Library

LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL STAFF MEETING

March 2, 2009, 9:15 a.m., Hovde

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

Jane spoke of a possible internship for this summer for a student working in the library this summer. It was decided to go ahead with this and Jane will be in charge. John gave an update on the intern he is supervising.

Jane led the review and discussion on parts 3 and 4 of the Self-Study. This was finalized with some editorial changes.

Germano led discussion on reviewing the Paideia Library Instruction.

The Interlibrary Loan department is now providing most article requests to patrons through electronic desktop delivery rather than sending print copies via Campus Mail or holding them for patrons to pick up at the Circulation Desk. Ryan Gjerde implemented Odyssey, the electronic delivery component of our ILLiad management software, for borrowing this week. Odyssey lending is on the horizon, once we feel comfortable using Odyssey for borrowing.

Interviews with Interlibrary Loan student worker Junette Maxis, an international student from Haiti, were broadcast on KIMT-TV (Mason City) and WXOW-TV (LaCrosse) this weekend, as well as featured on the front page of the Cedar Rapids Sunday Gazette.

Have you ever found yourself without a piece of paper or a pen after finding a call number in the library catalog?

Now, if you are searching in Magnus, you can send a text message to your phone which will include the title, author and call number for your book.

Just click the “Send via Text Message” button found in the middle of most Magnus item displays (here’s an example), then enter your phone number and select your cell provider — it’s that simple!

The texting service is available for the following cell providers:

• Alltel
• AT&T/Cin

Magnus now has the ability to display example citations for many of the books, journals, videos, and music in the Luther Library Collection.

When looking at a full item record in Magnus (here’s an example), on many records you will now see a link immediately below title and imprint information, labeled “Cite this Item (from WorldCat).” Example citations will be given in the following formats:

• APA
• Chicago (Author-Date)
• Harvard
• MLA
• Turabian

“Cite this Item” is provided by OCLC, and is also available from WorldCat.org

LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL STAFF MEETING

February 16, 2009, 9:15 a.m., Hovde

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

John spoke on an internship he is working on this semester with Ben Weiss. Ben is working on the Simmonds Library at Ockham House. Jane had a request for an internship which a student wanted to do during this summer to fulfill the 2nd J-term requirement. The registrar told Jane that this isn’t allowed.

Jane led a review/discussion on parts III and IV of the department review self-study document. All agreed on the changes made.

OCLC Resource Sharing, the system that receives and fulfills the ILL requests we receive through our ILLiad interface, has experienced serious problems since “upgrading” their system on Feb. 1. Many requests have been directed to the wrong libraries and many libraries have received items they did not request.

So far, we at Luther have not detected either of these problems and we will be checking every February request for possible errors. However, if you placed an ILL request with us via ILLiad sometime after Feb.

EBSCO has notified us that its EBSCOhost EJS service will be down for routine maintenance for about an hour, beginning at 10:00 PM, Friday, February 13, 2009.

EJS provides linked full-text access to a handful of journals in EBSCO databases such as Academic Search Complete and Business Source Elite.

An e-mail message from Jackie Wilkie to all Paideia I students and faculty sent 2-11-09:
The Library staff have created a replica of the crawl space Harriet Jacobs describes in her narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. They have generously offered to allow students to come and visit this structure as long as there is no class in the room. The structure is in the Hovde lounge in the library. SO if you are walking by the library take a minute or two and stop by Hovde to see the space they created.

LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL STAFF MEETING

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

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

Germano spoke on the Paideia sign-up schedule.

Jane led review of the Department Review Self-study document, parts 1 and 2. All agreed to the changes made since January 27. Discussed the appendices listed on the handout. Parts 3 and 4 will be reviewed February 16th and Part 5 on March 5th.

All reviewed names of potential outside reviewers for the department.