MIT Libraries Beta Graveyard

Interesting idea...

"University libraries nationwide are attempting to make scholarly research easier, whether with browser extensions or iPad applications. For technologies in the testing stages, though, low usage or lack of support can lead to an early demise.

MIT Libraries has created a place to for these tools after they've come face to face with the grim reaper—its Beta Graveyard."

more here:
http://is.gd/ePwuh

link directly to archive
http://libraries.mit.edu/help/betas/graveyard.html

Rappin' at the library (a video) friday fun...

ok, so he shows a LC (Library of Congress) call number when he mentions looking for a Dewey Decimal call number. Still, someone rapping about a library! LOL word.... ☮ out.

Content & digitization panel symposium free!!!

Event Type: Webinar
Date: 8/25/2010
Start Time: 2:00 PM
End Time: 4:00 PM

Description:

WebJunction is hosting a two-hour symposium that will feature four presentations on current trends and practical approaches to library digitization and preservation projects. Our guest panelists will address:

• Designing a digital preservation system using a framework that includes all stakeholders, from library administrators to archivists to IT workers to vendors.
• The difference between access and preservation tools, and why we need to consider both.
• Harvesting social networking websites for preservation.
• The organizational "long-view" of preservation resources, technology, costs and policies.

Panelists include:

• Sarai Lastra, Vice Chancellor of Information Resources/Director of Virtual Library at Universidad del Turabo, Puerto Rico. Update: Due to an emergency, Sarai unfortunately will not be able to present at Wednesday's symposium.
• Sarah McHugh, Statewide Projects Librarian, Montana State Library, including Montana Memory Project.
• Amy Rudersdorf, Director of the Digital Information Management Program, State Library of North Carolina and lecturer at San Jose State University, School of Library & Information Science.
• Taylor Surface, Senior Product Manager, Digital Collection Services, OCLC.

Library: WebJunction
Location: WebEx

Other Information:

*This event is free.Contact: info@webjunction.org

Link: Event Archives on WebJunction
Status: Openings

on storytelling... no. 1

a few thoughts....
Two of the most interesting conversations today* stemmed from a discussion of storytelling as used in magic and also in journalism (not related topics, at least for the purposes of this discussion). I've been trying to think of how to group these together in my mind as in each case the story is used for something beyond the story (in the former to mentally prepare the audience and to conceal the trick; the latter to communicate information). Some would no doubt argue that all stories have an impact beyond the actual story, but I think that is probably up to each storyteller and each audience member.

Other discussions today focused on some topics we will explore in the future including the difference between lying, storytelling, and truth (truthiness, in Stephen Colbert terms); elements of storytelling; being a good storyteller; using storytelling in academia (teaching/training/lecturing) and some basic housekeeping/committee work.

This *Faculty Learning Community on Storytelling is bound to be a lot of fun and I hope will enable to be a better lecturer, trainer, teacher and presenter.

Love your librarian, nominate your librarian!

Contact: Megan Humphrey mhumphrey@ala.org

Library supporters encouraged to nominate librarians for national I Love My Librarian Award

NEW YORK * Nominations are now open for the 2010 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award.

The award invites library users nationwide to recognize the accomplishments of librarians in public, school, college, community college and university libraries for their efforts to improve the lives of people in their community. Nominations run through Sept. 20 and are being accepted online at
http://www.ilovelibraries.org/lovemylibrarian/home.cfm

Up to 10 librarians will be selected.  Each will receive a $5,000 cash award, a plaque and a $500 travel stipend to attend an awards ceremony and reception in New York, hosted by The New York Times in December.

Each nominee must be a librarian with a master*s degree from a program accredited by the ALA in library and information studies or a master*s degree with a specialty in school librarianship from an educational unit accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education. Nominees must be currently working
in the United States in a public library, a library at an accredited two- or four-year college or university or at an accredited K-12 school.

In 2008, Carnegie Corporation of New York awarded the American Library Association (ALA) $489,000 to support the award, which will continue annually through 2012. The award continues in the tradition of one The New York Times presented from 2001 to 2006.

Last year, more than 3,200 library users nationwide nominated a librarian. For more information on last year*s winners, visit http://www.ilovelibraries.org/lovemylibrarian/home.cfm

Megan Humphrey
Manager, The Campaign for America's Libraries
American Library Association
312-280-4020
mhumphrey@ala.org
@ your library

Seeking Georgia library news

Just passing the word along...
Georgia Library Association News blog, http://glanews.blogspot.com/

is seeking news items and announcements. Email georgialibraryassociation@gmail.com

100 social media training programs, conferences, etc.

lots o' links!
wow, I'd love to go to all of these, ok, maybe not ALL of them.

Via mashable

http://mashable.com/2010/08/16/100-upcoming-social-media-tech-events-3/

Cataloging in librarything

Library staff including me and Classics Department staff, faculty, and students cataloged the Classics Department Reading Collection. The end result of this highly collaborative and volunteer project was completion of cataloging/adding records for over 2000 titles using the online cataloging/collection management tool, LibraryThing.

Social Media Policy Links & Training examples

Libraries

·        http://acfpl.org/blog/about/social-media-policy/

·        http://24369.vws.magma.ca/explore/about/policies/social_e.html

·        http://www.nflibrary.ca/LibraryInformation/Policies/SocialNetworkingSoftwarePolicy/tabid/443/Default.aspx

Academia

·        http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/marcomm/social-networking-guidelines

Corporate/other

·        Large listing of social media policy templates

·        http://socialmediagovernance.com/policies.php

·        robin fay (georgiawebgurl’s list):

o        http://delicious.com/georgiawebgurl/social_media_policy

 

Training

·       List at

o      http://delicious.com/georgiawebgurl/social_media_training

 

 

Life 2.0, Communication, time, and social media

Interesting thoughts on the changes and impacts of communication in a social media world:

Human Math
* If I talk to 100 people on twitter for 6 minutes each, that’s 10 hours.
* If I respond personally to 120 of the 600 or so emails and contacts I get a day, that’s 2 hours.
* If I call 10 people for six minutes each to “catch up,” that’s another hour.

100 small Twitter conversations
120 emails.
10 phone calls.

13 hours.
That’s not work. That’s not necessarily business (though touch and networking aids business). That’s just contact.
13 hours a day on just that.
And that’s just 100 or so people. That’s not the 146,000 Twitter followers, the 58,000 RSS subscribers, the 11,000 LinkedIn connections, the 4550 Facebook friends, that I have right now.

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very interesting thoughts on social media and communication.
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heh, the reality of life these days...
Although considering I have job(s), I can't really afford that time. So, telephone is out for the most part -- it is a huge time waster for me. I don't know how many emails I get everyday (thousands) but I only need to respond to mmm... 100? some days closer to 200... Good thing I type fast. ;-) I do wish more of my listservs would move to a RSS because I can skim via google reader alot quicker than I can read through email. No wonder I'm tired....

Training programs for library staff

Couple of training programs that came across my desk today (also, don't forget webjunction and Lyrasis for training...) Many of my presentations and training resources are located at http://www.slideshare.net/robinfay/

For those attending GOLD/GALILEO friday, see you there...

ONLINE LIBRARY ASSISTANT TRAINING PROGRAM

Rutgers University is accepting applications for its Fall 2010 program for paraprofessional at academic and research libraries.

The Online Library Assistant Training Program is an online, on-the-job, semester-long class designed for library assistants and associates who are relatively new to work in academic and research libraries. It offers a look at the "big picture" issues for academic and research libraries, including library values, functions, and practices; how different functions fit into the mission and processes of the library; developing excellent service skills; and some best practices. The course runs from September 20th-November 22nd; participants can expect to spend five to seven hours per week on the class. The course fee is $500 for approximately 50 professional development hours.

For details about the Online Library Assistant Training Program, including the application form, go to http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/professional-development/online-library-assistant-training-program.html

Questions? Contact Amy Kimball a akimball@rutgers.edu

AND here's another:

LSSC
The Library Support Staff Certification (LSSC) Program is accepting
applications for 55 subsidies of $200 from LSSC Candidates to enroll in and
complete LSSC-approved courses. Candidates who receive a subsidy award will
receive a $200 reimbursement after they pay for, and complete, an
LSSC-approved course.

To apply for a subsidy, candidates must be accepted in the LSSC Program by
September 15, 2010. Subsidy recipients must successfully complete one of
LSSC's Approved Courses by
April 1, 2011.

Application information is available on the LSSC For Candidates
page. Candidates must apply for
the subsidy by September 15. The LSSC Program staff will select recipients
using a random selection process and announce subsidy awards on September
27.

LSSC is a national, voluntary certification program administered by the
American Library Association-Allied Profession Association (ALA-APA). The
LSSC Program is partially funded by the Institute of Museum and Library
Services. For more information, please contact LSSC Program
staff.

netbook tablet convertibles, aka netvertibles, hybrids, etc.

Okay, these both look waaaaaayy more useful than the ipad (which is very pretty, and if someone would like to send one, or for that matter, all of these, I will be glad to give a very honest review. )

So far, the Asus is very netbook-y (less than 9 inches for the small version) but Acer is a little larger but more powerful.
Did I hear a whoa, from you PC users? ;-D

Many more of these coming out on the market (sooner rather than later, I hope, because I desperately need a smaller laptop) .
Of course, then considering my first laptop was 11 inches in screen size, it does seem like we are going back around doesn't it?

You can always donate to my cause, if you'd like.

Some of things I've taught over the years

Interesting how my interests have progressed over the years. (and these are just the ones I can remember and just to note this is an alphabetic title list).

Heh, the word web sure does appear alot ;-) Many of these are available via http://www.slideshare.net/robinfay/


You can always email me for more info. ;-)

..and guess what? I'm guest lecturing on digital identity, social networking, personal branding and digicred in 2 weeks; then on to GLA/COMO for 2 preconferences! Hopefully, I can squeeze in teaching a Drupal class, too. I know, whoa, busy!

Ask Technical Services Program (COMO/GLA; 2001) Co-Coordinated the Tech Services programs with the Chair through developing a potential topic list and identifying panel participants

Best New Technologies: Keeping up with the Storm Teleconference; (Discussion Leader 2006) Examining the challenges of Web 2.0 followed with a discussion of current Web 2.0 technologies and their use in the Libraries.

Bibliographic Data on the Semantic Web (discussion facilitator, 2009) Discussion on Martha Yee’s article on bibliographic data, RDA, and the Semantic Web.

Blog basics (Dweebs, a campus wide group; 2009) Lunch and Learn about various blog softwares and blog options, including an overview of Wordpress and the UGA Libraries’ experience.

Blogging & Tweeting (co-trainer, 10 Weeks to a 2.0 You program; 2010) Workshop on blogging and tweeting including hands on activities and homework.

Cataloging’s Del.icio.us links (Faculty meeting, panel presentation; 2007): Brief presentation on using Del.icio.us bookmarking tools to pull together various links into a centralized page on the Cataloging Department’s website.

Cataloging Fundamentals: Records and MARC Presentation (Media Specialist program; Gwinnett Campus; Guest Lecturer; 2006): Presentation on record structure, data field elements for MARC, and the relationships between records and databases, with followup questions and answers session on cataloging practices, policies, and databases.

Cataloging Tools Survey: Research in Progress (Academic Librarian Research Forum, Georgia Tech; by invitation; 2009) Overview of a 2008 survey of approximately 200 catalogers from variety of libraries across the United States.

Cataloging Tools online: Free resources (2009; USG Cataloging Committee, online/Wimba) Continuing education presentation on free cataloging resources.

Connecting with Connexion: The UGA Experience, co-presenter; graphic designer (GUGM). 2005) Powerpoint graphics, collaborated on content and discussion topics, and presented an overview of the UGA Connexion migration timeframe and training.

Creating web pages in Netscape, class & tutorial (PDR; 2002)
Two hour workshop on web design including hands-on activities; developed content and learning objectives for using Netscape Composer to create websites.

Digicred: do you have it? (2010, UGA class, guest lecturer); Discussion on social and professional networking, social media, branding, and digital identity.

Direct Link to the Patron: Web Tools to Expand Services (COMO/GLA; 2006): Co-presenter on how libraries use web based tools to market their services, educate their patrons, and provide value added services with an overview of the Libraries’ Blog and Report an Error mechanism.

Drupal 101 (UGADG: University of Georgia Drupal Group; 2009) Lunch and Learn introduction to Drupal; end result was the formation of the UGA Drupal Group.

Drupal for Libraries (Lyrasis; 2010- ) Introduction and overview of Drupal with a focus on libraries. Please see Lyrasis website for more info.

Emerging Technologies in Libraries (GPLS Director’s meeting, invited speaker; 2009) Presentation and discussion on current and emerging technologies in general and also in libraries.

Facebook, Privacy, and Your Digital Identity (Dweebs; 2009; encore 2010) Lunch and Learn/presentation about privacy, digital identity, and social media, focusing on Facebook. http://www.slideshare.net/robinfay/facebook-privacy-and-digital-identity

Flash, Bam, Alakazam! Photos in a 2.0 World (10 Weeks to a 2.0 You program; 2010) Workshop on online image editors, basic image editing and tips for good photography. Included hands on activities and homework.

GIL searching and reporting problems (UGA Libs Reference Department, 2002; co-trainer) One hour training session with identified training objectives including reporting discrepancies and errors found in the Libraries’ catalog (GIL).

He's a mentor, she's a mentor... wouldn't you like to be a mentor, too? Panel member (COMO/GLA, 2002) Presented an overview of the Mentor Program and facilitated discussion of mentoring within academic libraries.

Illusion: Insights Into Visual Design Elements, Co-presenter, Emerging Technologies Faculty Learning Community; 2010) Presentation on webdesign, color, and the elements of web design and how they can impact user experience.

Image Editing: It's not all about Photoshop (Dweebs; 2010) Lunch and Learn presentation about online image editors including video.

Issues in Cataloging and Bibliographic Maintenance Presentation (Media Specialist program; Gwinnett Campus; Guest Lecturer; 2006): Presentation on academic cataloging as it relates to bibliographic maintenance. Additionally, provided teaching assistance at follow-up hands on training session in creating MARC records.

Librarians and Faculty Learning Communities at UGA (PDRC; Panel Discussion Member, 2008) Discussion of experiences of being a member of Faculty Learning Communities.

Lip-smacking good: Web 2.0 technologies and your library blog (Co-presenter, COMO/GLA, 2007) Incorporating Web 2.0 technologies into blogging; includes overviews of Youtube, Flickr, del.icio.us, and using RSS feeds.

Metadata for Catalogers (USG, Cataloging Committee; online/Wimba; 2009) Continuing education presentation on metadata and how it fits into the cataloging profession.

Metadata 101 (UGA, Emerging Technologies Faculty Learning Community; 2009) Presentation of an overview of metadata as used on the web and by library communities.

News and Events Training Sessions, Co-trainer, 2005 One hour training session with identified training objectives, resources, and hands on exercises in the Libraries’ News & Events, an online Wordpress database.

News and Events Project Overview (DHG), 2005; Co-presenter Overview of blogs and blog history, summary of project process, and demo of the Libraries’ News and Events, a Wordpress database. http://www.robinfay.net/site/content/blogging-overview/

One Voice, Many Channels: Blogging and Tweeting for Libraries (COMO/GLA, 2010, Co-Presenter; invited preconference) Explores tweeting and blogging by academic libraries for sharing news, events, outreach, PR, marketing, and as a community building tool.

Open Systems, Closed Systems (University of Georgia/Freshman Seminar, Guest Lecturer; 2009) Presentation and discussion on the social media, opensource, community source, closed systems, and open systems.

Presentations that Rock! Advanced Powerpoint (PDRC workshop, 2008) Two hour workshop on extending Powerpoint to include video and real time websites, among other features. http://www.robinfay.net/site/powerpoint/

Reading the MARC Code: Understanding the Cataloging Record Presentation, Co-trainer (STEP Program, 2007) Presentation on intricacies of reading a MARC record, its relationship to the Libraries’ catalog, GIL, as well as tips for interpreting the parts of a technical display of a bibliographic, holding, and item record in GIL.

Semantic Web and the Social Web (University of Georgia/Master of Internet Technology Program; Gwinnett Campus; Guest Lecturer; 2009) Presentation and discussion on the metadata, the semantic web and its assumptions, as contrasted and compared with user generated content from social media sites. http://www.slideshare.net/robinfay/semantic-web-and-the-social-web

Semantic Web, Cataloging and Metadata (Valdosta State University, Guest Lecturer; 2010) Presentation and discussion on the metadata and the semantic web.

Simplify Your Inbox: Making RSS Work For You (UGA Libraries; Panel Discussion, 2009) Discussion panel on RSS including using Google Reader and reducing email by using RSS feeds.

Social Media Training: Tools You Can Use (Social Media for Government, 2010) Presentation and discussion of social media training tools, social media policies and more.

Web 2.0+ and Professional Networking: Are You LinkedIn? Panel Discussion (UGA; Coordinator/Facilitator; 2008) Social networking as used by those at the University of Georgia for professional networking purposes. Presentation also podcast.

What is Database Maintenance? Presentation (Media Specialist program; Gwinnett Campus; Guest Lecturer; 2004) Presentation on academic cataloging as it relates to bibliographic maintenance within the UGA Libraries. Additionally, provided teaching assistance at follow-up hands on training session in creating MARC records.

Wordpress overview (University of Georgia Public Relations Department; 2008) Overview of Wordpress and a discussion of some of their questions regarding how best to utilize Wordpress.

Your voice: Professional Networking using Social Media (GLA/COMO preconference, 2010) Personal branding, professional networking, using social networking effectively; includes a discussion of privacy, netiquette, and developing a personal social media policy.

Skyriver vs. OCLC

Lots of resources related to the recent lawsuit against OCLC including recent articles, blog postings, procedural court docs. http://bit.ly/cANjSe (from my twitter stream)

"The suit alleges that OCLC, a purported non-profit with a membership of 72,000 libraries worldwide, is unlawfully monopolizing the markets for cataloging services, interlibrary lending, and bibliographic data, and attempting to monopolize the market for integrated library systems, by anticompetitive and exclusionary practices."

You can read OCLC's statement here

..and here is the Library Journal article
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Stay tuned.

More Google news

Google in talks with Verizon re: net neutrality (or not) depending on which story you read.
read about it here or here or just google it.
What is net neutrality? Love this video.

..and then news today that Google buys Slide, "a social application company". read more about it here

Google's wave is toast

Heh, not that I really used it for anything (I guess that's the problem)
, but interesting to read the news.

http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/08/wave-cancellation-google-gives-up-on-next-gen-messaging.ars

Question of the day: where to find free stock footage

Internet archive has both moving images and stills including public
domain; others are licensed under creative commons (CC).
http://www.internetarchive.org

and here are the various searches by CC license type:
http://is.gd/dMHCl

Also searching flickr by CC license
http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/?
flickr does have some very short film clips.

I'm sure there are other tools, even the creativecommons website has
searching functionality.

Youtube allows searching by license, too.

Also, fair use may come into play depending on what the footage is to be
used for.

Emerging Technologies Group thoughts

So, here are the kinds of things were are talking about and exploring in the Emerging Technologies Group for the Libraries. We now have a newly formed Social Media Group in addition to the Home Page Redesign Group and the Mobile Development Group, so the EMT Group is more of a thinktank group. We assist the other groups and try to look to trends in libraries (at least, that is our working premise).

Thoughts on focus for upcoming year: Mobile, Social Media

* How does Social Media mesh with our homepage? Should it?
* Dynamic vs. static pages? Our current site is more static than dynamic, what are our feelings on that?
* Should/Could we incorporate more of the SM into our home page, like we do on the blog?
* Youtube: A cohesive presence and how to present our multimedia. We have the multimedia and subscribe pages, now what?
* Mobile

Survey on the quality of cataloging in academic libraries

Sounds interesting...
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Summarizing from an email:
Karen Snow is a Ph.D. Candidate in Information Science in the College of Information at the University of North Texas who is collecting data for her dissertation "A Study of the Perception of Cataloging Quality Among Catalogers in Academic Libraries."

This study addresses the ambiguous nature of "quality" in cataloging and the difficulties in assessing what quality cataloging means due to differing perceptions of this concept among catalogers. My intent is to explore these perceptions of quality cataloging in the academic library environment and to produce a greater understanding of how catalogers approach their work.

The target population of this study is catalogers (both professional and paraprofessional) who work in an academic library and perform original cataloging using the MARC 21 standard. "Original cataloging," as defined by this study, includes the creation of a new record that does not contain any prior data and/or the editing of an existing record that previously contained only very minimal data.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BFPZQC9
The survey should take approximately 30-35 minutes to complete. The deadline for completing the survey is Friday, August 20, 2010.

Please do not hesitate to contact Karen.Snow@unt.edu if you should have any questions or concerns.

Cataloging explained (the video)

My friend & colleague Beth did this, super job!

Are your comments on your friends walls showing to your friends ? (facebook)

I've begin to see alot of my friend's comments on THEIR friends walls and posts in my news feed. I'm not sure if that is what they want (perhaps, it is, and I don't really mind) but I do wonder if they realize the extent to which they are sharing (and sometimes, oversharing). One of the best ways to find out what you share to facebook is to have a friend help you out. You can then return the favor with them. Of course, the friend doesn't have to be a 'real' friend either. ;-)

So, since I just got accidentally ( I think) invited to a wedding shower, here is how to control what displays:
Under Account > Privacy Settings > Things Others Share (i.e., what your friends can post from your account) Can see Wall posts > Choose wisely.

Really, you should read this section very carefully -- this is what others can post about you. I have Can see Wall posts under Things Others Share as set only to me. You can still see the ACTIVITY (FB doesn't give you control over who sees the ACTIVITY (e.g., likes, comments, etc.) but you can control who sees the actual CONTENT (e.g., the message)