Favorite Success Links

Greetings library masters:

What are your favorite time management, stress reduction, test-taking, and general success links? Not databases, mind you - websites.

Gracias!

Open Workshops for Fall 2007

I'm looking for ways to revitalize my open workshops for fall quarter. What open workshops do you hold? What times of day have you found to work best? How do you market your workshops? How do you encourage/reward attendance? Do you hold your workshops in the library or elsewhere? I'd appreciate your input.
--Chandra

What are you reading...

Right now?

I don't mean this second, because obviously the answer would be "this blog" (hardy har har). What I mean is - what book, books, serial or serials are you reading? It doesn't have to be for work. I need some fresh ideas.

Gracias.

ILS/OPAC Vendors

As you know, when Heather and I attended ALA we were able to visit a number of ILS vendors. There is a spreadsheet on CHIPSnet that I created with vendors, their urls, our respective notes, etc . The document is in the OPAC Committee folder, and I have additional articles if you are interested.

Please take a look at the products and provide any feedback you may have on them- who do you like/don't like? Pros/cons?

Thank you!

Trading Cards Anyone?

To increase visibility and market library services to students Carleton College has created "trading cards" for each librarian. The librarians are caught in action poses (too funny) along with a description of their strengths, powers, and weaknesses. So cute! Check out the link http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/library/help/help/liaisons/cards/?page=1

I think we could definately do something fun like this - let's get that marketing team to work for us!

Social Bookmarking Library Resources

I used to work at the William Mitchell Law School Library, and they updated their OPAC this past spring.

I really like their link for social bookmarking with options of Delicious, Google Bookmarks, Facebook, etc.

My images are blurry.. follow the link below to get the the Wmitchell catalog.

http://library.wmitchell.edu/search?/Xthe+tipping+point&SORT=DZ/Xthe+tipping+point&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBKEY=the%20tipping%20point/1%2C2%2C2%2CB/frameset&FF=Xthe+tipping+point&SORT=DZ&1%2C1%2C

Library Course Questions

Per our meeting today, here are a few questions that we need to consider IMMEDIATELY regarding a self-paced library course?

What are the objectives for this course? That is, what do we want our students to learn?

How do we offer lecture in this course? (PowerPoint, Video, Lecture Notes, Links, etc.)

What kind of activities do we offer to help students learn the material?

Should the cumulative (final) assessment be a paper, or a test? The paper would be a 3-paragraph paper with two References; would the test be multiple choice, matching, or a combo? For what it's worth, we could use a paper as a pre-assessment for the Information Literacy Piece for GAP.

How long should the course run? If it IS a 1-credit course, then we'd have to run it for three weeks.

How would we manage the course? That is, they are self-paced, but the librarians would have to participate in the courses to answer questions and complete grading the final assessment (unless it is a test, which could be auto-graded).

How would the blended model of this course work? Would you hold open workshops?

What other concerns or questions do you have?

-E

Website Features

Hello Librarians,

I met with Mark K. last week to discuss what we want our library page on the Student Portal to look like. Obviously, we will have some technical limits, but right now we have the opportunity share as many ideas and "wants" as possible, and I'd like to take advantage of that.

What are some features that you think we absolutely MUST have on the new page (if you like any that we have now, I suggest including those in your list).

What are some features that you'd like to have but may not be essential?

What are things you don't want to see on the new page?

Think outside the box on this one. Let's not just stick with links (although include those if you want) but also the way that individuals navigate to services, how we group services together, how we link out to resources, information about libraries that you want to include on the pages, interactive elements, etc.

Thanks-