Presentations From “Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students” Conference

The second “Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students” conference took place on March 22nd & 23rd, 2018 at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia.

From the Conference Website:

As universities continue to add and diversify their graduate programs, academic libraries have become increasingly responsive to the distinct needs of graduate students, considering and experimenting with specialized services, instruction programs and spaces. The mission of the conference is to provide the opportunity to share innovative approaches, best practices, and research on how academic libraries serve graduate students. Program sessions may be offered in traditional formats (such as individual and panel presentations and roundtables) and nontraditional formats.

Links to all sessions are found below. Slides/materials from some sessions are already available online and linked on these pages.

You can also find these links PLUS session abstracts here (March 22, 2018) and here (March 23, 2018).

Day 1

• Mind the Gap: Examining Perceptions of Graduate Student Information Literacy Skills

• NCSU Libraries Peer Scholars Program: Engaging graduate students and postdocs as instructors

• Not Just Degree-Seekers: Graduate Students As Scholarly Contributors

• The Research Savvy Librarians: Boot Camp for Teaching Literature Reviews to Graduate Students

• DOIs, Citation Styles, & Citation Mangers: Gateways to Graduate Students

• INDISPENSABLE: a library’s one stone strategy to improve graduate student research skills, meet faculty research demands and contribute to graduate student retention

• The Role of Academic Libraries in the Carnegie Classification

• International Graduate Students and the Library: Building Relationships at the Penn State Great Valley Campus

• Using Citation Analysis to Develop a Strategic Plan for a Campus-Wide Scholarly Communication Initiative

• Creative Collaborations between Librarians and Professors: A New Take on an Old Idea Produces Unique, Transformative Library Internships for Grad Students

• Graduate Outreach Services: Perspectives from Two University Library Programs

• Collaborative Journey: Faculty-Librarian team teaching the Capstone and Dissertation literature reviews

• Cultivating Cultural Intelligence for Serving International Students

• Roundtable: Organizational Models for reaching graduate students

• Acknowledging Doctoral Students’ Reading Experiences

• Graduate Student Belonging: The Influence of Research Commons on Academic Self-Concept

• Supporting Scholars in Training: A User Needs Survey of a Graduate Study Space

• Building an Archival Literacy Program for Graduate Students at Emory University

• Panel: Serving Different Populations

• Using the ACRL Framework to Build Graduate Services: Librarian Experiences from Three Institutions

Day 2

• Becoming a Competent Graduate Librarian

• Impediments, Partners, and Proposals: Preparing Graduate Students to Start Their Thesis and Dissertation Proposals

• Creating Transformative Connections with Graduate Students Using a Social Capital Framework

• Preparing Humanities PhDs for Academic and Professional Success

• Roundtable: Supporting professional masters’ programs in social science and policy fields

Additional Materials

Conference Program/Session Abstracts (PDF Version)

Materials From First Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students” Conference (2016)