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*'''E-Textbooks in Engineering Courses''' - Sara Samuel (AAEL). The engineering librarians, along with the assistance of Natsuko Nicholls, conducted a survey in Fall 2011 to learn if engineering students were aware that their textbook was available through the library as an e-book, and if they were using it and what they thought about it. This talk will share our main findings.  
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'''You Could Be in Pictures: Promote Your Services, Students and Faculty in the Shapiro''' - Amanda Peters & Jamie Lausch Vander Broek (UGL)
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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
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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!
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'''Preparing for the Worst: Disaster Planning at the AAEL''' - Rebecca Frank (AAEL)
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*'''Publish, not Perish: Supporting Graduate Students as Aspiring Authors''' - Barbara Alvarez & Jen Bonnet (GL Reference). This presentation will report on a new workshop offered at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, to help graduate students familiarize themselves with the world of academic publishing and prepare for their role as publishing scholars. A result of a collaboration between RLL liaison librarians and MPublishing, the workshop and its accompanying guide addressed issues that face aspiring authors in today’s publishing environment, and offered practical tips on what to publish, when to publish, how to select journals, how to shape papers/conference presentations into publishable articles, and how to respond to reviewers’ feedback. Given its success, the workshop is planned to be expanded into a series of campus-wide sessions.
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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.
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'''What is DLPS?''' - John Weise (LIT/DLPS)
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*'''Two years of COPE – Open Access Funding''' - Kristina Eden (Copyright Office). Over the last two years the library has funded open access journal articles through COPE (Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity). Maybe you have referred a faculty member to this funding source and would like to know what impact this pilot program has had on campus?  We’ll take a look at the publication statistics and responses to our second year survey of program participants.
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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.
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'''Hey Library Staff, check out these eReaders!''' - Julie Weatherbee (DSS)
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*'''Pancreapedia: building an online pancreatic research community''' - Bryan Smith (MPublishing). Pancreapedia is a scientific community website designed to expedite research on the pancreas, with the goal of reaching 100% participation of exocrine pancreatic researchers worldwide. During this talk, I will discuss how Pancreapedia came to be, where it is headed, and our approach to building an online research community.
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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.
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'''Rediscovering Shenoute of Atripe''' - Pablo Alvarez (Special Collections)
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*'''The Library’s New Espresso Book Machine''' - Terri Geitgey (MPublishing). This talk will focus on the new upgraded EBM installed in the library at the end of December. Points covered will include how the EBM works, who can use it, and the types of services we can provide.
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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.  
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'''Promoting Usage of the CTools library help tools''' - Chris Leeder (School of Information)
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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
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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.
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'''Search Query Analysis''' - Shevon Desai (Core Usability Team)
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*'''Mobile Polling''' - Megan McGlynn (Library Operations). Have you ever wondered what library users are thinking? Mobile polling gives the opportunity to gather feedback from users in our space, even if they're not in front of a computer. I'll demonstrate polleverywhere.com, give examples of polls we've conducted, and discuss an upcoming conference poster on polling to assess user engagement with digital screens.
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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.
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'''Free, Unlimited Texts: A first peek at the promise of the TCP''' - Rebecca Welzenbach (MPublishing)
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*'''The CRMS Projects: Putting Books to Rights''' - Richard Adler (Copyright Office). The HathiTrust Digital Library includes over ten million volumes, but how much access to those volumes will current copyright law allow? That's what the Copyright Review Management System was created to find out. During its first IMLS-funded grant period CRMS examined the copyright status of over 170,000 books published between 1923 and 1963. Now in its second grant period, CRMS continues to review US titles—and also over 150,000 English-language books published in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. This talk will look at the challenge of reviewing such a large number of books and how, when it comes to an old book, some parts of it may be more of a dilemma than others.
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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.  
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'''Digital Storytelling Initiatives & Higher Education''' - Patricia Anderson (Taubman HSL)
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*'''Adventures with iBooks Author''' - Jason Colman and Kelly Witchen (MPublishing). ''iBooks Author'' is billed as an easy way to create amazing textbooks for the iPad, but the reality is a bit more complicated. MPublishing staff Kelly Witchen and Jason Colman will describe the process of converting SI Professor Chuck Severance's book in iBA, and shed light on some of the program's features and quirks.
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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.
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'''Multimedia services provided for faculty, staff and students at Shapiro''' - David Hytinen (DSS) & Breanna Hamm (Tech Deck)
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*'''Update on library streaming services''' - Jeff Pearson (Askwith Media Library). The library offers a variety of online video resources that instructors and students can use in support of instruction and coursework. This includes an array of streaming databases from Alexander Street Press, of which our most recent acquisition is the New World Cinema collection. We also now have a yearly licensing agreement with Swank Motion Pictures, and will be able to offer streaming of many feature films and mainstream documentaries. This presentation will describe the streaming services offered by the library and how instructors may make streaming requests.
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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 .
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*'''Using Technology to Convey Customer Service Expectations''' - Stephen Griffes and Sanam Arab (Library Operations, Hatcher/Shapiro Access Services). How can you communicate customer service expectations to a wide array of employees, ranging from new temporary student workers to experienced permanent staff?  Sanam Arab, Steve Griffes, and Megan McGlynn researched various options for developing an online training and ultimately decided to create it themselves using Captivate.  The training, which is hosted on the Library webpage, is interactive and engaging, and even includes built-in quizzing at the end.  Entertaining photos of staff are used to demonstrate common customer service scenarios and can be easily updated with new images as staffing changes over time.  Slide information can be quickly adjusted and edited as user needs and service expectations evolve.

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Past events: MLibrary Lightning Talks 2011

[edit] 2012 Summer Edition

Thursday, July 26th
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:

  • E-Textbooks in Engineering Courses - Sara Samuel (AAEL). The engineering librarians, along with the assistance of Natsuko Nicholls, conducted a survey in Fall 2011 to learn if engineering students were aware that their textbook was available through the library as an e-book, and if they were using it and what they thought about it. This talk will share our main findings.
  • Publish, not Perish: Supporting Graduate Students as Aspiring Authors - Barbara Alvarez & Jen Bonnet (GL Reference). This presentation will report on a new workshop offered at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, to help graduate students familiarize themselves with the world of academic publishing and prepare for their role as publishing scholars. A result of a collaboration between RLL liaison librarians and MPublishing, the workshop and its accompanying guide addressed issues that face aspiring authors in today’s publishing environment, and offered practical tips on what to publish, when to publish, how to select journals, how to shape papers/conference presentations into publishable articles, and how to respond to reviewers’ feedback. Given its success, the workshop is planned to be expanded into a series of campus-wide sessions.
  • Two years of COPE – Open Access Funding - Kristina Eden (Copyright Office). Over the last two years the library has funded open access journal articles through COPE (Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity). Maybe you have referred a faculty member to this funding source and would like to know what impact this pilot program has had on campus? We’ll take a look at the publication statistics and responses to our second year survey of program participants.
  • Pancreapedia: building an online pancreatic research community - Bryan Smith (MPublishing). Pancreapedia is a scientific community website designed to expedite research on the pancreas, with the goal of reaching 100% participation of exocrine pancreatic researchers worldwide. During this talk, I will discuss how Pancreapedia came to be, where it is headed, and our approach to building an online research community.
  • The Library’s New Espresso Book Machine - Terri Geitgey (MPublishing). This talk will focus on the new upgraded EBM installed in the library at the end of December. Points covered will include how the EBM works, who can use it, and the types of services we can provide.

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  • Mobile Polling - Megan McGlynn (Library Operations). Have you ever wondered what library users are thinking? Mobile polling gives the opportunity to gather feedback from users in our space, even if they're not in front of a computer. I'll demonstrate polleverywhere.com, give examples of polls we've conducted, and discuss an upcoming conference poster on polling to assess user engagement with digital screens.
  • The CRMS Projects: Putting Books to Rights - Richard Adler (Copyright Office). The HathiTrust Digital Library includes over ten million volumes, but how much access to those volumes will current copyright law allow? That's what the Copyright Review Management System was created to find out. During its first IMLS-funded grant period CRMS examined the copyright status of over 170,000 books published between 1923 and 1963. Now in its second grant period, CRMS continues to review US titles—and also over 150,000 English-language books published in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. This talk will look at the challenge of reviewing such a large number of books and how, when it comes to an old book, some parts of it may be more of a dilemma than others.
  • Adventures with iBooks Author - Jason Colman and Kelly Witchen (MPublishing). iBooks Author is billed as an easy way to create amazing textbooks for the iPad, but the reality is a bit more complicated. MPublishing staff Kelly Witchen and Jason Colman will describe the process of converting SI Professor Chuck Severance's book in iBA, and shed light on some of the program's features and quirks.
  • Update on library streaming services - Jeff Pearson (Askwith Media Library). The library offers a variety of online video resources that instructors and students can use in support of instruction and coursework. This includes an array of streaming databases from Alexander Street Press, of which our most recent acquisition is the New World Cinema collection. We also now have a yearly licensing agreement with Swank Motion Pictures, and will be able to offer streaming of many feature films and mainstream documentaries. This presentation will describe the streaming services offered by the library and how instructors may make streaming requests.
  • Using Technology to Convey Customer Service Expectations - Stephen Griffes and Sanam Arab (Library Operations, Hatcher/Shapiro Access Services). How can you communicate customer service expectations to a wide array of employees, ranging from new temporary student workers to experienced permanent staff? Sanam Arab, Steve Griffes, and Megan McGlynn researched various options for developing an online training and ultimately decided to create it themselves using Captivate. The training, which is hosted on the Library webpage, is interactive and engaging, and even includes built-in quizzing at the end. Entertaining photos of staff are used to demonstrate common customer service scenarios and can be easily updated with new images as staffing changes over time. Slide information can be quickly adjusted and edited as user needs and service expectations evolve.
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