Favorite Library T-Shirts

I stumbled across the cafe press website on library humor. Here are my two favorite t-shirts sayings. :) Jenny

Being nice to the Librarian
means the difference
between the right answer
and the wrong one
Buy Here

Ask, And
A Librarian
Will Tell You
Where To Go
Buy Here

Cataloging Books

We had a very interesting education hour today. My friend Annie taught us how to use the webpage http://www.librarything.com It's a webpage where you can organize or catalog your books. You create entries by typing in the name or ISBN. The site then searches Amazon, the Library of Congress and a few other sites to match your book to a record. It then imports the cover art (where available) and puts it in your catalog. You can add tags (aka subject headings) either at the time you add the book or later. What's really great is that you're able to access the catalog from anywhere. I've started adding my geology books and I added a marklet to the blog on the left side so you can see what some of my books in the catalog are. Very fun! Annie's brother uses her site to find books to read based on the tags and what he knows he already likes. Eventually, if I felt really dedicated, I could write book reviews and add them to the site. Wheeeeee.... gotta love technology.

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Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate
Originally uploaded by J Semenza.

Here's a picture of us at one of our Faculty Senate meetings from last year. I can tell by my braid that this is from 2005. In 2006 I tipped the ends of my hair with bright red. Vitit Kantabutra from the Engineering department took this picture. He is an amazing photographer. More of his photos can be found at: http://www.pbase.com/vkantabu/root

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Meetings

I have no idea how I got this. Actually, I probably received it from one of my friends via email. It’s been in my computer’s funny file for at least 6 years.

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British Librarianship's finest hour:

Q: I read somewhere that a large group of librarians on their way to a convention had all perished on the Titanic. Is that story true?

A: Sadly, it is. The cream of British Librarianship was wiped out in a single blow. We know the full story because the minutes from their meetings were found floating on the water by rescuers. Just twenty minutes after hitting the iceberg, the librarians had already swung into action. They'd divided into two committees, one discussing "The Sink/Swim Paradigm" and one discussing "Sinking: Is It REALLY Necessary?". The second group spun off a subcommittee to discuss In The Event Sinking Proves Necessary, Should 'Titanic' Be Given Its Own Subject Heading In The Card Catalogue?". One hour later, the groups combined for a seminar: "Lifeboats: Access Or Ownership?" Debate was fractious, and several subcommittees were formed to discuss protocols for further meetings.

One hour later, the entire group drowned, only ten minutes into the "Steaming To Excellence" seminar, and without having once left the meeting room. But it isn't all in vain -- "Titanic" WAS eventually given its own subject heading, in tribute to those who gave their lives in committee.

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For the last few years I have been on a lot of committees. My current roster looks like this:

1. Faculty Senate
Meets every other week and occasionally more often during times of crisis. This year we had the crises of Administrative Salaries, No Confidence in the President, Early Resignation of said President, announcement of new Interim President (who’s been great), and finally the hiring process for a new President.

2. Academic Standards
Meets once a month. This is a subcommittee of the Faculty Senate.

3. Library Faculty
The Library’s Faculty Senate representative chairs this library committee.

4. Library Administrative Council
Again, I’m on the council as because I’m the Faculty Senate representative for the library.

5. University Bookstore Committee
Meets only once a semester and for various and sundry reasons I was unable to attend at all this year. I had a colleague go in my place.

Four of these committees end in May sometime. WHEEEEE

However, I’ll still be involved with these library committees:

1. Public Services Meetings (once a month)
2. Instruction Meetings (once a month)
3. Reference Meetings (every now and then)
4. Education Hour (a learning session 2-3 Fridays per month)
5. General Library Staff Meetings (once a month)
6. Library Events (as needed, once a week through August)
7. Library Web Development (every other week or so)
8. Library Space Committee (every other week) I’m chairing this one
9. Library and College of Education Development Committee (once a month), I’m facilitating this one, taking minutes, etc…
10. Library Electronic Resource (as needed) I’m chairing this one too. We don’t have a budget so we haven’t been meeting this year.
11. Law Library Committee (3-4 meetings per year plus one "event")
12. Library Travel Committee (meets in the late spring and through the summer)

And then of course there are the impromptu meetings for every other decision. I’m tired just listing all of these. So if you want to know why it is hard to get in touch with me, assume I’m in a meeting.

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Trip Report Effective Supervision II -- day two

Day Two:

Managing Time and Successful Delegation

The following model was discussed for use in deciding what needs to be done:

Important and urgent

Important but not urgent

Urgent but not important

Not urgent and not important

Discussion included information on procrastination, delegation how, when and why, and project management.

Real World: Risk Taking, Decision Making, Problem Solving

One systematic approach was discussed in detail it included the following steps:

1. Assess reality
2. Clarify goals
3. Define the problem
4. Gather data and analyze
5. Generate alternatives
6. Implement best solutions
7. Follow up and evaluate

We had quizzes and assessments for all kinds of topics including: learning styles, communication style, meeting participant style, right brain/left brain orientations, how well do I delegate, and aptitude for becoming a mentor.

Ideas and factoids presented:

The Basic of Time Management

• Time is a unique resource. Everyone has the same amount daily
• It cannot be accumulated
• You cannot turn it on or off
• It cannot be replaced
• It has to spend at the rate of sixty seconds every minute

Some of Today’s Facts

• Average working times over the last decade have increased by 20% and leisure time decreased by 32%
• 43% of people find it difficult to delegate
• Now 75% work more than 40 hours each week
• 81% suffer stress at least once per week
• A manager on average spends 3 hours each day on interruptions
• One in eight telephone calls gets repeated because something was forgotten
• The average manager spends 3 hours each week looking for things on that desk. A manager’s desk holds 36 hours of work. They spend 11 hours a week in meetings.

Ideas to Control Procrastination

• Change your attitude
• Decide to do the most unpleasant job of the day first
• Break the job down into small tasks
• Commit yourself by telling someone you’re going to do the job
• Set your deadline
• Reward yourself at stages through the job
• Remove/avoid your escape/distracters – for e.g. socializing
• Schedule start times for jobs
• Stick to high priority jobs
• List the advantages of not doing the job, and the advantages of doing it, and compare the two lists.
• Consider the consequences of procrastination
• Do one job at a time
• Ask ‘what is the best use of my time now?’

Timesaving Tips

1. Do your thinking on paper. You will make quicker and better decisions if you write down the pros and cons of a line of action. This doesn’t take time, it saves time!
2. Use a “slush” file – have a specific place to put all papers which are not important enough to file permanently but which you feel uncomfortable about throwing away just yet.
3. In handling correspondence, consider answering routine letters and memos on the original, running them through the office copier for your own records and returning the original to the sender
4. If long periods of sitting make you lethargic, arrange two working levels so you can do some of your work standing up.
5. If you find it difficult to get any “quiet time,” try to arrive at the office before anyone else to gain uninterrupted time for planning and other tasks.
6. Get at least 20 minute of programmed exercise every day, and throughout the day use every opportunity to walk, stand, climb stairs, bend over, etc. This not only promotes health but also increases “prime time” by reducing fatigue.
7. Avoid clutter. Keep everything you are not working on out of your immediate working area and out of sight, if possible. Always tidy up your desk and work area before leaving the office.
8. Set up a desk date file (sometimes called a future file, a suspense file or tickler file) to provide an automatic method of bringing papers to your attention on specific dates in the future.
9. Never do errands on impulse. Plan your route carefully, handling as many errands as possible each time.
10. Make maximum use of catalogs when shopping either for personal items or office supplies
11. “Let your fingers do the walking.” Before running errands, phone to compare prices, determine availability, etc.
12. Plan each night what you are going to wear the next day, and lay it out ahead of time.
13. Hire someone to do yardwork, housework and other routine home chores where possible. Don’t get hung up on the “do it yourself” syndrome.
14. Use window envelopes where appropriate for correspondence, saving the time of a second typing of the name and address.
15. Have your phone and driver’s license numbers, as well as your name and address, printed on personal checks.
16. Plan your televiewing a week ahead, so that you will be mores selective in what you watch. Never turn on a TV set just “to see what’s on.”
17. Hire specialists to handle things you could do yourself but probably not as quickly or as well.
18. Learn to read routine material more rapidly. Don’t “backtrack,” compulsively rereading phrases before going on.
19. Write a memo to yourself for future reference whenever you have completed a difficult task which is going to recur. You will benefit more from an experience if you have made a written record of your mistakes and of the lessons learned.
20. If you are always “putting out fires,” ask yourself after each crisis: (a) Why did it occur? (b) What can be done to prevent its recurrence? And (c) If it does recur, how can I handle it better next time?
21. Ask yourself Townsend’s question a hundred times a day: “Is what I am doing, or about to do, moving me toward my objectives?”
22. Purchase, rent or borrow from your library cassette tapes on time management, self-motivation and similar subjects, as well as any that are available tin your professional fields, and listen to them whenever you are traveling in your car.
23. Carry a cassette recorder when traveling or making calls. It is the most convenient way of making detailed notes following a phone conversation or while driving or flying.
24. Don’t be afraid to give yourself time frequently to relax, to meditate or even to “goof off.” But do so as result of a conscious decision so that you can relax completely. Don’t drift into periods of dawdling, when you are half-working, half-resting.
25. Consider moving closer to your place of work. This is a big step, but if you saved only 15 minutes on commuting time each way, you would gain an additional three weeks of working (or playing) time per year!
26. Rewrite and reprioritize your goals and activities at least every three months. The world changes, we change and so must our goals.
27. Work on only one item at a time.
28. Buy paperback books, remove a chapter at a time and read it during your waiting times
29. Expect others to succeed; it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
30. Don’t over-control others. It is frustrating for them and time-consuming for you.

Trip Report - Effective Supervision II - day one

Another two days of training with the very entertaining British woman.

Day One:
The Supervisor’s Role in Impacting Performance

This was a day of learning about how to coach, when to coach and who to coach.

There was a lot of discussion on what motivates people. Interestingly enough money only comes in at #4. However, it is recognized as an important motivator particularly if said money does or does not provide a decent living. We had tests on performance values, motivation (i.e. what motivates us, what would motivate others), and what do people what from their jobs. And there were lots of “fun” role-playing activities to do in small groups.

From the manual page 1 –19

11 Guaranteed Ways to Kill Motivation:

1. Tell the employee exactly how to do the job
2. Stress busy-ness rather than results
3. Manipulate employees rather than treat them as adults
4. Care only about yourself and your concerns
5. Don’t listen to employees’ ideas, concerns, or suggestions
6. Dwell on weaknesses and failures
7. Never tell an employee what they’re doing right
8. Don’t get them involved
9. Don’t give any awards
10. Never provide opportunities for growth or challenge
11. Either expect second best or absolute perfection.

The video for the day was “Whale Done” a very good movie about how trainers for a seaworld work with Orcas. It was very entertaining. Many of us are ready for a career change to whale trainer.

Supervising for Success

This part of the day focused on the performance management cycle and coaching, it included a six-step coaching model:

1. State what has been observed
2. Wait for a response
3. Remind them of the goal
4. Ask for a specific solution
5. Agree together on a course of action
6. Make it private and positive

Trip Report: Effective Supervision I - day two

Day Two

Establishing Effective Workplace Relationship

This was a brief bit on self-assessment and the value of honest, respectful, communicative relationships.

Performance Driven Leadership

More discussion of leadership styles and this section referenced the interpersonal styles work mentioned at the beginning. There was a lot of information and exercises. Info included:

Twelve Identifiable Traits of Organizational Fear

1. Increased telling of untruths
2. People hiding mistakes
3. People hesitating to exercise initiative and take risks
4. Productivity decreasing and “extra efforts” disappearing
5. C.Y.A. (cover your anatomy) becoming an art form
6. Increased passive/aggressive behavior
7. High AT&T (absenteeism, tardiness and turnover)
8. Obsequious behavior
9. Blaming
10. Informing
11. Hostile interpersonal relationships
12. Overall demonstration of negativity

Primary Root Causes of Poor Leadership Performance

• Ineffective communication
• One-dimensional leadership
• Unwillingness to subordinate self
• Fear-based style
• Distancing from responsibility
• Abrasive/abusive conduct
• Poor delegation strategies
• Failure of example
• Remaining a “buddy”
• Micromanagement
• Disillusioned with leadership
• Inability to lead change
• Violations of trust

Five Principles of Empowerment

1. Give people important work to do on critical issues
2. Give people discretion and autonomy over their tasks and resources
3. Give visibility to others and provide recognition for their efforts
4. Build relationships for others, connecting them with powerful people and finding them sponsors and mentors.
5. Help others to develop their own personal power and effectiveness

Traits of an Innovative Leader

1. They have a mission
2. They create a vision
3. They trust their employees
4. They keep their heads in a crisis
5. They encourage risk-taking
6. They are experts
7. They know what is essential
8. They listen
9. They are teachers and mentor

Leadership Beatitudes Are:

Be bold and challenge the status quo

Be a risk taker

Be authentic and approachable

Be a role model

Be out and about

Be courageous

Be inspirational

There is a lot of information in the manual I received. All of the above is quoted from the manual, which quotes other sources. There is a large bibliography of recommended reading too.

Trip Report: Effective Supervision I - day one

Two days of training with the very entertaining British woman. Delightful accent, lots of energy, interesting stories, she was a fabulous teacher.

We began the day with an analysis of our own interpersonal style. This was FASCINATING and explained a lot about how we as individuals relate to others. It was a much simpler process than the MBTI and really was an interesting assessment. I highly recommend this trainer and this process for one of our retreats! There was a video that went along with this that was vastly entertaining. (Particularly for a training video)…

Day One

Supervision: Roles, Expectations and Responsibilities

Discussion and learning objectives centered on identifying roles and challenges of being a supervisor. There were quizzes, assessments, videos to help with this process.

Effective Managerial Communication

Assess the type of message, the audience and how to communicate it. Do not email corrective action.

Listening skills and this was not just a “parrot back” type of active listening. This section was interesting although it did include the dreaded “role playing” activities.

Impediments to Effective Listening

• Impatiently waiting to talk
• Information overload
• Preoccupation
• Perceived low value of message
• Prejudice (low value of the messenger)
• The challenges of concentration
• Jumping to concluisions
• Preconceivedc assumptions
• Selective listening
• Embracing the minutia
• Lack of empathy
• Emotions (fear, anger, grief, etc.)
• Physical distractions
• Poor delivery of the messages
• Replaying the positive

Four Ineffective Listening Styles

1. The missing in action listener
2. The distracted listener
3. The selective listener
4. The contentious listener

The Twelve Characteristics of an Effective Listener

1. Have a strong commitment to the listening process
2. Realize that listening skills are neither instinctive nor eternal
3. Are motivated to learn, practice and reinforce their active listening skills
4. Display high self-confidence and self-assurance by listening effectively
5. Are high efficient in completing their assignments and fulfilling their responsibilities.
6. Demonstrate greater flexibility in resolving disagreements and conflicts
7. Participate more intelligently and effectively in conversations
8. Are as focused on their communication partner’s message as they are on their own
9. Make more decisions based on a solid foundation of facts and data and avoid reactionary, shoot-from-the-hip conclusions
10. Experience greater upward career mobility
11. Suffer less embarrassment resulting from foolish mistakes or incompetent decisions
12. Successfully control the listening barriers that effect their reception of messages.

Internet Librarian Notes -- 2004

Day Two:

Session 1: Making the Most of the Blosphere

Will post the notes post conference…

Moveabletype is another blog site, with multiple blogs and multiple authors

Using blogs for:

Get past using it just for Announcements

Humanizes a website

Creates updated look

More of a diary and less of a formal announcement

Doesn’t go through committee, informal, personal

Virtual reference and library blog linked together and then link back out to other services.

Need metadata in blogs

Information literacy blogs using it to teach

Blogs for “buzz” and “spin”

Local people are blogging treat them as members of the press. Become a reference resource for the blog these are the people generating the buzzzz

Mo-blogging, taking the camera phone pictures and posting. Mo-blog your events.

We’re not having much fun on our sites

Blog the stats

Blog about projects

Start a community blog and get others to contribute

Blog 5-10 sites a day

Demand rss out of the catalog display new items on any web page (newspaper, own etc…)

Get info about our services and resources to the bloggers

Newsletter

We are having an event not The Library is having an event

How weblogs can help you and users find answers and help

Most have bad information\

Tools to help users find information

Why?

Diversity of authors and topics

Rate of update

Increasing influence

Mainstream blogs

Slashdot

Plastic

Davenetics

Lots of people are lying on the web. I.e QT’s diary

Searching blogs

Feedster

Feedster indexes over 1 million newsfeeds majority of them are weblogs and other real news (i.e. ny times)

blogs.feedster.com or www.feedster.com

can subscribe to search for sdi

Waypath

www.waypath.com

uses text analysis algorithm

no tow blog search engines are the same

Waypath bookmarklet takes a page you’re looking at and searches for other relevant sites

Bookmarklet includes a little java applet that executes an action and goes to site.

Pubsub

Doesn’t have a searchable database

Sdi service, you subscribe to query and it sends you newly discovered results as it finds them. Rss feed, or through proprietary instant messenger program.

In google

~blog inurt:archives “federated search”

Daypop

Indexes select subset of “most significant” uses subset to find out wht people are linking to, at that moment.

What’s everyone talking about today

Popex

Similar to Daypop

Technorati

Has highest blog total (similar to Daypop)

Blogsnow

Able to choose sectors, including popular sites on ebay

Blog search directories can be good starting places, they rely on blog author submissions for listings.

Blogarama

Feedster

www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/

Robin Good’s best blog directory and blog submission sites

Openstacks.net/os/ (??) his blog

Librarian.net

Kinja is a “weblog portal”

Topical digests from all the best bloggers

\ already selected for quality

bloglines.com (free webbased)

Key is to take some time and explore for information discovery techniques.

Rss: really simple syndication (subscribe to someone’s website and the info comes to you, push/pull).

Corporate world that caters to just the people in the one corporations.

Session 2: University Blogs

Part a: See program book page:

Host blogs for the entire campus, legitimizes blog discourse as scholarly

Promote intellectual freedom

Build communities of interest (grouping by major, department etc…)

Preserve the cultural memory of the institution.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ (using moveable type system linked to computer center authentication)

will share bookmarklet code and equivalent of ldap code

2% of internet uses have own blog (2.5 million people)

66% of blogs on web have been abandoned.

Part b:

MVCC Library Blogs

Moriane Valley Library’s Blogs

• Library news
• Info resources

Resources & search tips, searchable blog. Librarians post info about projects and resources that can answer questions. J J no controlled vocabulary. Available on open web and does show up in google.

• Construction news
• Frankenstein (exhibit) news
• Staff forum (private)
• Development blog about the process of creating the blogs for the library

Will post presentation to conference site.

(Moveable type blog)

Blog content onto web page using rss which parses the rss content:

http://rssgov.com/rssparsers.html

http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/

Way to update content on home page without having to go through regular publishing channels.

Session 3:

Promoting/teaching weblogs to staff

Michael Stephens in public library

Why? Information filters, keep current,

1. Educate them on keeping current
2. Part of today’s info literacy curriculum
3. They may be writing and posting themselves
4. Learning curve is always present
5. Blog the “right way”
6. Liabilities if you don’t have a mission statement, code of ethics, and policies

Teach staff

1. Teach nuts and bolts of software
2. The best way to blog short concise posts
3. Teaching linking skills
4. Citing resources
5. Make the commitment

Teach systems

1. Implementation
2. Security issues
3. Intranet/internet
4. The “Big Picture”

lii.org has a great description of what rss is.

Shifted librarian

http://www.hi.is/~anne/weblogs.html

http://www.libdex.com/weblogs.html

http://www.librarystuff.net

http://www.tametheweb.com

Session 4: RSS

Will post session online

Orange buttons (xml, rss feed) or small text with rss feed or rss

Need a news aggregator which can read the feeds

Abcnews, businessweek, Chicago sun times, Christian science monitor, the chronicle, congressional record dail digest, doe, espn, forbes, new york times (can get very granular), rolling stone, law.com, nature, time, Washington post, yahoo news, amazon genres, blog of death, comic alert, dilbert, almanac moon phases, bootleg rss, snopes urban legends,

Bloglines.com

Currently free may start showing adds. Sign up for free account tracks sites you’ve subscribed to that have rss feeds. Bold if the content has been updated,

(Bug Me Not that has all of these registrations and you can use other peoples accounts/sign ins)

feedonfeeds (FOF) download onto own server php software,

amphetadesk free

bloglet free – emailed to you once a day

find rss feeds

syndic8.com

newsisfree

blogstreet

2RSS.com

moreover.com

hubmed

topix.net (for news sources)

blog is an rss feed and is how you can let others know.

Georgia state university library

Topeka and Shawnee county public library

Hunterdon central high schools

For more information faganfinder.com/search/rss.shtml

Day One:

Keynote: About internet use

(in program book)

Session 1: ebooks connoley pg 118

(in program book)

Session 2: Cool Tools

Price’s lists of lists

resourceshelf.com

http://www.resourceshelf.com/cooltools04.html

Blog

http://digbig.com/4cdex

http://docuticker.com (?)

Full text government document reports

Search engines

Exalead (French search engine) Proximity operator!! 16 words in either direction. (Alta vista and All the web lost all advanced searching when it was gobbled up by yahoo).

Yahoo

Altavista

All the web

Google

Beta.search.msn.com (moving into regular search soon)

Askjeeves & teoma

Search engine overlap…

Jux2.com allows you to search and see the overlap (about like mamma and surfwax? Better search engine overlap results)

http://ranking.thumbshots.com (use two engines at a time, only works with internet explorer) great for training tools (50% overlap

needlesearch toolbar (firefox, mozilla)

copernic toolbar (ie)

Slider bars to adjust relevancy rankings and result lists (in yahoo shopping, travel metasearch, kayak--pulls fare and organizes them on one page).

New msn search page (is it going to beat google?)

Using syntax from altavista? For advanced searching. Does use sliders to adjust results

Ask Jeeves

Smart answers (bought Teoma) using natural language

Teoma allows refinements

Teoma includes resources sections

The resources section includes metapages and other categories

Is doing ready reference answers if possible

Yahoo

Use search.yahoo.com for the “simplified” interface. Tabs can be customized

Yahoo’s image database is “wonderful”

Mobile searching

Cell phones or pda or other mobile connected device

Interfaces optimized for mobile devices (yahoo has one)

Mobot.. (take a look)

Hold cell phone up to upc symbol using the camera to search …

Local.yahoo.com or local.google.com

Website watcher

45.00 for personal license… allows a person to go to any url and see if anything is new or changed on the webpage. It will highlight in red what is changed or can have it emailed ot self. Thing that is changed is highlighted in yellow.

Diplomacy Monitor

Targeted crawler looking for new diplomatic information, press releases, primary documents, searchable (specialized database)

Digital books

(digital book index) links to 100,000 books many are available for free

Domain tracking and

“whois source” and “whois history”

Dialog file #255 to search for more information about domain tracking

SEC Info helps with tracking stuff in Edgar

Pubcrawler searches pubmed to find new stuff (free)

Save a whole or part website free: HTTrack to help archive

Fagan Finder (Michael Fagan) list of specialized databases. url investigation work

Ellyon searches for people and creates profiles

Lycos discussion search searches the boards

topix.net 9,000 sources for news\

prebuilt page for every zip code in U.S. (aggregated pages)

shadowtv.com searches keyword everyword spoken on all the words spoken on news. Licensed content so you can watch content. Alert service available.

Speechbot: radio programming

Terrafly to virtually fly across the united states using usgs and cross linked out to census and other information

Lots of info.

Session 3: cervone pg 71 & trainor pg 250 – federated searching and open url

Session 4: Accessibility of ARL Digital Projects is in collected page 159

Internet Librarian's Conference 2003

This is an outline of the high points. If you want more information or would like to discuss any of these topics let me know. I do have some copies of PowerPoint lectures I can get to you if you are interested. -- Jenny

E-Library

E-books: the Third Generation

• People love them (engineering library)
• Powerpoint slides for this presentation are supposedly at: https://webspace.utexas.edu/dillondj/www/ebook.html
• Discussed costs, programs, delivery mechanisms and other factors to collecting ebooks.
• Emphasized the need for bibliographers to be involved

New Age Navigation: Innovative e-Journal Interfaces

• Concept Space
• D-Lip Magazine
• Self Organized Map Index
• Astronomy and Astrophysics Centre de Donnees Astronomiques de Strasbourg
• Topic Map
• High Wire Press
• Some of these reminded me of the fish-eye view in my home library catalog I have a small version of it on my notebook computer if you want to take a look.

Building a Library with Free Web Resources

• Books
• Project Gutenberg
• Alex
• Bartleby
• Etc
• Periodicals
• Findarticles vs steep document delivery charges
• Infotrieve
• Ingenta
• Find Articles
• Magportal
• AJR (newspapers)
• When one thing dies, another comes along
• Pubscience – PolySearch (Peter Jasco

Power Tools for Digital Libraries

• Scout Portal Toolkit (http://scout.wisc.edu/research/SPT)
• Strengths: opensource code, off the shelf functionality, standards include Dublin core, flexible, easy to use, totally web based, free
• Weaknesses: initial releases had bugs, no support for windows
• Other: can be used on Linux or Windows servers
• Other products were discussed at length and demonstrated. For more information I can photocopy the paper for you.

E-Learning

Outcomes: Adventures in E-learning

• set of steps for failure and a set of steps for success
• elearning web resources were also viewed including a survey tool called Zoomerang and a quiz tool called Hot Potatoes

Environment: Impacts and Objects (really this was about electronic learning objects)

• what are reusable learning objects
• small interchangeable “programs” of information that can be used in multiple ways for teaching the same concept across learning constructs.
• How to use RLOs
• Why use RLOs
• Reusability
• Share-ability
• Personalization

Curriculum Competencies and Challenges

• integration of technology into classroom
• challenge of technical knowledge
• challenge of teacher/professor resistance (It’s harder to teach with technology than without, lecturing is the easiest form of instruction on the teacher)

Tools: Designing & Developing

• using screen capture video software to create a tutorial
• develop a script
• use powerpoint to add text or graphics
• record audio/vido separately
• products
• camtasi studio by techsmith
• viewletbuilder by qarbon
• robodemo by the ehelp corporations
• websites referenced or visited during presentation
• www.macromedia.com
• www.screenwatch.com
• www.techsmith.com
• www.qarbon.com
• www.ehelp.com
• www.ulib.csuohio.edu/help/hands-on
• www.realnetworks.com
• www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/
• They used Flash by Macromedia for the CSU project

Web Searching

30 Tips in 40 Minutes (searching the web)

• My favorites
• always use more than one search engine
• use thesauri to come up with more/alternate terms
• use Google’s “related” operator
• use reverse link searching
• use type of document indicators
• know what you’re looking for
• complex search statements do not work well on the web – simplify
• order of search terms matters

Web Design

User Centered Design in the Academic Library: Some Practical Examples

• Use various methods to gain information about users to inform web design
• Page use statistics
• User surveys
• Usability testing

Tips and Tricks for Usability Studies

• What to do BEFORE you start
• Ideas for getting “Buy in”
• Formal usability
• Card sorts
• Focus groups

Palm Pilots

Medicine in Your Palm

• managing information overload by using the palm.
• Access patient information
• Track patient symptoms and signs
• Access to medical reference info
• Tracking educational experience
• Research data entry
• Scheduling, contacts
• Usage of PDA’s (at Mount Sinai)
• 20% of physicians in U.S.
• 40% of trainees
• 50% of residents
• Concerns:
• Data reliability
• Data integrity
• Security
• Did 4 studies on usage in various situations
• ICU
• Paper vs electronic medical databases
• Surgical procedure logging
• Pharmacopoeias
• Ontario critical care information network
• Overall the PDA’s were a positive addition to the system. For more details I can photocopy the handouts for you

Pocatello web conference

Opening session:

Virtual reality tour (click on door to go to next room)

WML (wireless markup language for web pages on pdas)

XSL (style sheets to go with XML)

Session 2A Web Site Usability: Keys to Making Online Shopping Easy & Fun

(see http://www.flaweddeb.com)

Credit Cards

http://www.merchant-accounts.net

swipe machines / software / real-time processing

visa & mc 80% of market = 1.3-5% of order

am exp 2.95-3.75% of order

disc 2.25-5.25% of order

Order Processing

Cyber Cash (3^rd party takes 1.5-2% of sale)

Firstdata.com (3^rd party)

Shopping Carts

http://www.arpanet.com/prelshop (free)

http://www.careyinternet.com/main/commerce (free)

http://www.quickstore.com (175$)

http://www.directhme.com (example of speed cart)

http://www.cdnow.com (example of standard cart)

3 click rule

Other

http://www.taxaware.com (taxes)

http://www.tandata.com (shipment tracking)

Customer Service

Returns policy

Help FAQ

Shipping costs & policies

My account

Store locator

Give incentive to sign up!

Make other purchase options available (fax, snail, phone)

Portal

One to one marketing

Track my order

Wish List

Gift registry

No more than 10 main links on navigation bar

First page is window shopping

Calls to action Act Now! Or Search

Timely Terms (i.e. today, now, month)

Session 3B Pushing the Envelope: Examples from the Web’s Cutting-Edge Designs

How to create 3d pictures or spin objects

Www.kaiden.com

Kaiden -> Software -> MGI Photovision (comes with Dreamweaver, plugin or applet)

VRTOOLBOX.com or VRPanoWorx (300$)

Seam or scene blending

Opening doors in 3d not available in MGI

IBM Hot Media

Ibm.com/hotmedia/

Related links -> developer resources -> stitching tool

Devoteen fabric does not reflect light

Circle of paper taped to tripod and marked with compass for degrees

GE easy turn turn table from walmart with graduated white tape in millimeters to spin object

Session 2C You Built it – But Will They Come? Essentials of Driving Traffic to Your Site

Search engine rankings (relevance, prominence, popularity)

Words into metatags

Words at top of pages

Wordtracker.com

Webposition.com

Use comment lines

Register “about us” pages

Use alt tags in images

Use keywords up to 7 times

Linkpopularity.com

Keyword at top & bottom of page

Thank you for visiting site xyz

Title 50 characters

Doorway pages

Session 2D Top Web Marketing Secrets Revealed!

Calls to action (words)

Contests

Added value

Quiz

Testimonials

Reviews

Polls

Message board

Guest book

Free stuff

Surveys

(kraftfoods.com, hallmark.com Greenfieldonline.com)

netmind.com (url minder) collect email addresses

accrue.com for insight on tracking software

or netgen.com (netanalysis)

webtrends.com

www.anybrowser.com

view page in other browsers

banner ads 15k max 468 x 60

button ads 125 x 125

www.thefreesite.com

www.coolsig.com

javascript on splash to detect if someones been there “skp splash”

YOU is a good word

Joeboxer.com

Willing to wait 8 seconds to load page

Field Trip Notes: Utah State & Weber State

Utah State

sun microsystems processor for terminal (Thin Clients)
Netscape only
fiber connection
educational grant funded 25,000 of the total 50,000
60 terminals +server
router to server
can't download, .05/page to circulation
includes star software (european competitor to microsoft)
download available on other floors

"Library Research Only" signs on computers
not censoring format

Use fortress instead of winshield


Service Desks
1 central ref on 1st floor (15 years)
space considerations!
documents training sessions
copies of major gov't documents ref in ref collection
(andriots, catalog, climatological data)

maps and documents have offices

documents journals (and all bound) integrated into collection

UN reclass into lc stacks
Utah docs into special collections

have stat universe, academic and congressional through UALC

Student library fee 8.00 (2 of which goes to technology)
computer center charges 40$ every semester for students and gives all students internet accounts.


Research consultation service
10% ready ref, last year 38 requests in Oct, this year 74 requests in Oct
3 working day response
direct to databases and examples of serch strategies

promoting service in instruction classes
3 credit fys type class
english instructors fresh & soph

abi inform and newspapers from Bell & HOwell via UALC
literary resource center -- Ualc

Digital Dissertations!! <500 phd's in state = $10,000.00 97-date
some are full text(?)


Staffing Desk
70 hrs per week
8-9 m-th
8-5 f
1-5 sat
6-10 sun night

1 classified, 2 retired part time (odd shifts)
12 reference librarians
2 documents librarians

double staff 10-12 & 1-3


Building
mcnaught new books (novels)
printer in classroom
flat screen monitor in classroom

no copy center
current periodicals desk (manned by students)
ILL does own copying and Ariel
they are adding Prospero to Ariel

use copy cards
10cents / copy

lockers

offices not on same floor as reference desk

reference assistant provides secretarial help, maintains collection

due to theft, maps are locked and only available 8:30-4:30

full color/full size copies of maps are availble for 3.00$ via a plotter.

screensaver on all reference machines states: Please see a librarian for help

message center podium and pad in lounge entry area


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Weber

color printer as option from reference stations

library research course required for history majors

desk open
7-midnight m-th
7-8pm f
9-8 sat
noon-6 sun
11 faculty (including director) (3 fac don't work reference)
3 para's work reference desk with 1 profess.

desk staffed with staff hours library is open.

do have copy center
.25 color
.05 other

ILL in back

Integrated desktop area on the second floor, using lower end computers and no service desk.

Merged bound periodicals into general stacks.

documents under reference

curriculum collection for education

have a stacks manager

wireless network access in parts of the building

e-reserve
copyright clearance

carrels in reference to provide privace and neatness

Dialog phased out naturally

classroom: dark walls, raised sound panels

second campus going in Layton

all Faculty/Staff, student assitants get free printing in library

gov docs office where material is processed then also ref docs libr does instruction also.

.05 cents reader printer costs.

have canned powerpoint and canned presentation for instruction equiv fresh eng & fys attend

open workshops available to community and well attended.
advertised in local newspaper, campus newspaper, campus bulletin, flyers

e-subscribe
1993-present fte pricing edrs

15.00 year weber
50.00 year USU

Altiris software
sends signal and recovers machine settings.