This Week in LIS - 13 July 2007

Upcoming Dates

  • July 25: Summer Planning Day
  • August 13: Staff Day
  • August 23: Service of Dedication & President’s State of the College Address

TWILIS Back from Hiatus

After a couple weeks off, it’s good to get the gears cranking again on TWILIS, and the good news is I’ve decided not to post all the links I’ve collected over the last couple weeks in this message :)

Annual Report

A draft version of the LIS Annual Report will be available later this evening in the LIS General project in Basecamp. This is only a draft. I will be accepting amendments, modifications, changes, deletions, comments and complaints for the next couple weeks. The final form emerged over time and rewriting and reworking, and now that a form exists for you to see, you may have additional items you want to submit, or you may want to see something emphasized differently. Please let me know. We will discuss the report and work from it at our July 25th meeting. The final report will include our objectives for 2007-08 and will be published broadly in August.

Web Programmer Analyst Search

The search committee has been conducting telephone interviews with candidates and is currently considering finalists for campus interviews.

Staff Day

Luther’s Staff Day will be Monday, August 13th, and all LIS staff should plan to attend. Please let Cindy Hansmeier know if you are not able to attend for any reason.

HVAC Updates

From Facilities: “Here is a progress report for the Main HVAC project. Our floor sawing contractor will have the tower section (faculty offices) floor penetration holes cut by the end of this week. They will then be going back to work on the wall penetrations. Casper’s will begin installing the vertical ducts and fire dampers through the tower section. After the ducts are installed our carpenters will start to build the chases that surround the ducts.

Next week plans are to saw the 2nd to 1st floor floor openings (two) and layout more of the 1st floor to ground floor penetrations. Casper’s will also be installing the classroom ductwork into the 2nd floor classrooms next week.” The goal for summer is to do faculty offices and classrooms. Hallways and office work will occur in fall. The system won’t be ready to use until fall/winter.

There is no new information for the Preus chiller at this time. It is still on the radar for work this summer.

8:45s for Next Week

We’ll hold virtual meetings everyday next week.

Rachel Appointed to Statewide Board

Governor Culver has appointed Rachel to Iowa’s Historical Records Advisory Board for a three year term. The IHRAB functions in accord with federal regulations and serves as the central advisory body for historical records planning in Iowa. The Board works to improve the care of historical records by individuals and by private and governmental organizations in Iowa; encourages cooperative projects among statewide institutions, promotes local records management programs; and reviews the condition of historical records in the state. The IHRAB is also a state-level review board for grant proposals submitted to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and serves as the review panel for the State Historical Society of Iowa’s Historical Resource Development Program grant applications. Congratulations Rachel!

Watchdog RFID System

A story on Luther’s Watchdog implementation appeared in RFID Journal this month —> http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/3442/1/1/

Cool Resource of the Week: BookTour.com

From their promotional material, “BookTour.com is a free online service that connects authors and potential audiences of all sorts, from book groups to civic organizations, from bookstores to corporate events. Authors create their own page (biography, books, tour dates and availability) and any group looking for speakers can find them and contact them directly to arrange for an appearance. Relevant information for both authors and venues can be added in minutes through a simple fill-in-the-blanks interface. Connecting authors with potential audiences then becomes as easy as searching (by geography, book titles, subject, dates of availability) and sending an email.

For authors, BookTour.com serves as a one-stop tool for book promotion, allowing authors at all levels of their careers to locate receptive live audiences. For readers and audiences, BookTour.com makes finding when a favorite author is coming to your town as easy as checking the weather.”

Around the Web

Here are a few links to interesting developments over the past week:

Copyright Center Will Let Colleges Pay Blanket Fees to Reuse Printed Materials [Chronicle of Higher Education]
http://tinyurl.com/2nmzru

Librarians Find a Place in a ‘Web 2.0’ World [Chronicle of Higher Education]
http://tinyurl.com/3bkoyv

When ‘Digital Natives’ Go to the Library [Inside Higher Ed]
http://tinyurl.com/ys4n99

Random Friday Question: Do We Need Libraries Anymore? [Washington Post]
http://tinyurl.com/2q99ws

Google’s Marissa Mayer on The Future of Search [Read/WriteWeb]
http://tinyurl.com/2l2cjz

Ohio State University: Open Access Initiative [Ohio State University Press]
http://tinyurl.com/yopazs

Many Internet and Cell Phone Users Find Devices and Applications Too Complicated or Hardly Worth the Trouble [Pew Internet]
http://tinyurl.com/3d24oc

Google Maps Is Changing the Way We See the World [Wired]
http://tinyurl.com/2942ur

Structure and Form of Folksonomy Tags: The Road to the Public Library Catalogue [Webology]
http://tinyurl.com/3xy3zy

Facebook Shuns Some Library Search Tools [Chronicle of Higher Education]
http://tinyurl.com/2s5knc

Copyright Explained: I May Copy It, Right? [Smashing Magazine]
http://tinyurl.com/2yk5pl

Greater Access to Public Domain Works for All Users [Inside Google Book Search]
http://tinyurl.com/ysddmt

All Shook Up, Right Down to the Musical Core [New York Times]
http://tinyurl.com/269fec

Technology’s Untanglers: They Make It Really Work [New York Times]
http://tinyurl.com/2hbsn9

In the Blink of a Byte, Future Becomes Past [New York Times]
http://tinyurl.com/ypu4ty

Fixing Typos by Web Users, Without Raising Hackles [New York Times]
http://tinyurl.com/22zc7h

Google Buys a Manager of Email [New York Times]
http://tinyurl.com/2dxvcw

More Than Coffee and Wireless [Inside Higher Ed]
http://tinyurl.com/2799m9

iPhone: In-Depth Review [ars technica]
http://tinyurl.com/2cebsn

A Hipper Crowd of Shushers [New York Times]
http://tinyurl.com/2qqs4k

Nielsen Scraps Web Page View Rankings [Yahoo! News]
http://tinyurl.com/2awfo7

Intel Buys Into VMWare [ars technica]
http://tinyurl.com/24m7sr

University Adds RFID Tags to Mobile Phones [TUV]
http://tinyurl.com/28z7qt

The Psychology of Social Computing: What Best Explains the Success of Facebook? [Social Computing Magazine]
http://tinyurl.com/2oyst6

5 Business Lessons from Costco [Signal vs. Noise]
http://tinyurl.com/2vc94w

IT Collaboration: Multi-Institutional Partnerships to Develop, Manage, and Operate IT Resources [EDUCAUSE]
http://tinyurl.com/ywjqln

Librarians: We’re Not What You Think [John Hubbard]
http://tinyurl.com/28t5th

Online Social Networks, Virtual Communities, Enterprises, and Information Professionals — Part 1. Past and Present [Searcher]
http://tinyurl.com/ysh6zk

CUPS Purchased by Apple, Inc. [cups.org]
http://tinyurl.com/2bjo2x

National Librarian Sport Declared [Research Quest]
http://tinyurl.com/293fk9

Google CEO: Will Fight Viacom Suit [Newsvine]
http://tinyurl.com/yuk55t

Mounting Scrutiny for Google Security [Yahoo! News]
http://tinyurl.com/2g8kue

Researcher: Optimal Copyright Term is 14 Years [ars technica]
http://tinyurl.com/26ue8u

iPhone Buyers Have No Regrets [USAToday.com]
http://tinyurl.com/2uf7bp

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