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- Carpenter Library Open House Fri, Nov 20, 2009 1:03 pm On Wednesday, November 18, Lynn, Mary Beth, Mary, Chris, Travis, and I traveled across town to visit the recently renovated Coy C. Carpenter Library at the Bowman Gray Campus during their celebratory Open House. The renovation project, which began in June 2009, was completed in three stages, and integrated three departments within the Medical Center: [...]
- Amazing Instruction Stats Thu, Nov 19, 2009 10:46 pm If the folks in Research and Instruction have looked a bit like deer caught in headlights this semester there is good reason. Our statistics are through the roof for both library instruction ‘one shot’ classes as well as one-on-one personal research sessions. So far this semester we have taught 124 one-shot library instruction sessions to [...]
- Boot Camp for Professors- a panel discussion by the survivors Wed, Nov 18, 2009 4:02 pm On Tuesday, I attended a panel discussion in Benson about the Boot Camp for Professors. Set in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, the Boot Camp for Professors is a week-long event where teachers can work on aspects of their teaching philosophy and approach. The TLC pays all the registration and travel expenses. A small town, [...]
- Found in the Stacks: Antebellum Ag Mag Tue, Nov 17, 2009 3:59 pm With plenty of prodding from Patrick, I am slowly resolving cases where loose journal issues are either tied up in string or are falling over in a cardboard box. One such box contained most of the 1966 issues of Carolina Farmer. When I looked inside, I was surprised to discover four issues of Southern Agriculturist [...]
- RITS 2009 Team Retreat at Fancy Gap Sat, Oct 31, 2009 7:49 pm RITS 2009 Team Portrait L-R: Bobbie Collins, Jean-Paul Bessou, Mary Scanlon, Erik Mitchell, Tim Mitchell, Giz Womack, Roz Tedford, Lauren Pressley, Susan Smith, Kaeley McMahan, Barry Davis, Ellen Daugman, Molly Keener, Kevin Gilbertson Last summer the RITS Team was formed by combining the Research and Information Services and the Information Technology teams. Our initial team retreat was [...]
- Dedicated Deacon Thu, Oct 22, 2009 3:16 pm Person Recognized Giz Womack Given By Kristen Morgan Reason Thank you Giz for helping me put my committees web site in Google! Person Recognized Carol Cramer Given By Giz Womack Reason While I was working the Reference Desk on a particularly busy Monday night, Carol jumped in as she passed by and helped catch the overflow by helping a faculty member on the phone with an [...]
- Vufind status update - October 2009 Tue, Oct 20, 2009 8:13 am Vufind has been live for just about 2 months now. In that time we have gotten 118 feedback emails detailing bug reports, enhancement requests, and personal opinions about the new system. It has been a busy fall for the systems staff and we are just now finishing up the fixes on a few [...]
- Teaching Teaching Wed, Oct 14, 2009 3:50 pm I figure since we’re about halfway through Teaching Teaching, it might be time for a Gaz update! This semester we’ve taken a different approach. Instead of Roz or me organizing the topics, lectures for each class, and activities, we’re acting as a community of learners. As a group we came up with topics that we [...]
- 2nd Annual Wake the Library 5K & 1 Mile Fun Run: A Success! Sun, Oct 11, 2009 9:17 pm The Fun Run/Walk Participants start their journey! After months of preparation by a group of dedicated ZSR Library faculty and staff, the 2nd Annual WTL5K/Fun Run was held yesterday morning, October 10, 2009. The final count is not yet tallied but we estimate that there were close to 270 registrations between the fun run/walk and the [...]
- Wake the library 5k prep! Fri, Oct 9, 2009 12:17 pm The long months of planning and scheduling is all done tomorrow but right now things are getting busy! Many thanks to Carolyn and Tim who spearheaded the T-shirt brigade - they look great! Pre-registration pick-up begins at 2pm in the all night study room. There is still plenty of time to come pay your $$ to [...]
Professional Development
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- Fundraising for Preservation Sat, Nov 14, 2009 11:29 am NCPC Annual Conference Fundraising for Preservation Nov. 13, 2009 Friday Center Chapel Hill, NC As NCPC President, I had the pleasure of welcoming 50 attendees and talking about NCPC projects and grants in the past year. NCPC gave over $6,000 in grants last year, two of which were [...]
- ASERL Lunch-N-Learn #2 Thu, Nov 12, 2009 1:23 pm Today Mary Beth, Jean-Paul, and Erik attended the second ASERL lunch n learn webinar. The speakers were Toby Graham from the University of Georgia and Mary Molinaro from the University of Kentucky. Both presenters discussed several of the digital collections that their institutions have been working on for the last few years. Interestingly, both presenters talked [...]
- Educause 2009 - Day Two Thu, Nov 5, 2009 3:47 pm I could go in chronological order in this post, but that would require me to “bury the lead” and talk about Lawrence Lessig’s presentation in the middle of the post! Lessig is a rock star in my world and it seems only right that when writing about a copyright guru I “steal” his bio from [...]
- Educause 2009 - Day One Wed, Nov 4, 2009 4:49 pm After spending the better part of a day traveling and with only 14% power left on my iPhone (I never like to get below 20%) and with only six minutes before the close of registration on Tuesday night, I checked in at the Educause 2009 registration station and collected my conference materials! For those of [...]
- Guild of Bookworkers Standards Seminar-part 2 Mon, Nov 2, 2009 5:59 pm Tom Conroy gave the first session of the second day on repairing tools. Tom is a book restorer and fine binder who spent 7 years in formal training under Anne and Theodore Kahle and also earned an MLIS from Berkeley. Tom currently teaches at the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco. Tom spent [...]
- Guild of Bookworkers Standards of Excellence Seminar Sat, Oct 31, 2009 11:39 am I woke at 4:30 am, arrived at Greensboro PTI in time to see WXII send off the Flight of Honor, checked my bags, went through security and boarded the plane for Philadelphia. The plane left the terminal and the pilot abruptly announced we would be sitting there on the runway in Greensboro for an [...]
- Webinar: RDA and OCLC Fri, Oct 30, 2009 4:09 pm On Oct. 30, Leslie attended a webinar hosted by OCLC, detailing OCLC’s preparations for the soon-to-be-released new cataloging rules, RDA (Resource Description and Access), which will succeed AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules), the standard that has been in place for the last 30 or so years. A poll of webinar attendees, posing the question “How is your [...]
- Lauren P. at the South Carolina Library Association Conference Thu, Oct 29, 2009 11:54 pm This evening I got in from the South Carolina Library Association conference. I spoke there for the College and University Section on “Adapting to a Changing World: Exceptional Services for a New Information Environment.” If you’re interested in the presentation, I posted it over on my blog. I really enjoy seeing how different library associations work, [...]
- Planning for A Service Disruption- Lyrasis Tue, Oct 27, 2009 4:45 pm Scott Adair, Ellen Daugman and I attended a webinar on Tuesday, Oct. 27th from Lyrasis. The title of the class was Planning for a Service Disruption and was taught by Dan Wilson, Associate Director of Access Services and Collection Development at UVA Medical Sciences Library. The key concept of this class was protecting [...]
- Sarah at NCLA Sat, Oct 24, 2009 2:36 pm On Wednesday, Oct. 7th, I attended the North Carolina Library Association Conference in Greenville. Keith Michaels Fiels, American Library Association Executive Director, was the keynote speaker at the Opening Session. I won’t rehash the details since Wanda has already summarized his presentation, but I agreed with his comment that “we need to assert our role [...]