Leading in a Multigenerational Organization

This talk by Maureen Sullivan was truly invigorating. I chose to attend this session because my own department boasts members of probably every generation discussed here:
Traditionalists (born before 1946),
Boomers (born 1964-1964),
Gen X (born 1965-1980, and
Millenials born 1980-2000. DISCLOSURE: I was born in 1981.
The presentation initially tackled some of the more obvious issues that [...]

Meeting Academic Library User Needs

Two Pilot projects at S.I. Newhouse School for Publishing:
1) Pilot project (02/2007-04/2007)
3 months time frame
Interview questions:
Resources and tools
describe typical course assignment for you and student
how do faculty stay current in field
and how do they collaborate outside of school
Data Processing and Analysis:
Will recordings be transcribed?
If not, what doco will be used as found. for analysis?
Group analysis [...]

Forming Community Partnerships

Link to conference powerpoint: http://www.nelib.org/conference/2007/p/formingcommunity-powerpoint.pdf
Collaboration between Keene State and Keene Public Libraries in Keene NH.
Can an Academic and Public library work together?
A tale of 2 libraries (in walking distance of each other).
Keene State:
est. 1929, 180,000 titles, 5,235 students.
Keene Pub.:
est. 1828, 121,500 titles, approx. 22,500 residents
What is a library partnership?
Consortium model- multiple libraries work together
Joint-use [...]

Discussion Group: Get Involved with NELA

NETCRL- Teen and Children’s Librarian round table.
NETSL- sponsors conference at Holy Cross every spring. November will see another conference co-sponsored by NELINET, focused towards cataloging, but something for everyone.
ITS- Information Technology section. New chair of ITS section present, Rick Taplin. He was also the founder of this section. The IT section originally dealt with topics [...]

Tip Top Tech Training

Laura Blake (NETSL) introduced Dodie Gaudet.
Experience as supervisors, dept. head, contract cataloger, aerobics instructor- lots of training experience (rec’d and giving).
Trainging is an integral part of lib’s job (our REAL job).
Emphasis on preparation.
PREPARATION:
wHAT DO YOU want to accompl. with traingin?
demo?
train?
train the trainer?
know situation, audience, environment:
who are listeners?
why are they here?
training staff to use the [...]

The Way Ahead: A Report from the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

Presentation sponsored by NETSL, introduction from Margaret Lourie.
Website for the group: http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/
Report of working group was supposed to be out by this time (10/16/2007), but is still being written, discussed and debated. A draft of the report should go public in the next couple of weeks.
Why was the working group created?

Series decision of [...]

Greetings from the Elm City!

Hi, my name is Jenn Nolte and I work in the Integrated Library & Technology Services department
(Systems Office) at Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library. My title is Applications Manager / Database Analyst, and I’ve been at the library since January 2004. My current responsibilities include managing MARC record loads, extractions and processing projects; and I’m [...]