Love the concept — nice article/video on how to avoid avoiding work by obsessive fiddling with productivity tools.
WorkSmart Video and article. Mentions RescueTime — a little program that reminds you that you’ve just spent X minutes on Facebook, or Gawker, or whatever, instead of WRITING YOUR ARTICLE.
If you haven’t experienced or read about PechaKucha 20×20, check out this informative overview. The concept is that you have 20 slides/images, and you speak about each for 20 seconds. This could be an intriguing approach to instruction if we could divorce ourselves from overusing text!
Call for Proposals:
Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians 2011 Conference
Technical Services Renaissance
Miami University, Oxford, OH
May 15-17, 2011
http://techserv.lib.muohio.edu/ovgtsl11/
Description: In this time of turmoil for libraries, some Technical Services librarians are building a foundation for the future. Some study past successes and failures to guide future decisions and actions. Others apply current tools and concepts to reinvent existing services and to create innovative new services more relevant to today’s information environment. Finally, some are creating entirely new concepts and paradigms that will help drive the future of libraries. The foundation we are building will support a rebirth of function, form and purpose — a Technical Services Renaissance.
Keynote speakers: Karen Coyle, Librarian and Consultant, and Susan Gibbons, Vice Provost and the Andrew H. and Janet Dayton Neilly Dean of the River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester.
The Conference Program Committee invites forward thinking submissions in all areas related to technical services librarianship including acquisitions, cataloging, serials, electronic resources and preservation in academic, public, and special libraries. Participants are encouraged to think about where we are headed and where we want to go and to share work in areas on the leading edge of librarianship. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
• Approaches to metadata creation, reuse and interoperability
• Approaches to training
• Authority control in open source repository platforms
• Automation / technology assisted cataloging and metadata creation
• Cloud based solutions
• Collaboration within and outside the library
• Digital library projects
• Digital object curation and preservation
• Discovery and access
• Emerging roles for technical services / technical services librarians
• Integration of metadata creation with traditional cataloging workflows
• Linked data publishing and applications
• Local documentation practices
• Network level data management
• New staffing models
• Role of Technical Services in open access and scholarly communication
• Patron driven acquisitions and services
• Role of the catalog
• Special formats cataloging
• Strategies for working with limited budgets and resources
• Use and development of open source tools and platforms
• Vendor relations
Participants are invited to submit proposals that report on recent research, address emerging trends, or showcase new tools, services and projects. Time slots for all sessions are 50 minutes in length including time for questions.
Submissions for presentations, workshops and panel sessions will be considered in addition to specific proposals to lead sessions in non-traditional formats (birds of a feather, lighting rounds, free-for-all forums, unconferences).
Submit the following information at http://techserv.lib.muohio.edu/ovgtsl11/call-for-proposals <http://techserv.lib.muohio.edu/ovgtsl11/call-for-proposals> by November 15, 2010:
* Title
* Abstract (no longer than 250 words)
* Names, affiliations, and contact information of all presenters
* Primary contact for presenters
* Format (presentation, lightning round, workshop, etc.)
* Equipment and other special needs
Presenters will be notified of proposal acceptance by February 1, 2011. For more information, please contact Jody Perkins at perkintj@muohio.edu <mailto:perkintj@muohio.edu>
About OVGTSL
The Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians (OVGTSL) was founded in 1924 and draws its members from the states of Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. The annual conference rotates among these three states on a regular basis. Membership is open to anyone interested in library technical services.
Thank you,
Becky Yoose
Bibliographic Systems Librarian
Miami University
Oxford, OH
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Carrie Preston
Continuing Resources/Database Maintenance Librarian
Ohio University Libraries
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~prestonc/
prestonc@ohio.edu
740-597-1973
Online Presence
Publications
Journal Articles
Evans, Gwen and Susannah Cleveland. “Moody Blues: The Social Web, Tagging, and Non-Textual Discovery Tools for Music.” Music Reference Services Quarterly 11, no. 3/4 (2008): 177-201.
McKnight, Mark and Susannah Cleveland. “Rediscovering Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend.” ARSC Journal 37, no. 2 (Fall 2006): 174-180.
Book Chapters
Cleveland, Susannah. Chapters on “Mainstream Popular Music,” “Children’s Music,” and “Oboe Music,” in Basic Music Library, 4th Edition. Chicago: American Library Association. Forthcoming.
Newsletter Articles
Cleveland, Susannah. “68th Annual Chapter Meeting: Session Summary, Best Practices for Creating LibGuides:.” Midwest Note-Book: The Publication of the Midwest Chapter of the Music Library Association 18, no. 3 (January 2010): 4-5.
Cleveland, Susannah. “66th Annual Chapter Meeting: Sessions, Session II Summary.” Midwest Note-Book: The Publication of the Midwest Chapter of the Music Library Association 16, no. 3 (January 2008): 4-5.
Cleveland, Susannah. “Tips from TAPS: PDAs for Shelfreading.” Midwest Note-Book: The Publication of the Midwest Chapter of the Music Library Association 16, no. 1 (May 2007): 4.
Book Reviews
Cleveland, Susannah. Review of The Silent Cinema in Song, 1896-1929 by Ken Wlachsin. Music Reference Services Quarterly 13, no. 1-2 (2010): 44-46.
Cleveland, Susannah. Review of The Beatles Abbey Road Medley: Extended Forms in Popular Music. Music Reference Services Quarterly 12, no. 3-4 (2009): 121-123.
Cleveland, Susannah. Review of The Flute on Record by Susan Nelson. Music Reference Services Quarterly 12, no. 1-2 (2009): 51-53.
Cleveland, Susannah. Review of The Rock Song Index: The 7,500 Most Important Songs of the Rock and Roll Era: 1944-2000, 2nd ed., by Bruce Pollock. Music Reference Services Quarterly. 11, no. 1 (2008): 98-100.
Cleveland, Susannah. Review of The New Rolling Stone Album Guide edited by Nathan Brackett and Christian Hoard. Music Reference Services Quarterly 9, no. 3 (2005): 63-64.
Cleveland, Susannah. Review of Film Music at the Piano by H. Stephen Wright. Music Reference Services Quarterly 9, no. 1 (2004): 75-77.
Cleveland, Susannah. Review of Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs, by William Zinsser. Music Reference Services Quarterly 8, no. 2 (2002): 92-93.
Presentations
Puente, Mark, Susannah Cleveland, and Judy Tsou. “Theme and Variation: The Survey of MLA Personnel Characteristics.” Presentation at annual national meeting of the Music Library Association, San Diego, CA. March 2010
Cleveland, Susannah, Lisa Shiota, Lisa Woznicki, and Mike Duffy. “Putting Your Best Foot Forward: Successful Navigation of the Job Interview.” Presentation at annual national meeting of the Music Library Association, San Diego, CA. March 2010
Evans, Gwen and Susannah Cleveland. “The Social Web, Tagging, and Non-Textual Discovery Tools for Music.” Poster session at the joint Online Audiovisual Catalogers/Music OCLC User Group conference, Cleveland, OH. September 2008
Casey, Jeanette, Beth Christensen, Susannah Cleveland, Abigail Cross, Catherine Dixon, Joseph Hafner, Laura Moody, Holling Smith-Borne, Sheridan Stormes. “MLA Full Circle: Mentoring Each Other.” Plenary session at annual national meeting of the Music Library Association, Newport, RI. February 2008
Dankowski, Amy, Jon Haupt, and Susannah Cleveland. “MLA Website: Shifting Into Web 2.0.” Presentation at annual national meeting of the Music Library Association, Newport, RI. February 2008
Evans, Gwen and Susannah Cleveland. “Moody Blues: The Social Web, Tagging, and Non-Textual Discovery Tools for Music.” Presentation at the annual meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the Music Library Association, Covington, KY. October 2007
Bushong, Sara, Gwen Evans, and Susannah Cleveland. “Success Plans for Faculty Librarians: Mentorship or Busy Work?” Presentation at the annual meeting of the Academic Library Association of Ohio, Columbus, OH. October 2007
Cleveland, Susannah. “Special Collections at Bowling Green State University.” Part of panel, “American Music in American Libraries III: Highlighting Underutilized Archival Resources for American Music,” at the joint meeting of the Music Library Association and the Society for American Music, Pittsburgh, PA. March 2007
Cleveland, Susannah. “UNT Music Library’s Virtual Rare Book Room.” Demonstration and discussion at the annual meeting of the Music Library Association, Texas Chapter, Waco, TX. October 2005
McKnight, Mark and Susannah Cleveland. “Rediscovering Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend.” Presentation at the annual meeting of the Association of Recorded Sound Collections in Austin, TX. April 2005
Goldsmith, Melissa (moderator), Susannah Cleveland, Mary Wallace Davidson, Yale Fineman, and Jean Hellner. “Electronic Theses and Dissertations.” Panel discussion at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society in Columbus, OH. October 2002
Arnold, Donna, Susannah Cleveland, and Ralph Hartsock. “Spinning a Music Library Web: A Continuing Process.” Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Music Library Association in Los Angeles, CA. February 1999
The Applied Statistics and Operations Research people in the College of Business work with BG faculty.
From their website:
“Consulting Services Available To Faculty: Planning of Experiments and Surveys, Method of Analysis, Use of Statistical Computer Programs, Interpretation of Results, for research and instructional activity involving statistics.”
Find them here:
http://www.business.bgsu.edu/asor/ConsultingServices.html
This year’s theme, Learning Through Innovation, invites proposals that embrace thoughtful integration of technology into the classroom experience; share efficiencies with technological advances in the administering of education; and evaluate tools for teaching all of our students. The Ohio Learning Network and eTech Ohio continue to collaborate with numerous state agencies and educational institutions to provide a premiere professional development event for faculty, instructional designers, administrators, librarians, students, teachers and technology coordinators. We are seeking interactive and engaging proposals for presentations, pre-conference workshops and technology demonstrations. Proposals are sought for the following topics:
Deadlines and Submission Form(s)
The deadline to submit a proposal is Sunday, October 17th at 11:59 pm.
Session proposal status will be provided by email to the primary presenter no later than Friday, November 12th.
Submitting a proposal requires completing two forms. You must complete both the web form and the adobe form template.
The proposal submission process:
1. Create an account
2. Download and complete the adobe form template
3. Complete the web form
4. Upload your completed adobe form
5. *optional* Upload your presentation materials (can be uploaded at any time)
6. Review the submission and enter your program book description.
You can begin the proposal process, by creating a new account here <https://conference.etech.ohio.gov/ei/cm.esp?id=3&pageid=_30E13O0CA> .
The Ohio Educational Technology Conference <http://www.etech.ohio.gov/conference/> will be held January 31-February 2, 2011, at the Greater Columbus Convention Center <http://www.columbusconventions.com/> .
Re: our discussion at dinner about library staff directories:
Any preferences? Other models?
Again, from ProfHacker on Wired Campus: an article about Writer’s Cafe.
“Writer’s Cafe is intended as a fiction writing tool, but you can also use it for other types of writing. Indeed, the naming convention used throughout the program refers to storytelling: storylines, screenplay formatting, character development, and there’s even a “name generator” for characters. If you can move past these conventions, Writer’s Cafe becomes useful for project-based writing.The writing we do in higher education covers many genres. We write the longer journal articles, book chapters or books, but we also write shorter documents: grants forms, IRB protocols, or reports. Writer’s Cafe is useful with longer or shorter writing tasks by helping you organize your data in meaningful ways.”
Billie Hara, “Using Writer’s Cafe for Writing Projects”, September 21, 2010, 08:00 AM ET
Joelle Thomas has submitted a revision of an article to Research Synthesis Methods.
Gwen Evans is presenting at LITA National 2010 in Atlanta GA at the end of September –Crowdsourcing the Archive, Cloudsourcing the Capture: Using Omeka for Collaborative Digital Archives and Exhibits on Campus. “Using open source Omeka software and a variety of cloud-based tools and methods, we built a collaborative digital archive involving campus, community, and alumni to celebrate the University’s Centennial.”
Linda Kramer is presenting at OELMA at the end of October.
Gwen Evans and Kellie Tilton had an article accepted in Library Resources and Technical Services, “Creating an Un-Library Catalog: A Case Study in Managing Satellite Collections.”
Joelle Thomas is on the RUSA Virtual Reference Tutorial sub-committee.
Susannah Cleveland is in Iowa City as a Board Member of the Music Library Association.
Joelle Thomas is in a CTL Learning Community (Active Learning and the Transition to Digital), as is Gwen Evans (Pedagogy and Scholarship using Virtual, Online and Mediated Environments Learning Community ).
Amy Fyn is writing a review of the online version of Harner’s Literary Research Guide for RUSQ.
A Library Writer’s blog Dolores’ List of CFPs ProfHacker Academic Writing Librarians