Zoom Room A:

Escape to Your Campus: Designing a Virtual Escape Room for a Campus Community Separated by COVID-19

Presenters: Julie N. Hornick, Instructional Services Librarian; Randall M. MacDonald, Library Director; Marina Morgan, Metadata Librarian; Gerrianne Schaad, College Archivist; Steven Wade, Instructional Services Librarian (Florida Southern College)

During the COVID-19 quarantine, the librarians at Florida Southern College created the Vampire State Building virtual escape room to keep patrons across the campus community engaged in campus life from a distance. This poster shows how we developed the escape room using readily available, free online resources.

Zoom Room B:

Virtual Interest Clubs: Engaging the Larger University Community When Campuses are Closed

Presenters: Jennifer Corbin, Director of Public Services and Debbi Dinkins, Associate Dean of the Library (Stetson University)

Stetson University’s duPont-Ball Library closed to users at the end of March due to COVID-19. Librarians heard the call from university administrators to engage current students and incoming students over the summer in the hope that student retention and incoming class numbers met goals. Our answer was virtual interest clubs.

Zoom Room C:

Empty Campus: Providing Stress Relief From a Distance

Presenters: Bryan J. Sajecki, Undergraduate Education Librarian and Molly K. Maloney, Undergraduate Education Librarian (University of Buffalo)

With the shift to remote education, the University at Buffalo (UB) Undergraduate Education Librarians responsible for Stress Relief reshaped this outreach program with the goals to develop a unique LibGuide that incorporated engaging online equivalents of the activities and services typically provided and expand into additional online-only resources.

Zoom Room D:

Archiving a COVID-19 Collection of Communications

Presenter: Becky Fisher, MLS AHIP, Collection, Liaison, & Instruction Librarian (Advent Health University)

"Archiving a COVID-19 Collection of Communications" describes the process of gathering, converting, and saving communications for archival purposes. Lessons will be shared concerning the process of archiving the collection; attendees will be invited to consider possible digital collections that could be important for their universities in the future.

Zoom Room E:

Navigating Finals Week Support from Physical Places to Virtual Spaces

Presenters: Katiana Bagué, User Services Assistant; Mari Meke, User Services Assistant; Lisa Campbell, Instruction and Outreach Librarian; Sarah (Moxy) Moczygemba, Social Media Specialist, Hélène Huet, European Studies Librarian; April Hines, Journalism and Mass Communications Librarian; Jeanne Ewert, English and American Literature, Folklore, and Film Librarian; Ashley Monahan, Access & Resource Sharing Assistant, and Ash Vaught, Collection Services Manager (University of Florida)

This poster presentation will demonstrate how Library West’s Creative Team at UF created a resource-rich website for Virtual Finals Support during COVID-19. Additionally it will highlight how the site was communicated to students, and how the team was able to extend their finals support and campus resources to distance learners.

Zoom Room F:

Sustaining Connectivity & Shifting To Remote Services During the COVID-19 Crisis: Stories from the UCF Libraries

Presenter: Sandy Avila, Science Librarian; Corinne Bishop, Graduate Outreach Librarian; and Barbara Tierney, Department Head, Research & Information Services (University of Central Florida)

Our poster illustrates how the UCF Libraries’ Research & Information Services (RIS) Department maintained high-quality services during the COVID-19 campus wide closures this spring/summer. It will also highlight the reopening of our reference desk this fall and examples of professional skills training provided to staff while working remotely.