I - 1 Where Libraries and Special Collections Meet Web 2.0: Building Next-generation Archival Tools With the launch of large-scale book digitization projects, libraries will increasingly be distinguished by their special and archival collections, and by the services that they offer to provide access to these collections. This presentation describes some of the innovative tools being created to enhance access to resources of the Northwest Digital Archives, a consortium of libraries and archival facilities in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. These efforts include the creation of a robust RSS feed describing recently-added NWDA resources and the integration of a user tagging system that enables visitors to add information to collection finding aids while the archival record is kept intact. The presentation will provide visual examples of these applications, along with information on how these tools are being integrated into the NWDA program.
JODYSPACE1 I - 2 Connecting Print Titles with Their Electronic Alter Egos in the Catalog: Analysis and Full Disclosure We have made a heavy investment in a variety of electronic resources, many bundled or with name changes distancing them from their print origins. Can our patrons even find/discover these resources in our catalog? A task force was formed to explore how to enhance catalog records to fully associate print titles with their related electronic titles. The task force goal was to develop a cooperative process and cataloging guidelines for electronic resource catalog records that: enhance patron access to electronic resources and publication subsets, develop a cooperative process between liaison and catalog librarians, develop a maintenance process for tracking the changes, and develop an exit plan if a resource is cancelled. The scope of the investigation focused on the electronic resources listed on the Libraries’ E-resources webpage that are not connected or linked automatically through the cataloging process.
The review process took into consideration parent and child relationships, along with title changes that occur when print migrates to an electronic format. The task force looked specifically for electronic resources with publication subsets that were not cataloged and for related print and electronic records that are not linked in the catalog.
The electronic resource cataloging recommendations that were proposed were multifaceted and included a focus on interdepartmental cooperation and a method of tracking the resource catalog record enhancements using the electronic resource management (ERM) system.
JODYSPACE1 I - 3 Video on Demand: Streaming Media in Distance Education When the University of North Texas began substantially increasing its online course offerings in the late 1990's, students, faculty, and the library realized that access to online resources would be crucial to the success of these courses. An infrastructure for managing remote access to electronic journals and databases was already established by the libraries, but a plan was not in place to address the use of audiovisual materials in online courses. When the heavily film-based anthropology course "World Cultures Through Film" transitioned from a face-to-face classroom to an online environment, it served as a catalyst for developing a plan to provide distance education students online access to media. The Media Library's role in supporting this course changed dramatically from scheduling in-class screenings, to providing in-house reserves access, to offering on-demand streaming access. This poster session tracks the evolution of media delivery to distance education students at UNT and illustrates strategies implemented by the UNT Media Library in developing an online management and delivery system for video on demand. Usage statistics and user feedback will be presented to demonstrate the success of the online streaming media model.
JODYSPACE1 I - 4 The Web-at-Risk: Preserving our Nation's Digital Cultural Heritage The Web is increasingly the only source for born-digital government publications, in spite of the fact that web content is known to be unstable and fleeting. Government information specialists are struggling to capture and preserve publications they once collected in print, particularly state and local government publications. Librarians also have a new opportunity to capture political organization websites, blog postings and other ephemera to provide future researchers with a unique window into historical events such as elections or Hurricane Katrina. This session will provide an update on the Web-at-Risk project, a four and a half year effort to build tools to capture, curate and preserve web-based political and government information. Funded by the National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program and led by the California Digital Library, this project is well underway. The poster will include screen images of the Web Archiving Service currently under development, as well as images from the web archives being created by the project’s curators.
JODYSPACE1 I - 5 The Transgender Resource Collection: When Collection Development Leads to Staff Development Oak Park Public Library has created the first distinct, focused transgender collection in a U.S. public library. "Transgender" is an umbrella term that applies to people whose identity or behavior falls outside stereotypical gender expectations. It refers to many different types of people, including transsexuals and crossdressers. The Transgender Resource Collection serves, reflects, and welcomes this underserved, marginalized group. An important element of Oak Park Public Library's LSTA-funded collection project was a groundbreaking self-study for barriers to service that resulted in changes to collections, staff training, facilities, communication, policies, and practices. Collection titles, finding aids, training materials, self-study documents, and highlights from the marketing campaign will illustrate this holistic model for collection development.
JODYSPACE1 I - 6 Taking Control of Electronic Resources: An Environmental Impact Study of the First Two Years of Electronic Resources Management System (ERMS) Implementation Librarians have powerful new Electronic Resources Management Systems (ERMS), but, as with early adoption of any new technology, the implementation and integration presented many challenges in the first 2-1/2 years. What should a fully populated ERMS contain? What functions in the library does it support? The University of Illinois at Chicago Library’s home grown system was retired in 2005 in favor of a commercial ERMS (Serials Solutions 360 Resource Manager), adopted in January, 2006. After two years of populating it, and periods of trial and error, the Library set out to assess the true capability of the ERMS with an environmental impact study. The variables studied included key issues of workflow; resistance to change and creative adaptations were factors as well. In addition to the study results, the poster also presents illustrations of full, complete records; selected comments on the ERMS by the staff; and samples of programming PERL scripts to retrieve data through the XML API portal.
JODYSPACE1 I - 7 Measuring the Impact of Change: A Case Study Exploring the Impact of Integrating Non-MARC Metadata Production into the Duties of Traditional Catalogers While there is a growing body of literature addressing metadata integration in technical services departments, the impact of this integration on catalogers has yet to be explored. The poster addresses this gap in the literature, measuring the impact of metadata integration on Technical Services team members at the University of Tennessee Libraries.
In early 2007, the Digital Library Center of the University of Tennessee Libraries invited staff in the Technical Services Department to get involved in the creation of descriptive metadata for digitized archival collections. Volunteers were trained in a 12-hour workshop led by the Metadata Librarian, and then participated in a pilot phase to test the workflow. Adjustments were made to the workflow based on findings from the pilot, and the team began production of metadata as part of their weekly duties. To assess the impact of the duties that came with integration, the Metadata Librarian and Cataloging Librarian jointly conducted an in-house survey of metadata team members. The survey measures the team’s satisfaction with procedures and workflow, and the impact new responsibilities had on their overall job performance and workload. This poster session presents the results of the survey and draws conclusions about catalogers' attitudes toward metadata integration.
JODYSPACE1 I - 8 Me and My Shadow: Observing and Documenting Serials Workflow in a Cataloging Department When staff turnover and incomplete documentation have left a gap in institutional memory, librarians may have a hard time achieving a full and accurate understanding of workflow. The Cataloging Department at North Carolina State University Libraries addressed managers’ incomplete grasp of the workings of its serials unit by engaging in a comprehensive shadowing project. By observing each member of the serials unit for a full workday, the department came to a clearer understanding of the way work really got done and identified troubled areas of the workflow. After the shadowing was complete, the department began using the data collected for organizational evaluation, problem solving, and enhancement of intra- and interdepartmental communication. The poster session will examine the use of shadowing, a technique common in the corporate sector, but less frequently used in libraries. It will showcase improvements made to the departmental workflow based on the shadowing project, using staff feedback and productivity as evidence of success. Visual documentation such as organizational charts and workflow diagrams will complement the presentation.
JODYSPACE1 I - 9 Matching courses to resources: automating the integration of discipline-specific library resources in Blackboard courses. The University of Toronto faced a daunting challenge -- place links to best-bet licensed electronic resources in thousands of Blackboard courses without resorting to a generic Library “page” or labor-intensive course-by-course customization. The goal –- to enable students to conduct their course research and access Library services without having to leave their Blackboard course site – required the Library to find a novel way to seamlessly link students directly to relevant, discipline-specific resources in every Blackboard course.
With a small grant from the University, Library staff built a structural framework using RSS feeds, that would automatically feed existing discipline-specific resource lists and essential library services, into appropriate Blackboard courses. For those courses where the auto-generated resources were inappropriate, Library staff built an online “fix-it” tool. The fix-it tool enabled librarians to both modify the feeds AND see how the rendered web results would look in Blackboard, without first having to seek course access from individual instructors. The rendered pages of Library resources are automatically integrated in Blackboard through a building block, which was also developed as part of the project. Rendered pages can easily be repurposed for other course management systems or standalone web pages, making this a secure, flexible and scalable model.
JODYSPACE1 I - 10 Library-a-Go-GoNever Fear, Your Library is Here! LIBRARY-a-GO-GO Program is the first in the nation to ofeer book lending machines. Contra Costa County Library is thinking outside the building and is bringing innovative services to encourage reading.
The list of conveniences for those who live life on the go is about to grow. The Library is expanding services and improving accessibility by making a reading collection available to people who live in outlying areas. Every library is concerned with the cost of staffing and collection maintenance and this service is an effective way to bring books into communities without significantly increasing costs or sacrificing existing services. These ATM-style machines will house a collection of over 500 books and are a great way to bring library services to underserved remote populations. Anyone with a Contra Costa County Library card will be able to check out and return books. A freestanding, automated book-dispensing machine will be installed at four sites in the county, including a shopping area and a transit village.
This poster session will highlight the success and the process of developing this service, with many visual descriptions of the service. We will include a working demonstration of the customer interface that we have developed and information on the collection each machine contains.
JODYSPACE1 I - 11 Learning to Swim: Streaming Video from Zero to One Hundred The demand for online video has grown rapidly in recent years, and libraries are challenged to keep up with new developments and make informed decisions. This poster session describes the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Libraries’ streaming video pilot, carried out in fall 2007. The poster provides a step-by-step presentation of our experiences and an overview of critical issues one needs to consider when acquiring a streaming video service for an academic library. The poster covers issues such as what to look for when choosing a vendor and platform, how to approach collection development and cataloging issues, what to think about when comparing leasing versus buying, and how to communicate with faculty and staff. The poster also presents our experiences with a specific vendor, Films Media Group and their Films on Demand platform. In addition, it features feedback from faculty and librarians, as well as use statistics. Librarians interested in streaming video will come away with ideas for what to consider when starting a streaming video service and concrete guidance on how to get started.
JODYSPACE1 I - 12 Indigenous Information Ecology: Vanishing Indians Throwing Off Our Invisibility Cloaks As We Rush Into the 21st Century The vibrant growth of indigenous information environments is reflected in this Google Earth-Based mapping project of the more than 300 tribal libraries, archives and museums in the United States today. This project highlights a selection of the dynamic information environments that are serving tribal communities, and suggests ways in which blended learning, digital technology, and on line platforms can be created through collaboration of a network of stakeholders to help dedicated tribal librarians, archivists, curators and staff serve the unique needs of tribal communities as we move into the 21st century.
JODYSPACE1 I - 13 Dewey to LC: Planning a Reclassification Project In the summer of 2007, we began relabeling and reshelving the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries’ existing book collections in order to change them from Dewey to Library of Congress Classification. This poster session will focus on the planning and organizing that occurred before those tasks began. We will describe the responsibilities of the task force appointed to plan the entire project and the role of working groups formed to handle detailed assignments such as providing publicity. We will provide specifics about many aspects of the project including: selecting vendors, hiring and training workers for the project, ordering supplies and equipment, establishing workflows for relabeling and reshelving, and identifying and solving problems. In addition, we will describe how the expertise of cataloging department staff expedited various aspects of the project.
JODYSPACE1 I - 14 Controversy, Code Names, and Cultural Memory: Building the Nevada Test Site Oral History Digital Collection This poster highlights the Nevada Test Site Oral History Project (NTSOHP); which is dedicated to documenting, preserving, and disseminating the stories of persons affiliated with and impacted by forty years of U.S. Cold War nuclear weapons testing. The project is a collaboration between the UNLV University Libraries, the director of the NTSOHP, and campus partners to create an online, fully searchable, digital research collection from the collected oral history research. Project participants include scientists, miners, military officers, contractors and corporate executives. Also presented are the voices of native tribal leaders, peace activists and communities downwind of the test site. Working with controversial material, deciphering military code names, and negotiating government acronyms were all unique challenges to the project. This poster also presents practical digital projects solutions (such as managing cross-campus communication, quality control for complex metadata creation, troubleshooting online document display, and tackling project marketing), with a focus on issues in converting oral history research for the online environment.
JODYSPACE1 I - 15 Children of the Territories: A Community College Interdisciplinary Resource Collection for Student Study and Research This poster will focus on how faculty and the librarian at a community college developed a unique interdisciplinary resource collection for student research and study. The foundation of the collection is an historic photography exhibit featuring 50 framed historic photographs which are representative of the diversity of children and families who settled in Indian and Oklahoma territories prior to statehood. The ethnic, racial, and cultural make up of the territories included Native Americans, freedman, recent immigrants from Eastern Europe, and others. Photographs of children and their teachers in front of dug outs, sod school houses, and Native American boarding schools show the diversity of races and ethnicities of the early settlers. Oral histories in both written and audio format as well as books, articles, diaries and other print materials are included in the resource collection. Community college students in history, English, photography, art, sociology, psychology, child development, education and other disciplines use the resource collection for study, research and other course assignments.
JODYSPACE1 I - 16 Catch the Wave: Building a Digital Image Library without Wiping Out Before you hang ten, create the necessary workflow and efficiency through collaboration.
Western Michigan University Libraries has launched a system to build a robust and workable digital image library and image catalog without creating new staff positions. The system required creating a workflow using the talent, knowledge, and skills of human resources already on staff.
The goal of this project is to create a digital image database and catalog for the Visual Resources Library. This database serves as a finding aid for slides and digital images as well as a presentation tool for the latter. Building the image library requires comprehensive planning and the execution of three distinct phases. Phase I includes extracting and migrating data, mapping the metadata from MARC to VRA Core 3, loading digital images into the new system, and linking images with the records; Phase II entails enhancing and expanding records fashioned using AACR2 to comply with CCO and users’ needs; and Phase III involves adding new images and records. At this time Phase I is in full operation.
Using a flow chart and text, this poster session demonstrates to other libraries how to design a digital library project by drawing on resources already at hand. At Western Michigan University staff from the Libraries’ systems, catalog, visual resources library, digitization center, and Office of Information Technology have worked together to move this process forward.
JODYSPACE1 I - 17 Assessing how scholars use cultural materials: the planning phase In 2007, the Mellon Foundation awarded the Digital Library Federation a grant to develop American Social History Online and assess how various ways of exposing collections impact their use by scholars (through Google, an aggregated portal, federated search, course management system and citation management software). American Social History (http://www.dlfaquifer.org) aggregates digital collections from Digital Library Federation member institutions including the Library of Congress’ “Making of America,” Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Emory, Harvard, Columbia University, and the California Digital Library. New York University, Yale and the University of Southern California will contribute additional collections in early 2008. This poster will present the questions the assessment seeks to answer and the methods that will be used to assess the ways in which scholars can discover and use content. It will explore the strengths and weaknesses of the methods used for assessing each of the implementations as well as the challenges of conducting the assessment of a multi-institutional project and meeting stakeholder expectations. The presenters hope that attendees at ALA will comment and provide constructive feedback on the proposed plans.
JODYSPACE1 I - 18 An Intricate Tapestry of Cultures: Examining the Representation of the Diverse Guatemalan Subcultures in Children’s Fiction While there has been little research on Latino children’s literature, fewer studies have examined the depiction of Guatemalan subcultures in children’s books available in the United States. Historically, cultural stereotypes, inaccuracies, and omissions have plagued children’s literature about Guatemalans, resulting in negative images of the culture. Research suggests these negative images can lead Guatemalan children to undervalue their cultural heritages and develop feelings of unworthiness, while prompting children and educators from outside the cultures to construct social barriers and formulate cultural bias. Research also suggests that affirmative and authentic portrayals of Guatemalan children can help non-Guatemalan children, educators, and librarians better understand and appreciate the diversity of the Guatemalan subcultures.
The purpose of our study is to discern how Guatemalan subcultures are historically portrayed in children’s fiction titles available in the United States. Guatemalan heritage can be divided into several racial and ethnic cultures: Mestizo or Ladino (either pure-blooded Spanish or a blend of Spanish and Indigenous blood); indigenous peoples (The Maya, Pipil Aztecs, and Xincas); and smaller groups with African, Chinese, Arab, Afro-Caribbean (the Garifuna) roots. Using a methodology of textual and visual content analyses, we highlight the positive and negative representations of the Guatemalan subcultures in children’s fiction to discern the social messages they communicate.
JODYSPACE1 I - 19 A New Look at the Significance of the Regional Novels of Lois Lenski This poster will explore the significance of the regional novels of children’s author and illustrator Lois Lenski. After World War I book publishers began to add children’s book departments and editors. This was an important period of growth for children’s literature. It was during this time that Lois Lenski began to write and illustrate children’s books. She became interested in the everyday lives of children and how their lives were impacted by the sociocultural context of the different regions of the United States in which they lived. Since children do not leave behind evidence of their lives the way adults do, the real, everyday lives of children are only seen in the shadows and margins of history and are all but historically invisible in the major written histories of the United States. Lois Lenski’s novels provide an historical view of how children lived, what challenges they faced, what they thought, and their childhood experiences during the first half of the 20th century. “….children’s own experiences comprise the drama of her stories” (Lois Lenski, 1958). “……it is not historical information, not statistics, not tourist propaganda about a region…- but the everyday life of the children themselves” (Lois Lenski, 1958).
JODYSPACE1 I - 20 “I don’t live here but…”: Library Experiences of Hurricane Katrina Displacees Over one million people evacuated the Gulf Coast region in August of 2005, and tens of thousands more were scattered around the country after being rescued. Little did they know that their stay was not the intended two or three days. Instead, many of the storm survivors would be in their new and unfamiliar destinations for several months or more. In a 2007 Poster Session, the presenter displayed the specific information needs and behaviors of Hurricane Katrina evacuees. This poster focuses on the survivors’ library related experiences during their displacement. The data was gathered from survivors through an online survey and 30 personal interviews. Five main areas of emerged regarding their use of libraries: Information Access; Information & Technology Assistance; Library as Place; Means of Escape; and Sense of Civic Loss.
JODYSPACE1 II - 1 A Click Away: Student Response to Clickers As institutions of higher education increasingly focus on outcomes assessment, educators are turning to tools such as “clickers” to attract student interest and facilitate evaluation of student outcomes. Academic librarians interested in exploring new ways to teach information literacy could also utilize this technology.
The Brooklyn Campus Library of Long Island University recently purchased a set of 25 radio frequency clickers. The authors explore how these interactive devices may impact student learning.
In order to gauge initial student interest in the devices, the authors set up an interface, featuring the Personal Response System (PRS) from InterWrite, outside the busy entrance to the library. They observed student reaction to the clickers by inviting students to compete for prizes while taking a quiz on basic knowledge of the library using the clickers.
This poster presentation, which analyzes comments and results gathered from students in the course of the quiz, provides an opportunity for librarians to assess possible implementation of tools such as clickers to enhance instruction and student learning. As a tool for outcomes assessment and teaching, clickers have the potential to both attract interest and maintain attention during instruction sessions.
JODYSPACE1 II - 2 "Intrigue, Conspiracy and Kidnapping: The New Face of Information Literacy Instruction?" The University of North Texas Libraries is planning a unique, online educational game to develop information literacy among its students. This presentation will include information on the development process of this single player online role-playing game, including some background information, a storyboard of the game plot, as well as where we are headed in the future.
Educational gaming is a field that is growing quickly, and will potentially have tremendous impact on the future of how we teach and learn. With our users becoming increasingly isolated in their search for information, choosing to work from their computer terminals rather than in the library face-to-face with information professionals, the need for accessible information literacy training grows everyday. This game will teach users those needed information skills. The learning outcomes of the game will be based on the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.
JODYSPACE1 II - 3 "They're Not in Kansas Anymore!": Information Literacy Programming for High School Faculty to Help Students Transition to College Librarians at the Oklahoma State University Library have developed an in-service training presentation, our "Information Literacy Roadshow," aimed at high school faculty to outline how teachers, school media specialists, and public and academic librarians can help prepare secondary school students for college-level research. This poster presentation will describe the approach we take to develop cooperation and introduce information literacy concepts in the high school curriculum to help them transition to college-level research, and the successful marketing strategies we have used bring this presentation to schools across Oklahoma. We focus on strategies high school teachers can use to incorporate information literacy concepts in their curriculum without losing class time. We also provide tips and tricks for creating assignments that introduce students to the different formats of information (journals, magazines, Web sources, grey literature) and discuss ways to combat plagiarism. We have marketed the Roadshow through various conferences and newsletter articles, and have succeeded in gaining the cooperation of various school districts. We have received positive feedback on the programs we have offered. This presentation will provide ideas for academic librarians seeking to develop joint programs with the school media centers in their region.
JODYSPACE1 II - 4 A Star Is Born -- Engaging Title V Students in Library Video Project As a hispanic service institution, California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB) has been providing education to a diverse student group. With the objective of encouraging students from underrepresented groups to pursue a career in library and information science, Walter W. Stiern Library at CSUB developed Title V Library Internship Program. Selected student interns would have an opportunity to work on library projects with professional librarians, obtain experiences in a variety of areas related to the library profession, and receive mentoring from the library advisor on career planning.
In Fall 2007, Marissa Pineda, the Title V Library Intern and a senior majoring in psychology took charge of producing a video entitled Bionic Student: Adventures in the Walter W. Stiern Library. This innovative video offers light-hearted, yet informative advice on how to use the Walter W. Stiern Library. Shortly after it was uploaded to YouTube, the video was viewed hundreds of times.
This poster session will provide information on how this video was developed, shot, and edited by Marissa Pineda and her peers. It will also present observations on and thoughts about the experience of working with new generation students from the librarian who oversaw the project.
JODYSPACE1 II - 5 Connecting 24/5 to Millennials: Providing Academic Support Services From a Learning Commons In response to the seamless academic and personal behavior of Millennial college students, libraries are creating a learning commons in which campus academic support services are integrated with library services to provide everything students need to succeed in a single facility 24 hours a day with food. Roving may be an effective way to satisfy the immediate support needs of students collaborating in these bustling environments. A survey conducted on March 16, 2006 of users of the UMass Amherst Learning Commons (opened in the W.E.B. Du Bois Library in September 2005) provided detailed insight into who they are, how often they visit, what services they use, how they want to receive reference and technology assistance, and what enhancements they want. Results indicated a preference for face-to-face research and technology assistance: 40% of respondents wanted library and technology staff to rove the Learning Commons to offer assistance. To remain vital to today’s library users, academic libraries need to become a value-added and convenient resource to solve their research dilemmas. Librarians need to not only keep current with and integrate emerging technologies embraced by current students into their services, but also move out from behind the desk to assist today’s users with evaluating and managing information. Color figures and photographs reveal activity trends along with suggested innovations.
JODYSPACE1 II - 6 Designing for Synergy: Online Information Literacy Modules at the University of Central Florida This poster highlights a set of online information literacy modules developed as a collaborative project between the Library and Course Development and Web Services at the University of Central Florida. The online modules are a project of the University’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) re-accreditation process. The modules integrate Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Competency Standards and instructional design principles and are delivered using proprietary software developed by the Course Development and Web Services’ New Media team.
Information literacy isn't just a library issue. Finding and using ubiquitous information sources in the 21st century is a concern of educational stakeholders across the disciplines. Providing online content that supplements course materials and aids students in understanding the ethical use of information and differences between "searching" and "researching" generates a synergy between course work and research and supports inquiry-based learning. This poster will illustrate strategies used in module development for content, practice, and assessment, describe how media elements like Captivate are utilized, and provide an overview of practice and assessment features. Handouts will include ideas attendees can use to explore design techniques for projects at their institutions.
JODYSPACE1 II - 7 Do Libraries Contribute to Gains in Reading Between Grades 4 and 8? The goal of this study is determine whether access to books in libraries contributes to gains in reading between grades 4 and 8. For school libraries, we used the number of books per child in school libraries in each state and for public libraries, we used book holdings per capita in each state. We performed a multiple regression analysis to determine if these access variables are significant predictors of scores on the NAEP grade 8 reading test, controlling for performance on the grade 4 test.
Using recent (2005) fourth and eighth grade NAEP scores, both library factors were significant predictors of grade eight NAEP scores. Fourth grade NAEP alone was, as expected, a significant predictor of grade 8 scores (r 2 = .87) and adding the two library predictors added four percent (.04) to the r2.
An attempt was made to replicate these results with quasi-longitudinal data, using grade 4 NAEP from 1998 and grade 8 NAEP from 2002. Access was positively related to gains from grade 4 to grade 8, but this time it did not achieve statistical significance. Additional analyses suggested that school library holdings only impact scores when they are above a certain minimum (20 books per student).
JODYSPACE1 II - 8 From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf in 50 min. Any questions? What’s doable, what’s desirable, and how do I assess that?
This poster session will present the results of a liaison librarians completed contact with all 600 students registered for English 100 at a four year university.
The poster will showcase the economy used in deciding what the students need to know, and how best to present that to multiple small groups. The challenge in meeting so many students with varying levels of readiness will be addressed and I will present the self assessment tool used to pre and post test students to ultimately measure the significant improvement in awareness of library resources which was the result of attending the English 110 Library Research Tools class. The comments of students received will be offered as insight to the needs of this community of researchers. A consideration of what worked best and areas for improvement will be included.
Excel spreadsheets, a Self Test Evaluation Tool, use of multimedia and handout will complement the poster itself.
JODYSPACE1 II - 9 Growing Our Own: Developing Community Based Librarians in Philadelphia and Southeast Pennsylvania Library trainees, student librarians and program administrators from Philadelphia and surrounding counties will share five years of experience developing models of local recruitment and ongoing support and mentoring of new public librarians through projects funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Come see the many and diverse faces of these 21st century librarians and catch their enthusiasm through photos and stories. Learn about successful, multi-faceted models of recruiting, educating, mentoring, and training new librarians by combining school and work experience in innovative ways. Handouts will include recruitment materials and toolkits, and ideas for adapting the models and “Growing Your Own.”
JODYSPACE1 II - 10 Helping Librarians Help: An Outcome-Based Evaluation of the University of Michigan's Instructor College Instructor College is a staff development initiative at the University of Michigan that is designed to strengthen the instructional skills of University Library staff. Although the program commenced in 2001, no systematic evaluation of the program's outcomes has been done; our research aimed to fill this gap by employing outcome-based evaluation. Outcome-based evaluation is a form of assessment that employs qualitative and context-specific methods to identify the real results of programs, as experienced and expressed by participants. Through observation and interviews, we investigated the outcomes experienced by individual librarians and found that outcomes were interrelated and experienced at the individual, group, and institutional level. Based on our evaluation, we recommended several actions Instructor College could take to enhance, promote, and build on these outcomes. This research has implications for other institutions in terms of strengthening or creating similar programs and in terms of the potential of outcome-based evaluation for articulating and identifying the richly textured experiences of program participants, regardless of the type of program.
JODYSPACE1 II - 11 Mentoring Interactively (MIing): New Tools for Librarian Recruitment and Retention or How to Build Bridges Between Boomers and Next-gen Librarians Emerging technologies such as social networking software enable new and unique opportunities for the recruitment and retention of librarians. A review of the literature reveals that generational differences may be an obstacle to librarian recruitment and retention. Social networking software can bridge the generational divide that exists between current library and information science graduates and library professionals. Boomer librarians, Bridge generation librarians and Next-Gen librarians all have things in common that may not be readily apparent when meeting face to face, however, in a virtual setting, a more egalitarian environment can be achieved.
This poster session will cover the University of South Carolina's College of Mass Communications and Information Studies Alumni Association virtual mentoring program that uses social networking software (IM,wikis,blogs, and virtual worlds). It is a partnership with the University of South Carolina's School of Library and Information Science, the University of South Carolina's College of Mass Communication, and the University of South Carolina's Library and Information Science Student Association.
JODYSPACE1 II - 12 Promoting Accessibility in and of LIS Education Diversity is a fundamental value of the library and information science [LIS] profession. Within the diversity spectrum, people with access needs account for more than 20% of the U.S. and 10% of the world population. As a result of global aging, climate change, war and terrorism, as well as over thirty years of pre-K-12 inclusive education, college faculty are teaching many more students with access needs in both face-to-face and virtual classrooms.
Equity of access is a fundamental value of the LIS profession, and thus LIS education.
As in all other institutions, including libraries, fiscal accountability has become a major concern and mission on college campuses.
In Universal Design for Learning, an evidenced-based framework for designing curricula with accessibility in mind, now mandated for pre-K-12 U.S. public education (IDEA 2004, P.L. 108-446), higher [LIS] education, has an evidenced-based methodology mutually beneficial to serving the needs of both an increasingly diverse student population and fiscal accountability mandates.
This poster session examines the results of a study of LIS and education faculty attitudes toward accessibility and teaching students with access needs, a measurable indication of the prospects for successful integration of universal design for learning and a culture of accessibility in higher [LIS] education.
JODYSPACE1 II - 13 Raising the 2.0 Reference Librarian Technology is changing the way we work with library users, whether they are faculty, the millenial students, or others. Reference librarians are using things like social networking software, blogs, IM services, wikis, and much more in addition to the typical online catalog and databases. It is imperative that the training of new reference librarians address the variety of resources and delivery methods that are being utilized. Additionally, reference librarians are being called upon to provide more bibliographic instruction and education in information literacy in a variety of delivery methods including such things as Blackboard and WebCT. So how do we being to address an area of librarianship that has already faced major changes and provide new and old librarians with the tools to successfully meet the challenges they face on a daily basis? This poster will offer suggestions of courses that MLS students should explore while attending library school and within the first five years of their new careers. Different programs, conferences, and other training opportunities will be examined with suggestions of the benefit to future and current reference librarians. A sample plan will be presented that can be adjusted to meet the individual’s needs and interests.
JODYSPACE1 II - 14 Researching Climate Change: Trends in U.S. Government Publications Data from government publications are a major information source for Americans. How scientific issues such as climate change are portrayed in federal documents affect how Americans are educated about science. This study looks at government publications on climate change and explores trends of publishing by types of publications, which agencies are publishing information on climate change, and how these trends have changed over time.
The scope of the project will examine publications by eight federal agencies and the U.S. Congress in various formats from 1970 to 2007 and documents found on current and historical agency web sites are included in the coverage of the study. Preliminary results of the study show a greater concentration of works on climate change in the 1990s followed by a period of decline at the turn of the century, with a dramatic increase in the past couple of years.
The study analyzes how climate change has been treated by various federal agencies over several decades. Publications are analyzed by agency, author, and publishing dates. More in depth evaluation of publications involves how the issue of climate change is addressed in the publication, by looking at subject matter such as the causes of or solutions for climate change.
This study will provide information on climate change research by examining the different focuses of federal agencies.
JODYSPACE1 II - 15 Studying Students Studying: Ethnography on a Shoestring Under the guidance of an anthropologist, Wesleyan University librarians and information technology staff learned and applied several relatively easy and inexpensive ethnographic techniques to gather and analyze detailed information about how students use the library and other campus spaces for studying. Three different but complementary techniques were used with three groups of students. One group took photographs of specific subjects (e.g. workspace in dorm, favorite place to study), then explained the significance of the pictures in an interview. Another group used campus maps to track the times and locations of their activities on a specific day during which they had classes and studied outside of class, then explained their activities in an interview. A third group drew diagrams of their ideal library study space. The data from each group were compiled and analyzed to identify common themes from all three techniques. This analysis was used to create a design submitted in late 2007 to the University Space Planning Group for a new group study space in the Science Library (scheduled for renovation during winter 2008). The poster session will feature examples from each group of students along with brief explanations of methodologies and summaries of results.
** Note: There was a presentation at an earlier stage of this project at the Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries’ October Conference on Oct 12, 2007.
JODYSPACE1 II - 16 Teachers' Views of Library Service APLUS is a cooperative program for alternative certification of school librarians through a partnership between Dallas (TX) Independent School District and Texas Woman's University School of Library and Information Studies. APLUS received a grant $903,000 from IMLS for three years. As part of the assessment of the project, each year for three years teachers served by alternatively certified librarians are surveyed using the AASL School Library Media Program Assessment Rubric for the 21st Century. This poster will present findings of the assessment and comparison of performance of libraries served by alternatively certified librarians with performance of libraries served by traditionally certified librarians.
JODYSPACE1 II - 17 Balancing Both Lives: Issues Facing Librarians Working in Second Life and Real Life Worlds This colorful, interactive, and engaging poster session looks at the dual roles performed by traditional librarians and their avatar (graphical representation) librarians in virtual libraries. Depicted are real life scenarios vs. Second Life (Internet-based virtual world) situations where librarians struggle to maintain their sense of balance between the physical and virtual work spaces. Included are current hot points of debate concerning the virtual librarians’ everyday dilemmas regarding devotion of adequate time to work in virtual libraries to warrant the virtual library’s existence and the necessity for virtual librarians to automate many of their virtual library services due to lack of volunteer coverage and the need to continue to devote adequate time to their physical libraries. Not only do virtual librarians need foundational knowledge of the most popular resources found in real life such as in Proquest, EBSCO and OCLC databases, the same librarians must be able to maneuver through cyberspace and link the real life knowledge bases to the virtual libraries in order to provide the same high levels of service traditionally found in physical libraries. Cyber-savvy librarians must command the communication skills required to guide their users; sell their services; and create dynamic virtual learning spaces for targeted users.
JODYSPACE1 II - 18 Operation Resurrection: Breathing New Life into Graduate Student Researchers and Instruction Librarians by Developing a New Suite of Services Not unlike many academic libraries that focus a large part of their time and energy on instruction for undergraduate students, the University of Illinois at Chicago Library (UIC) has relegated instruction for Graduate Students to the on-request realm. This poster will explore strategies employed at UIC to rejuvenate and revamp graduate student workshops and reach a long-neglected user population which has diverse and plentiful research needs and interests. This poster will investigate how UIC librarians ultimately arrived at a “suite of services” to offer graduate students through general and discipline-specific workshops taught in both in-person and web-based environments.
Workshop formats are aimed at teaching graduate students how to do a comprehensive literature review which facilitates covering practical topics such as interlibrary loan as well as advanced research tools including bibliographic management systems, federated searching, citation searching, and Google Scholar, all within an hour-long session. The poster will present marketing strategies and assessment techniques utilized to hone the content of the hour-long workshops and to arrive at an optimal suite of services to highlight. Furthermore, it will include feedback from instruction librarians who gained new expertise in advanced research tools by diverting their focus from freshman to graduate student research needs.
JODYSPACE1 II - 19 Read Alouds in English as a Foreign Language: The Path to Establishing a Pleasure Reading Habit? A number of studies have found that reading aloud facilitates young learners’ first language acquisition and literacy development, but few studies have investigated the effects of read-alouds in the foreign or second language context (Elley, 1989, Mason, 2007). The purpose of this poster is to show the profound impact of reading aloud on children in an EFL (English as a foreign language) situation. We first present the results of a descriptive study of the impact of read-alouds on young EFL students. The students were read to for more than three years, and as a result developed an enthusiasm for in-class self-selected reading (sustained silent reading),confirming Trelease’s suggestion (2001) that reading aloud and sustained silent reading are “natural partners.” Interviews were conducted with ten of the students from our study, now in grade four, and with six teachers with experience teaching EFL to young children. The children perceived read-alouds to be a fun activity and felt that it made a contribution to their acquisition of English. The teachers realized that their students enjoyed read-alouds, but felt that it could not be an effective teaching technique, apparently believing that if an activity is pleasant, it cannot be beneficial.
JODYSPACE1 II - 20 The Chemistry Between Library Services and Web 2.0: Providing “Traditional” Library Services via New Technologies to USC Chemistry Users As academic libraries continue providing seamless access to information in electronic format, fewer users step into the physical library for their research and study. More and more tend to study online and use our electronic services and electronic resources. As subject liaison librarians, we need to explore all kinds of possibilities to connect, communicate and serve users in the digital age.
This poster session will provide an academic library case study in applying new technologies to library services for the chemical sciences disciplines (http://www.usc.edu/libraries/subjects/chemistry/). The selected Web 2.0 applications we have implemented and will showcase include a blog (http://chemusc.wordpress.com/), tags, RSS feeds and instant messaging. We implemented these various new technology approaches based upon analyses of the information needs as well as the information-seeking behaviors of chemistry students and faculty. Rationale for the technology choices will be presented, as will statistical results of how the users have adopted these innovative library services. We will also suggest future explorations into how these services can be further improved to better accommodate users’ information needs.
JODYSPACE1 III - 1 Lubuto: Excellent Libraries for African Street Children The Lubuto Library Project is a Washington, DC-based organization that provides literacy skills and basic education for sub-Saharan Africa’s street children by building and stocking beautiful, open-access libraries hosted and staffed by community-based centers working with at-risk children. Lubuto Libraries play an important role by providing street children with a bridge to schools and social services that are beyond the reach of vast numbers of them. Each library houses a first-rate collection of 4,000 books adhering to careful guidelines established by expert children’s librarians. The collections are assembled and classified by US adult and student volunteers. Local-language books are added to the collections in Africa. Library staff is trained by professional librarians to offer enriching programs and services, including read-aloud and events with traditional storytellers—giving the children the opportunity to transcribe and help preserve a vanishing oral culture, as well as create their own books.
Lubuto plans to build at least 100 libraries in Zambia, Malawi and other countries in the area hardest hit by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The first Lubuto Library was officially opened at the Fountain of Hope Drop-In Centre in Lusaka on 21st September 2007 by the First President of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda.
JODYSPACE1 III - 2 Libraries Flourish Amidst War and Conflict: A Case Study of Nepal Despite thirteen years of warfare in Nepal that has claimed more than 12,000 lives, Rural Education and Development (READ) Global has successfully built sustainable libraries in 45 communities across the country. READ Global provides the capital to build/stock the library and also provides seed money to start an associated business such as a storefront rental or furniture factory. The profits from the business are used to support the library and pay its bills. Additional revenue can be funneled back into the community for other social needs such as health clinics or infrastructure. In this way, READ is affecting a community’s educational, economic and social development. READ Global has begun expansion into India, and has received a multi-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand into four other countries by 2010. This poster will explain why READ has grown while other development agencies have left the country and will discuss what other areas of conflict this model will or won’t work in. It will also show how the libraries address the root causes of poverty, create community ownership and become Zones of Peace. Photos of the libraries and associated businesses will be presented along with video footage.
JODYSPACE1 III - 3 The Web Presence and Capacity of Human Rights NGOs in Central Africa: A Case Study of Six Countries Recent international events have demonstrated that the internet is a vital resource for researchers, activists, and observers of human rights abuses. In some cases, such as in Myanmar in September 2007, the internet became one of the few sources of information documenting severe human rights abuses as they occurred. Local human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs) must make effective use of the internet and their digital assets if they are to influence societal change and interact effectively with the larger international community of scholars and activists. However, for NGOs in less industrialized countries, the challenges to an effective web presence can often be overwhelming. Obstacles can include limited financial resources, lack of information communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure, and government censorship. This study addresses the current web presence and capacity of human rights NGOs in six Central African countries (Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda) as both producers and compilers of information on local human rights concerns. By tracking the daily changes posted to each organization’s website over a period of four months it is possible to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the sites as information resources for human rights concerns in their respective countries.
JODYSPACE1 III - 4 Riyad Nassar Library (RNL): A library for the future The Lebanese American University (LAU) Beirut Library was established in 1934 as a single room library serving about 150 women. The Library went through many stages of growth as its mother institution. The new library, namely Riyad Nassar Library (RNL), serves now approximately 5000 co-educational campus.
Moving a collection of 225,000 volumes to an 8000 square foot library during a war period was a tremendous challenge. The poster session will demonstrate our agony and ultimate pride in accomplishing the most modern and high-tech library in Lebanon.
JODYSPACE1 III - 5 Good ideas Cross the Atlantic – the International Library in Frankfurt am Main This poster will describe the development of a library program for foreign residents, a project of Frankfurt City Library Service in Gallus Branch Library. In 2001, Birgit Lotz, Head of Department responsible for the branch libraries of the Frankfurt City Library Service, was selected to take part in the Librarians Abroad Programme of the Bertelsmann Foundation. She went on a study trip to New York, where she researched the field of services for immigrants at the Queens Borough Public Library in New York City. On her return to Frankfurt, she chose the branch library of the Gallus area, a district with 47% immigrants, to transfer and put into practice the ideas she had gained during her stay in New York. Together with the branch librarian, she has successfully implemented a program of library services for adult immigrants learning German as a foreign language and – later on – for immigrants doing literacy courses. This program includes special collection of materials in the German language acquired in response to the needs of the target group
self learning work places based on the Adult Learning Centre at Queens Borough Public Library
an interactive introduction to the library focused on active participation and tailored to the target group of adults with little knowledge of the German language; and an active public relations policy
staff training in intercultural competence.
In June 2004 Birgit Lotz and the Gallus branch library were awarded the “Idea-prize” in the USable competition of the Körber-Stiftung.
JODYSPACE1 III - 6 Building International Sister Libraries Partnerships Organizations such as the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) and the American Library Association (ALA) encourage libraries to be part of the global library community and to build international, mutually beneficial partnerships. Many libraries from different countries around the world are looking for sister library relationships as a way to participate in the global community, but finding a suitable partner can be challenging.
The ALA International Relations Round Table Sister Library Committee (IRRT SLC) provides information on how to arrange such partnerships on its webpage http://wikis.ala.org/sisterlibraries/index.php/Main_Page . The IRRT SLC also promotes sister library relationships between libraries and librarians around the world. The Committee identifies and works with other non-library organizations such as Sister Cities International, Rotary International, and the Peace Corps to help build international sister library relationships.
Additionally, the U.S. State Department supports American Corners and Bi-National Centers. There are over 385 American Corners and about 100 Bi-National Centers located in over 130 countries around the world. Hosted by local partner library and educational or cultural institutions, they offer access to information about the United States through books, magazines, the Internet, and public programs.
The poster display includes text and photographs describing successful sister library partnerships, some tips for building such a partnership, and how to develop international sister library opportunities through American Corners and Bi-National Centers. It also includes extensive printed literature about the non-library organizations that may assist in developing a relationship with another library, as well as a list of libraries looking for a sister library partner.
JODYSPACE1 III - 7 Growing English Language Libraries in China: The Apple Tree Library Foundation Established in 2002, Apple Tree Library Foundation (ATLF) is a California based nonprofit organization that creates need-based English-language children’s collections within China’s libraries through U.S. donations.
ATLF is a model of success. Notable challenges include funding, locating volunteers, storing, and shipping thousands of books. In China more challenges ensue: interaction/cooperation with Chinese officials, choosing locations, and assisting Chinese librarians with collection use. In the face of these and other challenges, ATLF established eight Apple Tree Libraries throughout China with four more in 2008.
To create libraries, ATLF needed Chinese government’s approval. Their biggest challenge was locating centralized agencies to accept and distribute foreign language materials -- key factors to success. The Chinese Ministry of Culture agreed to serve.
Located within public/school libraries, collections house 8,000 – 15,000 books. Over 120,000 books have been shipped, catalogued, and made available for circulation. In 2007, over 140,000 people visited these libraries; more than 270 children’s programs had over 24,000 participants.
ATLF is a main source for English-language children’s books in Chinese public libraries introducing outreach, volunteerism, story hour, book talks, and professional guidance to China’s librarians. This poster will explore through narration and photographs the methods of creating these specialized collections for China’s children.
JODYSPACE1 III - 8 Innovation project of library marketing: Reading salon is opening¡ An innovative project was conceived by the Ching Yun University Library to exploit the integrated marketing strategy to enhance the dynamic role of the library in supporting academic activities and promoting a climate for reading through the business management program and the general education center of the University cooperating with the renowned picture books publisher the Grimm Press. With unique merits of picture books, including an abundance of creativity, fewer pages, simple verbal expression, brief writing style, and interesting pictorial representation, this project is intended to market library service by holding two theme activities: Book Lovers Wanted contest designed for students to practice their knowledge and expertise in writing proposals and competing for customers for marketing picture books. Beyond the bounds of children books, entering the Reading Salon. A conference held to broaden reading interest of the University faculty and students by disseminating information and sharing reading experience associated with picture books. This project has successfully established a library marketing model with which the University library can demonstrate its versatile integration capability by incorporating interdisciplinary academic activities with university-wide reading promotion.
JODYSPACE1 III - 9 IRRT Free Links: An Emerging Leaders Project Providing Access to Free Professional Development Opportunities for ALA members around the world The American Library Association (ALA) International Relations Round Table (IRRT) has a large number of members from other countries. Due to logistics and costs, many of these librarians are never able to make it to an ALA conference. Yet they join IRRT and would like to receive benefit from this membership. One of the most frequent requests from these librarians is for IRRT to help identify free web-based tutorials and professional development opportunities that they can easily access. IRRT proposed this idea for inclusion in the 2008 ALA Emerging Leaders program and the six of us volunteered for this exciting project.
In this poster session, we will present how we identified and selected professional development tutorials in the area of technology training. We will demonstrate how we used Web 2.0 technology tools to promote and disseminate the information. In addition, we will present our selection criteria and the potential for future development of the project. The goal of the project is to help international librarians stay current with library information and trends in the United States and elsewhere in an easily accessible format.
JODYSPACE1 III - 10 A Showcase of International Collaboration Successes: Asian Libraries With Other Libraries Around the World In previous decades, many libraries in Asia tended to be isolated from contact with other libraries around the world. This was particularly true in China, Mongolia, & Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, & Indonesia, . However, in recent years, this has begun to change! Visionary Asian library directors, teamed with new communication possibilities (email, VoIP, etc.), have begun launching exciting collaboration endeavors with libraries outside their countries. These endeavors have included email knowledge sharing, material donation/exchanges, joint e-resource partnerships…staff exchanges, and much more! It has included library-to-library collaboration between both neighboring countries (such as, between Thailand and Cambodia) as well as with far-away countries (the U.S., Australia, Europe, etc.)
This poster session will showcase these successful efforts, showing inspiring photos and “how we did it” explanations. This will be an inspiration to all librarians who stop by—whether U.S. or international—on networking with other libraries abroad. This session will showcase up to a dozen real-life cases. Best of all, some of the library directors themselves, who launched these endeavors, will be present to share their experience first-hand (U.S. visas are currently being sought). The session will be co-presented by a U.S. librarian who is chronicling all these collaborative efforts.
JODYSPACE1 III - 11 Globalizing Academic Library Resources and Services Initiatives, however well intended and worthwhile, bring challenges. Numerous academic libraries face institutional proposals to “internationalize the curriculum” or “globalize the university.” As much as librarians may welcome increases in international students, study abroad, and courses which examine countries beyond the U.S., these changes bring new demands: the student instant messaging from Spain for proxy server help, exchange students whose home libraries have very different rules, regulations, and services; and faculty requests for large buying sprees in previously underdeveloped collection areas.
DePauw University has a major campus-wide internationalization initiative which includes increasing the international presence on campus, through recruiting and supporting international students & faculty, curricular changes, and strongly encouraging our students and faculty to travel abroad for research and university sponsored service trips.
DePauw librarians are committed to supporting these efforts. This poster provides examples of our work to collaborate with other university offices to support international students’ information needs, proactively develop collections (including scholarly resources, recreational, career, and self help materials), and provide long-distance reference, ILL, and other services to students and faculty abroad.
JODYSPACE1 III - 12 Capacity building for school librarians in the Arabian Gulf Research has indicated that school libraries matter in students academic achievement in schools (Lance Wellborn & Hamilton-Pennell, 1993), especially with input from trained, well skilled and informed librarians (Lance 1994, Lance, Hamilton-Pennell, Rodney 2000). If librarians in schools are not trained in the profession as teacher librarians, it is highly unlikely that many students will be successful. Majority of teacher librarians in schools in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have no academic training in the profession. In the absence of formal library schools in UAE, librarians at Zayed University in collaboration with the Ministry of Education developed a program to build skills of school librarians. This poster documents efforts made to train school librarians, it will present the process, curriculum, assessment and benefits of the program as discussed by graduates from the training.
JODYSPACE1 III - 13 From the Dresden Codex to Scanning Robots: The 2007 German Library Study Tour The 2007 Germany Library study tour was coordinated by the Initiative for Continuing Education in Academic and Research-Oriented Special Libraries and Related Institutions (www.initiativefortbildung.de) with generous support from the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation (www.cc-stiftung.de) and took place from October 2 – 14. The program’s aim is to acquaint German and American librarians with their counterparts and to open a dialogue of exchange and cooperation. Ten American librarians were selected for the study tour representing the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau, Arizona State Library, U.S. Department of State, Louisiana Senate Law Library, North Carolina General Assembly Legislative Library, South Carolina State Library, Library of Congress Law Library and Congressional Research Services, and The Brookings Institution. In Berlin, tour members visited the Bundestag, Federal Foreign Office, and German Institute for International and Security Affairs. In Hamburg, the Max Planck Institute and the State Parliament. In Dresden, the Saxon Parliament and the Saxon State Library. In Munich, the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property. The tour ended with a visit to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, and the Federal Constitutional Court and the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe. This poster session will detail the highlights of the study tour.
JODYSPACE1 III - 14 Sharing and Reusing Book Resources: The Book Exchange Day Activity of Public Libraries in Taiwan In order to popularize the habit of reading and encourage residents in Taiwan to share and reuse book resources, the National Taichung Library (NTL) integrated the Book Exchange Activity once held locally by public libraries at different time and places into a big festival called National Book Exchange Day that takes place simultaneously in public libraries nation-wide.
This festival has been very successful and gained its reputation since 2004, resulting in a noticeable development in many aspects : (1) Participant libraries: from 268 to 303, (2) Volumes of books for exchange nation-wide: from about 270,000 to 510,000, (3) Exchanged books: from 180,000 to 388,000, (4)Participants: from about 79,000 to 167,000.
In 2005 the amount of participants exceeded 100,000. When the activity was over, the NTL donated the rest of books to some county public libraries in remote region and especially to Chopin's Corner Foundation in Houston, U.S.A. to help found Chopin's Corner Library (about 40,000 volumes).
The National Book Exchange Day will be going on for the 5th year in 2008. This activity held annually during summer vacation has become an indispensable festival through which all public libraries aim to promote reading activity on the island. Such a festival also meets residents’ needs of searching for treasure from books and sharing knowledge resources.
JODYSPACE1 III - 15 Is it worth it?: Online learning in the United Arab Emirates. There is common acknowledgement of the perceived value of online information literacy tutorials worldwide. There are extensive examples of the development of web-based information literacy courses in many countries, and at any conference, a bevy of teachers and librarians still wishing that their institution would support such a direction. But is it worth it?
The development of online tutorials and course web sites require a substantial commitment of time, expertise and resources both for their development and ongoing maintenance. Good instructional design models include an evaluation phase which is easy to overlook and time consuming to implement. More academic research, however, concentrates on determining the usability of web tutorials, how to create relevant tutorials, or the comparative value of online vs face-to-face instruction, than on the extent to which students use and learn from these online resources.
At Zayed University a purpose-built tutorial web site was developed in 2005, entitled Infoasis, which provided modular self paced information literacy resources to be used in conjunction with face-to-face instruction. (http://www.zu.ac.ae/infoasis) During 2006 and 2007 empirical research tried to determine the usage and value of Infoasis, taking into consideration both the more ‘traditionally recognized’ factors that may impact on student engagement with such online resources (such as usability, prior subject knowledge, technological experience, learning styles, motivation, and autonomous learning skills), but also the specific cultural, educational and linguistic characteristics of our Arabic population of students.
This poster session will highlight the findings of this recent research, with implications for improving likely success of the engagement of Arabic students with online educational resources.
JODYSPACE1 III - 16 Designing a Collection Development Policy for Digital Libraries: South Korean Experiences This poster highlights the procedures and issues of designing a digital collection development policy (CDP) portrayed by the experiences of South Korea’s National Digital Library (NDL). NDL is under construction aiming to open in December, 2008. It centers on systematically acquiring, organizing, and preserving high-quality digital information resources, and is intended to provide a public service conducive to the endeavors to nurture digital information literacy for the people in South Korea.
There is no doubt that its collection is the most important part of the NDL’s service for education, research, interest and enlightenment. By means of its Collection Development Policy, NDL continuously monitors the strengths and weaknesses of collections, and employs strategic approaches in collection building and budget allocation in order to secure efficiency throughout the operation. Also, by opening the CDP to the public, NDL manifests its positions regarding domestic and international cooperation in the digital libraries, communication across the organization and libraries and information centers worldwide.
In this regard, a preliminary model for the NDL’s Collection Development Policy has been researched and proposed. The proposed model aims to achieve the goals of NDL by making decisions on the features and categories of collection development, priorities and magnitude of acquisition.
JODYSPACE1 III - 17 An Integrative Model Utilizing Multi-Disciplinary Resources Needed for the Advancement in Asian Studies: Special Collections in National Taiwan Normal University Asia has long enjoyed its rich and diverse artistic traditions blooming throughout its ages deep-rooted in provocative histories, cultures and languages. The task is imperative, without question, to collect their artistic expressions and works, making them easily accessible to the public for exploration, investigation and discovery. National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) Library holds a unique prominence in sharing the responsibility for this vital task, as it has acquired many relevant resources which in an integrative model would contribute in a significant way to realize the vision to deliver materials needed for the advancement in Asian Studies.
The poster will highlight the major accomplishments achieved by NTNU Library in such a critical endeavor devoted to special collections for Asian Studies. Some key characteristics of the materials collected are featured in the display, including the range of languages covered. Rare books, some dated back to 1724, make those special collections valuable to researchers. Also, our display would demonstrate how the integration of multi-disciplinary resources is made and what various academic departments in NTNU are involved in such project, including Institute of Art History, Department of Chinese, Department of History, and Department of Eastern Asian Culture and Development, etc. The display would show the integrative model that NTNU Library has come up with in making multi-disciplinary Asian resources to better serve a wider audience in their Asian studies.
JODYSPACE1 III - 18 Establishment of the First Interactive Website and Updated Directory of National Libraries of the World: www.nationallibraries.org The world has currently 216 countries of which 122 have national libraries with identified and accessible websites. The purpose of the www.nationallibraries.org website was to establish the first interactive site on one platform, update the directory of worldwide National Libraries, and increase participation close to 100% by 2009.
The researcher gathered, extended and updated national libraries’ directory data from various earlier published or online resources. The website was organized by continents and then countries. When a user clicked on a given continent or country’s map or name, the hyperlinked website of the national library of that country appeared. In addition, an interactive template has been prepared to allow all national libraries which do not yet have an accessible website or a formal library to participate in the ongoing project.
E-mails were sent to the directors or contact persons of the national libraries and requested their participation, comments, feedbacks, corrections and future recommendations of www.nationallibraries.org site.
The researcher kept all comments, feedbacks, and recommendations confidential then revised the website and directory quarterly.
JODYSPACE1 III - 19 800 million reasons why eIFL.net is a good idea This poster will present each of the major program areas of eIFL, highlighting a few key successes in each. eIFL.net consists of six main program areas, including negotiations with publishers to enable access to scholarly electronic content at affordable prices and fair terms, development and support of local library consortia in developing and transition countries, advocacy for fair copyright laws for libraries (eIFL IP), open access promotion and institutional repositories initiative (eIFL OA), support of free and Open Source software for libraries (eIFL FOSS)and knowledge sharing. The poster aims to give examples on how eIFL.net is bridging the digital divide in access to knowledge and information in its network through all its programs.
JODYSPACE1 III - 20 Central American Lending Libraries Are a Growing Reality-Collaboration is the Key Beginning with its roots as supporter of the first public lending library in Nicaragua in 2001, the Hester J. Hodgdon Libraries For All program has become a potent catalyst for the development of lending library and mobile lending library services in Central America. With its outreach emphasis on collaboration and sustainable leadership, HJH has provided access to information, seed collections of books, training programs and a simple model for sustainable lending. This poster will explore the reasons behind the burgeoning number of lending libraries. In 2001, there were none. Today, January 31, 2008, there are twenty three. There are ten started by faith based or service oriented NGO’s; three by Americans living abroad in Costa Rica and Nicaragua; three initiated by Peace Corp Volunteers in Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua; and five school or community libraries started by church mission groups. The most exciting are two libraries started by Nicaraguan community members which are striving to be independently self supporting. These groups are currently requesting leadership training, professional development, access to technology and increased collaboration as they grow and expand. This poster will discuss methods to answer those needs as outlined by Andy Hargeaves and Dean Fink, authors of sustainable leadership.
The HJH Program together with the Nicaraguan Library Association (ANIBIPA) brought the ALA/IFLA worldwide campaign, En Tu Biblioteca, to Nicaragua in 2005 and continues to work with the forty five governmental based non-lending libraries that joined the campaign. Together with ANIBIPA, The Simmons Library and Information Science Graduate School Volunteer Program, the HJH Program hosts a series of workshops and leadership events that are held annually for librarians in Central America. Handouts will be provided for those interested in this Volunteer Sustainable Leadership Project and the HJH Library In a Box Projects
JODYSPACE1 IV - 1 Empowering Survivors: A Model for Outreach Programs to Domestic Violence Service Organizations As information portals, libraries are a jumping ground for outreach programs to domestic violence survivors and the service organizations these survivors use. Using a mixed-method approach, a best practices model was created for libraries to institute outreach programs to domestic violence service organizations. The model is a compilation of past research on domestic violence issues, interviews with front-line workers, and evaluation of an online toolkit. Outreach initiatives to domestic violence survivors within the context of the library were also created with a focus on considerations for the special population. The poster will include a list of outreach initiatives for practical library use, a best practices model with an emphasis on ways to apply the model in different library settings, and a preview of a free online tool kit to personalize this outreach program for your library.
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Alan Cornish, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA (cornish@wsu.edu)
Alex Merrill, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA (merrilla@wsu.edu
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Dana W. R. Boden, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE (dboden1@unl.edu)
Joan Konecky, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE (jkonecky1@unl.edu)
Judith A. Wolfe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Love Library, Lincoln, NE (jwolf1@unlnotes.unl.edu)
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Sue Parks, University of North Texas, Denton, TX (sue.parks@unt.edu)
Kim Stanton, University of North Texas, Denton, TX (kim.stanton@unt.edu)
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Tracy Seneca, California Digital Library, Oakland, CA (tracy.seneca@ucop.edu)
Mike Wooldridge, California Digital Library, Oakland, CA (Michael.Wooldridge@ucop.edu)
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Bleue Benton, Oak Park Public Library, Oak Park, IL (bbenton@oppl.org)
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Sara Blaszczak, University of Illinois at Chicago Library, Chicago, IL (thorburn@uic.edu)
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Marielle Veve, Catalog Librarian - University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (mveve@utk.edu)
Melanie Feltner-Reichert, Metadata Librarian - University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (mfeltner@utk.edu)
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Kristen Blake, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC (kristen_blake@ncsu.edu)
Erin Stalberg, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC (erin_stalberg@ncsu.edu)
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Sian Meikle, University of Toronto Libraries, Toronto, -- State -- (sian.meikle@utoronto.ca)
Rita Vine, University of Toronto Libraries, Toronto, -- State -- (rita.vine@utoronto.ca)
Sian Meikle, University of Toronto Libraries, Toronto, -- State -- (sian.meikle@utoronto.ca)
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Greta Galindo, Contra Costa County Library, Pleasant Hill, CA (ggalindo@ccclib.org)
Jon Solomon, Contra Costa County Library, Pleasant Hill, CA (jsolomon@ccclib.org)
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Johan Oberg, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN (oberg091@umn.edu)
Laurel Haycock, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN (hayco001@umn.edu)
Nancy Herther, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN (n-hert@umn.edu)
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Allison (Ally) Krebs, Knowledge River Scholar, University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science, Tucson, AZ (akrebs@email.arizona.edu)
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Linda Dujmic, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (ld1j@andrew.cmu.edu)
Terry Hurlbert, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (th15@andrew.cmu.edu)
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Cory Lampert, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV (cory.lampert@unlv.edu)
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Carla Goble, Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, OK (cgoble@tulsacc.edu)
Anne Phillips, Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, OK (aphillip@tulsacc.edu)
Paula Eggert, Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, OK (peggert@tulsacc.edu)
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Sheila Bair, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI (sheila.bair@wmich.edu)
Paul Howell, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI (paul.howell@wmich.edu)
Miranda Howard, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI (miranda.howard@wmich.edu)
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Deborah Holmes-Wong, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (dhwong@usc.edu)
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Dr. Jamie Naidoo, University of South Carolina - School of Lib & Info Science, Columbia, SC (jnaidoo@gwm.sc.edu)
Robin Kurz, University of South Carolina - School of Lib & Info Science, Columbia, SC (robinfoglekurz@gmail.com)
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Carla Goble, Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, OK (cgoble@tulsacc.edu)
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Donna Braquet, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (dbraquet@utk.edu)
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Zhonghong Wang, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY (iwang@liu.edu)
Trish Keogh, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY (patricia.keogh@liu.edu)
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Kristin Boyett, University of North Texas, Denton, TX (kboyett@library.unt.edu)
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David Oberhelman, Oklahoma State University Library, Stillwater, OK (d.oberhelman@okstate.edu)
Helen Clements, Oklahoma State University Library, Stillwater, -- State -- (helen.clements@okstate.edu)
Barbara Miller, Oklahoma State University Library, Stillwater, OK (barbara.miller@okstate.edu)
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Ying Zhong, California State University, Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA (yzhong@csub.edu)
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Anne C. Moore, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA (annem@library.umass.edu)
Kimberly Wells, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA (kawells@library.umass.edu)
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Corinne Bishop, University of Central Florida Library, Orlando, FL (cbishop@mail.ucf.edu)
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Stephen Krashen, , , -- State -- (skrashen@yahoo.com)
Syying Lee, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics, National Taipei University, , AL (syying.lee@msa.hinet.net)
Jeff McQuillan, Senior Research Associate, Center for Educational Development, Los Angeles, CA (jeff@learningexperts.com)
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Mary Claire Vandenburg, Queen's University, Kingston, -- State -- (mcv@queensu.ca)
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Hedra Packman, Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA (packmanh@freelibrary.org)
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Maura Seale, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI (sealem@gvsu.edu)
Emily Mazure, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (emily_mazure@ncsu.edu)
Nicole Scholtz, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (nscholtz@umich.edu)
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Lisa Gieskes, ECPI College of Technology Library, Columbia, SC (lisagieskes@yahoo.com)
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Ellen Perlow, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX (eperlow@hotmail.com)
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Jill Sodt, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS (jsodt@emporia.edu)
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Laura Sare, Texas A&M University Libraries, College Station, TX (lsare@lib-gw.tamu.edu)
Kari A Kozak, Texas A&M University Libraries, College Station, TX (kkozak@lib-gw.tamu.edu)
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Kendall Hobbs, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (khobbs@wesleyan.edu)
Diane Klare, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (dklare@wesleyan.edu)
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Keith Swigger, Texas Woman's University SLIS, Denton, TX (kswigger@mail.twu.edu)
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Emily Blankenship, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC (blankenshipe@ecu.edu)
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Anne Armstrong, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL (annie@uic.edu)
Steve Brantley, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL (jbrant1@uic.edu)
La Verne Gray, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL (lagray@uic.edu)
Elizabeth Pickard, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL (epickard@uic.edu)
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Fei-yu Wang, National Taipei University, , -- State -- (effie26yu@yahoo.com.tw)
Sy-ying Lee, National Taipei University, , -- State -- (syying.lee@msa.hinet.net)
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Norah Xiao, USC Libraries: Science & Engineering Interdisciplinary Team, Los Angeles, CA (nxiao@usc.edu)
Sara Tompson, USC Libraries: Science & Engineering Interdisciplinary Team, Los Angeles, CA (sarat@usc.edu)
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Jane Kinney Meyers, Lubuto Library Project, Inc., Washington, DC (mayazi@verizon.net)
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Antonia Neubauer, READ Global, Incline Village, NV (toni@readglobal.org)
Kate Fenner, READ Global, Incline Village, NV (kate@readglobal.org)
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Natalia Poppeliers, University of South Carolina -- Aiken, Aiken, SC (nataliap@usca.edu)
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Houeida Kammourié-Charara, Lebanese American University, Beirut, -- State -- (houeida.charara@lau.edu.lb)
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Birgit Lotz, Stadtbuecherei Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, -- State -- (birgit.lotz@stadt-frankfurt.de)
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Paraskeva Dimova-Angelov, Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn, NY (pdimova@brooklyn.cuny.edu)
Karen Jessee, Jacksonville Public Library, Jacksonville, FL (KJessee@coj.net)
Holly Murten, American Corners, U.S. Department of State, , -- State -- (MurtenHT@state.gov)
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Deana Groves, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY (deana.groves@wku.edu)
Cathy Hsiao, Apple Tree Library Foundation, Sunnyvale, CA (cathy.hsiao@appletreelibrary.org)
Harriet Ying, , Beltsville, MD (hying4@gmail.com)
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Chang Chilung, , , AL (chilung@cyu.edu.tw)
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Katherine Artzner, Ernst & Young, LLP, Chicago, IL (kartzner@hotmail.com)
Kodjo Atiso, Animal Research Institute, Achimota, -- State -- (eltiso@yahoo.com)
Paloma Celis-Carbajal, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI (pcarbajal@library.wisc.edu)
LaVerne Gray, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL (lagray@uic.edu)
Robin Kear, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (rlk25@pitt.edu)
Laura Park, Pierce County Library System, Tacoma, WA (lpark@piercecountylibrary.org)
Susan Schnuer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL (schnuer@uiuc.edu)
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John Hickok, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA (jhickok@fullerton.edu)
Ida Priyanto, Gadjah Mada University, , -- State -- (idafajarpriyanto@yahoo.com)
Lourdes David, Ateneo de Manila University, , -- State -- (ltdavid@ateneo.edu)
Fatt Cheong Choy, Nanyang Technological University, , -- State -- (fcchoy@ntu.edu.sg)
Puteri Rahman, National University of Malaysia, , -- State -- (psmegat@gmail.com)
Nongnath Chairat, Srinakharinwirot University, , -- State -- (nongnath@gmail.com)
Yeelord Chutopa, Souphanouvong University, , -- State -- (yeelord@yahoo.com)
Thi Thuc Hoang, Vietnam National University HCMC Central Library, , -- State -- (hoangthuc@vnuhcm.edu.vn)
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Kathryn Millis, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN (millisk@depauw.edu)
Tiffany Hebb, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN (thebb@depauw.edu)
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Mary Sengati-Zimba, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, -- State -- (Mary.Sengati-Zimba@zu.ac.ae)
Shaikha Al Muhairi, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, -- State -- (Shaikha.Al-Muhairi@zu.ac.ae)
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Curtis Rogers, South Carolina State Library, Columbia, SC (crogers@statelibrary.sc.gov)
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Shiuan-chyn Yang, National Taichung Library, Taichung City, -- State -- (y101@ntl.gov.tw)
Yuan-chung Wang, National Taichung Library, Taichung City, -- State -- (p201@ntl.gov.tw)
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Janet Martin, Zayed University, Dubai, -- State -- (janet.martin@zu.ac.ae)
Jane Birks, Zayed University, Dubai, -- State -- (jane.birks@zu.ac.ae)
Fiona Hunt, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, -- State -- (fiona.hunt@zu.ac.ae)
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Durk Chang, Pusan National University, Pusan, -- State -- (dchang@pusan.ac.kr)
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Chao-Chen Chen, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, -- State -- (cc4073@ntnu.edu.tw)
Ming-Jane Chen, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, -- State -- (e53012@ntnu.edu.tw)
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Suzanne Gyeszly, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha, AL (suzanne.gyeszly@qatar.tamu.edu)
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Rima Kupryte, eIFL.net, Rome, -- State -- (rima.kupryte@eifl.net)
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Jane Mirandette, The Hester J. Hodgdon Libraries For ALL Program, Loveland, CO (janem101@aol.com)
John Furlong, Brentwood Public Library, Brnetwood, MO (jtfurlong@sbcglobal.net)
Athena Michael, MLIS, John Wiley & Sons , Inc., Winchester, VA (amichael@wiley.com)
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Ann Serrano, University of Texas at Austin, School of Information, Austin, TX (annms@ischool.utexas.edu)
Lynn Westbrook, University of Texas at Austin, School of Information, Austin, TX (lynnwest@ischool.utexas.edu)
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