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- Introducing LibGuides! Fri, Aug 29, 2008 4:59 pm You might have heard recently that there’s a new research guide format that the reference folks have been learning to use. It’s called LibGuides, and allows for users to create research guides that take advantage of a number of web 2.0 tools. We’re still learning, but you can see some of the examples here. Not [...]
- Dedicated Deacon Fri, Aug 22, 2008 9:57 am Person Recognized Giz Womack Given By Lauren P Reason Thanks for helping me move! Person Recognized Mary Scanlon Given By Lauren P Reason Thanks for helping me move! Person Recognized Heather Gillette Given By Lauren P Reason Thanks for helping me move! Person Recognized Erik Mitchell Given By Lauren P Reason Thanks for leaving a clean office for me! Person Recognized Giz Womack Given By Sharon Snow Reason Giz helped a bunch in getting furniture to Rare. Thanks ever so much! Person Recognized Scott [...]
- Orphaned microfilm finds new home Thu, Aug 7, 2008 11:56 am It is with much joy that the ZSR library shipped the first set of our orphaned microfim off to a new home today. In recent years the library was able to replace these collections with online versions of the material and we were excited to learn of a library last week who was interested in [...]
- A Visit With UNCG Tue, Aug 5, 2008 5:04 pm Today some of the RITS team members, Kevin, Kaeley, Sarah, and I, traveled to UNC-G to meet with reference librarians interested in technology at Jackson Library. It was a good meeting with a turnout of about 12 library staff members between UNCG and WFU. The conversation was casual, with short demonstrations of some of the different [...]
- Government Documents/Microtext Consolidation Project Fri, Aug 1, 2008 2:54 pm For the past three years, an ongoing weeding project has been taking place in ZSR Library’s Government Documents Department. As more resources go online, efforts are being made to convert to electronic and reclaim much needed shelf space by removing out-of-date and out-of-scope materials. We work with the Regional Depository at UNC to ensure that [...]
- Zephyrs Take Silver in the 2008 Summer Olympics Wed, Jul 30, 2008 2:58 pm Today was the final competition for the 2008 WFU Staff Summer Olympics. The challenge was a relay: Prentice and Mary Beth formed a human wheelbarrow (Prentice started out holding up Mary Beth as she walked on her hands, but they switched off midway). Then, when they arrive at the pie table, Prentice had to eat [...]
- Summer Olympic Update #4 Wed, Jul 23, 2008 9:14 pm Zephyrs’ Croquet Team The 2008 WFU Summer Olympics is drawing to a close next week. But there are still competitions and lifestyle points to be accumulated! This week, croquet was the contest, a first for the Olympics series. None of the Zephyrs were ringers for this sport, one that dates back to the middle ages. The goal [...]
- Talking With Wake Students Wed, Jul 23, 2008 3:02 pm Over the past few months, Kevin and I have gotten together with a few sets of students to conduct some informal focus groups. The students we have spoken with, though a small group, have been from all years and from varying majors. Our aim is to better understand how our students find information, how they [...]
- Update on RITS Organization Efforts Sat, Jul 19, 2008 9:39 am During the past several weeks since the Research, Instruction and Technology Services Team was formed, efforts have been underway to establish its structure. Initial organizational structure was announced last week. Two team sub-units have been established to facilitate daily operations. Roz Tedford has been appointed Assistant Head of Research and Instruction Services and Erik Mitchell has [...]
- Dedicated Deacon Nominations for July Thu, Jul 17, 2008 4:13 pm Person Recognized Scott Adair Dedicated Deacon Winner Given By Mary Beth Reason Thanks to Scott for helping immeasurably with the walk through of the library, to prepare us all for the Fire Marshal visit at the end of July. He also undertook the final walk with Scott Frasier while I was vacationing. Thanks, Scott! Person Recognized Prentice Armstrong Given By Roz & [...]
Professional Development
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- Copyright and the Library Tue, Aug 26, 2008 3:30 pm In late July, early August I attended a three week e-learning course hosted by ACRL titled “Copyright and The Library, Part 1: The Basics Including Fair Use.” In addition to discussion board postings and online readings, class members participated in weekly homework and library assessment assignments, audio lectures, and question and answer AIM sessions. [...]
- Sarah at the Innovation in Instruction Conference Fri, Aug 22, 2008 2:42 pm On August 21st, I attended Elon University’s 5th Annual Innovation in Instruction Conference. Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, was the keynote speaker. I won’t rehash the details already reported upon by Lauren, but the take-home lesson for me is that we should teach less of an “Information Paradigm” but [...]
- Innovation in Instruction Fri, Aug 22, 2008 12:28 pm Yesterday I attended Elon University’s 5th Innovation in Instruction Conference. I’ve attended almost all of them, and each year they get better. This year’s keynote should make it clear how impressive the event has become. Michael Wesch, of The Machine in Us(ing) Us, Information R/evolution, and A Vision of Students Today fame, was the keynote [...]
- Kevin at MERLOT Mon, Aug 11, 2008 8:45 am The eighth annual MERLOT Conference, held in Minneapolis, had much to offer. Under the banner of “Still Blazing the Trail and Meeting New Challenges in the Digital Age”, there were an impressive number of sessions (from 15 minute mini-sessions up to 2 hour workshops) shared among several different conference tracks. The library track, ‘Reinventing Libraries [...]
- Susan’s MERLOT Report Sun, Aug 10, 2008 5:34 pm I’m starting this report with a disclaimer: I arrived in Minneapolis to attend and present at MERLOT International Conference this weekend AFTER a long week of intensive learning in Cambridge. So, I am admitting up front to the fact that my brain was already on overload. Thus, my notes are much more brief than Lauren [...]
- Lauren at MERLOT Sun, Aug 10, 2008 1:10 pm This was my first MERLOT International conference. I had heard it was really good from Susan, so Susan, Kevin, and I proposed a session on blogs and wikis, were accepted, and went to Minneapolis for MERLOT. As a somewhat techy conference, there were power strips on every table in almost every conference program room. Fabulous touch! [...]
- One Last Leadership Institute Session to Share Fri, Aug 8, 2008 7:00 pm Joe Zolner Our final session this morning was designed to pull together everything we have been learning this week and get us thinking about how we can use what we’ve learned to develop our ability to become change agents at our institutions. Joe Zolner, our program leader and primary instructor this week, shared his thoughts on “The [...]
- Final Days at the Institute Fri, Aug 8, 2008 6:40 am Our Discussion Group at Breakfast Yesterday was another full day of sessions and learning. We worked on two case studies - the first was about the Boston Lyric Opera where we examined how a non-profit organization used a specific tool, the Balanced Scorecard, to improve its organizational performance and outcomes. I could see how this can [...]
- ACRL Immersion: Final Thoughts Thu, Aug 7, 2008 7:56 pm I didn’t post about my last day an a half at the ACRL Intentional Teacher Immersion program primarily because it was pretty intense and I needed time to process it. Again, I won’t bore you with the details, but it involved pretty intense discussions of what we percieve to be weaknesses in our teaching that were [...]
- Library Assessment Conference cont’d. Wed, Aug 6, 2008 11:54 pm Beginning with Tuesday temperatures soared in the 90’s for a Seattle high. The Student Union building where the sessions are held lacks sufficient air conditioning and opening the windows just didn’t get it. Being without air in my office for the last couple of weeks I guess I should have felt right at home. Nonetheless [...]