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OLA Super Conference 2019: Powered by the People, 30 January 2019, p. 49

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EDUCATION INSTITUTE Call for PRESENTERS You have ideas, skills and talent! Why not share them through the Education Institute? The Education Institute is now accepting session proposals for the Spring Semester. Submit your proposal: bit.ly/EIproposal CONFERENCE APP AVAILABLE AT OLASUPERCONFERENCE.CA 49 TH U R S D A Y , JA N U A R Y 31 Thursday Poster Sessions expo floor, mtcc hall c Serious Fun: Student Engagement = Student Success Sara Perkins, U Waterloo, Ryan Ball, U Waterloo, Mary Lynne Bartlett, U Waterloo Reaching undergraduate students can get a bit dicey - we don't want Google to have a monopoly on their academic research. Follow along with University of Waterloo Library's Communications Team and Student Engagement Committee to learn how we leveled up our student outreach. Get ready for some serious fun! Student Work Term and Library Success! The Story of Our Headcounting App Beverly Van Horne, Mount Royal U When you move into a 16,000 square-metre building and want to assess how your new spaces are being used, what do you do? We worked with the Department of Mathematics and Computing and hired a student to draft, design and program an app! Visit our poster to see the app and the statistics it generates. The Librarians' Association of the University of Waterloo: A Unique Approach to Supporting Librarianship Rebecca Hutchinson, U Waterloo, Jackie Stapleton, U Waterloo, Laura Bredahl, U Waterloo The Librarians' Association of the University of Waterloo supports the welfare, professionalism, and role of librarians at a research- intensive institution. Working within a rare environment in the Canadian academic landscape where librarians do not have academic status and are not unionized, this association manages unique opportunities and challenges. The Margins and The Masses: Community-Curated Promotion of Queer, Feminist and Intersectional Literature Christine Smith Responding to community need, Queereads Montreal was created to encourage the reading of literature by and about queer (LGBTQ2+), feminist, and intersectional peoples. Curated by trained facilitators and librarians, Queereads participants read and discuss books, magazines, digital and alternative media while creating a safe space for members of the community. Toward Core Competencies for Entrepreneurship Librarians Rachel Figueiredo, U Waterloo, Carey Toane, U Toronto Post-secondary libraries are placing increased emphasis on entrepreneurship, reflected by the growing number of entrepreneurship librarians. This poster will share results of a survey of North American academic librarians supporting campus entrepreneurship to identify the job responsibilities, skills and experience they employ, aiming to outline a strategy for success. Understanding Undergraduate Engineering Student Information Access and Needs: Results from a Scoping Review Ariel Stables-Kennedy, Western U, Kari D. Weaver, U Waterloo, Kate Mercer, U Waterloo How do undergraduate engineering students access information and understand what constitutes a good and legitimate source in the field? This scoping review summarizes the existing research on this topic, identifies potential future research directions, and provides librarians with guidance on the conduct of scoping review methodology. Welcome to the Library: Supporting Students with Multilingual Audio Tours Francesca Kennedy, U Toronto With over 370,000 international post-secondary students studying in Canada, academic libraries are experiencing an increasingly linguistically diverse user-base. The University of Toronto Libraries has created audio tours in English, French, Korean, and Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin) to help ease these students' transition, and welcome them to the library. What Does "Bad" Behaviour Look Like? Suspicious EZproxy Logs and Audit Events Matt Thomas, Wilfrid Laurier U There's an awful lot of data in those EZproxy records but how do you spot excessive use, systematic downloading, non-authorized users, and other inappropriate activity? This poster shows sample logs and other data and points out some of the red flags you can spot to identify likely misused accounts.

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