Posters - 2024 Symposium - LibGuides at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

This poster will provide specific details about how to develop weekly bulletins that engage student assistants! The weekly bulletin is an inclusive method of sharing timely updates to student workers, celebrating student successes, and providing ongoing training opportunities throughout the school year. This poster will provide tips on how to solicit content from all areas of the library as well as introduce MyEmma as one platform for creating the bulletins.

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Building Student Employees' Sense of Belonging and Community with Weekly Bulletins by Kathleen Schipano and Jennifer Hughes, Coastal Carolina University

Cura Personalis: Caring for the Whole Student Employee by Abby Vande Walle, University of Notre Dame

College is stressful. And in addition to all the traditional pressures of higher education, student employees also have to navigate a job and the workplace, often for the very first time in their lives. The User Services Unit in the Hesburgh Libraries has embodied the ethics of care in our policies and culture by adopting the mindset of Cura Personalis (Latin for Care for the Whole Person). In this context, we think of it as care for the whole student employee: mind, body, and spirit. This poster will exhibit some of the ways in which our patron-facing Unit has embodied care in our practices with student workers, including study break events, mental health training, professional development sessions, social activities, and flex shifts. Our goal is to not only lessen the students’ overall stress, but demonstrate our support and care for their wellbeing both in and out of the library workplace. ...

Food for Thought: UNCG University Libraries' Student Worker Snack Pantry Project by Andrea Tiffany and Lois Vinson, University of North Carolina Greensboro

The UNC Greensboro University Libraries (UL) participate in several programs fighting food insecurity, a serious issue affecting our campus community. Inspired by these public facing programs, library student supervisors identified a significant gap in the UL’s efforts: our own student workers. In fall 2023, supervisors and library administration developed a student worker snack pantry. Since then, we have provided over $800 worth of shelf-stable food, such as granola bars, trail mix, nuts, crackers, and fruit snacks. Students can visit the pantry and staff can pick up items to keep in their departments for easier student access. This poster will use the ethics of care as a framework to outline the project from idea to implementation. ...

Rooted in Compassion: Learning Lab Ethics of Care by Carol A. Street, University of Kentucky

The Learning Lab internship at the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Center employs a student-centered approach that provides the basis for students discovering their true academic selves through primary source research. The cohort of approximately 10 interns form a team environment that, at turns, encourages, inspires, and motivates the team. A contributing element to this ethics of care is the application of "rose and thorn" at the beginning of every weekly meeting. This very simple exercise that asks the question of what has gone well this week (the rose) and what has not gone as well (the thorn) has clearly impacted students since its employment during the pandemic. It has been so successful that it is still used today in the internship program. This presentation will explore the genesis of this experiment and observations on why it works so well to quickly form relationships, understanding, and compassion. ...

Building Student Employees' Sense of Belonging and Community with Weekly Bulletins by Kathleen Schipano and Jennifer Hughes, Coastal Carolina University

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