Create a Successful Staff Retreat

Denise van Zanten of Manchester City Library, Dianne Hathaway of Goffstown Public Library, Amy Lapointe of Amherst Town Library and Marilyn Borgendale of GMILCS, Inc. led this presentation about a successful staff retreat that GMILCS libraries had in February. GMILCS is a consortium of 12 public and academic libraries in New Hampshire.
Shared documents on the [...]

Discussion Group: Library Lifelines

This discussion group was led by Diana Comer (dean) and Louise Motta (librarian) from the Dorothy Salter Library at Salter College.
Louise describes herself as a non-traditional librarian (3rd or 4th career) serving mostly non-traditional students in a non-traditional library.
She described this project as a “Field of Dreams.” They started the library with a vision [...]

State of the States

Funding is an issue in ALL New England States, but grant funds are responsible for the success of projects ranging from getting a toilet put into a small library in VT to hooking up with WebJunction for professional development needs. Representatives from all six New England States were on hand to detail some of their [...]

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 Hollywood Librarian Showing

On Monday night, NELA sponsored a showing of the new movie, The Hollywood Librarian. About 70 librarians came to the showing, and were fairly vocal during the movie – lots of laughs, and many gasps of surprise.
The movie essentially chronicles the way librarians have been represented by Hollywood in film, from black-and-white movies to [...]

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 [...]