LOEX 2010 Reports Posted

If you wanted to attend LOEX this year but didn't make it be sure to take a moment to review the summary reports submitted by the LIBRAS Continuing Education attendees on our web site!

LIBRAS - Call for Posters

Call for Posters

Do you have a Reference/Collection Management idea or research that you would like to share with the Reference and Collection Management SIG?

If so, you are invited to submit “conference” poster content for display at the Annual SIG Event on June 16th at Elmhurst College. Content may be sent to Katie Maier-O’Shea at North Park University who will convert it into a single poster-size sheet on North Park’s large scale printer. All posters submitted by the due date will be on display during the SIG event at Elmhurst. You will be able to keep the poster after the SIG event.

Submission guidelines:

· All posters should be sent to Katie Maier (kmaier@northpark.edu) in the form of a single Powerpoint slide by June 11th.

· Posters may address any of the broad categories related to reference and collection management. These include but are not limited to:

Reference/instruction such as:

• Technology such as online reference & websites
• Databases that might be new to other Libras institutions
• Pedagogical innovation
• Reference and instruction staffing

Collection Management topics such as:

• Marketing of collections
• Collection management tools
• Unexpected things that you have in your collection
• Budgeting in rough financial times

Who may submit posters?

• Everyone is welcome to submit posters including full and part-time librarians and para-professionals.
• Note: Libras SIG events are appropriate and supportive venues for all stages of work. This includes ideas in their infancy, advanced scholarship, and everything in between.

Formatting Help:

North Park often uses the large printer for in-house student poster sessions. Below is a link to the instructions used by our professors for their students. Obviously, you will not need to follow the content guidelines related to the class’s biology assignment, but I think a great deal of the formatting tips will be helpful to you.
http://www.npuphysics.org/resources/comp/building_your_poster.pdf

LIBRAS Collection Management/Reference SIG Meeting

LIBRAS
Collection Management/Reference SIG
Annual Event

A.C. Buehler Library
Elmhurst College
June 16th, 2010
12:30 – 3:30

Tentative Agenda

12:30 – 1pm: Refreshments and Poster Session

1pm – 2pm: "The Transformative Tool: Implementing WorldCat Local and Its Implications for Library Operations," by Mark Vargas and Anita Morgan, St. Xavier University

In summer 2009, the Library at Saint Xavier University became the first in Illinois to fully implement OCLC’s WorldCat Local. This search tool allowed for more effective bridging of teaching, research, and service. The presenters will explain the steps needed to make WorldCat Local work effectively, and how patrons locate and obtain items needed for their research in any format from SXU, the I-Share statewide consortium, or from other OCLC libraries in one interface. The discussion will include the effects on inter-library loan, collection development, and bibliographic instruction.

2 – 2:30pm: Refreshments and Poster Session

2:30 –3:30pm: "The Future of Management Services on the Web,"
by Paul Cappuzzello, OCLC.

The provision of management applications online, accessible through a web browser, with software and data hosted "in the cloud" is a model now in common use in many business environments. A representative from OCLC will explore what it means for libraries to have management services delivered in this way. Will a technology shift trigger similar systemic change? And in what ways can we expect library workflows to be enhanced and streamlined by a shift of services to the web? Can this model help libraries move forward in a time when demand on services is increasing while budgets are being frozen or decreased?

RSVP:
Katie Maier,
North Park University
kmaier@northpark.edu

Collection Management/Reference SIG Save-the-Date!

Please plan to attend a really great Collection Management/Reference SIG event Wednesday, June 16th at Elmhurst College. Mark Vargas and a representative from OCLC will be the keynote speakers. More details to follow...