Library Gazette

Person Recognized

Kaeley McMahan

Given By

Sarah Jeong

Reason

Kaeley does a great job managing the Reference student assistants and coordinating the student assistant schedule!

Person Recognized

Prentice Armstrong

Given By

Carol Cramer

Reason

Prentice patiently helped me twice with looking up old invoices from a vendor. The evidence he provided helped me get our renewal price reduced by about $700.

Person Recognized

Doris Jones

Given By

Anonymous

Reason

Doris did an outstanding job with the food for this semester’s Wake the Library

Person Recognized

Giz Womack

Given By

Heather Gillette

Reason

Thanks for helping ERC flag down the delivery man for the ERC luncheon!

Person Recognized

Caroline Numbers

Given By

Anonymous

Reason

Thanks for pulling everything together for the employee luncheon and remployee recognition awards this year.

Person Recognized

Caroline Numbers

Given By

Lauren Pressley

Reason

Thanks Caroline, for helping out with a surprisingly technical reference question! (the importing email information into Word one)

We are currently in Montgomery, Alabama and have been on the “Social Stratification in the Deep South” trip since Friday. You can follow our adventures by checking out the course wiki.

The South Group After Sunday Services at 16th Baptist Church in Birmingham

If you’d like to read about our individual impressions on the course blog, visit:

• Lynn’s Daily Journal
• Susan’s Daily Journal

Be sure to take a look at the course Flickr account to see the sights we are seeing every day!

On Wednesday April 25th the Blue Sky Committee presented the results of their work to a packed LIB204. We based our report on the four major areas identified by the Environmental Scan Committee. We presented ideas about Library Resources, Library as Place, Library Services and Library Technology. We also listed personnel issues that will need to be considered along with the final strategic plan. Along the way we used our new ‘clickers’ to get Library Staff feedback on each area we proposed. This data will be taken along with all of the other things that have been presented to Graylyn on Thursday, May 3rd for the Admin Council Retreat. Then Lynn will spend the next few weeks locked away working on the final report for Dr. Hatch which will be presented on Thursday May 24th. All of our documents are available to Library Staff on the Strategic Planning wiki. Thanks to all the library staff who contributed such great feedback on each area we considered. And thanks to the Blue Sky Committee: Wanda, Chris, Elise, Kevin, Lauren and Renate.

Well, we are wrapping up another successful semester of LIB100 classes. We taught 10 classes this semester. That’s 137 students (24 Freshmen, 50 Sophomores 22 Juniors and 41 Seniors). A few classes branched out to use group projects for the final project, some of us even used Wikis! I taught EndNote Web to my classes and used our snazzy ‘clickers’ during many of my classes. The students seemed to really like them and whenever they came in and we were not using them, they always asked about them. I will be gathering up feedback from all instructors in a wrap-up meeting on Wednesday, May 31st at 1pm in room 476. Anyone else in the library is welcome to attend. This summer we are testing the waters with two LIB100 sections during Summer II (thanks Susan/Erik and Sharon/Vicki). If they don’t make it, we may not offer them again. I’ll be updating the template class this summer to include the options of group projects, wikis and clickers. A HUGE THANK YOU to all of the instructors who spend endless hours preparing for class and grading assignments and final projects. When you get comments like “I enjoyed every class and left every session with a wealth of new knowledge that I am really glad to have gained.” we know it was worth it! As always, anyone wanting to know more about the class, or who is interested in participating as an instructor, assistant or grader is welcome to come talk to me! Not everyone that works in our classes does the teaching - so if that is not your forte, but you still want to be involved, feel free to come discuss it.