OK-ACRL Blog

Cameron University in Lawton, OK has two openings listed. “Assistant Professor and Head of Collection Services - Library” and “Instructor/Assistant Professor - Library”.  More info at http://www.cameron.edu/personnel.

In keeping with some of the thoughts raised in last year’s OK-ACRL conference on how the Web/Web 2.0/the Internet have affected our society, here’s an interesting clip featuring a talk given by Clay Shirky, internet consultant (to LC and the BBC, among many other big clients) and an author and frequent speaker on Internet culture. Having been a Victorian literature person in my pre-librarian life, I find his discussion of how gin played a key role in the Industrial Revolution to be a very insightful comment, and his ideas about contemporary media and interactive media give us something for us to think about as we continue to transform the library from a center for pushing out static media to a center for sharing and producing dynamic media.

http://blip.tv/file/855937/

Northeastern State University of Tahlequah, OK is seeking an Executive Director of Libraries.

Northeastern State University invites applications and nominations for the position of Executive Director of Libraries.  We are seeking an individual who can communicate library programs and services effectively to the University community, who is an effective motivator and manager of physical, human and financial resources, and who will embrace the opportunities that new technology offers while retaining the traditional virtues of a great library.  The Executive Director of Libraries reports to the Vice President for Academic Affairs.

http://www.nsuok.edu/humanresources/jobs/showJob.php?jobID=1245

Also from the ACRL Insider blog:

2008:

March 17: ALA/ACRL Elections Open
March 20: Leading Change (Webcast)
March 26–29: ACRL/Harvard Advanced Leadership Institute for Senior Academic Librarians (Cambridge, MA)
March 27: ACRL OnPoint - NIH Public Access Policy (Online Chat - Free!)
April 2: ACRL Springboard Event (Webcast - Free for ACRL Members!)
April 7: Proposals for 2009 ACRL Midwinter workshops and Annual preconferences due
April 7-28: Creating a Comprehensive Plan for Information Literacy (Online Seminar)
April 10: Being and Finding a Mentor (Webcast)
April 11: Deadline for ACRL Documents for ACRL Spring Executive Committee meeting
April 21 - May 9: Designing Web Sites for Academic Libraries, Part 1 (Online Seminar)
April 24: ALA/ACRL Elections Close
April 29-30: ACRL/LAMA Joint Spring Virtual Institute, “Leading from the Middle: Managing in All Directions”
May 1: ALA/ACRL Election Results Announced
May 8: Keys to Innovation (Webcast)
May 12: Proposals for 2009 ACRL National Conference contributed papers, panel sessions, preconferences, and workshops due
May 13-14: National Library Legislative Day (Washington, DC)
May 15: ACRL Spring Executive Committee meeting
May 26: ALA/ACRL Offices Closed
June 2-21: All Users Are Local: Bringing the Library Next Door to the Campus Worldwide (Online Seminar)
June 24 - 27: 49th Annual RBMS Preconference, “Rare and Special Bytes: Special Collections in the Digital Age” (Los Angeles, CA)
June 26 - July 2: 2008 ALA Annual Conference (Anaheim, CA)
June 27: ACRL Preconference - Assessment of Academic Library Effectiveness: Using ACRL Standards for Continuous Evaluation
June 27: ACRL Preconference - Library Instruction 2.0: Building Your Online Instruction Toolkit
June 27: ACRL Preconference - Mindfully Resolving Conflicts: Facilitation for Diversity Issues
July 4: ALA/ACRL Offices Closed
July 7-28: Creating a Comprehensive Plan for Information Literacy (Online Seminar)
July 27-August 1: Institute for Information Literacy Immersion ‘08 Program (University of California, San Diego)
August 3-8: ACRL/Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians, (Cambridge, MA)
August 31: ACRL 2007-08 Fiscal Year Ends
September 1: ACRL 2008-09 Fiscal Year Begins
September 24-27: ACRL Board Strategic Planning and Orientation Session
October 20: Proposals for 2009 ACRL National Conference poster sessions due
October 24-25: ACRL Fall Executive Committee meeting
November 23: Proposals for 2009 ACRL National Conference roundtable discussions due

2009:

Jan 23–28: 2009 ALA Midwinter Meeting (Denver, CO)
March 12-15: ACRL 14th National Conference (Seattle, WA)
July 9–15: 2009 ALA Annual Conference (Chicago, IL)

From the ACRL Insider blog: The March 2008 issue (Volume 69, Number 2) of College & Research Libraries is now available online.

2008 is well under way and it is time to make sure you have renewed your OK-ACRL membership!  Forms are available on the OK-ACRL page.

Today’s Front Pages This cool resource was highlighted on Lifehacker:

“Want so see how the newspapers around your region played the Super Tuesday results on their front page? Just want to get a quick glance at your own newspaper’s front page without clicking through its web site? The web site of the Newseum, an interactive journalism museum, offers a nifty “Front Pages Worldwide” tool that’s updated daily and comes in list, gallery, or (coolest of all) map flavors. Simply mouse over a town or city to see that papers’ front page, or head to the list or gallery options to grab a read-able PDF of it. For capturing a piece of a major story in your town or just keeping yourself informed, the Newseum is the web version of having a stack of papers delivered to your desk.”

We’ve all had a very busy fall and time flies, but let’s look back at some of the highlights from our OK-ACRL conference last month. Thanks to all the speakers and presenters for their efforts: it was a very informative, fun day in Tulsa!

The Oklahoma Chapter held its 2007 annual conference on Monday, November 5 on the campus of Oklahoma State University—Tulsa. This year’s topic was “Eyes Forward and Hands On: Gearing Up for 2.0 in Oklahoma,” and featured keynote addresses by Dr. David Silver, Asst. Professor of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco, and Dr. Lynn Connaway, Senior Research Scientist at OCLC. The program provided an overview of how Web 2.0 is affecting academic libraries and the expectations of our customer base. David discussed the culture of Web 2.0 and how academic libraries are contributing to this new world of interactive online content (and how even offline content can help increase interaction with our patrons). Lynn presented the findings of her research on faculty and student expectations in the digital age, and how academic libraries are seeking to meet those expectations.

In the afternoon we have a series of poster sessions on different projects and initiatives being undertaken at Oklahoma libraries: Frederic Murray and Erin Ingraham (SWOSU) on Pecha Kucha at the Library, Robin Leech (OSU) on IM Reference, and Linda Summers (NSU-BA) on the NSU-Broken Arrow Library Blog. Following the poster sessions we had six breakout sessions presented by Oklahoma librarians on various Web 2.0 technologies: IM reference products (Jason Dupree, SWOSU), Blogging (Adri Edwards-Johnson, Pioneer Library System), del.icio.us and Tagging (Jason Cimock, UCO), Aquabrowser (Anne Prestamo, OSU), Getting a Library Presence in Course Management Systems (Roy Degler, OSU), and Animoto (Jason Dupree, SWOSU).

Here are some photos–more to come!

David Silver

Lynn Connaway

Business Meeting

Robin Leech

Adri Edwards-Johnson

Jason Dupree

Fall Colors at OSU-Tulsa

We had over 60 people in attendance, and a good time was had by all. Thanks to the OK-ACRL board members and OSU-Tulsa for helping ensure that the conference ran like clockwork!

From Friends: Social Networking Sites for Engaged Library Services…

Once added to a library’s Facebook Page, the LibGuides Library App provides a link to the library’s LibGuides system and also invites users to Add The App to their individual profiles. As an added bonus, visitors to a library’s FB Page are able to search the local library OPAC.

Any Oklahoma Libraries using this? If you are, please share with us your experience in the comments section of this post.

A research report from the University of Rochester on their use of ethnographic tools and techniques to understand undergraduate students and their use of information. This report addresses faculty expectations, student expectations, library facility design and web site design.