Inside ZSR
Ok so Saturday was looking like the Seattle we hear about, all wet, dreary and a bit cooler, but nonetheless a great conference day. One I began by attending “Reaching the Summit: Are we Creating Work Environments for People to Thrive? This program shared results of an exploratory study on the degree to which Library... more ›
Arriving in Seattle after a very early departure from Greensboro and a long, long flight my first day was totally exhausting. Before calling it a day, I managed to hear and enjoy the opening keynoter Rush Kidder and agree with him when he states, a lot of what’s wrong with America could be fixed with... more ›
A busy day today started with The Proquest Breakfast . Roz and I attended the presentation that was meant to showcase the new Summon Unified Discovery Service.In order to frame the issue, first Alison Head spoke about, “Project information literacy:Through the lens of the Student Experience“ She shared a YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cvZPMmYeR4) that summed up... more ›
Today was a busy one, full of educational sessions, vendor meetings, and poster sessions. My day started with a breakfast session about “Leveraging the Institutional Repository to support the institution’s strategic mission.” An interesting resource that was mentioned during the presentation was ROAR: Registry of Open Asccess Repositories that monitors the growth of eprint archives... more ›
I apologize in advance for the length of this post. I remember by typing and I didn’t want to forget anything. Brother Can You Spare a Dime? 2009 ACRL Trends for Academic Libraries In a smart move, the planners of this session retooled it completely from what they had planned to do a year ago... more ›
So today was a day where I spent a good deal of time with vendors and since Mary Beth and Susan will most likely cover the sessions I went to, I’ll focus my post on what I learned about new products and offerings on the horizon. The day started with a breakfast sponsored by Serial... more ›
Whew! It’s been a great day. As always, detailed notes are in my blog, and you’re getting the conversational perspective. If you want details, here they are: Scholarship Breakfast: The Millennial Driven Library Innovation Imperative Reconnect, Reflect, Recharge (Peer Evaluation of Teaching) Fishing for Information: Using Focus Group Research to Discover Student Perceptions of Library... more ›
On Friday, March 13th, ZSR hosted a Disaster Recovery workshop sponsored by the NC Preservation Consortium. Thirteen participants from North Carolina attended representing High Point University, UNCG and Elon University, Rural Hall County Clerk, Wilkes Heritage Museum, Rural Hall Historical Museum, NC Museum of Art, Old Salem and the EPA. The workshop began with Sharon... more ›
Rethink, Redefine, Reinvent: the Research Library in the Digital Age was the theme of this year’s Launch conference. Since so many of us attended this conference, each of will blog one presentation to avoid repetition. In the afternoon I attended the break-out session “Changing Workforce” which I thought from the title would be about diversity... more ›
Yesterday was a long day of travel, and introduction to ACRL, and a bit of exploring for me. I left the Greensboro airport at 6:30 to get into Seattle around 1:00ish. I found a friend from the NCLA Leadership Institute at the Houston airport, so she, her husband, and I all took the bus into... more ›