Learn about web-based tools to help you manage your day-to-day. Some of these tools have been around for a while, some are still new, but all are helpful! If you're trying to increase your productivity, take a look. Most of these tools are web-based, many are free. Presented at the Hawaii Library Association 2014 Conference.
Learn about web-based tools to help you manage your day-to-day. Some of these tools have been around for a while, some are still new, but all are helpful! If you're trying to increase your productivity, take a look. Most of these tools are web-based, many are free. Presented at the Hawaii Library Association 2014 Conference.
The Ten Commandments of Circulating Tabletssfreedle
This program will cover the basics of setting up a circulating tablet program including policy creation, security concerns, device selection, content selection and creation, and implementation of the program. The presenters will also share tablet experiences drawn from public and academic library environments and give an overview of trends in library tablet use.
This is the PDF of a Powerpoint I'm taking for a Grossmont course. Yes, it does have a MegaMan image on the first slide. Not that you'll care.
There needs to be a Boredom Category.
Page Not Found: creating a troubleshooting workflow for e-resources in a smal...Rachel Becker
Managing and troubleshooting electronic resources in libraries can be a time consuming task. But will a little preparation you can create a workflow that will allow you to get your resources up and running quickly.
The Ten Commandments of Circulating Tabletssfreedle
This program will cover the basics of setting up a circulating tablet program including policy creation, security concerns, device selection, content selection and creation, and implementation of the program. The presenters will also share tablet experiences drawn from public and academic library environments and give an overview of trends in library tablet use.
This is the PDF of a Powerpoint I'm taking for a Grossmont course. Yes, it does have a MegaMan image on the first slide. Not that you'll care.
There needs to be a Boredom Category.
Page Not Found: creating a troubleshooting workflow for e-resources in a smal...Rachel Becker
Managing and troubleshooting electronic resources in libraries can be a time consuming task. But will a little preparation you can create a workflow that will allow you to get your resources up and running quickly.
The University of Connecticut's five regional campus libraries conducted experimental Virtual Focus Groups. Discover how they were set up and the results.
Managing yourself - how to be productive with your timeJo Alcock
As librarians and information workers, we are experts at managing and organising collections. But what about our own information? How do we manage incoming information such as emails, blog posts, paperwork etc.? How do we prioritise what tasks we should be doing? How do we break down projects into more manageable tasks and track our progress? This session will introduce you to the basics of David Allen's Getting Things Done principles and consider how you can apply this in your own work. It will include active discussion and practical examples of some of the tools you can use to help you Get Things Done.
Why choose between presentations when you can come to one FEAST? Future & Emerging Access Services Trends (FEAST) is back for a fifth year, providing multiple speakers and topics in one 60 minute session. Hear practitioners and experts discuss what's new or just around the corner in circulation, shelving, reserves, interlibrary loan, offsite storage and more in short seven minute courses. Fresh and timely. Never frozen. There's always plenty to choose from at the FEAST!
2015 Speakers are:
Ryan Buller - University of Denver
Teresa Doherty - Virginia Commonwealth University
Whitney Vitale/Huifen Chang - Oklahoma State University
David McCaslin - California Institute of Technology
Kristine Ferry - University of California: Irvine
Amanda Kramer - Washington College
Elizabeth Salmon/Joe Ameen - University of California: Merced
Denise O'Shea - Montclair State University
Moderators:
Paul Sharpe - University of Missouri: St. Louis
Rameka Barnes - Texas A&M University
Sponsored by LLAMA SASS Emerging Trends Committee
Presented at the American Library Association Annual 2015 Conference in San Francisco, CA.
Lab Notebooks as Data Management (SLA Winter Virtual Conference 2012)Kristin Briney
This talk, aimed at librarians, describes the data management issues surrounding paper and electronic lab notebooks. It offers several ways for librarians to support good practices and the transition from paper to electronic.
To explore and create a variety of business documents and consider the reasons they are used
Familiarise yourself with the reception area and consider situations you may be presented with, in that role
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Honest Reviews of Tim Han LMA Course Program.pptxtimhan337
Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
How libraries can support authors with open access requirements for UKRI fund...
ER&L Presentation Chris & Erin Miller
1. Fake It ‘til You Make It
Tips, Tricks & a Pep Talk for New
Electronic Resources Librarians
Christina Cool, Electronic Resources Librarian, Texas Women’s University
Erin Miller, Electronic Resources Librarian, University of North Texas
ER&L Conference, February 2015
3. A Day…or 3…in the Life
What I was hired to do:
“Performs professional librarian work at the entry level in specialized areas within
a specific section of the University Libraries. Work also involves basic knowledge of
current electronic, computer and other library technological systems, including
hardware and software. Work is performed under general supervision and
performance is based upon completion of assignments and results obtained.”
What I actually do:
Manage our databases, ejournals, and ebooks, and occasionally deal with vendors;
collect and analyze usage statistics; troubleshoot problems when something isn’t
working, add and activate titles; delete discontinued titles; update the website
with new resources (and remove old ones); and manage our electronic holdings in
OCLC.
http://acrlog.org/2015/02/10/a-day-or-3-in-the-life/
4. Evolution of the ERL position
Just 5 years ago, the most common words in job descriptions were ‘staff’,
‘experience’, ‘library’, and ‘management’, with some expected ones like ‘electronic’,
‘license’, and ‘resources’ thrown in.
5. Evolution of the ERL position
Current job descriptions tell a different story. ‘Staff’ is not as prevalent; ‘electronic’,
‘resources’, and ‘access’ are the priorities.
6. One thing that hasn’t changed is that we are expected to be
the jack-of-all-trades of the library.
Each word cloud covers the main areas in which ERLs continue to be
assumed to be experts:
- acquisitions
- cataloging
- ERMs
- troubleshooting
- licensing
- link resolution
- collection management
- analytics
…all while managing staff, collaborating with faculty, serving on committees
and, in many cases, publishing or presenting regularly.
7. Challenges Unique to ERLS
• Defining your position
– Blessing and a curse
– Each person you interact with may have a
different idea of what you do.
• Your Daily routine is…not a routine
• High expectations and, often, not much
guidance.
• NASIG’s “Core Competencies for Electronic
Resources Librarians”
8. Challenges: Defining your Position
• Know your job description.
• Formalize expectations.
– With a Performance Agreement
– With regular reports
– Meet with your team/superiors regularly
– (Quarterly? Monthly? Weekly?)
• Become very familiar with the Operational Plan
and/or the overall Strategic Plan for both the Library
and the University
– Find your value within each of these.
9. Challenges: Daily Routine
There’s no such thing as a typical day for an ERL because every day presents a
different challenge. This is a blessing and curse.
It’s great if you like variation, if you tend to get bored easily, if you’re great at
multitasking, if you enjoy puzzles, and if you like Excel.
It is not-so-great on days when you are working to meet a deadline and people call
you to ask why a database isn’t working and you spend time trying to replicate the
problem only to realize that it’s on their end because they haven’t cleared their history
in months *whew* but then you get an email from a student who is panicking because
the ebook they were using yesterday is no longer available and then…
• Stay flexible
• Know when to say ‘no’
• Know when to ask for help
• Never procrastinate
• Practice good time management, efficiency and organizational skills
10. Challenges: High Expectations +
Lack of Guidance = Potential Stress
• Take advantage of training opportunities
– OCLC offers tutorials and training, many of them free:
• https://www.oclc.org/support/training.en.html
– Check out the course offerings through ALA’s ALCTS:
• http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webcourse
– Take advantage of Lynda.com if you can
– Check your university’s calendar regularly for helpful
classes
• Don’t be shy about asking vendors for webinars or training.
• Ask for help. Over and over again.
– Keep asking until you get the right person.
• Make lots of mistakes – and be okay with that.
11. Guidelines for Efficiency
• Document Everything
• Communicate Effectively
• Organize as you Go
• Manage Information
• Time Management
12. Efficiency: Document Everything
1. Review:
One of the first things you should do at your new ERL job is review the procedural
documentation from your predecessor.
2. Revise:
It is entirely possible that the documentation is outdated and/or irrelevant.
Update whenever possible.
3. Nightmare scenario: there IS no documentation
Don’t panic! This is a great opportunity! You have the chance to create your own
workflow and to shine at it. It’s also a great chance to meet with others in your
department to discuss the workflows and to discover new methods of
streamlining the processes.
4. Workflows:
Formalize them. Use Vizio or Gliffy.
13. Efficiency: Time Management
Outlook is your BFF
• #1 – Use your Inbox Appropriately
• How you View
– Keep your Task List open on the right
• Create a rule to drop everything from listservs into
a specific folder
• “MOVE” everything that is an action item to your
task list or calendar
• Calendar is specific events (i.e. webinar) or events involving
multiple people (i.e. vendor calls)
• Drag & drop related emails into a single task
14. Become an Email
Ninja
[EOM]--End of Message
SUBJECT LINE: Weekly review is at 3
p.m. in Conference Room 3 [EOM]
versus SUBJECT LINE: Weekly review
meeting
BODY: This week's weekly review
meeting will be held in Conference
Room 3.
[NRR]--No Reply Required
SUBJECT LINE: Agenda attached for
weekly review [NRR]
[Y/N]--Yes/No Question
SUBJECT LINE: Decision needed on
location of weekly review [Y/N]
BODY: Do you want to meet at
Starbucks?
[PYR]--Per Your Request
SUBJECT LINE: Agenda attached for
weekly review [PYR]
15. Efficiency: Manage Information
• Organize as you Go
– This does not necessarily happen organically just because we are librarians
working with librarians.
– File structure is crucial.
• Save your emails.
– Name them appropriately.
• Share Information
– Save your folders on a shared drive as much as possible.
– Invite people to know what you are doing.
– Ask Questions! (Share what you don’t know).
– Do not reinvent the wheel.
• Did a previous ERL leave files?
• If a resource is being evaluated for possible purchase is there already-
existent information about it somewhere?
• Pocket
– Keep track of webpages – articles, videos, etc
– https://getpocket.com/
16. Efficiency: Time Management
• Find what you Need Quickly
• Session Buddy (Chrome extension)
– Makes it easy to open groups of websites
» Daily, Research, Distraction
• Shortcuts for frequently-used folders
• Use your ILS
– Save contact information, admin passwords, etc in
records
• Finish it up on Friday
• This is not an excuse to procrastinate
• Set aside time for projects and block it out on your calendar
• Close your email, change your IM status to “unavailable”
– Use an auto-response in your email if you feel you need
17. Efficiency: Time Management
Stay Focused!
• Reward yourself with a “Trip to the Web”
• One solid hour of updating cost files gets you 5 minutes of reddit or facebook. Deleting
100 duplicate records and you get to update your Facebook status.
• OR, if your problem is that you can’t focus on your work and are spending too
much time on the Web…
• Leechblock is a Firefox add-on that blocks selected sites during specific time.
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/leechblock/
• StayFocused is a Chrome extension that will give you a certain amount of time
to surf around and play games before it shuts you down with a reminder that
you should be working!
• It even has a nuclear option that you can set once and then can never undo – no
matter how desperately you want to check your facebook.
18. Odds & Ends
• Vendors
• The Silo
• Promoting Resources & Trials
• Usage Statistics
• ERL Community
19. Vendors
• They are not the enemy.
– But they may not be your friends, either.
• Don’t be afraid to ask questions.
– Ask how their product compares to things your library
already owns, ask for lower prices, ask for different
purchasing models.
• Do your homework.
– Before they tell you how useful something is and you just
HAVE to renew it, pull the stats and pull stats of similar
offerings as well
• Set a specific time for phone calls.
– Put it on your calendar. Put it on their calendar.
20. Outside the Silo
• Join workgroups, committees and interest
groups and participate.
• Go talk to people even when there isn’t an
immediate need to do so.
• Get embedded.
• Attend Liaison and other Meetings.
• Be available.
21. Promoting Resources & Trials
• Use LibGuides
• Post database widgets
• Get dedicated space on the Library Website
• Show off at Liaison meetings
• Flyers, etc
• Schedule trainings and demos with vendors
• Invite liaisons, faculty and students
• Have snacks
• Email judiciously
• Share usage stats
• Collect trial feedback via linked survey
• Track and save all feedback
22. Usage Statistics
• Best Practices
–become very familiar with Excel
–find out who reads the reports, what do they want from them?
–make sure you have easy access to all of the logins/passwords for the usage statistics so that you can
easily pull a report if requested
–set aside time to gather the statistics, especially if you have a deadline. I spend the first few days of
the month gathering stats for journals, databases, and ebooks and submitting reports, and i make
sure to block that time out in my Outlook calendar
• Usefulness
– find new ways to interpret the information
•I've recently started tracking turnaways on content not licensed to find out what people want
that we’re not providing
–my predecessor only tracked searches which only shows half of the story
•tracking result clicks gives us a clearer picture of usage
–many vendors offer statistics on mobile usage
•if many of your users are browsing from a phone, this would be very handy information so that
you can build a more mobile-friendly platform
23. ERL World
Where is it? Twitter? Blogs?
• Exchange cards while you’re here, and reach out when you get back to your jobs
• Join the listservs.
– Participate!
• Even if you aren’t comfortable posting, there is a wealth of information
to be found on them, and if you find someone stuck on a problem similar
to yours, you can email them directly.
– Listservs for products, organizations, interest groups.
• Start looking around on the websites of the professional organizations
you belong to and the products you rely on (or struggle to use).
• Blogs?
– ACRLog
Remember: It’s a little scary to be new at something, but we were all new once. (And
some of us still are!)
24. Fake It ‘til You Make It
A Pep Talk for New
Electronic Resources Librarians
Christina Cool, Electronic Resources Librarian, Texas Women’s University
christina.cool@gmail.com
Erin Miller, Electronic Resources Librarian, University of North Texas
erin.miller@unt.edu
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