Library Gazette

You might have heard recently that there’s a new research guide format that the reference folks have been learning to use. It’s called LibGuides, and allows for users to create research guides that take advantage of a number of web 2.0 tools. We’re still learning, but you can see some of the examples here. Not only do these guides make it easy to include the standard information that we’ve included in the past, but you can also include delicious bookmarks, videos and images, and embed chat boxes within the guides themselves.  We’re working on setting up some training options for anyone who might want to make a guide for their subject area, but in the meantime, if you want to see what is possible and the ease of use, you can watch this video:

I’ll send something to lib-l once we have a time/date/place for training. In the meantime, feel free to get in touch if you have questions or comments!

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Giz Womack

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Lauren P

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Thanks for helping me move!

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Mary Scanlon

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Lauren P

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Thanks for helping me move!

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Heather Gillette

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Lauren P

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Thanks for helping me move!

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Erik Mitchell

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Lauren P

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Thanks for leaving a clean office for me!

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Giz Womack

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Sharon Snow

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Giz helped a bunch in getting furniture to Rare. Thanks ever so much!

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Scott Adair Dedicated Deacon Winner

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Sharon Snow

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Scott was so helpful in moving file cabinets to and from Rare. A big thank you to Scott!

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Craig Fansler

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Sharon Snow

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Craig was so helpful in taking pictures of old furniture and in moving one piece out from Rare. Thanks, Craig!

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Carol Cramer

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Giz Womack

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For her excellent documentation of how to do a screen capture with Microsoft Office Picture Manager on the new Thinkpad T61

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Craig Fansler

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Sharon

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For once again cheerfully driving his Ford truck and packing and picking up boxes of books - - this time from Dr. Mandlebaum's apartment.
(Barry in IT helped him.)

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Linda Ziglar

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Kristen

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Thank you so much for filling in for the Administrative Office when all 3 of us were gone for 3 days. We really appreciate it!!

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Kevin Gilbertson

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Mary Beth Lock

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Kevin worked incredibly hard writing, re-writing and re-writing again the webpage changes we needed in order to implement the changes to E-Reserves for this fall semester.

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Giz Womack

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Wanda Brown

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Lending a hand while moving 12 ft tables. THANKS!

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Erik Mitchell

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Wanda

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Lending a hand while moving 12 ft tables. THANKS!

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Craig Fansler

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Wanda Brown

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Lending a hand while moving 12 ft tables. THANKS!

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Prentice Armstrong

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Wanda Brown

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Lending a hand while moving 12 ft tables. THANKS!

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Chris Burris

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Wanda Brown

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Lending a hand while moving 12 ft tables. THANKS!

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Cristina Yu

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Wanda Brown

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Lending a hand while moving 12 ft tables. THANKS!

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Tim Mitchell

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Wanda Brown

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Lending a hand while moving 12 ft tables. THANKS!

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Mary Lib Slate

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Susan

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Congratulations to Mary Lib for her successful perseverance over the last 3 years in the Government Documents Weeding Project. This week, she has completed cleaning up the back log of lists that were pending from UNC all this time. It's been a daunting, enormous project and Mary Lib deserves a round of applause for all of her work on it!

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Charles Bombeld

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Sharon

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When I asked just this morning if Charles could take pictures of the wreath for Dr. Hearn at the Quad Arch, Charles immediately went over and got good photos for Archives and Dr. Hearn's papers. Thanks so much for your consistently good help and professional skills, Charles!

It is with much joy that the ZSR library shipped the first set of our orphaned microfim off to a new home today.  In recent years the library was able to replace these collections with online versions of the material and we were excited to learn of a library last week who was interested in this set of Early English Books Microfilm!

Many thanks go out to library staff and students who helped get this shipment out including Barry, Roz, Giz, Craig, Dan, Chris B, and Steve for helping move the microfilm out the back door.

If you missed out on this one, don’t worry - we have lots more to come!

Today some of the RITS team members, Kevin, Kaeley, Sarah, and I, traveled to UNC-G to meet with reference librarians interested in technology at Jackson Library. It was a good meeting with a turnout of about 12 library staff members between UNCG and WFU.

The conversation was casual, with short demonstrations of some of the different things we are doing followed by discussion of similarities and differences in our experiences. Here’s Kaeley talking about marketing:

On the WFU side, we talked about marketing, blogs as a CMS, the toolkit, and libguides. UNCG shared their IR project, chat widget, use of Facebook in marketing, and their Blackboard project.

We had a good time meeting our colleagues, and a tasty lunch at Jack’s Corner. It was good to hear what local colleagues are doing, and to know that we’re all looking at some of the same issues and challenges though our communities are quite different.

Hopefully, once the renovations are done, we can have our UNCG friends to come see the improvements first hand!

For the past three years, an ongoing weeding project has been taking place in ZSR Library’s Government Documents Department. As more resources go online, efforts are being made to convert to electronic and reclaim much needed shelf space by removing out-of-date and out-of-scope materials. We work with the Regional Depository at UNC to ensure that only appropriate materials are removed and that we send UNC any titles that are needed for the regional collection.

In conjunction with this effort, similar activities are taking place in the Microtext Department. We are assessing where we have exact duplication of microtext collections with archival electronic versions. We are offering the microtext versions to other schools who may not be able to afford the electronic purchase.

When both collections have been downsized, the Microtext Department will be moved into current Government Documents space. This will reduce the number of service points on the 4th floor, improving our ability to serve our patrons effectively. The space vacated by Microtext can be repurposed for other essential needs.

This project will be under Mary Scanlon’s leadership. Joining her in the core working group are Steve Kelley, Carolyn McCallum, Lauren Pressley, Mary Lib Slate, and Susan Smith. Consulting members are Erik Mitchell, Laura Spear and Roz Tedford.  As this sizable project proceeds, we plan to share our progress with you in the Gaz.