ACRL 2009- Day 2
(Notes from the conference)
1. Workshop- digital project ideas
The presenter showed us how to use the One-Page Project Management template (http://www.onepageprojectmanager.com/resource.html)
to manage projects. The attendees were then work in small groups to work on a project design. The template is useful, I might use it for some of our projects later on. P.S. the presenter has a background in ID.
2. Twitter- (I planed to attend another section but the schedule on the pocket program was wrong). The section presenter was bored and did not even demonstrate how we can use twitter for the library! (Disappointed!)
3. OpenURL (The presenter Peter McCracken is a Seattle local, his ppt presentation had one slide for his professional work and followed by another slide for the hidden sights in Seattle, quite interesting) try local coffee Seattle Best, not Starbucks!
The measure of success- better access for patrons, -fewer false positives and false negatives
Seattle sightseeing: Art Museums, Frye Art Museum, George monument, Burke museum, the Smith tower (1914), volunteer park water tower, Kerry park, the chocolate, ice cream cruise, underground tour, doughnuts, Top Pot 2124 5th ave, under monorail, Mighty o doughnuts, 2110 N5th st.
KBART- UKSG 2007 http://www.uksg.org/project/
how to deal with data accuracy
Q: newspaper linking
Olympic Sculpture Park
2901 Western Avenue
2901 Western Avenue
Seattle Art Museum Downtown
1300 First Avenue
1300 First Avenue
15 west, marine used store
4. The poster section is quite good, however, most of them did not provide handouts, I will need to remember to check the ACRL website
5. Assessment results on academic library web sites - Meg Scharf, Univ. of Central Florida
Everything measured gets better, does it?
Different kind of assessments take time and do they work?
Who are our stakeholders? The students, faculty, administration. right now, maybe our local public libraries, neighborhood, community, our web users!
How to communicate with our users? The fierce power of narrative!
We want to prove that we are listen to our users. We do assessment to see if the new ideas work. Should we step outside of the box? The university won't give you money unless you are assessing something.
Appreciative Inquiring tool (?)
Orange county library system http://www.ocls.info/Default.asp?bhcp=1
Examples of assessment
Are we communicating the wrong way? the best way is through our webpage, we are afraid of change
Methodology-
1. Random number list 2. Sample drawn: 250 academic libraries, 3. timing
44.6% publicly assisted institutions, 55.3% private funded
She developed a rubric with A: excellent, B: very good, C: OK
Searched google for the univ home page then go to library website from there
searched "about us", about the libraries, library facts & info
searched for assessment, evaluation, performance, measures, measurement, plan,
searched circulation, ILL, reference, cataloging
5% got A, clear, intuitive
6% got B
16 % got C
73 % got F, could not find any info at all
Best practices- logical location on your website
UW- univ. of Washingtonn, UW libraries assessment: survey, libqual report, easy to get there
USC Libraries, facts and figures, easy to find, user satisfaction study result (LibQUAL)
Univ. of Central Florida- search "assessment"
Jerlyn asked question how old the survey should be? A: 1 year old
6. Digital libraries need digital organization- John McGinty
Digital resources are changing the way the library it was. First, the size of digital collection is increasing; second, the major shift to be able to digitize materials; third, faculty and student have the ability to access resources using the Internet. The dynamic situation charge us to think about the management structure of the library.
Digital milestones, 1966 MARC record created, 1968-73 library integrated only systems emerge, 1971 OCLC union catalog debuts, 1987 online journals begin to be marketed,1991 web created, 1996 google goes live, 2001 wikipedia begins, 2005 youtube starts
Digital problems- (the presenter talks so slow and some people started to leave...Super disappointed!)
7. Keynote
Keynote speaker: Sherman Alexie
A prolific novelist, poet and screenplay writer and has been hailed as one of the best young writers of his generation. In his lectures, he tells autobiographical tales of contemporary American Indian life laced with razor-sharp humor and bits of history, pop culture and social commentary. Alexie's best known works include The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Smoke Signals, and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. ~ACRL website
"I love librarian conference, there are thousand of hot women here!" (Laughters..) ~Alexie
He really got the librarians! He is funny.
He really got the librarians! He is funny.
He talked about how American is so strange. Indian, the native American serves in wars, but people never talk about who indian people are. "We are American."
People surprised that he was interested in pop culture because they think that the Indian does not have radios or Tvs, they live in mountains.
People surprised that he was interested in pop culture because they think that the Indian does not have radios or Tvs, they live in mountains.
His grandfather died in Okinawa in World war II, but the family never talked about that. He and his father never said something like "I love you son" or "I love you, dad". Then how can you tell your family history? A librarian did a research about his grandfather (what really makes the librarian important), his grandfather earned 16 medals but they did not know until they read the paper.
People love (tolerates) each other. What's the difference between laughter and hate?
Indian people want to be who we see- the negative image of Indian. But he said that he is not because he hates snow, that's why he lives in Seattle.
Being an Indian, he is always being guarded what he is presenting. For example, by interviewed with Opera, what is he going to present? What kind of books you read? Where are you from? How long you have lived there, 1200 years? He is carrying the Indian's image with him all the time. Some people even talked to him using Spanish because he is a brown skin American.
For more about him
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