Lightning Talk Research Articles

2023 MCBK global meeting—Lightning talk abstracts

2023 MCBK global meeting—Lightning talk abstracts

A tiny library with a million volumes: Open-source resource sharing with fulfillment interlibrary loan (ILL)

his paper is based upon a lightning talk given at the NISO Plus conference on February 14, 2023 and it describes interlibrary Loan syste4m, Fulfillment, developed by the Equinox Open Library Initiative. A thriving resource-sharing consortium allows libraries to offer broader and deeper opportunities for individual learning and greater community equity. It unlocks access to additional copies beyond what an owning library has available, along with a broad range of content owned within the network, which provides a diverse collection for library users. Providing access to such a rich network of resources is the goal of Fulfillment, an open-source resource sharing system which breaks down barriers to sharing collections.

Commercial Awareness in the Law Library: a New Role for Academic Law Librarians?

AbstractIn this article, which expands on a lightning talk that was delivered at the BIALL Conference 2023, Lauren Cummings discusses how she developed and delivered a commercial awareness workshop to third-year students at Goldsmiths, University of London. She then reflects on how employability training relates to information skills and how developing these skills can help students from less advantaged backgrounds achieve their career goals. Lauren also discusses how employability work might fit into the role of the academic law librarian.

OpenUNC: Collaborating to Increase the Visibility of Open Scholarship from the UNC System

This conference report covers a lightning talk from the 2022 North Carolina Serials Conference on the topic of OpenUNC, a collaborative website that shares information about and links to open access efforts and content from institutions in the University of North Carolina System. Site background, content, and opportunities for use are covered.

Electronic Resource Usage During the Pandemic: A Snapshot Using OpenAthens

In March 2020, East Carolina University (ECU) transitioned to remote work and online instruction to reduce operations on campus and help address the spread of COVID-19. To respond to this shift in workflow, ECU Libraries published a FAQ (frequently asked questions) page and provided resources for faculty, staff, and students as they navigated access to library resources from remote locations. Staff expected to see the use of electronic resources affected and potentially a spike in authentications as a result of the transition to online instruction and work arrangements. This case study examines the use of library resources from September 2019 to August 2021 at East Carolina University Libraries. Top platforms are discussed and trends analyzed using the OpenAthens statistics platform. This article is based on a lightning talk presented at the North Carolina Serials Conference in April 2022.

E-Resources Staff Training in Alma—A Unified Strategy

As part of the 2022 NC Serials Conference, Li Ma, e-resource and serials librarian from the University of South Carolina (USC) presented a lightning talk describing staff training efforts on e-Resources management in Alma, an Ex Libris’ cloud-based Library Management System. She discussed challenges encountered by their e-Resources with respect to learning of new concepts and workflows, strategies they followed and some tips for effective training. The talk wrapped up with some closing thoughts, ideas for on-going/future training and “nice to have” features that could be incorporated within Alma for a robust trained staff in future.

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Publication of conference lightning talks in scientific journals shown on a exemplary lightning talk about nomograms

Tools for initially scoping the literature

Identifying and selecting appropriate keywords and indexed terms is crucial for developing robust search strategies to locate studies for systematic and scoping reviews. At the HLA PD online event in November 2020 I gave a 5 minute Lightning Talk on some of the text-mining and other tools I use for initially scoping the literature to gather keywords and indexed terms prior to developing search strategies for systematic and scoping reviews. This article is an adaptation of that presentation.

Developing a Virtual Undergraduate Research Symposium in Response to COVID-19 Disruptions: Building a Canvas-Based Shared Platform and Pondering Lessons Learned

Oregon State University (OSU) partnered with OSU Ecampus, its online degree-granting unit, to develop a Canvas studio site to host a spring research symposium. Easy-to-navigate college-level pages with discussion boards for each student presenter were created. Students were asked to (1) pre-record a three-minute lightning talk by capturing a voice narrative over a PowerPoint slide deck and (2) upload their talks, along with a written narrative, into a pre-made discussion board.

Do you need to reformulate your lead‐gen strategy?

A few years ago at the Higher Education Web Professionals annual conference, I heard a lightning talk about web forms from Mark H. Anbinder of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. The previous year he'd given a poster presentation on the same topic, which demonstrates his continued advocacy (and passion) for creating not only accessible but also inclusive web forms.

POISED TO ADVOCATE

Advocacy is an integral part of child and youth care workers’ roles and a significant component of child and youth care politicized praxis and radical youth work. Drawing from the qualitative data of a mixed-methods study conducted in 2019 at a Canadian metropolitan university, this study seeks to unpack how the pedagogy of the lightning talk can foster advocacy skills to effectively and spontaneously speak out with and on behalf of children, youth, and families in everyday practice when an unforeseen systemic challenge or barrier arises. A purposive sample of 70 undergraduate students was recruited in two child and youth care courses, both of which required students to present a lightning talk. Participants completed an online questionnaire with closed-ended and open-ended questions in order to share their perspectives of the pedagogy of the lightning talk. The findings show that the lightning talk fosters twenty-first century and metacognitive skills and, most importantly, advocacy skills.

LEADERSHIP TRANSCENDING BORDERS: BUILDING BRIDGES TO INTEGRATE TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE

Engineering knowledge is characterized by an artificial “border” that distinguishes technical expertise from the professional skills needed to solve society’s most pressing problems. Scholars of engineering leadership argue that students who are provided opportunities to blur that distinction and integrate their technical and professional training are better prepared for interdisciplinary and transnational engineering work. This “Lightning Talk” session brings together engineering leadership researchers from universities in Australia, Canada, and the United States to explore an array of approaches to understanding and developing engineering leadership. Best practices are presented followed by a panel discussion of the implications for internationalizing work on engineering leadership.

Report of a member-led meeting: how stable isotope techniques can enhance human nutrition research.

A Nutrition Society member-led meeting was held on 9 January 2020 at The University of Surrey, UK. Sixty people registered for the event, and all were invited to participate, either through chairing a session, presenting a '3 min lightning talk' or by presenting a poster. The meeting consisted of an introduction to the topic by Dr Barbara Fielding, with presentations from eight invited speakers. There were also eight lightning talks and a poster session. The meeting aimed to highlight recent research that has used stable isotope tracer techniques to understand human metabolism. Such studies have irrefutably shaped our current understanding of metabolism and yet remain a mystery to many. The meeting aimed to de-mystify their use in nutrition research.

An Empirical Research Project in English and Writing Studies

English majors generally are adept at literary criticism but tend to have less experience in conducting empirical research that draws on both qualitative and quantitative methods and engages human participants. To introduce those methods to students and to satisfy a university requirement for quantitative instruction applied to the discipline, I developed a course called Approaches to Research in English Studies. The students complete individual IRB-approved projects that result in a research report, a poster, and a lightning talk. Before undertaking the individual projects, the students engage in a whole-class research project that models the process, and this latter assignment is described here in this essay.

LIGHTNING TALK: Utilizing the Communication Center: A Resource for Students and Faculty: George Mason University

Communication Center Coordinators conducted interviews with the center’s coaches and students who visited the center. Themes from the interviews indicated students who used the center felt more confident during presentations. Coaches indicated clients who visited multiple times and had specific goals were able to make significant progress with their communication skills. Faculty can meet with the coordinators to determine how to integrate the center into their classes to help students improve their communication skills.

LIGHTNING TALK: Scholarly Digital Storytelling: Authentic Learning In The Classroom And Beyond

Session LOCATION: George's (3rd Floor of the Johnson Center) In scholarly digital storytelling, students produce digital stories based on academic research. Interviews with students and faculty from 22 different institutions across five countries focused on the ways in which participation in scholarly digital storytelling influences students’ academic research, scholarly communication, and digital skills.Preliminary results indicate significant impact on student engagement, motivation, skills, and application of those skills beyond the classroom. Faculty similarly report authentic learning, student engagement, and skill development as well as their own learning and engagement in the teaching process. Scholarly digital storytelling is flexible and can be integrated into many learning environments, from mini-assignments to full-semester projects.

LIGHTNING TALK: Creating Higher Order Assignments In Art-Writing Intensive Courses

Session LOCATION: George's (3rd Floor of the Johnson Center) For this study, I looked at syllabi and assignment sheets from art-writing intensive courses collected by the Writing Across the Curriculum Department at George Mason University in order to discover how they ask students to think about their writing goals. Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to evaluate the language used to describe courses and writing assigned, I determined most writing-intensive courses are utilizing the higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, requiring rigorous assignments and addressing high order concerns.

LIGHTNING TALK: Authentic "Learning by Doing" Projects In Business In Market Research Course

Session LOCATION: George's (3rd Floor Johnson Center) Experiential learning environments and œlearning by doing are accepted as effective instructional methods. Application in our market research classes immerses students in an authentic project, e.g. students’ perceived marketing curriculum needs. The information is used to improve the curriculum and to complete class projects. Some voluntarily do projects for real clients, e.g. The Honey Bee Initiative, Executive and Professional Education, and others. Participants will be able to generalize the authentic learning opportunities to their curriculum.

LIGHTNING TALK: Research-Your-Way-To-An-A: A Model For Cross-Campus Collaboration

SESSION LOCATION: George's (3rd Floor of Johnson Center) Four university partners (the University Libraries' Teaching & Learning Team, Learning Services, the Writing Center, and the Communications Center) leveraged their unique skills and expertise to provide students with a comprehensive, week-long research workshop series called Research Your Way to An A. This timely series was meant to equip students with necessary research and life skills during one of the most critical points in the semester and in their academic careers. Our lightning talk focuses on the origins of the cross-campus partnership, the details of the outreach event, and lessons learned. It also features the results of the workshop series, including data on the number and type of students attracted as well as student-generated data rating the space, food, instruction, topics, and timeliness of the workshops. We hope to provide faculty and staff with a model for forging valuable partnerships as well as suggestions for how to make similar outreach events successful. We also hope to generate a conversation about other types of workshops that might help our undergraduate and graduate populations develop transferable skills to be used both inside and outside of the classroom.

Research-Your-Way-To-An-A: A Model For Cross-Campus Collaboration

Four university partners (the University Libraries' Teaching & Learning Team, Learning Services, the Writing Center, and the Communications Center) leveraged their unique skills and expertise to provide students with a comprehensive, week-long research workshop series called Research Your Way to An A. This timely series was meant to equip students with necessary research and life skills during one of the most critical points in the semester and in their academic careers. Our lightning talk focuses on the origins of the cross-campus partnership, the details of the outreach event, and lessons learned. It also features the results of the workshop series, including data on the number and type of students attracted as well as student-generated data rating the space, food, instruction, topics, and timeliness of the workshops. We hope to provide faculty and staff with a model for forging valuable partnerships as well as suggestions for how to make similar outreach events successful. We also hope to generate a conversation about other types of workshops that might help our undergraduate and graduate populations develop transferable skills to be used both inside and outside of the classroom.