We're counting down the days until the inaugural Library 2.011 Worldwide
Virtual Conference begins on November 2. For more information, please visit:
http://www.library20.com
More than 3,500 information professionals from 149 countries have signed up to
join the global conversation on the current and future state of libraries. The
groundbreaking event will be a whirlwind of information with 160 presentations
scheduled over two days!
Participants can view the schedule of all 160 sessions in customized pages for
each of the world's 36 time zones. Presentations will cover a variety of
pertinent subject strands that affect the LIS industry and the changing roles
of libraries and librarians in our digital world.
Library 2.011 Worldwide Conference November 2-4, 2011
Eastern Standard Time Workshop Schedule at
http://www.library20.com/page/library-2-011-schedule-gmt-4
Central Standard Time Workshop Schedule at
http://www.library20.com/page/library-2-011-schedule-gmt-5
Mountain Standard Time Workshop Schedule at
http://www.library20.com/page/library-2-011-schedule-gmt-6
Pacific Standard Time Workshop Schedule at
http://www.library20.com/page/library-2-011-schedule-gmt-7
Other time zones http://www.library20.com/page/sessions-and-schedule
Keynote addresses will be scheduled over the course of the two-day conference.
Keynote speakers include:
.Dr. Sandra Hirsh (USA)
.Dr. Lennart Bjoerneborn (Denmark)
.Dr. Michael Stephens (USA)
.Dr. Christine Bruce (Australia)
.Ms. Ellen Tise (South Africa)
.Mr. Stephen Abram (USA)
As a reminder, the conference will be held entirely online and is FREE to
attend. For more information, please visit: http://www.library20.com
We'll see you online November 2!
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS AND PARTNERS:
http://www.library20.com/page/conference-partners
Please excuse cross-postings, and feel free to forward this email.
Alys Jordan, Ed. Sp.
Distance and Instructional Services Librarian
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Nova Southeastern University
Alvin Sherman Library
Phone: 954.262.4538
Fax: 954.262.6830
Email: alys.jordan@nova.edu
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Monday, October 31, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
Free webinar - Reference Online
The Credo Reference Online Seminar Series--Fall 2011 begins Tuesday, October 25 at 1:00 PM EST with guest speaker Dr. Lana Jackman, President of the National Forum on Information Literacy (http://www.infolit.org). Dr. Jackman is passionate about information literacy and committed to mainstreaming it throughout every sector of American society. She starts the series with a lively talk about information literacy, primary sources and academic support. Join us for an interactive, lively hour-long discussion just in time for National Information Literacy Awareness Month.
For more information about upcoming seminars and registration links, visit Libraries Thriving: http://www.librariesthriving.org/home/online-seminars/11-fall-2011/58-fallseries.
For more information about upcoming seminars and registration links, visit Libraries Thriving: http://www.librariesthriving.org/home/online-seminars/11-fall-2011/58-fallseries.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Webinar - New Discovery Tools: Moving Beyond Traditional Online Catalogs
The migration of traditional online academic and public library catalogs to
the notion of "discovery platforms" promises new ways to expose library
collections and other resources tailored to individual patron needs. For
patrons, this personalized search and discovery experience can encompass
functions and tools unheard of just a few years ago, such as powerful
faceted searching tools and tagging, and can provide a collaborative portal
for social media and other online scholarly community initiatives. For
libraries, the discovery platform can provide an efficient method for
maximizing the use of and investment in its online resources.
NISO's November webinar, New Discovery Tools: Moving Beyond Traditional
Online Catalogs-to be held on November 9, 2011 from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.-will
explore the areas of the discovery platform marketplace, selection and
implementation strategies, and usability.
Topics and speakers are:
. A Web Scale Discovery Refresher - Athena Hoeppner (Electronic Resources
Librarian, University of Central Florida Libraries) will put web-scale
discovery systems in context by reviewing the core concepts and terminology
and looking at the major systems side-by-side.
. Usability Testing of Discovery Interfaces - Rice Majors (Faculty Director
for Libraries IT/Librarian, University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries)
will share data about the methodology and results of his own research: a
task-based usability test of vendor-provided next-gen catalog interfaces and
discovery tools (Encore Synergy, Summon, WorldCat Local, Primo, and EBSCO
Discovery Service).
Registration is per site (access for one computer) and includes access to
the online recorded archive of the webinar for one year. Can't make it on
the webinar date/time? Register and watch the recorded version at your own
convenience. NISO and NASIG members receive a member discount and there is
also a student discount available.
For more information and to register, visit the event webpage:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2011/nisowebinars/discovery/
This webinar is sponsored by CrossRef (www.crossref.org).
Cynthia Hodgson
NISO Technical Editor Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
Email: chodgson@niso.org
Phone: 301-654-2512
the notion of "discovery platforms" promises new ways to expose library
collections and other resources tailored to individual patron needs. For
patrons, this personalized search and discovery experience can encompass
functions and tools unheard of just a few years ago, such as powerful
faceted searching tools and tagging, and can provide a collaborative portal
for social media and other online scholarly community initiatives. For
libraries, the discovery platform can provide an efficient method for
maximizing the use of and investment in its online resources.
NISO's November webinar, New Discovery Tools: Moving Beyond Traditional
Online Catalogs-to be held on November 9, 2011 from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.-will
explore the areas of the discovery platform marketplace, selection and
implementation strategies, and usability.
Topics and speakers are:
. A Web Scale Discovery Refresher - Athena Hoeppner (Electronic Resources
Librarian, University of Central Florida Libraries) will put web-scale
discovery systems in context by reviewing the core concepts and terminology
and looking at the major systems side-by-side.
. Usability Testing of Discovery Interfaces - Rice Majors (Faculty Director
for Libraries IT/Librarian, University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries)
will share data about the methodology and results of his own research: a
task-based usability test of vendor-provided next-gen catalog interfaces and
discovery tools (Encore Synergy, Summon, WorldCat Local, Primo, and EBSCO
Discovery Service).
Registration is per site (access for one computer) and includes access to
the online recorded archive of the webinar for one year. Can't make it on
the webinar date/time? Register and watch the recorded version at your own
convenience. NISO and NASIG members receive a member discount and there is
also a student discount available.
For more information and to register, visit the event webpage:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2011/nisowebinars/discovery/
This webinar is sponsored by CrossRef (www.crossref.org).
Cynthia Hodgson
NISO Technical Editor Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
Email: chodgson@niso.org
Phone: 301-654-2512
CFP - 2012 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums
Call for Session Proposals for the 2012 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums (November 15, 2011 Deadline)
This is an invitation to submit proposals for sessions for the 2012 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums to be held June 4-7, 2012 in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the Cherokee-owned Hard Rock Casino and Resort. The four-day conference will bring together cultures from across the nation and around the world to exchange best practices for indigenous archives, libraries, and museums. The conference features six pre-conference workshops, two pre-conference tours, 56 concurrent sessions, two general sessions, three keynote luncheons, and a post-conference Town Hall-style meeting. Conference tracks focus on library, archive, and museum collections, programs, and services, as well as specialized topics such as cultural tourism, advocacy, oral history projects, language programs, digitization, preservation, and fundraising. The conference is funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and sponsored by the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums and the Oklahoma Department of Libraries. To view past conference programs and/or submit a proposal before the November 15 deadline, visit www.atalm.org. Please direct questions to atalminfo@gmail.com
We hope to see you in Tulsa!
Susan Feller, Conference Director
405-522-3259
Melissa Brodt, Project Manager
405-522-3515
Tom Mooney, CA
Archivist
Cherokee National Historical Society, Inc.
PO Box 515
Tahlequah, OK 74465
918-456-6007 x6152
Fax 918-456-6165
This is an invitation to submit proposals for sessions for the 2012 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums to be held June 4-7, 2012 in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the Cherokee-owned Hard Rock Casino and Resort. The four-day conference will bring together cultures from across the nation and around the world to exchange best practices for indigenous archives, libraries, and museums. The conference features six pre-conference workshops, two pre-conference tours, 56 concurrent sessions, two general sessions, three keynote luncheons, and a post-conference Town Hall-style meeting. Conference tracks focus on library, archive, and museum collections, programs, and services, as well as specialized topics such as cultural tourism, advocacy, oral history projects, language programs, digitization, preservation, and fundraising. The conference is funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and sponsored by the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums and the Oklahoma Department of Libraries. To view past conference programs and/or submit a proposal before the November 15 deadline, visit www.atalm.org. Please direct questions to atalminfo@gmail.com
We hope to see you in Tulsa!
Susan Feller, Conference Director
405-522-3259
Melissa Brodt, Project Manager
405-522-3515
Tom Mooney, CA
Archivist
Cherokee National Historical Society, Inc.
PO Box 515
Tahlequah, OK 74465
918-456-6007 x6152
Fax 918-456-6165
Internship - WGBH Media Library & Archives
WGBH Media Library & Archives – Digital Library Projects
Internship
WGBH is public service media for New England--on TV, radio, the Web, and out in the community. We're the single largest producer of PBS prime time and online programming, and a major source of programs heard on public radio from coast to coast. We're a pioneer in educational multimedia and in media access technologies for people with hearing or vision loss.
Department Description:
The WGBH Media Library & Archives manages all physical and digital media and paper records, including materials that need to be retained for production, legal, fiscal, historical or administrative purposes, for the WGBH Educational Foundation. The WGBH Archives currently house more than 10,000 boxes of material and more than 50,000 audio, video, and film masters, many containing active as well as historical and archival materials. The MLA also manages all aspects of film research: cataloging, tracking, and organizing the stock and originally shot footage and images that go into our productions. The MLA negotiates and administers discount stock footage deals with major footage archives, and licenses WGBH stock footage to outside clients. Our web sites provide glimpses into the work and projects of the WGBH Media Library & Archives:
http://openvault.wgbh.org
http://footagesales.wgbh.org
http://bostonlocaltv.org
http://americanarchiveinventory.org
Internship Description:
The WGBH Media Library & Archives has opportunities for graduate students in library science, computer science, linguistics andrelated fields to work in a film and media archive. Come and learn what happens to all the materials that went into that FRONTLINE you saw after it aired on TV. Help to make them accessible for researchers, student and teachers online!
Digital library interns will work with the MLA Project Managers and Production Assistants on collaborative inventory and cataloging projects with external archives partners. Interns will assist with research, communications, cataloging, and partner support. Interns will write blog entries about their experiences, archival issues, and interesting “finds” in the archives and conduct research regarding digital humanities and moving image archives. Interns can gain hands-on experience preparing archival media for web access by transcribing, applying metadata and encoding transcripts, logs and basic catalog records. This is an opportunity to learn moving image cataloging and the PBCore metadata schema (pbcore.org).
Skills Preferred:
Basic computer skills, familiarity with Macintosh computers.
Attention to detail and precise work extremely important.
Professional phone and email communication styles required.
Internet savvy, with good web and library search skills.
Knowledge of XML helpful.
Familiarity with digital libraries and library practices also helpful.
WGBH Internship Requirements:
1. WGBH internships are open only to students enrolled in an accredited college or university
2. Internships are unpaid.
3. Interns are expected to commit 60 hours over the course of a semester. Fulfilling hours over schoolbreaks is allowed. Daily scheduling is flexible during normal business hours.
Applicants interested in the Internship should send a resume and a statement of interest by email to:
human_resources@wgbh.org
or by mail to:
WGBH Educational Foundation
Human Resources Department
One Guest Street
Boston, MA 02135
Internship
WGBH is public service media for New England--on TV, radio, the Web, and out in the community. We're the single largest producer of PBS prime time and online programming, and a major source of programs heard on public radio from coast to coast. We're a pioneer in educational multimedia and in media access technologies for people with hearing or vision loss.
Department Description:
The WGBH Media Library & Archives manages all physical and digital media and paper records, including materials that need to be retained for production, legal, fiscal, historical or administrative purposes, for the WGBH Educational Foundation. The WGBH Archives currently house more than 10,000 boxes of material and more than 50,000 audio, video, and film masters, many containing active as well as historical and archival materials. The MLA also manages all aspects of film research: cataloging, tracking, and organizing the stock and originally shot footage and images that go into our productions. The MLA negotiates and administers discount stock footage deals with major footage archives, and licenses WGBH stock footage to outside clients. Our web sites provide glimpses into the work and projects of the WGBH Media Library & Archives:
http://openvault.wgbh.org
http://footagesales.wgbh.org
http://bostonlocaltv.org
http://americanarchiveinventory.org
Internship Description:
The WGBH Media Library & Archives has opportunities for graduate students in library science, computer science, linguistics andrelated fields to work in a film and media archive. Come and learn what happens to all the materials that went into that FRONTLINE you saw after it aired on TV. Help to make them accessible for researchers, student and teachers online!
Digital library interns will work with the MLA Project Managers and Production Assistants on collaborative inventory and cataloging projects with external archives partners. Interns will assist with research, communications, cataloging, and partner support. Interns will write blog entries about their experiences, archival issues, and interesting “finds” in the archives and conduct research regarding digital humanities and moving image archives. Interns can gain hands-on experience preparing archival media for web access by transcribing, applying metadata and encoding transcripts, logs and basic catalog records. This is an opportunity to learn moving image cataloging and the PBCore metadata schema (pbcore.org).
Skills Preferred:
Basic computer skills, familiarity with Macintosh computers.
Attention to detail and precise work extremely important.
Professional phone and email communication styles required.
Internet savvy, with good web and library search skills.
Knowledge of XML helpful.
Familiarity with digital libraries and library practices also helpful.
WGBH Internship Requirements:
1. WGBH internships are open only to students enrolled in an accredited college or university
2. Internships are unpaid.
3. Interns are expected to commit 60 hours over the course of a semester. Fulfilling hours over schoolbreaks is allowed. Daily scheduling is flexible during normal business hours.
Applicants interested in the Internship should send a resume and a statement of interest by email to:
human_resources@wgbh.org
or by mail to:
WGBH Educational Foundation
Human Resources Department
One Guest Street
Boston, MA 02135
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Free webinar - Technology and Health 2.0
Date: Thursday, October 20, 2011
Start Time: 12 Noon Pacific
1PM Mountain
2PM Central
3PM Eastern
This webinar will last approximately one hour. Webinars are free of charge and registration is ONLY done on the day of the event on the WebEx server. No Passwords are required. For Tips and Registration Information, please go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/tips.html
For more information and to participate in the October 20 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/technology-and-health-20
In the past several years, two major phenomena have dramatically changed the way people find and share information: mobile devices and social media. It is no secret that patrons are using smart phones and mobile devices for much more than making phone calls. For health information, these devices have become pocket medical encyclopedias, fitness coaches, nutrition calculators, medication reminders, and much more.
Studies report that people are increasingly sharing personal health information on the Internet. Librarians are hard-wired to look for authoritative resources; but can user-contributed health information be trusted? With thousands of health-related apps and sites available, how is it possible to sort the good from the bad?
This webinar will focus on:
· the use of mobile devices and social networking for finding and sharing health information
· the implication of using these devices for library staff
· the benefits and issues around health-related social networking sites
· examples of well-designed, safe sites
· quality health apps and mobile sites, evaluation tips, and resources to point
At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will:
· Be aware of the landscape of mobile devices and understand the differences between apps and mobile sites
· Be able to evaluate and guide patrons to quality health-related content for mobile devices
· Be familiar with the benefits and caveats of social networking for health information
· Be able to incorporate knowledge of technology and electronic resources into services for patrons
This webinar will be of interest to public library staff, including reference librarians or reference desk staff, adult and teen services librarians, and staff from organizations who provide health information to consumers and members of the public.
Do you require an accommodation?
Closed captioning will be provided upon request. For this service, please notify ipweb@infopeople.org at least 72 hours before the webinar.
If you are unable to attend the live event, you can access the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at:
http://infopeople.org/training/view/webinar/archived
Start Time: 12 Noon Pacific
1PM Mountain
2PM Central
3PM Eastern
This webinar will last approximately one hour. Webinars are free of charge and registration is ONLY done on the day of the event on the WebEx server. No Passwords are required. For Tips and Registration Information, please go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/tips.html
For more information and to participate in the October 20 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/technology-and-health-20
In the past several years, two major phenomena have dramatically changed the way people find and share information: mobile devices and social media. It is no secret that patrons are using smart phones and mobile devices for much more than making phone calls. For health information, these devices have become pocket medical encyclopedias, fitness coaches, nutrition calculators, medication reminders, and much more.
Studies report that people are increasingly sharing personal health information on the Internet. Librarians are hard-wired to look for authoritative resources; but can user-contributed health information be trusted? With thousands of health-related apps and sites available, how is it possible to sort the good from the bad?
This webinar will focus on:
· the use of mobile devices and social networking for finding and sharing health information
· the implication of using these devices for library staff
· the benefits and issues around health-related social networking sites
· examples of well-designed, safe sites
· quality health apps and mobile sites, evaluation tips, and resources to point
At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will:
· Be aware of the landscape of mobile devices and understand the differences between apps and mobile sites
· Be able to evaluate and guide patrons to quality health-related content for mobile devices
· Be familiar with the benefits and caveats of social networking for health information
· Be able to incorporate knowledge of technology and electronic resources into services for patrons
This webinar will be of interest to public library staff, including reference librarians or reference desk staff, adult and teen services librarians, and staff from organizations who provide health information to consumers and members of the public.
Do you require an accommodation?
Closed captioning will be provided upon request. For this service, please notify ipweb@infopeople.org at least 72 hours before the webinar.
If you are unable to attend the live event, you can access the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at:
http://infopeople.org/training/view/webinar/archived
Friday, October 14, 2011
Fellowhips - The Harry Ransom Center
The Harry Ransom Center, an internationally renowned humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, annually awards over 50 fellowships to support research projects that require substantial on-site use of its collections. The fellowships support research in all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history.
The fellowships range from one to three months, with stipends of $3,000 per month. Also available are $1,200 to $1,700 travel stipends and dissertation fellowships with a $1,500 stipend. Complete applications for the 2012-2013 Research Fellowships in the Humanities must be received by February 1, 2012.
More information about the fellowships and the Ransom Center¹s collections is available online at http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fellowships/. Questions about the fellowships should be directed to Bridget Gayle at brigayle@mail.utexas.edu or 512-232-3214.
The fellowships range from one to three months, with stipends of $3,000 per month. Also available are $1,200 to $1,700 travel stipends and dissertation fellowships with a $1,500 stipend. Complete applications for the 2012-2013 Research Fellowships in the Humanities must be received by February 1, 2012.
More information about the fellowships and the Ransom Center¹s collections is available online at http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fellowships/. Questions about the fellowships should be directed to Bridget Gayle at brigayle@mail.utexas.edu or 512-232-3214.
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