Call for Proposals for CUS (section of NCLA)

The College and University Section (CUS) of the North Carolina Library Association (NCLA) invites you to present at the 2014  CUS one-day conference, “Academic Libraries: Present and Future,” which will be held on Friday, December 5, 2014  at the UNC-Charlotte City Center Campus, NC.
Submissions for presentations addressing any of the following themes are encouraged:

• The professional marketplace
• The virtual library
• The physical library

We need your experience and knowledge to make this conference a success! This is a great opportunity to showcase a special project accomplished at your institution or to share an innovative idea with your colleagues.

Proposal Deadline: October 18, 2014
Submit your proposal

We look forward to receiving your proposal.
Best Regards,
The CUS Conference Planning Committee

Webinar: Copyright or CopyWRONG? on 10/30

Copyright or CopyWRONG?

Join the Distance Learning Section’s Discussion Group for a virtual discussion to learn more about copyright issues in distance education.

Event: ACRL Distance Learning Section Discussion - Copyright or CopyWRONG

Please register at: https://acrl.webex.com/acrl/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=291142864

Date and time: Thursday, October 30, 2014 12:00 pm Eastern

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

       

Often viewed as a hindrance and a source of apprehension, copyright law affects all educators and academic librarians. As colleges and universities increase their online course (educational/instructional) offerings, the rights of ownership and rules of fair use are only further complicated. Join the ACRL Distance Learning Section Discussion Group for a discussion focused on the state of copyright in distance learning. Learn more about the role of librarians in providing resource support for distance learning courses and faculty's teaching needs. Panelists include Copyright MOOC facilitators Kevin Smith from Duke University and Anne Gilliland (formerly of OSU) from the University of North Caroline-Chapel Hill as well as Luann Edwards of Tiffin University and Patricia Aufderheide of American University, this will be an opportune conversation to advance your understanding and competency in distance learning copyright issues.

Take part in our discussion on Twitter with #dlscopyrightchat. For more information, please contact Jill Hallam-Miller at JillHallam-Miller@centralpenn.edu or at 717-728-2415.

Southeastern Library Association/Georgia Council of Media Organizations Conference

Kathy Bradshaw

Last week, I attended the GaCOMO Conference, which is a joint conference of the Southeastern Library

Association and the Georgia Council of Media Organizations (which is made up of the Georgia Library

Association and the Georgia Association for Instructional Technology), in Augusta, Georgia. The

conference is directed at all types of libraries, although academic and public libraries seem to dominate.

There are also programs that are directed at school media specialists. I presented two sessions at the

conference, both with a colleague from another university library. The first “Will You Be My Mentor?”

was on the various types of mentoring in the profession and my co-presenter was the mentee I was

assigned through the Southeastern Library Association. This session allowed my mentee and me to

“meet” in person after spending approximately 18 months contacting each other by phone and email.

My second session was titled “Leading from the Middle: Are You Ready?” which was about preparing

librarians for middle managers roles in libraries.

The most interesting session I attended was the session on eliminating the reference desk in an academic

library. In this library, that supports about 11,000 students (they are not open 24/5) they went from

having reference librarians do “desk time” to using a basic pager system at the Circulation desk when

assistance from a reference librarian was needed. While this might not be a solution that could be used at

all academic libraries, it seems to be successful for their library. Another positive outcome of the change

was their ability to gather better statistics about the kinds of reference they are answering and the amount

of time they need when they are helping patrons.

http://www.georgiacomo.org/

Big Data in the Library – Providing Business Critical Analytics

From Kathy Bradshaw

On September 12, I attended “Big Data in the Library-Providing Business Critical Analytics” presented by the North Carolina chapter of the Special Libraries Association.  This session could be considered a practical session, designed to show how libraries are using data analytics in their own libraries.  Many of the members of the Special Libraries Association work in the private sector (law firms, corporations, etc.) but there are members that are public or academic librarians.  These are often solo librarians that may not get the opportunity to take advantage of learning opportunities that academic librarians do.  One of the presenters was a professor at NCCU’s School of Library and Information Science and she talked about the way that librarians can use big data to help teaching faculty with their research projects. 

The program was held at Wake Tech in Raleigh, and the program featured the newly formed Business Analytics department at Wake Tech.  Wake Tech offers an Associate’s Degree in Business Analytics (in person and online) and there is at least one librarian enrolled in the program.  This librarian presented a session, showing how she is using what she learned and using that information in her library.  This presenter (she works for a local public library) is using what she has learned to analyze traffic patterns throughout the branches in her library system, assess programming attendance, and possibly address staffing volumes. 

The people in the Business Analytics are looking for real-life issues for their students to study and analyze.  If you are interested in learning more about the Business Analytics program or have a problem that would be of interest to the students in the program, click on the link below:

http://www.waketech.edu/programs-courses/credit/business-analytics

free online worldwide virtual conference this week!

 Reminder!  The fourth annual  Library 2.014 Worldwide Virtual Conference will be held this week October 8 – 9, 2014. FREE! watch online. enjoy learning :)

Teaching Entrepreneurship Research to Professors of other Universities (2014 Coleman Fellows Summit)

I just posted a recap of the workshops I co-taught in Chicago two weekends ago with Prof. Welsh, and other tidbits from the 2014 Coleman Fellows summit. --Steve

http://liaisonlife.wordpress.com/2014/08/27/coleman2014/

Society of American Archivist Conference 2014

The 2014 joint meeting of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), the Council of State Archivists (COSA), and the National Association of Government ARchives and Records Administrators (NAGARA) focused on the theme of "Ensuring Access" to records and archives.  Over 2000 records managers and archivists gathered in Washington, D.C. to discuss different aspects of providing access to our collections.

Over the three day conference, I participated in numerous sessions.  Here are some highlights:

The State of Access: A Conversation with Miriam Nisbet and David Cuillier
This plenary session provided a look at the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) from the perspective of a journalist (David Cuillier) and a governmental records administrator (Miriam Nisbet).  Both agreed that the access to information, especially records created by the government, is vital for the public.  However, they disagreed on the extent to which FOIA needed to change.  Mr. Cuillier would like to see a new policy based on some European models which allow greater access to information, while Ms. Nisbet believes FOIA has been meeting the public's need for information.  An interesting debate.

Teaching With Primary Sources:
Featured five presenters who use primary sources to engage students of all ages in and outside of the archival setting.  Kim Fortney, from National History Day, Inc., discussed teaching the teachers who will be working with middle and high-school students to create History Day projects.  Even the idea of what a primary source really is can be intimidating in to instructors.  One activity she employs involves having a workshop where participants bring three items with them from home; a document, a photo, and an artifact.  All items are collected and placed on a central table.  Participants are asked to choose three items that are not their own and discussion begins, participants must observe and reflect on the item as a primary source.  A great way to tangibly demonstrate the idea of primary sources!

Related But Separated:
This session was of particular interest to me because I also have collections which are related to other materials and collections within SCUA and have been separated for various reasons.  Hearing others experiences with similar situations gave me some new ideas as well as affirmed decisions I have already made in arranging and describing my collections.  Important take-aways: understanding what you are trying to reunite (objects, surrogates, metadata) and understanding (as much as is possible) how and why materials where dispersed will help guide our decisions for bringing materials together again.

On Friday evening, the conference sponsored a reception in the Great Hall of the Library of Congress.  A beautiful space to gather with other archivists!

Library of Congress reading room