum to determine where students are needing more support and where faculty can tie in library resources more effectively.
- Develop a clear rationale for requesting access to your campus learning management system.