Matt Fisk will be presenting at the OhioLINK Membership Summit Steal My Idea session on July 25th, on the topic of student-driven Makerspaces.
In addition, he is working with the LeBron James Family Foundation School of Education to have a tour and crafting event for the I Promise Learning Community camp students on July 18th.
Nicely done!
Gregg Harris, Joy Ramos, Jennifer Davis, Tracie Pickett, Melanie McGurr, and Mike Monaco presented at the Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians (OVGTSL) 2024 Conference in Dublin, Ohio.
Mike Monaco, Tracie Pickett, Jennifer Davis, Gregg Harris, Joy Ramos presented When you have a minute, tell me everything you know: express cataloger training for ETDs.
Melanie co-presented with Kent State’s Sean Kennedy discussing the Benefits and limitations of data-driven decision making during large scale weeding projects.
On May 19, Mike Monaco, Cataloging Services, presented “Advocating for Technical Services Before and During a Migration,” at the NOTSL (Northern Ohio Technical Services Librarians) Spring Meeting at Cuyahoga County College Business Center East.
On July 15, Mike will give an online presentation for Library Administrators Council of Northern Illinois (LACONI), “Transforming Metadata with MarcEdit.” Join him for this free webinar: – https://www.laconi.net/events
Nice work, Mike!
Mike Monaco’s book, The Highest Level of All : The story of Fantasy Wargaming (illustrated by Heather J. Ford, Bradley University) was published by Carnegie-Melon University’s ETC Press. It’s published under an open access license so that a free PDF available for download. Details here: https://press.etc.cmu.edu/books/highest-level-all
This year Mike is also serving as Coordinator of the Ohio Library Council’s Technical Services Division Action Council and Vice Chair of the OhioLINK DIAD policy team.
Nicely done, Mike!
Melanie McGurr was recently elected Vice-President/President Elect for the Board of Trustees of the Northeast Ohio Regional Library System (NEO-RLS) for 2022-23, which means she will be President of the Board in 2023-2024.
Sean Kennedy, Kevin Garewal, and Melanie McGurr recently had an article accepted for publication in Library Resources & Technical Services. The title of the article is “Manager perspectives on the prevalence, impact, and management of work-related burnout in academic library technical services workers,” and it will be published in October of 2022.
Really nice work, Melanie!
Marilia Antunez’s submission to a resource review (1000+ word manuscript) of the National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA). JMLA is open access and it is the official journal of the Medical Library Association.
Nice going, Marilia!
Sean Kennedy (Kent State University), Melanie McGurr, and Kevin Garewal (University of Rochester) will be presenting their preliminary research concerning management of work-related burnout in academic library technical services departments at the 2022 virtual Conference on Academic Library Management (CALM) in April.
Sean Kennedy, Gregg Harris, and Melanie McGurr will be presenting at the Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians in May at the 2022 hybrid conference in Bloomington, Indiana. Their presentation will focus on the use of Excel, Teams, and Sierra along with GreenGlass to streamline a collections merger.
Nice teamwork, Melanie!
Mike Monaco, Cataloging Services, wrote a report on the OVGTSL 2021 conference which was published this month in Technical Services Quarterly. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07317131.2021.2011131
OVGTSL (The Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians) held their 2021 meeting online, and the conference committee was chaired by Melanie McGurr. On a side note, this was the conference we tried to host at UA in 2020 before COVID made that impossible.
Nice work, Mike!
Mike Monaco will be presenting a webinar for NEO-RLS next week, “MARCs of Quality.” It’s on evaluating bibliographic (catalog) records. The full info is here:
http://mms.neo-rls.org/Calendar/moreinfo.php?eventid=64940
Nice work, Mike!
Vic Fleischer, University Archivist & Head of Archives and Special Collections, presented “What Else Can Happen?: Disaster Planning and Recovery in the Age of COVID” last week, October 2021, at the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) Conference. Fleischer highlighted the flood that occurred in Archives and Special Collections last March and stressed the importance of having a disaster response and recovery plan in place. He also discussed lessons learned from the flood, which was exacerbated by the pandemic, and the importance of addressing a pandemic and its associated issues in disaster plans.
Nicely done, Vic!