Here's a guide to our presentations at the conferences prepared by reference intern Katie O'Connor:
UNCG Presenters at NCLA (North Carolina Library Associaton)
Tuesday, October 15
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
LAMS/Leadership Institute with Adair
Cates
Michael Crumpton, UNCG; Adair Cates
The morning will begin with a
workshop on basic emotional intelligence principles as demonstrated in last
year’s NCLA Leadership Institute, by Michael Crumpton. Followed by the
afternoon session with Adair Cates. Adair came into this world with a clear and
forceful intention to fully live her life and share her experience to inspire
others. Her devotion to the passionate life has resulted in an impressive list
of accomplishments: She held teaching positions in several schools from middle
school to college where her enthusiasm and communication skills transformed the
learning experience. Her love of learning prompted her to start her own
business designing and delivering workshops and motivational speeches to
increase satisfaction in work and life. To support her mission to inspire
others to their best lives, she wrote Live With Intention: Ten Steps to
Creating the Life of Your Dreams, a book that prompted Jack Canfield (Chicken
Soup For the Soul) to write, “If you’re ready to create something new in your
life, this book is for you!”
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Stronger Together: Multicultural
Competence - From Ideas to Action
Tiffany Allen, UNC; Kathy Bradshaw, UNCG; Sylvia Sprinkle
Hamlin, Forsyth County; Barbee Oakes & Shayla Herndon-Edmunds, WFU
This workshop will feature library
leaders and Library HR personnel in a conversation around cross cultural competence during the
morning. The panel will share recommendations and answer those tough questions: How do you make
sure your library has a welcoming inclusive presence? What challenges do you face recruiting
talented diverse staff members, what are some of the major hurdles? And what works? In the
afternoon, Shayla will lead us through the GATEKEEPERS series. A “gatekeeper” is defined as any
member who represents the Library through his or her interaction with the community at large.
Enhancing our Community through Inclusion introduces gatekeepers to the meaning and value of diversity,
multiculturalism, and inclusion; enhances participants’ knowledge and understanding of cultural
differences, similarities, and perceptions; and provides tools that help participants effectively engage in
building and maintaining a more diverse and inclusive community.
Wednesday, October 16
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Grumble Theory in the Workplace
Michael Crumpton & Kathy Bradshaw, UNCG
Maslow’s Grumble Theory identifies
for us a pattern of behaviors that is linked to how we can be motivated or not motivated at work as it relates to satisfying individual needs. Human resource professionals
and organizational management can use this theory to create organizational
strategy that supports keeping employees motivated and confident in their
career path. This presentation will discuss the foundations behind Grumble
Theory, provide ideas and suggestions as to how an organization can work with
“grumbles” to help employees meet their next level of needs and thereby improve
their motivation in achieving their workplace goals.
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
How to Sustain Online Projects Once
They Are Launched
Keith Gorman, Jennifer Motszko, Kathelene Smith, &
Curtis Rogers
Examining the development of two
online state literary maps (North Carolina and South Carolina), panel discussants will consider the
challenge of sustaining web based projects. With little original project planning for long-term
support, panelists will discuss how they are seeking to clarify vision and audience, overhaul design, enhance
search functions, and embrace social media. Gorman, Motszko and Smith will focus on
relaunch of the NC Lit Map in October 2012. Whereas, Curtis will demonstrate the newly relaunched SC
Lit Map in September 2013.
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
What I Wish I'd Known Then
Lorrie Russell, High Point Public Library (Facilitator);
Elena Owens, Wake County; Jane Casto & Jody Risacher, Cumberland County; Mike
Crumpton, UNCG
Are you a new manager, or are you
interested in becoming one? Come join us as a panel of seasoned managers share information
they wish they had known when starting in the library field. We will entertain questions on various
topics such as mentoring, staff development, morale and communication issues. Our panelists
will speak for a few moments each from personal experience, and will answer questions from our
attendees dealing with real life situations. Join us for what promises to be a lively discussion about
things we all wish we had known when starting as a new manager!
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Maximizing Your Assets
Sean Mulligan, UNCG
The importance of providing staff
development within a library is often undervalued by administration. Highly functioning staff development
programs, however, can provide effective overall benefits and service within a library. This
presentation will focus on those features of staff development and its benefits. Attendees of this
presentation will gain an increased knowledge about staff development, ways to implement a staff
development program within in a library on a budget, and an understanding of why staff
development should be a critical part of any library that wishes to be successful in maximizing their great
assets, their employees.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
A Collective Voice and Vision:
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Staff Needs Assessment
Anthony Chow, UNCG; Seth Ervin, Tom Cole, Michael Wozniak,
Beatriz Guevara & Bethany Scott, Charlotte Mecklenburg
This presentation will highlight the
needs assessment process that Charlotte Mecklenburg Library underwent starting in the fall 2013
as part of its strategic planning process. The Library tasked a team of twelve staff members who
conducted four focus groups and five open forums with staff across its 20 branches. This presentation has
two goals: 1) We will cover the strategy and best practices of surveying library staff members in a
needs assessment scenario. 2) We will share some of the major issues the staff is facing based on the
results of the analysis.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Behind the Scenes but not Behind the
Times: Career Perspectives in Technical
Services
Anna Craft, (Moderator) & Beth Bernhardt, UNCG, Lisa
Kushner, Forsyth County; Rich Murray, Duke
This discussion of careers in
library technical services will feature a group of panelists with a diverse set
of experiences, including academic
and public library perspectives. Speakers will address the skills needed in their departments, current
and future job prospects in their areas of work, and what technical services departments are
looking for when they hire new people - especially for entry level jobs. Whether you're trying to get
into technical services work or trying to figure out what career options technical services has to
offer, this session is for you.
Thursday, October 17
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
The Academic Liaison: From Resources to Relationships to Reinvention
Richard Moniz & Joe Eshleman, Johnson & Wales; Steve
Cramer, UNCG; Jo Henry, Charlotte Mecklenburg
This panel will explore the
evolution and current practices of liaison collaboration with faculty and administrators. We will discuss best
practices in relationship building, communication strategies, and embedded liaison work and invite
participants to share their own ideas and experiences. We will conclude with a discussion of future
trends in liaison work. Questions discussed include: What are the current core fundamentals of liaison
work and how do they differ from the past? What are the current communication trends and how can
good communication be established? How is embedded liaison work changing the structure
and meaning of academic liaisons?
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Designing the Future: Public Library Community Needs Analysis and Strategic
Planning
Anthony Chow, UNCG; Robert Burgin; Bill Millett; Raye Oldham
& Jennifer Pratt, State Library
The State Library of North Carolina
launched a pilot program involving eight county library systems that standardized the process for
conducting community needs analysis and strategic planning efforts. Three consultants were
asked to develop and implement the process from June 2012-June 2013. Our presentation will share
the results of these eight projects, the process we followed, the summative results of over 4,000
participants - including information needs, preferences for library
services, and their opinion of the
future of libraries - and the respective strategic plans that were developed. Implications for
replication and refinement will be discussed.
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
OCLC Worldshare Management Services:
Ways to Stop Spending Time and Start Investing It
Tim Bucknall, UNCG; Jill Gremmels, Davidson College; Laura
Johnson, Livingstone College; Bobby Wynn, FSU; Andrew Pace, OCLC
With their introduction more than
two years ago, OCLC WorldShare Management Services (WMS) have provided an integrated and
simpler solution for libraries to manage their collections, simplify workflows, and afford more time to
focus on innovation and improving services. Today, more than 100 libraries on three continents — Australia,
Europe and North America—are using OCLC’s cloud-based library management
services. Join WMS community members from North Carolina, who will share why they chose WMS
and the results their staff and users have realized to date. Additionally, OCLC’s Andrew Pace
will present an overview of WMS and a preview of what’s next.
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Looking for Professional Development in All the Wrong Places – Extending Your Professional Development Beyond Librarianship
A. Kathy Bradshaw, UNCG
Most librarians obtain their
professional development from professional librarian associations, but given the increasingly varied professional
responsibilities of today’s librarians, should professional development be limited to library
professional organizations? Membership or activity in non-library related professional organizations
is one way of expanding professional knowledge which not only benefits the individual librarian,
but also the patrons they serve as well as the profession. This interactive session will demonstrate
opportunities for librarians to expand their professional development opportunities as well as
their professional networks.
11:00 AM - 12:00 NOON
Growing Embedded Librarians Like
Kudzu: How a Popular Program Got Out of Hand and the Collaboration That
Saved It
Mark Coltrain & Julie Obst, Central Piedmont CC;
Panelists: Nora Bird, Beth Martin, UNCG
Embedded librarianship is more
popular than ever, students, faculty, and librarians love the program and the direct connection between
curriculum and library resources. But how to libraries keep up with demand? This session will
showcase a joint program between CPCC Libraries and UNCG LIS department, dubbed the Embedded
Extension Service. Its goal was to train graduate interns on CPCC’s program using a distance
model, then provide interns access to actual courses as embedded librarians, expanding the
programs reach as well as providing real world online instruction experience for the interns. This
session will reflect on one semester of the program from all angles.
12:00 NOON - 1:30 PM
Luncheon with Tara Green, Sponsored by REMCO
Tara T. Green is Professor and
Director of African American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she teaches
literature and gender studies courses. In addition to publishing From the Plantation to the Prison:
African American Confinement Literature and Oprah Winfrey, Her Films, and African American
Literature, she is the author of A Fatherless Child: Autobiographical Perspectives of African American
Men, winner of the 2011 National Council for Black Studies Outstanding Scholarship Award. Dr.
Green has presented her work in Africa, England, and the Caribbean, as well as throughout the
United States. She is completing a book manuscript on activism.
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Bridging the Language Barrier in
Public Services: Enhancing Cross Cultural Communication in Academic Libraries
Nataly Blas & Emily Mann, UNCG
Academic libraries nationwide are
looking at ways to serve the needs of their diverse patrons. This program aims to equip academic
librarians working in various public service roles to effectively communicate with diverse patrons, in
particular non-native English speakers. Bridging the Language Barrier in Public Services will
provide an overview of cross-cultural communication, a discussion of cultural and language barriers, and
practical tips to serve the needs of multilingual patrons.
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Stronger Together: Another Look at
Faculty/Librarian Collaboration
Nancy Poole, UNCG
While many case studies have been
conducted on collaboration between librarians and faculty who provide instruction on
Information Literacy, there are few articles exploring the extent of such collaborative efforts on a large
scale. From initial efforts including a pilot survey of reference librarians, open-ended interviews, and
focus/task groups, I have developed a model depicting limiting factors for successful collaboration, and a
taxonomy specific to academic librarians derived from Patricia Montiel-Overall’s extensive work on
school librarianship. I will present brief preliminary findings and then solicit feedback via a short
exercise and discussion with the “participant” audience. This promises to be a lively, informative session.
Friday, October 18
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Three to Get Ready (and Go Live!):
System Migration in Academic and Public Libraries
Mary Jane Conger UNCG; Lisa Kushner, Forsyth County;
Catherine Wilkinson, ASU
Is your library considering a system
migration, in the middle of migrating, or dealing with the aftermath? Hear from three
librarians in all stages of this process. Systems discussed: Innovative Interfaces’ Sierra, OCLC's
WorldShare Management Services, and NC Cardinal's program with Evergreen. Panelists will discuss:
some pros and cons of migrating to an open source system; challenges of preparing problems
occurring once a library goes live on the new system; challenges of migrating to a cloud-based
system; questions of rearranging work flow; evaluating the new system and suggestions for other libraries.
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
The Role of the Librarian in
Supporting Community Engagement and Service Learning
Mary G. Scanlon, WFU; Michael A. Crumpton, UNCG
This presentation discusses the role
of the librarian in supporting community engagement and service learning activities. It will include
definitions of each type of outreach with benefits and learning outcomes, as well as several
successful examples of each.
9:45 AM -10:45 AM
Transforming the Profession: Library
Residents and Fellows Speak
Leatha Miles-Edmonson, Marquette University; Jason Alston,
USC; Nataly Blas, UNCG; Martha A. Parker, U of A; Sojourna Cunningham & Ingrid Ruffin,
UT Knoxville; Jennifer Garrett, NCSU; Cynthia Mari Orozco, LMU
Library residencies and fellowships
serve a dual purpose of not only recruiting and nurturing some of the brightest new librarians but
also serve to strengthen an institution. This panel presentation strives to be a transformational and concise
discussion. Transforming the Profession: Library Residents and Fellows Speak will focus on the
following: applying to fellowships and residencies, uniqueness of fellowships and residencies,
commonalities and differences in the programs, current trends, and the future of positions that develop new
librarians.
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Strengthening Instruction Through
Curriculum Mapping: A Collaborative Strategy for Targeted Teaching
Katy Kavanagh, ECU; Amy Harris Houk, UNCG; Catherine
Tinglestad, Pitt CC; Heidi Buchanan, WCU
A senior capstone class arrives at
the library for instruction. Some students have had multiple sessions with the same librarian. Two
students say, “I’ve never been in the library before!” The professor says, “I just assumed they knew how to do
this already.” Sound familiar? How do librarians ensure that we are offering our instruction
strategically and efficiently, helping students develop information literacy skills throughout their academic
careers? Librarians at four academic institutions will share different methods for curriculum mapping and
make recommendations for completing a similar project at your institution.
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Community College Libraries:
Challenges and Solutions
Nora Bird, UNCG; Suvanida Duangudom & Julia Mielish,
Wake Technical; CC Mary Lane & Monica Young, Guilford Technical CC; Rejeanor Scott,
Edgecombe County CC
Four mini-presentations in one: An
unexpected Solution: connecting to our community with LibGuides; Staff Cohesiveness: a brief
guide to sticking together; Bribing Them with Cookies: faculty-librarian collaboration; Valuing
Community College Libraries.
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Outreach to Faculty in the Digital
Age: Successes and Failures
Steve Cramer, UNCG; Keeley Murray, Alisha Webb, Bonnie Toenniessen, & Anders Selhorst, GTCC; Carl Leak, WSSU; Lynne Bisko, Elon
The Digital Age offers many
challenges and opportunities for Academic Librarians to partner with faculty in developing
information-literate learners. Building relationships with faculty and
developing collaborative initiatives is a vital
task for academic libraries as outlined in Principle 3 of ACRL's Standards for Libraries in Higher
Education, 2011. This panel will present Faculty Outreach successes and challenges from academic
libraries of varied sizes serving institutions with unique populations. Highlights will also address
"best practices" for using specific instructional technologies
(including LibGuides) that effectively enhance
outreach and instructional goals, and developing collaborations that successfully assess Learning
Outcomes.
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Hearing Silent Voices: Connecting to
the Spanish-Speaking Community
Anthony Chow, UNCG; Beatriz Guevara, Charlotte Mecklenburg
The number of North Carolina
residents of Hispanic origin grew by 111% from 2000-2010, by far the fastest growing racial group in the
state and nation. This part of the community, however, does not frequently participate in typical
library community data collection efforts such as surveys, focus groups, or community forums. Our
presentation will discuss this issue and ways in which to approach the community in a culturally
appropriate fashion that will lead to greater participation. A preliminary summary of the Spanish-speaking
patron's information needs will also be presented and our protocol and instrumentation will be made
available to attendees.
UNCG Presenters at SNCA (Society of North Carolina
Archivists)
Friday, October 18
9:00 AM
- 10:15 AM
Women
Veterans Historical Project: Reaching Out to Student Veterans
Beth
Ann Koelsch, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
The
curator of the Women Veterans Historical Project (WVHP) will discuss the
strategies she employs to make her collections relevant to current student
veterans. Although the majority of the
collections in the WVHP are about WWII, Koelsch actively promotes the Project
to student veterans through a variety of initiatives. By building relationships
with these students she has been able encourage the student women veterans to
add their oral histories to the Project.
Her experiences demonstrate ways to combine outreach and collection
development.
9:00 AM
- 10:15 AM
Collaboration for a 21st Century
Archives: Connecting University Archives with the Library’s Information
Technology ProfessionalsErin Lawrimore and Richard Cox, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
New technologies affect the format of records
produced and acquired by archival repositories tasked with documenting society.
This proposal brings together a university archivist and a digital technology
consultant to discuss ways to overcome challenges related to professional
jargon and work practices between archivists and information technologists to
produce a successful collaboration. The two will also discuss specific examples
of archives-IT collaboration at UNCG, focusing on the development of a
born-digital records management system.
10:45
AM – 12:00 PM
Career
Planning 101
Keith
Gorman, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Kathelene McCarty Smith,
University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Jennifer Motszko, University of
North Carolina at Greensboro
With
increasing competition in the job market, new job seekers and those returning
to the job hunt must find ways to stand out above the rest. This session will provide information on
creating a solid cover letter and curriculum vitae/resume to present to
potential employers, as well as preparing for in the interview process. The second half of the session will be
dedicated to one-on-one time with an archival professional who will review your
cover letter/ resume and answer any questions you might have about job
searching. Participants will be asked to
submit a cover letter and resume prior to the session.
UNCG Presenters at Charleston Conference
Thursday, November
7
11:30am
- 12:15pm
Let’s Talk About Streaming:
Providing the Resources that Faculty and Students Request
Jim Davis, President,
Docuseek; Christine Fischer Head
of Acquisitions, UNC Greensboro;
Elizabeth Stanley, National Sales Manager, Bullfrog Films; Amanda Timolat Media Librarian, Baruch College,
CUNY; Michael Waldman, Head,
Collection Management, Baruch College, CUNY
Libraries have always provided videos as part of their
collections, but advances in technology and bandwidth have made it possible now
to offer streaming media. The increased accessibility of streaming, available
on any network computer, from on or off campus, compared to a DVD makes the
decision to seek streaming a no-brainer. Streaming videos however brings a new
set of challenges for librarians: there are few or no licensing standards,
rights ownership is often unclear and bandwidth limitations are some of them.
In this panel we will be presenting the experiences of two academic libraries
and of a streaming video provider.
Baruch College has been providing streaming media since fall 2008, with the advent of a new Film Studies minor. The films requested were feature films, often foreign films, not films easily available in any of the nascent aggregator streaming. We will discuss how we grew from streaming a couple of films a semester to over 50.
You’ll also hear about the experience of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in responding to faculty needs as more courses are offered online and students express a preference for streaming options over viewing DVDs in the classroom or the library. One source of educational content is Docuseek2, which provides educational streaming access to films from such publishers and distributors as Bullfrog Films. Representatives of these two companies will explain the technical side of working with our libraries, and they will discuss the pros and cons of self-hosting versus using third party platforms to stream video. This panel will consider licensing issues, access and security issues, and managing course deadlines. We will also discuss issues around hosting (or not) one’s content and what to consider. We will share what we have learned and some best practices that we have developed.
3:15pm
- 4:00pm
Cost-Per-Use
and the Big Deal: The Right Metric for Cancellation Decisions?Tim Bucknall, Assistant Dean, UNC Greensboro; Kimberly Lutz, Associate Director of Marketing, ITHAKA
The
Carolina Consortium enables academic libraries in North and South Carolina to
use their bulk purchasing power to obtain favorable pricing on a variety of
electronic resources. In 2013 the Carolina Consortium (CC) included roughly 150
community colleges, public universities, and private institutions of higher
learning. Started at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), the
CC has no formal structure and requires no membership fees. Librarians at UNCG
handle the majority of negotiations with publishers and vendors and serve as a
resource for libraries throughout the Carolinas. Through the consortium,
members realize a collective cost avoidance of approximately 240 million
dollars each year. Despite these significant savings, we believe it is
imperative to assess our deals for our members. For the past two years, we have
collected cost-per-use statistics on several big journal packages for
institutions in the CC with an aim of better understanding the value
institutions derive from these deals and to evaluate how well these deals serve
the many different types of colleges and universities within the consortium.
UNCG and several other CC members have used this cost-per-use data as a metric
for determining whether to cancel or renew big deals. In this presentation, we
will discuss trends we uncovered through our CPU analysis. We also explore what
is behind the numbers and how our members balanced the CPU data with other factors
in their decision making. In discussion, we hope to gather information from the
attendees about their own CPU data. Through this presentation, attendees will
be able to place their usage statistics in a broader context and will take away
tools for evaluating the value of their Big Deal packages.
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