CONFERENCE

MINUTES OF THE 2018 ASDAL ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

38th ASDAL Conference, , Lacombe, AB, by Heather Rodriguez-James ASDAL Secretary

TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 2018 - 1ST SESSION allow me to continue my research in designing effective and sustainable 1. The meeting was called to order at 3:02 pm with integrated library instruction for prayer by the President, Per Lisle. undergraduate students as they learn how 2. Approved: Lori Curtis – to serve as to be effective researchers. I've appreciated Parliamentarian for the 2018 Business Sessions. the networking and nurturing that I have 3. Approved: The 2017 Conference minutes received from my fellow Adventist pending the following correction: “2016” needs librarians. God bless. to be changed to “2017”. Kiren Bailey” 4. Approved: Election of the Resolutions The ASDAL Executive Committee Committee: Paulette Johnson, Allison Fox, Neal members are sad that Kieren has taken this Smith. step and want to thank her for her good 5. Orientation from the President on President- work for ASDAL during her tenure as elect: President-elect. The Executive is working to 5.1 On April 16, 2018 Kieren Bailey resigned ensure that the Association will have a from the position of ASDAL President- President after June 2018. The President has elect. taken over the role of the President-elect in 5.2 On April 20, 2018 I sent the following relation to the 38th Annual ASDAL message to SDA-Librarian: Conference at Burman University June 17 – On April 16, 2018 Kieren Bailey, the 2017- 21, 2018. 18 ASDAL President-elect, sent me the Per Lisle following statement: ASDAL President “After much prayer and consideration I 5.3 The Bylaws do not address the current have decided to resign as President-elect situation. of the Association. I am pursuing other 5.4 Recommendation: Nominating Committee organizations that are more closely tied to reconvene and report on Thursday. my doctoral work, which relates directly to 5.4.1 Approved: Motion that the reference and instruction. I am also Nominating Committee reconvene pursuing another job opportunity that will

ASDAL ACTION | FALL 2018 21 CONFERENCE and bring a nomination for President payment is requested for. to the floor for Thursday’s meeting. 6.5.2.2 All new business or vendors 5.5 Approved: Motion that the Constitution must be voted by the and Bylaws Committee review Article 4, Executive Committee. Section 9 and edit for clarity in time for the 6.5.2.3 Normal business above $200 next ASDAL Annual Conference. must be authorized by the 6. Statement from the President on email scam. President via email and face to 6.1 On November 20, the ASDAL Treasurer face, either in person or via began receiving emails that appeared to videoconferencing. come from the ASDAL President’s email 6.5.2.4 Officers and committee address ([email protected]) about an members shall normally use urgent bill that needed to be paid for the email address issued to “website maintenance and upgrade.” When them by their employing the Treasurer requested further details from organization for ASDAL the person claiming to be “Per,” the business. perpetrators supplied additional information. 6.5.2.5 No ASDAL member shall use At this point, the Treasurer had the acronym ASDAL in a inadvertently entered into a dialogue with private email address. the fraudsters. 6.5.3 Recommendation: That the 6.2 Payment of $3,850 was initiated on Constitution and Bylaws Committee November 22, 2017, and the transaction was review the relevant policies in view of completed on November 25, 2017. what has happened and be prepared to 6.3 On November 27, 2017, the Treasurer report during the 2019 ASDAL emailed the President directly, starting a new Conference. email thread and using his genuine email 6.5.3.1 Approved: Motion that the address. It was at this point the scam was Constitution and Bylaws discovered. Committee review the relevant 6.4 Attempts were made to stop the payment, policies in view of what has but the check had cleared, and the funds happened and be prepared to were lost. The incident was reported to the report at the ASDAL authorities. Conference in 2019. 6.5 Action and recommendation to avoid scams. 7. Report from the Nominating Committee: Terry 6.5.1 The ASDAL Executive Committee Robertson presented the results of the ASDAL sought advice on how to handle the election, with the following individuals being November 2017 email scam from Dr. voted into office: Keith Howson, formerly of Avondale ● President-elect – Katy Van Arsdale (2018- College of Higher Education and La 2019) Sierra University, and Dr. Pamela ● ASDAL Action Editor – Neal Smith (2018- Jansen of Southern Adventist 2020) University. Dr. Howson is an ● Scholarship and Awards Committee - Deyse accountant and auditor, and Dr. Bravo (2018-2021) Jansen teaches business ethics. ● SDA Classification Advisory Committee – 6.5.2 Based on advice from Drs. Howson Genevieve Singh and Adorée Hatton (2018- and Jansen, the ASDAL Executive 2021) Committee has taken immediate steps ● Site Planning Committee – Norah Mauti to prevent a similar course of events: (2018-2021) 6.5.2.1 All payments must be 7.1 Approved: Motion to accept the election supported by genuine invoices results. specifying the service or goods

22 ASDAL ACTION | FALL 2018 CONFERENCE 7.2 Approved: Motion that the nominating 9.2 Approved: Motion to accept the report on committee create a list of all the committees the three recommendations from the and officers in ASDAL and circulate it to SDAPI-WG and the ADL Board. solicit member interest in various offices 9.3 Conversations began with EBSCO and and committees. This would give the WorldCat with regard to third-party nominating committee a clearer database hosting to analyze the feasibility of understanding of where members’ interests hosting the SDAPI databases on these lie. (It was noted that the positions did not systems for seamless use by subscribers to include the ARS Working Committee, their services. At this time, there appears to ARMS Working Committee, or ALICE). be no cost involved in doing this. The data 8. Discussion ensued on the number of vacant requirements appear to be manageable. The coordinator positions in ASDAL. Parliamentarian SDAPI-WG recommends this option be stated that coordinators are chosen by the pursued with the means of making SDAPI Executive Committee. The new Executive databases more accessible to libraries that Committee will address the matter. use these vendors’ products. 9. Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index Advisory 9.4 The SDAPI-AC formed a new Working Committee (SDAPI-AC) Report. Group to study the technical and financial 9.1 The SDAPI-AC met to review the aspects of this idea. The members of the recommendations from the SDAPI Working new Working Group are: Group (WG) set up by the SDAPI-AC last ● Daryl Bennedbaek, Burman summer. The purpose of the SDAPI-WG University, co-chair was to develop plans or suggestions for the ● Neal Smith, Adventist University of development of the index in order to keep it Health Sciences, co-chair a viable and valuable product within the ● Larry Onsager, SDA community. The members of the WG ● Paulette Johnson, Oakwood were Eric Koester, Facilitator, Darel University Bennedbaek, Jim Ford, Paulette Johnson, ● Jerry Daly, Larry Onsager, Neal Smith, and Steve ● Eric Koester, ADL representative Sowder. On February 6, 2018, SDAPI-WG ● Carolyn Gaskell, Walla Walla, reported their recommendations to the Resource for negotiation with EBSCO SDAPI-AC, which voted to proceed. The 9.4.1 The Working Group will bring a SDAPI is in partnership with ADL; report to the winter meeting of the therefore, any recommendations need to be SDAPI-AC. presented to the ADL Board. The 10. ASDAL’s Privacy Policy is now on the webpage. recommendations went to the ADL Board in June where it was voted to accept the Meeting adjourned at 3:45pm recommendations pending approval by ASDAL in conference. The THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2018 – 2ND SESSION recommendations are: ● ADL and SDAPI will integrate with 11. 2nd report from the Nominating Committee discovery platforms. regarding the position of President. ● Andrews University will continue to 11.1 Approved: Motion to accept Lori Curtis as host the master PI database. Those ASDAL President, 2018-2019. not using researchers and institutions 12. Treasurer’s report: Xiaoming Xu presented not using a discovery platform will several detailed Excel spreadsheets, but not a continue to have access via links on traditional balance sheet. the James White Library website. 12.1 Approved: Motion to take figures as ● ADL will host the scans of digitized presented and create a traditional balance periodical issues. sheet – to be voted at the banquet.

ASDAL ACTION | FALL 2018 23 CONFERENCE 13. Approved: Scholarship and Awards Committee 2023 – , Lincoln, Report: Heather Rodriguez-James Nebraska – TBD Last year there were two scholarship 15. Approved: ALICE 2017-2018 Report. recipients. At the start of the second 18 Institutions Subscribe to at least one semester, we received notice from one of database. the library schools that one of the recipients Four Vendors: College Source, EBSCO, was no longer full-time and wanted to know Naxos, ProQuest if we would still honor the scholarship. As Annual increase 4.76% - 4.31% the student had the intention to go full-time Expenditure $324,892 (- $329,730 in 2016- but was unable to, we decided to still honor 2017) the scholarship, with the intention of Net Gain for the year $3,200 reviewing the rules to define, or redefine, Ending Balance $40,463.25 full-time and discuss if exception should be The following ALICE Officers were elected and made if the student is currently employed at their terms of office set at the Tuesday, June 19, a library and could only attend school part- 2018, meeting: time, over the 2018-2019 year. The Project Manager, Carolyn Gaskell to 2020 membership agreed that the Scholarship and Treasurer, Lawrence Onsager to 2021 Awards Committee, along with the Secretary, Per Lisle to 2021 Executive Committee, should review the Chair, Paulette Johnson to 2019 rules over the next year. 16. Journal of Adventists Libraries and Archives: Terry Although someone else recently expressed Robertson, Andrews University, reported that the interest, to date, we have one applicant with journal is in its third year, and it should not be a complete package. The person expressing long before we have a third article. Terry interest in applying is a former scholarship Robertson thanked the peer reviewers, and awardee. assured the members that they make every effort Heather thanked Ashlee Chism for doing a to keep the reviewers at a double blind. Facebook post for the Scholarships and 17. Approved: Election of Nominating Committee: Awards Committee. She also thanked Darel Per Lisle, Past President, Chair of Nominating Bennedbaek for his work on the committee. Committee. Nominated: Jeffrey de Vries, Deanna 14. Approved: Conference Site-Planning Committee Flores, Sheila Clark, and Christina Thomson Report: Paulette Johnson 18. Based on a request that came from Deanna The following locations have been chosen Flores, there was much discussion on getting for future conferences as indicated: Adventist publishers to place their books on an 2019 – Office of Archives, Statistics ebook platform like EBSCO or ProQuest. The and Research, General Conference of consensus is that ASDAL would be in favor of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, pursuing such a venture. Not only would it make Maryland – June 24-27 Adventist books more accessible to our students, 2020 – Andrews University, Berrien but it would help take Adventist publications to a Springs, Michigan - June 22-25 broader audience. Other religious organizations 2021 – Southern Adventist University, are already using these platforms. Collegedale, Tennessee - June 21-24 19. Approved: That the Executive Committee form 2022 – Either Adventist University of an Ad Hoc committee of three or four members Africa, Kenya, or , who will study whether Adventist publications Nigeria - TBD can be included as ebooks on platforms like

24 ASDAL ACTION | FALL 2018 CONFERENCE EBSCO and ProQuest. If the Ad Hoc committee attendance at the conference as soon as possible. concludes that this is feasible, they will study how 22. The Resolutions Committee thanked the Local it can be achieved. Deanna Flores and Terry Arrangements Committee, Burman University, Robertson are willing to serve on the committee. the banquet chef and catering staff, and David Delafield for his information and shared one or Business meeting adjourned 4:15pm two jokes about the bus slow-down. 23. Xiaoming Xu, Treasurer, presented Per with his THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2018 - 3RD SESSION ASDAL President commemorative plaque. 24. Per passed the ASDAL gavel to Lori Curtis, 20. The last meeting of the conference was called to ASDAL President 2018-2019. order by outgoing President Per Lisle. 21. Balance sheet: Per explained that the annual The meeting was adjourned and the conference balance sheet was not ready for a vote. It would closed by the new President, Lori Curtis, at 9:00pm be forwarded for vote to the members in

CONFERENCE REPORT: COMPUTERS IN LIBRARIES

By Cynthia May Helms James White Library, Andrews University

I attended the Computers in Libraries Conference in • If you’re concerned about privacy, here are a few Arlington, VA, in April 2018. Presentations were websites for you to use: DuckDuckgo.com, categorized into three tracks for each day of the con- Gibiru.com, and Peekier.com. ference. Besides the regular presentations in desig- nated rooms, there were activities going on in the • Include detecting fake news in your information exhibit hall. There were vendors exhibiting their literacy program. Go to ifla.org to see the rubric products, providing demonstrations, and giving short on “How to Spot Fake News”. Make your stu- presentations. I found the CyberTours corner of the dents aware of the websites that contain fake in- exhibit hall quite interesting because it offered short formation, junk science, and conspiracy theories. talks on various topics, one of which was about the • Here are two interactive sites for library instruc- use of LibWizard for creating pre and posttests in tion: Kahoot! and Oviatt Library Tutorials. LibGuides and embedding them in Blackboard.

After attending many full-blown presentations, I came back with several takeaways. Here are a few that I would like to share:

• Google vs. Bing – Bing does variant spelling; Google doesn’t. Search results from Bing have more options than Google.

ASDAL ACTION | FALL 2018 25 CONFERENCE REPORT OF THE 38TH ANNUAL ASDAL CONFERENCE

Burman University, Lacombe, AB, Canada Show the Bang for Your Book: Demonstrating the Value of an Academic Library June 18 – 21, 2018 by Heather Rodriguez-James ASDAL Secretary

SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2018 Nations, Inuit, & Metis Program Marketing Your Archives! – An Director, Burman University, Introduction, Lori Curtis, Chair, Registration occurred at the extended a welcome on behalf of Department of Archives and Lakeview Hall reception desk. the Treaty 6 Plains, Danae, and Special Collections, Loma Linda Metis people. University. Social Media for Libraries: An Lori introduced the ARMS ASDAL Workshop, the first ARMS Worship: Massiel Davila-Ferrer, session theme, selected during workshop, was held in McKibbin Nurture Pastor, College Heights lunch in the Blue Room at Centre’s Underhill Lecture Hall. SDA Church, shared with the Newbold College of Higher attendees the value and rhythms of Education during the 2017 Meet & Greet/Welcome dinner time. She encouraged us to ASDAL Conference. (soup, salad, sandwiches and eliminate hurry from our lives and dessert)/Poster Session was pointed to the parable of the Social Media for Libraries: An located at the Hilltop Hideout. Good Samaritan, who took the ASDAL Workshop Report, Katy time to have “unhurried” service Van Arsdale, Special Collections MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2018 and get his hands dirty. Unhurried Librarian, . service may be inconvenient and Katy reported on the ARMS Welcome: Burman University quite interruptive. Let us not miss Workshop. She shared what the President Dr. Loren Agrey the opportunity to sit at the feet of eight attendees were able to welcomed the members of the Jesus. accomplish and invited ASDAL Association of Seventh-day conference attendees to add Adventist Librarians to the Archives and Records social media questions for the campus. Gina Guiboche, First Management Section (ARMS) upcoming session with NAD session. Digital Strategist Jamie

26 ASDAL ACTION | FALL 2018 CONFERENCE Schneider Domm. Discussion at the workshop included technical difficulties such as budget, personnel, and time in marketing archives and their respective libraries. There are six basic steps to creating a social media presence for your library: 1. Assemble a team – even if it is a team of one. 2. Define your goals – one or two goals are sufficient to get you started (e.g., increase the number of likes or alumni; create your presences and be Conference. At ASTR there had World War II, Sabrina was able consistent). Keep the goals been a large processing backlog, to uncover true stories of manageable. few finding aids, a lone Adventist soldiers during the 3. Determine a budget – what arranger, and global researchers. American Civil War (1861- would it cost to boost a Greene and Meissner suggest 1865) and World War I (1914- post ($0.68 -- $5.00)? that in order to expedite access 1918). An excellent storyteller, 4. Schedule regular meetings to collections by researchers, Sabrina took us through her to look at what is working one can do series-level adventures conducting research or not. descriptions rather than item- in the General Conference 5. Make and share with your level. Descriptions can be Archives, the Adventist Digital team a content calendar. enhanced through relevant Library, the National Archives 6. Revise your efforts based maintenance over the life of the and Ancestry.com. This on the analytics – which collection. Archivists may resist presentation was full of parts of analytics are this method because they fear interesting facts and humor. important? that important items could be lost. However, a flexible Archives and Records More Product, Less Process and the approach could work at the box Management Section (ARMS) General Conference Archives: A Case and folder level. Individual Business Meeting. Study, Ashlee Chism, Assistant archivists need to decide what is Archivist, Office of Archives, acceptable minimum-level Spotlight on the Edith Fitch Statistics, and Research (ASTR), processing for their institution. Department of Archives, Burman General Conference of Seventh- University: A Campus Tour, Tristan day Adventists. In Search of American Adventist Willauer and Adorée Hatton, Ashlee showed how Greene Soldiers, Sabrina Riley, independent Burman University. and Meissner’s 2005 article researcher. Tristan and Adorée walked us “More Product, Less Process” Although the U.S. Government not only around the beautiful could be adapted to the did not keep records of soldiers’ campus, but through Burman Archives at the General religious affiliation before

ASDAL ACTION | FALL 2018 27 CONFERENCE The Digital Tide and Adventist Resources, ARS Committee Members. Each member spoke briefly about a particular format found in all of our collections, looking at old versus new ways of collecting, processing, housing, and accessing. 1. Alan Hecht, Office of Archives, Statistics, and Research, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists – Books, tracts, paper in general; 2. Jim Ford, Andrews University’s rich history (1907- through our own eyes. Your University, Center for present) as well. perception changes as you Adventist Research – spend time with other Serials/Periodicals; We Dare Not Forget! Lessons from cultures. You begin to see 3. Adorée Hatton, Burman Libraries on Six Continents, Keith the world with new eyes. University – Media Clouten, Retired Librarian. 2. Some lessons learned (photographs, audio and Keith reminded us that we included the importance of video recordings, motion should never forget our history relationships, planning, oral pictures); because “A people without the culture, locally held 4. Lori Curtis, Loma Linda knowledge of their past history collections, identification University – Special is like a tree without roots.” – and preservation of collections (manuscripts); Marcus Garvey; and “A nation Adventist history sites, etc. 5. Katy Van Arsdale, Pacific that forgets its past has no Keith challenged us to remind Union College – Realia future” – Winston Churchill. Adventists of their past. (three-dimensional objects); To contextualize it, Keith said: Librarians should maintain and and “Seventh-day Adventists grow the Adventist Digital 6. Lori Curtis, Loma Linda without the knowledge of their Library as a resource, identify University – Organizational past history are like a tree and provide access to regional archives. without roots, and a church that resources, adjust our thinking Discussion arose regarding how forgets its past has no future.” and planning to meet the needs one should handle Listed below are some tips that of all cultures, stand for what is organizational email and videos. Keith passed on to us from his authentic and genuine, and be Videos could be placed into a travel and work across the passionate about our church’s digital asset management globe: history – preserving it, program, like Digital Commons 1. On diversity – we see other experiencing it, understanding from bepress or cultures not as they are, but it, and sharing it. CONTENTdm. Organizational as we are. We interpret their email is more complex. conduct and society Reference was made to a list

28 ASDAL ACTION | FALL 2018 CONFERENCE regarding the focus of our material through 1900. The vertical dimension asks: institutions’ collections. This list 3. It was suggested that a blog be How do we respond in God’s had previously been available created to raise awareness of silence? Is God listening? Does on the ASDAL webpage. current publications on He care enough? Is God willing Interest was expressed in the that would review, to do what we ask of Him? Is creation of an updated list.. or list, books on Seventh-day God actually able? However, Adventism and where such there is the horizontal Adventist Resources Section books could be purchased. dimension (our part in all of (ARS) Business Meeting. 4. An announcement was made this), which says, God is willing about the passing of Clara and able, but we may not 1. Voted: Michelle Rojas, La Rock, first Archivist of discerning what He is saying, Sierra University, to the . and we may not be listening. Adventist Resources Working Beneath the surface of all of us Committee for a three-year The Seventh-day Adventist is gold that needs to be term (2018-2021). Periodical Index Advisory revealed. God allows trials and 2. Adventist Digital Library Committee meeting was held at tribulations, as He is seeking to digitizing priorities: ADL staff the Lakeview Hall Chatterbox at bring out the gold in our are working to get all the early 7:00 pm. character. Remember that God Adventist (pre-1880) material is sovereign. He is in total digitized. They were pleased to TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 2018 control of all that is happening announce that all available to us. God’s love and justice Millerite periodicals have been Worship: Finding Out God’s Will for mean He will always act in our digitized and are available Your Life When He Is Silent, Kevin best interest. Romans 8:28. online. The staff are currently Burrell, Assistant Professor, working on the digitization of Religious Studies, Burman Keynote Address: Building on the all English-language Adventist University. All in Small, Tim Janewski, CEO, The Library. Small libraries have special needs and require special talents. Strategies for success included leveraging the power of networks and consortia, searching for scalable solutions, and planning organically. The presentation had many useful suggestions: Why create something when you can use your network power to modify something that is already done? Serving your students and faculty well does not mean you need the fanciest and newest things. We can repurpose and move things around; you may

ASDAL ACTION | FALL 2018 29 CONFERENCE have to penny pinch. Keep an contributor, what it meant to be devices. Content: 1,640 books eye on listservs for good deals a partner, and what it meant to and documents added, 545 on furniture and keep your ears hold and control our resources. periodical issues, and 2,400 open to learn which other The Systems Subcommittee pages; Index scanning: 206 libraries may be ridding reviewed the backup and books and documents themselves of equipment or recovery strategies for the ADL processed, 500 periodical issues furniture. system. There were no major scanned. All available Millerite purchases in equipment this periodicals are online. Scans Adventist Digital Library (ADL) year. ADL switched a scanner created by CAR staff before the Report, Eric Koester, Lead with Andrews University formation of ADL have been Manager, Adventist Digital Archives for their Kodak i2200. added. The ADL staff are Library. An update was also given on nearing completion of digitizing The URL for the ADL the various hardware and the CAR’s vault books. homepage is software acquired as they work In the coming year, the ADL adventistdigitallibrary.org. ADL towards a fully customizable staff hope to complete the CAR has three full-time workers, one Windows experience. Eric vault books and identify Center for Adventist Research reported that the platform had missing issues of the Review & (CAR)-shared professional experienced a ransomware Herald and Signs of the Times cataloger (10 hours), and attack and 200,000 files had through 1900. Additional goals approximately six student been affected, but almost all include completing the workers. The cataloger works had been restored. Barriers metadata, processing and directly with Felipe Tan, James were put in place to prevent loading of pending White Library, to ensure that further attacks. photographs, and promoting metadata is brought into The website platform was in ADL on social media. compliance with James White software development. The Discussion centered on adding Library standards. There are website’s usage was up 36% filters and best ways to search two subcommittees (Content over last year. Approximately on ADL. and Systems) that advise the 3,000 objects were being work of the Digital Library. downloaded per month. Users Going Viral – (Virtual Institutional Last year the Content were staying on the site 10% Repositories and ASDAL Libraries): Subcommittee developed a longer, and fewer users were An Added Value for Our policy governance document bouncing away from the site. Stakeholders, Terry Robertson, that addressed the collections, 50% of users were from the Associate Dean of Libraries, metadata, and privacy issues United States; other countries, Professor of Library Science, related to the website. The in the order of use, were Seminary Librarian, Andrews document required negotiations Australia, the Philippines, the University, and Larry Onsager, among the partners and was United Kingdom, and Brazil. Dean of Libraries, Associate approved by the Board on June Usage in Australia, the Professor of Library Science, 7, 2018. Its main purpose was Philippines, and Canada was Andrews University. to expand on and confirm the centered on academic. By Terry and Larry took us on a Memorandum of gender, 60% of the users were journey from failed efforts to Understanding that was signed male vs 40% female; 50% under their institutional repositories’ in 2013, providing detail into the age of 45; 75% used first three years of service and what it meant to be a desktops; 25% used mobile success. Inspired by two

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2018 ASDAL Conference, 1st Business Meeting. See pages 21-25 for the complete minutes.

Access for All: Reaching Educators Across the Digital Landscape, Faith- Ann McGarrell, Editor, Journal of Adventist Education (JAE). As long as you have access to a computer, you have access to the Journal of Adventist Education, as it has now gone electronic. The URL is ASDAL members, Andrews They have been slowly engaging https://jae.adventist.org/. You University launched Digital the whole campus as they can also get the app from Commons, an institutional include more campus news and iTunes or Google Play. The repository, in 2015. In year one newsletters in the repository, print-ready edition is still Andrews University focused on which in turn helps them provided to three of the student works; in year two – market the repository. They Adventist World Divisions: journals, and in year three – hope to have the repository East Central Africa, West other types of information. included in the recruitment of Central Africa, and Southern The Digital Commons students. They would like the Asia Pacific. Circle.adventist.org repository at Andrews institutional repository to make has collaborated with JAE in University has already had a a global impact on Adventist sourcing and allowing JAE to global impact as it approaches 1 education as ASDAL goes use their server for storage. The million downloads in 230 VIRAL. Board is still discussing the countries. 49% of these There was discussion on having importance of going after downloads were student works, an ASDAL Action column impact factors ratings. JAE is while 34% were journals. Terry highlighting new initiatives. an award-winning journal that and Larry are able to brand the The following LibGuide was has established and maintained University by putting the shared: libguides.andrews.edu/ a high level of quality. JAE is a represented department on each asdal member of the American dissertation or paper. They are Association of Publishers, working on faculty works and Breakout sessions: Associated Church Press, and are looking to include library ● Executive Committee Cabell’s International services or public documents ● Library Directors (Academic Referencing and for stakeholders (i.e., campus ● Reference Citation Index). Submissions news, student movement, tours, ● Archives & Special have to go through a double- student missionary narratives, Collections blind peer review process, student officer profiles, etc.). ● Technical Services which is sometimes a turnoff

ASDAL ACTION | FALL 2018 31 CONFERENCE for would-be writers. JAE has JAE is looking for in which we heard Swampy come up with other options for collaboration on 4-5 articles for Cree greetings and learned authors who may not have time contribution to the journal. about the importance of to write a long article and greetings and connections. submit it for peer review. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20 Connection greetings among CIRCLE and JAE have built First Nations’ peoples establish on the idea of a blog that The bus loaded at 7:00 am for a who you are, where you are inspires interaction among wonderful, breath-taking, awe- from, and what territory your Adventist educators globally on inspiring day in the Canadian family is from. They establish eleven different themes: Rockies. David Delafield, Burman who you are related to, and if https://educators. University Outdoor Education you are family, in what way. In adventist.org/ faculty, was invited to be our tour academia, people want to know Peer reviewers are to focus guide. We first went on the Rocky your credentials, whether or not specifically on the following: Mountain Scenic Drive and Peyto you are credible. However, that ● Does the article have Lake Viewing; had dinner at the is not the case with First relevance to Seventh-day Lake Louise Ski Lodge; took the Nation’s Peoples. They want to ● Adventist teachers and scenic gondola up the mountain; know your connections. In educational administrators went on a Chateau Lake Louise traditional settings, connecting worldwide? and Lakeside walk; and headed to is achieved in circles because ● Was there sufficient use of the town of Banff for supper and there is no hierarchy in a circle. research or source shopping. It was a day well spent. Connecting is done through materials? speaking, by the way one acts, ● Was the subject covered THURSDAY, JUNE 21 through sign or body language, adequately and from a or through books. defensible viewpoint? Worship: Gina Guiboche Sometimes working and ● How is the overall quality? June 21 was Summer Solstice researching might take us away ● General suggestions for Day as well as Indigenous Day. from the most important book revision. We had a good cultural lesson of all times. This book would

32 ASDAL ACTION | FALL 2018 CONFERENCE impact and change our life if we words are not? What story are artifacts for core competency would read it. Just hearing you telling? What impact can proficiency. A different others talk about it is not your library have on social institutional core competency enough. It is a miracle book media? Jamie explored those was covered each year, and in that can change you – the Bible. questions and more as she 2016-2017 the topic was Gina reminded us that our offered technical, practical information literacy. PUC earthly jobs are secondary – We are waiting on our Lord and Savior’s return and should not let the cares of this world make us forget about this important fact. It is our privilege to share His message. Do not forget that you are His child with a great work to do.

Digital Marketing Best Practices, Jamie Schneider Domm, Digital Strategist, North American Division. How do we meet the needs of God’s children in the digital advice for Adventist Librarians librarians participated in the space? Jamie told us that “social interested in leveraging social assessment process by creating media [is] the new economic media at their institutions. For a rubric for the panel to use, by powerhouse of the world.” more information please go to serving on the panel, by revising Everything we do helps to the Social Media + Big Data and refining the rubric based on shape our brand. Content that’s website: the panel’s findings, and by shared online should improve https://www.sdadata.org/ providing a plan of action for the lives of others. Global social building on and improving media is on the rise, so we need Assessing Information Literacy at PUC: information literacy scores to go where the people are. A Collaborative Campus Experience, across all academic Recognizing the importance of Katy Van Arsdale, Archivist and departments. Katy outlined the social media as a language is the Special Collections Librarian, experience of the PUC first step in taking our Church Pacific Union College. librarians in a cross-disciplinary into the digital world. It was difficult to fully assess assessment process and Understanding the value and the success of information provided background on the the potential of this medium literacy instruction, since it decision-making that led to the can help to leverage our takes place both at the library rubric that was ultimately used ministries and seek level and campus-wide. Every (a 5x5 model) and then later engagements in ways never year Pacific Union College revised based on real-life possible before the advent of collected student artifacts from applications. She also reflected the Internet. What are your senior capstone courses and on the campus perception of library’s social media accounts assigned a panel of faculty and information with a report on saying about you that your administrators to assess the the librarians’ recommendations

ASDAL ACTION | FALL 2018 33 CONFERENCE for improving information Student, have had a To find out about the Bantu literacy scores in the future and substandard basic education, go Education Act and how for tracking scores more to Helderberg College to study librarians can make a change, comprehensively and in for degrees, and need to be look for Yvette’s presentation addition to the core encouraged and mentored on the ASDAL website. competency assessment. Two through disappointments. benefits to the library were 1) Students who might never have Information Seeking Anxiety Among buy-in from administration to interacted with various digital HBCU Undergraduates, Paulette purchase a standardized devices and software before can McLean Johnson, Library assessment for the seniors; and receive the help they need to Director, Eva B. Dykes Library, 2) where there had been no graduate with a degree, just like Oakwood University. time for freshmen to visit the Alf. Instruction and An HBCU is any historically library during orientation, the encouragement are needed in Black college or university that library is now being invited to this new environment where was established prior to 1964, in be a part of the orientation demands are made, and life can a time of legal segregation, session. They achieved more become stressful. Helderberg whose principal mission was, than they could have by College has students enrolled in and is, the education of Black themselves. foundation-year courses Americans. Undergraduate (bridging years to degrees), students experience discomfort, The Alf Model: A Case Study in the some older students need uncertainty, and frustration Role of Librarians as Mentors in additional tech support during when seeking information for Digital Literacy, Yvette Sparrow, their studies, and there are academic purposes (Mellon, Technical Services Librarian, students from other African 1986; Kulhtau, 1991; Bostick, Pieter Wessels Library, Helderberg countries where the level of 1993; Van Kampen, 2004; College of Higher Education. education is even lower than Gross and Latham, 2007 and February 2018, Cyril the worst on offer in South 2009). Using the Information- Ramaphosa became the Africa. Helderberg College has Seeking Anxiety Scale (ISAS), President of the Republic of realized the importance of Paulette wanted to determine South Africa, a country with a mentoring, and Librarians can the level of information-seeking long history of educational take on mentoring roles in anxiety among the HBCU inequality. President encouraging solution-seeking undergraduates enrolled in Ramaphosa’s State of the habits in students, providing general education classes (Oral Nation address brought hope to digital experiences in which the Communication, Sociology, and many South Africans; he student can engage with his or Philosophy). The assessment addressed inequality and her learning material. Research tool investigated the emphasized that much hard points to certain changes in our relationship of gender, age, work would have to be done by Library enabling, especially GPA, and area of study to all to bring about change. those students coming from a information-seeking anxiety and Yvette’s presentation showed background of a basic examined the factors that how even in our Adventist education steeped in inequality. contributed to information- institutions, everyone needs to Goal achievement, staffing, seeking anxiety at the university. work together for change. Many digitization, and the actual The study assessed the students like Alf (not his real physical library building were information-seeking anxiety name), a Library Bursary some of the aspects covered. that undergraduates

34 ASDAL ACTION | FALL 2018 CONFERENCE experienced during the outreach techniques were is of direct concern to information-seeking/search implemented. Pamela addressed maintaining the library at the process from the physical or signage and displays, social heart of the university. Among virtual library and by whatever media, and email. Pamela called the interesting things the survey method, whether the search was on her architectural background indicated was that “the more performed manually or by to strategically use signage and they [the students] visited the electronic access or with human displays to target those visiting library, the more they assistance. The ISAS consists of the physical library space. The understand what they don’t 47 five-point Likert-style items presentation illustrated the use know.” This feeling faded after that measures six aspects of of different types of signage instruction, as they were then information-seeking anxiety. and displays used for different able to locate the information. Findings added to the sparse locations and situations. Design In addition, the more students literature about information- tips were interjected for each perceived the librarian as seeking anxiety among African- scenario. Social media targeted knowledgeable, or available, the American undergraduates and students frequenting Facebook more likely they were to come provided further reliability and and Twitter. Email was used to for assistance or use the validation of the ISAS in a target students, faculty, staff, library’s resources. Sheila and distinct cultural and educational and the Kettering Medical Darel compared their findings settings. Results from the study Center as a whole. Methods with those in the literature and may be generalized to used to reach each of those opened up discussion of undergraduates at other potential library users were possible solutions to challenges HBCUs. Librarians can let discussed with suggestions for described in the first part of the students know they are not design appeal. presentation in an era of scares alone, and they can claim Bible resources. promises. Feelings of anxiety Perception and Information Literacy, are real and continue to be Sheila Clark, Librarian, Burman 3D Printing: Building Library Value experienced at all levels. University, and Darel Bennedbaek, through Collaboration, Neal Smith, Assistant Librarian, Burman Scholarly Communications Reach Out and Touch: University. Librarian, Adventist University of Library Promotion Techniques from Sheila and Darel analyzed the Health Sciences. 2015 to the Present, Pamela Stevens, data of a Perception Survey that As 3D printing technology has Interim Director, Kettering was administered three years in become less expensive, libraries College Library. a row. They used SPSS to have gotten involved in offering The promotion of Kettering analyze the data and identify the this technology to users. The College Library resources to statistically significant results. library is an attractive location users presented two challenges. As the needs of students and for 3D printers on a college The first challenge concerned faculty grow and change, and campus because it can make the their primary users – students budgets get tighter, information technology equally available to and faculty had very little time literacy has to shift toward new all of campus, rather than with their focus on curricula. practices and libraries have to limiting use to students and The second challenge was that find ways to improve existing faculty in a particular the library had no budget for paradigms. The increasing department or program. promotion. After creating a challenge of providing Investing in 3D printing strategic promotion plan, information literacy to students technology also allows the

ASDAL ACTION | FALL 2018 35 CONFERENCE library to create new University on a shoestring 6:00 pm – Banquet. partnerships with other budget, led by the Burman The banquet was held at departments. Neal spoke about University Library in Casey’s Cabin. Our hosts how the 3D printing service collaboration with faculty from outdid themselves. It was a developed at Adventist the English, Education, and Art First Nation’s theme and food University. He discussed the departments. They were was colorful and plentiful. We process of building stakeholder undertaking a mixed-methods were “edutained” by David support for starting a printer study to investigate the Delafield. service and the expense and implementation of the HTC expertise involved in selecting a Vive virtual reality headset in printer and learning to use it. three separate classrooms – He gave examples of how the ENGL 295: Identifying Trauma library collaborated with other in YA Dystopian Fiction, EDIT groups on campus. They have 250: Tech, Skills for Educators, begun to integrate 3D printing and ARTS 130: Introduction to into the curriculum in the Studio Art. Students took occupational therapy program surveys relevant to VR in each and have shared the joint discipline. English students development with OT took the Transportation Scale professors of continuing to compare their engagement in education for local OT both text and VR; Education practitioners. Although there is students took the Technology a steep learning curve, one can Adopt Model before and after see how 3D printing can using VR to see how readily increase the library’s value they would adopt the across campus. Here is a link technology; art students took for 3D items: the Flow Scale to test their www.thingiverse.com/ engagement in creating art. thing:1674320 Students tested the system using programs associated with 2018 ASDAL Conference, 2nd their areas (English: Fallout Business meeting. 4VR; Education: various See pages 21-25 for the educational VR programs; Art: complete minutes. Tilt Brush) and then took part in a discussion. The data from Virtual Reality: English, Education, the surveys and discussions was Arts, and the Library, Darel analyzed and used to discuss Bennedbaek, Julie Thompson, methods for implementation, John McDowell, Tim Buttler, John student reactions to virtual Hoyt, Wilmer Tenerife, Cyndi reality, and the potential for Berrio, Burman University. virtual reality in a university The presentation was on the classroom. rollout of virtual reality technology at Burman

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FISCAL YEAR 2017-2018 ASDAL BALANCE SHEET

prepared by Lori Curtis ASDAL Interim Treasurer

Message from ASDAL President Lori ASDAL President, met in person with man University, as promised during the Curtis: the Treasurer, relayed the Committee’s final business meeting of the 2018 Con- wishes, and took immediate possession ference. I present it here to the ASDAL Dear ASDAL Members, of all ASDAL treasury files. During the membership at large. Over the course of the past year, it be- August 7, 2018, meeting of the ASDAL came clear to the ASDAL Executive Executive Committee, the Committee Committee that the elected Treasurer voted that I serve as Interim Treasurer lacked the relevant knowledge, skills, for the remainder of this ASDAL busi- and real-world experience to effectively ness year. Per Lisle (ASDAL Past Presi- perform the functions of the position. dent) and I worked together over the As a step toward returning ASDAL to a summer to produce the ASDAL balance strong financial position, the ASDAL sheet for the 2017-2018 fiscal year. On Executive voted (July 18, 2018) to ask September 19, 2018, I sent the balance the treasurer to step down, effective sheet to all ASDAL members who were immediately. On July 31, 2018, I, as present at the 2018 Conference at Bur-

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