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Acting Associate Chief Librarian, Western Libraries

Melanie Mills is an Associate Librarian at Western University, where she currently serves as Acting Associate Chief Librarian, User Experience and Student Engagement (UXSE) for Western Libraries.

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Melanie Mills is an Associate Librarian at Western University, where she currently serves as Acting Associate Chief Librarian, User Experience and Student Engagement (UXSE) for Western Libraries.

Present	Director, Library & Learning Services, Western University ‐ Huron at Western
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Library and Information Science

Professional Competencies of Canadian LIS Graduates (Melanie Mills and Heather Hill) Proceedings of the Association of Library and Information Science Education Annual Conference (2023)

This study aims to determine current competencies necessary for graduates of Canadian library and information science (LIS) programs. Perspectives from different communities of interest, including current students and graduates from LIS programs, staff and employers ...

Information Workers in the Academy: The Case of Librarians and Archivists at The University of Western Ontario (Melanie Mills) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization (2010)

It Takes a Village to Raise a Tent: A Case Study in Pitching the Academic Library to Incoming Undergraduate Students (Melanie Mills) Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research (2009)

Rather than continuing to pursue formal inclusion in The University of Western Ontario’s O-Week program, Western Libraries shifted its approach to library orientation for incoming undergraduate students by launching its very own orientation campaign in ...

Mind Over Matter: Practical, Proven Strategies to Secure an Academic Library Interview (Melanie Mills and Kim McPhee) Ontario Library Association (OLA) SuperConference 2021 (2021)

You’re passionate, prepared, and you’ve got one shot to prove it to the search committee! Your only goal at the application stage is to secure an interview. This session will give you practical, proven techniques ...

Rethinking Research Collaboration: Transformative Experiences of Faculty and Students Engaged in Undergraduate Research Learning (Catharine Dishke Hondzel, Christine Tsang, Lucas Savino, et al.) Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) Annual Conference (2017)

Research habits of reflective and analytic thinking are developed through applied practice and guided mentorship. Institutions that support undergraduate research opportunities find that research experiences help undergraduates connect theory to practice, can increase student self-efficacy ...

Using Online Activities to Build Students’ Research Capacity (Melanie Mills, Elan Paulson and Colleen Burgess) Fall Perspectives on Teaching / Western University (2016)

Where does making students research ready (e.g., thinking like a researcher, developing a research question, negotiating the information ecosystem) fit into your teaching? In this session, participants will discuss how,when, and where they believe developing ...

Speculative Friction: Reconciling the Roles of Public and Private Research Collections on the 21st-Century University Campus (Melanie Mills and David J Fiander) The Promise of Paradise: Reading, Researching, and Using the Private Library / Concordia University (2016)

What is the role of the research library in the 21st century? What assumptions do members of the academic community (i.e., research and teaching faculty, academic librarians, students, and university administrators) make about its form ...

Hidden Intersection: Helping Graduate Students Cross the Threshold from Student 2 Scholar using Framework-Driven, Blended Learning IL Interventions (Colleen Burgess and Melanie Mills) The Workshop for Instruction in Library Use (WILU) 2016 / University of British Columbia (2016)

Teaching faculty, librarians, and staff in institutions of higher education have now had more than a year to familiarize themselves with and begin to adjust their instruction in response to the Association of College and ...

Leveraging Resources Across Units and Universities to Address Academic Literacies and Research Skills in Ontario Graduate Students.pdf (Melanie Mills and Elan Paulson) McMaster Institute for Innovation & Excellence in Teaching and Learning (MIIETL) 2015, Research on Teaching and Learning Conference / McMaster University (2015)

Student2Scholar (S2S) is a fully online and open course that aims to teach academic literacies and research skills to social science graduate students. Set to launch in December 2015, S2S was conceived of and created ...

The D.B. Weldon Library's Instruction Portfolio: A Grassroots, Team-Based Approach (Kim McPhee, Melanie Mills and Marg Sloan) Ontario College and University Libraries Association (OCULA) Spring Conference / Ontario Library Association (2013)

In an effort to address ever-shifting staffing levels and evolving service demands, staff in the Research & Instructional Services department of The D.B. Weldon Library at Western University developed and implemented a new and strategic ...

The Moving Targets of Teaching and Technology: Virtual Reference as Information Literacy Intermediary (Melanie Mills and Jennifer Robinson) Technology in Education Symposium / The University of Western Ontario (2013)

Libraries have been moving traditional services to the digital environment for some time now; first, with a measure of reluctance and now with enthusiasm (Anderson 2011, 290). But is the act of migrating library services ...

Library Sector Leadership Bridging Theory and Practice (Melanie Mills) Ontario Library Association (OLA) SuperConference (2011)

Explore the issue of leadership in libraries with one current student and one graduate of The University of Victoria's Professional Graduate Certificate in Library Sector Leadership. Looking specifically at Kouzes and Posner's 'Five Practices of ...

It's Just Plain Common(s) Sense: Grounding Space Planning in Evidence-Based Research (Melanie Mills) 5th Annual Canadian Learning Commons Conference (CLCC5), Queen's University (2010)

The Graduate Resource Centre (GRC) at The University of Western Ontario (Western) is a special library independently operated by the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS). Exclusively serving the communities of FIMS four graduate ...