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Policy & Planning

Brainstorming Meetings for AY 2013-2014 Action Planning

Here is at least a partial list of the brainstorming meetings for AY 2013-2014 action planning. If you cannot attend your department’s meeting or would like to participate in one of the following, please feel free. It may be best to contact the organizer so that he or she can plan accordingly:

Science & Technology Library – May 9, 2:00 pm, ASEC 25 (Jo Ann Calzonetti)

Research & Learning Services – May 9, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm, Bierce 154 (Joe Salem)

Dean’s Office – May 10, 10:00 am  – 11:00 am, Bierce 161 A (Joe Williams)

Archival Services – May 10, 2:30 pm  – 4:00 pm, Polsky LL10 (Vic Fleischer)

Marketing Team – May 13, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm, Bierce 161 (Stephanie Dawson-Everett)

Access Services – May 14, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm, Bierce 274 (Charles Fisher)

Collection Standards Committee – May 16, 2:00 pm, Wayne College (Jo Ann Calzonetti)

Access Services Standards Committee – May 17, 2:00 – 3:30, Bierce 375 (Shelle Davis)

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Access Services Research & Learning Services

Presentation on Library Spaces @ OhioLINK USC Meeting

The powerpoint from the presentation on library spaces @ the OhioLINK USC meeting on 4/26/2013 is available online: http://www.slideshare.net/LynnLenart/april26. The Bierce Learning Commons was featured as well as photos of renovations and spaces at Ohio State, Oberlin, Kent State, Wittenburg, and Bowling Green.

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Access Services Research & Learning Services

Computer-based testing in Bierce Library

During final exam week, additional testing space will be available in Bierce Library 279 for testing regularly done in Schrank Hall North 152. Please visit the Computer Based Assessment & Evaluation website for testing hours and additional information

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Policy & Planning

2013 – 2014 Strategic Planning Documents

The files referenced at today’s strategic planning presentation can be found on the Strategic Planning Documents SharePoint.

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Dean's Office

Important Notice Regarding Ground Floor Entrances and Exits in Bierce

For reasons of security and accountability the security on the doors on the ground floor of Bierce has changed, effective today, April 23, 2013.

There is no longer an ADA Accessible door into the ground floor.  Alarms have been activated on the double inside doors to the right of the elevator.   Exit through these doors is for emergencies only.  The outside door is locked.

The double doors to the left of the elevator, the ones that lead to the loading dock and LIB 75 (Audio-Visual Classroom Services) are to be closed at all times.  Other than for entry to LIB 75, this entrance and exit will be for Bierce Library staff only.  Students are not to use this either as an exit or entrance—except, of course, in case of an emergency.

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Dean's Office

UL Prefinals Week Kicks off this Sunday!

Starting Sunday, April 28 and continuing through Sunday, May 6, the University Libraries will be transformed into a Stress-Free Zone with several events aimed at reducing end of semester stress and anxiety.

Sunday, April 28

When Where What
1-3pm Lobby WAGTime Therapy Dogs

 

Monday, April 29

When Where What
10-11am LIB168 Meditation Lesson
11am- noon LIB154 Pam Jackson- Reducing Test Anxiety
2:30-4:30pm Lobby WAGTime Therapy Dogs
8pm-midnight Bierce/S&T Coffee Break

 

Tuesday, April 30

When Where What
10-11am LIB168 Meditation Lesson
11am-1pm Lobby WAGTime Therapy Dogs
8pm-midnight Bierce/S&T Coffee Break

 

Wednesday, May 1

When Where What
10-11am LIB168 Meditation Lesson
11am-1pm Lobby WAGTime Therapy Dogs
3:30-4:30pm LIB154 Eric Hayden- Stress Management with biofeedback demo
8pm-midnight Bierce/S&T Coffee Break

 

Thursday, May 2

When Where What
1-3pm Lobby WAGTime Therapy Dogs
8pm-midnight Bierce/S&T Coffee Break

 

Friday, May 3

When Where What
1-3pm Lobby WAGTime Therapy Dogs

 

Saturday, May 4

When Where What
9-11am Lobby WAGTime Therapy Dogs

 

Sunday, May 5

When Where What
8pm-midnight Bierce/S&T Coffee Break

 

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Professional Development Research & Learning Services

Know the Roo Sessions

As you may know, University Libraries is hosting two sessions in conjunction with the Institute for Teaching and Learning entitled Know the Roo: University Libraries Resources, Services, and Partnerships to Enhance Success. The sessions are today (4/17) at 1:00 and tomorrow (4/18) at 2:00 in room 154. I am lucky enough to be hosting the sessions and wanted to share the Libguide that I prepared (with plenty of help from Trevor and Lisa): http://libguides.uakron.edu/faculty. This is just for these sessions and can grow into a more general guide for faculty. Please send me any ideas you have for additional content or let me know if you would like to add to the guide.

As an aside, Trevor and I are aware that three of the widgets are not working properly. They will be fixed ASAP!

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Electronic Services Research & Learning Services

3D Printing Coming to Bierce Library

We are adding a 3D printer to Bierce Library. The Makerbot Replicator 2X will arrive within the next month. The Emerging Technology Lab team is working on its implementation and will announce the machine’s availability when it arrives.

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Electronic Services Professional Development UAL Technical Services Committee

ALCTS Continuing Education Webinar Archives

The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) routinely offers one hour continuing education webinars on a variety of topics including cataloging, preservation, and institutional repositories to name a few.  After 90 days of original broadcast, these webinars are made freely available in the ALCTS webinar archive and on the ALCTS YouTube Channel.

Included are several introductory level webinars on Resource Description and Access (RDA), the new rules and guidelines for creating cataloging recordings that will be fully adopted by the Library of Congress at the of the month.  Those wanting to know more about the standard may be interested in the RDA for the Non-Cataloger webinar from Oct. 2012. (One word of caution: RDA continues to evolve as a standard so some of the older RDA webinars contain information that is now out of date.)

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Electronic Services Professional Development

We need you!!! Open Forum on RDA Elements

Changes to the OhioLINK central catalog for new RDA elements… and we need your input

What: open forum on RDA elements
Purpose: to gather your input
Where: Bierce 274 Learning Studio
When: April 17, 1.00-2.00
Who? YOU!

OhioLINK’s Database Maintenance and Standards Committee (DMSC) wants to put forth a proposal for how several new or changed RDA elements will appear and function in OhioLINK’s central catalog.  They’ve distributed a draft of the proposal and are seeking feedback.  A core group of UAL technical services folks will be evaluating the technical elements of the draft.

We are also having an open forum to present the proposal and get feedback that we can forward to DMSC. We’ll have the open forum on April 17, 2013, from 1:00 to 2:00, in Bierce Learning Studio 274. Anyone interested is welcome to participate in the forum.  We plan to include some screen shots or live displays of how these RDA elements currently appear in public catalogs.

If you’re interested in seeing the draft of the actual proposal, it’s available on SharePoint.

For more information, contact David Procházka (davidp@uakron.edu)