Association Annual Conference Research Articles

SAT-488 LIVE VISUAL ABSTRACTS: A NEW MEANS OF DISSEMINATING SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION, LIVE, FROM A CONFERENCE

Medical conferences pack a large amount of information. Live-tweeting of information presented at a conference, has recently gained a lot of popularity, can help to disseminate the key messages from the conference to a broader audience, but it often leads to significant clutter. Combining the idea of visual abstracts and live-tweeting led to the concept of ‘Live Visual Abstracting’. A visual abstract is a single, concise, pictorial and visual summary of the main findings of the article. Through Live Visual abstracts the central message of a presentation can be effectively conveyed to a wider audience. We set out to attempt Live visual abstracting at the annual conference of Association of Vascular Access & inTerventionAl Renal Physicians (AVATAR 2018) in July 2018. One of the major drawbacks of the endeavor was creating live visual abstracts alone. Visual abstracts take anywhere between 30-120 minutes to be created and this would make it impossible to create live visual abstracts for all the sessions when working alone. Hence, 7 random sessions were selected for live visual abstracting. Several templates were created to be used live during the conference. The visual abstracts were created live, during the session and were tweeted out with the hashtag #LiveVisualAbstract within a few minutes of the talk. Over a period of 1 and half days, 7 Live visual abstracts were created and tweeted out. The variables studied were (i) number of times the tweet was seen (impressions), (ii) Number of interactions received for each tweet (Engagements) which included (a) the number of times the tweet was shared (retweets), (b) No of replies/comments per tweet (c) number of interactions leading to profile visits. The results were compared with the most popular media tweets covering the session from the same handle to assess the impact of #LiveVisualAbstract. The tweet with #livevisualabstract received significantly greater number of impressions with a median of 1820 (1059 - 7040) impressions compared to the most popular tweets from the same session - 891(241 - 1869), P - 0.013. The number of engagements [124 (86- 339) vs 24 (9-56); P - 0.002], retweets [7 (5 - 14) vs 4 (0 - 5), p - 0.005], likes [21 (17 - 38) vs 7 (3 - 12), p - 0.002] and profile visits [3 (1 - 16) vs 1 (0 - 4), p - 0.002], were all significantly greater with tweets with #livevisualabstract. The number of comments/ replies did not differ between the two groups. Our analysis shows that visual abstracts are promising tools of disseminating information not just for journal articles but also for conferences. This will help in minimizing clutter, spread information and potentially generate discussion which is the key to success of free online access to medical education (FOAMed).

Destabilising Empires from the Margin: Report of the 25th North American Taiwan Studies Association Annual Conference, Seattle, 16–18 May 2019

The 25th natsa post-conference report documents the initiation, organisation, and proceedings of the event, followed by some general reflections on what we can further investigate in the future. This year, we invited scholars worldwide to come together and rethink and offer critiques on the possibilities and challenges facing Taiwan studies by unpacking the idea of ‘empire’ and ‘marginality’. Given that agenda, we opened up discussions on some key topics around researching Taiwan and East Asia, such as political economy, democratisation, transitional justice, reconciliation, lgbtq, and culture studies. Attempting to reposition Taiwan studies in the broader intellectual terrain, a series of insightful dialogues thus emerged, pointing out alternatives of Taiwan studies in the face of empire(s) and marginality. In all, the natsa has formed one of the most widely known and vivid platforms for intellectual exchanges on Taiwan studies and further conversation shall continue alongside the growth of the scholarly community.

Serials Spoken Here - Reports of Conferences, Institutes, and Seminars

This column includes reports on sessions from the American Library Association Midwinter Conference 2019, with a report on how libraries can be part of a shared community with developers and users through the use of future of libraries, is open (FOLIO) library services platform and a report reflecting on future technological developments. Additionally, conference reports from the 14th Annual Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference, which includes reports on implementing troubleshooting training programs for public services staff and using budget cuts as an opportunity to generate goodwill. The remaining reports are from American Library Association Annual Conference 2019, which includes a report about the parallels between managing campaigns and managing an integrated library system (ILS) migration, how to improve a collection development plan with resources about Cheyenne and Arapaho people, and an exploration of the challenges of hosting student and faculty journals.

The 30th Annual Conference of The Japanese Association for South Asian Studies (JASAS)

The 30th Annual Conference of The Japanese Association for South Asian Studies (JASAS)

The American West and the World: Transnational and comparative perspectives by Janne Lahti

Reviewed by: The American West and the World: Transnational and comparative perspectives by Janne Lahti Andrew Offenburger The American West and the World: Transnational and comparative perspectives By Janne Lahti. New York; London: Routledge, 2019. In October 2000 at the Western History Association annual conference, then-president Patricia Limerick spoke on the connections between the American West and global history. Limerick described the deep tradition of finding commonalities in pasts of empire, colonialism and environmentalism. “One can… begin as a western American historian,” she said, “and end up attending closely to global processes, from international patterns of colonialism to planetary implications of climate change. The American West affords the historian a key of admission to some of the best and most thought-provoking conversations going on in the world today.”1 This was nothing new for an organization—and a broader network of scholars—who had been comparing American expansion to other European and Indigenous histories in earnest in the 1980s and 1990s; a comparative thrust had linked the West often to locations affected by the British Empire, and if the general public was not yet versed in this American un-exceptionalism, scholars sure were. Since then, a robust and growing field of transnational works has arisen, one that connects the history of the American West with other trans-imperial regions. Readers of this journal and others with an international view of colonialism will be very familiar with this corpus, which has made inroads with scholars of the American West most forcefully over the past twenty years. In The American West and the World, Janne Lahti gives shape and structure to this expansive yet inchoate field, offering a narrative synthesis on the West’s shared history with the world. He draws connections between older comparative work and newer transnational ties. “In some ways,” he writes in the introduction, “transnational history stands as the newest manifestation of an approach that has successively been branded as international, world, or, simply, comparative history. What all these conceptualizations share are attempts of interpretative and methodological realignments contradicting insular narratives” (6). Through examples drawn from previous studies, and through historiographical categorization, Lahti’s work admirably defines a sprawling field. What follows the introduction is a synthesis of secondary works, finding a pattern among the myriad contributions spread across global geographies. Five chapters organize the historiography by chronology and theme, each followed by a full bibliography. “Shared Worlds” (Chapter 1) begins with a story of the Makahs, relying upon Joshua Reid’s The Sea Is My Country, to present a globally entangled world, sustained and caught by imperial and Indigenous interests from Europe to the Americas and Asia, from contact to the early nineteenth century. This “early West,” the author writes, was “international before it became national, and it became known and placed in a global context of empires, markets, epidemics, and knowledge before it was claimed by the United States and its brand of settler colonialism” (17). “Settler Revolutions” (Chapter 2) invokes the paradigm of James Belich to characterize the United States from 1830 to 1900 and beyond, with strong parallels discussed in Indigenous, British, French, Russian, and Spanish imperial lands. The remaining chapters—“Violence,” “Intimacies of Empires” and “Imperial Eyes”—arrange a conversation among scholars of diverse specialties, framed by foundational texts in American transnationalism. This all results in a field-shaping work on the global West and its borderlands. The handling of the historiography is deft and thorough, and this study will be cited often for its ability to articulate the contours of a field still forming in many minds. Scholars of settler colonialism, empire, Indigenous societies, conquest/resistance and postcolonialism will likely nod in agreement in several sections while being pleasantly surprised by unfamiliar connections in others. One simply cannot set down this book and retain any sense of American parochialism, much less triumphalism. Lahti is at his best when attacking exceptionalism by discussing transnational circuits and shared actors along multinational frontiers and borderlands. By virtue of its successes, then, The American West and the World implicitly raises one question (among many) pertaining to comparative and transnational modes of analysis: have previous comparative studies, by allowing for national differences, unwittingly run the...

Networking in the #BEAVegas

Networking in the #BEAVegas is a basic understanding of the Network Theory, and its properties. This theoretical framework investigates the intergroup communication of individuals within other group systems. Networking in the #BEAVegas also explores Littlejohn's methodologies of connectedness, group networks, and organizational networks along with Actor-Network Theory (ANT). However, the original elements of the Network Theory were given to the world in 1385 through the Wycliffe Bible. I applied the participant-observation inquiry, as Poster Presenter, during the 2019 Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Annual Conference in Las Vegas using the Network Theory.

Special Libraries Association Annual Conference 2019

Special Libraries Association Annual Conference 2019

In Larger Freedom: Access to Information and International Government Organization Archives

In April 2019 at the International Studies Association (ISA) annual conference, I participated in a panel about International Organization Archives and the UN Depository system. There we learned of a report by the Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) of the United Nations titled “Strengthening Policy Research Uptake in the Context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” The report notes that “the research value and visibility of United Nations digital outputs, which are currently residing, unconnected, on numerous United Nations websites and in a plethora of diverse, online databases” presents challenges to researchers. They also recommend that “a principle of open access should operate by default for research products and data published or commissioned by the United Nations. This includes publications, authorship and co-authorship in open access journals or collections.” Per their mission statement, the JIU is the “only independent external oversight body of the United Nations system mandated to conduct evaluations, inspections and investigations system-wide.”

ECEDHA and iREDEFINE: Bringing Together Academia and Industry [Pipelining: Attractive Programs for Women

In March 2019, the 35th Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA) Annual Conference and ECExpo was held in Tucson, Arizona, bringing together electrical and computer engineering (ECE) academia and industry professionals for four days of programming and networking. According to its website, this year's meeting offered department chairs and faculty a chance to discuss the most pressing issues facing ECE today, provided the Technology Innovation Track as a specialized program for lab professionals (including access to the ECE Robotics Demo Lab), joined together ECE communications to share best practices in educating the public and prospective students about the field of ECE, and catered to graduate students via targeted workshops that focused on future career paths.

Ending the Silence: Utilizing Personal Experiences to Enhance a Library Mental Health Initiative

This article summarizes a panel presentation given at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Washington D.C. (June 22, 2019). The panel consisted of Sabrina Thomas, research and instruction librarian at Marshall University; Leah Tolliver, director of wellness programs and the Women’s and Gender Center at Marshall University; C. Michelle Alford, senior library IT consultant at Marshall University; and Kacy Lovelace, research and student success librarian at Marshall University. Tenikka Phillips, EAP coordinator at Cabell Huntington Hospital, worked extensively on the project but was unable to take part in the panel presentation. The following is a conversation between Sabrina Thomas and Kacy Lovelace discussing how their own personal experiences with mental health challenges and trauma served to enhance the mental health initiative in their academic library.

Preliminary study: Descriptive analysis of longitudinal data on the international session of the Japan Primary Care Association annual conference, 2012-2018.

IntroductionJapan Primary Care Association has launched an international session at annual conference since 2012. Longitudinal characteristics of the presentations were investigated.Methodss of the session were analyzed regarding type of presentation (oral/poster), category (research/clinical case/activity/review), and presenters' geographical location.ResultsThe numbers of oral and poster presentations significantly increased. The most frequent presentation was research with cross‐sectional survey. Majority of presentations were clinical and less educational research, most of which were by Japanese.ConclusionThe numbers of presentations in the international session increased, but the session should be used more rigorously to enhance primary care.

Escape Only by Thinking: Reinventing the Fred Friendly Seminar for Faculty-to-Faculty Learning at ISA

The original Fred Friendly Seminar was a Socratic dialog intended for expert debate on issues of ethics and public policy. I wanted to apply the format to inter-faculty learning on issues of international relations and foreign policy, so I proposed a type of hybrid scenario, combining the detail and self-reflection of a traditional seminar with the forward motion and iterative learning potential of a war game. I recruited my fellow faculty members at five International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Conferences and ran faculty participation scenarios on topics from water security to pandemics and public health to global warming and energy in the Arctic. This unique type of roundtable allowed faculty to familiarize themselves with the unique format and experience the scenario from the inside, as their students do. In this article, I will outline how and why Fred Friendly constructed the seminars, discuss how I modified them into the seminar/war game hybrid used for ISA, and discuss the lessons my fellow faculty and I learned from participating in the seminars.

Report of the Session “Open Education Resources (OER): Where Libraries are and Where We are Going,” Co-Sponsored by the ALCTS Collection Management Section (CMS) Collection Development Librarians of Academic Libraries Interest Group and the ACRL Distance Learning Section. American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, June 2018

Report of the Session “Open Education Resources (OER): Where Libraries are and Where We are Going,” Co-Sponsored by the ALCTS Collection Management Section (CMS) Collection Development Librarians of Academic Libraries Interest Group and the ACRL Distance Learning Section. American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, June 2018

Report of the ALCTS Collection Management and Electronic Resources Interest Group (CMERIG) Meeting. American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, June 2018

Report of the ALCTS Collection Management and Electronic Resources Interest Group (CMERIG) Meeting. American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, June 2018

Report of the ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group Meeting. American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, June 2018

The ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group invited three speakers to discuss their institutions’ approaches to collecting open access content in a session titled, “Curating Open Access Conte...

Report of the ALCTS Role of the Professional Librarian in Technical Services Interest Group Meeting. American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, June 2018

Report of the ALCTS Role of the Professional Librarian in Technical Services Interest Group Meeting. American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, June 2018

American Library Association Annual Conference 2016

American Library Association Annual Conference 2016

Evaluating Your DPN Metadata Approach. A Report of the ALCTS PARS Preservation Metadata Interest Group Meeting. American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, June 2018

The ALCTS Preservation Metadata Interest Group (PMIG) met during the 2018 ALA Annual Conference on Saturday, June 23 with an attendance of 34 people. The program began with a short business meeting...

Report of the ALCTS CaMMS Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group (CCRIG) Meeting. American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, June 2018

The Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group (CCRIG) met at the American Library Association Annual Conference on Sunday, June 24, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. Hosted by Co-Chairs Rebecca Nous a...

The BIALL Conference 1970 to 2019

AbstractIn this article, the authors, Catherine Bowl, John Furlong and Caroline Mosley look at the direction the Association's Annual Conference has taken over the past 50 years since the first Conference in Liverpool in 1970. The emphasis is on the mid-1990s to the present day, during which period the authors served as Chairs of BIALL's Conference Committee1.