Charlene Barina March 1st, 2007
Neat series of blog entries on ER&L 2007 activities and presentations. Check it out at Wake Forest’s Z. Smith Reynolds Library blog.
There’s another one at Kansas State Libraries Conference Reports section of their blog.
Charlene Barina March 1st, 2007
As a FYI, we’ve moved keynote information (powerpoints, audio, bios, etc) into its own conference session so that it’s easier to find and discuss. It is under Conference 2007 as Keynote Speakers, and it will require the enrollment key you all have been sent to get access to it.
rnelson February 28th, 2007
Cindi Trainor, Director of Library and Information Technology at Claremont Colleges gave an interesting presentation on how the library has become integrated in course content and curriculum at Claremont College. I’m not too familiar with the various learning management systems (LMS) so this was a particularly informative session.
The presentation centered on how libraries have become embedded in the curriculum at Claremont Colleges as librarians work with faculty in creating library instruction in courses. Claremont colleges had several different LMS’, which made it difficult for a student to navigate an online course because they were constantly confronted with a new interface to learn. They decided there was a need to simplify things and decided to go with one LMS and they choose Sakai, an open source LMS developed by Univ. of Michigan, Indiana, MIT and Standford.
Once they selected Sakai, they moved very quickly. They added all courses to Sakai, included a link to the library web page from each course, taught faculty how to find library content and provided documentation and training. They accomplished all of this in 3 months-impressive!
Through screen captures Trainor demonstrated how the library is embedded in the LMS.
For example, the studnet logs into the LMS site. It contains a list of their courses, an E-resource checklist, recent announcements, assignments, and other various content items. Depending on the class, there may be a link to the other library resources that pertain to this specific course. Trainor did mention that the concept of an embedded librarian isn’t applicable to every course. For instance, a chemistry lab course may not include links to library materials.
Trainor also talked about how other applications can be integrated into Sakai. It’s possible to create images in Content DM and export an html page that refers to all of these images. So, for example, an instructor can mark a particular set of images and the export an html page that shows direct links back to these images. One can also create lists of citations using Sakai and Trainor demonstrated this as well.
There is a lot more depth within the presentation that I’m able to share, but I think this is definitely a good one, particularly for libraries who are trying to become more integrated into classroom instruction. Trainor showed us how with hard work, a dedicated staff, and cooperation between the library and IT staff the library can become central in the learning process.
Charlene Barina February 24th, 2007
…They’re up in the General Conference 2007 section until we get other materials from keynotes and what-not. Enjoy!
jgriffin February 24th, 2007
The ppt slides of the closing keynote presentation will be available via video in the coming weeks. The audio should be available this afternoon.
pthompso February 24th, 2007
This is the first conference I have attended where I actually used my laptop throughout the conference and I loved it! I hardly had to write anything at all. I also appreciated the ability to multi-task during the talks without being considered rude. (Even though I am not of the Millennial Generation, I think I have assimilated some of their qualities.) I appreciated the facility with its tables for food and computer and “stuff” and the electrical plugs and wireless internet. I especially liked having the “overflow” room for the morning plenary sessions because it was informal and one could come and go without being rude to the presenter, because there wasn’t a presenter in the room.
Pat
Charlene Barina February 24th, 2007
Audio quality issues for the first day of recordings for room 236 have been resolved and the files have been update. There are a few missing files from Thursday that I’ll be tracking down, but I will be uploading Friday’s now.
Kelly Smith February 23rd, 2007
Thanks to those of you who are adding to the blog. Keep those entries coming!
When I don’t have to keep track of this little guy I’ll add some myself!
Bonnie Tijerina February 23rd, 2007
We have determined that the audio issues were not present on our source but appeared during encoding. So, I believe that we’ll have updated versions of those rooms tonight that won’t be having so many problems.
cindybassett February 23rd, 2007
I wasn’t told when I got here that most/all of the power point presentations from the conference were loaded on the flash drive we were given at registration.
I saw someone using this in a really cool way - while she was sitting in the presentation, she opened the power point presentation and just added her notes to the pertinent slides.
Isn’t this a cool idea? It would make it way easier to share the information once we go back to our organizations!
Bonnie Tijerina February 23rd, 2007
We’ve been documenting the conference sessions and receptions, so check out all the flickr pictures. Look for the cool kids in the black hoodies. 
eolivier February 22nd, 2007
Thanks so far for a well organized conference and professional presenter support at the Session rooms. The Welcome reception at Georgia Tech Library and the Sponsor’s reception today were both excellent. I also found the Georgia Tech tour very interesting!
Charlene Barina February 22nd, 2007
Edit: Fyi, it seems like some of these “silences” may still have audio data present - if I up the gain a whole lot, I can hear speaking. So I may be able to salvage some material. Stay tuned.
Hey,
Out here in way too chilly Seattle (I envy Atlanta - high in the low 60s this weekend!?) I’m prepping audio recording to be put on the session sites. Everything from today, except the keynote (which will have a streaming realmedia link posted tomorrow), will be up tonight.
I also wanted to let you all know that there were A/V equipment issues in Room 236 that has resulted in uneven or missing audio chunks from recordings. I’m excising the silences and noting them when you access them, but I believe Bonnie and Georgia Tech’s Digital Initiatives department volunteers will be consulting with the conference center’s A/V people to get that rectified for tomorrow.
Hope you all are having a good time - things sound good so far, and I wish I was there!
lsaeki February 22nd, 2007
So, are librarians Mac or PC people? Taking a quick glance around the room, I spotted just two other Macs. But I counted 14 PCs.
lsaeki February 22nd, 2007
I am blogging from the session on how the University of Pretoria implemented dSpace for its institutional repository (I’m paying attention, of course). I am enjoying the technological opportunities available at the conference — wireless access, little outlet nubs on the tabletop to plug the ol’ laptop into — all housed in an architecturally interesting physical space. It’s particularly useful for a session like this — while the presenter was talking about the collections of UPSpace, I surfed on over to the site and had a peek at some of their collections. There certainly are more ways now to make a session interactive.
preynolds February 7th, 2007
 Before the session Developing Electronic Collections with Shrinking Budgets (doing more with less) It would be a good idea to read the following material.
A lot of this may seem like basic information that we all know but, Google changes features continually and it is often hard to keep up. When I last counted the Google services listed under “More Google†and under “Labs” I came up with seventy different products or services with fifty-two of those products being search related. How many of these are we really familiar with let alone their individual operators and capabilities? In their book Google Hacks Bausch, Calishain, Dornfest list hack #1 as being aware of and using the Google directory, #2 is Google Zeitgeist, #4 is the built in spell checker, #5 the Google Phone Book and the list goes on. The point is that just by studying the documentation and tools provided by Google we immediately become expert searchers compared to the vast majority of Internet users. This is where our customers are going.
A recent comparison of Cornell University reference librarians and Internet users on Google Answers showed reference librarians with their vastly larger collection of quality print and electronic information, years of experience, and professional training scored little better than the Internet users offering information on Google Answers. In addition to this, the librarians cost two to three times as much. The researchers seem to try to excuse these results by saying “A final point on the evaluations involves sources. Google researchers (as opposed to the librarians) are experts at locating hard-to-find information on the Web. Their answers, therefore, tend to be limited to freely available networked resources.†Is this an excuse or an insult?
Kenney, Anne R., Nancy Y. McGovern, Ida T. Martinez, and Lance J. Heidig. “Google Meets eBay What Academic Librarians Can Learn from Alternative Information Providers.” D-Lib Magazine Volume 9 Number 6June 2003 1-16. 06 Nov 2006.
It’s time for us to learn the ins and outs of search engines, web sites, “become experts at locating hard-to-find information on the webâ€. An easy way to acquire this knowledge is to remember the three P’s of becoming a search engine expert. Pick two or three search engines to use regularly. Print and study any help pages or documentation they provide. Practice using the various tools on a regular basis and incorporate them into your own research and into your work with others.
R Philip Reynolds
Research Education Librarian
Stephen F. Austin State University
Computer Science, History, Military Science, Philosophy, Religion, Political Science, Geography
The Tao of Searching
http://tao-of-searching.blogspot.com/
Charlene Barina February 5th, 2007
Checking out the attendee map, looks like we’ve pretty much saturated the US. We’re definitely not feeling the upper midwest love, though - even Hawai’i has some people! A couple of states not representing in the northeast, like Rhode Island, too. We have quite a few Canadian folks coming out too - 5 provinces - and a few international presenters. Looks to be a neat group of people coming out…Remember, registration ends January 7th - and there’s no on-site registration! Don’t forget to RSVP for the pre-conference reception!
Bonnie Tijerina February 1st, 2007
ER&L is pleased to announce our keynote speakers. The conference will begin Thursday morning with a keynote address from Rick Luce, Vice-Provost and Director of Libraries at Emory University. Jane Burke, VP of ProQuest Information and Learning, and General Manager of Serials Solutions will address attendees Saturday morning.
dchvatal January 30th, 2007
As a preliminary investigation to the nature and content of my presentation, entitled: Institutional Identifiers in the Journal Supply Chain, go to http://www.journalsupplychain.org/ for information about the creation of Identify as a registry for institutional identification. You will find web-based resources, white papers, and summaries of current activity regarding a Pilot Project to improve efficiencies in the “journal supply chain”. What is the journal supply chain? Business activity (orders, claims, renewals) and communication (authentication, authorization) between interested parties: publishers, subscription agents, journal hosting platforms, fulfillment software companies, link resolvers, integrated library system vendors, libraries, other institutional and personal subscribers to journals and end-users of journal content. Whew. That’s a lot of ground to cover. For those deciding to participate in this program event, check the Course later and I will provide a link where you can look up the number of your institution’s identity along with the PowerPoint to be made at the conference.
Donald Chvatal
Bonnie Tijerina October 29th, 2006
The Program Planning group made their comments on about half the proposals that have come in so far. Part of that group met in person to accept our first round of proposals and I am thrilled at the variety this year!
Last year the focus was heavily on e-serials since that is what most people were dealing with. Many of still are, but there’s so much more happening and you can tell by the types of proposals coming in. There is a great breadth of topics related to electronic resources and digital services (areas covered within our mission).
Here’s just a taste of some of the topics we’re seeing:
As presenters agree to participate in ER&L 2007 we are adding information about their session.
Bonnie Tijerina October 29th, 2006
At the end of July ‘06 I hosted a one-day retreat for any ER&L planners at GA Tech Library. I was surprised that so many showed up from all over the
Here’s a few things we discussed at the retreat:
What ER&L Conference 2006 did well
What can we improve
What should we do for ER&L Conference 2007
Mission
ER&L provides a forum for information professionals to explore ideas, trends, and technologies related to electronic resources and digital services.
Bonnie Tijerina October 28th, 2006
Registration opens Monday!
Our proposals look promising and cover a wide range of topics related to e-resources:
Check out some of the accepted proposals. More will be added through mid-November.
There is still 2 days to submit a proposal!
Early-bird rates are in effect through January 10, 2007.
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