Library

LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL STAFF MEETING

April 20, 2009, 9:15 a.m., Hovde

Present: Chris, Ryan, John, Jane, Lindy, Germano, Rebecca, Rachel.

Report from those who had attended the IPAL and the ILA/ACRL meetings April 16th and 17th.

Jane gave a report on the Library book sale of last week.

John/Ryan led an electronic resource interest discussion. Kevin Engel will be getting various quotes. We will be letting him know items we are interested in. We agreed to not show interest in Newsbank and to indicate a new interest in LexisNexis.

LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL STAFF MEETING

April 6, 2009, 9:15 a.m., Hovde

Present: Ryan, John, Jane, Germano, Rebecca, Rachel.

Jane gave an update on the Library’s 40th anniversary celebration, which will be during homecoming. She also spoke on advising with a short discussion following.

Jane spoke on plans for National Library Week, April 13-17th, and our book sale.

Rebecca presented two software requests, Lightwave (additional licenses) and Zbrush. Both were approved to purchase.

Jane led discussion on the Diversity in Hiring Guidelines.

With the recent upgrade to Encore 2.0, new features are available in the LIS’s resource discovery tool.

• Individual logon – Available from the top right corner of any Encore page, this will give you access to your library account information, and will display a notification messages, such as when an item is coming due.
• Community tagging – Sometimes subject headings just aren’t enough! Now, logged-in users can create searchable tags from the bottom of each item record. Community-contributed tags will appear in the tag cloud on the search results page.
• *Yahoo!

Preus Library’s annual National Library Week book sale will be held from Monday, April 13 to Friday, April 17. Hundreds of hardcover and paperback books will be available. Prices will decline daily.

LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL STAFF MEETING

March 30, 2009, 9:15 a.m., Hovde

Present: Ryan, John, Jane, Lindy, Germano, Rebecca, Rachel.

Jane gave an update on the key plan for the Library. She reported sales to two book dealers. The Library book sale will be the week of April 12th. Jane has been in contact with Elizabeth Kaschins concerning the 40th anniversary celebration of the Preus Library building, which will be during homecoming 2009. An event may take place on May 11th, the actual date of the Library anniversary.

Encore has been upgraded and is once again available from the LIS Research page. New features and capabilities will be configured and announced as the week goes on!

If anyone is interested in following Twitter commentary from the EDUCAUSE Midwest Conference today and tomorrow, you can do so at http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23MWRC09.

Also, if you’d like to follow my comments, go to http://twitter.com/gjerdery – no account is needed to read!

THe first session of the afternoon is titled “The Integrated Service Desk” by Library/IT folks from Xavier University.

The Encore resource discovery tool will be unavailable for a period of time from Monday, March 23 to Tuesday, March 24. During this time, an updated version of Encore will be installed — watch the blog for more information on the new features made available.

During the downtime for Encore, you may still search Magnus, the Luther online catalog, at http://books.luther.edu, or via the search box on the LIS Research page.

The interface for the Literature Resource Center and MLA International Bibliography, by Gale, has been updated recently. Among the new features is the ability to search within a particular title in Literature Resource Center (such as “Dictionary of Literary Biography”).

A guided tour of the new interface is available here: http://gale.cengage.com/product_pages/lrfromgale-tour.htm

LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL STAFF MEETING

March 9, 2009, 9:15 a.m., Hovde

Present: Ryan, John, Jane, Lindy, Germano, Rebecca, Rachel.

Jane led the review of part V and the appendix of the Self-Study. After edits have been made she will send this to the Dean.

Lindy presented four journal requests she had received. After discussion, we will subscribe to one of the journals.

Germano led the review of reference books as to whether they should be ordered or not.

John and Rachel led a discussion on public performance rights for videos.