Thursday, June 14, 2012
In Touch with Kate: an Update from LYRASIS Executive Director, Kate Nevins
I'd like to provide you with a brief update on what's happening at LYRASIS, including new programs, changes in our organization and opportunities for you to engage with other members and the LYRASIS staff.
Currently, we are working with the Board of Trustees to define our Strategic Plan for 2013-2016. As part of this process, we have distributed a survey to members and many non-members for your feedback and ideas. I thank you in advance for taking the time to participate in the survey to help the Board shape the future of LYRASIS. We plan on sharing the plan with members as we finalize it later this year.
Collaborative Savings with eBooks and eContent
We continue to work with our vendor partners on several initiatives to make eResources available to you at cost-effective prices, leveraging the size of the membership whenever possible.
In our role as the licensing partner for the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), LYRASIS has worked with an ARL team and Project MUSE to offer Project MUSE eBook collections available now. As part of our agreement with ARL, LYRASIS is able to extend the terms of any offer we negotiate to any library that is a member of a consortium that includes an ARL library. All LYRASIS members are eligible, and we are also working with other groups to bring this content to as many libraries as possible. Online orders and the license terms are available using the online order form. For more information, please contact Member Support.
As with the Project MUSE effort, LYRASIS and the ARL team are working with JSTOR on a university press eBooks collection. We are negotiating for the JSTOR eBook content to be available to ARL members and LYRASIS members in consortia with ARL libraries.
The LYRASIS Shared eBook Collection has seen high member participation over the past ten years. While we are no longer working with NetLibrary on the Collection, we have issued an RFP to identify a new eBook shared collection provider, factoring in price, platform and publisher model. LYRASIS is actively negotiating now and hopes to have the new LYRASIS Shared Collection available for members in the next few months.
LYRASIS is exploring the possibility of supporting an eBook platform. We're excited to watch the progress that Douglas County Public Library in Colorado is making on this forefront and are evaluating potential involvement as this effort gains momentum.
We are also in the process of promoting year-end offers with the following vendors, some of which are offering minimal or no increase for renewals:
3M
Alexander Street Press
Duke University Press
Gale
IGI Global
Infobase
Infogroup
INTELECOM
Oxford University Press
SAGE
If you would like to update your FTE and operating budget information in order for us to accurately price upcoming database renewals and new quotes and orders, please do so via your My LYRASIS account.
Digitization and Preservation Services
The LYRASIS Mass Digitization Collaborative continues to offer member libraries a low-cost option to digitize collections. As more libraries participate in the Collaborative, we are expanding services with scanning of archival materials, including manuscripts, photographs, maps and large-format items.
LYRASIS Technology Services
The LYRASIS Technology Services (LTS) team is working with its advisory panel and members to provide technology guidance and support for open source and commercial software solutions.
As part of a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, LYRASIS has developed FOSS4LIB.org, the Free & Open Source Software for Libraries web site that helps all libraries determine whether and which open source software is right for them. Web use continues to increase, as content contributed by users is being added on an ongoing basis. A free webinar about FOSS4LIB is scheduled on June 29th at 11 a.m. You may register by contacting Peter Murray, Assistant Director, LYRASIS Technology Services.
New York University, the University of Illinois and University of California San Diego have selected LYRASIS as the organizational home for the open source archives management system they are developing, called ArchivesSpace, replacing Archivists Tool Kit and Archon. LYRASIS will provide migration support, training, community-building and ongoing support. ArchivesSpace will be released mid-2013.
Additionally, LYRASIS Technology Services has seen growing interest in our Evergreen support services. Most recently, we have signed an agreement with Midwest Collaborative for Library Services (MCLS) to provide Evergreen hosting and support to six of its member libraries. To learn more about our Evergreen support services, please contact Jennifer Bielewski.
Professional Development
The LYRASIS Professional Development team continues to provide classes and events on key topics, ranging from RDA to cloud computing. Below are some highlights:
Our Professional Development team has created recordings of our most commonly requested training topics to make on-demand training available for member libraries.
The next LYRASIS Ideas and Insights Series session is on June 15 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m ET., focusing on how libraries are using space in new ways to meet the demands of users.
LYRASIS has partnered with OCLC to introduce OCLC WorldShare Services. Free events include conference presentations at state library associations, open house sessions at libraries currently using WorldShare and online sessions. To learn more and register, please click here.
The 2nd Friday Series continues to be well attended by LYRASIS members. These free, informative sessions for members are on hot topics, like RDA in a Nutshell on July 13.
Our Regional Programs team is also offering free, online programs, including:
Latest from LYRASIS: This webinar keeps members up to date on LYRASIS programs, initiatives and special offers. Presented quarterly by LYRASIS Regional Directors and free to all members, they are scheduled in July and October.
LYRASIS Member Showcase: This new program highlights the accomplishments of LYRASIS members, sharing the great things they are doing for their communities, campuses, students and staff. This free quarterly series features one or more member libraries that have made specific advancements or tackled difficult obstacles, discussing what worked and what didn't, and what they would do differently.
LYRASIS Polite Debate Society: LPDS is a webinar series that explores the varying viewpoints present in some of the more challenging issues facing our library communities. Topics vary, taken from the hot issues, like reference desk best practices, that face the profession today. Events in this series are scheduled for June, September and December.
Member Services
As we approach the close of this fiscal year and the new 2012-2013 fiscal year, we want to continue providing helpful services to members, including eContent, databases and membership renewals.
To help members take advantage of deposit accounts, a LYRASIS member benefit, the Annual Activity Estimating Tool will be available in My LYRASIS before year end. This tool provides an overview of the transactions in a member's account from May 2011 to May 2012, to assist members with estimating transactions with LYRASIS for this coming year. Members can use the tool to generate a pro forma invoice to fund their deposit account.
LYRASIS will be at ALA Anaheim booth #2001. Please stop by to meet with staff and learn more about the LYRASIS programs, products and services. Jennifer Bielewski, from LYRASIS Technology Services, will be available to discuss FOSS4LIB, Discovery Services and other LTS products. Member Representatives, Eric Zino and Hilary Fox, will also be at the booth and can answer questions about our vast arragy of eContent products and services. Don't miss the LYRASIS Lounge on Friday, June 22 at the Anabella Hotel at 7:30 pm to mix and mingle over drinks with other LYRASIS members and staff. To learn more about LYRASIS at ALA, please click here.
A Major event on the fall calendar is the LYRASIS eGathering, the Annual Member Meeting, on Thursday, November 1 from 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm eastern. Our theme is Survive or Thrive: Connecting Libraries and Community. The keynote speaker is R. David Lankes, author of The Atlas of New Librarianship and Dean's Scholar for the New Librarianship at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies. In addition to having a roundtable panel, we're inviting members to submit 1- to 2-minute videos describing how their libraries are thriving by building community in new and compelling ways. All video contest submission links will be available on our web site for you to watch. The library/institution with the winning video will receive a prize of an HD Bloggie video camera, and will be featured during the LYRASIS eGathering 2012. Please email a link to your YouTube or Vimeo video to membercommunications@lyrasis.org to be entered into the contest. For more information on eGathering and to be community viewing location, please click here.
We look forward to having you participate in many of these LYRASIS programs and events, hearing from you and working to provide you with helpful services and savings. If you have any questions, please contact Member Support or email me directly.
Sincerely,
Kate Nevins
Executive Director
LYRASIS
www.lyrasis.org | 800.999.8558
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Thursday, February 2, 2012
19th Annual HBCU Faculty Development Network Conference - Orlando, Florida - October 18-20, 2012
Theme: Innovating
and Inspiring in a Global
World
We cordially invite you to
participate in the 19th Annual HBCU Faculty Development Network Conference to be held in
Orlando, Florida on October 18-20, 2012. With this year’s conference them: “Innovating
and Inspiring in a Global World,” we invite and challenge our HBCU Faculty
Development Network colleagues to develop new ideas and ways of thinking about
innovation in teaching and at the same time inspire our students to perform to
their optimal level of scholarship. For most of our students, the traditional
approaches of teaching and learning may be outdated. Although the role and
responsibility of the college professor remains the same, the classroom
environment, the students, and the tools needed to engender more impactful
teaching and learning outcomes have drastically changed. Indeed, when this
generation of students comes into the classroom, they seem to expect an
environment that mirrors their world.
water park, and it has something of interest for everyone. Vacationers from the United
States and from around the world come to splash, slide and take the plunge.
Discovery Cove, Orlando: This is
another great Florida family attraction from the
creators of SeaWorld as here you
can actually swim with the Dolphins. Interactions withthe dolphins and other animals is carefully supervised and controlled for the safety of
both sea creatures and people.
Walt Disney World: Its
family of theme parks include Animal Kingdom, Epcot Center,
MGM Studios, plus a complex of
resorts, nightlife, water parks, and other familyattractions. This complex gave birth to Orlando as a family vacation center.
Universal Studios Florida: A real,
working film and TV production facility with rides,
shows, and movie sets.
We look forward to seeing you in
Orlando this October!
Jeton McClinton, Conference
Coordinator, (jeton.mcclinton@jsums.eduLaurette Foster, Conference Co-Chair (lbfoster@pvamu.edu)
Steve Rozman, Conference Co-Chair and Executive Director (srozman@aol.com)
Eugene Hermitte, President (ehermitte@gmail.com)
Strands of the HBCU Faculty
Development Symposium
Collaborative
Models Active Learning and Engagement
Curriculum Design and Revision
Diversity and Globalization
Learning Across the Curriculum & Learning Communities
Educational Technology
Assessment and Evaluation
Civic Engagement and Social Justice
Special Topics in Health, Natural and Engineering Sciences
NOTE: See strands link on the HBCUFDN website for detailed descriptions:
General Information
All proposals are due on or
before Friday, March 16, 2012. Notifications of acceptance of proposal will be
sent by May 11th, 2012. All proposals should be submitted using the form provided
via the Call for Proposals link. Please submit your completed form online
beginning Tuesday, January 31st on the HBCUFDN website at http://www.HBCUFDN.org. The
deadline for receiving proposals will be midnight (Central) on Friday,
March 16, 2012.
Session Types
The Network welcomes
proposals for a variety of session types, including the following:1. Pre-conference Workshops:*
3-hour interactive workshops
2. Concurrent Sessions:
75-minute
interactive sessions 75-minute roundtable discussions
poster presentations
For all session types, proposals
should describe work that is systematically designed, implemented, and
assessed, and make clear how participants might apply, extend, or adapt the
ideas they learned. Specific information about the different session types follows.
Pre-conference Workshops
Pre-conference workshops
emphasize learning-by-doing and provide participants the opportunity to explore
topics in depth through a combination of hands-on activities, reflection, and
discussion. As such, proposals should include a detailed outline describing the
types of learning activities and interaction you are planning. Additionally,
proposals should indicate the maximum number of participants and any special
room set-up you might need. Audio-visual equipment, including a LCD projector,
flipchart, and wireless internet access, may be requested. Computer
laboratories are not available and presenters must provide their own laptops.
The vast majority of pre-conference workshops are three hours in length. These
workshops will take place the morning of Thursday, October 18th. Pre-conference
workshops are advertised in the conference registration materials. We will
notify you of pre-registration numbers before the conference and request that
you be prepared for and accommodate on-site registrants as well.
Concurrent Sessions :
75-minute interactive
sessions:
These sessions combine brief
presentations or panel discussions with methods that engage all participants.
We recommend that your sessions be interactive, collegial sessions—not of
lecturing or reading papers to passive audiences. Session leaders are
encouraged to incorporate meaningful activities as appropriate, selecting from
a variety of methods such as presentation, demonstration, discussion,
application, feedback, group and individual work, and role playing. We
encourage you to creativity model exemplary teaching! Audio-visual equipment,
including a LCD projector, flipchart, and wireless internet access, may be
requested.
Roundtable Discussions:
Roundtable discussions provide an
opportunity for various kinds of interactions in a smaller group setting such
as discussion of a concept, approach, program, issue, case study, or reading.
This format is ideal for getting to know people who may be facing similar
issues to you, for exploring new ideas, and sharing practices. It is contrary
to the spirit of a roundtable discussion for the facilitator to make a formal
presentation. No audio-visual equipment is available for roundtable discussions
and none may be used by presenters in this format.
Poster presentations:
The poster session provides an
ideal format for presenting your research, program, or work-in-progress in a
context where you can engage in many one-on-one discussions with colleagues.
Attractive posters using large, readable fonts and illustrative graphics will
attract conference participants and invite conversation about your work. Each
poster presenter will have a 4x8 foot poster board, a supply of thumbtacks, and
a small presenter’s table. The poster board can easily accommodate large format
posters or individual 8½”x11” sheets. The presenter’s table is ideal for
displaying materials, handouts, business cards, etc. Note that the poster
session site has no multi-media support, no guaranteed wireless internet
connection, and no power outlets. Personal laptops may be used during the
poster session, but we recommend bringing an additional battery, a backup
laptop, and/ or paper handouts.
Guidelines for Proposals
Eligibility
All are welcome to submit a
proposal. Once a session is accepted, each presenter and co-presenter must
agree to be a member of the HBCUFDN and be a paid registrant at the conference.
Number of proposals per
person
Each attendee may propose up
to one pre-conference workshop as either the primary or co-presenter.
Each attendee may also propose up
to two concurrent sessions but he/she may be the primary presenter for only one
of these sessions. For the second session, he/she must be listed as a
co-presenter. Interactive sessions, roundtable discussions, posters
presentations, and joint HBCUFDN sessions are included in this two-session
limit.
Example #1: An attendee may
submit one concurrent session proposal as the lead presenter and a second
concurrent session proposal as co-presenter.
Example #2: An attendee may submit two concurrent session
proposals as co-presenter.
Example#3: An attendee may submit
one pre-conference workshop proposal as the
lead presenter, a concurrent
session proposal as lead presenter, and a second concurrent session proposal as
co-presenter.
To avoid the possibility of a conflict of interest, the Network does not permit in any conference session the sale of materials before or during the conference nor the solicitation of presentation materials after the conference. Furthermore, The Network does not allow presenters to solicit consulting work during any session listed in the program. Session presenters are permitted to use materials they have created and to refer to consulting work that they do, but neither materials nor services may be offered for sale during the session. Pre-conference workshops may receive permission to charge an additional fee for materials (such as books), to be collected with the conference registration fee.
Because the Network recognizes
and values the expertise of its members, the conference schedule includes a
Vendor Exhibit, a specific time when materials can be sold and consultation
work can be solicited. Questions about this conference practice should be
addressed to the Executive Director or the Conference Chairs.
Submission Process
Proposals may be submitted online
beginning Tuesday, January 31st on the HBCUFDN website at http://www.HBCUFDN.org and will be due by
midnight (Central) on Friday, March 16, 2012.
Detailed submission instructions
are provided on the website. Before you prepare a proposal, please ensure that
you have read the guidelines for proposals. Failure to follow
these guidelines may lead to the rejection of a proposal.
Components of the Proposal
(Note: All proposals are
blind-reviewed in accordance with the guidelines described above.) Contact information
Session title (no more than 10 words)
Session abstract (no more than 100 words)
Designation of the strand.
Please select the type of session best suited for your proposal. Be sure that there is a fit between what you intend to accomplish and the type of session you choose.
Session description (no more than 500 words)
o State expected outcomes for session participants.
o Outline the session activities and plan for interaction (please model exemplary teaching and learning practices) For poster presentations, focus on the manner in which you plan to present your work rather than on the type of interaction you anticipate.
Lyrasis Technology Services Presents: Let's Talk Technology at the Free Library of Philadelphia
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Academic Impressions Conference: Academic Library Planning and Revitalization
March 26 - 28, 2012 :: Baltimore, MD
Whether your institution is planning a renovation or a new library building, revitalizing the library as a learning space is a complex endeavor, requiring knowledge of library users' space needs and research-driven design, as well as a commitment to involving multiple stakeholders throughout the campus.
Program Brochure (pdf) | Pricing & Registration | Agenda
This hands-on event will provide you with an integrated and practical approach to library planning and design. In this conference, you will:
- Analyze the latest in library design and learning space theory
- Investigate the fundamentals of library planning
- Explore a variety of student services found in libraries
- Uncover processes for working with project stakeholders and promoting campus involvement
A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH
The conference will be organized by the five phases of library revitalization: vision and discovery, planning and programming, design, renovation, and operation. The most attention will be paid to the vision, planning, and design portions -- perfect for those at the beginning stages of their library revitalization.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
ABC's of Developing an Institutional Repository Program on Campus
Bepress has created a webinar series for LOUIS members to help you get started planning for an IR program on your campus (no matter what stage you are in the process). The webinar series is designed to share high-level strategies based upon the Digital Commons community and bepress staff best practices. You will receive information and resources to assist you in learning about each topic at a deeper level during each session.
Please join Patti French, Digital Commons Account Manager to learn about the ABC's of an Institutional Repository by registering via the links below for each part. Notice there are two separate days per part to accommodate as many of your schedules as possible. A certificate of completion will be given to anyone who attends all three sessions in its entirety and completes a post- webinar survey.
Lisa Stigall
LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network
225 578-3735
A - Getting Started -- Creating a Game Plan
changing role of libraries -- services, services, services
IR education - do your homework
challenges & opportunities
building excitement - outreach - engaging stakeholders
identifying funding sources & campus partners
environmental scan
gaining Provost and departmental Dean buy-in
staffing
B - Content
branding, SEO
scholarly articles, open access, faculty participation
copyright, permissions & authors rights
ETD's
community engagement
students: undergraduate research publishing journals & events
images
supporting data management
C - Implementation & Development
marketing the IR
usage reports, analytics, proving ROI
success stories
All times are 12:30pm (CST)
changing role of libraries -- services, services, services
IR education - do your homework
challenges & opportunities
building excitement - outreach - engaging stakeholders
identifying funding sources & campus partners
environmental scan
gaining Provost and departmental Dean buy-in
staffing
B - Content
branding, SEO
scholarly articles, open access, faculty participation
copyright, permissions & authors rights
ETD's
community engagement
students: undergraduate research publishing journals & events
images
supporting data management
C - Implementation & Development
marketing the IR
usage reports, analytics, proving ROI
success stories
All times are 12:30pm (CST)
Part A: Getting Started – Creating a Game Plan
December 9th (Friday)
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/304669082
December 12th (Monday)
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/128827082
Part B: Content
January 17th (Tuesday)
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/285655130
Part C: Implementation & Development
February 7th (Tuesday)
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/773959882
February 8th (Wednesday)
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