26th
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2007
Poster Session Committee:
Jody
Condit Fagan, Chair,
Candace Benefiel, Review Panel Chair, Texas A&M University (cbenefie@lib-gw.tamu.edu)
Charlotte Dugan, Abstracts Editor, Southwest Missouri State University Library (cad315f@smsu.edu)
Reviewers:
Julie Banks,
Jeff Barber, Regina Public Library
Nan Butkovich,
Christina Desai, Southern
Mollie Dinwiddie,
Steven Johns,
Wendi Arant Kaspar,
Deborah O. Lee,
Sarah McHone Chase, Northern Illinois University
Pixey Mosley,
Maureen Morris,
Jodi Shepherd,
Carl Pracht,
Lisa Speer,
Melissa Van Vuuren,
2007 International
Poster Session Committee:
Sarah C. Beasley, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (beasleys@carnegielibrary.org)
and
Maureen Morris, Cornell University (mm342@cornell.edu)
Co-Chairs
Reviewers for Session III, Global
Solutions, International Projects In Libraries
Sarah C. Beasley, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (Co-chair)
Maureen Morris, Cornell University (Co-chair)
Patrick P. McGuire, Ed.D., C.W. Post, Palmer School of Library and Information Science
Nonny Schlotzhauer, Pennsylvania State University
Frank Xu, Brooklyn Public Library
Floor Managers:
Howard Carter, Southern Illinois University
Carmella Dowdell, Kemp Memorial Library
Gail Flatness,
Gretchen Higginbottom, California State University, Fresno
Ray James
Karen D. Jette, The University of Texas-Pan American
Sarah McHone-Chase, Northern
Pixey Mosley,
Gail Peyton,
Elaine Settergren
Jodi Shepherd,
Catherine Wagner, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
ALA Liaisons:
Laura Gallegos (lgallegos@ala.org) and Delin Guerra (dguerra@ala.org)
2008 Annual Poster
Session Application Information
Anaheim, CA: June 28,
29, and 30th, 2008
Applications for presenting poster sessions at the 2008 American Library Association Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA, will be accepted via the World Wide Web at:
http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/ala/
Applications will be accepted between November 1, 2007 and
An application form, guidelines for applying, helpful hints, and photos of sample poster sessions can be found at the website. If you don’t have access to the World Wide Web or to email, please contact Jody Condit Fagan, Chair, at 540-568-4265 (telephone) for instructions on how to apply.
Applicants will be notified by March 31, 2008 whether their poster sessions have been accepted for presentation at the conference. Poster sessions will be presented on June 28, 29, and 30th at the conference.
History:
Poster sessions were introduced to the American Library Association at its 1982 Annual Conference in Philadelphia. They are an effective forum for the exchange of information and a means to communicate ideas, research, and programs.
Poster sessions may present any of the following:
Ø a report of a research study
Ø an analysis of a practical problem-solving effort
Ø a description of an innovative library program
Poster sessions cover a broad range of subjects grouped according to such areas as management, collection development, technology, reference, and library services to special groups.
Poster session participants place materials such as pictures, data, graphs, diagrams and narrative text on bulletin boards. During their assigned time periods, participants informally discuss their presentations with conference attendees.
Session
I: The Collectors: Posters on Acquisitions, Cataloging and Classification,
Collection Development and Management, History, Serials, and Special
Collections
SESSION II: The
Educators: Posters on Distance Learning, Continuing Education, Library
Education, Literacy, and Research Methodology
Session III: Global
Solutions, International Projects in Libraries
Session IV: Outreach:
Posters on Interlibrary Cooperation, Library Servies to Special Groups, and Reference
and Information Services
Session V:
Connections: Posters on Cooperation with Non-Library Institutions and Agencies,
Interlibrary Loan, Library Use Instruction, and Public Awareness
Session VI: Infrastructure:
Posters on Buildings and Equipment, Management, and Technology
SESSION I: THE
COLLECTORS: POSTERS ON ACQUISITIONS, CATALOGING AND CLASSIFICATION, COLLECTION
DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT, HISTORY, SERIALS, AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
I - 1 Climbing Capitol
Hill: Steps to
Nancy Beals,
The successful development and implementation of an electronic resources
management system depends on many key factors or “steps.” Some of these key
factors include: determining user groups and their needs, the implementation and
technical issues, testing of the system, how the system will be used, setting
future goals for the system’s use and acknowledging other outside
considerations that need to be addressed regarding the deployment of an ERM
system. Within each of these factors lies critical decision making and constant
goal evaluation. This poster session will illustrate how
I - 2 Bite the Bullet: A Government
Documents Collection Review Success Story
Helen Anderson, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
(handerson@library.rochester.edu)
Brenda Reeb, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (breeb@library.rochester.edu)
As government information migrates online and with space at a premium,
librarians are asking what to do with their substantial print collections. In
six months, staff at the
I - 3 Research Is More than
Kristine Antkowiak, Purdue University Calumet,
In recent years much has been written on the Millennial Generation, individuals
who were born between 1976 and 1996, and much time has been spent discussing
the learning styles of this generation. Overall, students of this generation
are described as preferring to learn in groups and experientially and prefer
viewing or using media to traditional reading. Additionally, they are used to
and expect immediate results and gratification. Members of this generation are
a large segment of the population. At Purdue University Calumet in the
2005/2006 academic year, over 68% of the undergraduates were part of the
Millennial Generation. How should libraries create collections that will serve
this generation? This poster session will show materials and technologies
libraries can add to their collections that will make collections more responsive
to this generation and reveal the needs and preferred materials of the
Millennials. The results of surveys of Purdue University Calumet students and
library usage and circulation statistics will be presented in chart and graph formats.
I - 4 Metadata Usefulness
Evaluation
Judy Jeng, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ (jjeng@njcu.edu)
This study evaluates metadata usefulness of the Moving Image Collections
(http://mic.imtc.gatech.edu/) using FRBR’s identified four tasks (find,
identify, select, and obtain) as a framework. The study involves two online
surveys, one experiment, and one formal usability test. A total of 138 subjects
participated in this study from April 2003 until July 2004. The study uncovers
what metadata fields are useful in different stages of information retrieval.
Subject Headings is ranked the most useful field to Find an item, Title is the
most useful field to Identify an item, Access Restriction is the most useful
field to Select and to Obtain an item. This study found what information is
“enough” for each of the user tasks. FRBR has attracted great attention in
cataloging community. However, the library literature has centered on its
entity-relationship model. This study identifies core elements of bibliographic
records for moving images.
I - 5 Out of Storage and
into the Classroom: Revealing the Spencer
Holly Mercer,
This poster will introduce a
I - 6 Enhancing Access to
Print and Electronic Journals
Maureen James, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Ottenheimer Library,
Little Rock, AR (mejames@ualr.edu)
Donna Rose, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Ottenheimer Library, Little Rock,
AR (dkrose@ualr.edu)
The
I - 7 Construction of a
Conceptual Structure as a Mediator between MARC and FRBR
Seungmin Lee, Bloomington, IN (seungmin@indiana.edu)
Elin Jacob, Bloomington, IN (ejacob@indiana.edu)
Currently, both MARC and FRBR have faced with problems in describing
information resources. MARC is limited in describing the dynamic nature of
information resources because of its rigid and single-layered linear structure.
FRBR does not provide sufficient descriptive elements to fully represent
bibliographic entities, although it can support the representation of
multi-layered characteristics of information resources. This research has
constructed a conceptual structure that can connect between the heterogeneous
systems of MARC and FRBR to make up for these weaknesses. The proposed
conceptual structure functions as a mediator between MARC data elements and
FRBR attributes. It is not intended to describe specific information resources
but to provide a set of core bibliographic elements. Elements in the conceptual
structure can be connected to both the MARC and FRBR because these elements
were extracted from the core elements contained in the MARC and FRBR systems.
If an element in the proposed conceptual structure can be connected with any of
the corresponding MARC data elements and FRBR entities/attributes, a user can
utilize MARC for detailed descriptive elements and FRBR for representation of
bibliographic relationships. Therefore, an element in the conceptual structure
can indicate both detailed descriptive elements and bibliographic
relationships.
I - 8 Librarians Take
Action: Ange Milner, the American Library Association and the Great War
Katharine James,
In 2007,
I - 9 Current FRBR Model
Implementation Efforts and Issues in Library Catalogs
Yin Zhang, Kent State University, Kent, OH (yzhang4@kent.edu)
Athena Salaba, Kent State University, Kent, OH (asalaba@slis.kent.edu)
Since its inception, Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
(FRBR) has been embraced by library communities and is shaping the direction of
future cataloguing rules, standards, and consequently, library practice and
system development. In particular, the FRBR model was developed considering
user tasks, which offers great opportunities for creating retrieval systems
that better support user information seeking. However, FRBR is essentially a
conceptual model open to a variety of interpretations and implementations.
Current FRBR implementation efforts have been largely exploratory in nature. A
systematic review of current implementation efforts will be helpful for future
development. This presentation is based on an extensive review and survey of
current FRBR implementation efforts in online catalogs, including working
systems or prototypes as well as other related efforts. It will summarize the
implementation efforts in the following major areas: purpose, FRBR model focus,
collection, record creation or conversion, interface and display, system
architecture and other system detail, and user testing. In addition,
implementation problems, issues, and possible solutions will be presented and
discussed. Finally, recommendations for future developments will be suggested.
I - 10 Money Doesn’t Grow on
Trees: Tips for Electronic Collection Development
Apryl Price,
Most libraries, whether academic, public, or special, have a collection of
electronic resources, and the demand is rising. Unfortunately, many libraries
cannot afford to pay the outrageous fees that are charged for research
databases and other online resources. This poster session will provide
information on the advantages of electronic resources, and present tips for
building a strong electronic collection with a budget that is not growing with
collection needs. The tips were gathered from a review of literature about the
collection development of electronic resources at other academic, public, and
special libraries. Several research databases were searched to locate
literature on electronic collection development. A review of these articles
provided numerous methods for building a collection of electronic resources for
little or no money. Additionally, some of the methods utilized at
I - 11 How to Get More with
Less: Cooperative Collection Development
Jennifer Carroll, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, NH
(Jennifer.Carroll@unh.edu)
Tracey Lauder, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, NH
(Tracey.Lauder@unh.edu)
Judith Brink, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, NH
(Judith.Brink@unh.edu)
Academic libraries struggle to meet user needs for e-resources while
continuing to provide a rich monographic collection to traditionally book-based
disciplines. Consortia will play a major role in how scholarly collections are
shaped in the future by working across institutions to eliminate unplanned
duplication and capitalize on the uniqueness of our individual collections. How
does a cooperative collection development effort begin in a consortium made up
of 19 libraries using different ILS systems? Slowly and carefully! The Boston
Library Consortium (BLC) is piloting a cooperative collection project in music
to reduce unwanted duplication and increase uniqueness among the collections in
participating libraries. Using a shared approval plan profile with Yankee,
selectors see what their colleagues are buying at the point of ordering by
using GobiTween. This poster session will track the evolution of this BLC
project, describe the challenges realized and opportunities discovered, while
highlighting future cooperative collection development plans for microforms,
the social sciences, and the subject of art. Attendees will learn from our
experiences and leave with practical ideas they can apply to their own
cooperative collection development projects.
I - 12 Serials on the Move!
Large-Scale Serial Redirects in the Academic Library
Xan Arch,
As research libraries searching for better service consolidate their
business with large vendors, it is increasingly necessary to transfer, or
“redirect,” large batches of serial titles simultaneously. Drivers for such a
redirect may include a library-issued “request for proposal” (RFP) for a serial
vendor that can meet certain criteria or the sudden bankruptcy of a library
vendor. How can a library streamline a major redirect project? In 2005,
Stanford University Libraries redirected approximately 6,000 serial titles
totaling $3 million annually. The project took place over a three-month period
but the total process and effects of the transfer did not become clear until a
full subscription cycle was complete. This poster will illustrate procedures
used to communicate title information to the new vendor and will include
diagrams of redirect workflow. Presentation will detail solutions to various
problems, including lapsed titles, delayed publications, and journal packages.
Additionally, various challenges associated with insuring uninterrupted access
to transferred electronic journals will be displayed.
I - 13 Native American
Literature in Collection Development
Christopher Shaffer, Troy University-Dothan Campus Library, Dothan, AL
(shafferc@troy.edu)
Connie Stovall, Virginia Tech
Developing a collection of books that serves and educates all aspects of a
community is a daunting task for any library. One area that is often overlooked
is developing a collection of Native American literature. This poster session,
based on a paper to be presented in February, 2007 at the national conference
of the National Association of Native American Studies, examines best practices
for collecting and weeding materials in this field. It also confronts many of
the excuses librarians offer who choose not to develop collections in Native
American literature and refutes those arguments. The experience of Native
Americans is crucial to understanding American history. Furthermore, as with
any ethnic literature, it gives a voice to a segment of society that might
otherwise not be heard. There is also a wealth of children’s literature being
published today that examines Native American culture and is a valuable
addition to any collection. Through charts, photographs, and other imagery I
will provide examples of Native American literature that would be well suited
for both public and academic library collections, and also show the importance
of including such works in a collection.
I - 14 If You’ve Got It,
Should We Keep It? De-selecting Low Use Serials Using WorldCat Collection Analysis
Mary Aagard, Purdue University Libraries,
Like most academic libraries, the Purdue University Libraries face shelving
shortages in both the active and storage collections. As the storage facility
reaches capacity, what approach should the Libraries take to find more space?
This poster session presents the findings of a 2006 summer internship project
that used WorldCat’s Collection Analysis (WCA) software to analyze serial
holdings in selected subject areas and to develop criteria for de-selecting low
use and/or short run titles. The summer intern merged data exported from WCA
with data from the catalog to create serial title lists organized by subject,
language, date, and holdings. Each title was compared to four consortial
benchmark institutions to identify duplicate holdings so that when subject
bibliographers reviewed the final lists to make withdrawal decisions, partner
institutions’ holdings formed one of the decision points. After the withdrawal
decisions had been made, the intern worked with colleagues at those benchmark
institutions to offer them de-selected titles they may have interest in
acquiring. The poster will show graphical representations of withdrawal
statistics, interlibrary loan requests for de-selected titles, levels of
collaboration with Libraries staff, and plans for expanding the project.
I - 15 Alice in Macroland:
How to Take 19th Century Children’s Literature into the 21st Century
Jane Anne Carey, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (jacarey@ufl.edu)
There is a wealth of historical, sociological, scientific, and natural
history information in 19th century children’s literature. The
I - 16 Interactive
Directions for Holding Locations in a Library OPAC
Hongfei Li, Wichita State University Libraries, Wichita, KS
(hongfei.li@wichita.edu)
Sai Deng, Wichita State University Libraries, Wichita, KS
(sai.deng@wichita.edu)
Nancy Deyoe, Wichita State University Libraries, Wichita, KS
(nancy.deyoe@wichita.edu)
This poster will present Wichita State University Libraries’ implementation
of interactive directions for holding locations in an OPAC. This new feature
can display shelf maps and specific locations in the library stacks for
individual books or other types of materials including electronic resources.
This poster will discuss current methods in the library field to display maps
for holding locations in OPAC, and how our interactive directions solution
displays holdings dynamically to the item-level. It will present how the
project evolved and the pros and cons of using holdings records versus
bibliographic records to generate the maps. It will describe the programming
logic of the interactive direction maps to handle complex shelving situations.
This poster will also address how to transfer data from OPAC display to a
processing program, and combine them with the data from ILS Oracle tables. Use
of map links which reflect this enhanced functionality will be demonstrated.
Future possible enhancements to
I - 17 Recycling MARC: Using
the Library’s Catalog to Create an “Online Resources Locator”
Vicki Grahame, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA (vgrahame@uci.edu)
Holly Tomren, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA (htomren@uci.edu)
Providing access to online resources has become a core element of academic
library websites. Keeping this access up to date has become increasingly
difficult as the number of electronic resources have grown. This poster session
will illustrate how the University of
I - 18 CJK Cataloging:
Identifying Errors and Improving Quality
Kai Yu, Texas A&M University Libraries, College Station, TX
(karenyu@tamu.edu)
Nanako Kodaira Thomas, Duke University, William R. Perkins Library, Durham, NC
(n.kodaira@duke.edu)
In recent years, the world has seen a fast expansion of CJK bibliographic
records (records that include Chinese, Japanese, or Korean script, representing
materials written in those languages). According to the CJK statistics reports
provided by OCLC, the number of CJK language-coded records has grown from
1,932,412 in January 2001 to 3,189,123 as of January 2006. The growth rate is
39.4% over the five-year period. The rapid growth of CJK resources reflects the
booming interest in business and other opportunities in
I - 19 ”Growing” Space: An
Organic Approach to Space Issues in Stacks Management.
Jackie Case, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
(Jackie_Case@uncg.edu)
Marion Ingram, Greensboro Public Library, Greensboro, NC (IngramMT@greensboro-nc.org)
Jackson Library at the
I - 20 BookFinder: From Call
Number to Physical Location
Qing Liu, StorePointer Corporation, Arlington, VA (qliu@StorePointer.com)
Madhu Patel, Arlington, VA (mbmpatel@yahoo.com)
For librarians, call numbers depict perfect paths to the location of any
item in the library. However, library patrons who are not familiar with the
library or the call number system frequently feel lost after searching the
catalog and receiving a call number. This is particularly true for libraries
with a large number of items that are divided into various sections. In 2006,
StorePointer Corporation worked with Arlington County Central Library to
develop an automated BookFinder system. BookFinder translates the call number
of an item into physical location of the item and displays the location
visually in an easy to understand map format, making it easy for library
patrons to find the items they are looking for. This poster session will
explain how the BookFinder system works and how it can be integrated into existing
library catalog systems.
SESSION
II: THE EDUCATORS: POSTERS ON DISTANCE LEARNING, CONTINUING EDUCATION, LIBRARY
EDUCATION, LITERACY, AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
II - 1 Is an MLS THAT Necessary? A Longitudinal
Study of the MLS in College &
Research Library News Job Ads
Marybeth Grimes, Mississippi State University Libraries, Mississippi State, MS
(mgrimes@library.msstate.edu)
Paul Grimes, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS (pgrimes@cobilan.msstate.edu)
Casual empiricism suggests that the importance of the MLS for academic
institutions has eroded over time by technological change and innovation, and
that research libraries place a higher premium on specialized academic
disciplines relative to competency in general library skills taught in library
schools. We looked at job advertisements from the College and Research
Libraries News (C&RLN) for the years 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000,
and 2005 to determine what educational attainment, experience, and other skills
are required, expected, or desired in job applicants. We analyzed the data
using standard statistical techniques. We have found that the results vary not
only across different categories of academic employers (e.g. baccalaureate-only
granting colleges vs. research universities), but also between academic and
non-academic employers of professional librarians.
II - 2 Think, Pair, Share
Revisited! Using Modified Cooperative Learning Techniques to Enliven the
Information Literacy Classroom
Sheridan Young, Cameron University Library,
Are you interested in using group learning techniques to improve student
learning but think you lack time to do so? Are you concerned that such
techniques might not work well for teaching information literacy concepts?
Think again! This poster identifies ways to use group learning techniques in
even the single-session library instruction class. Cooperative learning can be
defined as collaboration in an instructional setting either between or among
members of small groups of students that achieves learning outcomes. Librarians
can use teaching techniques that incorporate cooperative learning in order to
enhance student interest in and mastery of information literacy concepts. This
poster will describe how librarians can use modified cooperative learning
techniques to teach information literacy to groups of students. It will detail
ways to use techniques when only short amounts of time are available to do so.
The poster will describe ways to use the techniques to teach specific
information literacy concepts. Librarians who view the poster and read a
corresponding handout will gain ideas about ways to enhance library instruction
through the use of cooperative learning techniques.
II - 3 Smart Space: Creating
New Instructional Spaces with Smart Classroom Technology
Zhonghong Wang,
Limited space, increased demands? The increasing needs and fast expansion of
the library instruction service requires adequate space and smart classroom
technology for the successful delivery of much-needed library instruction
sessions to students in all disciplines. Often times, space and budgetary
limits impose challenges to the ever-increasing demand of the library
instruction in academic institutions. This poster session describes how the
Brooklyn Campus Library tries to create more instructional spaces for the
library instruction service through the use of smart classroom technology to enhance
the teaching and learning experience of the library faculty and students. This
graphic presentation features the challenges facing the library at a time of
change, the advantages from the newly created spaces, the feedback from various
user groups and issues still to be addressed. It features the technologies and
support provided by Library IT and its collaboration with other university and
campus units. The poster session aims to serve as a forum for library
administrators and faculty to share their experiences regarding space planning,
renovation, construction and the utilization of technology to support library
services.
II - 4 Cultivating
Catalogers through Cross-Training
Todd M. Wallwork, Lister Hill Library, University of Alabama at Birmingham
(twall@uab.edu)
Valerie S. Gordon, Lister Hill Library, University of Alabama at
Birmingham, (vgordon@uab.edu)
Many libraries have turned to cross-training as a way to provide additional
coverage, flexibility in staffing, expanded skill sets, and job variety for
staff. Although the benefits of cross-training staff in Reference have been
well documented, little study has been given to cross-training in Cataloging.
This poster presents the results of a survey on cross-training in Cataloging
departments and includes information on its prevalence and frequency, the types
of training and tasks included, and the benefits and drawbacks of this
arrangement. In addition, the authors include advice from their own experiences
with Cataloging cross-training. This arrangement provides many benefits
including opportunities for staff to broaden their horizons, build connections
across units, and get a better understanding of the bibliographic foundation of
libraries. With the approach of many retirements in Technical Services
Departments, cultivating catalogers from within your staff is an approach worth
considering.
II - 5 Decoding Letters:
Undergraduate Research Using Special Collections
Sandra Hussey, Lauinger Library, Georgetown University, Washington, DC (husseys@georgetown.edu)
Pamela Noyes, Lauinger Library, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
(noyespa@georgetown.edu)
Spurred by the Boyer Commission Report, which noted a lack of engagement of
undergraduates at research universities, there is a growing interest on
campuses to foster undergraduate discovery research, even at the lower
undergraduate levels, in order to deepen student learning in a way that has not
been achieved in the disparate courses students take throughout the curriculum.
At
II - 6 S.O.S. for
Information Literacy: Teaching Ideas at Your Fingertips
Abby Kasowitz-Scheer, Syracuse University Library,
Many school library media specialists and academic librarians engage in
teaching information literacy skills on a regular basis. Creating lessons that
are motivating, innovative and effective, however, can be challenging. “S.O.S
for Information Literacy” is a nationally-funded online database of
high-quality; motivating lesson plans, teaching ideas, and multimedia resources
to assist K-12 and academic librarians in teaching information literacy skills.
Items are linked to ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher
Education, the AASL/AECT National Standards for Information Literacy, and the
McREL National Content Standards. Special features of “S.O.S. for Information
Literacy” include a web design tool for creating pages to supplement lessons;
video clips featuring instruction librarians “in action” or reflecting on
successful teaching episodes; and an online magazine highlighting innovative
librarians and information literacy initiatives. This poster session will
illustrate sample lessons and instructional materials, the search
functionality, and the item submission process through screen shots and a
computer-based demonstration. The poster will also outline project goals and
development phases (including assessment activities) and opportunities for
participation. S.O.S. is a project of
II - 7 Meeting Research
Demand in a Limited Resource Environment: Streamlining with Technologies
Doreen Harwood,
Charlene McCormack,
With increasing demand for research assistance in libraries, it has become
crucial to devise effective methods of accommodating those needs on a
sustainable basis. At the
II - 8 Beyond BI:
Information Literacy, Graduate Students, and Faculty Collaboration
Stacy Nakamura Brinkman, Miami University, Oxford, OH (brinkmsn@muohio.edu)
Bennett Jacks, Miami University, Oxford, OH (jacksbm@muohio.edu)
Shannon Van Kirk, Blue Mountain Community College (formerly Miami University),
Pendleton, OR (shannonvankirk@gmail.com)
Do graduate students know how to do research? Many academic departments
assume that they do, but recent plagiarism scandals as well as published
surveys on graduate information literacy skills suggest otherwise. Graduate
students are different from “traditional” college students—a single cohort
often spans a wider range of age, ethnicity, background education, and life
experience—and as such, it is worthwhile to consider alternatives to
“traditional” (one-shot) models of library instruction for this population. The
Design and Research Methods course in the Architecture department at
II - 9 Finding Meaningful
Research Assignments: Collaboration as a Way to End the “Scavenger Hunt”
Caroline Barratt, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, GA (ccason@uga.edu)
Deb Raftus, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, GA (draftus@uga.edu)
The
II - 10 Emerging
Technologies, Emerging Teachers: Collaborative Workshops at Simmons GSLIS
Alison Cody, Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information
Science, Lafayette Hill, PA (alison.cody@simmons.edu)
Ellen Wilson, Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information
Science, Lafayette Hill, PA (ekwilson@gmail.com)
Jennifer Lege, Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information
Science, Lafayette Hill, PA (lege@alumnet.simmons.edu)
The Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science
(GSLIS) draws students with greatly varying degrees of technical knowledge. To
even the playing field, the GSLIS Tech Lab and the student-led chapter of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T@Simmons)
created a technology workshop series. The workshops are conceived of,
developed, and taught by students and cover a variety of technology topics,
with a focus on emerging technologies. Workshop attendees gain knowledge about
technologies in a non-threatening environment, and the students who develop and
teach the workshops learn curriculum development, presentation, and user
instruction skills. This presentation will be of particular interest to those
with an interest in technology instruction and collaborative learning
experiences. Although the workshop series takes place in the setting of an
educational institution, the general principles of the series make it
applicable to other settings such as public libraries and community
organizations. This presentation details the series, its evolution, successes,
and challenges, and offers suggestions about implementing similar programs at
other institutions. The poster will demonstrate the workshop series through a
timeline, statistics, photographs, preliminary survey results, and text.
II - 11 From Web 2.0 to
Research 2.0: Findability and Searching the “Next-Gen” Web
Candice Kail, Carnegie-Mellon University, (cagkail@gmail.com)
More and more scholarly researchers are joining students from elementary
school through graduate school in searching for information contained in the
dynamic content of Web 2.0. Traditional research has clearly been altered by
digitization and online resources and continues to evolve to encompass this
potential research data. This poster session will explore how and why
librarians and researchers might want to access information contained in RSS,
blogs, Wikis, social networking sites, and podcasting, and will address
specifically how librarians can help users to access that information. As the
new generation of online information continues to expand, the vocabulary of
searching has evolved to include not only controlled vocabularies, metadata,
and natural language searching but also folksonomy, tagging, taxonomy,
information architecture, and information access. This poster session will
provide instructional information on how to mine the potentially-rich data
resources of content by using search strategies that include tag clouds and
folksonomies as well as more traditional search methods. Attendees will be able
to visually explore how Web 2.0 intersects with searching and research. A
pathfinder with sample searches will be available on a Wiki created for the
poster session as well as in a handout for poster session attendees.
II - 12 Measuring the Impact
of NIST Research: The Analytical Tools of Library Liaisons
Susan Makar, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),
Gaithersburg, MD (susan.makar@nist.gov)
Jo Ann Remshard, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg,
MD (joann.remshard@nist.gov)
Measuring the impact of government research has become critical during a
time in which globalization and other important economic, political, and
technological trends are transforming the world around us. A government
agency’s impact can be measured in a number of ways and librarians can play an
important role in measuring that impact. At the National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST), librarians within the Information Services Division
(ISD) act as “laboratory liaisons” performing literature analyses often through
collaborative efforts with NIST scientists. This poster session explores the
various strategies and methods used by ISD’s lab liaisons to study the body of
literature produced by NIST researchers and to measure the impact of their
research. Citation and publication analyses will be displayed through tables
and by other visual means. The use of citation metrics will be demonstrated not
only as a means to measure impact but also to evaluate library collections.
Various analytical tools will be demonstrated in ways that are both practical
and easy to implement. Attendees will be leave with a better appreciation for
the important role that librarians can play in measuring the impact of their
institution’s research, and with ideas, methods, and strategies for measuring
that impact.
II - 13 Incorporating
Inquiry-Based Learning into Library Instruction
Li Zhang, Mississippi State University Libraries, Mississippi State, MS
(lzhang@library.msstate.edu)
As librarian instructors, how can we motivate students to actively
participate in one-shot library instruction classes? What kinds of techniques
would create conditions that involve students, sustain motivation, and
stimulate students’ higher order thinking? This poster session will focus on
inquiry-based learning (IBL) used at Mississippi State University Libraries. In
a 75-minute education class, an instruction services librarian applied an IBL
strategy that incorporated elements of active learning, cooperative learning,
and problem-based learning. Through a set of activities that involved
discussing, generalizing, cross-connecting, judging and refining knowledge, the
librarian attempted to engage the students, help them expand their knowledge
base, and develop research skills that can be applied to various academic
studies. Supplemented by flowcharts, data, and handouts, the poster
presentation will include librarian-faculty collaboration, learning objectives,
specific teaching methods used, student activities, and feedback and
evaluations.
II - 14 A Tale of Two
Graduate Orientations
Erin Ellis, University of Kansas Libraries, Lawrence, KS (eellis@ku.edu)
Nikhat Ghouse, University of Kansas Libraries, Lawrence, KS (nghouse@ku.edu)
This poster highlights approaches to graduate-level library orientations at
the University of Kansas Libraries. Attendees will gain a perspective on the
unique and successful library and research orientations offered to graduate
students who hold assistantships. This is a key group to focus upon as they are
future professors and researchers. Through these orientations, we are paving
the way for future opportunities. Graduate Research Assistants (GRAs) are
required to have graduate-level skills in order to complete projects related to
their research assignments. GRA responsibilities often include editing
scholarly journals, preparing conferences and assisting in faculty research. To
address these needs, an orientation covers searching techniques, library
resource selection and key library services such as interlibrary loan and
citation management software. Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) are
responsible for teaching up to two courses a semester. The orientation for GTAs
is a discussion of research assignment development in collaboration with
librarians. As part of this discussion, GTAs receive an introduction to
information literacy concepts and how incorporating these concepts into student
learning can improve performance. Through graphs and sample materials we will demonstrate
the content of each orientation as well as important differences. Evaluative
information will be presented through statistical and anecdotal evidence.
II - 15 Going Where They
Are: User-Centered Design and Delivery
Susan Blalock, St. Joseph Seminary College, St. Benedict, LA
(sblalock@sjasc.edu)
Bonnie Bess Wood, St. Joseph Seminary College, St. Benedict, LA
(rouquette@sjasc.edu)
Fr. Bede Rouselli, OSB, St. Joseph Seminary College, St. Benedict, LA
(brbede@sjasc.edu)
The impetus in libraries to become “user-friendly” or “user-centered” has
produced better designed library websites and information literacy handouts,
but these protocols actually remain library-centered. The Rouquette Library
uses information design principles to produce resources that operate where
students’ hearts are—in computer media, such as iTunes. We then stream the
information to the user’s computers, iPods and PDAs. This poster session
displays and explains the evolution of bibliographic instruction on the Dewey
Decimal System from traditional printed text, to computer interactive
instruction to podcasts. Large screen shots and a wireless computer will
present new approaches to teaching the “Anatomy of a call number.” These will
show how designing in media students appreciate, can give new life to essential
material. Student participation in and critiques of each design stage show how
user-centered development, usability testing and design succeeds in producing
attractive materials that students use.
II - 16 Surviving the
Outdoors: Resources and Programming for Youth
Jane Optie, Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL (joptie2@uiuc.edu)
Karla Stover Lucht, Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL (kstover2@uiuc.edu)
With the current trends of interactive technology continually on the rise,
youth are spending more and more time online. Sometimes they are interacting
socially through these new technologies; other times they may be surfing the
Internet. While there is no problem with curious minds surfing for interesting
content or using computers for entertainment, our presentation will help
librarians who are interested in bringing the outdoors back. Our poster will
explore resources and potential programming regarding camping and/or survival
activities as well as ways of finding ways of integrating the outdoors with
technology! Our poster will include a bibliography including print and online
resources and programming ideas and schedules for speakers and activities.
II - 17 Shedding Light on
Recruitment and Retention: LIS Access Midwest Program (LAMP)
Amani Ayad, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
(aayad2@uiuc.edu)
Rae-Anne Montague, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
(rae@uiuc.edu)
Sujin Higgins, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
(sbhiggin@uiuc.edu)
Prompted by the shortage of diverse student populations in library and
information science (LIS), nine regional schools and academic libraries have
formed an alliance to promote awareness of the field and attract students from
underrepresented populations into LIS careers. LIS Access Midwest Program (LAMP;
www.lisaccess.org) seeks to engage potential students in a number of enriching
activities including a summer institute and internships. LAMP also promotes
mentoring during all stages of participation — pre-enrollment through graduate
studies and transition into employment. This poster session will share the
methods and approaches used for LAMP recruitment and retention. Charts and
pictures from activities, such as the summer institute will be displayed and
handouts will be available for those in attendance. LAMP is funded by a 2006
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant through the Institute of Museum
and Library Services.
II - 18 The Practically
Perfect Practicum: Tips for Librarians and Library Students
Ione Damasco, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH (ione.damasco@notes.udayton.edu)
Melanie McGurr, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (mcgurr.2@osu.edu)
The balance between theory and practice in the cataloging curriculum has
long been debated between library educators and library practitioners. During
the authors’ recent survey of catalogers at ARL libraries investigating the
value of the practicum experience, a majority of the respondents believed a
practicum should be a required part of the cataloging curriculum. According to
the survey results, a practicum during graduate school can provide library
students valuable experience and information that can help with job interviews
and future employment. Based upon this information, this session will provide
specific information for both the practicum student and the host institution on
how to get the most out of a practicum experience. Using information from
personal experience and the recent survey, the session will include
recommendations for successful practicum planning, from setting up initial
contacts to transforming the practicum experience into material that will boost
resumes and help during interviews. The session will also provide tips for
libraries interested in hosting practicum students. Although this session will
concentrate on graduate students specializing in cataloging, much of the
information is general and can be used for almost any graduate student
interested in completing a practicum.
II - 19 Implementing Best
Practices for Assessment of Information and Computer Technology Literacy at San
Jose State University
Toby Matoush, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA (tmatoush@sjsu.edu)
San Jose State University successfully tested over 1,000 students in 2006
using the new information and computer technology literacy ETS Information and
Communication Technology Test. Test analysis is already being used in the
current campus Western Association of Schools and Colleges assessment report
and may also be used for long-term assessment of campus general education
information literacy requirements. This poster session will illustrate best
practices for implementing, marketing, and administering large-scale
standardized information and computer technology literacy assessment tests on
campus. It will provide detailed instructions for achieving best practices for
the following: (1) how to market large-scale information and computer
technology literacy testing at a university campus, (2) how to get
administrative support for large-scale information and computer technology
literacy testing on campus, (3) how to plan for large-scale information and
computer technology literacy testing on campus, (4) how to get funding for
large-scale information and computer technology literacy testing on campus, (5)
how to integrate large-scale information and computer technology literacy
testing into campus assessment, (6) how to recruit students to take the test,
(7) how to recruit faculty to participate in testing, and (8) how to set up the
test and schedule testing.
II - 20 Connecting the
Library to International Students
Li Zhang, Mississippi State University Libraries, Mississippi State, MS
(lzhang@library.msstate.edu)
Gail Peyton, Mississippi State University Libraries, Mississippi State, MS
(gpeyton@library.msstate.edu)
In the era of globalization, the number of international students at
academic institutions is continually increasing. Information professionals must
choose appropriate marketing strategies to reach this clientele group. More
than ever, the success of a library depends to a great degree upon the efforts
that information providers make to promote information resources and library
services. Libraries need to look for opportunities that strengthen the
development of outreach services in order to increase the visibility of their products
and meet the information needs of diverse population groups. How can librarians
establish and develop relationships with various university departments and
student associations? What approaches can be employed to enable international
students to recognize the library’s services and full potential? At Mississippi
State University Libraries, a variety of outreach activities have been
implemented to promote information services and increase library use. This
poster presentation will demonstrate the Library’s successful outreach program
targeting international students, using a mixture of text, photographs, flyers,
campus newspapers, and graphs which reflect measurable outcomes.
SESSION
III: GLOBAL SOLUTIONS, INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS IN LIBRARIES
III - 1 Fourteen Countries, Over 200 Libraries,
and 365 Days Later: A U.S. Librarian’s Year-Long Odyssey throughout East &
Southeast Asia to Network Libraries
John Hickok, California State University Fullerton, CA (jhickok@fullerton.edu)
This poster session will highlight an incredible experience: During the 2005-2006 academic year, the author spent the entire 365 days visiting libraries in every country of East and Southeast Asia--from Indonesia in the south to Mongolia in the north: over 200 libraries in 14 countries! This journey was part of a California State University funded grant to outreach and to partner with libraries in Asia, studying their resources and services. The results were amazing! This session will document in large, beautiful photos all spectrums of libraries in Asia, from resource-needy libraries in rural Laos/Cambodia/Burma to ultra high-tech libraries in Japan/Korea/and Beijing-Shanghai, China. While this year-long trip focused on academic libraries, school and public libraries were documented too (for example, the Guangzhou, China Public Library...wow!) Particularly inspiring will be the display of libraries “overcoming obstacles” (libraries providing services and making innovations in spite of minimal resources). Although the author of this poster session is from the U.S., represented will be incredible libraries and librarians in Asia unable to come to the conference themselves. A sample of the photos can be seen at: http://campusapps.fullerton.edu/news/dateline/2005/hickok/index.html and http://campusapps.fullerton.edu/news/dateline/2006/hickokjournal3.html
III - 2 Peace Corps:
Supporting Sustainable Development through Libraries
Gail Wadsworth, Peace Corps, Falls Church, VA (gwadsworth@aerialmail.net)
III - 3 School Libraries, the Source for
Free Information to the Rural Chinese Community
Ping Situ, University of Arizona Library, Tucson, AZ
(situp@u.library.arizona.edu)
Although the Chinese economy is rapidly advancing, the vast western rural
regions lag far behind the national average in terms of economic growth,
education and library development. Over 60 % of 200 million grade-school
students are living in undeveloped rural areas, where school facilities,
learning resources, and reading materials are severely lacking. In rural areas,
small counties and villages do not have their own libraries, but instead
together share one library. Because the materials are often badly outdated,
poorly cataloged and are fee based, they are infrequently used. In this poster
session the author will present a brief overview of the status quo and
development trends of libraries in rural China. She will also share with
readers interesting pictures, successful stories and challenges of library
development in poverty stricken regions. Some school libraries in remote areas
have been supported or sponsored collaboratively by the Chinese government
and/or foreign donations. They not only offer improved library services to the
local children, but also serve as information headquarters for the general
communities. The free Internet and books of those school libraries open a door
for the local students and their farmer parents to improve their lives with new
information and knowledge.
III - 4 Bridging the
Communication Abyss in Rural Nicaragua: The San Juan del Sur Biblioteca Movil
as an Information Conduit
Jane Mirandette, Director, San Juan del Sur Biblioteca Publica y Movil, San
Juan del Sur, Nicaragua (Janem101@aol.com)
David Dwiggins, Dean’s Fellow for Technology Support, & Co-chair (SIR)
Simmons International Relations, Boston, MA (dwiggins@simmons.edu)
The San Juan del Sur Biblioteca, Nicaraguan’s first lending library, is
developing protocols and procedures to implement information and communication
technology (ICT) programming in San Juan del Sur and the 27 rural communities
currently served by its mobile project. Most of these communities lack
newspaper delivery, landline phone service, Internet and often electricity.
Communication tends to happen by word of mouth or other makeshift means. The
library sees technology as a way to increase the accessibility of information
to residents of these isolated areas. The poster describes early challenges and
successes encountered introducing ICT programming to library patrons, and
outlines plans with regard to solar and battery power, telecommunications,
instruction, and other aspects. Photos and video showcasing programs targeted
at children and young adults are included. The presentation highlights key
decision-points for this type of project, including cost/benefit analysis,
hardware and software considerations, power issues, telecommunications
infrastructure, and educational needs. It also considers appropriate evaluation
methodologies and explores collaborative solutions. Handouts include a list of
these key decision points, highlighting the unique considerations for ICT
implementation in developing countries.
III - 5 Digitalizing Past,
Creating Future: On-line Archives of Taiwan Heritage (OATH)
Jieh Hsiang, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (jhsiang@ntu.edu.tw)
Hsueh-hua Chen, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (sherry@ntu.edu.tw)
Chiung-min Tsai, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (tsaibu@ntu.edu.tw)
National Taiwan University (NTU) is the oldest research institute devoted to
diverse fieldworks and houses one of the most comprehensive records of natural
and cultural history in Taiwan. Since 2002, NTU has initiated a digital project
for archiving the research heritage in order to preserve and to broaden public
access to the legacy holdings. It is a collaborative effort from the University
Library and Museum Systems, involving a wide variety of content and data types,
reflective of the many research specialties in the university. Intensive
information technology and resource-sharing information systems have been
utilized to achieve interoperability and to bring coherence to digital
preservation services. With the creation of digital content and databases from
anthropology to zoology, there are now more than 60,000 valuable collections
available from the OATH service. It not only allows university faculty and
students drawing upon the collections to enrich learning and researches but
also serves a wider audience. This poster session will demonstrate the
implementation and application of this project, as well as its impacts on
academic society and its services to the public.
III - 6 Touched by ALA:
Sharing Success Stories on Library Developments in Azerbaijan
Muzhgan Nazarova, Vice President of Azerbaijani Library Association/PhD
Candidate GSLIS UIUC, Urbana, IL (nazarova@uiuc.edu)
This poster will highlight the major accomplishments in library development
in Azerbaijan for a last decade. The first library association founded in
Azerbaijan in 1999 was a result of a partnership with ALA. The library
professionals of Azerbaijan, along with their colleagues from Armenia and
Georgia, had an exclusive chance to participate in the series of ALA-conducted
workshops on the role of library associations and consortiums, library
advocacy, and libraries in civil society in capital cities Baku, Tbilisi and
Yerevan. Librarians describe the role of ALA as empowering and eye opening. A
general overview of the following projects/activities/events which are
considered the main cornerstones in library development in Azerbaijan for a
last decade will be included in the poster: Information Resource Center for
Librarians and Information Professionals (IRTCL); The National Library of
Azerbaijan, the first automated library in the country; regional libraries as
community centers; changing library education, including a new MLS program and
curriculum makeover; Regional Training Center for librarians; international
interlibrary loan program; access to online databases and collection
development projects; and a first
library consortium. The poster will demonstrate how ALA’s mentorship and
training has helped the Azerbaijani libraries to make outstanding
accomplishments for such a short period of time and raise the awareness of the
recent developments in the libraries of this region.
III - 7 Gathering Indigenous
Oral Histories Outside of Our Own Communities and Their Place in Research
Libraries: A Maori Approach
Taina Tangaere-Mcgregor, Oral History Centre, Alexander Turnbull Library,
National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga, Wellington, New Zealand (taina.mcgregor@natlib.govt.nz)
On ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) day in New Zealand, people
throughout the country attend memorial services for soldiers who fought in
World War II and following campaigns. Every year we acknowledge that the presence
of World War II veterans at these occasions is dwindling. A team of students,
supported by a core group of veterans, wives and widows, undertook an oral
history project to record the stories of veterans of C Company 28 Maori
Battalion who served in World War II, and their extended families. This poster
session focuses on two aspects of the project: (1) it demonstrates how the team
of students managed the project working among seven iwi (tribes) and (2) it
demonstrates how the services of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National
Library of New Zealand – Te Puna Mauranga o Aotearoa support iwi and hapu
(tribe and sub-tribe) projects.
III - 8 Information Seeking Behavior of International vs. American Graduate Students: A User Study
Yin Liao, Georgetown University Law Library (yl233@law.georgetown.edu)
Mary Finn, Virginia Tech, (maryfinn@vt.edu )
This session is a comparative study that investigated how graduate students from diverse ethnic groups discover, select, and use various information sources. We obtained insights into international graduate students' information seeking behavior, especially its similarities and differences compared with the information locating patterns used by American peers.
III - 9 Understanding
Students and Faculty Here and Abroad: Similarities in American and Chinese
University Education and Libraries Overshadow Differences
Julia Martin, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH (julia.martin@utoledo.edu)
Frank Bove, University of Akron, Akron, OH (fjbove@uakron.edu)
Even though stark contrasts exist between Chinese and American culture and
politics, academic librarians on both sides of the Pacific wrestle with many of
the same issues. This presentation brings together the experiences of a
librarian who taught for two years in China and another librarian who visited
several Chinese libraries through an ACRL delegation to China. Like their
American counterparts, Chinese academic librarians struggle with the impact of
digital technologies on physical and fiscal resources, strive for innovative
ways to arm faculty and students with information literacy skills and seek
creative ways to do more with less. Underlying some of the similarities in
American and Chinese libraries are the similarities in education. A lack of
funding is an overarching theme that affects the availability of books,
specialized databases, and computer access for students, severely limiting
opportunities for study outside the assigned textbook and classroom. A lack of
student familiarity with the research process including report formats, journal
databases, and a love of the Internet are near mirror images. A general lack of
knowledge of and interest in library resources also pervades the faculty on
each continent.
III - 10 Healing the Wounded
Hearts in Libraries: The Rise of Bibliotherapy Programs in Public Libraries in
South Korea
Duk Hyun Chang, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea
(dchang@pusan.ac.kr)
Korea has achieved a remarkable economic growth after World War II. Despite
the higher living standards due to this rapid development, social problems such
as environmental problems and economic equity have been raised. Included in
these and recently highlighted are psychological problems such as stresses and
anxieties which may be common in modern developed societies. Libraries in South
Korea pay attention to this situation. It is widely accepted in library
community that the library may re-establish a social meaning through playing an
active role in solving social problems. The establishment and the flowering of
bibliotherapy programs in South Korean libraries is a good example. These
programs that originally started in several public libraries in Busan and
vicinity area are nowadays widely applied in other public libraries. They
organize such programs for housewives, young adults, senior citizens, etc.
Librarians with legitimate certificates are responsible for lectures and lead
discussions. This movement has been transferred to university libraries. Pusan
National University, for example, set up a program for university students who
are suffering from academic achievement and job-finding stress. This paper
tries to shed light on spreading bibliotherapy programs in the South Korean
libraries as illustrating the reasons of recent success.
III - 11 Te Roopu Whakahau:
Maori in Libraries and Information Management, the Indigenous Model
Eddie Neha, Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand (eddie.neha@twoa.ac.nz)
Te Roopu Whakahau is regarded as the indigenous library Association of New
Zealand. The poster session will go through its formation, history, importance,
legal status, partnerships, goals and objectives. Six members/whanau of the
group will present personal experiences of their time within Te Roopu Whakahau
and also the value they place upon being part of a group/whanau which shares
their cultural values as well as their professional ideals. These presentations
will be complimented through performances in waiata (song), haka (actions),
power point, video and audio. Presentations will also take in images, talk and
footage from the 2007 Te Roopu Whakahau Hui-a-Tau (Annual Conference) and past
Hui-a-Tau. Having been the first indigenous group to hold the IILF, Te Roopu
Whakahau are a guiding light within the indigenous library community forming
long lasting relationships with Indigenous peoples worldwide.
III - 12 Creating a New
Collection with a New Way of Thinking: The Digital Project of Taiwan-Related
Archives in Ming and Ching Dynasty
Jieh Hsiang, National Taiwan University Library, Taipei, Taiwan
(jhsiang@ntu.edu.tw)
Wan-Jung Chiu, National Taiwan University Library, Taipei, Taiwan
(otter@ntu.edu.tw)
The systematic collection analysis as well as publication of Taiwan-related
historical documents has been neglected compared with other countries for a
long time. The Council for Cultural Affairs was aware of the situation and
assigned the National Taiwan University Library to undertake a three-year
project “The Digital Project of Taiwan-Related Government Archives in Ming and
Ching Dynasty” thru 2003 to 2005. In this Project, the Library cooperated with
historical scholars to: (1) collect government archives of Ming and Ching
dynasty which are scattered in various libraries and archives; (2) to analyze
and choose Taiwan-related parts from those documents; (3) to create metadata;
and (4) to do full-text key-in and add punctuation. The full-text key-in is a
must-do job because Chinese OCR software does not work properly with
manuscripts. Within three years, the Library achieved of full-text key-in and
punctuation of thirty-two million words and created thirty-six thousand
metadata records. The purpose of this poster session is to report workflow,
operation regulations set by the project, the efficient method applied in the
quality control of manual full-text key-in, and the outcome of the project.
III - 13 National Digital
Archives Plan of the National Central Library in Taiwan
Weng-lu Wang, National Central Library, Taiwan (R.O.C.), Taipei City, Taiwan
(director@ncl.edu.tw)
Chien-cheng Sung, National Central Library, Taiwan (R.O.C.), Taipei City, Taiwan (tang@ncl.edu.tw)
Wei Peng, National Central Library, Taiwan (R.O.C.), Taipei City,
Taiwan (pengwei@ncl.edu.tw)
The National Central Library in Taiwan has initiated a pilot nationwide
digitization project – the NCL National Digital Archives Plan
(http://readopac.ncl.edu.tw/ndap/en/index.htm), initially covering the period
from 2002 to 2006. The goal of this project is to improve the preservation and
utilization of local historical archives, newspapers, journals, periodicals and
rare books held in the NCL. The purpose of digitizing the archives is to
preserve the library’s documentation and to provide academics and the cultural
industry with resources for research, education, and production. By digitizing
these archives, it is possible for the library to improve knowledge and
information sharing between institutes and to establish standard procedures for
the databases of local historical archives. After five years of effort, many
valuable archives have been digitized and people throughout the world can
search and browse them through the website of the NCL (http://www.ncl.edu.tw).
In view of the NCL’s extensive experience with digitizing Chinese rare books,
the U.S. Library of Congress now has a collaborative project on digitization of
the Chinese rare books with the NCL.
III - 14 Digital Library of
the Caribbean: Crossing Borders
Catherine Marsicek, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
(marsicek@unm.edu)
This poster session will introduce the development and the collections of
the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), a project currently funded by the
U.S. Department of Education Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign
Information Access (TICIFA). dLOC is a multi-institutional and collaborative
international digital library, delivering research resources about the
Caribbean in English, Spanish and French. dLOC crosses geographic, cultural and
linguistic boundaries and serves as an umbrella for digital projects and
collections from and about the Caribbean that might exist in isolation at a
single institution. It delivers a critical mass of resources in a single space
that tell a regional story. Much of the success of this digital library is
based upon the governance structure as well as upon advances in technology. The
dLOC initiative is a collaborative model that can be replicated to develop
other multi-institutional and international projects.
III - 15 National Mission
for Manuscripts (NMM) and Preservation of Rare Manuscripts
Trishanjit Kaur Thandi, Punjabi University, Patiala, India
(trishan29@yahoo.co.in)
India is a country of ancient civilization with long and rich history. It is
evident from this fact that almost 5 million manuscripts are known to be in
existence in different libraries, museums and personal collections throughout
the country. These manuscripts contain wealth of information on diverse
subjects. These manuscripts are lying not only in libraries but also in
temples, mosques and villages. There is need to identify and document them.
Hence, to save these treasures, the National Mission for Manuscripts, a five
year project, was launched in India in 2003. Under this program, 3000 rare manuscripts
at the Central State Library Patiala city that were in bad shape have been
saved. The poster will give a glimpse of preservation of these manuscripts.
III - 16 ALCTS on the Global
Scene: Re-visiting Our Past and Looking to the Future
Margo Warner Curl, The College of Wooster Libraries, Wooster, OH
(mcurl@wooster.edu)
Sha Li Zhang, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Libraries,
Greensboro, NC (slzhang@uncg.edu)
With the rapid expansion of the global village, U.S. libraries have become
increasingly involved with international activities. On the occasion of the
celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Association for Collections and
Technical Services (ALCTS) at the 2007 ALA Annual Conference, the ALCTS
International Relations Committee (IRC) has gathered facts, testimonies,
photos, and other artifacts to showcase the contributions that ALCTS and its
members have made to advance library services in the world arena. These
activities include: training sessions, workshops, lectures, and programs
sponsored by ALCTS and conducted by its members to advocate for standards on
cataloging management, preservation, and digitization projects world-wide;
teach advocacy and share information policy on uniform access to library
resources; introduce landmark documents through working groups and standing
committees with IFLA and other world organizations on world-wide authority
control, codes, and best practices; translate MARC21, AACR2, and DDC into many
languages that are being used by many developing countries, and promote
international collaboration through the sharing of catalog records. The poster
session will include charts, pictures, copies of some original documents, and
other visual items to make it informative and attractive.
III - 17 Sister Libraries – Assessing
Success
Patrick Sullivan, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
(sullivan@mail.sdsu.edu)
Rebecca Miller Banner, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
(rmiller2@emporia.edu)
Sister libraries exist in a number of different regions, but the assessment
of their success is hard to ascertain. In addition to reviewing some of the
possible criteria for evaluation of these partnerships, the presenters will
also discuss the benefits for your library of establishing a Sister library relation
and the basic process. Whatever part of the world interests you, there are sure
to be partner libraries willing to work with you. Representatives from some of
the successful relationships will be present during the poster session to
discuss their successes and challenges. Ms. Miller will also be reviewing some
of her work in the area of the American Bulgarian Library Exchange (ABLE)
project. If you’re interested in where the Sister library initiative within ALA
is headed please stop by the booth to hear the latest news.
III -
18 Information in Life: Exploring the Model of
Everyday Life Information Behavior of Early Retired Teachers in Taiwan
Chen-Yun Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
(r92126009@ntu.edu.tw)
Shan-Ju L. Chang, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
For the sake of political factors, more and more teachers in Taiwan choose
to take early retirement from their job. In the previous studies discussing
this subject, researchers focused on the daily life of the retired teachers,
mainly in domains outside of library and information science, such as
psychology, sociology, and education. The purpose of this research is to
explore the information behavior of everyday life of those early retired
teachers in Taiwan and the role and the meaning of information in their
everyday life as well. This research is analyzed based on the model of Every
Life Information Seeking (ELIS) proposed by Savolainen in 1995 for research
framework. The research method of participant observation is adopted. The
anticipant value of this research is to share useful information for
information- related providers and to know more clearly about the model of ELIS. The poster will
be presented in a story-telling style with graphic illustration of important elements
in the story.
III - 19 Advanced Collection Development
Project at Texas A&M University at Qatar Library (TAMUQL) with the
Partnership of YBP Library Services: 6,500 Miles of Physical Distance Is Just a
Click Away
Suzanne Gyeszly, Texas A&M University at Qatar Library, Doha, Qatar
(suzanne.gyeszly@qatar.tamu.edu)
TAMUQL successfully completed an advanced collection development project
with YBP’s partnership. The goal was to enhance TAMUQL’s engineering
curriculum, graduate and research programs with the newly acquired monographs,
maps and e-books. ISBNs of existing collections were loaded and linked by YBP
to editions of same titles to prevent duplication. Any attempt ordering a title
would prompt “Duplicate Alert” and showed “Already Owned by Library” on YBP’s
GOBI system. Librarian selected subjects and call number ranges and
questionnaire sent to Program Coordinators and faculty members requesting their
needs related to curriculum and research during 2007-09. YBP staff created
subject folders in GOBI they included books which were appropriate to TAMUQL’s
collection interests. TAMUQL’s project coordinator used the folders to select
titles and placed orders in GOBI, and then the books arrived shelf ready. A
unique feature was that TAMU, College Station and TAMUQ, Doha shared a catalog
based on Endeavor’s Voyager system. After books were shipped to Qatar, YBP
notified TAMU’s cataloging staff with a manifest of the titles. Using OCLC’s
PromptCat, TAMUL downloaded the records which appeared in TAMUQ catalog
immediately. During few months almost 3,000 titles were selected, ordered,
processed, and received in Qatar. This project was carried out with only one
librarian and one staff in Qatar.
III - 20 The Second
Generation of RFID Technology at the National Library of Singapore
Connie Haley, Chicago State Library, Chicago, IL (chaley@csu.edu)
Sung Kuan, National Library of Singapore, Singapore, China
(Sung_KUAN@nlb.gov.sg)
SESSION IV: OUTREACH: POSTERS ON INTERLIBRARY COOPERATION, LIBRARY SERVIES TO SPECIAL GROUPS, AND REFERENCE AND INFORMATION SERVICES
IV - 1 Academic Library Employee Perceptions
of Quality: Development of Gap Measurement Instrumentation of Internal Customer
Needs and Expectations
John Harer, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC (harerj@ecu.edu)
LibQUAL+™, a gap-measurement instrument developed for libraries, springs from the theoretical perspective that customers judge quality. However, experts in the Continuous Quality Improvement field have argued that any quality assessment effort must include the measurement of internal and external customer perceptions. While LibQUAL+™ measures external customer responses, assessment of internal customer responses remains largely a function of individual institutions using locally developed methods. This poster will report the results of a study that shows how customers judge quality by expanding the concept of customer to include “internal customers” which will be defined. It will make a distinction between assessing internal customer “needs and expectations” versus “employee satisfaction” as concepts. Described will be the study currently being conducted, its methodology, the steps in development of a Delphi panel of library and personnel experts, and a report of the results of the data gathered. The study utilizes a three-phased, iterative Delphi technique to create a priority-ranked list of statistically valid and potentially more universal items useful for measuring these needs and expectations. These measures will be displayed in rank order and analysis and conclusions based on the data provided.
IV - 2 Vital Signs: A Survey of Libraries
Supporting Journalism and Mass Communication Education
Patrick Reakes, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (pjr@uflib.ufl.edu)
Barbara Semonche, (bpsemonch@email.unc.edu), and Fred Thomsen,
(thomsen@email.unc.edu) University of
North Carolina Chapel Hill
Journalism and mass communications libraries play a critical role in support
of the educational and research functions of journalism-mass communications
programs, particularly in light of the fundamental changes in the information
provision environment that have taken place in the past decade. This study is
the first attempt at a comprehensive survey to measure the “vital signs” of the
libraries supporting all Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and
Mass Communication (ACEJMC) accredited programs in the United States. The research
includes an examination of the management models, staffing, budgets, mission
statements and research services of the libraries as well as their collections,
technologies, equipment, and facilities. It was undertaken in an attempt to
fill a gap in the existing literature, to establish a “baseline” for further
research and allow longitudinal study to monitor future trends.
IV - 3 Breaking with Tradition: College
Students’ Use of Public and Academic Libraries
Catherine Perkins, Union County College, Cranford, NJ (catperkins@si.rr.com)
Responding to the professional literature on college students’ use of public
libraries, the presenter embarked on a semester-long study of college students’
library habits. Over 270 enrolled college students were surveyed in public and
academic libraries to gauge their perceptions about the two types of libraries,
as well as how and where they conduct their course-related research. The study
revealed that librarian perceptions about student use from professional
literature and interviews with librarians contradict the reality of student
use. The study, conducted at The College of Staten Island, CUNY (a large,
public, comprehensive college), and in four Staten Island local branches of the
New York Public Library revealed that contrary to librarian perceptions, the
majority of college students using local public libraries fit the traditional
student demographic. Students’ perceptions of libraries and their collections
was startling, and their research habits within those libraries revealed a need
for better information literacy initiatives in both public and academic
libraries. Color charts revealing the surprising results from the interviews
and surveys will be presented, as well as handouts offering data and
suggestions for ways that public and academic libraries can inform students’ of
the most appropriate sources for their research.
IV - 4 Texas Two-Step:
Marketing and Measuring Database Use
Kimberly Chapman, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
(kimberly.chapman@utsa.edu)
Posie Aagaard, University of Texas at San Antonio, (posie.aagaard@utsa.edu)
This poster session describes proactive, multi-faceted approaches used by
the UTSA Library to promote patron access to specialized resources. Three case
studies explore the cycle of identifying user groups, marketing resources to
targeted users, and measuring resource use. The marketing process describes a
variety of methods used to promote resources to targeted campus groups,
including academic departments and student support services. Promotion also
occurs inside the library, through communication and staff training. The
training component exposes library staff to new resources so that they can use
their knowledge to direct users appropriately at service points. The
measurement process examines database usage throughout the marketing cycle.
Database statistics are analyzed before, during, and after marketing periods
both to discern the impact of marketing efforts on database usage and to
identify trends and patterns that can provide insight for future marketing
directions. What are the implications for marketing plans if database analyses
do not indicate any changes in database use? Learning outcomes for this session
include the application of practical marketing strategies for diverse groups,
the value of training library personnel, and the challenges and rewards of looking
to database usage analysis for guidance.
IV - 5 Biology Nights: Net
Gen Science Students and the Library as Place (and Virtual Place) for Science
Donna Braquet, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (dbraquet@utk.edu)
Due to the nature of the science curriculum, academic science librarians are
often challenged to forge relationships with science faculty, teaching
assistants, and students. “Biology Nights @ The Library” is a collaboration
between the biology librarian, biology faculty and lab instructors that
introduces students to the idea of ‘library as place,” and even more, library
as a place for science. Each Biology Night begins with a movie trailer of an
introduction to library services and biology resources. A biology themed
documentary is shown and afterwards a brief discussion is held, followed by the
biology librarian taking library related questions from the audience. However,
Biology Nights do not end there. Recent research about the learning styles of
net generation students and the explosion of social networking tools, have
taught educators that students want to reflect on real experiences and pursue
them in the virtual sphere, as well as, learn by collaboration and active
learning. The Biology Nights’ blog, BioLIBlog, allows students to find
resources related to the films, continue their discussions by using the
comments feature, and post questions and answers. Now in its third semester,
Biology Nights has had enormous success, attracting more than a hundred
students for many of the sessions. This poster will share an overview of the
program, challenges, successes, film lists and outcomes.
IV - 6 De-desk Reference:
Using Web 2.0 to Provide Services Away from the Public Services Desk
Kathryn Millis, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN (millisk@depauw.edu)
Tiffany Hebb, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN (thebb@depauw.edu)
Ruth Szpunar, DePaw University, Greencastle, IN
Generations of librarians have relied on index cards, notebooks, and file
folders to keep track of repeat questions, favorite sources, and local
information, and to track statistics. In recent years, we’ve bookmarked useful
websites, and saved files on the Public Services Desk computer. Now many of us are
quickly increasing the amount of reference we do away from the desk: in our offices,
patron offices, computer labs, dorms, community centers, the park, or a
restaurant with Wi-Fi access. We need to be able to access the information
currently stored in physical form at the desk when we’re away from the desk, so
we can continue to use it ourselves, and share it with our colleagues and
patrons. Librarians at DePauw University have begun using social bookmarking
sites like del.icio.us, Furl, and PennTags instead of just making bookmarks
that work on one computer. We’re sharing notes on a free, but private, blog.
And we’re experimenting with other Web 2.0 tools like flickr and YouTube to
share images. As an extra benefit, our posts and tags on popular web 2.0 sites
make it likelier that the general public will find reliable sources of information.
IV - 7 Meet Me in the
Street: Researching and Reaching Out to Diverse Populations
Janaya Kizzie, University of Rhode Island, Warren, RI, (jkizzie@rwu.edu)
Stefanie Blankenship (youthlibrarian@hotmail.com)
Martha Moore (mmoore@court-ri.gov)
Kerry Caparco (kerrycaparco@yahoo.com)
Ed Garcia (edgarcia1@cox.net)
Lesya Kreshchuk (kreshchuk@netzero.com)
When a library decides to serve the underserved, where do they begin? Who
should they talk to? What resources should they use? PRISM Plus scholars from
the University of Rhode Island share their insights on researching about,
communicating with, and serving diverse populations. Culled from research and
interviews conducted within local communities, this presentation suggests
starting points for and examines the pitfalls and triumphs of beginning
outreach into diverse communities.
IV - 8 Keep It Confidential!
Patron Privacy in Interlibrary Loan
Patrice Conely, Bemidji State University, Bemidji, MN
(pconely@bemidjistate.edu)
IV - 9 More Than Just “Being Where They’re
At”: Making the Most of Outreach Strategies
Eric Frierson, University of Michigan Hatcher Graduate Library, Ann Arbor, MI
(efrierso@umich.edu)
Donna Hayward, University of Michigan Hatcher Graduate Library, Ann Arbor, MI
(dlhodge@umich.edu)
We laud strategies that take the librarian out of the office and insert them
into the places where students are, both virtually and physically. But how do
we convert initial contact into a more supportive and meaningful ongoing
relationship? How can we make ourselves more than just a link on a website, and
more than just the “substitute” instructor in course-integrated library
sessions? This poster session will describe the steps we’ve taken to ensure
that our engagement with students outside the library is ongoing, resulting in
more effective and meaningful interactions. Multi-prong strategies we’ve
employed include holding well-attended informal drop-in instruction sessions
and connecting with students in their online social spaces, such as
Facebook.com. We’ve found that face-to-face interaction with students is an
effective way to engage them virtually by putting a personality behind the
links that they see online. Surprisingly, these strategies create the
opportunity to forge relationships with faculty that did not exist before. In
addition to practical tips for implementing similar strategies at your library,
we will present data from student surveys and class assignments that measure
the effectiveness of these strategies.
IV - 10 Distance Users:
Meeting Research Needs Using Interlibrary Loan
Michelle M Foss, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (micfoss@uflib.ufl.edu)
Kristine Shrauger, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
(kshrauge@mail.ucf.edu)
The libraries at the University of Florida and University of Central Florida
criss-cross the state to provide interlibrary loan and document delivery
services to meet the research needs of distance users who are located within
the state of Florida at a university sponsored research facility or
shared-campus library. A combined total of 29 distance centers and 10,268 items
were delivered to distance patrons in the year 2006. While the philosophies of
service to distance users are the same, the users and methods by which research
materials are delivered vary. This poster will demonstrate the statistical
analysis of types of services provided to distance users, method of delivery
within the state of Florida, types of research materials provided to distance
users, amount of ILL staff it takes to coordinate such efforts, and how
interlibrary services can expand its efforts to get research materials to the
distance users.
IV - 11 Answers or
Instruction? Evaluating Instruction in the Reference Transaction
Stephanie Graves, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL
(sgraves@lib.siu.edu)
Christina M. Desai, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL
(cdesai@lib.siu.edu)
When is it appropriate to teach at the Public Services Desk? How often are
reference librarians teaching? Do the students want to learn during reference
transactions? This poster explores these questions by presenting results from a
study of instruction at the Public Services Desk. Over five weeks of observation
combined with a patron survey were analyzed to measure the frequency,
likelihood, and types of instruction offered at the Public Services Desk of a large
academic library. Patron question format was also analyzed to determine its
influence on the likelihood of instruction. In addition, the researchers
developed coding methods to classify types of instruction and patron interest
in instruction based on observable patron behavior. Findings helped determine
whether observable patron behavior correlated with expressed interest in
learning and whether expressed interest correlated with actual instruction. The
poster will include visual representations of data, including charts of
librarians’ instructional methods, frequency of instruction, and user feedback.
The poster will highlight the observation matrix that was used and outline the
coding schemes developed to measure instructional techniques. This study was
the third in a series that studied instruction in various reference mediums, both
physical and virtual.
IV - 12 How “Special” Is
Your Academic Library? Library Service to Campus Administrative and Support
Staff
Cara Bradley, Dr. John Archer Library, University of Regina, Regina, Canada
(cara.bradley@uregina.ca)
Non-academic staff (including administrative, technical, paraprofessional,
and support categories) constitute more than 50% of most campus workforces and
are integral to the success of postsecondary institutions. Yet, despite their
numbers and importance, academic libraries have paid little attention to the
information needs of this portion of the campus population. This poster session
will provide an overview of the lessons academic libraries can learn from
special libraries in serving this population. In addition, it will provide a
graphical representation of North American campus demographics, and the results
of a scan of other academic libraries’ activities in this area, including best
practices. It will identify relevant and appropriate library services for this
group and suggest key campus areas for introduction of the initiative. It will
also address workload issues and propose a model for integrating this expanded
service within the existing subject liaison approach already used in many
academic libraries. Additional material for the poster presentation will
include examples of promotional brochures, web content, and instructional
materials.
IV - 13 On Wearing Three
Hats: A Knowledge Base of University, Library, and Community Information
Matthew Schmitz, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL
(maschmi@siue.edu)
Anthony Leopold, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL
(aleopol@siue.edu)
Studies have demonstrated that the traditional Public Services Desk model is in
transition. Patrons come to the Public Services Desk seeking not only reference
assistance but also information about a plethora of programs and resources
outside the realm of traditional library support. Public Services Desks are
frequently expected to be the information hub of the community or university.
In recognition of this trend, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s
Lovejoy Library has developed a comprehensive knowledge base to assist library
personnel in answering questions relevant to and outside of their normal realm
of expertise. The knowledge base enables the staff to pool information about
library procedures and resources while also providing access to records for
specific course assignments, general university policies, and events in the
surrounding community. In addition, the knowledge base has an internal
component to evaluate the usefulness of the records based on how many times a
particular item has been accessed, indicating if additional information needs
to be added. This poster session will demonstrate, by employing screen captures
and statistical charts, how the knowledge base has been useful as an assistance
tool for the Public Services Desk staff and also how the assessment feature
contributes to the knowledge base’s continued growth and improvement.
IV - 14 R U There? Looking
for Those Teaching Moments in Chat Transcripts
Frances Devlin, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (fadevlin@ku.edu)
John Stratton, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (jstratton@ku.edu)
Lea Currie, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (lcurrie@ku.edu)
The University of Kansas Libraries implemented its chat reference service in
2003 to provide research assistance to students, staff and faculty. To further
extend our hours of service, we established partnerships with three other state
academic institutions in 2004 and created the Kansas Academic Cooperative Chat
Service. Usage statistics have shown that this is an increasingly popular
service and is being used by students to get online library help. For our
poster session, we will present results based on our analysis of approximately
1,500 chat transcripts from 2005-2006 using the “ACRL Information Literacy
Competency Standards for Higher Education”. We have developed questions for
each standard to determine if library staff are using chat interactions to
instruct students how to find appropriate resources and provide them the tools
to conduct research. Our evaluation of transcripts will provide insights into
whether librarians are teaching students to determine what information they need,
how to access it, use it and to evaluate it critically. In addition, an
analysis will identify staff training needs and help us determine future
strategic directions to improve our service.
IV - 15 Where Hope Still
Shines: Perspectives on Muscular Dystrophy
Jacob Gapko, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Eau Claire, WI
(gapkoja@yahoo.com)
Funded by a Carnegie-Whitney Award from the American Library Association,
this poster session will present information on books in English that explore
the insights, social and spiritual development, personal and family challenges,
and individual successes of children and young adults with muscular dystrophy
(MD). In addition to currently available books about MD, this poster will also
present information from out-of-print, but highly relevant, books on MD
currently available through used book sources and interlibrary loan. This
information will help librarians assist teachers and other educational and
health professionals as well as children and young adults with MD, their
families, and friends. Books by and about persons with muscular dystrophy offer
readers deep insight, life strategies, and inspiration. Socialization
perpetrates a barrier of silence and ignorance about disabilities, even on the
part of children who have a disability. These books have the power to break
down this barrier and to show children and young adults that outward appearance
does not accurately reflect the spirit and abilities of the person inside. The
poster session will include photos and sample books, sample annotations for
noteworthy books, a list of books available, and background information on
muscular dystrophy.
IV - 16 Full Circle: The
Return of Professional Librarians to the Public Services Desk in the Learning Commons
Elizabeth B. Fitzpatrick, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
(ebf@library.umass.edu)
Anne C. Moore, University of Massachusetts Amherst, (annem@library.umass.edu)
Beth W. Lang, University of Massachusetts Amherst, (bwlang@library.umass.edu)
The Public Services Desk was formerly the only service point on the Lower Level of
University of Massachusetts Amherst’s W.E.B. Du Bois Library. Research,
technology and campus information questions were all answered there with
varying levels of success by librarians, staff and students. Recently the Lower
Level became the Learning Commons, and is filled with students 24/5. New
academic support service points provide expertise from all over campus to
students where and when they need it. The reconfiguration gave Reference staff
the opportunity to rethink its desk staffing model. The newly-renamed Reference
& Research Assistance desk is now staffed only by Reference librarians.
Does this model of Public Services Desk service – face-to-face, on-demand research
assistance from experts, with referrals to nearby service points for
technology, writing, advising, career, tutoring and other help – meet the needs
of today’s users? Do students seek out the Public Services Desk when they need help
with research? Are they satisfied with this model? What are the characteristics
of the questions received at the desk? Do they take longer to answer? This
poster session graphically represents and analyzes data gathered by a variety
of means, including surveys, a focus group, transcription of reference questions,
question-type tallies, and gate counts. Photos show the new model in action.
IV - 17 Taking the Library
to the Users: Satellite Reference at the University of Mississippi
Elizabeth Stephan, University of Mississippi, University, MS (estephan@olemiss.edu)
It is no secret that the nature of reference is changing. Users no longer
have to go to the library to find the resources needed for their research. The
library is becoming a place to study more than a place to do research. Business
students at the University of Mississippi are no different. With nice computer
labs, a big building, and atriums for relaxing, there was little need for them
to leave the School of Business. How do you reach users who won’t come to the
library? You take the library to them. In 2004 the business librarian at JD
Williams Library at the University of Mississippi began offering satellite or
on-site reference to the School of Business Administration. Two years later the
program is still running and considered a success. This poster session will
outline how the program was set up as well as have statistics relating to the
use of the service.
IV - 18 A Neo-Luddite
Approach to Virtual Reference: A Practical Approach to Email Reference
Assessment
Andrew Leykam, College of Staten Island, Staten Island, NY
(Leykam@mail.csi.cuny.edu)
Desire to cater to the library’s patrons need for conspicuous consumption
with faster and new technologies have been the driving force in the realm of
virtual reference. While many articles and studies illustrate the benefits and
quality of synchronous chat and IM reference, there remains a gap for those who
may be reluctant to change or are dedicated to email reference. The author
approaches assessment of the value of email reference at a midsize
comprehensive commuter college library in order to see if the current email
reference service meets user demand. Utilizing data collected over a 4-year
period, the author takes a quantitative approach to assessment through time
usage analysis, combined with an economic review of the current email
reference. Usage patterns throughout time as well as economic factors will be
graphically presented, in addition to handouts offering data and approaches to
improve email reference with minimal investment will be available. The author
presents a cautious approach to assessment aimed at improving email reference
in the face of newer technology for libraries that choose to offer the service
due to cost, staffing concerns, low volume or the communities’ needs.
IV - 19 Keep Blogging Along:
Side by Side Library Blogs
Diane Schrecker, Ashland University Library, Ashland, OH (dschreck@ashland.edu)
Innovative uses of blogs in academic libraries are infinite. From general
news to book reviews, liaison communication to library resources, blogs are
being utilized for outreach within and beyond the library. Renowned for ease of
use and ability to provide a versatile platform for information, collaboration,
and professional development, several different blogs are currently in use by
the Instructional Resource Center (IRC) at Ashland University Library. Each has
a differing purpose, but fulfills specific needs within the IRC web page. Four
different academic library blogs will be presented, The IRC Book Review Blog
(children’s literature), The IRC Blog (collection development), EDCI 131/504
Instructional Technology Blog (course support), and Library Cloud (professional
development). Integrated within the poster will be discussion concerning blog
purpose, use of labels and tags as organizational and promotional tools,
various factors contributing to success, and the necessity of evaluation. This
poster session will include reasons for selecting blogs over other available
technology, provide resources for gathering statistics for evaluation, and
detail other Web 2.0 features helpful in supplementing blogs such as widgets,
Feedburner, Technorati, and LibraryThing. Web resources, a bibliography,
handouts, and/or CD’s will be available for those interested in further
information regarding the blogs presented.
IV - 20 Turn Trash into Treasure: How
Discarded Picture Books Benefit Rural Schools
Amy Lin, Leader of book donation group of NATWA, Morris Plains, NJ
(JLin214@aol.com), Jinwan Tu, Chief Librarian, Affiliated Senior High School of
Chi Nan University, Nantou, Taiwan (tomorrow@ms1.pshs.ntct.edu.tw), Julia
Huang, and Agnes Wu
Books discarded from libraries can be trash, but if they can
be reused properly, they can be treasure. There are thousands of books
discarded from the public libraries in the USA. With careful handling, they
have become useful collections for the children of countries where English is a
major foreign language and valuable learning materials in schools. On September
21, 1999, an earthquake struck Taiwan, causing severe damage. Many schools
suffered collapsed buildings, especially in the central area of Taiwan. This event
attracted much concern from all over the world and brought donations from
different parties. The North America Taiwan Women Association (NATWA) visited
the damaged area and found that school libraries were in extreme need of help.
In addition to monetary donations and with approval of the educational
authorities, NATWA launched a project to collect used picture books for Taiwan
and helped to develop a collection of English language materials, especially in
that rural area of central Taiwan where most residents are tribes of
indigenous. This poster will present how the project was initiated, promoted,
and designed to make the most of the books,
and will also show how the connections were made linking school
libraries and public libraries across countries. The poster will also summarize
statistical status of the project as well as cooperative processes during the
past six years.
SESSION V: CONNECTIONS: POSTERS
ON COOPERATION WITH NON-LIBRARY INSTITUTIONS AND AGENCIES, INTERLIBRARY LOAN,
LIBRARY USE INSTRUCTION, AND PUBLIC AWARENESS
V - 1 Citizen Access and Government Secrecy
in the Wake of 9/11
Michael Daniels, University of Kansas, Baldwin City, KS (mdaniels2@gmail.com)
Many initiatives implemented in the wake of September 11, 2001 (e.g. the USA
PATRIOT Act, closing deportation proceedings, classifying previously public
information, expanding executive privilege and control of presidential records)
permit the executive branch to withhold information from the press and public
at its discretion. These initiatives have generated tremendous debate as some
officials support the proposals as added protections for the United States and
its citizens while others expressed concern that they give the government too
much latitude to engage in clandestine activities without the public’s
knowledge. This presentation focuses on the extent of the public’s First
Amendment right to access information, including information pertaining to
actions taken by the government in the War on Terrorism. Presented first will
be a review of representative literature and case law pertaining to the extent
of the First Amendment right of access to information. Second will be a brief
discussion of the Freedom of Information Act, the principle piece of federal
legislation pertaining to public access to government records. Third will be a
review of representative examples of government action during the War on
Terrorism that has constrained public access to information held by the
government. Finally, an attempt will be made to place recent executive branch
actions, which have been cloaked in secrecy, in historical context.
V - 2 Wedding Planning @
your libraryTM
LeThesha Harris, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL
(lethesha@nova.edu)
Beryl Johnson, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL
(beryjohn@nova.edu)
Oftentimes the library is the last place many brides-to-be think of when it
comes to planning a wedding. To help brides-to-be realize the wonderful
resource their local library could be, the Alvin Sherman Library, Research and
Information Technology Center held a mini wedding expo. Books, magazines and
audiovisual material on subjects such as wedding and event planning, etiquette,
budgeting, debt counseling, flower arranging, hair and makeup, travel, etc.
were displayed. Members of the community also took part in the expo. In the
computer lab, brides-to-be learned how to create ‘save the date’ cards, wedding
invitations and various favors. In another area of the library, a professional
floral designer demonstrated how to make a centerpiece, bridal bouquet,
corsages and boutonnières. Also on hand: a cosmetologist who demonstrated how
to do hair updos, a cake decorator, a photographer, a scrapbooker, and a
licensed marriage and family therapist. This expo was so well received that
participants asked that an individual series of workshops be held at the Alvin
Sherman Library that would take one from the engagement to the wedding day. The
‘first class’ of participants will complete the two month series of workshops
in April 2007.
V - 3 Takin’ It to the
Streets: Quantitative Literacy, Public Policy, and GIS in a Service Context
Jeremy Donald, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX (jdonald@trinity.edu)
Improved information literacy and quantitative literacy can help individuals
overcome the information costs that discourage political participation and
policy debate. Using place and public data as a touchstone, the students of a
college political science course partnered with a group of middle school
students to apply technology to a shared project. Together they learned
techniques for representing demographic and geographic data with a variety of
media, including Web 2.0 tools and GIS software. They created an online site
designed to address the information needs of the local community, with a focus
on promoting users’ information and quantitative literacy and encouraging and
facilitating the use of public information. Co-taught by a political science
professor, a reference librarian and a middle school instructional designer,
the course depended on placing students from both groups in control of digital
media, and on making them information and numerically literate in order to be
responsible producers of information in the online environment. Outcomes
centered on achieving competency in applied information and quantitative
literacies, and were measured by tests, project performance, and
peer-evaluation. This poster will use photos, charts, and examples of digital
content created by the participants to present the design and results of the
course.
V - 4 Not Knowing Was the
Worst Part: Information Needs, Information Access, and Hurricane Katrina
Donna Braquet, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (dbraquet@utk.edu)
“In one hour we went from the Jetsons to the Flintstones.” The thought provoking,
yet eerie quote by the Jefferson Parish President can still be heard on a New
Orleans radio station. It is a chilling reminder of the complete breakdown of
communication and information dissemination during and after Katrina. Watching
in horror at the events unfolding after the storm, many of us may have even
tried to comprehend what it was like for the hundreds of thousands of residents
either displaced around the country or trapped in region. But what was it
really like? What was it like to be out of touch with the rest of the world; to
have little or no information? This poster will present on the information
needs, information seeking behaviors, and barriers to information before,
during and after Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans flood. The data was
gathered from survivors through an online survey and 30 personal interviews. In
addition, this poster will share survivors’ recommendations for improving
access to disaster information and the researcher’s ideas for how libraries and
LIS professionals can play a role in future disasters.
V - 5 A Monopoly on
Millenials: Gaming in the Library
Scott Rice, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
(serice2@uncg.edu)
Amy Harris, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
(a_harri2@uncg.edu)
Games have gained recognition in the library community as a way to reach
younger patrons. While this movement began in public libraries, academic
libraries are getting into the act as well. The librarians at the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro have decided to jump into gaming in two ways: by
creating an information literacy game and hosting Game Nights in the library.
These programs have led to greater recognition for the library both on campus
and in the library community. The Information Literacy Game is an online game
with a question-and-answer format. The goal is to engage students while they
are learning information literacy concepts. The game allows one to four
students to play by answering questions in four categories (including Choose
your Resource and Avoiding Plagiarism). Web evaluation exercises round out the
skills developed by the game. In addition, the University Libraries have hosted
two Game Nights. Students can play video games with refreshments provided by
the library. The first Game Night attracted 45 participants, and the second
brought in 120. Both initiatives have received positive feedback from online
surveys, which has led to an exploration of ways in which gaming can be further
integrated into the library.
V - 6 Reconnect with your
Alumni and Connect to Donors
Elizabeth Konzak, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
(ekonzak@mail.ucf.edu)
At the University of Central Florida, the Special Collections &
University Archives works hand in hand with the Library Development office to
create lasting relationships with donors. University Archives staff began
attending alumni events in 2005 to create publicity for the collection and
encourage donations of materials about the University. Though this publicity,
the Archives connected with Alumni who have become advocates and participants
in building a collection. Faculty, staff and alumni volunteers have come in to
the Archives to identify photographs, and have donated their materials to build
a collection documenting the University. Exhibits highlighting the history of
the University served to interest the alumni community, and exhibit events have
brought new faces into the Library. By creating these activities within the
Special Collections, donors become active in the Library community, and bring
potential for financial gifts.
V - 7 A Dash of Diversity
and a Pinch of Fun: Ingredients for a Successful African-American Read-In
Kari Martin, Eastern Kentucky University Libraries, Richmond, KY
(Kari.martin@eku.edu)
Ning Zou, Eastern Kentucky University Libraries, Richmond, KY
(Ning.zou@eku.edu)
Are you seeking new ways to celebrate diversity in your library? Are you
looking for an event people can enjoy and get involved in? How about hosting an
African-American Read-In? This nationwide celebration brings individuals of all
ethnicities together to read and enjoy the works of African-American writers
during Black History Month. The Read-In is a great kick-off event for Black
History Month and a wonderful way to bring your community members, students,
faculty, staff, administrators and local leaders together in celebration of
different authors, different ethnicities and different perspectives. Come learn
Eastern Kentucky University Libraries’ recipe for a successful Read-In. Talk
directly with the staff that planned and hosted the event and walk away with
clear instructions and suggestions based on experience and evaluative feedback
from participants and attendees. You too can cook-up a great Read-In, and we
can help you get started!
V - 8 Venturing Off the
Island: Librarian Involvement in the Campus Community
Jennifer Starkey, Alma College Library, Alma, MI (starkey@alma.edu)
Angie Kelleher, Alma College Library, Alma, MI (kelleher@alma.edu)
Becoming involved in the campus community is a great way for librarians to
connect with students and faculty, and to increase visibility for the library.
Campus involvement includes many different kinds of service, such as advising
student organizations, participating in service projects, or working with
special campus initiatives such as Alternative Spring Breaks. At Alma College,
librarians are fortunate to have a climate of support for involvement in
student life and they have found that these experiences increase visibility
among faculty colleagues and build relationships with students. Participation
in campus life works to establish the library and the librarians as essential
to the life of the institution, both academically and socially. This paper will
summarize interviews of academic librarians throughout Michigan regarding
librarian involvement on their campuses. It will review the broader educational
conversation on this issue and explain the benefits of interacting with
students outside of the library. This discussion will help librarians advocate
for institutional support of participation in service opportunities, especially
those which require the librarian to be away from the library. The authors will
also offer some specific examples of ways that librarians can become involved
in student life on campus.
V - 9 The Riecken
Foundation: Building Community Libraries and Igniting a Spirit of Discovery
Jennifer Cavaliere, The Riecken Foundation, Washington, DC
(jennifer@riecken.org)
The Riecken Foundation builds libraries that ignite a spirit of discovery
and civic participation in Central America. The foundation’s mission is to
promote democracy and prosperity by advancing access to information in rural
communities. Since 2000, the Riecken Foundation has built and sponsored public
libraries in dozens of remote communities in Guatemala and Honduras. These
libraries are dynamic spaces for discovery, learning, and participation; they
cultivate new traditions of reading, citizenship, and community action.
Currently, there are more than 40 community libraries in the Riecken Library
Network. Each one is a source of infinite possibility especially in remote
regions with poor infrastructure and low literacy. The foundation promotes the
library as a community center and trains local citizens to develop and sustain
its ongoing operation. Riecken libraries offer access to computers, Internet,
magazines, books and to our signature programming in reading promotion, youth
development, and community radio. In addition to launching traditional library
programming such as story hours and book clubs, communities also leverage
Riecken libraries to help solve local problems. Examples of events organized by
library volunteers include mayoral debates, maternal health classes, tilapia
farm micro-enterprises, vocational trainings, disaster relief operations, and
teacher enrichment programs.
V - 10 A Tale of
Collaboration: The Art of the Picture Book Conference
Diane Schrecker, Ashland University Library, Ashland, OH (dschreck@ashland.edu)
Partnerships and collaborations within the university community are an
integral part of successful academic library programs. An innovative conference
venture between Ashland University librarians and College of Education professors
began during the fall of 2005, culminating in a May 2006 conference featuring a
unique celebration of art and the picture book. The Art of the Picture Book
conference theme, “Celebrate, Educate, and Appreciate,” expanded traditional
definitions and boundaries of picture book art to encompass the use of picture
books in classrooms, libraries, and other settings to teach, analyze, listen,
and enjoy. This two day conference event brought together educators,
librarians, writers, and illustrators. It included thirty six peer-reviewed
sessions, noted children’s author and illustrator key note and luncheon
speakers, and welcomed over 200 attendees from Ohio and surrounding states.
Time and talents of the conference committee were successful, promoting Ashland
University and Ashland University Library not only within the state of Ohio,
but also across the country. This poster session will detail conference
planning particulars, both positive and tensioned, as well as the benefits and
rewards this endeavor reaped for the library and university. Conference
programs, evaluations, photos, and representation of the conference web site
will be available for viewing.
V - 11 Defending Gay
Positive Literature: Strategies for Addressing Censorship
John Harer, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC (harerj@ecu.edu)
A study of the “Censorship Watch” column of the American Libraries by this
author for a two year period in 2004/2005 showed that 51 separate titles were
reported to experience some form of censorship pressure. Of the 51, 25 (49%)
had a gay positive theme, gay character, or objective/neutral coverage of
sexual orientation, two for primary grades, fourteen for young adults, five for
Senior High age students, and four for adults. This poster addresses the strategies
for facing censorship challenges of gay positive children’s and young adult
literature. The methodology and results of the study will be described,
including titles found to be censored. The opposing groups, and any relevant
evidence they provide, will be described, specifically the viewpoints that
homosexuality is either a choice or an innate trait. Statistics will be
presented showing the growing acceptance by society of homosexuality.
Strategies will then be discussed in detail, including: (1) protecting the
safety of all children by promoting tolerance, (2) providing materials for all
children including straight children of homosexual parents, (3) relating the
resource to the personal, locally specific issues, (4) use of reviews and
awards data, including the Stonewall Awards, and (5) selection policy
approaches.
V - 12 Movies @ the
Scientific Library: Fun Learning Experiences
Robin Meckley, Scientific Library, National Cancer Institute at Frederick,
Frederick, MD (meckley@ncifcrf.gov)
Using popular films in innovative ways can be an effective programming tool
in any type of library setting. The Scientific Library at the National Cancer
Institute at Frederick (NCI-F) in Frederick, Maryland, offers two successful
programs using movies. Science in the
Cinema combines a movie containing a scientific or medical theme with an
audience discussion. The program begins with the showing of a feature-length
movie. Then, a guest speaker with expertise in the film’s subject gives an
informal talk, focusing on the science in the movie, its realism, scientific
changes since the movie was made, and other interesting facts or opinions.
Finally, the audience is encouraged to ask questions and offer comments. Since
2001, more than 950 participants have attended 20 programs to learn how science
can affect all facets of our lives. Movies are also used in Rewards: A Multi-Part Learning Program.
Rewards, a collaboration between the Scientific Library and two other NCI-F
organizations, is designed to help attendees learn more about consumer health
topics through participation in book discussions, movie showings, and invited
speaker talks. Since 2003, more than 500 participants have attended seven
multi-part programs to learn about heart disease, autism, and other consumer
health topics.
V - 13 The Prevalence of Government
Resources on School Library Websites
Doug Way, Grand Valley State University Libraries, Allendale, MI
(wayd@gvsu.edu)
In 1997 President Clinton directed federal agencies to develop websites and
Internet resources that would serve as “tool(s) for teaching and learning.” The
ten years since then have seen an explosion in the amount of government
information available to students and educators. Today there are thousands of
government websites that specifically target these groups. In addition, over 90
percent of government publications distributed through the Federal Depository
Library Program are available on the Internet, making those titles once out of
the reach of school libraries just a click away at no cost. To see how school
libraries are taking advantage of these resources, a content analysis was
conducted on sixty randomly selected high school library and media center
websites to examine what government resources were being linked to from these
sites and how these sites were providing access to government information. This
session will present the results of that analysis. It will also offer
suggestions of resources for librarians working with students and educators and
examples of ways to promote government information to educators and school
librarians. The presentation will include summary information from the
analysis, quantitative information, graphic displays, slideshows of suggested
government resources and handouts.
V - 14 Connecting the Dots:
The Use of Faculty Personal Homepages in the Information Value Chain: A Case
Study
Myoung Wilson, Rutgers University Libraries, New Brunswick, NJ
(mywilson@rci.rutgers.edu)
Christine McGovern, Reed Smith LLP, Princeton, NJ (cncgovern@covad.net)
Dan O’Connor, School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, NJ (oconnor@scils.rutgers.edu)
Effective academic librarianship involves successful liaison with academic
units gained through an understanding of their academic cultures. Librarians
normally consider that priority should be given to informing faculty about new
resources and services that frequently overload faculty receptivity. A
different approach is to learn about individual faculty work and subsequently
tailor communication to specific faculty interests. This study analyzes
individual faculty home pages as indicators of recent research and teaching
activity and of the degree to which faculty employ digital tools. Faculty
personal homepages can also be studied to assess the evolution of the open
access movement and the development of institutional repositories. An informal
electronic survey of librarians, and Library and Information Science (LIS)
students at a large public research university
was conducted in the spring of 2006 in order to ascertain how librarians
(and students) use individual faculty home pages. Images of selected faculty
homepages are presented that reveal the idiosyncratic ways that faculty present
themselves. The findings also point the way toward the use of homepages as a
local knowledge base that can help academic librarians design targeted services
for individual faculty members.
V - 15 Oh, What a Difference
a [Few Years] Makes, or Does It?
Shana Higgins, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA
(shana_higgins@redlands.edu)
Susan Clayton, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA
(susan_clayton@redlands.edu)
Current literature on information literacy instruction in the Library and
Information Science field discusses how to engage students with different
learning styles, the online environment versus face-to-face instruction, and
the various stages in their intellectual development, but rarely considers the
variables between engaging undergraduate and graduate/professional students.
This poster session addresses two models of library instruction by graphically
presenting different ways connections are made with graduate/professional and
undergraduate students in the classroom. Overviews are provided of Management
604: Managerial Assessment and Development and a First Year Seminar: The
History and Culture of Surfing. Management 604 is the first course in the
Master of Arts in Management program and the First Year Seminar is a required
first semester course for incoming undergraduate students at the University of
Redlands. The typical student enrolled in Management 604 is a working adult.
Since the School of Business courses are offered at the regional campuses, the
students rely on the electronic resources provided by the Armacost Library. The
typical student taking the First Year Seminar is directly out of high school
and immersed in the electronic environment. An annotated list of selected
resources will be provided.
V - 16 Credit: One. Lesson: Priceless. Lessons for Librarians
from a One-Credit Course in Research Strategies
Ida Martinez, Emory University Libraries, Atlanta, GA (itmarti@emory.edu)
Tremendous insight into the information-seeking behaviors of undergraduates
is gained from teaching credit courses in information literacy. This poster
session will highlight rich findings uncovered by the course LSP101: Research
Strategies in Latino Studies, which has been offered for four consecutive spring
semesters as an elective at Cornell University under the Latino Studies Program
curriculum. This class contrasts with most for-credit courses in information
literacy, which are usually required and/or aimed at general populations.
Background information about the course will include how the course was
developed in collaboration with Latino Studies faculty. Illuminating
information culled from three assessment tools, the pre/post-tests, course
evaluations, and course grades, will be presented primarily using quotes,
graphs, and summary statements. Key elements of the presentation will center on
the students’ suggestions on how to teach information literacy – hence,
“lessons for librarians.” Additional information may include adjustments made
to the course over four years, comparisons to other for-credit information
literacy courses, and follow-up information from students who have taken the
course.
V - 17 Information Literacy
Skills and Undergraduate Students Reactions to the Use of Subscription Databases
in the Sciences
Lutishoor Salisbury, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, AR
(lsalisbu@uark.edu)
Usha Gupta, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, AR (ushag@uark.edu)
The global information environment, fueled by easy access through the
Internet and the “Googlization” of information, suggests that to be effective,
librarians need to take a hard look at the way we instruct users, design web
pages, and outreach efforts and the means by which we provide access to
scholarly materials. It is therefore imperative that librarians and information
providers find out why this preference is so dominant, especially among undergraduate students, and
use this information in a way to design parallel but more substantial and
credible information systems. This poster will present the results of two case
studies involving science undergraduate students to identify
information-seeking behaviors of life sciences and chemistry students in this
environment and users’ preferences for scholarly material via traditional
electronic databases and search engines, especially Google Scholar. In so
doing, it will present the findings of a classroom assessment of undergraduate
students’ preferences. We will identify the implications for improvement in
outreach efforts, the design of web-pages and offerings of databases that would
encourage life-long learning skills.
V - 18 It Came from the
Stacks! Science Documentaries @ your libraryTM
Emily L. Rimland, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (elf113@psulias.psu.edu)
Nancy J. Butkovich, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
(njb2@psulias.psu.edu)
Do you want to entice patrons to your science library? Have you considered
hosting a film series featuring scientific documentaries? Two branch science
libraries at Penn State’s University Park campus did. These weekly series
attract people from the community as well as from within the University, and
they allow us to showcase the libraries, our services, and our collections. We
will discuss our reasons for hosting the series, marketing campaigns, sources
of documentary films, patron responses, and lessons that we’ve learned.
V - 19 Program Expansion through Staffing Innovation
Threasea Wesley, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY (wesley@nku.edu)
Steely Library has supported substantial growth in reference and instruction programming over the last three years with an essentially static professional staff size. This accomplishment has been realized through innovative scheduling strategies including multiple overlapping service tiers, the combination of compatible service responsibilities for each staff member within each staffing hour, targeted hours for either immediate or referred service, and collaborative responsibility for schedule building. Benefits of this staffing system have been quickly realized with the accomplishment of: a highly streamlined scheduling process, significantly curtailing hours previously spent producing service schedules; expanded opportunities for library users to access specialized services while minimizing under-utilized staff time typical of a “just in case” staffing plan (evidenced by increased service usage and changes in user satisfaction measures); improved financial efficiency in staff utilization (supporting successful proposals for the addition of primary level staffing to increase basic service hours); and increased job satisfaction through accommodation of personal scheduling preferences for library staff members. Most importantly, these scheduling strategies have reflected an intentional allocation of resources to services of highest value for the university community. The presenter will share both the philosophy behind this approach to service programming as well as the mechanics supporting its success.
V - 20 Exploring the
Universe @ your libraryTM
Jessica Trujillo, New Brunswick Free Public Library, New Brunswick, NJ
(jtruji@lmxac.org)
In an urban community, the best efforts of the school system to excite
students’ interest in science are often just not enough. To further support our
community, the New Brunswick Free Public Library developed the Exploring the
Universe @ your library program to further expose students to the excitement
and fun of science, as well as attract underserved populations. The Exploring
the Universe @ your library program was started with an IDEAS grant awarded
from NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute. The grant enabled the
library to develop hands-on science programs with the help of Rutgers
Astrophysicists. The key goals for the program were to: (1) Foster the natural
curiosity of children in order to teach inquiry-based methods that scientists
use to explore and develop new theories. (2) Promote positive attitudes towards
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. (3) Motivate young people to
pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. (4) Augment
existing library programs with a science component. Surveys were used to
measure the interest of our patrons and the success of each program. With the
program we are able to let children to have fun while learning, as well as
attract students that do not usually attend library-sponsored activities.
SESSION
VI: INFRASTRUCTURE: POSTERS ON BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT, MANAGEMENT, AND
TECHNOLOGY
VI - 1 Study Rooms and Restaurant-Style
Pagers
Pixey Anne Mosley, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
(pmosley@lib-gw.tamu.edu); Sheetal Desai, Texas A&M University
(sdesai@lib-gw.tamu.edu); Henry V. Carter; Wendi Kaspar, Texas A&M
University (warant@lib-gw.tamu.edu)
With the increase in emphasis on group coursework, library study rooms have
become a hot commodity in many libraries with demand exceeding availability.
Depending on the library layout, number of study rooms, student population, and
integrated system, managing these rooms can be simple and straightforward or
complex and messy. There is no perfect one-size fits all model for managing
library study rooms. One major challenge is finding the balance between holding
rooms for reservations and first-come, first served. While the first-come,
first served model results in more effective resource usage (rooms not sitting
vacant waiting for a reservation to arrive), one particular problem can be
managing a wait list or line for the next available room in an equitable and
non-disruptive manner. To address this, Texas A&M is implementing an
innovative approach of distributing restaurant style pagers to students
requesting the next available room. This approach will allow them to study
comfortably elsewhere in the building’s public space until a room is available
and then page them back without disrupting other users. This poster session
will present different aspects of managing study room resources and focus
specifically on the logistics and results of implementing the pager project.
VI - 2 Finding Cross-Library
Patterns in Web Design Trends Using the Wayback Machine
Steve McCann, University of Montana, Missoula, MT (steve.mccann@umontana.edu)
Every librarian thinking of embarking on the task of redesigning a library
website should probably be asking themselves “What information do I need that I
don’t have?” as well as “What are the overall trends in library website
design?” It’s easy enough for a librarian to poll the local library community
through the use of tools such as usability studies, focus groups, surveys, etc.
But in order to look outside the local community, to the nationwide library
community, there are very few tools available. One tool that is currently
underused is the Internet Archive. By combining and analyzing the historical
data from over 400 academic libraries on the Internet Archive, the presenter
will provide insight into the design decisions taken by academic libraries from
the United States over the last six years. Findings include comparisons of the
dominant home page structures among libraries, the number and frequency of
radical design changes, trends among libraries who promote search boxes on
their top page, and more. Attendees will come away with a macro understanding
of library web design trends outside of their local community.
VI - 3 If You Make It Free,
They Will Come: Free In-House Article Delivery to Your Customers
Victoria Yarbrough, University of Arizona (yarbroughv@u.library.arizona.edu)
Kathleen Lee, University of Arizona (leek@u.library.arizona.edu)
Becky Gonzalez,
In August 2006, the University of Arizona implemented free in-house article
delivery, which was named Express Documents, for the entire university campus.
Students, faculty, and staff can request any article or book chapter through
one easy request interface which reduces customer confusion. By the end of the
first semester, Express Documents was well on its way to being the premiere service
on campus. Learn about what we did and how we did it—the methods the
implementation team used to benchmark our volume with information from other
universities, how we created a business plan, what steps were taken to
implement the Express Documents service, the technology purchased to make the
service happen, our collaboration with other teams in the library, and how we
measure our progress. Join us as we also walk through our staffing changes,
workflow adjustment, the integration of the electronic reserves service into
Express Documents, and our marketing efforts to promote the new service.
VI - 4 A Strategic Planning
Cycle for Continuous Improvement
Patricia Mileham, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN
(Trisha.Mileham@valpo.edu)
Donna Resetar, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN (Donna.Resetar@valpo.edu)
Learn how Valparaiso University librarians implemented a sustainable and
scalable strategic plan, a plan that has already impacted library services and
job positions in positive ways. This session’s authors worked together to
create the necessary structure, documentation, and overall plan to accomplish
the goal of continuous improvement through strategic planning. The structure
builds from eight planning groups. The documentation includes background
information about strategic planning, sample documents, and reports. The
overall plan is frameworked within an academic year timeline that allows groups
the flexibility necessary in an academic environment. One result of this
planning system is the sense that strategic planning is a fluid, active part of
our work environment and not an imposed structure that takes times and
resources but produces no lasting results. Our primary goal for this session is
to support librarians engaged in strategic planning and to provide insight on
how to best approach and control the process from the start. By sharing our
first steps through present status, we offer the audience an overview of a
workable plan in action that will support them wherever they are in the planning
process. Visual and documentary support (charts, a timeline, and handouts) will
enhance this session.
VI - 5 LibQUAL+TM in the
Keystone Library Network: The Challenges and Considerations of Implementing
LibQUAL+TM
in a Statewide Consortium
Elizabeth Richardson, Edinboro University of PA, Edinboro, PA
(erichardson@edinboro.edu)
Clayton Garthwait, West Chester University of PA, West Chester, PA
(cgarthwait@wcupa.edu)
LibQUAL+TM
is a popular assessment tool to assess user satisfaction with library services.
Offered by the Association of Research Libraries, the survey measures user
perceptions and expectations of library service in 3 dimensions: Affect of
Service, Information Control, and Library as Place. In addition to raw data,
the survey results are reported in a number of formats including radar and bar
charts. The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education has created the
Keystone Library Network (KLN) to meet the information needs of its students
and the citizens of
VI - 6 What Users
Need for Subject Access: Table of Contents or Subject Headings?
Youngok Choi, Catholic University
of America, Washington, DC (choiy@cua.edu)
Ingrid Hsieh-Yee, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
(hsiehyee@cua.edu)
Bill Kules, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC (kules@cua.edu)
Considering the popularity of
Google, users’ preference to search for information by keywords, and the costs
associated with controlled vocabulary, it is not surprising that there has been
much debate over the utility of controlled vocabulary. Several recent papers on
the future of online public access catalogs (OPACs) have proposed significant
changes to enhance subject access and make online catalogs a more effective
tool for resource discovery in the digital age (Calhoun 2006; Dempsey 2006;
University of California Library Task Force 2005). The Library of Congress,
with the cooperation of publishers, has steadily added table of contents
information to its records (Byrne and Williamson, 2006). And yet, there is
little empirical data on how table of contents (TOC) and subject headings (SH)
compare as means for subject access, how these two modes of subject
representation affect end user search behavior, and how they can be presented
and displayed to support exploratory searches. To investigate these issues we
conducted a Web study in late 2006 to obtain search queries from users on a
book on educating at-risk children, a book on energy, a photograph of
immigrants, and a poster on cancer prevention. Our poster will present the
first phase of the study in which we assess the retrieval effectiveness of TOC
and LCSH. We will summarize findings from our tests of user queries in the
Online Catalog of the Library of Congress and discuss the value of TOC and LCSH
for subject access.
VI - 7 Shoehorning the
Stacks: Fitting Old Collections into a New Library
Nancy J. Butkovich, The Pennsylvania State University,
Merging
VI - 8 How to Win Friends
and Increase Influence on Campus: Library Faculty and University Shared
Governance
Carol Ritzen Kem, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (carokem@ufl.edu)
Cathleen Martyniak, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
(cathy@uflib.ufl.edu)
Implementation of a campus-wide plan for shared governance at the
VI - 9 Anatomy of an
Institutional Repository: Dissecting the Metadata Process
Lisa Palmer, University of Massachusetts Medical School,
In 2006 the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical
School licensed ProQuest’s Digital Commons institutional repository (IR)
software and launched eScholarship@UMMS. The goals were to provide a showcase
for the medical school’s research, teaching, and scholarship; promote open
access to research; and make available an easy way for faculty and researchers
to promote and distribute their work. To date the Library has established five
distinct collections. Each collection varies in scope and in the way the
Library acquires the content. This variation poses many challenges for metadata
creation and maintenance. Each collection entails the establishment of record
templates, metadata requirements, workflow processes, and quality control
procedures. Ongoing work includes assigning medical subject headings and
reviewing metadata submitted with the item. With the IR, the work of Library
catalogers is more visible than ever before, especially since the metadata is
searched in Google. This poster will address these content management
challenges and successes from the perspective of a medium-sized academic health
sciences library just getting started with digitization. The poster will
include displays of records from both the administrative and end-user
interfaces, metadata requirements, and usage data.
VI - 10 Carrboro Cybrary:
Margot Malachowski, Orange County Public Libraries,
The Pew Internet and American Life Project tell us that only 32% of adults
over 65 and 53% of those with an income of less than $30,000 are using the
Internet. In 2004, Orange County of North Carolina and the Town of
VI - 11 Courier Service at
Auburn University
JP Pendleton, Auburn University, Auburn University, AL (pendlaj@auburn.edu)
Pambanisha King, Auburn University Libraries, auburn University, AL
(kingpam@auburn.edu)
As Internet connectivity grows, more library users seek to connect to
library resources from remote locations. As libraries face diminishing door
counts and decreased circulation of print materials they must find new ways to
deliver information or risk losing touch with those they’re trying to serve. At
Auburn University Libraries a simple but old solution has emerged, the courier
service. For the last four years, Auburn University Libraries has provided a
campus courier service in an effort to expand the document delivery services
the library offers to the University community. The courier service allows faculty,
staff, and graduate students the opportunity to have an unlimited number of
books and bound journals delivered to their office or one of
VI - 12 Laptops, Cameras,
and iPods: Developing & Implementing an Equipment Plan
Robin Ewing,
Many academic libraries check out equipment such as laptops, projectors, and
cameras. This equipment allows students and faculty to explore new
technologies, complete assignments, and pursue research. How do academic
libraries decide what equipment to purchase? How do they make the best use of
limited resources? St. Cloud State University (SCSU) recently developed and
implemented an equipment plan to answer these questions. This plan allows SCSU
to predict equipment expenditures each year and to plan for future
technologies. Developing and implementing this equipment plan required working
closely with several areas of the organization including administration, Information
Technology Services, and Instructional Technologies and Infrastructure
Services. This poster session describes the impetus for creating an equipment
plan, the process of creating an equipment plan, and the benefits of an
equipment plan. Lessons learned throughout the process will be addressed as
well as plans for improving the process.
VI - 13 Google Scholar and
the Library Web Site: Have More ARL Libraries Come on Board? An Update 18
Months Later
Karen Hartman, Rutgers University Libraries, New Brunswick, NJ
(khartman@rci.rutgers.edu)
Laura Bowering Mullen, Rutgers University Libraries, Piscataway, NJ
(lbmullen@rci.rutgers.edu)
Following publication of our study on Google Scholar and ARL library
websites in College & Research Libraries (March, 2006), an update to our
original research seems warranted. This poster presents the data from a
replication of the original study conducted approximately 18 months later. With
time, have more ARL libraries decided to add Google Scholar to their collections
and services through their web sites? In addition to updating level of
acceptance of Google Scholar by ARL libraries, we also explore the
incorporation of Google Scholar into federated search tools and the emergence
of a competitor to Google Scholar, Windows Live Academic Search Beta.
VI - 14 Digital Dilemmas:
The Life and Times of a Digital Collection
Lee Dotson, University of Central Florida Libraries, Orlando, FL
(ddotson@mail.ucf.edu)
Douglas Dunlop, University of Central Florida Libraries, Orlando, FL
(ddunlop@mail.ucf.edu)
Digital collections are emerging and growing at a rapid pace. Most digital
collections begin with a focus on production aspects; however, to be successful
a digital collection must remain sustainable and dynamic beyond its initial
phase. The culmination of the production phase provides an opportunity for
librarians to shift their emphasis to methods that ensure continued growth and
discourage a static environment. Using a collaborative digital collection as
our example, we will address issues associated with the life cycle of digital
collections. While the initial phases of our example collection, Central
Florida Memory, dealt with obtaining funding and creating a substantial
collection of digital materials, the current phase concentrates on sustaining
the endeavor. This poster session will highlight subsequent measures a
collection can explore for continued funding, marketing, increased access, and
preservation. A “what’s next” theme will present the types of challenges any
digital project may face during various phases of development. Participants
will gain ideas to encourage further progress of their own digital collections
through an evaluation of the life cycle of our example collection accompanied
by an overview of its current status and some of the models being investigated
for further development of the project.
VI - 15 Best Practices for
Providing Access to Spanish Language Materials: A Cataloger’s Perspective
Eda Correa,
With an increase in the Hispanic population and with the expansion of Latin
American Studies in the
VI - 16 Image Quality of PDF
Scans: Are We Getting What We Pay For?
Jacquelyn Erdman,
Many academic scholars are interested in getting their information from an
online resource. One drawback is the quality of many of the PDF scans of older
documents. Lower quality scans are often provided because they are faster to
produce and easier for scholars to download, leading to lower quality figures
and photographic pictures, compared to the print original. As more and more
libraries rely on PDF scans of journals, some discarding the print volumes, how
wide spread is the problem with PDF image quality? Does it affect scholarship?
Is there anything that can be done to address this quality issue? In a study
conducted by the Geology Library at the
VI - 17 How Safe is Your
Library? Learn Tips to Create an Effective Safety and Emergency Plan for Your
Library
Lynette Schurdevin, Thomas Branigan Memorial Library,
Be prepared, be safe! Safety plans are vital for all public libraries.
During this poster session you will learn about the process of creating a
viable safety plan; who needs to be involved in the process; where to find
helpful information; and the importance of keeping the plan updated. Copies of
safety and emergency plans will be available for review along with websites and
written materials. This information has been presented to the 2007 New Mexico
Library Association (NMLA) Annual Conference on
VI - 18 An Eco-Building, A
Healthy Life, and Good Service: A New Century in Public Library Architecture
Shu-hsien Tseng, Library Association of the Republic of China, Taipei, Taiwan
(egret@email.tpml.edu.tw)
A green building is viewed as “a building that harmoniously coexists with
the environment” by highlighting three important features: it has a low impact
(on the environment), offers significant contact (with nature), and provides
amenities and health (to humans). In the
VI - 19 Digitization Upon
Demand at the University of Central Florida
Kristine Shrauger, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
(kshrauge@mail.ucf.edu)
Elizabeth Konzak, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
(ekonzak@mail.ucf.edu)
A collaborative effort to increase use of Special Collections materials at
the
VI - 20 You Asked, We
Responded: Redesigning an Academic Library’s Web Site Based on User Input
Bonnie Oldham, Weinberg Memorial Library/University of
During the 2007 intersession, the Weinberg Memorial Library at the