Your library needs its own Climate Action Plan now. Few North American libraries undertake proprietary climate action planning. LibCAPs is a simple guide to help libraries develop and implement their own Climate Action Plans (CAPs). LibCAPS synthesizes climate policy research, government agency guidelines, domestic and international climate action plan templates, library responses to climate change, and incorporates climate risk assessment tools. LibCAPs provides: Best Practices for writing and implementing CAPs Recommended risk assessment and modelling tools Roadmaps for actionable tasks Examples of collaboration Advocacy guidance for funding Policy ideas for your library and local government

Authentically enacting principles of participatory design, Liberating Literature installed a six-session, self-sustaining storytelling curriculum for children at Compass Housing Alliance, a facility that supports residents having experienced traumas related to homelessness. Extant research attributes distinct therapeutic value to the practice of community reading and links narrative building to both self-expression and resilience; thus, Liberating Literature employed collaborative design methodologies to ensure users both benefited from and enjoyed these protective practices. Upon the program’s conclusion, users communicated an interest in continuing work with Liberating Literature, as well as significant increases in creative confidence and sense of environmental agency through program ownership.

Did you know anxiety and depression has increased by a massive 25% since 2020? Did you also know that 20% of American adults who struggle with mental health are unable to find affordable counseling? ListeningPal, a PNW-based company that provides mental health peer support, is here to combat the issues of the inaccessible and costly nature of counseling. Our team was thrilled to address this disparity by bringing life to the ListeningPal app where users can schedule thirty-minute appointments with ListeningPal’s trained peer support staff and be heard, understood, and valued all while staying anonymous and saving money and time.

From our experience working in Longview, WA as a Longview Public Library employee and a Head Start Teacher Assistant, we noticed a need for families to engage with books, the outdoors, and each other. StoryWalks seemed like the perfect solution. From a Google Forms survey, a guest book, and informal conversations, our results showed that the approximately 187 participants overwhelmingly enjoyed the experience and wanted a permanent StoryWalk in our city. Since then our sponsor has secured the funding, we have quotes from vendors, and we are awaiting approval from Parks and Recreation to install a permanent StoryWalk.

This work explores ways in which developing language used to describe immigrant groups reflects labor, industrial and land development interests, which may still influence our perceptions today. The site is both a digital exhibit and a pedagogical tool that can be used to form new connections and create original work. The work was designed to provide researchers with multiple "ways in" to the material, depending on learning preferences, and serves as a model for how we can analyze, host and curate a large and diverse amount of material and present it in accessible and engaging ways to encourage future research.

Masterworks is a full-service marketing and fundraising agency that helps faith-based non-profits achieve their missions through growth strategies focused on quality of engagement with their audiences. Masterworks clients don’t fully understand the effectiveness of digital marketing, which affects the company’s ability to retain clients in the future. Our MasterView Tool enables Masterworks’ clients to see the value of investing in digital marketing. It achieves this goal by showing them the specific ways that a person’s engagement with ads leads to financial donations. With this, Masterworks can validate that their clients' investments are delivering quantifiable results.

Finding research opportunities at universities is an extremely time-consuming and ineffective process that often leads to frustrated, empty-handed students, students who quickly churn out of roles due to poor fit, and research leads ending up behind schedule. Online research postings are often outdated, and the most common way principal investigators (PIs) find candidates -- through people they already know -- is neither an efficient nor inclusive process. To address this problem, we created MatchLab, an online platform that democratizes research opportunities and saves students and PIs time and frustration.

Within the realm of veterinary information, there are two major free resources: The Merck Veterinary Manual, and PubMed. Unfortunately, as PubMed, and by extension its controlled vocabulary, MeSH, are intended for human medical data, it is difficult for most users to make the jump between these two resources. This project is intended to bridge these two resources, however, was of mixed success, as the level of equivalency was so low that using MeSH at all was rarely more effective than just using a well-structured search. However, giving the students structure to their search aided the effectiveness of their searches immensely.

Incomplete, out-of-date, or inaccurate information in Scarecrow Video’s Oz database hinders staffs’ ability to help patrons find desired titles and keep track of the collection. As of Spring 2022, we have corrected and added metadata–such as alternate titles, UPC and IMDB numbers, supplemental information, etc.–for 440 Film Noir titles, 614 Sci-Fi TV titles, and 459 Disney titles, totaling 1,512 revised titles. This project will improve accessibility for staff and patrons. Given the unique collection held at Scarecrow, cleaner and more up-to-date metadata will make it easier for staff to assist customers in finding their desired materials.