Brick & Click Libraries: An Academic Library Conference (14th, Maryville, Missouri, November 7, 2014)

Eighteen scholarly papers and twelve abstracts comprise the content of the fourteenth annual Brick and Click Libraries Symposium, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at the symposium, portray the contemporary and future face of librarianship. The 2014 paper and abstract titles include: (1) Navigating Relationships with IT: Strategies for Small and Mid-Sized Institutions (Josh Welker); (2) Stress got you down? Don't frown! Stop by the Rod Library and clown around! (Leila June Rod-Welch); (3) New Collaborations: Bringing Metadata and other Technical Expertise to the Classroom (Michelle Turvey-Welch, Amanda Harlan, and Tara Coleman); (4) The Value of Collaboration in Demonstrating Your Library's Value (Joyce A. Meldrem); (5) Marrying the Old and the New- Using Biophilic Design and Collaborative Learning to Create an Optimal Library Instruction Environment (Stephan Ambra and Sarah Hébert); (6) The Cheese Has Moved--Long Live the Cheese: A Framework for Collective Change Management (Susan M. Frey and Valentine K. Muyumba); (7) Patron Driven Acquisitions for Collection Development (David L. Alexander, Kathleen A. McElhinney, and Cathrine Paltz); (8) Library Social Media: What Do Students Want? (Angie Brunk); (9) Think About It: Learning Changes the Brain (Edith A. Campbell); (10) Team-Based Learning and Information Literacy (Mahrya Carncross); (11) Libraries in Lean Times: Increasing Efficiency, Improving Services, and Cutting Red Tape (Melissa Clark, Mary Kraljic, and Susan Sutthill); (12) Building a Student Employee Program Based on Professional Development (Adam Fullerton and Karen Johnson); (13) Using the Dell S500wi Interactive Projector for More Engaging Library Literacy Instruction (Steven K. Profit); (14) Going the Distance but Doing It Our way: An Embedded Librarian Program at a Small University (Gretchen M. Smith); (15) Capturing Meaningful Data at the Reference Desk (Michael R. Mitchell); (16) Google Scholar Metrics: A New Tool for Faculty to Track Their Publication Citations (Fu Zhou); (17) "Let's Give This Tree a Friend": Channeling Bob Ross in Faculty-Librarian Partnerships (Laura MacLeod Mulligan and Adam J. Kuban); (18) From Reactive to Proactive: Cross-Departmental Collaboration to Minimize Access Interruption Reports (Ruth A. Light); (19) Evaluating Search All: Custom Discovery Search Tool (Sarah G. Park); (20) Channeling Your Inner Leader: Library Project Management for All (Corie Dugas); (21) Innovation in using Technology for Library Services (Chris Vaughn); (22) From Old Laptops to DIY Digital Displays (Ayyoub Ajmi); (23) Perpetual Motion: Running a 24/7 Library in a 9 to 5 World (Rob Withers); (24) Moving to a Team Based Library Service Model (Judy Wanner); (25) Tweeting and Pinning: Collaborative Research Using Social Media (Plamen Miltenoff and Gary Schnellert); (26) Using Graphical Depictions of Statistics to Evaluate Collections in an Academic Library (Heather M. Rayl and Ryan Weir); (27) Libraries Going Mobile: Applying "Threshold Concepts" To The Design Of E-Booklets for Library Instruction (Lorna Dawes); (28) Black-Belt Student Assistants: Safety in the Library (Ellie Kohler); Emergency Weeding! Or, Just-in-Time Collection Development (Barbara Cornelius, Margaret Emons, and Martha Tanner); (29) Virtual Reference on a Dime: Creating a Roaming and Virtual Reference Service on a Shoestring Budget (Lynn Klundt); and (30) Wikiality Redux (Pamela M. Salela and Kara McElwrath). An author/title index is also included. (Individual papers contain references.)