Join us for a
PRESERVATION
DEPARTMENT
OPEN HOUSE
Watson Library, 1st Floor
Tuesday, August 5
1-4 PM
Learn about:
Handling and care of collections
Evaluating damaged books
Repairing and rebinding books in the conservation lab
Commercial binding news and services
Reformatting brittle books
Reformatting and digitizing audio recordings
Monitoring environments to preserve collections
and more.
Come and go as you wish.
The IS Diversity Committee is proud to present:
“Under the Rainbow: An Oral History Project” by our very own Tami Albin!
“Save the Date” for this very special event!
More information (including a brief synopsis and short bio) will be available next week.
Please mark your calendars because you do not want to miss this amazing event!
When: Wednesday, July 30 from 1:30-3:00 pm
Where: The Computer Center Auditorium
Thank you and we hope to see you there!
Reminder to save the date:
Please plan to attend a special All Staff meeting on Wednesday, July 16 from 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. in the Big 12 Room of the Kansas Union. Our special guest speaker will be Crit Stuart, an Association of Research Libraries consultant who will talk to us about perspectives and trends about Library as Academic Center following a day of engagement with library leaders and potential campus partners. A question and answer session will follow the presentation.
Refreshments will be served.
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
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
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
As we get closer to finishing our migration to the new template I know
that there are people who are still grappling with using Contribute.
The next workshop will be:
June 30 9:00 – 11:00
Let me iterate that you are not obligated to use Contribute for your web
edits. You can use Dreamweaver or any other variety of text editor if
you are more comfortable with these tools. However, if you use a tool
other than Contribute you will need to manually insert the following
metadata.
Thanks for all of your help with this. Please contact me if you intend
to attend one or any of these workshops.
Gretchen Anderson
Technology Trainer
Instructional Services
ph: 4-0447
email: ganders@ku.edu
Please join us as we say goodbye and good luck to Maggie as she heads off to medical school.
Friday, June 6
2:00 p.m.
502 Watson.
Refreshments will be served.
You’re invited to an open presentation for Humanities Librarian for English candidate William Boatman on June 6, 10:45-11:30, Watson Conference Room A. William’s cover letter and resume are now posted on the E-Reserve/Docutek system.
Course Number – contains – lib000 (lib and 3 zeros)
Click on LIB000
Enter lib000 as the password
Click on the appropriate folder
Select document desired
Select file desired
Questions? Contact Rita Wilson at rcwilson@ku.edu.
