Navigating Collaboration Webinar Series

Navigating Collaboration: A Crash Course in Connecting with the Community
 
On December 2, 1:00 MT/2:00 , tune into the second episode in the Navigating Collaboration webinar  series,  Keys for Partnership , presented by Bob Engeszer, Associate Director Becker Medical Library, Washington University School of Medicine and Susan Centner, Project Director, Missouri Area Health Education Center Digital Library. Log onto https://webmeeting.nih.gov/siobhan  and sign in as a guest. You will need Internet access and a phone.
 
See the archived presentation and resources from the first episode “Definitions” at http://nnlm.gov/mcr/resources/community/collaboration.html
Dana Abbey, MLS
Consumer Health Coordinator
dana.abbey@ucdenver.edu

Collaborate Like You Mean It – Call for Papers

Call for Presentations
Due date: February 12, 2010

  The Colorado Academic Library Consortium Summit planning committee seeks proposals for presentation and poster sessions for the fourth CALC Summit. The Summit will be held at the Sheraton Denver West Hotel (6th Ave & Union) on May 20-21, 2010.
Collaborate Like You Mean It!

We’ve all heard that collaboration is important, but how can academic libraries forge lasting, effective partnerships both within and outside their institutions? What makes some partnerships succeed, and others fail?

Come share your successes, failures, research, and innovative ideas related to academic library collaboration. We’re particularly interested in proposals that address:
• Collaboration to expand library services or improve student success
• Collaboration to develop Web 2.0 applications
• Strategies for building and maintaining partnerships
• Inter-institutional collaboration
• Institutional barriers to collaborative efforts, and how to overcome them
• Assessing the success of collaborative efforts
• Collaboration with non-library partners
Presentation Options:

1. Concurrent Presentations:
A speaker or team of speakers presents for 45 or 75 minutes, with a 15-minute Q&A session after the presentation. Presentations that involve discussion, audience participation, or activities are strongly encouraged.

2. Poster Sessions:
A graphical presentation (paper or digital) of research results, case studies, projects, or ideas. Poster presenters will discuss their work with attendees during the poster session time slot.

Details:
Presentation and poster proposals will be reviewed and competitively selected by a committee of academic librarians.

Proposal Requirements:
• Names and full contact information of presenter(s)
• Title of presentation or digital poster session
• Abstract and brief outline (200 words max)
• Desired presentation length (45 or 75 minutes) or poster session
Submit proposals using this online form:

Proposals are due by February 12, 2010. You’ll be notified about the status of your proposal by March 12, 2010.

For more information visit www.calcweb.org or email jay.devaughn@ccaurora.edu
Sponsored by:
CALC – Colorado Academic Library Consortium
CLiC – Colorado Library Consortium
CoALA – Association of Colorado Libraries – Academic Division

Championing Open Publishing

Be Creative, Determined, and Wise: Open Library Publishing and the Global South
By Matthew Baker
COMPUTERS IN LIBRARIES, Nov/Dec 2009

“Libraries throughout the world are increasingly involved in the production of scholarly publications. Much of this has been thanks to the growth of open access (OA) publishing in all its forms, from peer-reviewed “gold” journals to “green” self-archiving, and electronic theses and dissertation (ETD) repositories. As a result, more and more of the world’s scientific, medical, and scholarly research is freely available online. Libraries’ quickly evolving capacity as OA publishers holds great promise for students, teachers, and researchers—not to mention farmers, entrepreneurs, and civil society groups—in developing regions of the world. The vast majority of research is still produced and used in a handful of economically powerful countries. This disparity of access to knowledge is slowly being corrected, at least in some disciplines, thanks in no small part to the work and advocacy of librarians.”

Institutional Repository Partnership Webinar

The Potential of Partnerships: Dissolving Silos for a Successful IR Implementation
Presenter: Marilyn Billings
Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 2:00pm EST
 
“This webinar will use the University of Massachusetts’ institutional repository as a case study to explore how the new digital repository service has affected the way librarians envision our place in the future of the academy, how the academy is changing its view of the library’s role, new tools and skills that we are developing to fulfill this service, and new partnerships that we have created and fostered to exploit this new vision. We hope to foster discussion and provide insights and opportunities for further exploration of how the role of libraries as publishers enables us to be key partners in the creation, dissemination, and archiving of academic scholarship.,,
 
Marilyn Billings is the Scholarly Communication & Special Initiatives
Librarian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.”
 
To register see:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/index.cfm

A “Beginner’s Mind” Look at Open Source in Libraries

“Open Source Newbie Tells all” by Kate Sheehan

Kate Sheehan is creating an interesting blog journal in ALA TechSource, exploring the “Beginner’s Mind” of a librarian delving into an array of open source software products.  She says, “In the spirit of Beginner’s Mind (and also in the spirit of hilariously wrong technology predictions), I’m going to post my current observations about libraries and OSS.”  Kate intends to continue to record her observations as her consortium launches an Evergreen Integrated Library Systems installation. 

As another open source newbie, in my case launching a Koha installation for 30 plus libraries in December, I find much to identify with in her comments.  Check out her blog and her observations such as this one, “As a casual observer of the library open source movement, I think the initial nervousness expressed by many librarians has subsided. So too, has the “gee whiz” enthusiasm, replaced by a more mellow excitement and commitment to the work of promoting, creating, and maintaining open source solutions for libraries.”

Valerie Horton

United We Stand

Check out the following article: Kenney, Brian. 2009. “United We Stand.” School Library Journal 55, no. 6: 11.

“Abstract:  All libraries in a community are interconnected, and if library users are unable to access the services of one particular library, then the other libraries in that community will inevitably have to take the strain. Jim Rettig, president of the American Library Association, describes this interconnectedness as the “library ecosystem,” and notes that all types of libraries must come together and advocate with a unified voice to survive and thrive in the modern world. Rettig’s plan for libraries to develop statewide coalitions that will advocate for all types of libraries is discussed.”

Museum Computer Network Conference focus on Library Collaboration

Museum Information, Museum Efficiency: Doing More with Less!

37th Annual MCN Conference
November 11th -14th, 2009
Doubletree Hotel – Lloyd Center, Portland, Oregon
Online registration for MCN 2009 open now!

Programs include:

• Digital Convergence: Archives, Libraries, and Museums
• Using Open Source Software in an Era of Tight Budgets
• Tweets to Sweeten Collaborations for Archives, Libraries, and Museums
• Libraries, Archives, and Museums: From Collaboration to Convergence
• Institutional Collaborations across the Digital Divide: The Vogel 50×50 Web Site as a Model for Digital Collection Presentation

Nova Scotia: Borrow Anywhere, Return Anywhere

  “Borrow Anywhere, Return Anywhere” backed by provincial role in library funding
Norman Oder — Library Journal, 10/23/2009

Exerpt:  “In an unusual partnership called “Borrow Anywhere, Return Anywhere,” all public, college, and university libraries in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, will lend all their materials to any library card-holder in the province, with no additional fees.”

Open Internet – Must See Video!

The unfettered Internet is the perfect tool for promoting collaboration.  Plus the Internet provides a platform for building communities, helping people, sharing information, spreading  ideas, and creating wild, unexpected,  and wonderful things.   Share this well-made video with others!
  http://www.librarystuff.net/2009/10/25/open-internet/

Valerie Horton

ALCTS 2010 Outstanding Collaboration Citation Award Nominations

“This award recognizes and encourages collaborative problem-solving efforts in the areas of acquisition, access, management, preservation or archiving of library materials. It recognizes actions, services or products that improve and benefit the providing and managing of library collections.  The citation may be presented to two or more individuals or groups who have participated jointly in an appropriate achievement. Accomplishments that expose problems may be as valuable as successes. The citation will be presented in a year when an achievement of merit has occurred.  Recognized forms of collaboration must be between library personnel and other individuals or such groups  as publishers, vendors, cultural organizations, government agencies, philanthropic organizations and the like. Results of a collaborative effort must demonstrate advancement in collection management or technical services working environments.