Posts Tagged ‘May 8 2009’LISterine Workshop: Entering the World of MashupsMay 8th, 2009 by Carrie MacfarlaneSubmitted by Bryan Carson and Carrie Macfarlane The next LISterine Workshop (LIS Technology, Endeavors, and Resources in Need of Explanation) has been scheduled. On Tuesday, May 19, from 4-5 pm in Library 105, Digital Media Tutors and LIS-GIS Team members Jue Yang and Jack Cuneo will present Entering the World of Mashups. Watch your inbox for an invitation. Want to present a workshop? Want someone else to present? Tell us! Print Management: Phase 1May 8th, 2009 by Virginia BukowskiSubmitted by Ginny Bukowski
Between May 20 and May 27, Jeff Lahaie, Brian Foley, and Petar Mitrevshi will place print release stations in the following public printing locations: Main Library Armstrong Science Library Music Library Sunderland (computing labs) Munroe 214 Axinn 105 Robert A. Jones (basement) As always, students, faculty, and staff will be able to print to any of these printers but will be required to release the job in order for it to print. Guests will have to pay for their printing as of June 8 and will be limited to black and white printers in the Middlebury libraries. Guests are people not in Active Directory and include, but are not limited to, regional visitors, potential students and their families, alumni, and dependents of staff and faculty.
We are aware of a few categories of people who are not in Active Directory (not active students, faculty, staff) or guests such as teaching assistants as well as Language Schools doctoral candidates and Language Schools’ week-long guests. For the time being, they must print via local or departmental printers. If you know of additional groups who fall into this category, please let Ginnie know.
Carol and Doreen are creating the cards and the accompanying internal accounting system. LIS will sell guest printing cards to the college, who will sell them at the bookstore, MiddExpress, and Wilson Café. Through these $5 cards guests will be able to create and maintain a PaperCut printing account. Cards will be non-refundable. They will have a warning that the guest should treat them like cash. The college will not be responsible for them once sold. For those of you at customer service points, you will receive complimentary cards for people who have legitimate grievances such poor printing quality.
Departmental guests will have the option to use the host department’s printer at no charge. If there is a guest who is in need of a public printer for an extended time, the host department will need to purchase a card or cards for that individual.
Of course, your printing to departmental or local printers will not change because they are not public printers.
Mary, Linda, Elin, Joseph, Mike, and I are working on the various communications required. An announcement by Mike to the college is imminent.
Of course, there will be an adjustment period for those who use public printers; we hope you agree that the reduction in wasted resources will make this stage worthwhile. Your support and understanding, especially of those who interact with users of the printers, will be appreciated.
You may be wondering, “What about student quotas?” Mike asked Jon Isham’s economics class to assess student quotas. Once that information has been provided along with collected usage data, quotas will be discussed in Phase 3 over the fall term. In the meantime, Phase 2 will be an assessment of release stations and guest printing. Phase 2.5 will be what may be done for the non-Active Directory and non-guest categories. Going away? LIS wants to know!May 8th, 2009 by Judy WattsSubmitted by Judy Watts I’m headed to Scotland tomorrow, and while people don’t need to know the details of where I’ll be, it may be useful for them to know that I will be away. Here’s what I did to enter that information in a place that everyone can see. In Outlook, open Public Folders – All Public Folders – LIS – LIS Calendar Enter your time away and save the entry. If you want to put it on your personal calendar, open it again, pull down the “Actions” menu and click on “Copy to personal calendar:. (Or, while you are creating the item, click on “Invite attendees” and invite yourself. Accept the invitation when you are back in your Outlook mail and it will be on your personal calendar.) If you don’t use Outlook, you can ask someone who does, including the Information Desk, to make the entry for you. Thanks for doing this. It helps us all. Library Hours – Exams and 24/7May 8th, 2009 by Elin WaagenSubmitted by Elin Waagen Extended library hours begin this Sunday night (technically Monday). Trial access to IMF statistical databasesMay 8th, 2009 by Brenda EllisSubmitted by Brenda Ellis Wonder how we get new library databases? Librarians are inundated by offers for new databases as well as offers to migrate existing resources to online versions or new platforms, which we investigate for relevancy to the curriculum, ease of use, cost, etc. The publishers often give us “trial” access for online resources so we can try before we buy. We currently get a number of statistical publications from the IMF (Int’l Monetary Fund) in print format and/or CD-Rom. We have trial access to the online versions until May 31st. (single user access to the online should cost about the same as what we currently pay for print/cd-roms). Try them out and see if you can figure out how to use them. Comments to me are welcome. Here are the databases: International Financial Statistics These are also on the Economics Subject Guide go/econguide and the new databases/trials page go/trials Exhibit: Frances Dee and the Commodification of the Hollywood StarMay 8th, 2009 by Brenda EllisSubmitted by Brenda Ellis Axinn Center Winter Garden continuing through August 31st. Description: The process of commodification required the frequent reworking of promotional materials devoted to extending a film and its stars pervasively into the public sphere. This exhibit offers more than one hundred representative materials employed by Hollywood studios in marketing not only her films but actress Frances Dee as a star. They include the most common items — posters, lobby cards, photographs, press books, heralds, fan magazines, etc. — to the more obscure — cigarette cards, matchbooks, photoplay editions of novels, film novelizations in magazine format, study guides, playing cards, makeup kits, Coca-Cola trays, dress patterns, and paper dolls. In selecting these materials, a conscious effort has been made to document that Hollywood marketing campaigns were aimed not solely to American filmgoers but to a vast international audience, from Europe to Asia to Latin and South America, who eagerly consumed Hollywood films and their stars.
MIIS Library Acquisitions & Serials UpdateMay 8th, 2009 by pliuSubmitted by Peter Liu As part of the ongoing integration process with Middlebury, we have been looking at our respective internal work flows in technical services where need to be aligned. Since the fall of 2008, the MIIS Acquisitions Librarian, Erika Johnson (erika.johnson@miis.edu), has been using Blackwell and its Collection Manager as one of the primary book vendors. As a result, a majority of our recent book orders have being placed via Blackwell Library Services. Beginning with the Spring 2009 semester, Erika is also handling all of our serials responsibilities. In addition to overseeing the purchasing, cancellation, invoicing, receipt, processing, and shelving of print periodicals and journals (including check-in, claiming, and binding), she now also manages the authentication, activation and maintenance of access to electronic journals through EBSCO’s A-to-Z list and electronic journals service (EJS). LIS Staff Art Exhibit June 8 – 22May 8th, 2009 by Elin WaagenSubmitted by Elin Waagen Calling all LIS staff artists! The LIS Staff Arts and Crafts exhibit has been scheduled in the Main Library Atrium for June 8 – 22. Submissions are trickling in – please let me know as soon as possible if you would be interested in displaying your work. NExpress EnhancementsMay 8th, 2009 by Elin WaagenSubmitted by Elin Waagen In collaboration with NExpress partner libraries, LIS has recently implemented a couple of very nice enhancements to the NExpress service we offer. Pass the Word! Goals and Projects: What’s the difference?May 8th, 2009 by Michael RoySubmitted by Mike Roy In the upcoming months, I am planning on working with Chris Norris to develop a project directory for all of LIS that will allow us to present to ourselves and our constituents an overview of all of the projects that we are working on. In addition, I am also keen to see us improve upon our goal setting process from last year so that we also have a comprehensive list of all of our goals in a single place for us to see what we’ve committed to accomplishing in the upcoming year. In thinking about how to approach these two activities, I’ve begun to wonder: is there a difference between a goal and a project? Are there projects that can’t be described in the language of goals? Are there goals that can’t be described in the language of a project? It seems to me that they could sensibly be handled with a single list. As I envision this list of our goals and projects would let us know:
I’m interested to hear from the rest of LIS about whether or not they think this is the right information to keep track of, what differences they see between goals and projects, and what we can do to optimize the benefit of this, and minimize the cost (time and energy) of maintaining such lists. Area Directors Notes from April 30, 2009May 8th, 2009 by Doreen BernierPresent: Mary Backus, Doreen Bernier, Tom Cutter, Carol Peddie, Mike Roy, Shel Sax, Terry Simpkins We also spent considerable time talking specifically about migrating student (only) email from Exchange to Gmail, and talking about various scenarios by which this might be accomplished. Other features of the package include: * Customizable home pages Currently, we have done some preliminary testing on the migration of mail and other functionality. We also reviewed and edited the Google contract and returned it to Google for review. The ADs expressed interested in seeing the contract when it is returned. At this point we should be ready to move to the next phase of technical issues, but there are policy implications that need more discussion: support, administration of it, privacy, etc. On the last issue, the instance for higher ed partners is somewhat different than for public Gmail in that there is no advertising or data mining, and so is a presumably more secure environment. But Google may reserve the right to change this unilaterally, so that needs investigation as well. Other issues to consider: * We could enable dual email delivery as long as single sign-on is in place. Timing the potential migration of student email was also a discussed at length. Several folks expressed concern that we don’t have the capacity to do this for fall semester, and there was some sentiment to wait until December to allow us time to create a responsible a project plan and prepare. Action item: Create project team with the charge of investigating these issues, including timing, in a responsible fashion. Project Team: Chris/Tom (one would be project manager), Mark Pyfrom, Alex Chapin, Adam Franco, Jim Beauchemin, Joe Antonioli, Rick James. 2. Goals – ADs agreed to review and update 0809 Goals in Google Docs. This document will help to create the LIS Annual report. Mike would like to share goals info with FLAC 3. End of year report – Mike is shooting for a completion date of July 1, 4–5 pages long. Auditors noted that we did not have a report for last year. Much hanging of heads and looking abashed. 4. NITLE membership + DSpace annual fee – In our ongoing efforts to reduce spending, we wondered whether the NITLE/DSpace expense was useful and whether or not we should consider alternatives, perhaps support for this functionality in Drupal. No resolution thus far. 5. Tech Fair – Support considerations, preparations & requirements. – Shel will talk to Mary and Jeff after meeting – June 4th event date – requiring 15 computer stations 6. Changes to admin org structure for college – Mike will still be reporting to Tim and the administrative change should not have much impact on our organization 7. Idea: technology resource committee (like SRC or space committee) – Mike proposed establishing a committee to assist with major programming decisions. Attendees will most likely be from the College Administration. 8. Budget meeting discussion – Comptroller’s Office would like to model for budget reductions ranging from 2-20%. We all wept and gnashed our teeth at the prospect of a 20% cut. Area budgets need to be reviewed again for the upcoming AD retreat on 5/15. 9. Academic Advisory Groups – We talked about defining mutual expectations regarding issues that surface in the Academic Advisory group meetings. Items coming out of these meetings imply, at a minimum, consideration of the issue by LIS even if outright resolution is not feasible. Since Shel attends all of these meetings, he agreed to bring concerns to ADs for discussion.
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