Library Gazette

Person Recognized

Christian Burris Dedicated Deacon Winner

Given By

Carol Cramer

Reason

Chris helped set up the library's booth for Campus Services Day in Benson.

Person Recognized

Linda Early

Given By

Carol Cramer

Reason

True to her name, Linda pulled the Early shift at Campus Services Day in Benson.

Person Recognized

Lynn Sutton

Given By

Carol Cramer

Reason

Lynn pulled the early shift at Campus Services Day in Benson.

Person Recognized

Rosalind Tedford

Given By

Carol Cramer

Reason

Thanks for doing a shift at Campus Services Day in Benson.

Person Recognized

Susan Smith

Given By

Carol Cramer

Reason

Thanks for doing *two shifts* at Campus Services Day in Benson.

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Peter Romanov

Given By

Carol Cramer

Reason

Thanks for doing *two shifts* at Campus Services Day in Benson.

Person Recognized

Doris Jones

Given By

Carol Cramer

Reason

Thanks for doing a shift at Campus Services Day in Benson.

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Kaeley Mcmahan

Given By

Carol Cramer

Reason

Thanks for doing a shift at Campus Services Day in Benson.

Person Recognized

Mary Beth Lock

Given By

Carol Cramer

Reason

Thanks for doing a shift at Campus Services Day in Benson.

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Steve Kelley

Given By

Carol Cramer

Reason

Thanks for doing a shift at Campus Services Day in Benson.

Person Recognized

Carolyn Mccallum

Given By

Carol Cramer

Reason

Thanks for doing a shift at Campus Services Day in Benson.

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Prentice Armstrong

Given By

Carol Cramer

Reason

Thanks for doing a shift at Campus Services Day in Benson.

Person Recognized

Lauren Corbett

Given By

Carol Cramer

Reason

Thanks for doing a shift at Campus Services Day in Benson.

Person Recognized

Scott Adair

Given By

Carol Cramer

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Scott helped take down our booth at Campus Services Day in Benson.

Person Recognized

Linda Early

Given By

Carol Cramer

Reason

Linda ably managed the food station before, during, and after the ice cream party. She also recruited a student worker to help.

Person Recognized

Peter Romanov

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Carol Cramer

Reason

Peter did a great job as door prize helper during the ice cream party. He also recruited many student workers to help, and he was our contact for the Billy Brown art display.

Person Recognized

Kaeley Mcmahan

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Carol Cramer

Reason

Kaeley managed the student workers who acted as cruise directors during the ice cream party. She also recruited a few Reference student workers to help.

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Christian Burris

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Carol Cramer

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Christian helped with innumerable activities in the "before" stages of the ice cream party, including mounting signs. Thanks!

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Prentice Armstrong

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Carol Cramer

Reason

Prentice managed the bocce station during the ice cream party. He was a great help *and* he got to improve his game.

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Wanda Brown

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Carol Cramer

Reason

Wanda was our door prize emcee during the ice cream party.

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Mary Beth Lock

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Carol Cramer

Reason

Mary Beth helped out with the food station at the ice cream party and was unafraid to hop on the PA to get our door prize contestants to come on down!

Person Recognized

Bobbie Collins

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Carol Cramer

Reason

Thanks to Bobbie for coordinating the tours during the ice cream party.

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Sarah Jeong

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Carol Cramer

Reason

Sarah helped with the food setup and teardown on ice cream party day.

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Leslie Mccall

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Carol Cramer

Reason

Leslie staffed the lemonade table during the ice cream party. Thanks!

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Tim Mitchell

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Carol Cramer

Reason

Thanks to Tim for helping out with the video games and food for the ice cream party!

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Giz Womack

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Carol Cramer

Reason

How did Giz help with the ice cream party? Well, he loaned his Wii and his radio. He contributed lots of enthusiasm, and he advertised the heck out of the event. It couldn't have happened without you!

Person Recognized

Barry Davis

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Carol Cramer

Reason

Thanks to Barry for lending his Wii to the ice cream party, setting up the games, and staffing the game station.

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Steve Kelley

Given By

Carol Cramer

Reason

Thanks to Steve for moving the tables for the Wii stations before the ice cream party.

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Charles Bombeld

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Carol Cramer

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Thanks to Charles for photographing the ice cream party!

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Elizabeth Novicki

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Carol Cramer

Reason

Thanks to Elizabeth for photographing the ice cream party!

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Craig Fansler

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Carol Cramer

Reason

Craig made a kazillion different signs for the ice cream party, and he loaned us his radio. Thanks!

Person Recognized

Heather Gillette

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Carol Cramer

Reason

Thanks to Heather for lending her bocce set for the ice cream party!

Person Recognized

Craig Fansler

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Roz Tedford

Reason

For all the work he did for the Fahrenheit 451 book display! The burning books are awesome!!

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Sarah Jeong

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Roz Tedford

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For stepping in to show Kevin the ropes at the Reference Desk while I helped an advisee through a registration crisis!

Person Recognized

Kristen Morgan

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Carol Cramer

Reason

For a hundred little things that make my job easier, and especially for hanging a kazillion of these Dedicated Deacon forms!

Person Recognized

Erik Mitchell

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Lauren

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Thanks for stepping in and teaching a class on wikis with such short notice!!

Person Recognized

Craig Fansler

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Mary Beth Lock

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Thanks to Craig for doing such an outstanding job in getting all of the various ideas for a Media room into a presentation!

Person Recognized

Mary Lib Slate

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Carolyn, Roz & Bobbie

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Thank you for speaking with our LIB210 students about the resources and services available in Government Docs and Microtext.

Person Recognized

Mary Beth Lock

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Carolyn, Roz & Bobbie

Reason

Thank you for speaking with our LIB210 students about the resources and services available in Circulation.

Person Recognized

Mary Reeves

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Carolyn, Roz & Bobbie

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Thank you for speaking with our LIB210 students about the resources and services available in Reserves and the Media Collection.

Person Recognized

Kaeley Mcmahan

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Carolyn, Roz & Bobbie

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Thank you for speaking with our LIB210 students about the resources and services available in Reference.

Person Recognized

Erik Mitchell

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Carolyn, Roz & Bobbie

Reason

Thank you for speaking with our LIB210 students about the resources and services available in the ITC.

Person Recognized

Sharon Snow

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Carolyn, Roz & Bobbie

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Thank you for speaking with our LIB210 students about the resources and services available in Special Collections.

Person Recognized

Vicki Johnson

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Carolyn, Roz & Bobbie

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Thank you for your willingness to speak with our LIB210 students about the resources and services available in the University Archives.

Person Recognized

Chris Burris

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Roz Tedford

Reason

Chris got a new location code for the Mandlebaum Reading Room rolling and changed the locations for all the titles in there. This will really help our patrons find what they are looking for!!

The ZSR library hit the bricks today to help support the Brian Piccolo cancer research fund. Eight hours of fun, walking, and Krispy Kreme doughnuts! Susan led the team off at 11am and currently Carol Cramer is braving the headwind and clouds to keep our baton heading around the quad!

Yesterday we held the inaugural Emerging Technologies Talk for the staff development committee. Our plan is to host a monthly discussion (two weeks off from the journal group) on new and emerging technologies.

To get us off to a good start I though I’d go with something that people in the library would be interested in personally, might find relevant for work, and would show that emerging technologies can be fun. The topic? Social Software built around books and reading. You might have heard of some of them: GoodReads, LibraryThing, Shelfari, Amazon’s profiles, Google’s My Library, and My Worldcat. I ran through a quick presentation just to get everyone on the same page, then we talked about some of the similarities, differences, strengths, and weaknesses in each of the options.

If you’re interested, here’s the presentation:

We’d like to host on of these workshops once a month, so if there’s a new technology that you’re curious about, just let me know! We’ve already had requests that next month we talk about some of the things that Google is doing (the Chrome browser and the move from Google Pages to Googld Sites) and some of the things that former Google employees are doing (the Cuil search engine and Friendfeed).

For the third year in a row, I was invited to the Presidents’ Leadership Conference, jointly sponsored by the President of the University and the Student Government President. Student leaders invite administrators whom they wish to engage in discussion about campus issues. The format is a weekend retreat, held this year at Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia. The setting is very beautiful and conducive to openness and creativity.

On Friday night, the students prepared dinner in the condo units (pringles, spaghetti, chips ahoy cookies) and then brainstormed issues on campus that students were concerned about. On Saturday morning, we had a series of presentations: academic update by the Provost, possibilities for Deacon Village, diversity check, and future of technology for WFU students. I gained lots of good insights from the latter and felt gratified that students feel the library is a leader on campus for things like collaborative technology, Google Docs, blogs, Smart Boards, training, etc. Students showed receptivity to the idea of e-books (especially for textbooks) and confessed that if a journal isn’t electronic, it isn’t worth having. One student lamented there weren’t enough e-journals linked from the MLA database.

At lunch, President Hatch shared his insights on leadership in general, and then how he applied them to Wake Forest. We had free time Saturday afternoon so my suitemate Nancy Crouch and I took a walk around the resort and then I watched a lousy football game (no comment). Saturday night we were back at it, choosing an issue from Friday night and then crafting a solution.

On Sunday morning, each group presented their identified problem and proposed solution. They were amazingly creative!

1) Bike paths both on and off campus

2) Group lunches between students and university leaders

3) Fostering class identity and unity (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th year) to build community

4) Pro Humanitate community service honor roll

5) Friday/Saturday night social programming as an alternative to “partying” (my group)

I was very glad to be a part of the group and got to know a number of student leaders that I had not yet met. One guy came up to me at the end and thanked me for all the changes in the library and how much he enjoyed them. That was worth the weekend, right there.

Lynn

As many of you know, the ZSR library is beginning to look at open source alternatives to our current systems.  A few of us have seen Vufind in action and have talked about Open ILS alternatives.  This discussion is just starting and should yield some interesting results in the coming months.

One thing that I have heard from many people at our library is the need to have an easy to use online reporting tools for our information systems.  Every year we run EOY reports, general statistics, fund accounting reports in addition to lots of disposable queries.  Right now we are limited to using MS Access to design our queries and pull this information.  There are more sophisticated tools out there though.  Some of you may remember a brief period when we were using Cognos in conjunction with our departed ERMS.

In the last few years, a few companies that serve this purpose but in an open source environment have come along.  I was curious about what this market currently looked like and wondered what sort of functionality we would be looking for specifically so I created a short page in our Wiki to start gathering ideas.

If you are curious about what BI software does or want to add your thoughts - hit the wiki page.

By the way - more to come soon on evaluating Open Source Catalogs….

Wake Forest University’s Museum of Anthropology launched its Online Artifact Database (www.wfu.edu/moa/database) at a reception on September 9, 2008. Erik Mitchell and I attended this event.

Museum Director, Stephen Whittington informed guests that the digitization of its collections and the production of an online database was a project four years in the making. The Museum was awarded two Museums for America grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), one at the beginning of the project and one to continue the project. Wake Forest students from various academic disciplines assisted in the development of the database by photographing and assessing the artifacts. This database is accessible to universities, scholars, public schools, and the general public.

Recently, the Museum was awarded a third Museums for America grant to continue its digitization work. This award will allow the Museum to digitize its archival records and include them in the database. The addition of this information will assist users in understanding the cultural and environmental context of the artifacts.

Yesterday for our LIB210: Social Science Research Sources and Strategies class, Bobbie, Carolyn and I planned a variation on the library tour. We divided our students up into three groups and sent them to different areas of the library. They had three questions to ask:

• What resources or services would a WFU student find here?
• What resources or services do you provide to help with research?
• What is one thing about your department that you think students should know but don’t?

They also took along cameras Carolyn had checked out from the ITC and they took pictures of the departments.

When they returned to class each group told the other students about the departments they had visited. While they talked I uploaded the pictures into a Flickr page. Then this week they will be going in to name the pictures, put in a description and tag them. This will then lead us nicely into our discussions next week about search terms, controlled vocabularies and the benefit of using the subject terms within our electronic products.

We were thrilled with how much the students enjoyed the exercise. They were all excited about going out and learning new things and we heard a lot of “I never new that” and “that’s cool!” from the class as different areas or services were discussed. It worked so well I’m going to do it for my LIB100 class in October.

Many, many thanks to those on our staff who met our students and discussed our services with them. Mary Beth, Mary Reeves, Erik, Kaeley, Mary Lib, Sharon and Vicki. The students all commented on how nice the folks they had met were and how eager they were to help students.

If you want to see the pictures, here’s the site and toward the end of the set some pictures have been named and tagged already. I’m sure they would love to have some comments!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zsrlib210/