This document summarizes a panel discussion on succession planning and lessons learned from new depository coordinators. The panelists discussed their experiences transitioning into the role of depository coordinator. They emphasized the importance of planning ahead, capturing institutional knowledge, and identifying resources and allies to help with the transition. Recommendations included sharing important documents and projects, establishing an orientation plan, developing succession plans, preserving tacit knowledge, taking advantage of technology, managing changes in leadership, keeping leadership informed, and asking questions. The panelists stressed that no two situations are the same and highlighted the value of resources like listservs, conferences, and blogging to help new coordinators learn and grow in their roles.
Gary Price, MIT Program on Information ScienceMicah Altman
This document discusses maximizing the use of open web resources in libraries. It argues that libraries should better utilize free and openly available web content for research and users. However, curating and selecting quality resources from the vast amount on the open web presents challenges including the volume of content, lack of metadata, scalability, and ephemeral nature of some resources. The document outlines potential workflows for discovering, ingesting, reviewing, archiving, and sharing open web resources and suggests tools that can help with curation tasks. It also discusses the types of materials that could be curated from the open web like reports, datasets, digital collections, and videos.
SAFETY NETS: RESCUE AND REVIVAL FOR ENDANGERED BORN-DIGITAL RECORDS- Program ...Micah Altman
The web is now firmly established as the primary communication and publication platform for sharing and accessing social and cultural materials. This networked world has created both opportunities and pitfalls for libraries and archives in their mission to preserve and provide ongoing access to knowledge. How can the affordances of the web be leveraged to drastically extend the plurality of representation in the archive? What challenges are imposed by the intrinsic ephemerality and mutability of online information? What methodological reorientations are demanded by the scale and dynamism of machine-generated cultural artifacts? This talk will explore the interplay of the web, contemporary historical records, and the programs, technologies, and approaches by which libraries and archives are working to extend their mission to preserve and provide access to the evidence of human activity in a world distinguished by the ubiquity of born-digital materials.
Information Science Brown Bag talks, hosted by the Program on Information Science, consists of regular discussions and brainstorming sessions on all aspects of information science and uses of information science and technology to assess and solve institutional, social and research problems. These are informal talks. Discussions are often inspired by real-world problems being faced by the lead discussant.
Software Repositories for Research-- An Environmental ScanMicah Altman
This document provides a summary of the state of software curation based on an environmental scan of research software repositories and related practices. The summary finds:
1) There are no comprehensive indices of software archives and orders of magnitude fewer software archives than data archives. Institutional repositories offer little functionality for software archiving.
2) Very few funders have policies addressing software curation. There is little available advice for researchers who wish to curate, cite, and preserve software.
3) Substantial reproducibility failures continue to be reported due to a lack of software preservation. In summary, software curation looks a lot like data curation did a decade ago, with no universal standards for citing and archiving software.
BIBFLOW and the Libhub Initiative: Leveraging our past to define our future
Eric Miller, President, Zepheira
Jeff Penka, Director of Channel and Product Development, Zepheira
The document summarizes a webinar on May 18, 2011 about the future of integrated library systems and user interaction. The webinar featured four speakers discussing their projects focused on improving the user experience of library discovery systems. Jennifer Bowen presented on the eXtensible Catalog software being developed at the University of Rochester to give libraries more control over their metadata and interfaces. John Blyberg discussed the SOPAC library discovery system and its user-centered design. Allie Flanary and Anya Arnold then described the shared catalog system used by the Orbis Cascade Alliance and efforts to enhance it based on user research findings.
Learning the Lingo: Building Foundations for Successful Partnerships and Collaborations upon which Successful Systems Integrations can be Built
Carl Grant, Associate Dean, Knowledge Services & Chief Technology Officer, University of Oklahoma
Gary Price, MIT Program on Information ScienceMicah Altman
This document discusses maximizing the use of open web resources in libraries. It argues that libraries should better utilize free and openly available web content for research and users. However, curating and selecting quality resources from the vast amount on the open web presents challenges including the volume of content, lack of metadata, scalability, and ephemeral nature of some resources. The document outlines potential workflows for discovering, ingesting, reviewing, archiving, and sharing open web resources and suggests tools that can help with curation tasks. It also discusses the types of materials that could be curated from the open web like reports, datasets, digital collections, and videos.
SAFETY NETS: RESCUE AND REVIVAL FOR ENDANGERED BORN-DIGITAL RECORDS- Program ...Micah Altman
The web is now firmly established as the primary communication and publication platform for sharing and accessing social and cultural materials. This networked world has created both opportunities and pitfalls for libraries and archives in their mission to preserve and provide ongoing access to knowledge. How can the affordances of the web be leveraged to drastically extend the plurality of representation in the archive? What challenges are imposed by the intrinsic ephemerality and mutability of online information? What methodological reorientations are demanded by the scale and dynamism of machine-generated cultural artifacts? This talk will explore the interplay of the web, contemporary historical records, and the programs, technologies, and approaches by which libraries and archives are working to extend their mission to preserve and provide access to the evidence of human activity in a world distinguished by the ubiquity of born-digital materials.
Information Science Brown Bag talks, hosted by the Program on Information Science, consists of regular discussions and brainstorming sessions on all aspects of information science and uses of information science and technology to assess and solve institutional, social and research problems. These are informal talks. Discussions are often inspired by real-world problems being faced by the lead discussant.
Software Repositories for Research-- An Environmental ScanMicah Altman
This document provides a summary of the state of software curation based on an environmental scan of research software repositories and related practices. The summary finds:
1) There are no comprehensive indices of software archives and orders of magnitude fewer software archives than data archives. Institutional repositories offer little functionality for software archiving.
2) Very few funders have policies addressing software curation. There is little available advice for researchers who wish to curate, cite, and preserve software.
3) Substantial reproducibility failures continue to be reported due to a lack of software preservation. In summary, software curation looks a lot like data curation did a decade ago, with no universal standards for citing and archiving software.
BIBFLOW and the Libhub Initiative: Leveraging our past to define our future
Eric Miller, President, Zepheira
Jeff Penka, Director of Channel and Product Development, Zepheira
The document summarizes a webinar on May 18, 2011 about the future of integrated library systems and user interaction. The webinar featured four speakers discussing their projects focused on improving the user experience of library discovery systems. Jennifer Bowen presented on the eXtensible Catalog software being developed at the University of Rochester to give libraries more control over their metadata and interfaces. John Blyberg discussed the SOPAC library discovery system and its user-centered design. Allie Flanary and Anya Arnold then described the shared catalog system used by the Orbis Cascade Alliance and efforts to enhance it based on user research findings.
Learning the Lingo: Building Foundations for Successful Partnerships and Collaborations upon which Successful Systems Integrations can be Built
Carl Grant, Associate Dean, Knowledge Services & Chief Technology Officer, University of Oklahoma
ResourceSync is a framework for keeping systems synchronized with resources that change over time on a source server. It allows destination servers to remain aligned with the evolving resources on the source server. The framework provides different capabilities like listing resources, tracking changes, and is implemented using common web protocols. It aims to scale better than recurrent checking for changes through HTTP. The framework was developed by an international working group and the core specification is in the process of becoming an ANSI standard.
The universe of linked data is rapidly expanding and our community is finding innovative ways to link and apply data. This session will cover several initiatives and projects using linked data to improve discovery and reuse of information.
Speakers: Richard Wallis, Technology Evangelist, OCLC; Tom Johnson, Digital Applications Librarian, Oregon State University
Leveraging Wikipedia as a Hub for Data Integration: the Remixing Archival Metadata Project (RAMP)
Timothy A. Thompson, Metadata Librarian (Spanish/Portuguese Specialty), Princeton University Library
Exploring a world of networked information built from free-text metadataShenghui Wang
This document summarizes a presentation about exploring topics through networked information extracted from free-text metadata. It describes challenges in exploring topics and related aspects. It then demonstrates an online interface called Ariadne that addresses these challenges by generating semantic representations of entities from a large dataset and identifying nearest neighbors and related entities through multidimensional scaling. Finally, it discusses potential applications of this approach and references related work.
Data mining OCLC for translations.
Creating authority records for VIAF.
Remodelling the bibliorgraphic structure to make the best mutli-lingual displays from all available data in a work set.
Presented at the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Web Archiving Week, University of London, 16 June 2017.
Web archiving has become imperative to ensure that our digital heritage does not disappear forever, yet many institutions have not begun this work. In addition, archived websites are not easily discoverable, which severely limits their use. To address this challenge, OCLC Research has established the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group to develop a data dictionary that will be compatible with library and archives standards. Three reports on this project are available in July 2017, focused on metadata best practices guidelines, user needs and behaviors, and evaluation of web archiving tools.
More information: oc.lc/wam
Contact: Jackie Dooley, dooleyj@oclc.org
This presentation was delivered by Rebekah Cummings of the University of Utah during a NISO Virtual Conference on the topic of data curation, held on Wednesday, August 31, 2016
The document discusses rising digital challenges for libraries and proposes ways for libraries to address them. It recommends that libraries focus on discovery happening at the network level through tools like Google and WorldCat rather than local catalogs. It also stresses the importance of digitizing collections as ongoing programs rather than projects, exposing collections through web search engines, and describing special collections through basic metadata that allows community contributions. Cooperation between libraries is key to putting libraries at a web scale.
Mobile access to digital collections is a developing area. There is no one-size-fits-all approach, as each organization should consider their unique user population and analytics. While mobile capabilities are expanding rapidly, development requires balancing added value, costs, and sustainability over time. Lessons from early adopters include focusing on usability and access above specific technologies or frameworks.
Library futures: converging and diverging directions for public and academic ...lisld
The major influence on library futures is the changing character of their user communities. As patterns of research, learning and personal development change in a network environment so library services need to change. At the same time, libraries are focused on engaging with their communities more strongly - getting into their work and learning flows. This means that libraries are becoming more unlike each other, they are diverging as they meet the specific needs of their communities. Research libraries diverge from academic libraries, and each is different from urban public libraries, and so on.
At the same time, at a broader level libraries are experiencing similar pressures. The need to engage more strongly with their communities. The need to assess what they do. The need to configure space around experiences rather than around collections. Libraries are converging around some of these issues.
This presentation will consider the future of libraries from the point of view of convergence and divergence between types of libraries.
Keynote presented at the International Association of University Libraries Conference (IATUL), 20 June 2017 in Bolzano, Italy.
Library metadata was created to describe objects and enable a reader to understand when they had the same or a different object in hand. Now linked data concepts and techniques are allowing us to recreate, merge, and link our metadata assets in new ways that better support discovery - both in our local systems and on the wider web. Tennant described this migration and the potential it has for solving key discovery problems.
This presentation was provided by Ellen Bishop of the Florida Virtual Campus for the NISO webinar, Integrating Library Management Systems, held on June 8, 2016
This is a presentation given to the library staff at Sonoma State University on January 29, 2009. Presentation covers all aspects of web services in a library environment.
Peer Council 2016 Keynote Address with John ChapmanAndrea Coffin
As the scope of library collections and descriptive efforts has grown, existing methods of authority control have shown strain. Many libraries and cooperative initiatives have been experimenting with new methods of managing information around people associated with creative works. This talk will explore the reasons for these moves, and their implications for technical services workflows, library cooperation, and discoverability.
Libraries, collections, technology: presented at Pennylvania State University...lisld
Library collections are changing in a network environment. This presentation considers how collections are being reconfigured, it looks at research support services, and it explores the shift from the purchased/licensed collection to the facilitated collection.
Bilal Gul is seeking a career opportunity that allows for personal development. He has a DAE in Electronics from Polly Technical College Sukkur graduating in 2015. He has work experience from 2013-2015 as a Field Sales Agent and DSL Technician at PTCL. In his free time, Bilal enjoys playing cricket, visiting historical places, and using the internet. He is fluent in English, Urdu, and Sindhi.
ResourceSync is a framework for keeping systems synchronized with resources that change over time on a source server. It allows destination servers to remain aligned with the evolving resources on the source server. The framework provides different capabilities like listing resources, tracking changes, and is implemented using common web protocols. It aims to scale better than recurrent checking for changes through HTTP. The framework was developed by an international working group and the core specification is in the process of becoming an ANSI standard.
The universe of linked data is rapidly expanding and our community is finding innovative ways to link and apply data. This session will cover several initiatives and projects using linked data to improve discovery and reuse of information.
Speakers: Richard Wallis, Technology Evangelist, OCLC; Tom Johnson, Digital Applications Librarian, Oregon State University
Leveraging Wikipedia as a Hub for Data Integration: the Remixing Archival Metadata Project (RAMP)
Timothy A. Thompson, Metadata Librarian (Spanish/Portuguese Specialty), Princeton University Library
Exploring a world of networked information built from free-text metadataShenghui Wang
This document summarizes a presentation about exploring topics through networked information extracted from free-text metadata. It describes challenges in exploring topics and related aspects. It then demonstrates an online interface called Ariadne that addresses these challenges by generating semantic representations of entities from a large dataset and identifying nearest neighbors and related entities through multidimensional scaling. Finally, it discusses potential applications of this approach and references related work.
Data mining OCLC for translations.
Creating authority records for VIAF.
Remodelling the bibliorgraphic structure to make the best mutli-lingual displays from all available data in a work set.
Presented at the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Web Archiving Week, University of London, 16 June 2017.
Web archiving has become imperative to ensure that our digital heritage does not disappear forever, yet many institutions have not begun this work. In addition, archived websites are not easily discoverable, which severely limits their use. To address this challenge, OCLC Research has established the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group to develop a data dictionary that will be compatible with library and archives standards. Three reports on this project are available in July 2017, focused on metadata best practices guidelines, user needs and behaviors, and evaluation of web archiving tools.
More information: oc.lc/wam
Contact: Jackie Dooley, dooleyj@oclc.org
This presentation was delivered by Rebekah Cummings of the University of Utah during a NISO Virtual Conference on the topic of data curation, held on Wednesday, August 31, 2016
The document discusses rising digital challenges for libraries and proposes ways for libraries to address them. It recommends that libraries focus on discovery happening at the network level through tools like Google and WorldCat rather than local catalogs. It also stresses the importance of digitizing collections as ongoing programs rather than projects, exposing collections through web search engines, and describing special collections through basic metadata that allows community contributions. Cooperation between libraries is key to putting libraries at a web scale.
Mobile access to digital collections is a developing area. There is no one-size-fits-all approach, as each organization should consider their unique user population and analytics. While mobile capabilities are expanding rapidly, development requires balancing added value, costs, and sustainability over time. Lessons from early adopters include focusing on usability and access above specific technologies or frameworks.
Library futures: converging and diverging directions for public and academic ...lisld
The major influence on library futures is the changing character of their user communities. As patterns of research, learning and personal development change in a network environment so library services need to change. At the same time, libraries are focused on engaging with their communities more strongly - getting into their work and learning flows. This means that libraries are becoming more unlike each other, they are diverging as they meet the specific needs of their communities. Research libraries diverge from academic libraries, and each is different from urban public libraries, and so on.
At the same time, at a broader level libraries are experiencing similar pressures. The need to engage more strongly with their communities. The need to assess what they do. The need to configure space around experiences rather than around collections. Libraries are converging around some of these issues.
This presentation will consider the future of libraries from the point of view of convergence and divergence between types of libraries.
Keynote presented at the International Association of University Libraries Conference (IATUL), 20 June 2017 in Bolzano, Italy.
Library metadata was created to describe objects and enable a reader to understand when they had the same or a different object in hand. Now linked data concepts and techniques are allowing us to recreate, merge, and link our metadata assets in new ways that better support discovery - both in our local systems and on the wider web. Tennant described this migration and the potential it has for solving key discovery problems.
This presentation was provided by Ellen Bishop of the Florida Virtual Campus for the NISO webinar, Integrating Library Management Systems, held on June 8, 2016
This is a presentation given to the library staff at Sonoma State University on January 29, 2009. Presentation covers all aspects of web services in a library environment.
Peer Council 2016 Keynote Address with John ChapmanAndrea Coffin
As the scope of library collections and descriptive efforts has grown, existing methods of authority control have shown strain. Many libraries and cooperative initiatives have been experimenting with new methods of managing information around people associated with creative works. This talk will explore the reasons for these moves, and their implications for technical services workflows, library cooperation, and discoverability.
Libraries, collections, technology: presented at Pennylvania State University...lisld
Library collections are changing in a network environment. This presentation considers how collections are being reconfigured, it looks at research support services, and it explores the shift from the purchased/licensed collection to the facilitated collection.
Bilal Gul is seeking a career opportunity that allows for personal development. He has a DAE in Electronics from Polly Technical College Sukkur graduating in 2015. He has work experience from 2013-2015 as a Field Sales Agent and DSL Technician at PTCL. In his free time, Bilal enjoys playing cricket, visiting historical places, and using the internet. He is fluent in English, Urdu, and Sindhi.
This certificate confirms that Laura Catherine Bester completed the requirements for a Master of Science in Zoology on 2015-12-09. The student number is 28049404 and the contact is Mrs CM Barnard at 0124204127. The qualification will be awarded at a graduation ceremony on 2016-04-18.
The document provides an overview of Taiwanese culture, including its location in East Asia off the coast of China with a population of over 23 million. It discusses Taiwan's indigenous groups and the 14 tribes, and highlights traditional ceremonies, customs, music, architectures, arts, and dramas of both indigenous peoples and Han Chinese culture. Key ceremonies mentioned include harvest festivals, Chungyuan Festival, and festivals celebrating Chinese New Year and lanterns.
This document discusses the role of surgery in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). It covers several key topics:
1. Surgery remains the gold standard treatment for HCC and includes resection and liver transplantation when patients meet selection criteria. Selection is based on tumor features, liver function, and health status.
2. Outcomes of resection and transplantation can provide 5-year survival rates of 50-75% in selected patients, depending on tumor size and number, and presence of portal hypertension.
3. Percutaneous therapies can achieve 1-year survival over 90% for early stage HCC but 5-year survival is lower, ranging from 29-54% depending on tumor size and stage.
This document describes airway exchange catheters and the Aintree Intubation Catheter. Airway exchange catheters are long, thin, flexible catheters used to replace an endotracheal or tracheostomy tube already in place. The Aintree Intubation Catheter is an adaptation with a larger diameter that can be loaded onto a bronchoscope to guide placement of a new endotracheal tube after removing a supraglottic airway device. The catheter is inserted through the existing tube or supraglottic device and a new tube is railroaded over it. This allows visual guidance and avoids potential trauma from blind techniques. Risks include airway trauma, failure to insert the
Jonathan Swift wrote "A Modest Proposal" in 1729 to satirically address the widespread famine and poverty in Ireland under English rule. In the pamphlet, he outrageously proposes selling and eating Irish children as a solution, using verbal irony and persuasive techniques to ridicule the English government's neglect of the Irish people and bring attention to the terrible social problems facing Ireland.
The document is a worksheet from La Mitjana School for 5th grade students in their 3rd cycle. The worksheet is for Unit 2 called "I am dancing!" and focuses on sports and hobbies. It provides blanks for students to write what activities they, others, and groups of people are doing.
Becoming a Great Academic Liaison WorkshopALATechSource
The document discusses the evolving role of academic library liaisons. It begins by introducing the presenters and asking library liaisons how many hours they devote to liaison work. It then outlines the history of liaison roles from the prehistoric age focusing on collection development and communication to the modern era with expanded roles in areas like technology support, curriculum involvement, and copyright advising. The rest of the document offers tips, examples, and trends related to key liaison responsibilities and the future of liaison work, emphasizing continued focus on communication, collaboration, and developing user-centered services.
The Future of Information Literacy in the Library: An Example of Librarian/Pu...NASIG
This document summarizes a presentation about information literacy and collaboration between a librarian and publisher. It discusses:
1. Existing information literacy programs at Florida Gulf Coast University and Taylor & Francis Group.
2. How the librarian-publisher relationship can help develop information literacy curriculum, including a project between FGCU and Taylor & Francis to create an information literacy toolkit.
3. The current status of the project, lessons learned, and next steps, which include finalizing webinar content and generating interest among faculty and students.
Stephen Abram discusses transformational leadership strategies for librarians. He talks about the importance of collaboration, speaking with one voice, and prioritizing initiatives for maximum impact. Abram notes that the Philippines is poised for growth and discusses how librarians can help support education, the economy, and quality of life. He emphasizes developing leadership skills through training programs and emphasizes qualities like passion, risk-taking, and flexibility.
This document summarizes the information literacy needs and offerings at De Montfort University. It discusses surveying academics and students to understand their perspectives. Academics agreed that students need skills in differentiating information types, expanding searches, and evaluating sources. Students reported feeling mostly confident in their information and digital literacy skills. The university will promote its information literacy program to academics and faculty to improve understanding and student experience. It will also consider future changes in higher education. The information literacy program provides instruction at different levels, including inductions, in-curriculum support, and advanced training for researchers.
The Informationist: Pushing the BoundariesElaine Martin
Library Director Elaine Martin of UMass Medical School's Lamar Soutter Library described the core competencies, roles, and new professional identity directions informationists are taking in the medical research field. She highlights opportunities for informationists, an emerging role in medical libraries today.
1. Libraries need a strategic plan to guide their future and ensure their survival and growth. The director needs to educate trustees and staff, conduct research, and draft the plan with goals, strategies, and budgets. Trustees establish the planning process and support community involvement.
2. Developing a strategic plan involves gathering information from stakeholders, creating a vision and mission statement, setting goals and strategies, and outlining budgets, timelines, and evaluations.
3. Regular monitoring and evaluation of the strategic plan allows the library to check progress towards goals and make adjustments based on changes in priorities or resources.
Teaching, Learning, and Leading: Be a professional triple threatTheILC
This document summarizes a conference on teaching, learning, and leading in libraries. It discusses the evolving roles of libraries and instruction librarians. The key themes are:
1) Libraries and instruction librarians face challenges like changing user needs, new types of collections, and assessing outcomes, but also opportunities to collaborate across institutions and support user-created content.
2) Instruction librarians need skills in areas like teaching, assessment, communication and leadership to adapt to these changes. Their roles may include instructional designer, advocate, and project manager in addition to teacher.
3) Applying concepts from educational theory can help instruction librarians take a leadership perspective in areas like facilitating meetings, professional development,
This document provides an overview of an information literacy course. It introduces the instructor, Ms. Page, and provides details about the course such as times, expectations, and policies. The course aims to help students develop research skills for college assignments and lifelong learning by working hands-on at the Gill Library. Students will learn to effectively seek, evaluate, and manage information in various formats from print to online. The final project involves creating a portfolio and presentation demonstrating research skills.
The document discusses the importance of strategic planning for public libraries, providing examples of goals, objectives, and activities libraries can implement in their planning. It emphasizes conducting community needs assessments and selecting specific service responses to address in the library's mission, goals, and objectives. The planning process outlined examines how libraries can measure their progress and ensure services meet community needs.
Emma Doran was one of the speakers at the first 2022 webinar of the LAI CDG group titled: "Ace the Interview: All Things Applications and Interviews for Librarians". Emma spoke about applying for a post in a public libraries and gave a series of tips. Emma presented examples of questions asked at a competency skills interview, with possible answers using a STAR method. What to study and how to prepare for the interview are listed in the slides together with the aftermath of an interview. Tips for the interview and for acing your dream job in a public library.
This document provides an agenda and information for an orientation meeting. It includes instructions for participants to sign in, find seating, and submit a form before leaving. The meeting will be led by Shelley Gomez, an academic advisor, and will cover topics like graduation requirements, the portfolio process, exams, and communication procedures. There will also be introductions from participants, a review of the syllabus and assignments, and discussions of reading specialist versus literacy coach roles and effective coaching practices based on a threaded discussion.
The document provides an overview of a training for school librarians, covering topics such as library missions, skills, collection development, weeding, purchasing, processing, cataloging, advocacy, and statistics. The training aims to help librarians effectively manage their libraries and promote literacy.
The Value of Collaboration in Demonstrating Your Library's ValueJoyce Meldrem
The document discusses Joyce Meldrem's experience collaborating with others at Loras College Library to develop a presentation on the value of the library for administrators in order to seek additional funding. It describes how the library staff came together to research articles, gather data, and create a compelling presentation over several years, dealing with changes and delays. Their collaboration allowed them to develop a thorough presentation emphasizing the library's positive impact on students through resources, instruction, and spaces. The presentation was ultimately successful, and Meldrem discusses lessons learned about collaboration and sharing the results to further communicate the library's value to the college community.
Developing a weighted library allocation formula charleston 2011Jeff Bailey
This document discusses the development of a weighted library allocation formula at Arkansas State University. It outlines the process of gathering relevant data, selecting appropriate factors, assigning weights to those factors, and using the formula to allocate funds across departments. The authors describe brainstorming data that could be used in the formula, evaluating what data was available, choosing factors like credit hours, faculty, and materials usage, and subdividing some factors. They explain how the formula calculates allocations based on the assigned weights and allow for adjustments after running the formula. The goal is to create an equitable means of allocating funds that can adapt over time to changing needs.
Information literacy refers to the set of skills needed to find, evaluate, and use information effectively. The UAH library provides information literacy instruction to help students become independent lifelong learners. Sessions are designed collaboratively with faculty and tailored to different learning styles. Students participate in hands-on research activities and leave each session with progress on their own projects. The library website provides access to hundreds of databases and journals, as well as interlibrary loan, to support student and faculty research needs.
This document provides information about a library's roaming reference engagement program at Ryde Library. It discusses why the program was implemented, including to provide proactive customer service. It outlines that staff from different service points rotate through engagement activities. The document also shares engagement statistics from a two week period and examples of common customer requests. It poses questions and is signed off by the Programs Library Technician and Library Customer Services Coordinator.
Libraries as Catalysts for Academic Transformation - HandoutsKimberly Eke
The Penn Libraries underwent a strategic planning process from 2013-2014 which included gathering input from various stakeholders. Library department reports identified recurring issues such as space constraints and need for professional development. A survey of 428 students, faculty, and staff found that physical space and search processes were concerns, and one-on-one help from library staff was most useful. Focus groups provided additional feedback. The implementation phase from 2014-2017 included developing a strategic plan and scorecard to track progress.
A Fresh Set of Eyes: Successes and Challenges as a New Library ManagerHeather Martin-Detka
As a new manager I have had the opportunity over this last year to critically look at Taber Public Library and to ask a lot of questions, which lead to tweaks, updates, changes and additions. Some of these have worked well and others, admittedly, not so well. This presentation reflects upon some of those observations and changes, as well as where TPL is headed with its upcoming needs assessment and plan of service.
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1. DEMONSTRATING RESILIENCE THROUGH
SUCCESSFUL TRANSITION PLANNING
A Panel Discussion On Succession Planning And
Lessons Learned From New Depository Coordinators
October 20, 2016
Kate Tallman – University of Colorado Boulder
Andy Bourgeois – Arizona State Library, Archives, & Public Records
Brent Abercrombie – Indiana State Library
2. Agenda
•The Future of Government Information
•Succession / Transition
•Recommendations
•Our Stories, Lessons Learned, &
Recommendations
•Your Turn!
4. In 2014, 42 Percent Of Librarians, 28 Percent
Of Library Technicians, And 35 Percent Of
Library Assistants Were Over The Age Of 55
5. 15%
12%
24%
49%
Within the last two years
In the last 3-5 years
Anticipate a change in the next 2
years
No answer
Passing the Torch without Burning Down the House: Working Through Transitions within the Depository Library Community
Janet Fisher, Erin Guss, Kate Irwin-Smiler, Marianne Mason, Karen Russ, and James Shaw.
Spring DLC Virtual Meeting April 27, 2016
“the depository
coordinator has changed or
is expected to change
*
* Unscientific and unofficial
6. An assessment of education and training needs for government documents librarians in the United States, Zheng
Ye (Lan) Yang*, Journal of Government Information, 28 (2001)
8. Succession
Continuance of corporate personality
Unidirectional change in the composition of an
ecosystem as the available competing organisms
respond to and modify the environment
Aims for continuity of leadership and is systematic
and structured
Miriam Webster Dictionary
9. Transition
a movement, development, or evolution from one
form, stage, or style to another
an abrupt change in energy state or level (as of an
atomic nucleus or a molecule) usually accompanied by
loss or gain of a single quantum of energy
Miriam Webster Dictionary
10. Goal
Motivate and develop the new coordinator to adapt to the new
role as fast as possible, with the minimum damage
11. Literature
Recommendations
1. Plan ahead & capture knowledge
• Share important documents
• Make a list of projects
• Establish an orientation plan
• Share, share, share!
Passing the Torch without Burning Down the House: Working Through Transitions within
the Depository Library Community
Janet Fisher, Erin Guss, Kate Irwin-Smiler, Marianne Mason, Karen Russ, and James Shaw.
Spring DLC Virtual Meeting April 27, 2016
12. 2. Develop a succession plan mindset
• Try to get buy-in from administrators
• Make a profile of your workforce
• Identify key positions and duties
• Identify Competencies
• Assess Potential Internal Candidates (if possible)
• Create a Learning and Development Plan
• Implement and Evaluate
“Succession Planning for Information
Professionals”, Francis Nganga & Sarah Kibugi
Literature
Recommendations
13. 3. Preserve Institutional Memory/Tacit Knowledge
• Identify & recognize tacit knowledge
• Think creatively about storing & transmitting
• Identify & provide contacts for others with
tacit/specialized knowledge
William J. Rothwell & Stan Poduch
“Introducing Technical (Not Managerial) Succession Planning”
Public Personnel Management 33.4 (Winter 2004): 405-419.
Literature
Recommendations
15. CU Boulder
• Regional Depository Library at a Research University
• 2 Faculty
• 3 FT Staff
• 2 PT Staff
• 8+ students
• Position Requirements
• Research
• Service
• Librarianship
• Reference, Instruction, Collection Development, Outreach,
Working Groups, Committees, Research…oh, and now
running a depository
16. Ch…Ch…Ch… Changes
• NOT a large turnover rate
• Institution knowledge was (and still is) deep
BUT
• Department restructuring
• Most technical services have moved
• Lost 1 FT professional staff
• Lost 1 Faculty
• BIG Projects Coming
17. • Impending retirement 2+ years
• Started planning in November 2015
• Quick and easy strategies long term
knowledge retention
• Daily walk-and-talk
• Various responsibilities were slowly transitioned
(Emails, Collection Development, GoPIG, Conference Planning)
• CC’d in every depository, administration, & collection-
related email from Nov 2015 forward
• Assigned projects and had performance evaluated
• Really tough decisions came before the transition
Luxury of Time
18. Lessons Learned
• It doesn’t really matter how much time you have, it’s
still not enough
• Take advantage of technology
• Evernote for quick note taking -- “transition”
folder
• iPhone or smartphone recording for tours and
important meetings
• Cloud-based software for information gathering
• MindMap software for unit/department
organizational planning
19. Lessons Learned..
• Take time to evaluate the unit’s structure and
restructure if necessary. Make a few necessary
changes while job descriptions, tasks, and duties are
being reviewed
• Take note of every project and identify one or two big
“splashes” that the new coordinator can make early
on. This also helps with administrative buy-in!
• If there is time, use it well.
• Make everything a learning opportunity
• “How would you have handled that?”
20. Lessons Learned…
• People are invaluable. Tap into existing talent and
don’t hesitate to ask “dumb” questions
• Stay Calm! Transitions = Stress
• Remember that it takes 30 years of experience to
gain 30 years of knowledge!
22. Transition Pt. 1
Becoming the Regional
• Major Restructuring at State Library of Arizona
Janet Fisher takes over Talking Book Library
I succeed Janet as Regional for Arizona
1.5 FTE (Associate & Clerk) for Fed Docs are fired
23. Transition Pt. 2
Pursuing a Shared Housing Agreement
• Restructuring includes push from leadership to
look into a SHA
• Met with deans/university librarians at
University of Arizona, Arizona State University,
and Northern Arizona University
Get help from your administrator to get those meetings
25. Recommendations Pt. 1
Managing Changes in Leadership
• Can you expect regular turnover in leadership?
State Library is part of Secretary of State in Arizona
Elected position that can (potentially) change every 4 years
• Be prepared to talk about costs of what you do AND
costs if you stop doing it
Title 44 is your friend
26. Recommendations Pt. 2
Keep Leadership Informed
• Do you have partnerships with libraries or
private organizations?
State Library and ProQuest Digitization Project
Does discarding print/regional status jeopardize
those partnerships?
Are there restrictions on how money/staff can be
used?
Staff paid for by partner, LSTA/IMLS funds, etc.
27. Recommendations Pt. 3
Make Lemonade
• Use the suboptimal as leverage
Losing shelf space to off-site storage?
Use access requirements as an opportunity to get some
cataloging done
Reducing your physical collection?
See if there are any libraries or vendors who might offer to
digitize them and provide access in return
28. Recommendations Pt. 4
Learning on the Fly
• Lean on anyone available
Predecessor
GPO Webinars
GOVDOC-L and REGIONAL-L
Help, I’m an Accidental Government Information
Librarian
GODORT
• Document your processes
30. OVERVIEW At ISL
• Federal Documents Collection is under the Reference
Division
• ISL Regional Depository with 32 Selective Libraries
• Frequent Turnover (both w/ Regional and Selective
Libraries)
31. PERSONAL BACKGROUND
• Worked at ISL for 8 years
• First 7 years as a Manuscript Librarian
• Limited Educational Background
• Started as the Regional Federal Documents Coordinator
in Sept. 2015
32. IDENTIFYING ALLIES
• Identify Local Expert
Within the Library
Within the State
• Listserv Resource
State Level (FDLP-IN)
National Level (Regional-L)
• Professional Organization
State or Regional (INDIGO)
33. CHALLENGE – BEING
OVERWHELMED
• Not Really Familiar with Federal Documents
• Unware of Issues that are Pressing to Selective Libraries
• Limited time to focus on the Collection
• Locating our Collection
Collection is housed in multiple locations
• Battling Self-Imposed Pressure
34. LESSONS LEARNED
• ASK QUESTIONS
• Attend as Many Webinars or Conferences as Possible
• Write About What You Learn
Created an Indiana Federal Documents blog
• Accept I Still Have Much to Learn
35. Concluding Themes
• No one depository or situation is the same
• Local knowledge comes first
Who can I rely on?
What, when, where, why, how ….these questions should be asked
first
• Share…Learn….Ask…Breath
Blogging, webinars, wiki’s, google docs, audio recordings, emails,
listservs, one-on-one meetings, conferences, committees, Regional
documents groups
36. Your Turn
Please Ask Questions & Tell Us…
• What’s Your Story?
• What Would Your Advice Be to a New
Coordinator?
• What Would Your Advice Be to an Outgoing
Coordinator?
A summary of this discussion along with a list of
resources will be provided in an issue brief after the
conference.