Blended Librarian Webcast: Flipping the Classroom: Overturning the Traditional Lecture Thursday, May 10th @ noon (12pm) EDT

This is a free event & no registration is needed. There are a limited number of seats that are available on a first come first served basis. Please go to the BL site http://www.blendedlibrarian.org/ and log in to the “Quick Login” early to obtain your seat. It will be the webcast listed at the top of the webpage.

(Note: You need to be a member of the Blended Librarians Online Learning Community to participate. No fee to join. To join go to the following page http://www.blendedlibrarian.org/join.html prior to logging on to LearningTimes to join the webcast – you should do this at least 12 hrs prior to attending a webcast.)

METRO & ACRL/NY Present: Catablogging – Leveraging Blogging Software to Present Your Collections on the Web

Speaker Chela Weber

Chela Scott Weber is the Associate Head for Archival Collections at the Tamiment Library & Robert f. Wagner Labor Archives at NYU. Prior to coming to the Tamiment, she was the Director of Library & Archives at the Brooklyn Historical Society, where she implemented Emma, their WordPress based catablog of archives and special collections. She holds a Master of Library and Information Science and Certificate of Archival Administration from Wayne State University in beautiful Detroit, MI.

This event is co-sponsored/hosted with ACRL/NY Special Collections and Archives Discussion Group.

Visit the event website for more information and to register:

http://metro.org/events/178/

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS — ARCHIVING THE ARTS

The AMIA Student Chapter at New York University invites presentation proposals for Archiving the Arts, to be held jointly with IMAP in New York City on Saturday, October 13, 2012 as part of New York Archives Week organized by Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York.

Please submit a 250-word proposal to Kathryn Gronsbell atNYU.AMIA@gmail.com Priority will be given to submissions received by Friday, May 4, 2012.

FINAL DEADLINE for submissions is Friday, July 13, 2012.

The 3rd annual ShareAcademy will be held on Tuesday, August 7th, 2012 at the CPCC Harris campus in Charlotte, NC.  The theme for this year’s ShareAcademy is:

“Under New Management: Adventures in Leadership”

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Share with us your challenges, joys, reflections, techniques, skills and eye-opening moments about becoming a better, more efficient, more productive leader and manager.  What habits or tricks have you learned or utilized to manage yourself, your time or your staff?  How have you identified your strengths and skills and used them to your best advantage?
Workshop proposals are expected to be interactive, hands-on, and engaging for participants.

Call for proposals CLOSES: May 30
ShareAcademy Registration OPENS: June 4

*ShareAcademy is created and hosted by CPCC Library, but is open to anyone interested in the conference theme.  Our primary goal is to provide a conference full of practical, hands-on material for its attendees.*

Submit your proposal here!  http://www.cpcc.edu/library/shareacademy

ALCTS webinar: Rare Materials and RDA: Exploring the Issues

Date: May 23, 2012
All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1pm Central, and 2pm Eastern time.

Description: Are you unsure about how (or whether) to apply RDA to rare materials? This webinar will present an overview of RDA provisions related to rare materials, including both bibliographic and authority records, and will explore how well RDA and Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials
(DCRM) can be used together to describe rare materials. The webinar will reflect work sponsored by the ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section’s Bibliographic Standards Committee, including a white paper prepared by the presenters.

Single Webinar Registration Fees:  $39 ALCTS Member; $49 Non-member; $39 International; $99 Group (a group of people that will watch it together).
Check the ALCTS Web site for discount pricing for the entire webinar series.

For additional information and links to registration, please click here.

ALCTS webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording shortly following the live event.

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling
1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration@ala.org. For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or alctsce@ala.org.

See educational opportunities, such as CFP, workshops, events, webinars, etc.? Please email Braegan Abernethy (bcabernethy@gmail.com) or Emilee Mathews (mathewse@indiana.edu) to get them posted here.

Bryan and I have been contacted by the organizers of this year’s upcoming annual conference about having a first-time attendee blog their experiences to the official conference blog. While there will be others blogging about their conference experiences, they would especially like to include the perspective of a first-timer or two who can document the experience of attending their first national conference.

You could make as much or as little as you like of this, by blogging daily during the conference or just occasional deep thoughts. That said, your posts will reach a wide audience so this would be an excellent opportunity for individuals who are striving to meet others and become involved in the organization.

If you are interested, please leave a response below. I don’t have too much more info than what appears above, but if there are questions I’m also glad to try to answer.

Tracy

Caley Cannon and Meredith Kahn are the current discussion coordinators, and we’ll be making weekly posts about a range of topics (emerging technologies, social networking sites, teaching, mentoring, transition from student to professional, changing role of art librarians, professional development, recent news in art and architecture, new developments in the publishing industry, etc.).

We hope you find these posts interesting and thought provoking, and that you feel compelled to participate in a discussion via the comments.  If there are any topics you’d like us to address, please let us know.

And let the fun begin…

“Shelf Life”

Great quote: “Stout is a collector in the best sense of the word. Though he joked that he began acquiring books when he realized he’d never have a 401k, it is probably more accurate to say that Stout is in complete thrall of the smell of ink, the feel of paper, the intellectual and physical heft of the literary object, the near-indiscernible sound of the turning of pages.”

After reading this, I don’t feel so bad about schlepping endless boxes of books across the country over the past few years.

But, since the wordpress.com dashboard redesign, our old links have disappeared!

What are your favorite RSS feeds for art and/or library news or related blogs that you’d like to see on this site??

This is a really great resource, and many thanks to Joel Atkinson, Rachel Beckwith, Sherman Clarke, Ross Day, Jennifer Faist, Joy Garnett, Jennifer L. Hehman, Jacqueline L. Rogers, Amy Watson and editors Jennifer L. Hehman and Kraig Binkowski.

I’d love to see this list in del.icio.us, too. There’s actually a lot of overlap with links already in the ArLiSNAP del.icio.us account. Maybe we could come up with a tag to denote sites that are on the Recommended Blogs list? Or maybe we could work with the editors so that they could create a second version of their list in del.icio.us? It just seems to me that such a great resource should be shared far beyond the ARLIS/NA circle…

Newsgrist

NEWSgrist was started in March 2000 as an e-zine devoted to the politics of art and culture in the digital age. For four years it was distributed entirely by email subscription. In April 2004 it morphed into a blog.

List compiled by

Joy Garnett
Associate Library Manager
Robert Goldwater Library
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10028

In September President Ellen Thompson reported that students were,

“looking at ways to incorporate blogging, wiki and forum technology into the Arlis/ANZ site itself, so that eventually we don’t have to hang third-party freeware off the site, and can communicate with each other and our Chapter colleagues from within our ‘home’. The only way is up, in terms of the functionality we can expect from our future Arlis/ANZ site”

Indeed, the chosen website design does everything mentioned above, and more! Check out the prototype, which is up for demonstration purposes, but awaiting more substantial content. They’ve incorporated space for an image gallery, videos, discussion forums (with spaces for each chapter), a wiki, and more!

Best wishes to the ARLIS/ANZ group on their stunning new web presence!

LSJ is now accepting submissions from Library and Information Science students around the world! Visit us at www.librarystudentjournal.org to view our submission guidelines and upload your submission. LSJ is a great way for students to gain experience in Open Access publishing and get a published paper on their resume before starting the job hunt! Questions? Contact us at librarystudentjournal@gmail.com

A selection of recently published papers:

• Cataloging and classification of illuminated manuscripts: intellectual access for the pre-modern manuscript by Meredith Torre, University of Wisconsin Madison.
• Going online: academic libraries and the move from print to electronic journals
  by Toni Fortini, Southern Connecticut State University
• Reference librarianship: notes from the trenches, by Charles R. Anderson and Peter Sprenkle (review Bridget Schumacher, SUNY Buffalo)

The first year of LSJ, presentation now available:

Editor-in-Chief Amy Buckland, and Publisher Eli Guinnee gave the keynote address at the Simmons College Skillshare on the topic of Student Scholarship in the Open Access Age: the First Year of Library Student Journal. Links to the podcast and slidecast.

Facebook, Second Life, & the LSJ Editors’ Blog

Our Facebook and Second Life groups are growing quickly. If you are an LIS student and regular visitor to either, find us by searching for “Library Student Journal” This is a great way to communicate with colleagues worldwide in a more informal setting than librarystudentjournal.org

And don’t forget to visit our blog.

Contact

Amy Buckland, McGill University, Editor-in-Chief
amybuckland@gmail.com

Eli Guinnee, SUNY Buffalo, Publisher
librarystudentjournal@gmail.com

It seems that at least some folks over at the Library of Congress consider (corporate) blogs to be serials, and may already be assigning ISSN numbers to them.

http://www.loc.gov/blog/?p=42

There’s an interesting discussion going on over there, including some mentions of an IBSN (Internet Blog Serial Number). Is ArLiSNAP a serial? Should it have an ISSN? An IBSN (http://ibsn.org/register.php)? I thought about going ahead and registering us for an IBSN, but then wondered what that would imply about ArLiSNAP as a “publication”, when I tend to think of it more as a community. Your thoughts?

Long-term planning for conference requires session approval, preventing discussion of new ideas. Last-minute and timely topics have been generated – emerging technologies this year.

Varying levels of experiences
Overview of technologies and their use

Rebecca Cooper – Catholic University, Reader services manager at the Society of the Cincinnati Library

Brian Loar
Resource librarian, global design firm Fitch
ArLiSNAP administrator

Rebecca Price, Univ. Michigan

Sue Mayberry, Otis College of Art and Design, Director of Tech.
Web2.0 capturing imagination of faculty and staff
Bryan Loar– Blogs
Blogs: Why They Matter
Interesting phenomenon, but what are the results? How to incorporate into libraries and organizations

Shape ArLiSNAP – how to meet the needs of the community
Specific formats for communication –
Inferred 57 million adults read blogs daily – Pew Internet in American Life Project, 2006
12 million maintain a blog – Pew
175,000 blogs are created every day – Technorati, 2007
blogs are more likely to be used by the younger generation – Pew

SO WHAT?
ArLiSNAP – allows many voices to be heard, forum
Collaboration tools, committee-like – ability to view the gestation of an idea
Connectors to New Knowledge – RSS feeds
Professional Development – created by peers

Blogs Can Be

• Forums
• Collaboration Tool
• Repositories of Knowledge
• Connectors to new Knowledge
• Efficient Professional Development Tools

Blogs Are Inherently Better Than

• Email
• Listservs
• Bulletin Boards

Blogs – Start Your Own!
Things to consider

• Consider the topic and stick to it
• Know your audience
• Choose a format to meet your objective(s)
• Find the best Web publishing software for your needs
• Promote

Blogs vs. Wikis –

Blogs are reverse-chronological. Experiments to combine blogs and wikis (which would be a mashup) – very cool, look forward to this in the next year.

Folksonomy – tagging to organize

Rebecca Cooper
RSS: Replacing Aggravation with Aggregation
20,000 blogs known to a single person
Blog-hopping can be very time-consuming
XML definition
RSS allows a website to send out a signal when there is new content
Centralized location with all content with little or no effort!

Web-based (Bloglines)
Desktop (FeedReader)
Email (Thunderbird)
Web browser (Firefox plug-ins)
Mobile phone (blackberry)

What should I add?
Resources you’d usually check while doing research
Look for the orange button!!

How do I create a feed?
Handrolled!?! Ack – too much work!
Semi-automated (listgarden.com)
Fully-automated (feedburner)

Use it for:

• Yourself
  • News
  • Prof development
  • Saving time
  • Collection development assistance

• Your Users
  • Push news to your users
  • New acquisitions
  • Fresh content, all the time

What’s it all about? – Meeting your users where they’re getting their information

Rebecca Price
Social Tagging
Enriching controlled vocabulary – emphasis of the cloud
Ann Arbor District Library – adding reader commentary to the catalog card, using automatic generated shelflist card

Examples:
Ann Arbor District Library catalog tags – within the catalog, top ten, random tags, etc.

Library Thing

Smithsonian Photography Initiative – “Enter the Frame“
Steve.museum has a tagger

Sue Mayberry

What do you get when you cross The Matrix and My Space?

Persistent virtual online world
Not a game, based on the Sci Fi novel SnowCrash
3-4 years old

Doubled in size since last fall
Free – except land-ownership is pay-based

Demographics -
Older crowd – 35 median age
More women than the gaming community average

3D building – primitives
scripting languages – objects move around

Change your characters

Reuters has a bureau in SL and estimated that (last Fall, I think) 500K was spent each day – today that number is estimated at 1.4 million

Proxemics, social clues, and personal visual identities translate in SL
Different than a listserv or blog – interactions

Art Exhibit topic – What is a figure and what is an avatar?

Things to do in SL

• Shopping
• Music
• Parties
• Educational projects

• • Info Island Library
  • Harvard University
  • Egyptian Temple recreation
  • Darfur Exhibit, social issues

Librarians are leaders – InfoIsland.org
InfoIsland I and InfoIsland II

Edu Island run by the Alliance Library Systems
New Media Consortium

• Teaching space available
• Support services
• Shared resources

NMC Events – Howard Rheingold spoke, what does a classroom look like in a virtual world?

Mixed realities – Last Fall the MacArthur Foundation announced $50million investment through a streaming presentation in SL

Far From Perfect

• High learning curve
• Experimental nature
• High bandwidth
• Continual development
• Lag and access

By Tim Ferguson

Published: Wednesday 28 March 2007

From Silicon.com

http://management.silicon.com/careers/0,39024671,39166575,00.htm

Members of ARLIS/NA, please take a moment to review part or all of the ARLIS/NA Assessment Task Force findings (located in the members area of ARLIS/NA’s Web site).

ARLIS/NA would like to know what you think about the task force’s recommendations.  So, they’ve set up a blog here.  You’ll need your ARLIS/NA username & password to access the blog.

There has been little discussion on the blog, and I’d like to see things a little more lively. 

If somebody knows who to contact about setting up a link for the blog on the members only page, please take the time to kindly e-mail them so that the blog is easily found.

This is a great opportunity for art library students and new ARLIS* professionals to be heard.  Moreover, your contribution may have a direct affect on how ARLIS/NA operates.

Thanks,

Bryan Loar

Int. Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
March 25-28, 2007
Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
www.icwsm.org

We’re excited to announce the first International
Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, exploring
phenomena and techniques for analysis of the fast
growing blogosphere and social media space.

The conference is fast approaching and we are
planning an exciting schedule with many invited
speakers, pre-conference tutorials (March 25),
and of course, great technical content (March 26-28).

The conference aims to bring together researchers
from different subject areas (e.g., computer science,
linguistics, psychology, statistics, sociology,
multimedia and semantic web technologies) and
foster discussions about ongoing research on
weblogs and social media. We invite participation
from academia and industry.

Invited Speakers:

* Ev Williams, Obvious Corp.
* Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo Inc.
* danah boyd, Berkeley School of Information
and USC Annenberg Center

Tutorials:

* Search and Discovery in the Blogspace
Gilad Mishne and Maarten de Rijke, Univ. of Amsterdam

* Spam in Blogs and Other Social Media
Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi,
Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County

Early Bird Registration:

* February 21st, 2007

Organizers:

* Eytan Adar, Univ. of Washington
* Natalie Glance, Nielsen BuzzMetrics
* Matthew Hurst, Nielsen BuzzMetrics
* Mark Liberman, Univ. of Pennsylvania
* Nicolas Nicolov, Umbria Inc.
* Franco Salvetti, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder & Powerset Inc.

Accepted papers, posters and demos:

http://www.icwsm.org/program.html

For additional information see the conference website:
www.icwsm.org

Thanks also to those of you who have talked or written about ArLiSNAP at regional meetings, on your listservs, and in general conversation.  We appreciate you getting the word out.

Cheers,

Bryan

I found this via the Search Engine Land blog, which is a great forum for news about online searching. Subscribe to their feed today!

WordPress is a popular format for blogs—an open-source content management system. It is also the backbone for WP-OPAC, a pushing-the-envelope project from Casey Bisson, information architect at Plymouth State University (PSU), NH, which will use Library of Congress (LC) catalog records and redistribute them free under a Creative Commons Share-Alike license or GNU. Bisson was presented with a $50,000 Mellon award for Technology Collaboration for the project at the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) meeting in Washington, DC, on December 4. PSU will use the money for the LC records. The WP-OPAC will allow users to tag and comment on records, which will be more readily searchable by search engines. The still-emerging project represents a challenge to business as usual for catalogers. OCLC has been the source for catalog records for libraries, and its license restrictions do not permit reuse or distribution. However, LC catalog records have been shared via Z39.50 for several years without incident. “Libraries’ online presence is broken. We are more than study halls in the digital age. For too long, libraries have been coming up with unique solutions for common problems,” Bisson said. “Users are looking for an online presence that serves them in the way they expect.” PSU is committed to supporting Bisson’s project, and will be offering it as a free download from its site, likely in the form of sample records plus WordPress with WP-OPAC included. The internal data structure works with iCal for calendar information and Flickr for photos, and can be used with historical records. It allows libraries to go beyond LC subject headings, Bisson said. Other winners include: Open University (Moodle), RPI (bedework), University of British Columbia Vancouver (Open Knowledge Project), Virginia Tech (Sakai), Yale (CAS single signon), University of Washington (pine and IMAP), Internet Archive (Wayback Machine), and Humboldt State University (Moodle).

from Library Journal Academic Newswire (12.07.2006)

http://www.maplib.net/maps.php (Click on the Musee des Beaux Arts)

[This is another good reason to get a blog hosted on our own server--we can't embed anything in this blog!]