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About PALNI LibGuides

PALNI's LibGuides are provided courtesy of Springshare. They have asked us to use them only for internal PALNI use, so these guides should not be shared with patrons directly without first being copied into your own LibGuides instance or website. Please contact us with any questions or concerns.

-Eric and Ruth infocoordinators@palni.edu

PALNI LibGuides by Subject

Scholarly Communication

PALNI LibGuides, A-Z

Affordable Education LibGuide
This guide was developed by the AEI Task Force to help promote ideas, tools, and partnerships that can help lower the cost of higher education for students.
Analytics & Reports
This guide is for the use of the PALNI Analytics Admin Team and for PALNI member library staff working in the areas of analytics and reports.
Camp RIO 2016
25 PALNI librarians participated in a two day camp adventure on August 11-12th, 2016! Camp was held at Merry Lea Environmental Center, located near Goshen College.
Camp RIO 2018
20 PALNI librarians participated in Camp RIO 2018-Intentional Teaching, which was held July 19-20th, 2018, at Waycross Camp and Conference Center
Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education
This guide brings together the latest information on the Framework, as well as shared material from PALNI member libraries in using the existing Standards and developing Framework.
Google Scholar
This guide lays out the benefits and limitations of Google Scholar, with sections geared toward faculty, students, graduate students, and librarians and is designed for reuse at PALNI schools.
Guide on the Side
Guide on the Side is an open source software product developed by the University of Arizona Libraries for web-based tutorials incorporating authentic and active learning principles. Instead of screen captured video tutorials, users interact with the live web and actual resource while learning.
ILAAP | Information Literacy Assessment & Advocacy Project
PALNI-wide information literacy assessment tool
Information Literacy Assessment Toolkit
This guide highlights best practices for program-level & course-level info lit assessment, including tools for both classroom assessment and librarian evaluation
Instructional Peer Coaching
Instructional Peer Coaching is a PALNI program that provides PALNI instruction librarians with peer feedback on their instruction. This guide contains all the information about the program and a place to sign up.
Instruction Ideas and Activities
This guide is a place for RIO Librarians to share creative activities they use in library instruction.
Instruction Videos
This guide is a place for RIO Librarians to share videos they use in library instruction.
LibGuides Spring Cleaning 2017
This guide accompanies RIO's spring 2017 in-person meeting focused on LibGuides.
Library Spaces
This guide is designed to share creative ways in which PALNI libraries are using their spaces, along with ideas from other academic libraries, research, and best practices.
PALNI Communication Manual
This manual covers the basics of communicating within PALNI.
PALNI Onboarding Manual
This Onboarding guide will orient you to the structure of the PALNI consortium, list resources available to you, and describe how you can connect with support and colleagues.
PALNI Tour
This guide provides a visual tour of PALNI libraries.
Prize Wheel and Button Maker
This guide gives information about PALNI's prize wheels and button makers, available to all schools.
Research Concepts Videos
This guide lists videos available about research concepts, created by Joshua Vossler and fully licensed by PALNI.
RIO Matters: Demonstrating the value of reference, instruction, and outreach
This guide summarizes RIO's fall 2018 in-person meeting.
Scholarly Communications LibGuide
This guide is built by the Scholarly Communications (ScholComm) Advisory Group to help librarians at PALNI institutions who have an interest in scholarly communication.
Study of Student and Faculty Habits (INAP) Reports
The PALNI Study of Student and Faculty Habits (Information Needs Assessment Project) seeks to discover the information seeking behaviors of members in our campus communities, some of whom may never interact with the library. This guide offers highlights of the findings of this project.
SUSHI Configuration and COUNTER Harvesting in WMS License Manager
This guide provides documentation on usage statistics harvesting for electronic resources in License Manager.
Tech Tools
This guide accompanies RIO's fall 2017 in-person meeting, which focused on tech tools.
Usability Testing Reports
This guide links to the reports from PALNI's usability testing on WorldCat Discovery during 2015-2016
WorldShare Collection Manager
This guide provides documentation for creating and managing electronic resource collections in the knowledge base (KB) in Collection Manager.
WorldShare Management Services (WMS)
This guide provides instructional and outreach materials for WMS.