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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]