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🖇 Tuesday, December 13th, 2022
Edward Junhao Lim, University of Connecticut; Carolyn Klotzbach-Russell, University of Buffalo; Reece Steinberg, Toronto Metropolitan University; and Michael Deike, University of Notre Dame
The session will include guided discussion among a panel of library professionals on ESG as a concept, practical usage of ESG data within library contexts, and recommendations for navigating the competitive space of ESG data providers. As a concept, ESG data intersects with various disciplines such as economics, sustainability, ethics, finance, politics, and law. Our panelist experiences with such intersections show the versatility of ESG data for use in library research assistance and instruction.
The kaleidoscopic landscape of data providers for ESG presents many intimidating challenges for library professionals. As a market, ESG data is becoming increasingly saturated, with many ESG scoring systems sold and developed by vendors with varying backgrounds and intentions. The panelists' experiences will help shed light on challenges in navigating ESG data providers that impact how they are used in a library setting. Some challenges include the level of transparency, quality of data, research reproducibility, and equity.
Our panelists are experienced in working directly with ESG data providers, assisting faculty publishing research using ESG data, and facilitating instruction using ESG data. The panel will involve discussion among the panelists, and allow our audience to ask questions and share their knowledge of ESG data. We hope to increase attendees' confidence in their ability to address ESG-related questions, given the likelihood of interest in ESG resources.
Kayla Davidson, Eastern Kentucky University
This session will teach participants how to utilize the TILT method by M.A. Winklemes to make library instruction sessions more transparent to students. Utilizing this method helps students to understand the purpose of the session, and the benefits of the learning and its application to academics and their future careers. The presentation will discuss the basic principles of TILT and ways to apply these principles when planning and executing library instruction in the business discipline. The session will focus on the small, ongoing changes that can be easily made, and how to keep revising over time to create more informative and better lessons. The session will also discuss using TILT to help students understand the applications of their learning to their future business careers. This presentation will be conducted using interactive softwares, such as Nearpod or PearDeck, to allow for active participation in polls, answering questions, and free response. Participants will be asked to look at a lesson plan and apply TILT ideas to the lesson plan during the session to help improve the lesson plan. This lesson plan is one created by the presenter as the initial lesson, and then was TILTed by the presented. The lesson will be displayed as a whiteboard, so that the participants can mark up the lesson and add their ideas and thoughts.
Chelsea H. Barrett, Seton Hall University
As Big data continues to grow and penetrate the workforce, the skill to represent data to interested audiences has become increasingly imperative to teach to students in higher education. Librarians at various institutions have taken on the task of teaching students about data visualizations. This session will discuss how a librarian at an R2 institution incorporated a one-shot lesson on the visualization tool Microsoft Power BI to undergraduate Business students studying financial technology.
🖇 Tuesday, July 11th, 2023
Amanda Pirog and Jason Sokoloff, University of Washington
For well over a decade, University of Washington iSchool students enrolled in LIS 527, the “business reference” class, engaged in a traditional survey of company, industry, and financial resources. While the curriculum remained steady and unvarying, the business information universe morphed and evolved in ways that the class largely neglected. And as student evaluations and enrollment declined, professional business librarian job opportunities were expanding nationwide. After years of imagining how the course could be improved and updated — and years of pleading with the iSchool to take over the class — we had the opportunity to reinvent Business Information Resources, condensing discussions about company, industry and market research sources and adding modules on datasets, GIS, collection development, licensing, outreach and instruction, and DEI issues. We also incorporated perspectives on business information needs and interests as they surface in public libraries, academic institutions, and corporate organizations.
In this session, we will share our process of how we developed our quarter-long class, how students reacted to and engaged with class content, and how teaching LIS 527 can help inform current business librarians about business information literacy for new librarians and in MLIS programs.
Nancy Lovas, UNC Chapel Hill; Teddy Stocking, University of Nevada, Reno
There have been over three dozen business and business-related academic library jobs posted in the past few years. Hiring for these types of positions is challenging, and candidate pools are often small. And, the decline of business information courses in library & information science (LIS) graduate programs complicates matters. The gap between training and jobs is real, and any solution will require multiple approaches and collaborative work. So, what are we to do?
This session will consider this question in three parts. First, we will briefly consider what role, if any, business information professionals can or should have in addressing training needs. Second, we will describe two projects with the purpose of addressing training needs: an academic business information practicum project for LIS students and a professional development program developed by a regional business librarian association. The third part of the session will be a facilitated brainstorm/discussion to promote new connections and collaborations between newer and seasoned business information professionals.
Morgan Ritchie-Baum and Summer Krstevska, Wake Forest University
Motivating students to be engaged participants in their own learning is a perpetual problem in instruction across disciplines. As Librarians, it is not uncommon to face the sometimes herculean task of engaging and motivating not only students in our own for-credit courses but also in the one-shot classroom, where limited time and relationship currency (described as “the currency that is generated by the investments that you make in the people in your environment”) means limited motivation for students to engage with the information, limiting retention and application. We will discuss our experience relinquishing control in the business information classroom and the impact on students' motivation, learning, and retention.
🖇 Wednesday, April 12th, 2023
A forum with a focus on Financial Literacy, with speakers from FINRA and Weiss Financial Ratings.
Weiss Financial Ratings Series Online is a database that provides powerful new tools to protect your finances, invest wisely, grow your wealth, and learn more about managing personal finances. It offers easy-to-read financial literacy eBooks on many different topics. In addition, it provides immediate access to Weiss’ independent and unbiased ratings for stocks, banks, credit unions, bond & money market mutual funds, life & annuity insurers, health insurers, and much more. Weiss Financial Ratings allows unlimited users and remote access within all subscription options. Library Journal also selected Weiss Financial Ratings Series Online as one of the best databases in 2018. Library Journal stated that this resource is “Delightfully simple and straightforward…an excellent financial tool that will certainly get an enormous amount of focus anywhere it is available.”
Located in Washington, DC, the FINRA Foundation supports innovative research and educational projects that empower underserved Americans with the knowledge, skills, and tools to make sound financial decisions throughout life. FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to investor protection and market integrity. It regulates one critical part of the securities industry—brokerage firms doing business with the public in the United States.
Weiss Financial Ratings, FINRA
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