posted Feb 3, 2012 7:22 AM by Joni Blake
Join Amanda K. Sprochi,
Health Sciences Cataloger at the University of Missouri-Columbia when she discusses the campus disaster response to a fire that occurred at Ellis Library (main library) in September, 2011.
This will be the second event in a new series of occasional
webinars addressing disaster “post mortem” examinations—a round-robin
discussion of post-disaster learning experiences told from the
perspective of the librarians who were in the thick of it. Presenters
will discuss the disaster their library experienced, addressing:
What went well? What didn't? Lessons learned & other takeaways.
The webinar will take place on Friday, February 10th at 11am(Central); 10am (Mountain); 9am (Pacific); and 7am (Hawaiian).
Connection instructions:
Wimba Classroom: GWLA Presentation on Ellis Fire Wimba Classroom link:
http://umclive.wimba.com/launcher.cgi?room=_umc_s__4672_1_615018
Optional Dial-in number : Phone : (201) 549-7623
PIN code : 15017069
Plan to arrive a few minutes early to allow Wimba to run a short wizard on your computer.
If
your computer has a microphone/speakers or a combo headset, you should
be able to view the webinar without dialing in to the phone line. Use the phone dial-in if you do not have this equipment.
When
people log on to the Wimba room for the webinar, there is a telephone logo at the bottom
of the screen -- touch it and it provides the phone and pin numbers
needed to call in to be able to talk, as well as at the bottom of this
message. Otherwise, people can type comments into a chat box.
We
are also going to record the webinar for later viewing if your
schedule doesn't allow you to attend on Friday.
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posted Feb 2, 2012 10:48 AM by Joni Blake
Here are the materials from the OCLC/GWLA Seeking
Synchronicity webinar on January 31, 2012.
Here is the recording to view if you were unable to attend; the Seeking Synchronicity report can be found online here. Also attached are the slides used in the presentation. Seeking Synchronicity was the first event in the Virtual Reference Series--announcements about future events will be coming soon. |
posted Dec 28, 2011 1:44 PM by Joni Blake
Randy's informative, fun, and somewhat horrifying presentation “Why Not Minot: lessons learned from the 2011
flooding in North Dakota, a disaster affecting the cultural resources of
the Ward County Historical Society,” is now posted on the Marriott
Library’s server and is available for people to watch.
http://stream.scl.utah.edu/index.php?c=details&id=8283
Please feel free to pass this message on to interested colleagues.
Meanwhile,the next 'post mortem' disaster
webinar will be about the fire at UMC's main library in September 2011. Be on
the lookout for scheduling info about it--we're shooting for late
January/early February after ALA.
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posted Dec 7, 2011 3:22 PM by Joni Blake
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updated Dec 14, 2011 12:08 PM
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Join Randy Silverman, Preservation Librarian at the
University of Utah's Marriott Library when he discusses his experiences
in Minot, ND this summer, helping with flood recovery.
We hope that this will be the first event in a new series of occasional
webinars addressing disaster “post mortem” examinations—a round-robin
discussion of post-disaster learning experiences told from the
perspective of the librarians who were in the thick of it. Presenters
will discuss the disaster their library experienced, addressing:
What went well? What didn't? Lessons learned & other takeaways.
The kickoff webinar will take place on Monday, December 19th at 2pm
(Central); 1pm (Mountain); Noon (Pacific); and 10am (Hawaiian).
Connection instructions:
Phone PIN: 03377756
If
your computer has a microphone/speakers or a combo headset, you might
be able to view the webinar without dialing in to the phone line--We're a
little fuzzy on this, so it would be wise to take a 'belt and
suspenders' approach and have both your computer's audio as well as a
phone ready to go.
When
people log on to the Wimba room for the webinar, there is a telephone logo at the bottom
of the screen -- touch it and it provides the phone and pin numbers
needed to call in to be able to talk, as well as at the bottom of this
message. Otherwise, people can type comments into a chat box.
We
are also going to try to record the webinar for later viewing if your
schedule doesn't allow you to attend on Monday. |
posted Dec 3, 2011 6:18 PM by Joni Blake
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updated Dec 5, 2011 7:27 AM
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December
9, 2011 at 1pm-2:30
pm (Central); Noon-1:30
pm (Mountain); 11 am-12:30
pm (Pacific); 9-10:30 am
(Hawaii)
Does anyone have the ability
to buy whatever their patrons need? Do you have enough information to make effective decisions on when to
purchase, license, and borrow? When should you buy? When do you license?
When should you borrow? The purpose of our December webinar is to share
information from three projects that can
aid your institution with these decisions.
Each project presenter(s)
will speak for approximately 20 minutes. After the presentations,
there should be ample time to ask questions via the chat feature of
our webinar program. We are encouraging and anticipating a highly
energetic discussion!
Presentations:
Nancy Kress, UNLV; and Lars
Leon, University of Kansas will share some results from their recent cost study
that examines the true costs to provide resource sharing. This information will help
members’ operations understand what to examine and provide attendees
useful information when deciding between purchasing versus borrowing.
Nancy Kress is the Library
Supply Chain Manager for University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries. Her
research includes applying supply chain management and Lean and Six
Sigma concepts to library operations. Lars Leon is the Head of Resource
Sharing at the University of Kansas Libraries. He is also involved with
their assessment, staff development and organizational development.
His current research emphasis is on looking into costs and then using
that information to help understand the value that their patrons place
on their services.
Wayne Pedersen, Iowa State
University will update that data he presented at the Joint Meeting,
May 2011, Park City Utah. He will discuss the factors used to
evaluate Iowa State's big package collection of e-journals published
by Springer, focusing on average ILL costs as they relate to the cost
per use of individual Springer titles. If time permits, a short discussion
of ILL costs as they relate to the cost of acquiring individual monograph
titles may be included. Wayne Pedersen is the Head
of the Acquisitions Department at Iowa State University. He currently
serves double duty as the Head of the Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery
unit. Wayne has been at Iowa State since 1991 and is a tenured Associate
Professor.
Dave Fowler, University of
Oregon will discuss the process used by the UO in getting rid of one
Big Deal and downsizing another. Included in the presentation,
Dave will discuss criteria used for ranking and evaluating journals
that were being considered for cancellation. Dave Fowler is head of licensing,
grants administration and collection analysis at the University of Oregon.
He has previously worked at Iowa State University and Texas A&M
University - Corpus Christi.
Webinar URL: https://desktopconnect.ku.edu/gwlacost/
University of Kansas has graciously
offered their Adobe Connect Pro software. A link to the webinar
will be sent out to the CD & ILL listservs no later than 24 hours prior to the beginning of the
webinar. Audio Conference Call Dial-in Number: (641)
715-3200; Participant Access Code: 433660#
The webinar & conference calling services only allow for 90 participants--If 3 or more people from
your institution wish to sit in on the discussion and/Q&A
time etc.; please consider watching together and utilizing a speakerphone to make sure everyone who wishes to attend can get a connection.
Hope to “see” you
virtually for a presentation that is relevant, informative, and perhaps
a tad bit controversial!
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posted Nov 27, 2011 3:25 PM by Joni Blake
Join GWLA and OCLC via a webinar to learn about and discuss the findings of the Seeking Synchronicity
report on Tuesday, January
31.
In this webinar, Lynn Silipigni Connaway,
PhD., Senior Research Scientist at OCLC, and Marie L. Radford, PhD.,
Associate Professor, School of Communication & Information, Rutgers,
will discuss the key findings of their multi-year study that were recently
published in the report, Seeking
Synchronicity: Revelations and Recommendations for Virtual Reference.
Their findings show that today’s
patrons, scholars and citizens are not just looking to libraries alone
for answers to specific questions; they want to also engage partners
and guides in their lifelong information-seeking journey. Virtual Reference
is an opportunity to meet those needs.
This webinar will give GWLA
members the opportunity to ask in-depth questions of the authors about
their findings as well as cover general topics of concern for Virtual
Reference providers. Please join us on Tuesday, January 31 at 2pm
Central / 1pm Mountain / Noon Pacific / 10am Hawaiian by registering for
the webinar: Register today! |
posted Oct 17, 2011 7:49 AM by Joni Blake
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updated Oct 17, 2011 9:34 AM
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The Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) joins the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in advocating for the reversal of several recent decisions regarding the future of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP).
GWLA members emphatically believe that the future of the FDLP lies in collaborative projects, including shared and multi-state regionals, as well as digitization and preservation models such as those launched by Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL), the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), and HathiTrust.
GWLA and its members firmly believe that all of these models are in compliance with Title 44 USC, and that FDLP libraries should be free to develop additional innovative models to manage and improve digital access to these critical collections.
The free and open public access to information that the FDLP provides is consistent with the research, outreach, and open access missions of GWLA member institutions. Recent decisions by the Superintendent of Documents and GPO are incongruous with the future direction of libraries and the demands of the communities they serve and should be reversed immediately.
The Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) is a consortium of 32 prominent research libraries located across 17 Midwestern & Western states with common interests in scholarly communication, interlibrary loan, shared electronic resources, cooperative collection development, digital libraries, staff development and continuing education.
Ten GWLA member institutions hold Regional status within the FDLP program; an additional 21 are Selectives. Twenty-five GWLA libraries are also members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL).
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posted Oct 17, 2011 7:48 AM by Joni Blake
http://mtsmediasite.unm.edu/unm/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=73102c37c4574a1f808ca6d1cf233b9b
Presentations
Jeremy York will
provide an overview of the HathiTrust partnership, its repository, and
services, and discuss the ways that partner institutions are positioning
HathiTrust to have a major impact on strategies for storing and managing their
print collections.
Rick Anderson will
discuss new ways of thinking about the nature of research library collections
in light of the radically new information environment in which students and
scholars now work, and will suggest several strategies that may seem to
undermine traditional library practice and philosophies but that promise to
provide better and more comprehensive access to those we exist to serve.
Ownership
of information has long been a mantra of librarianship, especially in academic
libraries. Digital information, however, creates an entirely different
collection landscape for libraries. Steven
Harris will speak about how the time may have come to give up our insistence
on ownership (except in special cases) and embrace renting as viable approach.
Suzanne Schadl
will address collaborative collection development with the Latin American Distributed Resources Project and the Latin American Microforms (now digitization)
Project, both organized through the Center for Research Libraries (CRL),
and facilitated through collaborations with Seminar
for the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM). Decades of
collaborative work have strengthened special Latin American studies collections
while enhancing ties between US and Latin American institutions. These
connections are evolving into collaborative cross-national projects which
require a clever balance in partnership between publishers, vendors, libraries
and professional organizations. |
posted Oct 12, 2011 5:58 AM by Joni Blake
A Resolution of the Greater Western Library Alliance
Whereas the drafters of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities are committed to addressing the opportunities of the Internet as a medium for distributing knowledge, and to positively advance scholarly communication; and
Whereas the current system of scholarly communication–a system that has served us well for more than 200 years–is based upon the economics and constraints of print-based communication, while today’s researchers and libraries increasingly adopt digital technologies for research dissemination and exploration with colleagues; and
Whereas there is a critical need for scholars to reclaim their scholarship, to maintain their rights as authors and creators, and to reassert the mission of scholarly communication for the advancement, promotion, and dissemination of scholarship and not as a for-profit exercise of commerce for commercial publishers; and
Whereas the membership of the Greater Western Library Alliance is comprised of the libraries of thirty-two leading research, scientific, and cultural institutions in the United States which embrace their institutional missions to disseminate scientific, scholarly, and cultural knowledge widely throughout society; and
Whereas the members of the Greater Western Library Alliance encourage their institutions’ faculty, researchers, and students to make their work available in institutional repositories and publish their work in a manner consistent with Open Access principles; and
Whereas the Greater Western Library Alliance has demonstrated its commitment to change in scholarly communication as a co-founder of BioOne which serves as a successful model in which for-profit, not-for-profit, and Open Access publishers work together harmoniously for the benefit of scholars everywhere.
BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED that the members of Greater Western Library Alliance, on behalf of the communities of scholars and students they serve, expresses its strong and vigorous support for Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this resolution be communicated to the Max Planck Society, to the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, and to the research library community at large.
This resolution was approved by a unanimous vote of the Alliance membership on September 27, 2011.
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posted Oct 10, 2011 10:31 AM by Joni Blake
We are pleased to announce that at the recent membership meeting at the University of New Mexico, the member deans of the Greater Western Library Alliance unanimously voted to extend an invitation for membership to the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Mary Case, Dean of Libraries at UIC, warmly accepted the invitation.
UIC's membership in GWLA will become effective on January 1, 2012; their librarians and staff will be joining our committees and working groups in the next few weeks. We all look forward to UIC’s contributions to the GWLA's programs, projects, and initiatives in this exciting collaboration.
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