Poster Sessions (during lunch)

During lunch, visit the Frances Loeb Library to view our posters and hear more from their creators. Topics include knowledge services departments, data visualization types, technology troubleshooting and support tickets, and pop-up hands-on workshops.

Building Knowledge Services at HKS

Poster Creators: Christina Sirois, Corinne Wolfson, Alessandra Seiter, and Kristen Koob - HKS Library & Knowledge Services

Learn how HKS Library & Knowledge Services has built out a collaborative and innovative team which is inventing and redeploying LKS services and business processes at HKS to support and promote the mission of HKS: to improve public policy and public leadership across the United States and around the world so that people can lead safer, freer, and more prosperous lives.

Data Visualization and Chart Types using Harvard Data

Poster Creators: Kyung-Im (Kim) Noh & Rachel Lewellen - Assessment & Program Management, Harvard Library

This poster illustrates when to use standard chart types for categories, time, relationships, etc. It has the added benefit of highlighting actual library data across chart types. The poster will include standard data visualization approaches.

From Trouble Ticket to Learning Opportunity

Poster Creator: Jennifer Koerber - LTS/Alma Training Manager, Harvard University IT

Poster (PDF)

Part of learning a new library technology tool or platform is determining what to do when it doesn’t work like it’s supposed to. This poster will feature lists of questions to ask and steps to take when dealing with a system-related issue, learning more about the system in the process. Troubleshooting also gives you detailed information for your trouble tickets, helping LTS learn about issues facing librarians and better serve their user community.

Make, Play & Learn - Designing hands-on pop up workshops

Poster Creator: Joanna Huang - Cabot Science Library, FAS

Want to engage and connect with students in more creative, exciting, and compelling ways? Learn lessons from the past year of pop up clinics and how to start designing pop up clinics at your library. Pop up clinics are monthly informal science, art, technology and/or maker-focused events held at the discovery bar at Cabot Science Library. Participants are invited to join short, engaging, and creative activities, exchange ideas with others, and take away something tangible from the clinics.  

In collaboration with other Harvard libraries, we also try to bring visibility to collections. For example, we hosted a Make Your Own Succulent Garden clinic with Botany library and Decorate Pumpkins and Bats clinic with Ernst Mayr Library. This poster will share insights and lessons learned from the pop-up clinics and dive deeper into the design process of what it takes to host a pop-up clinic from idea conception, activity curation, materials, etc.