Conference Sessions - A to Z
- Becoming Library 2.0 Compliant: Developing Staff Training | Presentation
- Case Studies: Interactive Discussion about Real-Life Library Management Situations
- Connecting Generations for Organizational Success
- Consortial Catalogs: Group Cataloging for Fun and Profit | Presentation
- Electronic Databases: Ensuring the Best Fit for Your Library
- Emerging from the Pack: How ALA’s Emerging Leaders Institute Can Jumpstart Your Professional Development and Open the Door to National Committee Involvement
- Google-Ize Your Library
- IM'ing Overload: Managing IM Patrons and Making Software Decisions | Handout | Presentation
- The Making of a “Make-over”: Redesigning the KU Libraries’ Web Pages
- Meeting of the Minds. The State Library answers your questions about “Changing Times” in ILL, ILDP and state Databases!
- OLE Project: Re-thinking the Integrated Library System for the 21st Century
- Open Access on the Range: Opportunities for Collaboration
- Optimizing the Online Catalog: Experiences at Wichita State University
- Reinventing Our Thinking: Epistemologies of Library and Information Science for Changing Times
- Re-Inventing You: Creating a Blended Librarian
- A Renewed Approach Towards Collection Development and Management in Academic Libraries | Presentation
- Scholarly Research: Internet & Web 2.0 | Presentation
- Searching for the President: Creating Custom Search Engines for Your Library
- Telecommuting: Win-Win for Employer and Employee
- Training 2.0: Using online tools to improve the efficiency, efficacy, and accessibility of training for library employees | Handout | Presentation Part I | Presentation Part II
- University of Kansas Libraries Collaboration with the Athletic Department
Sessions - Conference Order
Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Keynote Address
Regency D
“Perspectives on What Librarians Need to Know for the Changing Workplace”
Dr. Gwen Alexander, Dean of the School of Library and Information Management, Emporia State University
More than practical skills, librarians need to know how to develop agility in their work to meet the challenge of accelerating changes. Agility within the information organization is defined through the lenses of leadership, culture, people, systems, and settings.
1:00 – 3:30 Poster Displays
(will be attended 2:15-3:15)
- Electronic Databases: Ensuring the Best Fit for Your Library
Timothy Heiges, EBSCO Publishing
Database vendors describe individual databases based on the number of publications indexed and /or available in full text. To thoroughly evaluate such lists, librarians must evaluate the numbers to gain a full explanation of full-text databases and how content can be assessed by reading between the lines. This session will expose the value of full text content behind those numbers.
- Searching for the President: Creating Custom Search Engines for Your Library
Amalia Monroe, University of Kansas
This poster will demonstrate how to create custom search engines (CSE) for libraries. I will use a CSE on the 2008 presidential election developed for the KU Libraries as part election guide as an example. The development process and benefits of the technology will be outlined.
2:15 - 3:15
- University of Kansas Libraries Collaboration with the Athletic Department
Julie Petr and Tami Albin, University of Kansas
The University of Kansas Libraries has partnered with the University athletic department for the last two summers to offer a one-hour credit information literacy course, LA&S 292: Research Methods and Information Literacy, for incoming student-athletes. This presentation will describe how the class was developed, uniquely collaborating with both the athletic department and the University Writing Center. In essence, we partnered to create a mini “learning community” for these students.
- Case Studies: Interactive Discussion about Real-Life Library Management Situations
Gloria Creed-Dikeogu, Ottawa University, and Rita Sevart, Wichita Area Technical College
Case studies will be presented to the group, and attendees will offer suggestions for improving the problem situations. Cases may include dealing with the boss, working with co-workers from outside the library, planning meetings, hassling with technology, and playing the game we call life in the library.
- Optimizing the Online Catalog: Experiences at Wichita State University
Gemma Blackburn and Sai Deng, Wichita State University
In February 2008 the OPAC Redesign and Evaluation Team at Wichita State University Libraries was charged to investigate options to improve the online catalog to provide better access for all library users. This presentation will outline the needs perceived by the WSU Libraries, along with the options considered to enhance the catalog and the reasons behind choosing or rejecting those options. The actual implementation of these changes will also be discussed. While many aspects of this presentation will be most useful to ExLibris Voyager customers (the integrated library system used by the WSU Libraries), such as the discussions of optimizing settings built-in to the Voyager ILS, and ideas developed and shared by other Voyager customers, this presentation aims to transcend vendor by discussing wider-issues that will affect most libraries.
- A Renewed Approach Towards Collection Development and Management in Academic Libraries | Presentation
Barbara M. Pope, Pittsburg State University, Sam Rogers, Emporia State University, and Mary Bailey, Kansas State University
This presentation will address the changing nature of collection development and management in academic libraries. Whereas collection development once emphasized ownership of print materials, it has evolved to include electronic resources. This change has prompted the authors to re-examine their approach towards collection development and the nature of the academic library collection as a whole. In addition, it has prompted changes in work flows, staffing, and training. The presenters will reflect on how their approach to collection development has changed due to influences such as costs, budgets, technology, and space.
Jason Coleman, Danielle Theiss-White, and Erin Fritch, Kansas State University
Three general reference librarians will provide an overview of the applications they and other libraries are using to provide thorough, ongoing, hi-quality, low-cost training to all their employees. Examples of training materials developed with applications such as course management systems, a screencasting program (Jing), scheduling tools (Doodle), wikis, blogs (Typepad), microblogs (Twitter), feed readers (NetVibes), Google Docs, and Google Groups will be presented.
3:30 – 4:30
- Connecting Generations for Organizational Success
Alysia Starkey and Heidi Blackburn, K-State-Salina, and Kate Wise, Cloud County Community College
Libraries are not exempt from the organizational clash of the baby boomers and the millennials. Recent literature touts the challenges baby boomers face in managing the millennial generation. However, little literature exists documenting the challenge more and more millennials face in managing the baby boomer generation. This presentation examines the individual characteristics of the two groups. It also explores the notion of “internal customer service” as a tool to bridge the generational differences and create a balanced organization.
- Emerging from the Pack: How ALA’s Emerging Leaders Institute Can Jumpstart Your Professional Development and Open the Door to National Committee Involvement
Regina M. Beard and Jenny McCraw Dale, Kansas State University
This presentation will examine professional development activities through the lens of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Emerging Leaders program as experienced by two of its participants from K-State Libraries. By sharing our experiences, we plan to demonstrate that the entire process, from application to the closing poster session, is a series of professional development activities. While there were no clear cut outcomes (no committee assignments or projects) for us, meeting and working with librarians from outside institutions, learning to overcome the challenges of working in a virtual environment, hearing from ALA leadership at the two conference meetings, and getting a taste of what serving on a national committee could look like proved to be invaluable.
- The Making of a “Make-over”: Redesigning the KU Libraries’ Web Pages
Frances Devlin, Erin Ellis, Scott Hanrath, and Lea Currie, University of Kansas
This panel will discuss various stages involved in their web page redesign, from the planning stages to gathering user input through the use of “personas”, and the establishment of working groups to focus on a long-term plan. The first stage, a new design for the library home page, was implemented in time for the Fall 2008 Semester and introduced a new federated search tool primarily focused for undergraduate use to search and discover the libraries’ resources.
- Telecommuting: Win-Win for Employer and Employee
Kristin Whitehair and Rebecca Brown, University of Kansas Medical Center
As our work in libraries evolves with new technological development and changing user needs, opportunities for alternative work arrangements are now possible. This session will explore how telecommuting benefits employers and employees. The presentation will be divided into the two topics: 1) strategies for framing and presenting a telecommuting proposal, and 2) technological tools for telecommuting.
- Becoming Library 2.0 Compliant: Developing Staff Training | Presentation
Terri Summey, Emporia State University
Like other academic libraries, Emporia State University is working to integrate Library 2.0 concepts and social networking tools into their services to transform the library into a more personalized and user centered facility. Unfortunately many of the librarians and staff at ESU are “digital immigrants,” and in order to implement Library 2.0 technologies, the librarians and library staff must first learn about the social networking tools themselves. This session will look at several Web 2.0 technologies, including wikis, weblogs, Facebook, and instant messaging, and how to develop a training program for librarians and library staff. It will explore how library staff and librarians can utilize the social networking tools to bring the library to our users.
Friday, October 24
- Open Access on the Range: Opportunities for Collaboration
Ada Emmett, John Stratton, and Holly Mercer, University of Kansas
In February 2008 Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to grant Harvard a copy of the published articles of their faculty for deposit in an open access repository. Universities around the country are increasingly wondering if these types of faculty-led and faculty-driven initiatives are possible at their respective institutions. The purpose of this meeting would be to provide an opportunity to exchange information with other Kansas librarians about how we might develop a collaborative and coordinated approach to extending the reach of the Open Access Movement into the fabric of the academic cultures across the state.
Lissa Lord, University of Kansas Libraries, Regents Center Library
This session takes a real life college assignment, a reference librarian and a class of Generation XYZs into a land of research possibility and new definition—precisely, Web2.0. The professor’s topic: Write a paper describing an aspect of the aftermath of the Greensburg, Kansas tornado and base your work on primary sources uncovered during research. The “old way” of research will not work for this current and local experience. This new process could be called the Tao of Online Scholarly Research. This session will give you road signs and direction to use along the way of your own research journey.
Jill Sodt and Tyler Williams, Emporia State University
Google has many great gems that can make finding information fast and fun. When you tell someone to “Google It,” there is so much more they can do beyond basic keyword searches for websites. Part of this presentation will show the audience how to use Google to get directions and see where you’re going, find phone numbers and other information for free with your cell phone, and much more. See what else Google Labs has in the works and what this might mean for librarians. The second part of the presentation will show librarians how to use Google Sites (originally JotSpot) to make interactive and informative subjects guides…for free
- Reinventing Our Thinking: Epistemologies of Library and Information Science for Changing Times
Julie Buchsbaum, University of Kansas
A positivist perspective governs much of the thinking and methodologies of research in the field of library and information science. This session explores different epistemological positions that depart from the traditional positivist viewpoint and that might lead to more fruitful ways of thinking about professional practice within the field of LIS. Some of these positions include perspectivism, standpoint epistemology, poststructuralism, hermeneutic phenomenology, and neopragmatism.
- Meeting of the Minds. The State Library answers your questions about “Changing Times” in ILL, ILDP and state Databases!
Donna Hobbs, Manhattan Area Technical College
Question and answer session highlighting State Library changes. Starting with a 5 min overview in each area of change, experts from the State library and other organizations, will answer questions from a panel as well as the audience. Topics covered may include state database changes and statistics, ILL upgrades and changes, and ILDP challenges.
10:45 – 11:45
- Re-Inventing You: Creating a Blended Librarian
Cindy Logan, Kansas State University Vet Med
This presentation will focus on the skills and competencies of a blended librarian and reviews the advantages and disadvantages of a position. The new blended librarian at the Veterinary Medical Library, Kansas State University was immediately immersed in the instructional component of training for a paperless curriculum initiative. Elements of the initiative will be shared.
- Consortial Catalogs: Group Cataloging for Fun and Profit | Presentation
Morgan McCune, Pittsburg State University
As costs rise and budgets fall, groups of institutions often need to stick together to purchase services, including library catalogs. How does group cataloging work? This presentation will review the Pittsburg State University consortial catalog experience from a cataloger’s point of view. More hands in the catalog require more organization and more training (and often more patience from everyone), but it also means there are more hands to support one another. We can have fun, and our patrons will profit from our group endeavor.
- OLE Project: Re-thinking the Integrated Library System for the 21st Century
Beth Forrest Warner and Mary Roach, University of Kansas
The University of Kansas is a core-partner in the recently announced Mellon-funded Open Library Environment (OLE) Project. The OLE Project’s goal is to design a next-generation, open-source library system that is customizable and flexible enough to meet the changing and complex needs of 21st-century libraries and library users. The grant project, overseen by Duke University Libraries, is an initiative to develop a design document for library automation technology that fits modern library workflows, is built on Service Oriented Architecture, and offers an alternative to commercial Integrated Library System products. This presentation will describe the project and invite discussion on ways in which the library community can be involved in this collaborative venture.
Danielle Theiss-White, Laura Bonella, Jason Coleman, Jenny McCraw Dale, Erin Fritch, Kansas State University
K-State Librarians began offering Instant Messaging reference service in October 2006 and added text messaging reference service in December 2007. This presentation explains how their reasons are applicable to all libraries and describes how easy it is to implement MeeboMe widgets and use Meebo to simultaneously monitor and respond to all questions coming through the widgets, through client-side IM applications, or through text messaging. Also, the presentation includes how to promote the service and deal with the challenges of growth, which for K-State meant moving from Meebo to Libraryh3lp and increasing staff monitoring the service during peak times.
12:00 noon CULS Business Meeting and Luncheon
- "Travel, Read, Research and Write: One Novelist's Perspective"
Thomas Fox Averill, Department of English, Washburn University, speaker
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