PDA Event: CARLI Undergraduate Research Webinar Series - Day 2

10:00 a.m. CST: Partnering to Support Students in Remote Research Experiences / presented by Rebecca Starkey, University of Chicago Library

11:00 a.m. CST: Research Consultations as a Research Support in the Virtual Environment / presented by Joanna Kolendo & Rosalind Fielder-Giscombe, Chicago State University Library

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Partnering to Support Students in Remote Research Experiences 

COVID-19 has impacted many aspects of undergraduate life, including the chance to participate in mentored research experiences. How can students engage in rewarding research opportunities off-campus during a pandemic? The University of Chicago Library was approached by the College Center for Research and Fellowships to collaborate on a new campus initiative to help undergraduates engage in remote research experiences. The resulting projects included a new website for mentors and students partnered in remote research, and a workshop to prepare undergraduates to conduct research online. Although arising from necessity, the collaboration provided a new way to highlight the library’s role in creating and sustaining meaningful undergraduate research experiences.

Rebecca Starkey is the Head of Research and Instruction Services at the University of Chicago Library. Along with managing the Library’s Ask a Librarian service and information literacy programs, she specializes in undergraduate services, partnering with University offices that support undergraduate research and FLI students. She also serves as the liaison librarian for the fields of education and library science. Prior to joining the University of Chicago Library, Rebecca was a librarian at Roosevelt University in Chicago. She holds a MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a BA in history from the University of Chicago. 

Research Consultations as a Research Support in the Virtual Environment 

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and a rapid shift to predominantly remote learning at Chicago State University, the need suddenly arose to migrate all reference and instruction services to an entirely virtual environment to continue to assist students with research papers and other academic projects. To meet the moment, reference and instruction librarians at the Gwendolyn Brooks Library at CSU leveraged cloud-based software long in use for other purposes and learned how to utilize video conferencing applications effectively to meet the ongoing information needs of students and faculty remotely. While they witnessed a decline in demand for drop-in reference services and bibliographic instruction despite the availability of those services virtually, they experienced a considerable increase in research consultation requests. This session will focus on the following:

• Appointment scheduling platforms, Springshare LibWizard vs LibCal Appointments
• Virtual research consultations via Zoom and GoToMeeting
• Benefits and drawbacks of video conferencing applications
• Data collection and data trends
• Lessons learned

Joanna Kolendo is an associate professor of Library and Information Services.  Starting in 2012, Professor Kolendo has worked as the Reference, Instruction, and Electronic Resources Librarian at the Chicago State University Library.  In this position, she staffs the reference desk as well as teaches library instruction sessions.  Additionally, she is responsible for managing all electronic resources including databases, electronic books, and electronic journals.  She hold a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Dominican University as well as a MSLIS in Library and Information Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a M.Phil in Medieval Literature and Languages, Trinity College Dublin Ireland. 

Rosalind Fielder-Giscombe has been an associate professor of Library and Information Services and a reference and instruction librarian at Chicago State University since 2009. She is also the liaison to CSU’s social science programs and selector for print materials and electronic resources relevant to those subjects. She holds an MSLIS and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She holds a B.A. in Political Science and Spanish from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her political science research focused on comparative politics, Latin American politics, racial and ethnic politics, identity politics, nationalism, ethnic conflict, and social movements, particularly in Latin America and the United States. Her publications include book reviews and book indexes related to her research interests as well as a book chapter with Brandon C. Taylor in Real Life Distance Education: Cases in Practice edited by A. P. Mizell and A. A. Piña.