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!
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!
On October 15th, Mike Monaco presented as part of panel, “Sheltering, Surviving and Thriving in Place: A View From Technical Services.” The presentation was a program for the Ohio Library Council’s 2021 Convention & Expo in Columbus, Ohio. The other panelists were Karen Sykeny (Massillon Public Library) and Misty Alvaro (Columbus Metropolitan Library). We spoke about how our libraries, especially in technical services, dealt with the changes to our staffing and work conditions during the pandemic, and what we learned. I was also able to attend the first two days of the conference on October 13-14 because of an ALAO Continuing Education grant I was awarded, which paid for my accommodations and registration.
Nice representation, Mike!
Tammy Stitz is part of the OhioLINK Accessibility Project Team that will figure out how to implement accessibility practices for shared consortial content.
Tammy is also a member of the UA search committee to select an Associate Director of the Office of Accessibility. You could check out the job description at could go to https://www.uakron.edu/hr/job-openings/openings.dot and the job is listed as Associate Director, Office of Accessibility – 13033
Nice going, Tammy!
Jeffrey Franks and Marilia Yesenia Antunez presented a poster session entitled Making Connections When Citing Tables and Figures at the 2021 Kentucky Medical Library Association (KMLA) Virtual Conference on Friday, July 16. The poster described the planning and development process for the Brightspace Tutorial entitled Advanced Citations and Copyright, which will be launched this fall semester.
Poster Session Abstract
Librarians uniquely designed a self-paced tutorial that combines how to reference tables and figures in APA Style, 7th edition, provide an overview of the Creative Commons (CC) licenses, and finding open access resources, in the preparation of class papers. Students will discuss the guidelines for properly citing tables and figures including copyright attribution in APA Style using sources that are freely available and that do not require copyright permission. Examples of tables and figures that students created as well as tables and figures created by others will be discussed. To empower students to reference their works, they will describe how to find works with CC licenses, what they allow, how to properly provide attribution and how to add these licenses to their own works. The tutorial uses videos, presentation slides, and self-checks/quizzes. It is offered via the Brightspace platform to easily track student progress.
This poster presentation examines the planning of an online tutorial via the LMS system, Bright space, developed to inform and increase habit of referencing tables and figures, and encourage faculty and others to add their Creative Commons mark on their own creations. The tutorial also highlights the benefits of OERs as teaching materials.
The tutorial is divided into the following four modules or Lessons:
This sounds very informative and like it was a lot of work. Nice job, Jeff and Marilla!