Brownbags
From ml2sig
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams
Brownbag sessions are open to the public
Past Brownbags
Tips and Tricks for Living in Google Land
- Monday, May 21, 2012
- Noon to 1 PM
- Hatcher Gallery Lab (1st floor Hatcher Graduate Library)
After months of anticipation we've finally been migrated to Google Mail and Google Calendar. Now that you've had a chance to actually use it, what have you learned about integrating the new systems into your workflow? What tricks have you learned? Join us for an open discussion, share your tips and tricks and learn from your colleagues.
Work/Life Balance in Social Media
- Monday, April 16th, 2012
- Noon to 1 PM
- Clark Library Presentation Space (2nd floor Hatcher Graduate Library)
As a user of social media tools such as Facebook or Twitter, do you sometimes find your 'work' life in social media coming into conflict with your 'home' life? What does it mean to 'friend' or 'follow' someone with whom you work? Join us as we talk with a panel of your colleagues about issues of work/life balance in social media and discuss tips and strategies for maintaining that balance.
Pinterest and Tumblr
- Monday, March 19, 2012
- Noon to 1 PM
- Clark Library Presentation Space (2nd floor of Hatcher)
Is a picture worth a thousand words?
Tumblr and Pinterest are relatively new additions to the social web that operate on that idea. Pinterest is a virtual pinboard where you can pin photos or images to your site that are linked to websites. Tumblr lets you share photos/images, text, quotes, music, videos and more in a slightly more traditional blogging format. Come learn and share your ideas about these new ways of sharing media on the web! Amanda Peters and Jamie Vander Broek will start us off with a demonstration as we explore the creative ways users share content on the web.
Audio-visual equipment and video and image formats
- Monday, February 20, 2012
- Noon to 1 PM
- Gallery Lab, Hatcher (Note location)
Audio-visual equipment is proliferating in the world and on campus and our use of image and video on the library website, in instruction, and even daily work is increasing. Come to this session if you've ever wondered: Why is that video clip so grainy? What is a 1080p projector? What is the difference between different image formats like JPG and TIFF? What cable can I use to connect my laptop to a projector?
Breanna Hamm and others will offer information and tips.
Library 0.5
- Monday, December 19, 2011
- Noon to 1 PM
- Hatcher Gallery Classroom
Remember GEAC? Confer? NCSA Mosaic? Gopher? Join us for a light-hearted discussion as we remember the cutting-edge library technology of yesterday.
AADL's new online and digital initiatives
- Monday, November 21, 2011
- Noon to 1 PM
- Hatcher Gallery Classroom
QR Codes
- Monday, October 17, 2011
- Noon to 1 PM
- Gallery Lab, Hatcher (Note location)
What's a QR Code? How do you read them? What can they be used for? How do they fit into the library? Join us as we start off with a mini-scavenger hunt with QR codes as clues. We'll talk about the technology behind QR codes, and share examples of how they're already being used around the library. We'll brainstorm ways to integrate QR codes into our work at the library.
If you have a smartphone or other device with a QR code reader installed on it, please bring that for the scavenger hunt.
MLibrary 2.0 - Back to the Future!
- Monday, April 18, 2011
- Noon to 1 PM
- Gallery Lab, Hatcher (Note location)
It's been nearly four years since the original MLibrary 2.0 summer series. How have things changed since then? Do Library 2.0 and Web 2.0 mean the same thing? Are they still relevant as concepts?
Join us Gallery Lab in Hatcher at Noon on Monday for a free-wheeling discussion about the future of MLibrary 2.0! Feel free to bring your lunch.
(ML2SIG events are open to all who are interested, especially those at the University Library and School of Information.)
Collaboration Tools
- Monday, March 21st, 2011
- Noon to 1 PM
- Gallery Lab, Hatcher (Note location)
Collaboration occurs all over campus, and web-based and other kinds of tools can make collaborations more effective. Please join us for a discussion of collaboration tools (e.g. CTools, Google Docs, Sharepoint, DropBox - but don’t limit yourself to these!) you’ve used, thought of using, or seen colleagues use. Examples of how collaboration tools have helped you work with colleagues at other institutions are also welcome.
Software and Formats for Effectively Communicating Your Ideas
- Monday, January 24th
- Noon to 1:00 PM
- Gallery Lab, Hatcher (Note NEW location)
- The possibilities when delivering a presentation are more vast than ever. Lightning talks and PechaKucha presentation formats are cropping up in academic conferences, and Ignite has been a popular event here in Ann Arbor. Keynote, Prezi and other software and websites are pushing us all to think beyond Powerpoint. Easy ways of sharing slides, both technological and in terms of intellectual property, are also available. Mobile devices, from your smartphone to your tablet, make it possible to pass content to a projector without a laptop or desktop computer being involved.
- Kat Hagedorn presented recently at the DLF Fall Forum on an iPad. She will demonstrate how she did this, and talk about what went well and what didn't.
The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet
- Monday, Sept. 20, 2010
- Noon - 1pm
- 806 Hatcher
- We discussed the cover story in the September 2010 issue of Wired: "The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet." by Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff. You can read the story online.
Browser Extensions
- Browser Extensions
- Monday, Mar 15, 2010
- Noon - 1pm
- 806 Hatcher
- Join us in Hatcher Room 806 as Julie Piacentine talks about browser plug-ins to enhance your productivity and Jake Glenn shares information about Zotero 2. We'll have time at the end for you to share your favorite ways to extend the functionality of your browser! Although some of these plug-ins may only work with Firefox, feel free to share examples of plug-ins for other browser flavors.
The Creepy Treehouse
- (more on what the heck that means)
- Lead by Katie Dover-Taylor & Emily Hamstra
- Monday, January 19, 2009
- Noon - 1pm
- 806 Hatcher South
Gaming
- David Carter
- Discussion of the new Video Game Archive at the AAEL
- Monday, November 17, 2008
- Noon to 1pm
- 806 Hatcher South
Flickr
- Suzanne Chapman, Molly Kleinman, & Julie Weatherbee
- Short show & tell + open discussion of other ways we can use flickr to show off our collections & services. Also how we can be more systematic in our tagging & use of library flickr accounts
- Monday, October 20th
- Noon to 1pm
- 806 Hatcher South
Blogging
- Monday, September 15, 2008
- Noon to 1pm
- 100 Hatcher
Dave Carter moderated a panel and lead a discussion on blogging. Panel members included Paul Courant, Patricia Anderson, Suzanne Chapman, Sue Wortman, Ken Varnum and Dave Carter.
Drupal
- Monday, August 18, 2008
- Noon to 1pm
- 100 Hatcher
Drupal - Jeremy York discussed how SPO used Drupal to revamp their Intranet.
Second Life
- July
Health Science Library staff will present their acclaimed Second Life skit and engage a discussion about the use of the virtual reality world in library services.
Twitter Panel
- Monday, June 16, 2008
- Noon to 1pm
- 100 Hatcher
Twitter - you’ve likely heard about this micro-blogging site, but what is it exactly, and what can you do with it? Join moderator Suzanne Chapman and panelists Molly Kleinman, John Weise, Kat Hagedorn, Devon Persing, Gillian Mayman, and Patricia Anderson as they talk about the different ways that library staff use Twitter for their personal and professional networking.
Mirlyn API (application program interface)
- Monday, May 19, 2008
- Noon to 1pm
- 100 Hatcher
The library's Mirlyn system is home to millions of records describing books and journals, electronic and paper items, holdings and URLs -- but these data are locked behind Mirlyn's single web interface. What would you do -- what would you build -- if you could easily hook into that ocean of data?
At the ML2SIG Brown Bag on Monday, May 19th, Bill Dueber will describe just such an API he's building on top of Mirlyn. We'll briefly look at how it's put together, linger over what functionality it provides, and take our time showing an example of how anyone can use simple javascript to build their own mini-application.
Then comes the real fun: a discussion during which we'll brainstorm ways to use this new system to mash up Mirlyn data with whatever else we can scour from the University or wider Internet.
Marketing with Web 2.0
- Monday, April 21, 2008
- Noon - 1pm, 100 Hatcher
Molly Kleinman will lead a discussion on how to use Web 2.0 to market library programs and services.
Intralibrary Communication
- Monday, March 17, 2008
- Noon - 1pm, 100 Hatcher
Over the last year we’ve talked about how Web 2.0 technology can be used to reach out to our library users. How about turning that inward? How can this technology be used to help us become better communicators between our colleagues, departments and locations? Is there a better way to centralize our communication so we don’t have to rely on finding an elusive email in our over packed inbox?
Join this discussion/presentation led by Sue Wortman which will focus on what other libraries are doing about office communication and offer a chance to brainstorm possible solutions on how emerging technology can be used to pull together all the threads of information which bombard us daily. Here are the slides for this presentation and here are a couple of links from the presentation that don't show up in the PDF version:
- University of Maryland Library Staff Newsletter Blog
- DePauw University Library Newsletter Blog
- UC Berkeley Library Staff Web Page
- Cornell Library Staff Web Page
- University of Minnesota Library Staff Wiki
Creating a Culture of Communication - for continued discussion, ideas and minutes from the March 17th brown bag.
Open Discussion of Library2.0 Topics
- Monday February 18, 2008
- Noon - 1pm, 100 Hatcher
Microformats
- Monday January 28, 2008
- Noon - 1pm, 100 Hatcher
Jacob Glenn will present a brief introduction to microformats, a simple, lightweight means of publishing structured data in XHTML. He'll cover the basic types of microformats and demonstrate their use in a web browser. He'll then examine microformats as a component of various strategies to expose bibliographic data on the web, in the interest of provoking discussion about how the library can make our collections more visible to the web at large. Slides are available here (8.8 MB PDF).
We will also discuss possible topics for future brownbags.
