Brownbags
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"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams
Brownbag sessions are open to the public
[edit] Past Brownbags
[edit] Data Privacy and Online Services
- Monday, December 16, 2013
- Noon to 1 PM
- Gallery Lab, 100 Hatcher
Online services we use regularly require access to individuals' data in ways not seen before. This short article, "Keeping Your Data Private Denies You Access to the Latest Tech", http://www.wired.com/business/2013/06/personal-encryption-is-dying/ , provides a good introduction to this topic. How are our concepts of privacy changing? How has your behavior changed with online services in the last few years?
[edit] What (and Where) on Earth is a Bitcoin?
- Monday, October 21, 2103
- Noon to 1 PM
- Gallery Lab, 100 Hatcher
Bitcoins have been in the news a lot lately. What are they? What other currencies are cropping up or have existed in the past? Please join us at the next ML2SIG brown bag to learn and share your knowledge.
For some fun pre-session reading, check out:
http://lifehacker.com/5991523/what-is-bitcoin-and-what-can-i-do-with-it
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/06/virtual-currency
[edit] Life After Google Reader
- Monday, April 15, 2013
- Noon to 1 PM
- Gallery Lab, 100 Hatcher
Google Reader, the popular Web-app for handling RSS (and other) feeds, is being retired on July 1. What are some of the alternatives out there? What are your favorite methods of keeping up with your feeds? Come join us at the next ML2SIG brown bag for another round of discussing feed readers: learn about what tools are available are share what you know.
[edit] Health and Fitness 2.0
- Monday, March 18, 2013
- Noon to 1 PM
- Gallery Lab, 100 Hatcher
Are you participating in ActiveU? Perhaps you’ve noticed its evolution over the years? Maybe you’ve tried food tracking or fitness tracking apps on your smartphone? How about the relatively new fitness tracking devices?
Please join us at the next ML2SIG brown bag to learn and share your experiences with these technologies.
This recent article from Wired provides a quick overview of fitness wearables.
See also http://www.getgrok.com/2013/01/a-comparative-review-28-days-with-the-fitbit-one-jawbone-up-nike-fuelband-and-bodymedia-link/ for a comparison of recent fitness trackers.
[edit] Comics and Higher Education
- Monday, February 18, 2013
- Noon to 1 PM
- Gallery Lab, 100 Hatcher
Comics in education? That's crazy talk! Or is it? Please join us for the next ML2SIG brown bag as Johnathon Beals of U-M's Language Resource Center gives a presentation on the many ways that comics and related forms are being used in classrooms.
[edit] Food!
- Monday, December 17, 2012
- Noon to 1 PM
- Gallery Lab, 100 Hatcher
Please join us for a light-hearted discussion of food-related things and technology. From food blogs to social media sites to cookbook apps to Thanksgiving planning tools like the New York Times' Thanksgiving-erator and more, technology is changing the ways we get and share information about food.
[edit] The Recent E-book Settlement
- Monday, November 19, 2012
- Noon to 1 PM
- Hatcher Gallery Lab (1st floor Hatcher Graduate Library)
Please join ML2SIG this Monday for a discussion of the September e-book pricing settlement. Bobby Glushko from the Copyright Office will introduce the topic and lead our discussion.
For background reading, this New York Times blog post summarizes the situation: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/judge-approves-e-book-pricing-settlement-between-government-and-publishers/
[edit] Your Next Wallet Could Be Your Smartphone
- Monday, October 15, 2012
- Noon to 1 PM
- Hatcher Gallery Lab (1st floor Hatcher Graduate Library)
Have you paid for something using Google Wallet on your smartphone? Maybe you've used Square at a local retailer, and signed your signature on an iPad with your finger? What does it mean that it's becoming possible to pay for things without cash, plastic and even IDs?
Join us for a lively discussion of the technologies already around us that are slowly replacing our wallets.
For some quick background reading, Wired journalist Christina Bonnington summarizes the future of wallets replacing smartphones, and then embarks on a month-long attempt to live without a wallet full of paper and plastic :
- http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/09/when-smartphone-replace-wallet/
- http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/09/living-without-a-wallet
[edit] Gamification
- Monday, September 17, 2012
- Noon to 1 PM
- Hatcher Gallery Lab (1st floor Hatcher Graduate Library)
- Gamification, the use of game design elements in non-game contexts, is being employed in a variety of ways, from wellness programs (e.g. Active U) to employee training to library summer reading programs.
Join us for an open discussion on what sort of things in MLibrary may be amenable to employing gamification techniques. (For a good background on Gamification, please see the paper "From game design elements to gamefulness: defining gamification": http://bit.ly/NZLnu7 .)
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] AADL's new online and digital initiatives
- Monday, November 21, 2011
- Noon to 1 PM
- Hatcher Gallery Classroom
[edit] 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.
[edit] What You Did Last Summer...
- Monday, Sept 19, 2011
- Noon to 1 pm
- Gallery Lab, Hatcher
- The ML2SIG looks at future trends for libraries and how technology will impact those trends. For our first brown bag of the fall, we want to hear what you've been up to this summer: interesting projects you've been working on, things you learned at conferences you attended, etc. Come and join in an open discussion about how these trends and technologies will affect MLibrary. We will then spend some time coming up with topics for future ML2SIG brown bags.
[edit] 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.)
[edit] 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.
[edit] Presentations: Software and Formats for Effectively Communicating Your Ideas
- Monday, January 24th, 2011
- 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.
[edit] Lifestreaming - Pulling Together Your Online Life
- Monday, Nov 15, 2010
- Noon to 1pm
- 806 Hatcher
- Lifestreaming is when you set up a system that takes the data feeds from the myriad social services you may use and merge them into one super chronological timeline. Britain Woodman will discuss his experiences employing lifestreaming solutions such as Sweetcron & Storytlr, and we will discuss how lifestreaming might work in the context of the library.
[edit] Zotero 2.1
- Monday, Oct 18, 2010
- Noon to 1 pm
- 806 Hatcher
- Zotero, a browser-based citation management solution, has announced a bunch of new stuff: A standalone client, plugins for Safari, Chrome and IE, new word processor plugins, institutional storage plans, etc. Jake Glenn from the Science Library will demo many of these upcoming features.
[edit] 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.
[edit] iPads and other tablets
- Monday, June 21st
- Noon to 1pm
- 806 Hatcher
- iPads and other tablet computers are now here. Will they change the way our users access and use information? Several Mlibrary staff will demonstrate iPad apps, followed by a group discussion about how the arrival of tablet computing may affect the world of libraries.
[edit] What I Learned While Teaching Enriching Scholarship
- Monday, May 17th
- Noon to 1pm
- 806 Hatcher
- We’ve had another successful round of the award-winning Enriching Scholarship series, and many of the sessions touched on Web 2.0 technologies. What did we learn about how our faculty and other participants will be using these technologies in their classrooms and research? A panel of ES instructors will share what they learned while teaching their sessions.
- Scheduled panelists are: Melissa Gomis (Knowledge Navigation Center, etc.); Chris Myers (Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy); Lauren Atkins (LSA Instructional Support Services); and Julie Piacentine (Knowledge Navigation Center, etc.)
[edit] Calendars, Events, Scheduling
- Monday, April 19, 2010
- Noon to 1pm
- 806 Hatcher
- Join us as we discuss tools for keeping track of time and events. We will talk about syncing information across platforms and devices, web-based scheduling tools, and finding and publicizing events through social networking websites. There will be time to share information and learn from other attendees.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Managing To-Do Lists
- Monday, February 15th, 2010
- Noon to 1:00 PM
- 806 Hatcher
- Do you keep your to-do lists on color-coded post-it notes, stuck to your computer monitor? Are you a “Getting Things Done” ninja? Do you manage your entire life from your smart phone or PDA, or do you stick to tried and true paper notebooks to keep yourself organized?
Join us in and share your favorite ways to record to-do lists, manage projects, and generally keep organized!
[edit] Mobile Devices in Academic Settings
- Monday, Nov 16, 2009
- Noon to 1pm
- 806 Hatcher
- Members of the Library’s Mobile Devices Working Group (Anne Beaubien, Suzanne Chapman, Kathleen Folger, Gary Munce, and Karen Reiman-Sendi) will be on hand to discuss the work of the group including what they’ve learned about the use of mobile devices in academic settings in general and at UM in particular. The group, which will be submitting recommendations to LDG in December, invites all library staff to come and share their experiences working with or observing patrons with mobile devices.
[edit] Augmented Reality
- Monday, October 19th
- Noon to 1:00 PM
- 806 Hatcher (Note location)
- Augmented reality used to be found primarily in movie special effects and science fiction, or in expensive military systems. But now that augmented reality applications are popping up in consumer applications (such as the iPhone), what does this mean for the library? Dave Carter & Scott Martin will give a brief presentation on what augmented reality is and what some of the applications are, and then lead a discussion on how the library might consider making use of augmented reality in our services.
[edit] Adventures in Library Video Making: Report from The Video Task Force
- Monday, September 21, 2009
- Noon to 1:00 PM
- 806 Hatcher
- The video task force will talk about their experiences in venturing into the world of library videos. They’ll show a couple examples of what they consider “good” library video work, a couple bad examples, and some of their work so far. They’re very interested in hearing from other librarians about what next projects to complete, if anyone has seen examples of effective videos, and the proper medium for showcasing the finished products (YouTube, our website, LibGuides, etc.) Hope you can join us!
[edit] RSS
- Monday, June 15, 2009
- Noon - 1pm
- 100 Hatcher
- What’s new with RSS? For our next ML2SIG brown bag we’ll revisit the topic of RSS feeds with presenters Bill Dueber, Ken Varnum & Dave Carter. Topics covered will include the RSS-related features of the new library Website & Mirlyn 2.
[edit] Open Discussion and Workshop Session
- Monday, May 18, 2009
- Noon - 1 pm
- 100 Hatcher
- Have you been interested in trying a web 2.0 technology but haven’t had the time (or energy) to stop and figure out how to get started? Or maybe you’ve discovered something new and want to share it with the group. Well now is your chance!
- Join us in the Hatcher Room 100 Classroom for an open workshop session where the collective group can help you get started or discuss some hot new topic.
[edit] Geographic Information
- Monday, April 20, 2009
- Noon to 1 pm
- 806 Hatcher
- Location, Location, Location!
- Because of technology, location matters to us both less and more every day. Computing power and new technologies let us leverage where we are in the world more than ever before, while also accessing information in a location agnostic way.
- From pictures with geotags to news headlines on a map, to library and restaurant locators and demographic maps at the click of a mouse, geographic information is everywhere. Nicole Scholtz from Spatial and Numeric Data will show some favorite examples of things on the web that use location, and lead a discussion of how the library might think about location in terms of its services.
[edit] Collections and Web 2.0
- Tuesday, Feb 17, 2009
- Noon - 1 pm
- 806 Hatcher
- World class collections? We got 'em! But how do we share them with the university and the general public? Join us for an informal discussion and brainstorming session looking at how other libraries and museums are using Web 2.0 applications. We'll think about ways to present our Library, its people, and its collections using Web 2.0 (Museum 2.0) tools.
- An informal discussion will be led by Exhibits and Outreach Librarian Melissa Levine.
[edit] 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
[edit] Gaming
- David Carter
- Discussion of the new Video Game Archive at the AAEL
- Monday, November 17, 2008
- Noon to 1pm
- 806 Hatcher South
[edit] 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
[edit] 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.
[edit] Drupal
- Monday, August 18, 2008
- Noon to 1pm
- 100 Hatcher
Drupal - Drupal—you’ve heard that it’s coming to the MLibrary Website, but what does that mean? Jeremy York will give a presentation on what Drupal is, how it works, and how the Scholarly Publishing Office (SPO) has customized it to function as its departmental intranet.
[edit] 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. Second Life—what is it? What can you do there? At the next ML2SIG Brown Bag, join the staff of the Health Sciences Libraries as they introduce us to virtual worlds. Patricia Anderson will present on current University of Michigan activities in Second Life. Gillian Mayman will present on problems and best practices involved in providing services in Second Life which will include a skit featuring Whitney Townsend, Mark MacEachern, Marisa Conte, Jane Blumenthal, and Kate Macdougall of the Health Sciences Libraries. Following the presentations there will be a group discussion on the usefulness and possibility of having an MLibrary presence in Second Life.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Open Discussion of Library2.0 Topics
- Monday February 18, 2008
- Noon - 1pm, 100 Hatcher
[edit] 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.
