October 2023 MBR The Library Science Shelf

The Library Science Shelf

Creators in the Academic Library: Collections & Spaces
Rebecca Zuege Kuglitsch, editor
Alexander C. Watkins, editor
ACRL Books Association of College & Research Libraries
c/o American Library Association
https://www.ala.org
9780838939826, $72.00, PB, 278pp

https://www.amazon.com/Creators-Academic-Library-Collections-Spaces/dp/0838939821

Synopsis: Engineering students, designers, studio artists, and other student creators have unique research needs that college and university libraries are well-positioned to meet. They use academic literature to inspire and ground creation, but also seek information from trade literature, patents, technical standards, and how-to manuals. They apply tacit knowledge and need to learn not only how to write within academic discourse but also create objects, designs, and experiences.

In four parts, "Creators in the Academic Library: Collections & Spaces" explores how academic libraries can build collections, spaces, and communities that serve creators and is organized into four major sections: Tailoring Collections for Creators; Making in the Academic Library; Creating Experiences in the Library; Cultivating Creator Communities.

Individual chapters identify innovative ways the academic library can support creators by building new kinds of collections, resources, and experiences, including the use of rare books and archives; building a comprehensive technology and research equipment lending collection; performing in library spaces; supporting sustainability across disciplines; and creating equitable access to creator spaces, tools, and resources.

This edition of "Creators in the Academic Library: Spaces & Collections" also documents spaces and collections that strive for equity and authenticity, for playfulness and joy, and offers strategies for creating a library open to all comers seeking a place to create in a liberating environment.

Critique: Collaborative compiled and deftly co-edited by the team of Rebecca Zuege Kuglitsch and Alexander C. Watkins, "Creators in the Academic Library: Collections and Spaces" is very highly recommended for personal, professional, and academic library Library Science collections and supplemental curriculum studies list. It should be noted that it is also the companion book to "Creators in the Academic library: Instruction and Outreach" which is also from ACRL Books Association of College & Research Libraries.

Editorial Note #1: Rebecca Zuege Kuglitsch (https://experts.colorado.edu/display/fisid_152452) is the faculty director and team lead for Branches & Services at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research draws on her experience in science and engineering librarianship. She received her undergraduate degree in history and biology from Knox College, a master's degree in history from UCLA, and her MLIS from the University of Washington.

Editorial Note #2: Alexander C. Watkins (https://www.colorado.edu/libraries/alexander-watkins) is the art and architecture librarian and an associate professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research focuses on methods for critical, engaging, and effective teaching in libraries. He received a bachelor of arts degree in the history of art and anthropology from the University of California Berkeley, and master's degrees in the history of art and design and library and information science from Pratt Institute.

Creators in the Academic Library: Instruction & Outreach
Alexander C. Watkins, editor
Rebecca Zuege Kuglitsch, editor
ACRL Books Association of College & Research Libraries
c/o American Library Association
https://www.ala.org
9780838939703, $72.00, PB, 312pp

https://www.amazon.com/Creators-Academic-Library-Instruction-Outreach/dp/0838939708

Synopsis: Engineering students, designers, studio artists, and other student creators have unique research needs that libraries are well-positioned to meet. They use academic literature to inspire and ground creation, but also seek information from trade literature, patents, technical standards, and how-to manuals. They apply tacit knowledge and need to learn not only how to write within academic discourse but also create objects, designs, and experiences.

In four parts (Technology, Tools, and Techniques for Creation; Inspiring Creativity through Research; Creator's Unique Information Needs; Grounding Creation in Research), "Creators in the Academic Library: Instruction and Outreach" explores how to teach specifically for creator research, motivate learning, and deepen students' understanding of their own practice.

Individual chapters are grouped by learning objectives rather than discipline to highlight the throughlines that unite creators regardless of their field. They include methods for researching creative technology, tools, and techniques in different settings and disciplines; how to research for inspiration; adapting our tools and teaching to the unique information-seeking behaviors of creator disciplines; and how these skills can be transferred to students' future careers.

"Creators in the Academic Library: Instruction & Outreach" offers learning strategies and objectives that can help you teach all manner of creators.

Critique: Collaborative compiled and deftly co-edited by the team of Rebecca Zuege Kuglitsch and Alexander C. Watkins, "Creators in the Academic Library: Instruction & Outreach" is unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, and academic library Library Science collections and supplemental curriculum studies list. It should be noted that it is also the companion book to "Creators in the Academic library: Collections & Spaces" which is also from ACRL Books Association of College & Research Libraries.

Editorial Note #1: Alexander C. Watkins (https://www.colorado.edu/libraries/alexander-watkins) is the art and architecture librarian and an associate professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research focuses on methods for critical, engaging, and effective teaching in libraries. He received a bachelor of arts degree in the history of art and anthropology from the University of California Berkeley, and master's degrees in the history of art and design and library and information science from Pratt Institute.

Editorial Note #2: Rebecca Zuege Kuglitsch (https://experts.colorado.edu/display/fisid_152452) is the faculty director and team lead for Branches & Services at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research draws on her experience in science and engineering librarianship. She received her undergraduate degree in history and biology from Knox College, a master's degree in history from UCLA, and her MLIS from the University of Washington.

Practicing Privacy Literacy in Academic Libraries
Sarah Hartman-Caverly, editor
Alexandria Chisholm, editor
ACRL Books Association of College & Research Libraries
c/o American Library Association
https://www.ala.org
9780838939895, $90.00, PB, 390pp

https://www.amazon.com/Practicing-Privacy-Literacy-Academic-Libraries/dp/0838939899

Synopsis: Even in this ear of social media and internet hackers, privacy is not dead: Students care deeply about their privacy and the rights it safeguards. They need a way to articulate their concerns and guidance on how to act within the complexity of our current information ecosystem and culture of surveillance capitalism.

"Practicing Privacy Literacy in Academic Libraries: Theories, Methods, and Cases" can help to teach privacy literacy, evolve the privacy practices at academic institution, and re-center the individuals behind the data and the ethics behind library work.

This large format (7 x 0.9 x 10 inches, 1.11 pounds) edition of "Practicing Privacy Literacy in Academic Libraries: Theories, Methods, and Cases" is divided into four major sections: What is Privacy Literacy?; Protecting Privacy; Educating about Privacy; Advocating for Privacy.

Individual chapters cover a range of thematically relevant topics including privacy literacy frameworks; digital wellness; embedding a privacy review into digital library workflows; using privacy literacy to challenge price discrimination; privacy pedagogy; and promoting privacy literacy and positive digital citizenship through credit-bearing courses, co-curricular partnerships, and faculty development and continuing education initiatives.

"Practicing Privacy Literacy in Academic Libraries: Theories, Methods, and Cases" provides theory-informed, practical ways to incorporate privacy literacy into library instruction and other areas of academic library practice.

Critique: Collaboratively compiled and co-edited by experienced academic librarians Sarah Hartman-Caverly and Alexandria Chisholm, "Practicing Privacy Literacy in Academic Libraries: Theories, Methods, and Cases" is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, college, and university Library/Information Science collections and as a supplemental Library & Information Science curriculum textbook.

Editorial Note #1: Sarah Hartman-Caverly, MS(LIS), MSIS, is a reference and instruction librarian at Penn State Berks, where she liaises with Engineering, Business and Computing division programs. Sarah delivered her first privacy literacy workshop, "Is Big Data Big Brother?," in 2014. She co-facilitated a faculty learning community examining learning analytics through a privacy lens in 2017 and a professional community of practice workshop on privacy in 2021. Sarah's research examines the compatibility of human and machine autonomy from the perspective of intellectual freedom, and she publishes and presents on privacy literacy and other topics as part of this work. She earned her MS(LIS) and MS in information systems from Drexel University College of Computing & Informatics (then iSchool) and holds a BA in anthropology from Haverford College. Outside of the library, Sarah is an edible gardener, chicken herder, and homemaker. Together, Sarah and Alex Chisholm created the Penn State Berks Privacy Workshop Series, collaborate on privacy literacy research and professional development, and maintain the Digital Shred Privacy Literacy Toolkit.

Editorial Note #2: Alexandria Chisholm is an associate librarian at Penn State University Libraries and liaison to the Berks campus' first-year experience program and science division. She has over ten years of reference and instruction experience at both private and public baccalaureate- and doctoral-degree granting institutions. Chisholm's research focuses on privacy literacy, with special attention on digital wellness and algorithmic transparency as well as information literacy and student engagement. Together, Alex and Sarah Hartman-Caverly created the Penn State Berks Privacy Workshop Series, collaborate on privacy literacy research and professional development, and maintain the Digital Shred Privacy Literacy Toolkit.

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