Conference reports and more from ZSR Librarians
On Monday, we gave our first conference presentation: “Making, Managing, and Marketing a Wellness Collection in an Academic Library” at NC Live’s Annual Conference, a conference fittingly focused on Wellness in Libraries! It was a great first time experience for us both in submitting a proposal, and preparing and giving a presentation. From the time... more ›
TPD @ C4L Last week, I traveled to Ann Arbor, Michigan for the Code4Lib conference. Code4Lib is a loosely organized group of coders, hackers, and a merry band of the tech-savvy and tech-interested from around Library Land. I started with a tour of U-M’s Shapiro and Hatcher libraries. In my time there, the Shapiro was... more ›
On Friday I attended the 2024 NC LIVE Annual Conference at Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington. The theme of conference was “Wellness in Libraries.” And considering all of our work in Public Services on our Wellness Collection, I was excited about this conference and looking forward to learning what others are doing in the... more ›
This year’s LOEX Conference was held in Naperville, Illinois – about 30 miles west of Chicago. The LOEX committee weaved Naperville’s connection to trees into its theme: Branching Out: Growing and Adapting your Information Literacy Practice We have to acknowledge that our meals both within and outside the conference were excellent! Most notable was the... more ›
The Society of North Carolina Archivists (SNCA) held its annual conference at the State Archives of North Carolina in Raleigh April 17-19th. We had a good group of SCA folks there, so we thought we’d summarize our experience for your reading enjoyment. Ashelee I began my SNCA experience by attending an informative workshop on the... more ›
Although it has been a while since I attended a two-day training from The Management Center (TMC), entitled “Managing to Change the World” (cough it was in 2023 cough), I did want to share about it. I hadn’t heard of TMC before a friend recommended it, but they are a Black-run, multicultural company focused on... more ›
On Monday, March 11, I had the privilege of attending and presenting at the LAUNC-CH Conference held in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room of the Wilson Special Collections Library at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This year, the conference adopted a different format than I recall from previous years. Rather than navigating... more ›
This year’s meeting of the Music Library Association was held in Cincinnati, with a hybrid format. I attended virtually. IL A panel unveiled the Music Companion to the Framework for Information Literacy, the culmination of several years’ work developing music applications for the ACRL standard. Some points distinctive to music and other performing arts: Embodied... more ›
Human Responsibility in the Age of AI by Kasia Chmielinski: While there are some fears about AI – real ones include risks of bias – human intervention is possible. The Data Nutrition Project aims to show some “ingredients” in the data, just like a food nutrition label does. There is a section that is icons... more ›
Recently, we had the opportunity to attend and present “Timing is Everything: Planning and Managing Library Outreach for New Students During Their First Six Weeks” at the First-Year Experience Conference 2024 in Seattle with the Director of Orientation, New Student and Transitions Programs, Dr. Cherise James. This was the largest FYE since COVID-19 and the... more ›