[CODE4LIB] Call for Participation: Survey on Financing of the MLS Education
Dear code4libbers, Apologies for cross posting - I'm trying to get as wide a swath of librarians as possible. If you have it in your heart to help me out I'd greatly appreciate it. Ellen -- Dear Colleagues, You are invited to voluntarily participate in a research project investigating how professional librarians financed their master’s degrees in library and information science. The study seeks to gather this information from librarians (defined as those holding an ALA-accredited master’s degree *whether employed in a professional librarian capacity or not*). Your participation would be greatly appreciated, as would your forwarding of this information to others. The survey should take no longer than 30 minutes to complete. Participation will remain anonymous and no identifying data will be collected. The survey is available athttp://ccwebsrv.usouthal.edu/classclimate/online.php?p=PLUZ7 and will be available until April 15, 2015. This study is approved by the University of South Alabama Institutional Review Board. Sincerely, Ellen K. Wilson Ellen Knowlton Wilson Electronic Resources and Reference Librarian Room 250, Marx Library University of South Alabama 5901 USA Drive North Mobile, AL 36688 (251) 460-6045
Re: [CODE4LIB] College Question!
Hi Riley, My absolute favorite thing about librarianship is that almost everything I have learned has the potential to be useful and I never know what little titbit of knowledge is going to be necessary on any given day. Also, the things I learned in school aren't necessarily the things I need to know - what's really important is that (and yes, this is a cliche) is that I learned how to learn. What systems librarians do today isn't going to be what they'll be doing in 2019 and beyond but a good foundation of knowledge, curiosity about the world, and problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills will keep you adapting to all the changes. Whatever you major in, I recommend getting a broad base within general education. Ideally, you'd have the opportunity to fill those GE requirements with stuff other than just survey courses - for example, a class about science fiction versus American Lit 101. And think about your assumptions about classes. You can think, Ugh, why do I have to take a *sociology *class?! or You know, someday I might work somewhere with a lot of people from different backgrounds. Also, don't toss out those papers, presentations, etc. at the end of the semester because you can assemble them into a portfolio of sorts for future job searches. College tours are going to show you the shiny new stuff on campus - dorms, dining halls, rec centers, etc. Look past that and ask students who their favorite teachers are, etc. What kind of access do they have to their professors? How many classes do they have with full-time faculty? Are there teachers with industry experience? What kind of jobs are available for students on campus? Do they have co-op/internship opportunities for students? In the long run that's more important than whether your dorm room has a double bed or an XL-twin. FWIW, my BA is in geophysics and geochemistry with an applied math minor and I also have my MLS, with about 36 additional graduate credits in miscellaneous stuff. Looking back at college, I wish I had continued my language studies past my first year and done a semester or year of study abroad. Also, a few stints in retail were among the most valuable for my professional development because it helped teach me to professionally interact and communicate with a wide variety of people, including a lot of difficult people. Difficult people are everywhere. Ellen Ellen Knowlton Wilson Electronic Resources Librarian Room 250, Marx Library University of South Alabama 5901 USA Drive North Mobile, AL 36688 (251) 460-6045 On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.com wrote: Want to step in and say thank you, and keep em coming, I enjoy reading about everyone's backgrounds and their journey per se... Riley Childs Student Asst. Head of IT Services Charlotte United Christian Academy (704) 497-2086 RileyChilds.net Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes _
Re: [CODE4LIB] Academic Library Website Question
At my institution, the library's web presence predates the university as a whole's presence. We currently share a server with the main university site but have control over all our content and can make updates without having to go through public relations (thank goodness). Our site is linked from the main university site in at least two places (along the bottom of the main page and within a drop down menu). When eCollege was our LMS, we were also linked from courses by default but it appears that is no longer the case in Sakai, which I suspect was an oversight and not a conscious decision. It strikes me as really strange to have the library that hidden - wouldn't the institution want prospective students, faculty, and administrators to be able to see the resources available? What are peer institutions doing? Ellen Ellen Knowlton Wilson Instructional Services Librarian Room 250, Marx Library University of South Alabama 5901 USA Drive North Mobile, AL 36688 (251) 460-6045 On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Code4Libbers, Slightly odd question for you academic library folks. Why does your library have its website where it is on the university site? For context, the library I currently work at has our library site hidden within the campus intranet/portal, so that students have to log into a web portal to even see the search page. This was a decision by the previous director who was here before my time and an assortment of us librarians think this is a terrible setup. So I wanted to kick out to the greater community to give us good reasons for free to the website to more general access, or help us to understand why you would bury it behind a login like they did. All thoughts, insights, and opinions are welcome, they all help us develop our thinking on this and our arguments for any changes we want to make. Thanks everyone and have a good week. Matt Sherman
Re: [CODE4LIB] A newbie seeking input/suggestions
There was an article on this topic in issue 2 of the code4lib journal - I tried to get it done here but got shot down by systems, but it seems simple and might be what you need: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/45 -- Ellen Knowlton Wilson Instructional Services Librarian Room 250, University Library University of South Alabama 5901 USA Drive North Mobile, AL 36688 (251) 460-6045 Please note new email address: ewil...@southalabama.edu On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Greenspun, Cindy cindy.greens...@yale.eduwrote: Hello - I'm a newbie to this listserv. I'm not a librarian, nor am I a coder. I primarily do systems related work with our library management system, run SQL reports as needed and project management. I also work for Access Services and even though I'm considered IT, I'm not in the library IT department. This is a new position in my department and we're still figuring things out as we go along. I work in one of the many libraries at Yale University. In the department I work in, we have three busy service points - two circulation desks and a privileges/registration office. There are about 50/60 staff members and roughly 50+ student employees who rotate at these service points. There are times when there are students who are late reporting to a service point, no-shows, or suddenly there's a long line and only one person at a staffed service desk. At a meeting recently, I was listening to a work leader lament how, if she is the only person there, she is just too busy to make a phone call or send an email asking for help - a common occurrence. After I heard her, I wondered how possible it would be to create some sort of desktop 'app'. One that requires only one click and is smart enough to know its service desk location and is sent to the right folks who could come assist right away, upon demand. These would be on Windows workstations. Recently, I've seen many encouraging responses to the latest 'getting started...' emails and feel motivated to write to this listserv as I'm eager to learn and to try to do this myself. I hope that this will be a simple enough project for me but I'm just not sure where to start or what I should be looking at. So, here I am, not a librarian, nor a coder. I write to this listserv seeking suggestions, ideas and encouragement. :) Thank you - Cindy
Re: [CODE4LIB] Lib or Libe
The same debate rages about LibGuides. At one conference, Springshare had badge ribbons that said something like Team Lib and Team Libe so you could show your allegiance. That was cute. On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Fleming, Declan dflem...@ucsd.edu wrote: Hi - at the conference, there has been much foment about how to pronounce the end of code4lib. Please go to: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lseCc2gwQUXL6oC8aLB7N8YMRnjsl90SfPHAmX5EA_w/viewform and vote. D -- Ellen Knowlton Wilson Instructional Services Librarian Room 250, University Library University of South Alabama 5901 USA Drive North Mobile, AL 36688 (251) 460-6045 Please note new email address: ewil...@southalabama.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Your Choice URL for Study Room Reservations
I'd be inclined to go with study, since that's the function the users care about. That said, if your students are like ours, they are not going to pay one bit of attention to the name of the link. I'm amazed how many clicks students will go through to get to their university email, for example. Ellen On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Michael Schofield mschofi...@nova.eduwrote: What’s up everyone, We are homegrowing a study room reservation system and we’re within a week of making it live—but still in beta—to the public. Right now, on our staging box, our URI looks like something.library.nova.edu/room-res. /room-res doesn’t mean anything, to me. The public URI will be similarly long, like somethingelse.library.nova.edu/whatever. Any recommendations or experience with your own reservation links? IMHO, it should be simple, since the link is already going to be on the long end. Right now I’m vying for /reservations, but TBH this system is just for public study rooms and not for our larger conference rooms – I’m not sure our primary users [the students and faculty] will care, but we’ll definitely be reminded of that technicality by other librarians J. I don’t like /studyrooms, but it’s the best I’ve got since I’m avoiding hyphens. Just picking your brains. Thanks! Michael Schofield(@nova.edu) | @gollydamn | Front-End Librarian à www.ns4lib.com -- Ellen Knowlton Wilson Instructional Services Librarian Room 250, University Library University of South Alabama 5901 USA Drive North Mobile, AL 36688 (251) 460-6045 Please note new email address: ewil...@southalabama.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Studying the email list (Charcuterie Spectrum)
I'd have to disagree. Clearly, IMHO, seitan is the vegan Seal of No Approval Needed. On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:55 PM, BWS Johnson abesottedphoe...@yahoo.com wrote: Bacon == Seal of Approval Bologna == Seal of Disapproval Salami == Seal of No Approval Needed This has some serious flaws. I'm concerned about the relationships between the desirability of the bespoke seals as they relate to the appeal of the meats themselves. While yea, bacon is nearly universal in its appeal, that one seems on the mark. Alas, bologna as the seal of disapproval might fall a bit short. While one might jump to proffer spam in its place, Hawai'ians quite like spam, leaving us all in a bit of a quandry. Olive loaf, perhaps? And while salame is a most excellent meat, perhaps fois gras more aptly conveys the aboutness of not giving a damn about one's approval or lack thereof. What say you cataloguing mafia? Surely we must honour the aboutness of meat and approval lest we needs OCLC to intervene more often than is strictly necessary in our mortal affairs. I'm vegan now, but having eaten it as a child, may I suggest chicken livers for the Seal of Disapproval? Blech! And, as a vegan, I'd stretch bounds of the Seal of No Approval Needed to tempeh. That seems appropriate. Fwiw... Kevin -- Ellen Knowlton Wilson Instructional Services Librarian Room 250, University Library University of South Alabama 5901 USA Drive North Mobile, AL 36688 (251) 460-6045 Please note new email address: ewil...@southalabama.edu
