Abstract

While many may still think of the academic library as a place to silently read dusty tomes under the blue-green hue and buzz of fluorescent lights, the modern academic library is alive and librarians work with faculty on more than their reading and research needs. Students complain about the price of textbooks, and faculty often use supplementary readings. Affordable instructional materials (AIM) are teaching, learning, and research resources that either reside in the public domain, carry a license that permits their free use, or are already licensed by your library. Textbooks, course materials and readings, videos, images, and even guides can reduce the cost of textbooks and increase student success. “Using your library for affordable instructional material” will go over some AIM resources and how your librarian can help you locate/choose/incorporate these items. Predatory publishing is a growing problem facing everyone in higher education. Spawned from the open access movement (and steadily growing), these publishers threaten to undermine the work of scholars by falsely presenting themselves as legitimate operators carefully selecting only the best research for publication, then they do not provide the services they promise and/or do not conform to best practices. They take advantage of academic professionals who are under pressure to publish. “Protect yourself from predatory publishers” will provide tools to help researchers select legitimate journals. 3D printing is being used in basic sciences research and science-related education at the undergraduate and graduate level. It is common for 3D printing to be seen as a way to create interesting objects that are not directly connected to many curriculums. “3D printing: moving beyond X-Wings and dinosaurs” will address the potential 3D printing has to shape library content and enhance learning by providing wide access to replicas of objects that are not easily accessible for study. In addition to the traditional Q&A, the speakers will provide takeaway links and display models available for checkout.

Objectives

• At the end of the session, attendees will be able to identify ways the library can support instruction
• At the end of the session, attendees will be able to recognize predatory journals and identify legitimate journals
• At the end of the session, attendees will be able to describe ways 3D printing can be used in the college classroom.

Presenters

M. Delores Carlito, UAB Libraries
Delores Carlito is the Information Literacy Coordinator and Liaison to the departments of English and Foreign Languages & Literatures at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She instructs over 1,600 students a year in information literacy. She has taught the UAB for-credit courses University 101 (critical thinking) and Freshman Composition in addition to graduate-level classes at UA's SLIS. She publishes on multimodal support of teaching and information literacy. She holds an MLIS in Information Studies from the University of Alabama and an MA in English and MAEd in Secondary English Education from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Kara Van Abel, UAB Libraries
Kara Van Abel is a Reference Librarian and the Liaison to the Collat School of Business at the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Mervyn H. Sterne Library. She was named a 2014 American Library Association Emerging Leader. Kara holds a master’s degree in Library and Information Studies from the University of Alabama where she was also a Project ALFA Fellow.

Dorothy Ogden, UAB Libraries
Dorothy Ogdon is the Lister Hill Library Liaison to the School of Dentistry at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the current chair of the Medical Library Association Books Panel and is a member of the Medical Library Association's Academy of Health Information Professionals. In 2017, she successfully applied for a New Faculty Development Grant through the Faculty Senate at UAB to investigate uses of 3D Printers to create anatomical and molecular models to add to the UAB Libraries circulating collections. She holds an MS in Information Science from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.