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Liaison Discussion Section: “Let the Technology Do the Work: Sharing the Same News to Different Audiences”

November 22, 2011 by
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Topic: “Let the Technology Do the Work: Sharing the Same News to Different Audiences,” presented by Jess Isler, Carrie Macfarlane and Joy Pile  (This will be a repeat performance of their presentation at the October Conference at the Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries. The theme of the conference was, “If You’ve Got It, Flaunt it! Promoting Our Resources and Services.”)
Who’s Invited: All Liaisons, Web Development Workgroup members, LIS Web Team, Senior Leadership Team, and anyone who is interested
When:  Wednesday, November 30 from 2-3 pm
Where: Davis Family Library 105

We have Facebook, Twitter, blogs, a web site, and email distribution lists–there are more communication forums on our campus than we should mention here. We also have a constant stream of news and tips to share. What don’t we have? Like most other libraries, our staffing is finite. To save time and effort, we use technology to help us promote our resources across different platforms and to different audiences.

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“Liaison Discussion Section” meetings address topics of interest to liaisons: research and/or technology. They can be conversations, or presentations, or both. They take place most often on the 3rd week of the month, but in order to allow people who work different hours to attend, they’re sometimes scheduled for different days/times.

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MiddLIS on Facebook

October 31, 2011 by
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It’s not a popularity contest, but…  We’re liked! Since we got ourselves on Facebook last spring, nearly 100 students, faculty, staff, organizations and colleagues have ‘liked’ our page. (More are always welcome! Find us at Middlebury College LIS.)

If you’ve ‘liked’ us all along, you’ve noticed that we’ve been posting a little more frequently lately. Our goal is to share pertinent news and tips, and the fall semester always brings lots of change. It’s helpful to hear from our readers, so please ‘like’ or ‘comment’ on posts that strike your fancy.

We’ve been asked by a few LIS staff members how to get info posted to the page. The easiest way is to send an email to our current social media community managers: Steve Bertolino, Jess Isler, and Carrie Macfarlane. They’ll either post the info right away, or decide whether/when to post later. (We have a calendar; as we mentioned last spring, we’re trying not to over-post!) Other liaisons know that they can add their suggestions to our calendar directly.

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Liaison Discussion Section: Congressional Information Resources

October 20, 2011 by
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Topic: Congressional Information Resources
When: Friday, October 28, 2011, 10-11 am
Where: Davis Family Library 105
Who’s Invited: All liaisons and Circulation Desk staff, and anyone who might be interested

Almost every day the federal government is in the news, and quite often the coverage is front page news that can impact our lives in many ways. This session will delve into the full range of Congressional information resources, from the earliest reports of American expeditions around the world to the latest information on Congressional “pork barrel” expenditures and how members of our Vermont Congressional delegation have voted on various issues. A future session will be devoted to information resources from various agencies within the Executive branch of the federal government.

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“Liaison Discussion Sections” address topics of interest to liaisons: research and/or technology. They can be conversations, or presentations, or both. They will take place most often on the 3rd week of the month, but in order to allow people who work different hours to attend, they’ll occasionally be scheduled for different days/times.

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Friday Links Roundup – October 7, 2011

October 7, 2011 by
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  • Inspiration for the yet-to-be-formed Digital Data Preservation Task Force: Free your Data, the winner of the 2011 Sparky Awards “Best Animation” prize.  Produced by student Nico Carver, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
  • Now that eBooks are so popular, will author book-signings become a thing of the past?  Nope!  First-ever Virtual Book Autographing.
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Don’t read this?

September 23, 2011 by
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September 24−October 1 is Banned Books Week, an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States. (from ALA Banned Books Week)

Some have found that when you ban a book, people become more interested in it. So, we all should be sure not to read these books! Books Banned or Challenged, 2010-2011.

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Liaison Discussion Section: Finding Music at Davis Family Library

August 3, 2011 by
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Topic: Finding Music at Davis Family Library
When: Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 4 – 5 pm
Where: Davis Family Library 105
Who’s Invited: All liaisons and Circulation Desk staff, and anyone who might be interested

Now that the Music Library has moved to the Davis Family Library, more of us need to know how to find music! Joy Pile will teach us the basics so that we can help researchers find our CDs, scores, and other music materials in their new locations. She’ll also show us a few reference resources, our music streaming databases and the most comprehensive digital score site.

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“Liaison Discussion Section” is a revival of librarians’ “Reference Training and Review” sessions. These meetings will address topics of interest to liaisons: research and/or technology. They can be conversations, or presentations, or both. They will take place most often on the 3rd week of the month, but in order to allow people who work different hours to attend, they’ll occasionally be scheduled for different days/times.

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Liaison Discussion Section – Shared Shelf

July 13, 2011 by
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Topic: Shared Shelf, presented by Megan Battey, Visual Resources Curator
 When: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 11 am – 12 pm
Where: Davis Family Library 145
Who’s Invited: All liaisons and anyone who might be interested

Megan Battey, Visual Resources Curator, will demonstrate the Visual Resources Collection’s wonderful new digital assets management system, Shared Shelf. Shared Shelf is an on-line, cloud-based image management system for cataloguing, accessing and using our local image collection seamlessly through the ARTstor interface. This offers many advantages – user-friendly cataloguing tools, one-stop-shopping for our image users and reduced need for local infrastructure as our collection is now securely housed in “the cloud.”

This represents the culmination of two years of work collaborating closely with ARTstor, LIS and eight other institutional partners (Colby, Cornell, Harvard, NYU, Society of Architectural Historians, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Miami and Yale University).

Middlebury faculty and students are already enthusiastically using the system. Middlebury’s was one of the first collections to go live in Shared Shelf which will be released worldwide in July 2011.

More information about Shared Shelf: Overview.

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“Liaison Discussion Section” is a revival of librarians’ “Reference Training and Review” sessions. “Liaison Discussion Section” meetings address topics of interest to liaisons: research and/or technology. They can be conversations, or presentations, or both. They take place most often on the 3rd week of the month, but in order to allow people who work different hours to attend, they’ll occasionally be scheduled for different days/times.

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