Gina Calia-Lotz, Editor-in-Chief
Volume 5 Issue 1, May 2020
Bridget Lukas, Design & Layout Editor
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Message from the Directors
Library Resources for Online Learning Support
Hello, Readers! This has certainly been an interesting time, to say the least. The Library staff have continued to provide resources and services to support online learning in a variety of ways; read more about it in the column on this page. Staff have been busy with many other tasks, including assisting the College with finding online equivalents of many print textbooks, conducting research for the President’s Cabinet on how other colleges are planning their reopening processes, and developing plans and strategies for re-opening the Library building and managing Library operations once the HCC campus reopens. While we were not able to hold the exciting National Library Week activities we plan every year in April, including a planned talk by Rajia Hassib, author of A Pure Heart, librarians did celebrate virtually with Facebook posts about favorite books.
Below is a list of resources provided by the HCC Library to support online learning. If additional resources are needed, or if you have any questions, please contact Lois Entner, lentner@harford.edu or Gina Calia-Lotz, gcalialotz@harford.edu.
This issue is filled with some great information about resources available to enhance online learning, including OER (Open Educational Resources), PolicyMap database, and the Hays-Heighe House online exhibit! Be sure to read about another important undertaking in our nation: the 2020 Census, with links to websites for further information.
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In other news, we are still without a permanent Director for the Library, with Gina Calia-Lotz and Lois Entner remaining in the role of Interim Co-Directors. We expect to re-open the search for the Director position this fall.
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In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions or need anything from the Library!
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Databases, ebooks and streaming video are all available 24/7 via the Library’s Research Databases page: http://ww2.harford.edu/CMS/Library/ Articles.asp . Visit https://harford.libguides.com/covid19-complimentary for links to content provided by databases and publishers on a temporary basis.
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HCC Reference librarians available via online chat from the Library’s website under Research Help—Ask a Librarian: http://harford.edu/ Academics/library/help/ask-a-librarian.aspx during the following hours: Monday–Thursday, 8 a.m. - 10 p.m. Friday, 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Saturday, 12 p.m. – 4 p.m. Students may schedule online research consultations using the request form available on the website under Research Help —Ask a Librarian. Information literacy tutorials and citation guides are available from the Library’s website under “Research Help.” A NoodleTools help guide is available at harford.libguides.com/noodlebib. The guide includes instructions for faculty to assist students with learning how to use NoodleTools.
Course Support for Faculty
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A good guide to copyright and fair use in classroom practices from the American University Washington College of Law: http://infojustice.org/ archives/42134 Request an Embedded Librarian in your courses on Blackboard as a support service for students. Use the form linked above or email Gina Calia-Lotz, gcalialotz@harford.edu with your request. Please include your course name(s) and CRN(s). Publicati
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Open Educational Resources (OER) Shaune Young, Reference & Instruction Librarian
campuses on OER creation. The materials that can be found on our hub come from OpenStax, Saylor, and Lumen Learning, which are We all know the landscape of higher education is changing. New some of the top OER providers. The M.O.S.T. Initiative also provides technologies are emerging, student demographics are changing, and mini grants to those who would like to create their own OER. For the value of traditional degrees is in flux, and with the arrival of the more information, visit http://oer-maryland.org. COVID-19 pandemic, we are all re-evaluating our best practices. The Library has come together During Open Education Week (March 2-6), the HCC with the other units of the TLI Division to work with Library set up boards on the second and third floors of faculty in creating the best learning environment the library, as well as in the Student Center, to survey we can for students. One opportunity that the TLI students about the things they are giving up in order to Division has been diligently working on is the buy textbooks. We had 73 responses total with a adoption of open educational resources (OER). variety of categories of responses. The two highest categories were food and recreation. Other responses OER is a movement in higher education that were serious financial concerns, such as bills, car provides more equitable and accessible repairs, child care, paying for more classes, and saving opportunities for students. Creative Commons money for the future. Some examples responses: defines OER as teaching, learning, and research materials that are either (a) in the public domain “Buy a car and an apartment, I’d be eating good food, or (b) licensed in a manner that provides clothes/less stress, go out for once!” everyone with free and perpetual permission to engage in the 5R activities: retaining, remixing, “Take my parents out to dinner and save the rest for revising, reusing and redistributing the resources. future college tuition” All OER are licensed under Creative Commons By Shaddim; original CC license “I could pay for my actual classes!” symbols by Creative Commons (CC), which allows materials to be reused under https://creativecommons.org/about/ certain attributions and restrictions. If you find “New clothes for my kids” materials on an OER repository site, find the CC license labels (see image). Most CC licenses will require you to Students are concerned about school/life balance while also planning attribute the author of the original work, and if the license requires for the future, a concern that is documented across many campuses you to “share a-like,” you should add your name to the work once across the country. Knowing how our students are dealing with the you have altered it in addition to the original author’s name. financial burden of their textbooks shows us how our community is directly impacted by the high cost of copyrighted textbooks. Using OER not only provides an opportunity to reduce the cost of higher education, but also allows students to have consistent and unlimited access to learning materials. If you opt to create your own OER, you have the possibility to involve your students in the creation of the learning materials by having them do research on publicly available or Creative Commons-licensed materials. Traditional-aged students have grown up using technology as an integrated part of their curriculum; designing your materials around your students’ learning experience will help them make the transition from high school to college. The Library has created a LibGuide (http:// harford.libguides.com/oer) that explains how to find, evaluate, and adapt free materials for a variety of subjects. The guide includes a form to request an OER consultation with a librarian. The M.O.S.T. Commons (linked on the LibGuide), is a repository of OER created by the Maryland Open Source Textbook Initiative. HCC has a hub on the site, where you can access resources, communicate with other faculty and staff in department groups, and create your own OER. Once you create a free account, you can be granted access to groups, such as Biology, Business, General Studies, Honors, and Humanities. This site will also potentially be a place to collaborate with faculty and staff from other Maryland
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Many instructors are already adopting OER in courses including Biology 101, English 102, Psych 101, Intro to Business, and many more. Some of these instructors have even created their own OER ranging from software to workbooks. While these adoptions of OER are amazing and a great help to our students, many HCC instructors are either unfamiliar with OER or are unable to find the time or resources that would work for their courses. The Library and the TLI Division are providing support and funding where possible for HCC instructors to adopt or adapt OER, but we still have a long way to go to reach our strategic goals for OER adoption. As we are in the midst of this changing landscape in higher ed, now may be a good time for faculty to consider reworking their learning materials, not only so that they are easily accessible and low cost to students who may be struggling to pay bills, but also as an opportunity to practice open pedagogy where students are more actively involved in their learning. Finding and evaluating OER may seem like a daunting task, but there are many tools at our disposal to accomplish that task. OER will become the standard for introductory courses, if not community colleges in general; being prepared for this future will allow us to serve our students well.
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Featured Database: Regina Rose, Reference & Instruction Librarian
Looking for statistics illustrating the effects of COVID-19 on different regions? Want to know how Harford County voted in the last election? Need data on student graduation rates in a specific neighborhood? Looking to see infant health and mortality rates in different states or urban areas? Then PolicyMap is the database for you! This cloud-based database allows you to set up specific geographical parameters to find statistics and data culled from government-based sources that include census, education, crime, housing, and health information, and much more. PolicyMap features include visual data maps, tables to compare data across selected geographical areas, and aggregated data for a specific area. There are plenty of tutorials, guides and even a help feature if you aren’t sure where to find specific information. You can access PolicyMap by following this path from HCC Library home page: Research resources—Research databases—By database name (select ‘P’— Select PolicyMap. You will need to login with your HCC user and password for offcampus access. You can create a free account by clicking on the upper right corner of the PolicyMap homepage. By doing so, you will be able to save any searches, reports, data, etc., that you created or used. The data is ONLY from United States resources, but it includes over 37,000 indicators such as age ranges, income levels, race and ethnic information, education backgrounds and others that will help you get a snapshot of communities across the country. PolicyMap also offers free webinars on topics ranging from basic navigation to using the more advanced features. Questions? Ask an HCC librarians for assistance. We’re always happy to help!
Census 2020: Everyone Counts! Andie Craley, Manager for Technical Services & Government Documents Librarian
The decennial census is held every 10 years and is mandated by Article 1, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution and authorized by Congress as Title 13 of the U.S Code. It is so important to get an accurate and complete count of every person living in the 50 states, District of Columbia, and the five U.S. Territories. Why is this so important? Think about all of those services you count on that are so vitally important in providing life-sustaining and daily services in every aspect of everyday life: health care, hospitals, fire departments, law enforcement, libraries, schools and education, child care and early education, food pantries and soup kitchens, homeless shelters and housing, roadwork and highways, etc. Having a complete count of every area gives that crucial data for authorizing accurate funding budgets to provide all of these helpful resources! Also, very important, an accurate population count in the census determines the apportionment of dividing the 435 seats in the U.S. Representatives among the 50 states, so everyone has fair representation. The U.S. Census Bureau has adjusted Census 2020 operations during protective measures for COVID-19 to ensure the safety of their employees and the public while still reporting an accurate Complete Count. Self-Response is still happening with data collection through online, by phone, and by mail through October 31! You can see the 2020 Census Operational Adjustment due to COVID-19 at: https://2020census.gov/content/dam/2020census/materials/news/2020-census%20operational-adjustments-long%20version.pdf By now you should have received your invitation from the U.S. Census Bureau by mail to participate online in the 2020 Census and you may have also received a reminder mailing. Those who do not respond over time with the initial invitations or are in areas less likely to respond online due to access limitations will receive a paper questionnaire. You can check out these resources for responding to Census 2020 online, by phone, or by mail. Let’s all be counted! Maryland Census 2020: https://census.maryland.gov/Pages/default.aspx Harford County Complete Count Committee resources: https://www.harfordcountymd.gov/2758/Census-2020 U.S. Census 2020: https://2020census.gov/en/what-is-2020-census.html How to Respond to the 2020 Census: https://2020census.gov/en/ways-to-respond.html
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Exhibit and Programming – The Land: Harford County
Hays-Heighe Goes Online! Well, not the entire house… With the closure of campus due to COVID-19, HaysHeighe House has worked to put its current exhibit, "Harford County: Our Land & Environment," online at https://haysheighehouse.omeka.net/exhibits/show/ harcoland/intro. Check back often, as we continue to grow the site with links and multimedia!
Kate Lord, “The Land Cover,” From The Land, edited and compiled by Nancy P. Pittman.
This exhibit looks at Harford County's history of farming, land use, and preservation. In our region, farmers have long been ahead of the rest of the country in their adoption of soil conservation methods, just as regional government officials and local interest groups have been ahead of the rest of the country in preserving our farming way of life. While we have postponed our teas and other events until fall, you can visit the Hays-Heighe House website to get a taste of what's to come: http://www.harford.edu/community/hays-heighehouse/events.aspx
Library Hours Online Reference Hours Summer Semester May 17-23, 2020 Mon-Thurs: 8:30 a.m. — 5:00 p.m. Fri: 8:00 a.m. — 4:30 p.m. Sat & Sun: CLOSED
May 24-August 23, 2020 Mon & Wed: 8:30 a.m. — 7:00 p.m. Tues & Thurs: 8:30 —5:00 Fri: 8:00 a.m. — 4:30 p.m. Sat: 10:00 a.m. — 2:00 p.m.
Sun: CLOSED
Contact Us Reference Librarians referenc@harford.edu
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Follow the HCC Library on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HarfordCCLib Or Twitter: @HarfordCCLib County agent demonstrating points in judging to club members, Harford County, Agricultural Club, July 8, 1924. (Source: Cooperative Extension Service, United States Department of Agriculture)
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