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Publication My Journey Toward a Person-Centered Transformation(ALA Editions, 2025) Piotto, LiviaThis chapter wants to be a reflection of the first year of being a manager, during which the author tried to apply a practical managerial approach that could be considered more person-centered. The reflective essay presents the choices and the decisions that the author made to create a comfortable and empathic work environment for all the library employees after a traumatic event that, in different ways, had an impact on all staff members, and on their relationships as co-workers. The idea of using a person-centered management style comes from realizing that the most challenging aspect of the library work is trying to create a balanced environment in which all library staff can feel they are considered as persons and not just as workforce.Publication Planning for Instruction Training: Implementing an On-the-Job Training for Library Instructors(American Library Association, 2024) Piotto, LiviaThe chapter describes the implementation and revision of an instruction training plan developed to assist early-career librarians and librarians with no previous instruction experience with developing the basic skills for teaching information literacy in an academic environment. The case study enters an already existing scholarly conversation, wanting to provide a real-life example of an instruction training program meant to support an on-the-job approach to train new instruction librarians. The instruction training plan developed at John Cabot University was informally developed throughout the years to teach librarians with no previous instruction experience the basics of library instruction with a strong active learning component, due to the fact that most of the training had to happen on the job. Learning the theory and applying it in practice became a need and the major strength of this program, and the need to hire, and therefore train, new instruction librarians, became the opportunity to update and formalize the training plan. The instruction training plan builds its foundations on the ACRL documents and guidelines related to instructional practices, including the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education and Roles and Strengths of Teaching Librarians. The training plan focuses on the essential aspects of backward design, developing assessable learning outcomes, creating instructional activities that foster authentic learning, and applying appropriate assessment techniques.Publication A Liberal Arts Guide to Academic Writing in the Age of AI: Crafting Meaning, Empowering Students. Making the Most of Artificial Intelligence Tools to Enhance the Liberal Arts Approach in Academic Writing(2024) Campbell, Christin; Keenan-Thomson, Tara; Lindo, Theresa; Romano, Nicoletta; Rutt, AndrewThe advent of generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) and large language models (LLMs) will require a sea change in how and what we teach students of all levels. Research strongly suggests that most university students are regularly using it in our courses, so it is incumbent on us to establish norms and best practices in our classes regarding AI use, ethics, and literacy. This strengthening guide provides modular lesson plans for an advanced university-level English Composition course that focuses on the teaching of critical reading and writing as well as information literacy. This guide provides: • practical lessons that address genAI and LLMs and its interaction with Liberal Arts approaches to teaching and learning; • genAI tools to use and suggestions about when to use them in class; and • assignments and assessment rubrics. We argue that the appropriate response to advancements in these technologies lies in the foregrounding of the liberal arts approach and the direct use and exploration of these new tools to enhance that perspective. This requires a shift in teaching that moves from product to process and focuses on critical reading and writing in shorter collaborative bursts that build toward a final written project rather than production of full-length assigned papers to be completed by students at home on their own. This guide was written by an interdisciplinary team of instructors and reference and instruction library professionals at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. The project was completed in partnership with Parami University through the Open Society University Network and supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Foundations.Publication Integrating Information Literacy in a Communication Writing Course(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2020) López, Antonio; Piotto, Livia; Macias-Gutiérrez, ElizabethPublication What’s behind That? Facts and Statistics Supporting Public Service Announcements(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2020) Piotto, LiviaPublication Researching Rome: The Librarian as Research Mediator(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2020) Piotto, LiviaPublication Evaluating News through the Exploration of Bias(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2020) Piotto, LiviaPublication Zotero Smoothie: Blending Citations into Annotated Bibliographies and Literature Review(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2021) Piotto, LiviaPublication Librarians and information literacy instruction in Morocco, Italy, and France during the pandemic: reflecting on challenges and future opportunities(Routledge, 2023) Stöpel, Michael; Ḥassānī, ʻAzīz; Piotto, LiviaPublication Intercultural dialogue: fighting infodemic(Routledge, 2023) Kanižaj, Igor; Piotto, LiviaPublication Interim leadership in a crisis(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2023) Piotto, LiviaThe interim head librarian assumed the role of reassuring the staff that the library was not left rudderless and that someone was ready to step in and move the library forward. At the same time, she had to acknowledge that a period of mourning was necessary for everyone in the team and that everyone was coping with grief in different ways.