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    A Guide to Excellent Creative Business Libraries and Business Centers
    (American Library Association, 2009-03) Gonzalez, Adriana Trujillo; Kwong, Vincci; Strange, Julie; Yen, Julie
    The goal of the project was to create a guide to excellent creative business libraries and business centers to provide examples of innovative and best practices. To better understand the current practices of business libraries and business centers, we conducted a Web-based survey to identify innovation and best practice. The findings from the survey are discussed in this article. Note that we have used the term library to designate both business libraries and business centers.
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    The Indiana Librarian Leadership Academy: Perspectives of Four Academic Librarians
    (Indiana Library Association, 2016) Bishop, Chanitra; Kwong, Vincci; Reel, Brad; Washington, Madelyn Shackelford
    The Indiana Library Leadership Academy (InLLA) was established in 2012 by the Professional Development Committee of the Indiana State Library (ISL). Modeled after the American Library Association’s (ALA) Emerging Leaders program, the InLLA brings together librarians accepted into the program from public, school, academic, and special libraries throughout Indiana. A new cohort of librarians is invited each year to a week-long workshop in July, where participants are divided into teams to work on a year-long capstone project and facilitate InLLA group meetings via webinar. This paper chronicles experiences of four academic librarians from the 2013 cohort of the InLLA. It will highlight four different capstone projects for which each of the academic librarians contributed, respectively, with their fellow group members. This paper will identify the greatest challenges each respective group faced during their yearlong collaboration, as well as the learning experiences of each author’s participation in InLLA.
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    Integrating Immersive Experiences to Instruction through Breakout EDU: Lessons Learned
    (2022-07-18) Kwong, Vincci; Falzon, Judith; Feighery, Julie
    This study employed an escape room motif to engage students to use information literacy course material to solve puzzles. Students practiced research techniques in a classroom environment that bypassed their expectations of traditional course instruction. Instructor objectives were to increase student engagement with the course material, and to foster teamwork among students in a cooperative learning environment. Authors initially obtained 9 kits from Breakout EDU, a company specializing in immersive games. Games were devised for three of the course units, with each unit identifying 4-5 information literacy skills or concepts. The puzzles were focused on reinforcement of the key concepts. After each escape room class session, students completed a short survey. At the end of the semester students completed another survey about their experiences. Over 80% of students indicated the games helped them understand course concepts. Comparisons of final grades in the gamified courses with previous, non-gamified courses revealed that students achieved more A’s and fewer D’s and F’s in the gamified courses. Future directions for study include flipping game design to student groups, and further analysis of correlations between concepts learned through traditional teaching techniques and those learned in Breakout EDU classes.
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    Reach Out to Your Students Using MySpace and Facebook
    (Indiana Libraries, 2007) Kwong, Vincci
    This article will discuss how the Schurz Library set up an effective profile and utilized different features within MySpace and Facebook to promote itself to students.