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Join the Academic Commons’ SoTL hybrid community for feedback and support in your research

Join our Scholarship for Teaching & Learning (SoTL) hybrid community for shared support as you develop a research project. This community is open to anyone at Jefferson interested in teaching and learning – including faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students. To sign up, email Elif Gokbel, Instructional Design Specialist.

We’ll meet three times (January, March, and May) on Thursdays from 1-2 pm. You’ll learn the essential steps of SoTL research and share progress as you give and get feedback from others. By the end of the sessions, you will have created a comprehensive SoTL research study outline and gained resources and research support. You’ll learn the essential steps of SoTL research and develop a comprehensive SoTL research study online.

We will utilize the book Engaging in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Guide to the Process and How to Develop a Project from Start to Finish, written by Cathy Bishop-Clark and Beth Dietz-Uhler, as our guiding resource. We’ll provide participants with a copy of the book, but please sign up now to secure your copy.  

Email Elif Gokbel, Instructional Design Specialist, if you want to join this community.

Meeting Dates: Thursday, January 18, 2024, Thursday, March 14, and Thursday, May 9 (1-2pm).

Visit the Academic Commons website for more resources on SoTL, including self-paced modules, toolkits, and more.

November eBook Additions: 25 eBooks on Emergency Medicine, Emotional Development, Medical Microbiology & Discrimination in Higher Education

This November, explore our 25 new eBooks, listed below. Topics covered include neonatal nutrition, health care management, and public relations. Check out our complete eBooks collection at Center City/Scott Library,  East Falls/Gutman Library, and Dixon Library.

100 Questions and Answers about HIV and AIDS

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Pocket Guide to Neonatal Nutrition

Anatomy and Physiology for Nursing and Healthcare Students at a Glance

Baker’s Health Care Finance: Basic Tools for Nonfinancial Managers

Ballweg’s Physician Assistant: A Guide to Clinical Practice

CBT Treatment Plans and Interventions for Depression and Anxiety Disorders in Youth

Enhancing Business Communications and Collaboration through Data Science Applications

Emergency Medicine Secrets

Emotional Development Across the Lifespan

Fibrous Structures and their Impact on Textile Design

Handbook of MRI Technique

Health Care Information Systems: A Practical Approach for Health Care Management

Health Professional’s Guide to Gastrointestinal Nutrition

The Humble Argument: A Readable Introduction to Argument and the College Essay

The Humble Essay: A Readable Introduction to College Writing

The Ivory Tower: Perspectives of Women of Color in Higher Education

Life Cycle Assessment: Future Challenges

Medical Microbiology and Infection at a Glance

Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: Helping Patients Change Behavior

Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

Progress on Life Cycle Assessment in Textiles and Clothing

Reinventing Fashion Retailing: Digitalizing, Gamifying, Entreprenuering

Respiratory Medicine: Lecture Notes

Statistics at Square Two: Understanding Modern Statistical Applications in Medicine

The Untold Power: Underrepresented Groups in Public Relations

LGBTQIA+ Movie Nights at Gutman Library!

Enjoy snacks and refreshments as you join us Tuesdays at Gutman Library on the East Falls campus to watch an LGBTQIA+ – themed movie! We hope to cultivate a community and safe space for LGBTQIA+ students and allies while presenting queer experiences and narratives. Click on the movie titles below to RSVP and learn more about the films.

Tuesday, October 24, 7pm: Hedwig & The Angry Inch

Tuesday, November 28, 7pm: The Watermelon Woman

Tuesday, December 5, 7pm: Flee

We hope you’ll join us!

Year in Review: Academic Commons Annual Report (2022 – 2023)

The Academic Commons team was BUSY in the the 2022 – 2023 academic year! Check out our annual report to learn about what new programs and initiatives we took on in the last year. You can explore the website link or download our Annual Report PDF to find out who we are, what we do, and see examples of how we can help you achieve your teaching & learning, research, and communication goals.

Highlights of our year include:

  • new student programming at the Gutman Library on the East Falls campus
  • the launch of the Center City Archives & Special Collections (now called the Siegman Archives) expansion project in the Scott Library
  • more open access publishing opportunities, saving Jefferson authors and the university money
  • a new website to showcase the work of our AV, graphics, photography, and video production teams

Check out our Annual Report and explore our website to learn more about how we can help you.

LGBTQ+ Community & Allies: Share Your Story

Are you a patient, caregiver, clinician, administrator, employee, teacher or student in the Jefferson community or Jefferson neighborhoods who identifies with the LGBTQ+ community or its allies? We invite you to submit stories, poems, or essays for consideration. Everyone has a unique voice, and we want to hear from as many of you as possible. The deadline for submission is December 31, 2023. Cash prizes will be awarded!

All submissions to the Yeo Writing Prize also will be considered for publication in the next issue of Evanescent: A Journal of Literary Medicine.

See this flyer for details, and please share with others. Submit your story today!

Celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day with Jefferson Libraries’ Films, Novels, Poetry, and More

Image credit: https://www.nicoa.org/indigenous-peoples-day/

Monday, October 9, is Indigenous Peoples’ Day in America and is a time to honor Native American cultures, histories, and people. Celebrate Indigenous people’s vibrant and vast traditions, voices, and contributions across North America by diving into the Jefferson Libraries’ eBooks, videos, and physical books. The sample of resources below, written by and about Native Americans, discuss Native American history, architecture and art, film, poetry, gender, and much more. Visit the library’s catalog site to browse our complete collection of resources to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

If you are on the East Falls campus, visit Gutman Library’s book display highlighting these Indigenous resources. The exhibit highlights fashion, film, feminism, climate change/sustainability, identity, and history. The display is on the Main Floor of the library.

Print Books

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

Beauty, Honor, and Tradition: The Legacy of Plains Indian Shirts by Joseph D. Horse Capture and George P. Horse Capture

Borderlands: La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa

Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah

Poet Warrior: A Memoir by Joy Harjo

Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film by Michelle H. Raheja

Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions Within a Changing Environment by Nicole Stuckenberger

The Way We Genuinely Live = Yuungnaqpiallerput: Masterworks of Yup’ik Science and Survival by Ann Fienup-Riordan; Translations by Alice Rearden

We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power by Caleb Gayle

White Horse by Erika T. Wurth

Videos

Heather Haunani Giugni

My Louisiana Love

eBooks

The Arts of Kingship: Hawaiian Art and National Culture of the Kalakaua Era by Stacy L. Kamehiro

As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory by Qwo-Li Driskill

The Feathered Heart by Mark Turcotte

I Am Where I Come From: Native American College Students and Graduates Tell Their Life Stories

In Good Relation: History, Gender, and Kinship in Indigenous Feminisms by Sarah Nickel and Amanda Fehr

Indian Pilgrims Indigenous Journeys of Activism and Healing with Saint Kateri Tekakwitha by Michelle Jacob

Native American Voices: A Reader by Susan Lobo, Steve Talbot, & Traci Morris Carlston

Two Spirit Acts: Queer Indigenous Performances by Jean Elizabeth O’Hara, Muriel Miguel, Kent Monkman, and Waawaate Fobister

Xiipúktan (First of all): Three Views of the Origins of the Quechan People by George Bryant and Amy Miller

Friday Writing Retreats Kick Off THIS Friday (Oct 6)

Do you need some “me time” for your scholarly writing? Join the Office for Professional Writing, Publishing, and Communication (OPWPC) for First Fridays! These monthly virtual retreats kick off this Friday, October 6. Drop in at any time or stay for the full day from 9 AM to 4 PM.

Whatever stage of the writing process you are in, you can work independently, get feedback from a member of the OPWPC team, or consult a Scott librarian in a chat room. Additional First Fridays this fall: Friday, November 3, and Friday, December 1.

Sometimes all you need is dedicated time, so take advantage of this opportunity. Register here.

October eBooks: Safety in Nursing, Fashion Research, Systemic Racism in the Workplace, etc.

October’s eBook Additions:  Dismantling Racism in the Workplace, Design Thinking, the Encyclopedia of AI, DSM-5 Diagnosis in Children, and Much More

Explore our October eBook additions below. Topics include advances in fashion research, landscape architecture, safety in nursing, and more. Browse our complete eBook collections in Center City/Scott Library, East Falls/Gutman Library, and Horsham/Dixon Library.

Advances in Fashion and Design Research: Proceedings of the 5th International Fashion and Design Congress, CIMODE 2022, July 4-7, 2022, Guimarães, Portugal

Advancing Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice through Human Systems Engineering

The Anti-Racist Organization: Dismantling Systemic Racism in the Workplace

Communicating Intimate Health

Data Ethics of Power: A Human Approach in the Big Data and AI Era

Different Perspectives in Design Thinking

Empirical Legal Research:  A Primer

Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence: The Past, Present, and Future of AI

Gait Analysis: Normal and Pathological Function

The Human Frontal Lobes: Functions and Disorders

Interviewing Children and Adolescents: Skills and Strategies for Effective DSM-5 Diagnosis

Pathology at a Glance

Plastics and Industrial Design

Physical Change and Aging: A Guide for the Helping Professions

Political Participation on Social Media: The Lived Experience of Online Debate

Principles of Landscape Architecture

Protecting the Mind: Challenges in Law, Neuroprotection, and Neurorights

Proteins Associated with Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Quality and Safety in Nursing: A Competency Approach to Improving Outcomes

Quantitative Research Methodology in the Health Sciences

Rethinking Comparative Law

Security and Illegality in Cuba’s Transition to Democracy

Simple, Brief, and Precise: How to Write with Clarity

Statistics at Square One

Theories of Counseling

Let’s Talk AI: Join our AI Basics virtual series

We invite you to attend our virtual AI Basics series occurring every other month from September through May. Register for the next session now.

These sessions will address the most common themes from ongoing conversations, with an emphasis on AI as it relates to teaching and learning, recognizing that different programs have different needs. We would love your thoughts and input at any of the sessions you are able to attend. 

The next session is scheduled for Wednesday, November 29 from 10 – 11 am. All sessions will be facilitated on Zoom. Please view our flyer for more information about session topics and dates

Click a title to register for an AI Basics Session:
AI Basics: Dealing with AI (Wed. 11/29)
AI Basics: Embracing AI (Tues. 1/30)
AI Basics: AI as Support (Wed. 3/27)
AI Basics: Reflections & Lessons Learned (Th. 5/16)

Coffee with a Librarian: Thursdays this Fall at Gutman Library (win prizes!) 

Stop by the the Nexus Library Instruction Space on the Main Floor of Gutman Library on Thursdays from 12-2pm to get research help and chat with librarians. You can win prizes like gift cards, and we’ll provide free coffee and snacks. Bring your laptop for help with your work. Thursday, September 21 – Thursday, November 30.

Register at Jefferson.libcal.com/calendar/AcademicCommons/coffeeor just drop by! We can’t wait to see you for Coffee with a Librarian!  

25 New eBooks this September: Color Theory, Reframing Assessment with Regards to Student Equity, Real Estate Development, and Ethics in AI

Check out our 25 additions to our eBook collection this September. Topics range from hemp sustainability to emergency nursing and internet security. Explore the list of new eBooks below or browse the complete collection at Center City/Scott Library, Horsham/Dixon Library, or East Falls/Gutman Library.

Afterlives of Data: Life and Debt Under Capitalist Surveillance

The Architecture of Social Reform: Housing, Tradition, and German Modernism

Color Theory: A Critical Introduction

Community Real Estate Development: A History and How-To for Practitioners, Academics, and Students

Construction Superintendents: Essential Skills for the Next Generation  

Convergence: Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing: Social, Economic, and Policy Impacts

Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Can Beat Startups at the Innovation Game

Design in Modern Life

Emergency Nurse Practitioner Core Curriculum

Ethical Machines: Your Concise Guide to Totally Unbiased, Transparent, and Respectful AI

Financing our Anthropocene: How Wall Street, Main Street and Central Banks Can Manage, Fund and Hedge our Global Commons

Handbook of Nonwovens

Hemp and Sustainability

Managing the Complexities of Real Estate Development

My Robot Gets Me: How Social Design Can Make New Products More Human

Other People’s English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy

The Place of Glass in Building

Product Design and the Role of Representation: Foundations for Design Thinking in Practice

Reframing Assessment to Center Equity: Theories, Models, and Practices

Seeing Color in Classical Art: Theory, Practice, and Reception from Antiquity to the Present

Sustainable Approaches in Textiles and Fashion: Consumerism, Global Textiles and Supply Chain

Textiles of Medieval Iberia: Cloth and Clothing in a Multi-Cultural Context

The Unhackable Internet: How Rebuilding Cyberspace Can Create Real Security and Prevent Financial Collapse

Urban Regeneration and Real Estate Development: Turning Real Estate Assets into Engines for Sustainable Socio-Economic Progress

Visual Research: An Introduction to Research Methods in Graphic Design

Research as Art Competition Now Open

Jefferson’s Research as Art Competition celebrates all Jefferson faculty, students, and staff who have an eye for the beauty in their research or scholarship. Submit your images through Friday, October 6, for a chance to win a $250 gift card in each of two categories, and have your work featured in Jefferson research publications and online.

Categories include a) cellular and molecular, or life under the microscope and b) conceptual – renderings of research observations, experiences and concepts in various media.

Entries must be submitted via this form.

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Meet Annika Zitto and learn about her Gutman Library signage project

The Gutman Library is thrilled that Annika chose to create signage for the library for her Experiential Graphic Design course. Annika’s project will be on display at the Gutman Library, on the Main Floor, in the display cases across from the Check Out Desk for the Fall 2023 semester.

We sat down with Annika to learn more about her project and what excites her about graphic design, wayfinding, and libraries.

What is your name, major, and class year?
My name is Annika Zitto. My pronouns are she/they. I’m a Visual Communication Design major in the Class of 2025.

What made you decide to become a Visual Communication Design major?
Even before I knew what graphic design was, I was paying attention to it in the world. I loved infographics as a kid and I was always taking notice of the typography on signage. Graphic Design is my concentration within Visual Communication Design.

Could your project be implemented in real life?
This project is purely hypothetical but I was very intentional to ensure the design was feasible. Consider, for example, the blade signs, used to show the range of books available in each aisle. Since library collections often change or move around, the Dewey call numbers on the blade signs feature removable vinyl. As the collection is moved around, the numbers can be removed and adjusted to reflect the aisle’s new contents. Shelf dividers can also be arranged based on the library’s collection. To ensure that the signs would look clean with a variety of dewey numbers, lining numerals were used to keep the numbers spaced evenly.

What inspired you to do this project?
When I was asked to choose a location on campus to make signage for, I immediately chose the library. During the school year, I am constantly visiting and borrowing books from the library. One of my professors even called me the “Library Advocate,” because of how often I am sharing resources and cool finds with other students in my major. I knew this project would allow me to use my design skills to conceptualize an ideal library experience.

What’s your favorite thing about libraries?
My favorite thing about libraries is the visual and physical exploration of finding new books. Actively browsing the shelves leads me to finding books I would have never thought to search for digitally. The tactile experience of browsing and flipping through books really peaks my curiosity.

Why is wayfinding so important?
Good wayfinding is so important because it allows us to access and navigate the world we live in. Signage that facilitates efficient wayfinding is an essential component to creating accessible spaces. It makes it possible for people to find their destination. It also enables people to discover new parts of a place they often visit. Since wayfinding is constant in our lives, it’s important to give it proper attention when designing a space. Bad wayfinding can be stressful, time consuming, confusing, and inaccessible to many. Good wayfinding flips this around, creating an accessible and enjoyable user experience on each front. Efficient design utilizes identifiable, consistent, patterns so people can predict the experiences they will have in the space and navigate accordingly to access what they’re looking for. To provide accessibility to a variety of users, it will utilize differing cues, such as type, color, and multisensory elements, to guide people through the space. It can also evoke a sense of the place’s identity, connecting users to the place through its wayfinding design.

What career paths are you interested in pursuing after graduation?
After graduating, I plan to pursue a career in information design with a focus on sustainability. I want to use information design to increase accessibility to and awareness of environmental knowledge that when known by many, has the power to change our world, legislation, and quality of life for generations.

This past year, I was a research assistant for Dr. Radika Bhaskar, where I designed visual information about bioplastics for educational outreach. Working under Dr. Bhaskar, I engaged my intellectual curiosity for the intersections between user experience, accessibility, environmentalism, and urban design. I hope to explore these topics more in my future research and career.

How can people get in touch with you to collaborate?
If you want to see more of my work, be sure to check out my design Instagram which is linked on my Link Tree. Feel free to reach out to my Jefferson email to connect.

I am also the President of Jefferson’s AIGA Professional Association for Design chapter. Any student is welcome to drop by one of our meetings to connect. If you’re interested in collaborating with AIGA, direct message our official Instagram account!

Is there anything you’d like to mention that we didn’t ask?
I’m grateful to have the opportunity to showcase my work and share my passions. I am so thankful to everyone who helped me bring this project to life!

I want to thank Renee Walker for teaching this course. I really enjoyed it! I also want to thank Jess Jahnle and the rest of the team at the Surface Imaging for their help with creating this display. We were able to get some incredible prototypes printed through the Surface Imaging Lab that truly elevated the project. Finally, biggest thanks to the Gutman Library organization for hosting my display and to Megan Donnelly, Outreach and Engagement Librarian, for collaborating with me to create it.

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Meet Annika Zitto and learn about her Gutman Library signage project

The Gutman Library is thrilled that Annika chose to create signage for the library for her Experiential Graphic Design course. Annika’s project will be on display at the Gutman Library, on the Main Floor, in the display cases across from the Check Out Desk for the Fall 2023 semester.

We sat down with Annika to learn more about her project and what excites her about graphic design, wayfinding, and libraries.

What is your name, major, and class year?
My name is Annika Zitto. My pronouns are she/they. I’m a Visual Communication Design major in the Class of 2025.

What made you decide to become a Visual Communication Design major?
Even before I knew what graphic design was, I was paying attention to it in the world. I loved infographics as a kid and I was always taking notice of the typography on signage. Graphic Design is my concentration within Visual Communication Design.

Could your project be implemented in real life?
This project is purely hypothetical but I was very intentional to ensure the design was feasible. Consider, for example, the blade signs, used to show the range of books available in each aisle. Since library collections often change or move around, the Dewey call numbers on the blade signs feature removable vinyl. As the collection is moved around, the numbers can be removed and adjusted to reflect the aisle’s new contents. Shelf dividers can also be arranged based on the library’s collection. To ensure that the signs would look clean with a variety of dewey numbers, lining numerals were used to keep the numbers spaced evenly.

What inspired you to do this project?
When I was asked to choose a location on campus to make signage for, I immediately chose the library. During the school year, I am constantly visiting and borrowing books from the library. One of my professors even called me the “Library Advocate,” because of how often I am sharing resources and cool finds with other students in my major. I knew this project would allow me to use my design skills to conceptualize an ideal library experience.

What’s your favorite thing about libraries?
My favorite thing about libraries is the visual and physical exploration of finding new books. Actively browsing the shelves leads me to finding books I would have never thought to search for digitally. The tactile experience of browsing and flipping through books really peaks my curiosity.

Why is wayfinding so important?
Good wayfinding is so important because it allows us to access and navigate the world we live in. Signage that facilitates efficient wayfinding is an essential component to creating accessible spaces. It makes it possible for people to find their destination. It also enables people to discover new parts of a place they often visit. Since wayfinding is constant in our lives, it’s important to give it proper attention when designing a space. Bad wayfinding can be stressful, time consuming, confusing, and inaccessible to many. Good wayfinding flips this around, creating an accessible and enjoyable user experience on each front. Efficient design utilizes identifiable, consistent, patterns so people can predict the experiences they will have in the space and navigate accordingly to access what they’re looking for. To provide accessibility to a variety of users, it will utilize differing cues, such as type, color, and multisensory elements, to guide people through the space. It can also evoke a sense of the place’s identity, connecting users to the place through its wayfinding design.

What career paths are you interested in pursuing after graduation?
After graduating, I plan to pursue a career in information design with a focus on sustainability. I want to use information design to increase accessibility to and awareness of environmental knowledge that when known by many, has the power to change our world, legislation, and quality of life for generations.

This past year, I was a research assistant for Dr. Radika Bhaskar, where I designed visual information about bioplastics for educational outreach. Working under Dr. Bhaskar, I engaged my intellectual curiosity for the intersections between user experience, accessibility, environmentalism, and urban design. I hope to explore these topics more in my future research and career.

How can people get in touch with you to collaborate?
If you want to see more of my work, be sure to check out my design Instagram which is linked on my Link Tree. Feel free to reach out to my Jefferson email to connect.

I am also the President of Jefferson’s AIGA Professional Association for Design chapter. Any student is welcome to drop by one of our meetings to connect. If you’re interested in collaborating with AIGA, direct message our official Instagram account!

Is there anything you’d like to mention that we didn’t ask?
I’m grateful to have the opportunity to showcase my work and share my passions. I am so thankful to everyone who helped me bring this project to life!

I want to thank Renee Walker for teaching this course. I really enjoyed it! I also want to thank Jess Jahnle and the rest of the team at the Surface Imaging for their help with creating this display. We were able to get some incredible prototypes printed through the Surface Imaging Lab that truly elevated the project. Finally, biggest thanks to the Gutman Library organization for hosting my display and to Megan Donnelly, Outreach and Engagement Librarian, for collaborating with me to create it

Lights, Camera, Action: Library Documentary Nights at Gutman Library are BACK!

Join us Tuesdays this fall at Gutman Library to watch riveting documentaries, enjoy snacks, and connect with others. Each film centers on themes of ancestry, identity, and home. These events are open to all; registration isn’t required but encouraged to ensure we have enough snacks! RSVP at jefferson.libcal.com/calendar/academiccommons/documentary

Tuesday, September 12, 7pm: Three Identical Strangers
In Three Identical Strangers, three strangers are reunited by astonishing coincidence after being born identical triplets, separated at birth, and adopted by three different families.

Tuesday, October 17, 7pm: Descendant
Descendant tells the story of the descendants of survivors of The Clotilda, the last known ship to bring enslaved people from Africa to the United States. Descendants celebrate their heritage and take command of their legacy in this moving portrait of a community actively grappling with and fighting to preserve its heritage while examining what justice looks like today. The first five people to register will receive a free copy of Barracoon by Zora Neal Hurston. Barracoon is an oral history of Cudjo Lewis, the last survivor of the Atlantic slave trade.

Join us after the film for a discussion facilitated by Slade Roff, LCSW, East Falls Student Counseling Center. 

Tuesday, November 14, 7pm: Blind Ambition
Blind Ambition is an underdog story for the ages that follows an unlikely team of Zimbabweans turned sommeliers who shake up the international wine establishment when they compete in the World Wine Tasting Championships.

Tuesday, December 5, 7pm: Flee
December’s documentary film night will be run in conjunction with the LGBTQA+ Film Nights program and together we’ll watch Flee. Flee tells the extraordinary true story of a man, Amin, as he reveals his hidden past, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband. 

We hope to see you at one or all of our documentary film nights! RSVP here.