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Indiana University Librarian's Day 2008 - Innovation in Libraries

Date: May 30, 2008
Time: 9:30am - 3:15pm
Location: IUPUI-Indianapolis

9:30-10:00	Registration & Coffee UL Lower Level Lobby

10:00-10:30	IULFC Business Report from IULFC Secretary Report from Dean of Libraries, Pat Steele UL Lilly Auditorium, Lower Level

10:30-11:30	Keynote Address: Steven J. Bell, Associate University Librarian for Research and Instruction Services at Temple University UL Lilly Auditorium, Lower Level

11:45-1:00	Lunch IUPUI University Place, Ballroom, 1st Floor

Afternoon sessions

1:15-2:00

A.	Allowing Faculty to Post to the Libraries' E-Reserve System Themselves: Issues to Consider Sherri Michaels, IUB. UL2115G Should libraries allow faculty members to post materials to the library's E-reserves system themselves? Many faculty members currently have the ability to post readings in a variety of places if they so choose - within a course management system (CMS), on a web page created for the class, and at some institutions within the library's E-reserves system. In 2005, Indiana University Bloomington decided to allow faculty members to post their own readings to the E-reserves system themselves, without any intervention by library staff. This presentation will cover some of the reasons for this decision including a discussion of the various alternatives to using the libraries' E-reserves system. Some of the issues to be considered before following a similar path will also be discussed. Staffing, training, and copyright considerations will be some of the issues examined in detail.

B.	Information Discovery with a Search Engine Partner: the IU and ChaCha Strategic Alliance Polly D. Boruff-Jones,IUPUI; J.B. Hill and Jennifer Laherty, IUB UL Lilly Auditorium, Lower Level Indiana University and ChaCha, a search engine company, entered into “a strategic alliance for research, development, and services for the next generation of internet search tools and practices.” One of the initial outcomes of the alliance has been the development of an online IU community, using ChaCha’s search engine architecture and guide software to enable IU librarians and information technology staff to assist IU faculty, staff, and students in finding information while building a knowledgebase used in generating search results on the IU site. The new application has been in use since late 2007 with IUB Libraries, IUPUI University Library, and UITS participating. This is a welcoming and unique partnership to offer a single platform deployed throughout the IU web presence for providing answers and services to the IU community. This program will explain the strategic alliance, show how the application works, provide data on the use of the service, and offer suggestions for its continued development.

C.	Digital Library Program's Project Proposal Process Stacy Kowalczyk, IUB UL1126 Over the past several years, the Indiana University Digital Library Program (DLP) has had more project requests than we could handle. Historically, the project selection process was quite organic, making prioritizing and project management challenging. We also needed to improve outreach efforts to better inform our colleagues in the Libraries, and the University as a whole, of our services and potential collaborations. As a result, the DLP, with the goal of creating a more transparent process, has developed a simple framework for selecting and prioritizing projects. This presentation will describe how we developed and tested this process. We will walk through our framework for selecting and prioritizing projects. This presentation will describe how we developed and tested this process. We will walk through our framework from project initiation to finale valuation and all of the steps in between.

D.	Function Before Form: Designing the Ideal Classroom Diane Dallis and Carrie Donovan, IUB UL2115J At Indiana University-Bloomington, the libraries house many rooms that are used for instructional purposes, but none represents all the characteristics of an ideal learning environment. In order to address the growing instructional needs of the IUB libraries and the lack of appropriate space in which to provide information literacy instruction, the libraries created a committee that was charged with making recommendations for new library classrooms. During this presentation, we will share our experiences and the knowledge we gained in designing our ideal classrooms. We will also facilitate an opportunity for attendees to work together to design space for various types of teaching models. We will document the results of this session on a best practices website that includes the designs created by attendees, a blog, and photo sharing, in addition to other relevant resources.
E.	How to Populate a Repository Charlotte Hess and Emily Castle, IUB UL2115E The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) was created in 2001 to be a gateway to the international literature on the commons. This site contains an author-submission portal; an archive of full-text articles, papers, dissertations, and books; the Comprehensive Bibliography of the Commons; a Keyword Thesaurus, and links to relevant reference sources on the study of the commons. While the DLC is called a "digital library" it is, in many ways, an epistemic repository. And, as all those involved in OA repositories know: if you build ...they do not necessarily come! We will give an overview and short history of the DLC. We will discuss its dramatic growth and international usage. The main focus of the presentation, however, will be on innovative ways to better populate this electronic resource. We outline our strategies that have resulted in a 40% growth in number of documents over the past year.

2:00-2:30

Break
IUPUI University Place, Ballroom, 1st Floor

2:30-3:15

A.	Preparing Your Dossier IULFC Promotion & Tenure Committee UL2115G Members of the IULFC Promotion & Tenure Committee will share information on preparing your dossier for tenure and promotion. The Committee will be available to answer questions and share their perspective on dossiers.

B.	A New Digital Model for the Recording and Delivery of Audio Philip Ponella and Konrad Strauss, IUB UL2115J The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music has been making live concert recordings since the 1940s. These recordings are archived in the William & Gayle Cook Music Library and consist of more than 2,000 lacquer transcription discs, 50,000 analog reel to reel tapes, 8,000 Digital Audio Tapes, and 5,000 CD-Rs. The Jacobs School continues to record concerts at the rate of about 600 per year. In the Spring of 2005 we began investigating the possibility of instituting a file-based system of archiving rather than continuing to archive on physical media. Several resources were available to us that made this transition practical. There was a well developed IT infrastructure with gigabit connections available in some areas within the Jacobs School, University Information Technology Services had built the Massive Data Storage System (MDSS), and the Digital Libraries Program had developed the Variations2 project which allows online listening of recordings via the music library catalog. Our goal was to create a system capable of archiving high resolution recordings of our concerts, while providing quick and simple access of these recordings to faculty, students, and the public via a simple web-based interface. Of primary importance was the use of off-the-shelf hardware and software wherever possible and a system which was simple to administer and maintain. The project has been a success thus far. No media has been delivered to the Music Library for the past year. There were issues with the flow of metadata from the files created by the recording engineers into the Variations2 access system. We are now in the final phases of creating an automatic import of that data that will allow for a basic upload from the recording studio to the digital library without human intervention (although final metadata and cataloging will still be required from a staff member).

C.	Implementing Digital Streaming in an E-Reserves Environment Monique Threatt and Scott Reed, IUB UL2115E This PowerPoint presentation will provide an overview of the collaborative efforts between the Media Librarian and Library Information Technology staff at IUB to pilot and implement digital streaming in an electronic environment such as Oncourse. We will provide an overview of a pilot conducted on the Bloomington campus, and survey results from faculty and students. Also highlighted will be an overview of how statutes outlined in the Copyright Act (1976), Fair Use guidelines, and the TEACH Act (2002) for distance education are shaping the digital environment. Discussion will include equipment needs for media production, a select list of digital content providers and cost associated with purchasing digital media files. The outcomes of the presentation are to share the results of the initial research and planning phase with other departments interested in participating or implementing digital streaming in an electronic environment, to gather input from libraries who currently participate in digital streaming services, and to receive feedback from colleagues to create best practices to move forward with digital streaming as an emerging technology.

D.	Bringing the Library to the User: the LibX Open Source Toolbar Kirsten A. Leonard, IUK UL Lilly Auditorium, Lower Level New and innovative Library research and information tools may be useful to our users, but only if they can find them and remember to use them. The LibX toolbar (http://www.libx.org) , developed by a partnership of the library and computer science departments at Virginia Tech, allows the library to integrate library tools such as journal finders, library catalogs, citation linkers and federated search boxes directly into the web browser as a plug-in. You can also add custom links to resources and webpages including RSS feeds. Embedded links on Amazon and Barnes and Nobles can be set to search IUCAT, ISSNs autolink to your OpenURL server. The toolbar also supports the use of COinS (Context Object in Spans) which passes citation information embedded in the HTML to your OpenURL server allowing the user to check availability with the click of a button. The LibX Edition Builder is easy to use and the IU Kokomo version is publicly available and can be copied and customized for your campus to speed implementation. The LibX toolbar won the 2007 LITA/Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award and currently over 300 libraries have implemented this innovative toolbar.

E.	To Blend or Not to Blend, That is the Question: Librarians, Innovators or Trapped DeLoice Holliday and Emily Okada, IUB UL1126 The 21^st century librarian is an innovator, manager of people, relationships and resources, as well as subject expert, teacher, and marketing agent. When most of us think of the concept, fact, or notion of the blended librarian, we often think of reference, teaching, and technology...but wait! Do you really want to be melded into something vaguely resembling a fruit smoothie? Let's talk about it. Come join DeLoice Holliday and Emily Okada for tips on saving your sanity and your future as a 21^st century librarian.