This Week in LIS - 7 March 2008

Submitted by bartch02 on March 7, 2008 - 4:13pm

Upcoming Dates

March 12,13 (Wednesday, Thursday): Luther Staff Meetings
March 12 (Wednesday): Training: Getting the Most out of LIS [http://lis.luther.edu/learn]
March 19 (Wednesday): Training: Upcoming Norse Key Password Changes [http://lis.luther.edu/learn]
March 20 (Thursday): III Encore Installation
March 26,27 (Wednesday, Thursday): Training: Office 2007 [http://lis.luther.edu/learn]

Headline of the Week: Norse Apps Conversion to Begin in Earnest

Within the next week LIS will be working to fully engage our conversion/implementation process for migrating existing users into our new Norse Apps infrastructure hosted by Google. As of today, 109 users have been moved into the new system, mostly comprising LIS staff, student employees and some other select employees. In the next week, we will begin the process of adding accounts for the incoming Class of 2012, as well as beginning to work to migrate this year’s seniors, the Class of 2008 into the new system. Invitations will be made available to select groups of students through the existing SquirrelMail interface.

News of this conversion was included in this week’s Chips. A student-targeted information session has also been scheduled for next Wednesday evening at 6:00pm in Mott covering the new services. More information on that session is available in the LIS Blog. More general information about Norse Apps is also available from the Technology Help Desk website.

LIS Blog Highlights from the Week:

Development Computer Rollout – The staff computer roll is underway again with the Development office. Office 2007 is now in the process of being deployed on the current image to faculty and staff.
Iowa ACRL Conference Report – John Goodin reports on this week’s Iowa Association of College and Research Libraries meeting.
Knute Olson Eittreim – A new page on the LIS website has been published covering the Eittreim collection.
Norse Apps – An informational session will be held for students on the upcoming migration to Norse Apps.
IAICU TIKI 2008 Conference – Registration Open – A meeting for technology staff from private colleges will be held in Des Moines later this month.
MISO Review: Faculty and Importance/Satisfaction regarding LIS Resources and Services – A new summary of data from our MISO survey looks at faculty perspectives on our resources and services.

LIS Website Changes

Sorry, no changes of note this week to lis.luther.edu.
Magnus, LIS’ online catalog has a beta interface available at http://books.luther.edu:2082/ which is currently undergoing review.

Notes from LIS Council

LIS Council discussed changes to processes for changing passwords for alumni, options for handling H drives for graduating seniors, and policies regarding personal use of Luther-owned equipment.

NITLE Opportunities

As a member of NITLE, Luther has the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of programs targeted for faculty, librarians, and information technologists. Each week, we’ll list upcoming opportunities. If you’re interested in more information about any of these events see the links below. If you would like to be nominated to participate in an event, please let me know prior to the posted deadline. Participation is contingent upon available funding and program acceptance. Items added since the last issue of TWILIS carry a NEW: tag.

Nominations due Friday, March 14th:
- Online Meeting: The Challenges of Introducing Islam in the Classroom: Can Technology Help? A professional development brown bag for faculty. Program Date & Time: April 15, 2008, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Eastern. Delivered online via MIV.
Nominations due Friday, March 21st:
- Workshop-To-Go: Teaching Digital Natives: Strategies for Digital Immigrants. Program Date: May 1, 2008. Location: Skidmore College.
- Workshop-To-Go: Social Software for Education: Collaborative Learning and Research Practices. Program Date: May 2, 2008. Location: Skidmore College.
- Online Meeting: Visual Literacy: a remote refresher. Program Date & Time: April 24, 2008, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Eastern. Delivered online via MIV.
Nominations due Friday, March 28th:
- Online Meeting: Designing a Language Center in a Liberal Arts College: a professional development brown bag for instructional technologists and their colleagues. Program Date & Time: May 2, 2008, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Eastern. Delivered online via MIV.
Nominations due Friday, April 4th:
- Workshop-To-Go: Teaching Digital Natives: Strategies for Digital Immigrants. Program Date: May 15, 2008. Location: Allegheny College.
- Workshop-To-Go: Visual Literacy: Using Images for Teaching and Learning. Program Date: May 16, 2008. Location: Allegheny College.
- Workshop-To-Go: Visual Literacy: Using Images for Teaching and Learning. Program Date: May 7, 2008. Location: University of Richmond.
- Workshop-To-Go: Web-Mapping. Program Date: May 8, 2008. Location: University of Richmond.
Nominations due Friday, April 11th:
- Workshop-To-Go: Digital Video Production: Final Cut. Program Date: May 20 – 22, 2008. Location: Grinnell College.
- Workshop-To-Go: Emerging Technologies and the Liberal Arts Campus. Program Date: May 20, 2008. Location: Occidental College.
- Workshop-To-Go: Podcasting for the Liberal Arts Classroom. Program Date: May 21, 2008. Location: Occidental College.
- Workshop-To-Go: Emerging Technologies and the Liberal Arts Campus. Special focus: blogs, wikis, and RSS. Program Date: May 22, 2008. Location: Wheaton College.
- Workshop-To-Go: Podcasting for the Liberal Arts Classroom. Program Date: May 23, 2008. Location: Wheaton College.
Nominations Due Friday, April 25th:
- Workshop-To-Go: Visual Literacy: Using Images for Teaching and Learning. Program Date: May 27, 2008. Location: Colby College.
- Workshop-To-Go: Introduction to Web Development. Program Dates: May 29 – 30, 2008. Location: Birmingham-Southern College.
Nominations Due Friday, May 1st:
- Workshop-To-Go: Teaching with Learning Management Systems: Sakai. Program Date: June 3, 2008. Location: Allegheny College.
Nominations due Friday, May 9th:
- Workshop-To-Go: Multimedia Narrative: Communicating with Stories. Program Dates: June 18 – 20, 2008. Location: St. Lawrence University.
Nominations due Friday, May 23rd:
- Online Meeting: Moodle Virtual User Community Meeting. Program Date & Time: June 26, 2008, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Eastern. Delivered online via MIV.
Nominations due Friday, August 15th:
- Conference: Creativity across the Curriculum: The Role of Technology. Program Dates: October 3 – 5, 2008. Location: Willamette University.
- Conference: Shibboleth and Federated Identity Management. Program Dates: October 6 – 8, 2008. Location: Lafayette College.
- Conference: Kuali Financial System User Community Meeting. Program Dates: October 9 – 10, 2008. Location: Minneapolis, MN.
- Conference: Expeditions in Scientific Visualization. Program Dates: October 10 – 12, 2008. Location: Bard College.
- Conference: Real-Time Collaboration on the Liberal Arts Campus. Program Dates: October 19 – 21, 2008. Location: Rhodes College.
- Conference: Service Learning and Social Justice Programs: The Role of Technology. Program Dates: October 24 – 26, 2008. Location: Swarthmore College.
- Conference: Internationalizing the Curriculum: the Role of Technology. Program Dates: November 7 – 9, 2008. Location: Whittier College.
Nominations due Friday, October 3rd:
- Online Meeting: Moodle Virtual User Community Meeting. Program Date & Time: November 6, 2008, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Eastern. Delivered online via MIV.

Cool Resource of the Week: Booktagger

Booktagger is a service akin to LibraryThing, that seeks to provide a social framework around books. Booktagger (based in Australia), allows you to create a virtual bookshelf, onto which you can place books you are reading, have read, own, or want to read. It allows for easy sharing of your books, reviews, and tags added to individual titles.

On the web at http://www.booktagger.com/