Master’s Student Research Lightning Talk Showcase
Thursday, April 16th 2015
Patty McGowan – What Am I Doing Here? Productivity at the Foreign Service Institute
Chung-Yi (Sophie) Hou – The same only different: Modeling synonyms in ontology
David Forero – Lightweight Transparent Data Visualization
Meredith R. Riddle – Tall Tales for Little Ones and Big Rubrics : Designing An Elementary Genre Unit for the edTPA
Hailley Fargo – Discovering Viewpoints on Technology and Impact of Digital Literacy for All Learners Project
Rachel Suntop – The Makerspace: A New Direction for Libraries
Jamie Viva Wittenberg – Designing Disaster Recovery for Digital Collections
Christopher R. Nixon – Transforming Taxonomic Interfaces
Sarah Crissinger – Reflecting on my Practicum: UX and the Academic Library
Alice Mitchell – Collecting and Evaluating Apps and E-books for Public Libraries
Jacob Rosenthal, Paige Cunningham, and Matthew Macomber – MediVine: An exploration into mutually beneficial systems and user-generated material
Sveta Stoytcheva and Madison Sullivan – The Students Have Spoken: Reflections from the 2015 Symposium on LIS Education
Master’s Student Research Poster Showcase
Friday, October 30th 2015
Kristina E. Williams, Preserving Sacred Ground: UNESCO’s response to the destruction of cultural heritage objects by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Qi Sun, Information seeking strategies of older adults
Nushrat Jahan Khan, Automatic Ingestion of Large-scale Binary Files, Data and Associated Metadata using REST API – Scope of DSpace
Krystal Cooper, Interactive Fiction as a model for reproducibility in Information & Social Science Research
Lo Lee, The Interaction between Users and Search Engines
Anna Lawrence, Information-Seeking Behavior in the Face of Paywalls
Hui Lyu, Future Directions of Academic Libraries in Data Curation
Joy Niu, Web Accessibility at the University of Illinois
Emily Hardesty, Lost and Afraid in the Library: How Academic Librarians are Conquering Library Anxiety Today
Ruth L. Slagle, Valuable Resources Available for Veterans Struggling with PTSD
Abigail Connick, Springshare’s LibGuides: Fad or Investment?
Scott Witmer, Advancing File Format Policymaking for Digital Preservation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gretchen Schneider, Effective LibGuide Design
Sara R. Benson, Assisting Rural Domestic Violence Victims: The Local Librarian’s Role
Andrea Jakubas, Improving Consumer Health with Online Government Information
Jamie L. Roth, Digital Literacy: The Current State of Instructional Training in Academic and Public Libraries in the United States (virtual)
Chung-Yi Hou, NCAR Research Data Archive’s Dataset Appraisal and Selection System: Analysis and Implementation (virtual)