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ACRL Western New York / Ontario Chapter Fall 2006 Conference
Leadership for Staffing, Services and Collections
Friday, October 13, 2006 Featuring
Rand Bellavia, D'Youville College Plus
Poster Sessions
Conference Overview |
Session One |
Session Two | Session Three
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The Western New York/Ontario chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries (WNY/O ACRL) invites you to a day-long conference on leadership. Please join us at the scenic Casablanca Winery Inn in Grimsby, Ontario, where we will explore leadership needs in the face of changing staffing patterns and continually evolving collections and services.
Rand Bellavia
In the last decade, the Internet had provided most of the more obvious and helpful changes for selectors of library materials. With an understanding of the philosophical underpinning of selection, adapting to changes in how we are doing it can be fairly simple. After an introductory outlining of the issues involved, a brief group activity/guided discussion will get everyone thinking about the main "problem" of selection -- Quality vs. Demand.
Rand Bellavia is the Head of Acquisitions at D'Youville College. For the past five years, he has taught the Collection Development class for the Masters of Library Science program at the University of Buffalo. In his free time, he has taught undergraduate courses in poetry and comic books, edited a collection of prison writings that is used as a reading book for adult learners, and written and performed the theme song for the Disney cartoon Fillmore. He holds Masters degrees in Library Science and Theological Studies.
A Panel Discussion Moderated by Jonathan Younker, Brock University
Web 2.0 and Blogging Ken Fujiuchi is the Emerging Technology Librarian in the E.H. Butler Library at Buffalo State College. He has also worked as a lab and instructional facilities coordinator and an adjunct faculty member in the former School of Informatics at the University at Buffalo. Fujiuchi holds a Masters in Library Science from the University at Buffalo. His research interests include Web 2.0/Library 2.0 applications, information storage and retrieval, and human computer interaction.
Jennifer Graham, University at Buffalo* Jennifer Graham completed her undergraduate studies at Cornell University and worked for 12+ years as a social worker in the Western New York area. She then enthusiastically chose to pursue a career in academic librarianship, where she could merge her people and communication skills with her emerging technology skills. She earned her MLS from UB's School of Informatics in May of 2006, and currently holds an assistant librarian position in Lockwood Library's Central Technical Services. She publishes two blogs: jennimi and Library Matters, and is interested in how libraries can blend outstanding customer service with emerging technologies to empower their users.
Diane Ward, University at Buffalo Diane Ward is the principal original cataloger for the Poetry/Rare Books Collection in the University Libraries, University at Buffalo. She teaches as an adjunct for the Graduate School of Informatics: Organization and Classification of Information (Beginning); Organization and Classification of Information (Advanced) ; and Competitive Intelligence for Informatics in Emerging Technologies; and an upcoming class on RFID. She publishes on RFID technology, poetics and library and information science. Her writings and research have been published by RFID Journal, OCLC Systems and Services, Journal of Library and Archival Security, Computers in Libraries, etc. Ward has had her poetry and poetic criticism published. She is a frequent conference presenter and a contributing editor of Loss Glazier's Electronic Poetry Center, a premier Poetics Web site housed at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Amanda Etches-Johnson, McMaster University Amanda Etches-Johnson is a Reference Librarian at Mills Memorial Library, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and author of blogwithoutalibrary.net. Amanda is a frequent writer and presenter on the topic of emerging technologies, social software, and libraries.
David J. Nuzzo* Dave Nuzzo received his MLS from the University at Buffalo in 1981. He has been head of the Acquisitions Department there for the past 25 years. The 14 member department handles a $6.5 million dollar materials budget; Dave's responsibilities include traditional library acquisition activities such as ordering, receiving, paying, check-in, and binding.
The Long and Winding Road Jennifer Little & Mary Jo Orzech* SUNY Brockport
This year a new Learning Commons Model provides an opportunity to try a different approach to library staffing at Brockport. A new position of integrated public services coordinator is being put in place to harness expertise from several areas including Media Services, Information Technology Support Services, the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, Student Learning Center as well as library staff. This is being done at a new Learning Commons service area on the main floor of the library with student staff and volunteer professional staff/librarians. This poster will examine the pros (new service availability for patrons) and cons (a third "service" desk, fears, resentment) inherent in any new staffing enterprise. Suggestions of ways to work through issues and problems through improved communication, focusing on project-driven outcomes, providing better opportunities for inclusion and greater involvement in decision-making and assessment will be presented.
Leading the Way; Demonstration of the Prototype Pat Longo Brock University
Library collections are becoming increasingly diverse and more challenging to describe and make accessible. RDA is being prepared as a tool to lead the way towards consistent, logical and flexible metadata for all types of content and media.
RDA will be the new content standard for resource description and access when it is published in 2008. It is emerging out of a need to adapt to the challenges of describing and giving access to new content and media in library collections. It restructures current cataloguing rules and the very process of restructuring is creating quite a new tool. Built on the foundations established by AACR2, RDA will provide a comprehensive set of guidelines and instructions on resource description and access covering all types of content and media. When RDA is implemented, it will have an impact on record creation, staff training and technical services workflow.
This demonstration will use an authorized set of mocked-up screen shots to illustrate the functionalities and user interfaces being considered for online version of RDA.
This is an opportunity to see what RDA is about, to see how it may work as a Web tool, and to give feedback.
Driving Change in a College Library Instruction Program Debra Lucas* D'Youville College
In 2003, the Montante Family Library offered Library Instruction to its campus faculty on a request basis. The popularity of the service and the increased enrollment at the college created a surge in the number of sessions offered each semester. Nonetheless, data showed that students were dissatisfied because they said they didn't receive the instruction early enough in their college careers and in increasing numbers, they reported attending multiple instruction sessions.
This poster session shows how the data was compiled, analyzed, and used from 2003 - 2006, demonstrating the wisdom in using data to set strategic goals and drive change. Library leadership at D'Youville College partnered with the Education Graduate faculty to enact changes to a library instruction service, and create reassessment tools and plans to continually improve this critical library service.
to Create a More User-Driven Collection Donna Millard & Gloria Jouppien McMaster University
In 2004, Interlending & Document Supply and Acquisitions at McMaster
University Libraries began a program to purchase current year
monographs requested through interlibrary loans. We would like to
share this experience with you. Our successes, our problems and how we actually are able to improve access to books that are truly needed by our patrons. By taking two separate departments in a tradition library setting and working together, we're adapting to provide a more service oriented program.
Due to the Surprise October Storm in Buffalo, Ken Fujiuchi, Jennifer Little, Debra Lucas Mary Jo Orzech and Dave Nuzzo were unable to travel and present at the conference. We were delighted when, at our request, Jennifer Graham agreed to join the panel discussion. |