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In June 2010, I traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend the American Library Association's annual conference. I attended the following sessions:Beyond Library Guides: Libguides as a Platform for Student Research ProjectsPecha Kucha Presentations of Marketing Ideas that Worked in Academic LibrariesLibrary Instruction Live! Reaching Distance Students in Real TimeAssessment for the Rest of UsEach of

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This years' IUG conference in Chicago was attended by 1,075 people from 19 different countries. The keynote speaker at the opening session was Scott Simon, host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday. The big buzz at this year's conference was SkyRiver, a new bibliographic utility offering a low cost alternative to OCLC for cooperative cataloging. I attended the session "SkyRiver: an Introduction" in

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The inaugural issue of the Journal of Library Innovation (JOLI) was published in March 2010. Vol. 1, Issue 1 (2010) is the culmination of more than 2 years of work by a very dedicated Editorial Team of volunteer librarians from across Western New York. (My editorial provides more discussion.) This online only, open-access, peer-reviewed journal is published by the Western New York Library

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In January 2009, I was accepted as a fellow in the WNYLRC/RRLC Leadership Institute. The fellows met once a month in March, April, May, June, September, and October. Graduation took place on November 18, 2009. Maureen Sullivan, owner of Maureen Sullivan Associates, Professor of Practice in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science Ph.D. Program in Managerial

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I attended sessions at the American Library Association's Annual Conference in Chicago, July 11-13, 2009. In selecting which sessions to attend, I looked for topics including research methodologies and using data to develop collections and services. When I attended this conference, I was new to my role as Library Director.I attended the following sessions:Designing Effective Research Surveys :

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The Association of College and Research Libraries Workshop, Scholarly Communication 101, was held at the University at Buffalo on June 4, 2009. The workshop was facilitated by Marianne Buehler, head of Publishing & Scholarship Support Services, Rochester Institute of Technology; Joy Kirchner, Collections, Licensing, Digital Scholarship, University of British Columbia Libraries; and Molly Kleinman

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The 2009 Innovative Users Group Annual Conference was held in Anaheim, California, May 18-20, 2009. I attended a number of interesting sessions over three days. We went live with Millennium circulation and cataloging in July 2008 and had been working in acquisitions for about six months at the time of the conference. Liz Evans and I were able to attend sessions relative to our needs at

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On April 27, 2009, I attended a Middle States Commission on Higher Education retreat in New York City with Medaille colleagues Douglas Howard, Barbara Kurasch, Brad Hollingshead and Judith Horowitz. The retreat, Fostering a Campus Culture of Assessment: A Retreat for Campus Leaders was held at Pace University. This retreat gave us the opportunity to brainstorm strategies related to assessment.

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I have been very busy professionally, and plan on adding new posts soon about that. On a personal note, life has been a challenge since September 2008 when my husband was injured at work. He herniated discs in his neck while moving a bag of packages at UPS. From the moment he was injured, the worker's compensation system worked to delay his treatment and he was turned away from health care

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October 1, 2008Legal Issues in Digitization ProgramsGrant writing: Include section on c. issues & how to deal w/ it in order to get funding—many funders are now requesting this info.Copyright issues in a couple different areas: grants & contracts--Contracts: copyright statements on web, deeds of gift, etc.--Contract issues are of paramount importance onlineLack of mandatory copyright registration

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In August 2008, two committees at Medaille College, Faculty Development and the Ad Hoc Educational Technology Committee, teamed up to present an event about Web 2.0 and education. With short notice to prepare the event, a local presenter was chosen. John Thompson, Associate Professor in the Computer Information Systems Department at Buffalo State College gave a lecture/presentation. The presenter

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On September 23, 2008, Laura Osterhout, Regional Services Librarian at the Western New York Library Resources Council (WNYLRC), and I taught "Introduction to CONTENTdm for WNY Legacy". This 5 hour workshop was attended by 11 local library employees, mostly librarians, and was part of WNYLRC's Digitization Boot Camp: Image Series. The advertisement for this workshop stated: During this session,

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This past spring has flown by with work devoted to our library system migration: training classes, weeding projects, testing, and data analysis. We are now ready to move from the test database to our "live" database.One project management tool that has worked very well is our wiki. The Medaille Library Support Sevices wiki now contains information specific to our decisions made regarding best

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For our migration project, I have committed the Support Services team to documenting our decisions on a wiki. I hope this will prove a worthy task in the future when we (or someone following us) wants to know why or when a decision was made regarding cataloging and ILS management. I have also asked the two other people in Support Services to provide me with quarterly reports including projects

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It has been almost 2 months since my last post, but rest assured, I have been busy. Not only did the usual holiday preparations and festivities consume my time away from work, but I have been busy at work with the beginnings of migrating our library's catalog to Innovative Interfaces Inc.'s Millennium integrated library system (ILS). At Medaille, we are not using a full ILS; we use TLC's catalog

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On November 6, 2007, I attended the Introduction to Second Life demonstration given by Jill Hurst-Wahl of Hurst Associates, Ltd. at WNYLRC. Jill discussed what librarians are doing in Second Life (SL): providing reference and reader advisory services, networking, supporting virtual communities, learning to use virtual space for education. It is possible to use Second Life for free; Jill has been

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I just read a blog post by Karen Coombs about re-thinking the approach we librarians take in developing our library websites. I agree with her thoughts. My mission is to make sure the library is visible where our community is looking for information. One of the first things I did was request that the library's website be added as a link in the "Campus Bookmark" section in the College's course

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Pam Sandlian-Smith referred to Change or Die: the three keys to change at work and in life by Alan Deutschman (Los Angeles : Regan, c2007) in her talk at ALA on transformation of staff, so I decided to read it. Why won't people make changes when their lives are at risk? For example, why do most heart attack survivors not make permanent lifestyle changes to insure a longer life? Deutschman

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The Transforming Your Staff program at ALA was my favorite program. I found something valid in what each of the speakers had to say. This program was part of the Libraries Transform Communities track and was presented by Maureen Sullivan, Consultant; Tom Galante, Queens Library; Stanley Wilder, University of Rochester; and Pam Sandlian-Smith, West Palm Beach Public Library.

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The session Transforming your Library, and Your Library's Future, with Technology was part of the Libraries Transform CommunitiesTrack organized by ALA President Leslie Berger. The speakers were Lori Ayre, Galecia Group; Casey Bisson, Plymouth State University; and Roy Tennant, OCLC.Lori Ayre:Use physical spaces differently; use physical technology to create the best environment for our

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On Friday, June 22, I set off for Washington, D.C. with my colleague, Liz Evans, to attend the American Library Association's (ALA) Annual Conference. Now, this is a BIG conference--there were 28,635 people in attendance according to a press release from ALA. We had all day Saturday and Sunday to attend programs and visit the vendor exhibits. The weather was fantastic, making it a pleasure to

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On June 14, I attended a presentation made by George Needham, Vice President of Member Services, OCLC. His talk was centered around three OCLC publications: The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan, Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources, and the soon-to-be-published Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World. The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan identifies the "information consumer" as an

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Ok, what do we call the library of today (and for a few days in the future)? Just like Bibliographic instruction morphed into Information Literacy and now, Library Instruction, so too now the "Information Commons" has become the "Learning Commons". Being a support services kind of librarian for the most part, I have found that the relationship I have with IT has always been essential to my

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In Meredith Farkas' blogpost today she references another librarian's (Librarian in Black) posting regarding presence on social networking sites. She has created a profile on 7 sites and complains about not having the time to keep up with posting to all of them. Personally, I don't understand her need to create all these accounts or her need to update them constantly. Ever hear of "less is

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These presentations were noteworthy for me:Meredith Farkas spoke about building collaboration, communication and community online. Her blog is Information Wants To Be Free.Nicole Engard of Jenkins Law Library spoke about her library's use of intranet-based blogs and wikis for project management and documentation. Her blog is What I Learned Today. See her posting about "The Future of the Catalog"

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Steven Bell's Keeping Up website is well-known by librarians. In a recent post on the ACRL blog, Steven admits that it is even getting hard for him to keep up these days!

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The keynote speaker on the first day of the conference was Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Internet & American Life Project. See the website for interesting data on Internet trends.I attended 4 more presentations that day. Rebecca Jones of Dysart & Jones Associates talked about Organizing 2.0. Web 2.0 is about relationships and collaborations; our organizational structures don't parallel these changes

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I attended the Computers in Libraries conference in Arlington, Virginia, April 16-18, 2007. This was the first time I had attended this conference. While the content presented was excellent, the logistics at the conference hotel were terrible. There just wasn't enough space for the 2600+ attendees to move around easily. With a Noreaster' blowing for two days, it was tough to venture outside the

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