Kudos

Our own Sarah Goodwin Thiel chaired the committee which revised BCR’s Collaborative Digitization Project updated “Digital Imaging Best Practices” document.  Congratulations, Sarah, on this achievement!  The full BCR announcement is below.

Sarah Goodwin Thiel, digital services librarian, University of Kansas, served as the working group chair. She notes, “While continuing to address the needs of a particular audience, beginning practitioners and those from institutions with limited resources and/or expertise, Version 2.0 is developed to assist practitioners from the cultural heritage section to navigate the quickly evolving world of image digitization and to efficiently increase and improve access to digital scholarship.”

Students and eBooks

Thanks to Tami Albin for passing along this link to a report on how students use eBooks.

Employee of the Year

All,
I am delighted to announce that Nishon Hawkins is the 2008 USS Employee
of the Year!
Nishon, was selected unanimously by the SSEYA selection committee for
her outstanding performance in 2007. In particular, the committee noted
“her extra effort and patience in implementing changes to the e-reserves
guidelines brought on by new copyright restrictions, and in helping
faculty adjust to the changes. Working “behind the scenes” Nishon put
forth extra effort to implement the necessary changes, which, of course,
came at a critical time (just prior to the beginning of the 2007 fall
semester).  The committee felt that Nishon’s efforts in solving a major
problem at that critical time, as well as all the service that she
rendered “behind the scenes” merit special recognition.
Furthermore the committee noted that she is “extremely conscientious,
organized, efficient, patient and professional in everything she does.”
She is also the number one fan of the library softball team, The Dewey
Decimators, and attends every game.

Congratulations Nishon!

On behalf of KU Libraries I thank the SSEYA selection committee for
their work in completing the process this year. They are: Jon Giullian,
Leila Jacobs, Gary Samuelson, Laura Skarka, and Rita Wilson.

lorraine j. haricombe

Reading Madness!

Class Act

Zanice Bond de Perez of the Writing Center helps student athletes develop thesis statements for their papers in the Libraries’ LA&S 292 Research Methods course this summer. The course was taught by Librarians Tami Albin and Julie Petr, and is open to all KU students.

Award Winner!

Susan Craig recently received the Distinguished Service Award from ARLIS. Read her remarks from the conference here.

Conference! Conference! Conference!

For those digitally inclined…

Mid-Atlantic Digital Library Conference
July 9, 2008
Bucknell University — Lewisburg, PA

Please note: Registration for the Mid-Atlantic Digital Library
Conference will close on July 1.

Full details about the conference, including abstracts for sessions, are
available from the conference web site:
http://blogs.bucknell.edu/DigitalLibraryConference2008/. A discussion
group has also been started on Facebook for pre-conference networking:
http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=3806254&k=Z31445V6442MZG1CVB64X

Conference Highlights:
* 25 sessions scheduled over five tracks
* Poster sessions, a technology showcase, and vendor exhibits
* Special-interest-group discussions during lunch
* More information available on the conference web site:
http://blogs.bucknell.edu/DigitalLibraryConference2008/
* Access the Facebook page for the conference:
http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=3806254&k=Z31445V6442MZG1CVB64X

About the 2008 Mid-Atlantic Digital Library Conference This regional
conference is designed to bring together librarians and technologists,
experienced digital library practitioners and those who are new to to
the field. Registrants are from a wide range of cultural heritage
institutions including colleges and universities, public libraries,
museums, and historical societies. The conference will include 25
sessions over five tracks. Sessions cover a wide range of topics and are
aimed at varying levels of experience.

Registration is only $50, and graduate students are eligible for a
discounted rate. This one-day event will be held at Bucknell University
in Lewisburg, PA. Lewisburg is only a three- to four-hour drive from
Philadelphia, New York City, Washington D.C., Baltimore, and Pittsburgh.

Conference Schedule and Sessions — Wednesday, July 9, 2008

8:00 – 8:30 a.m. — Registration, breakfast

8:30 – 8:50 a.m. — Opening, welcoming remarks

9:00 – 10:00 a.m. — Session One
* Introduction to Digital Library Technologies & Metadata 101 – Laura
Riskedahl, Bucknell University
* Local History Online: An Open Source Solution to the Management and
Access of Historical Collections – John Lyles, Chattahochee Valley
Regional Library System
* Building and Managing a Successful Digital Repository in DSpace -
Michele Kimpton, DSpace Foundation
* The Tri-Colleges’ Collaborative Visual Resource Collection – Nicole
Finzer, Bryn Mawr College; Susan Dreher, Swarthmore College; Julie D.
Coy, Haverford College
* Balancing the Need for Efficient Submission of Scientific Data with
the Need to Collect Metadata – Robert R. Downs and Robert S. Chen,
Center for Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia
University

10:15 – 11:15 a.m. — Session Two
* Archivists’ Toolkit – Brian Hoffman, New York University and Sibyl
Roud, Archivists’ Toolkit
* Introduction to Streaming Video – Eric Smith, Bucknell University
* Access to Visual Resource Collections – Joan Beaudoin, PhD Candidate
at Drexel University and Rachel Bradley, PhD Candidate at Drexel
University
* Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Digital Image Library –
Karen Higgins, Johns Hopkins University
* Various Approaches to Building Digital Libraries – From Tech Cool to
Strategic – Deborah Ludwig and Sheryl Williams, University of Kansas

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. — Session Three
* Scaling Up Digital Library Production: Strategies for Practitioners -
Aaron L. Brenner, Univ. of Pittsburgh
* Tools for Repurposing MARC Metadata in Digital Libraries – Michael
Bolam, Univ. of Pittsburgh
* Digital Reference Services: The Current State of Library and Archival
Instruction – Valli Hoski, Kathleen O’Neill, Donna Scanlon, Mark
Sgambettera, Vanessa Uribe
* Implementing a Digital Library Repository Using Fedora – David Kennedy
and Jennie A. Levine, University of Maryland
* The Classical Artifact Research Repository in DSpace: A Partnership
with Students – Lois Widmer and Dai Wei, Brandeis University

12:30 – 2:00 p.m. — Lunch and Special-Interest Group Discussions

2:00 – 3:00 p.m. — Session Four
* Defining and Digitizing a Commonwealth: Towards a Collaborative
Approach to the Digitization of Pennsylvania’s History, Society, and
Culture – John Barnett, PALCI
* A Series of Unfortunate Events, or How Not to Build a Digital Image
Archive – Jami L. Bryan, Thomas McNulty, and Carolyn S. Parsons,
University of Mary Washington
* Building Digital Audiovisual Collections: An Example from the Archives
- Kevin Clair, Penn State
* MetaDB: A Distributed Metadata Creation Tool – Eric Luhrs, Lafayette
College
* Collaborating with Faculty on Digital Projects – Michael Weaver,
Bucknell University; Jim Gerencser, Dickinson College; Robert Harris,
William Paterson University

3:15 – 4:15 p.m. — Session Five
* Projects from University Archives – Rodney G. Obein, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute and Malinda Triller, Dickinson College
* Using Open Source Software: What it Means for Your Institution – Panel
discussion.
* World War II Poster Project – David Del Testa, Bucknell University
* LSTA Grants: From Project Planning to Fruition to Sustainability -
Janet Hurlbert, Lycoming College and Jim Gerencser, Dickinson College
* Tour of Bucknell University’s Bertrand Library

4:30 – 6:00 – Posters and Technology Showcase

Confirmed Poster Sessions:
* Planning and Administering a Digitization Project in a Small,
Team-Based Library – Brian Ardan, Bernadette Heiney, Joby Topper, and
Cathy Weglarz, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania
* An Investigation of Image Users Across Disciplines: A Model of Image
Needs, Retrieval, and Use – Joan E. Beaudoin, Drexel University
* Leveraging History with Social Technologies – Judith Brink-Drescher
and Diane Holliday, Dowling College
* West Virginia History OnView: A Big Digital Project with a Little
Budget – John Cuthbert, West Virginia University
* Fleet Street Found: The Global Photos Metadata Project – John Fahs and
Abigail Meisterman, New York Public Library
* Evaluation of Digital Libraries: My Personal Experiences with MIC,
NJDH, and NJVid – Judy Jeng, New Jersey City University
* Managing Digitization Activities: An ARL SPEC Kit – Rebecca L.
Mugridge, Penn State University
* Digital Herbarium Collection – Andrew Sallans, Carla Lee, and Sherry
Lake, University of Virginia
* Using Dublin Core to Create Electronic Access to the West Virginia and
Regional History Collection’s Printed Ephemera Collection – Anna Schein,
West Virginia University
* I Never Met A Digital Object I Couldn’t Cite: Zotero and Alternatives
for Personal Digital Libraries – Jack Widner, Edinboro University of
Pennsylvania

Technology Showcase List – TBA
Sign up to participate in the Technology Showcase. More information is
available at:
http://blogs.bucknell.edu/DigitalLibraryConference2008/2008/06/technolog
y_showcase.html.

Exhibitors – TBA
If you are interested in participating as a vendor/exhibitor, please
contact dig@bucknell.edu.

Please direct questions and comments to dig@bucknell.edu.

We hope to see you in July!

–
Abby Clobridge
Digital Initiatives Group Leader
Bucknell University

Database changes

Judith Emde (Electronic Resources Technical Services Librarian) will provide an overview of changes to the interfaces for Ebsco and Wilson databases. Advanced searching techniques for these databases will also be discussed during the session.

Date: Tuesday July 15, 2008
Time: 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Place: Watson Library, Rm. 419

All library staff are welcome to attend.

Frances A. Devlin

Publish or Perish

Dear Colleagues,

I just returned from the SALALM conference where I attended a very
interesting panel on professional development.  One of the papers
presented was on
“Publishing Instead of Perishing: Impetus and Ideas for Academic
Publishing.”

The presenter, Richard Hacken, European Studies Bibliographer at Brigham
Young shared his handout with us.  It is posted at
http://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/salalmpub2008.pdf

If you are interested in publishing and think you can’t find the time,
take a look at his suggestions.

Jana

Jana Lee Krentz
Head, Dept. for Spain, Portugal and Latin
America
Head, Area Studies, International
Programs and Cultures

E-Book webinars

To help our e-book study group understand the workings of e-book aggregators, we’ve organized one demonstration and two webinars the following dates and times with vendor representatives:


EBL
Sally Terbeck
Wed, June 25, 1-2:30
webinar in Watson 419

MyiLibrary
David Ziembiec
Thursday, July 10
10:30-12:00
webinar in Watson 503A

If you are interested, feel free to attend.

–Judith E.
Cataloging