Posts Tagged ‘Add new tag’Agenda for Aug 20 meeting with JeffAugust 19th, 2009 by Barbara MerzNote taker? Time keeper? Recommendation Highlights – 10 minutes 1. Parature recommendation 2. Key concepts as shown in contents 3. One blog concept with trust and openness as design basis Developments in media services and their impact on our project – 5 minutes Recommendation discussion – 30 minutes What message is Jeff going to take to ADs? Identify, clarify. – 10 minutes Meeting agenda for 8/12August 7th, 2009 by Jess IslerAgenda for Wed 8/12:
Vision statement: BarbaraJune 24th, 2009 by Barbara MerzWeb team – vision statement. The Web team will design, test and implement a new LIS Web presence. The LIS web is used both to provide information about LIS and as a means to deliver services and provide access to resources. The product will be tied in with the new College web design. Our first priority will be usability. Other important considerations are ease of maintenance, and continued development. Recent additions to the Vermont CollectionMay 29th, 2009 by Hans RaumSubmitted by Hans Raum Earlier this month I attended the annual convention of the Rutland Railroad Historical Society, held at the Vermont Marble Museum in Proctor on May 2-3. I accepted donations of historical material from three members and took photographs of several marble quarries and railroad bridges that I visited during one of the field trips. The oldest item that was donated to the Rutland Railroad Archives that is part of our Vermont Collection was an 1851 annual report of the Rutland & Burlington Railroad, which was the earliest ancestor of the Rutland Railroad. The advent of railroads in Vermont was crucial to the economic development of the state, including the marble, granite, slate, lumber and dairy industries.
Print Management: Coming soon!February 13th, 2009 by Doreen BernierA group of folks from LIS and the rest of the College have been meeting to develop a plan for rolling out print management to campus this Spring. The system, which uses PaperCut to manage print jobs, initially will require people wanting to print to release their print jobs via a control panel. In the Fall we intend to begin issuing print quotas. After a quota has been reached, the person would need to pay for their print outs using a credit card. As the project moves forward, we’ll post more information. This week we’ll be running a test print release station at circulation in the main library; come by and try it out! 2010 Census is coming!January 9th, 2009 by Doreen BernierSubmitted by Lynn Saunders, Government Documents
The Vermont State Data Center sponsored a workshop to discuss and review some websites and the upcoming 2010 Census. The State Data Center (SDC) Program is a cooperative program between the state and the Census Bureau to make data available locally to the public through a network of state agencies, universities, libraries, and regional and local governments.
In early December the State Data gathered together a group of statistical users to talk about the upcoming 2010 Census. At the present time the Census Bureau is gearing up by hiring individuals to check addresses and to work in the Vermont office which is located in the Burlington area. They are also looking for community volunteers and groups to help with making sure that the count is complete. I have posted some literature in the staff room about Census 2010.
One significant difference in the 2010 Census will be that there will be no long forms handed out. The information that was gathered in the long form then is now being gathered by the American Community Survey (ACS) (http://www.census.gov/acs/www/). The ACS is a department of the Census Bureau that surveys the population on an ongoing basis to provide more recent information than is available from our Decennial Census. This method of gathering information is going to be problematic for small states like Vermont. The surveys used to get the sample information are sent out to certain parts of each state each month in a rotation. In small states the sampling area is so small that the information has to be gathered for a longer period of time in order to get enough samples so that the people answering the questions can’t be identified. The effect for small states is that the statistics that they use will only be available every 5 years, while larger states will have new statistics every year. When applying for grants, larger states will have an edge because their statistics will be more up to date than the smaller states.
Our State Data Center has been in contact with the Census Bureau to try and work out this problem. The director of the Vermont State Data Center, Will Sawyer, had a personal meeting with the head of the Census Bureau. Although nothing is scheduled to change immediately the Census Bureau is considering the problem and potential fixes.
We also reviewed how to use American Fact Finder and the State Data Center’s website, Vermont Indicators. Vermont Indicators is very useful for finding compiled statistics for the state. They also have historic data which can be easily accessed by the click of button. Vermont Indicators can be found at http://maps.vcgi.org/indicators/.
NYT: Nine Web sites IT pros should master in 2009January 9th, 2009 by Mary Backushttp://www.nytimes.com/external/idg/2008/12/31/31idg-Nine-Web-sites.html?em University of South Carolina Library Degree ProgramJanuary 9th, 2009 by Doreen BernierSubmitted by Brenda Ellis The University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science plans to begin a Master’s program for a regional “cohort” of students in the New England region. This is an expansion of a program that was previously conducted in Maine. The program is proposed to begin in the fall semester of 2009; beginning students may also be admitted to the program in spring 2010 and fall 2010.
Classes will be presented as an interactive online program utilizing a variety of technologies. Attendance on the home campus of the University is not a required part of the program. Students admitted to the program will have several on site experiences at a location(s) in New England, including (but not limited to): a beginning orientation, portfolio preparation and state association meetings.
For more information, contact: Tilda Reeder, Admissions Coordinator, Student Services Office: tildareeder@scu.edu
The University of South Carolina is located in Columbia; phone number for the School lo Library and Information Science: 803-777-3858.
Staffing UpdateJanuary 9th, 2009 by Adam DobuckiSubmitted by Adam Dobucki Please join me in congratulating Petar on his promotion to Senior Technology Specialist. Petar’s contributions to the Helpdesk, his troubleshooting skills, development of the student consultant staff, and dedication to excellent service make this promotion very well deserved. Since our vacant position remains frozen, Petar will shift a portion of his time to working with Brian Foley in the support of public computers, computing labs, and classrooms. Petar will continue to be an active member of the Helpdesk. Congratulations Petar! Web 2.0 Services for Smaller, Underfunded LibrariesDecember 12th, 2008 by Michael LynchA Powerpoint presentation from the LibrarianInBlack. Update from Administrative SystemsSeptember 26th, 2008 by Marcella SmithSubmitted by Marcella Smith Here’s what we’re doing: * Working on change management methodology for the lockdown project Dave * In a cooperative effort between the Administrative Systems group, Database Applications and Systems group, the Budget Office and the CCAL office, a new application for student organization budget reports was put into place for the start of fall term (as reported in the recent issue of Unbound). Cindy * Analyzing and preparing data for Monterey general student data load to enable programmatic email account generation Liane * In conjunction with Karin Hall-Kolts in the office of the Dean of the College, implementing the 4/2 residential life system in the Commons (junior and senior room designations will be tracked with a singular commons code scheme). Julie * Open Enrollment changes and enhancements for 2009 Rogelio * Conducted workshop on how to identify and correct Banner duplicate person records, which was very popular and well-attended by staff from Admissions, Registrar’s Office, College Advancement, Language Schools, Bread Loaf School of English, and LIS John * Developing two new applications for Public Safety, Open Container Citations and Fire Safety Violations, which will include new Oracle forms, shell scripts, and several PL/SQL scripts to post fines to the Banner Accounts Receivable module Marcy * Banner 8 work has begun with the build of a new database with UTF8 character set; installation and testing of new Oracle application server software; cleanup and reorganization of tablespaces; testing a new Pro C compiler which Mark installed for us on diamond Circulation Services: Reserves, Apples, Shifting Shelves, and Welcome Back KarinSeptember 19th, 2008 by Doreen BernierSubmitted by Elin Waagen Electronic Reserves Thanks to the effort of three cataloguers, Sue Driscoll, Marlena Evans, and Kristen Geoghegan, the mountain of ERes documents added at the beginning of the semester was accomplished with great speed. The workflow in Reserves was still hectic, but much more manageable. Thanks also to Michael Warner for initiating the collaboration! Apples and Study Carrels for Seniors
* The first student arrived at the Main Library at 5:25 am Thanks to Maura and Steve for ensuring a smooth event and to the staff and student staff who came to work early to help process carrel requests. Welcome back to Karin Gottshall! Karin has re-joined Circulation Services as an on-call staff member, filling in for staff at Circulation and Reserves when and where needed. Shelf Shift at Main A major redistribution of books on the upper level is underway by Rich Church and his team of student workers. There may be some intermittent noise – we will try to minimize this as much as possible. Please let us know if you encounter complaints. Please alert users to possible location changes when referring them to shelves on the upper level. |
