MLibrary Lightning Talks 2011
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[edit] 2011 Summer Edition
- Tuesday, August 9th
- 2 PM to 3:30 PM
- Bert's Study Lounge
- Shapiro Library Lobby
Come and learn about the exciting work that your MLibrary colleagues have been doing in these rapid five-minute presentations. A lightning talk is a brief presentation that quickly informs the audience about a specific topic. In this case, each talk will be just 5 minutes long, and will focus on an area of interest or innovation within the MLibrary community.
Light refreshments will be served.
Topics and presenters, in order of appearance:
You Could Be in Pictures: Promote Your Services, Students and Faculty in the Shapiro - Amanda Peters & Jamie Lausch Vander Broek (UGL) Do you have a screencast or video you want to share with students? A digital exhibit? An event that needs promotion? Bert's Study Lounge is a blank canvas for students and librarians alike. The digital screens are Up and running and ready for your content. We also need your help soliciting content from students and faculty across campus. Amanda and Jamie will talk about the wide range of possibilities for displaying media on the screens and explain how the submission process works. We will also have a quick brainstorming session to generate ideas that could be showcased in the lounge as early as this fall!
Preparing for the Worst: Disaster Planning at the AAEL - Rebecca Frank (AAEL) This presentation will focus on the process of creating a disaster response and recovery plan for the Art, Architecture and Engineering Library. Specifically, I will discuss salvage priorities, response and recovery teams, and disaster supplies. I will also discuss some of the unique challenges presented by the AAEL, including the Computer and Video Game Archive, and Special Collections. The presentation will conclude with a discussion of next steps, as this is an ongoing project.
What is DLPS? - John Weise (LIT/DLPS) The Digital Library Production Service (DLPS) is one of the five units comprising Library Information Technology (LIT) at the University of Michigan. DLPS has three major areas of focus: preservation quality digitization, content deployment, and the development of information retrieval systems. I will talk about the people of DLPS, the services we provide, who depends on us, who we depend on, our successes, and our challenges.
Hey Library Staff, check out these eReaders! - Julie Weatherbee (DSS) This talk will be a brief overview of the eReaders that Desktop Support Services has available to loan to Library staff, how to check them out, and some helpful eBook resources.
Rediscovering Shenoute of Atripe - Pablo Alvarez (Special Collections) I will describe an ongoing project to catalogue and digitize our collection of 22 vellum leaves containing works by the fourth-century Coptic writer Shenoute of Atripe (Upper Egypt, on the western side of the Nile). Our leaves were originally held in the so-called White Monastery, located near Atripe, and where Shenoute spent all of his life as a monk and head of this monastic community. At a certain point in its history, the monastery library contained mostly the works of Shenoute as copied in the 8th and 9th centuries. From the end of the 18th century onwards, Europeans started taking these manuscripts away, dispersing its holdings in European and North American libraries. Since the 19th century, scholars have tried to reconstruct the works of Shenoute by assigning leaves to their original codices. Recently, Stephen Emmel has pieced together the entire Shenoute’s corpus, and is currently leading an international team of editors working on the first edition and English translation of Shenoute's works. Indeed, an online access to our Shenoute collection will greatly benefit the task of these scholars.
Promoting Usage of the CTools library help tools - Chris Leeder (School of Information) This talk will present the results of surveys conducted with CTools course site users regarding their use of the library help tools (Library Materials, Library Help, and the Librarian role). Based on CTools usages data, the UM departments with the highest overall use of the library tools were identified, and surveys were sent to users of the tools within those departments, as well as non-users in those departments to determine any significant differences in demographics. A parallel survey was sent to users of the Librarian role. Results of the survey will be discussed and recommendations for increasing usage of the library tools will be presented.
Search Query Analysis - Shevon Desai (Core Usability Team) When thinking about how the main library search box is used, it is easy to identify the most common kinds of searches (database names). However, the library usability group was also curious about the long tail: what about all those other searches that happen on the library website every day? Would analyzing a random sample of the 400,000-plus searches conducted throughout one semester reveal any hidden wisdom? Come to our lightning talk and find out more about this work-in-progress.
Free, Unlimited Texts: A first peek at the promise of the TCP - Rebecca Welzenbach (MPublishing) This spring, the Text Creation Partnership released 2,231 ECCO-TCP texts to the public, with no restrictions on their use and distribution. Ultimately, all of the TCP texts will be freely available for anyone to use, but this is the first set to have all use restrictions lifted. We've already seen a lot of interest in studying, manipulating, and publishing these texts, which has given us a peek at what might happen in a few years, when the much larger EEBO-TCP archive becomes available to the public. This talk will share how people are starting to use these texts, and the questions, challenges, and opportunities are starting to come up for the TCP as a result.
Digital Storytelling Initiatives & Higher Education - Patricia Anderson (Taubman HSL) Emerging interest on campus in digital storytelling, and awareness of digital storytelling initiatives on other campuses, led to a workshop on campus in July 2011. My attendance was funded by the Medical School, with other attendees primarily from health units on campus, but also including academic & non-academic units. This talk will focus on how interest in digital storytelling is being manifested on this campus and how libraries are working with their communities in this area on other campuses.
Multimedia services provided for faculty, staff and students at Shapiro - David Hytinen (DSS) & Breanna Hamm (Tech Deck) Dave and Breanna are here to help you with your media project! We will be talking about the services we offer here at Hatcher and Shapiro in helping Library staff create screencasts, videos and other multimedia projects. We'll also highlight the various media technology suites available to staff and patrons at the Shapiro library .
