Conferences, Meetings and Webinars 5/14/13

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Professional growth and development opportunities from ALCTS; the Blended Librarian; the Library Juice Academy; NFAIS; and VALA – Libraries, Technology and the Future Inc.

ALA Annual Preconference: Shared Print Monographs; Making it Work

On Thursday, June 27, at the 2013 ALA Annual Conference, ALCTS brings you “Shared Print Monographs: Making It Work.” This all day preconference, 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., will cover the challenges and outcomes of shared print programs for monographs. Register through the

2013 ALA Annual Conference website. The cost for each: $219 for ALCTS members; $269 for ALA members; $99 for retired members and students; $319 for non-members. Select event: ALC1. Join your colleagues for this important preconference.

… This preconference will highlight the experiences of several groups: Michigan Shared Print Initiative, Connect New York, Maine Shared Collection Strategy, the California State University system, and others.

The program:

Introduction: Rick Lugg, Sustainable Collection Services
Origins of a Shared Print Project: Vision/Mandate/Goals: Gerry Hanley, Senior Director, Academic Technology Services, California State University, Office of the Chancellor; Alice Kawakami, University Librarian, California State University/Los Angeles; Clem Guthro, Director of the Colby College Libraries and a Principal Investigator for Maine Shared Collection Strategy
Communication, Project Management & Decision-Making: Debra Bucher, Head of Collection Development & Research Services, Vassar College & Co-Coordinator, Connect New York Shared Print Archiving Project; Matthew Revitt, Program Manager, Maine Shared Collection Strategy
Group Policies and Decisions: The Memorandum of Understanding: Dr. Barbara Cockrell, Associate Dean for Collections & Technical Services, Western Michigan University & Michigan Shared Print Initiative (MI-SPI); Emily Hutton-Hughes, Head of Collection Development, Colgate University & Co-Coordinator, Connect New York (CNY) Shared Print Archiving Project
Data Wrangling for Shared Print Monographs: Sara Amato, Systems Librarian, Maine Shared Collection Strategy; Andy Breeding, Chief Analytics Officer, Sustainable Collection Services
Modeling Shared Print Scenarios: Using Data to Inform Policies & Decisions: Panel: Collections Heads and Data Managers
Sharing the Benefits & Monitoring Progress: Doug Way, Head of Collections & Scholarly Communications, Grand Valley State University & Michigan Shared Print Initiative (MI-SPI); Randy Dykhuis, Executive Director, Midwest Collaborative for Library Services & Michigan Shared Print Initiative (MI-SPI)

For more information please check the ALCTS website at http://www.ala.org/alcts/events/ala/ac/shared-print or contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Continuing Education Manager, jreese@ala.org.

The Evolution of the Academy: Alt-Ac and the Future of the Library

Date: Thursday, May 16th, 2013 from 2:00pm to 3:00pm ET
Duration: 60 minutes

Steven Bell and John Shank, co-founders of the Blended Librarians Online Learning Community and their guests, Elliott Shore (Executive Director of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL)) and Christa Williford (Program Officer, Council on Library and Information Resources), invite you to attend the next Blended Librarians webcast. This session explores the emerging ecology of positions and roles in Higher Education and examines the roles libraries and allied departments might play in relation to the emerging Alt-Academic movement.

This is a free event to attend the webcast register @ http://sco.lt/75y6K1

Library Juice Academy – June Classes

“Library Juice Academy offers a range of online professional development workshops for librarians and other library staff, focusing on practical topics to build new skills. These workshops earn Continuing Education Units, and are intended as professional development activities…”

The workshop schedule for June is below. Watch this page for updates. We are currently accepting enrollments in the courses listed below. (For more information check out the FAQ file.)

Introduction to RDA Instructor: Melissa Adler | Credits: 1.5 CEUs | Cost: $175
Marketing the Library in the 21st Century Instructor: Debra Lucas-Alfieri | Credits: 1.5 CEUs | Cost: $175
Success in First Library Supervisor Position Instructor: Tony Garrett | Credits: 1.5 CEUs | Cost: $175
Patent Searching Instructor: Martin Wallace | Credits: 1.5 CEUs | Cost: $175
Online Instruction Instructor: John Doherty | Credits: 1.5 CEUs | Cost: $175
Introduction to Drupal for Libraries Instructor: Cody Hennesy | Credits: 1.5 CEUs | Cost: $175
Diversity Plans for Academic Libraries Instructor: Julie Biando Edwards | Credits: 1.5 CEUs | Cost: $175
Designing a Usable Website (Concepts of User-Centered Design) Instructor: Carolyn Ellis | Credits: 1.5 CEUs | Cost: $175
The Sustainability Movement on Campus: Forming a Library Action Plan for Engagement Instructor: Madeleine Charney | Credits: 0.75 CEUs | Cost: $90

NFAIS Webinar: The Global Open Knowledgebase (GOKb) – Building a Community-Managed Knowledgebase

On Friday, May 31, 2013 NFAIS will hold a 90-minute webinar from 11:00am – 12:30pm EDST to take a look at the Global Open Knowledgebase (GOKb) – a new open, community-based international data repository that will provide libraries with information about electronic resources. It will include data such as publication information, related organizations, and model licenses, and will be accessible across all US and UK academic libraries. The initiative was funded in June 2012 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and is being led by the Kuali OLE partner libraries and JISC. The expectation is that a beta version will be launched this summer. The ultimate goal of the effort is to enhance the supply chain lifecycle for libraries in managing electronic resources while mobilizing community effort to add quality, timeliness and economies to the library management environment.

Our speakers will be Kristin Antelman, Associate Director for the Digital Library, North Carolina State University, Raleigh and Liam Earney, Project Director, Knowledgebase Plus, JISC Collections. Some of the issues that they will discuss are:

· The industry problems that led to the development of GOKb such as issues of data quality and inefficient data management across the supply chain
· The approach taken to develop the repository, including principles of open data, collaboration, enhanced data, and use of standards and best practices.
· How GOKb data will be used in current national and local-level services, such as Knowledge Base Plus in the UK and Kuali OLE
· How it could be of use to entities of all types across the supply chain, including publishers and vendors
· The approach to supporting community management of GOKb going forward

In addition, a demonstration of a beta version will be provided.

If you or your staff want to learn more about this new global initiative and what role publishers may play, register for the NFAIS webinar today. NFAIS members pay $105, Sister Society members pay $115, and non-members pay $125. An unlimited number of staff from NFAIS member organizations can participate for a group fee of $255. The group fee for an unlimited number of staff from any Sister Society is $275, and from a non-member organization is $295. The registration form can be accessed at: http://nfais.org/event?eventID=523.

For more information contact Jill O’Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); mailto:jilloneill@nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org/

VALA Event – Wednesday 22 May – Library web OPAC

Topic: “Real-time user stats for your Library web OPAC”

Speaker: Justin Kelly, Swinburne University Library

See what your library users are doing on your system right now, how their behaviour changes over time and how to use this data to enhance your Library web OPAC. Identify ‘right-now’ library usage trend and produce data visualisations to reflect usage trend to enable librarians and library staff to better serve the current needs of your users.

About our Speaker: Justin Kelly is a web developer at Swinburne University Library. He manages their ExLibris Primo system and has worked on the Aleph, Primo, Primo hosted, and Alma migration/implementation projects.

Please Register:- your attendance by logging on to

www.vala.org.au/meetings