Copley Library Annual Report 2022-2023

USD Student Support and Instruction

Hugh Burkhart, Coordinator of Undergraduate Instruction, covers proposal writing with McNair Scholars.

V. Dozier, Coordinator of Graduate Student Programs, illustrates McNair research projects strategies.

McNair Scholars Copley Library participates annually in the USD McNair Scholars Program, which serves high-achieving USD undergraduates who are committed to pursuing a PhD or research-intensive graduate degree post-baccalaureate. The McNair Scholars workshop series is designed to give them a condensed introduction to the research process, scholarly communication, and support available at Copley Library. Hugh Burkhart, Coordinator of Undergraduate Instruction, covered information on literature reviews and citations in the April 2023 proposal writing workshop hosted by the USD TRIO McNair Scholars Program. Burkhart also led the Research Literacy / Literature Review Introduction workshop for McNair Scholars in June 2023. In June 2023, V. Dozier, Coordinator of Graduate Student Programs, led the McNair Scholars: Navigating Scholar Presence & Impact workshop, introducing the scholar cohort to scholarly identity development as an undergraduate, navigating academic social networks, and distinguishing scholarly publishing biases. The group also explored strategies to locate and evaluate reputable undergraduate research journals appropriate for their McNair research projects, extending the learning objectives of Burkhart’s proposal writing and literature review workshops. AnchorSTEM Scholars Library faculty in Copley continue to support the new AnchorSTEM Scholars program, a 5-year project launched in 2021 at USD with an award from the National Science Foundation. For the 2022 cohort of 9 freshmen, Martha Adkins, Reference Librarian, provided an information literacy instruction session in Summer 2022 to the cohort to prepare them for program-related writing assignments.

First-Gen in the Library The library hosted Erika Rodriguez, former Copley Library student assistant, Class of 2014, and founder of Nadi Marketing, on November 9, 2022 in the Journals Reading Room to share her First-Gen story with current First-Gen students.

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