LIS News / Blog

Headline of the Week: Copyright: YouTube AudioID and YouTube VideoID

At the library services this meeting this week we got into a conversation about copyright and copyright education for our students and faculty. This conversation included a reminder that we have on our website extensive information about copyright for use by our faculty and staff in dealing with the copyright issues they face and on which they need to make usage decisions.

For those of you who participated in the Educause webinars during last year’s Data Privacy Month, you may recall the book LOL. . .OMG!: What Every Student Needs to Know About Online Reputation Management, Digital Citizenship, and Cyberbullying by Matt Iverson. The author spoke as part of one of the webinars and the e-book version was offered as a free download for a limited amount of time.

This year, the book is being once again offered as a free e-book download starting today through January 29th.

Today we turned on Google analytics reporting in ReasonCMS. Now any site owner/editor can view up to date analytics via the ReasonCMS admin console.

Site maintainers can view analytics for their whole site or a particular page. Additionally, they can limit the results by date range and on-campus vs.

I thought the TWILIS topic from two weeks ago re: the differences between roaming the virtual and physical stacks was interesting and quite relevant to our current e-reading initiative. Equally interesting was the type of comments the writing inspired.

Patty Livingood will join LIS as Program Support Coordinator (PSC). Her first official day will be Wednesday, January 30, 2013. Patty comes to us from the Office for Financial Services.

Please join me in welcoming Patty to LIS. As opportunities present themselves I hope you will take a few moments to share how you fit into LIS and how you relate to the PSC role. This will be helpful to Patty as she gets to know LIS and how we are organized.

Special thanks to our recruiting team, René, Diane, Marcia and Andi for all their good work in evaluating more than 32 candidates.

Update 7:20AM: Network service has been restored in all affected areas.

Overnight, the network went down in the Heating Plant, Facilities Management Building, Storre, and Ockham house. The cause of the problem is being investigated and the problem will be fixed ASAP.

Headline of the Week: Tribute to Jean Dickman

Forty-four years, five months of service to Luther College. Today Jean Dickman, Acquisitions Assistant in Preus Library, retires. She joined Luther College prior to Preus Library building coming on-line. She was serving when the library moved from Koren to Preus.

I want to share a couple of thoughts on this special day for Jean.

Jean was very good at her work; an extraordinary steward of Luther’s resources and one who works with the highest attention to detail. This is well known.

Present: Matt H, Matt B, Bob E, Larry, Matt H, Todd, Eddy, Diane

• GusDay – GusDay, the Minnesota Private College Consortium’s annual technology conference which Luther staff regularly attend, is Friday, January 18, at the University of St. Thomas. Those attending this year include: Matt H, Matt H, Matt B, Dylan, Adam, Chris, and Paul.
• Norse Docs Workshops & New Katie Faculty Working Sessions – The first sessions were held last week and additional sessions are scheduled for the next two weeks. See lis.luther.edu/learn/schedule.

As most of you know, today is the last day of work for Jean Dickman, Acquisitions Assistant here in Preus Library. Yesterday afternoon we had reception where many of Jean’s friends, colleagues, and family gathered to celebrate her 44+ years of service to Luther College and how much she will be missed here in the library.

As part of yesterday’s reception we had index cards available for people to share a favorite story or memory with Jean to be included in a small scrap book.

Google’s Appointment Slots feature has been used extensively on Luther’s campus, particularly for scheduling office hours with students and Norse Writing Center appointments.

We were informed in December that Appointment Slots would be going away this January.