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March 28, 2008

Forum Coffee Breaks

It's time for a coffee break! This Friday, March 28, at 10am, join your colleagues at Beanster's in the Michigan League for coffee and conversation. There's no agenda, we'll just talk about whatever suits our fancy. Last time around, topics included ebooks, ebook readers, the tech services reorganization, and RDA (Resource Description & Access) aka the new AACR2. So, what's on your mind?

By the way, if you can't make this week's coffee, there will be another one next Friday, April 4, at 9am at Beanster's.

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Deb DeGeorge / Kevin Hawkins

Deb DeGeorge, Rare- and Non-Book Cataloger, TECHNICAL SERVICES
Kevin Hawkins, Electronic Publishing Librarian, SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING OFFICE

Deb: I would like to share both the wonderful materials with which I work, so that more staff are aware that we have such things, and the detail that goes into accurately describing rare materials (both as a representation of cataloging in general, and of rare-books cataloging specifically).

I would like to observe in DLPS, preferably with staff involved in metadata creation.

I would simply like to be part of increasing awareness of the duties of staff outside of my unit, and to show outside staff that cataloging happens for a reason.

Kevin: I oversee SPO's routine publishing operations and develop procedures for ingestion of content from source formats we haven't worked with before. I am prepared to discuss the digital library infrastructure used and developed by SPO, plus our local metadata practices.

I would like to learn more about cataloging, in particular cataloging of serials and electronic resources.

I hope that we can establish a better workflow between SPO and Technical Services for the creation of metadata for SPO content.

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Jennifer Nardine / Catherine Soehner

Catherine Soehner, Director, ART, ARCHITECTURE, SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
Jennifer Nardine, Public Services Librarian, UNDERGRADUATE LIBRARY

Jennifer: Working at the UGL requires flexibility. I spend time designing and delivering instruction sessions, working at the reference desk and in online reference, selecting materials and organizing several special projects. I'd be happy to share any of these with someone if they'd be interested.

I would like to observe someone in administration - the higher up the better. I'd like to get an idea of what is possible to advance towards; what duties are entailed, what skills are needed, what I would no longer do that I do now if I went into administration.

I hope that, by observing someone already in administration, I can a) decide if it's something I'm interested in pursuing and b) tailor my current activities as stepping stones for advancement.

Catherine: I would be able to share any of the following activities with a colleague: Leading and participating in group meetings; Specific skills and personal attributes necessary to guide individuals and groups to success; Juggling a wide variety and number of tasks; Skills necessary to move forward in a library career, such as networking, resume building, interviewing, taking initiative, understanding the culture of an institution, setting goals, etc.

I would like to observe a different reference desk beyond AAEL or Science and I would like to observe an active Ask Us session.

I would hope to clarify similarities and differences to approaching reference services in different library settings. I would hope to create a mentoring relationship with the person observing me.

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Shevon Desai/David Fulmer

David Fulmer, Electronic Access Specialist, TECHNICAL SERVICES
Shevon Desai, Social Sciences/Humanities Librarian, GRADUATE LIBRARY

David: I’m interested in observing the reference desk of the Graduate Library, chat reference etc. I expect to learn more about public services so I can improve our collaboration when helping patrons access e-resources.

Shevon: I would like to become more familiar with the working of the technical services division - any and all aspects. A particular area of interest is the new Electronic Access Unit and how they now deal with outages, along with their other duties.

I hope that I would have a better general understanding of the daily processes that occur in the library. I would hope that I would be able to anticipate correctly which library unit would address particular issues. This would definitely help me in providing better reference services to our patrons in general and more specifically, to faculty members from my department (Comm Studies).

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March 11, 2008

SkillShare Partnerships Formed!

I'm happy to announce that SkillShare partnerships have been formed. Unfortunately we were unable to match everyone who was interested in participating, but we hope to give others the opportunity in the future if the program proves successful.

David Fulmer, Electronic Access Specialist, TECHNICAL SERVICES
Shevon Desai, Social Sciences/Humanities Librarian, GRADUATE LIBRARY

Catherine Soehner, Director, ART, ARCHITECTURE, SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
Jennifer Nardine, Public Services Librarian, UNDERGRADUATE LIBRARY

Deb DeGeorge, Rare- and Non-Book Cataloger, TECHNICAL SERVICES
Kevin Hawkins, Electronic Publishing Librarian, SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING OFFICE

Merle Rosenzweig, InfoPoint Librarian, TAUBMAN MEDICAL LIBRARY
Anna Schnitzer, InfoPoint Librarian, TAUBMAN MEDICAL LIBRARY
Sue Wortman, Women's Studies Librarian, GRADUATE LIBRARY REFERENCE
Sally Lawler, Public Services Librarian, SOCIAL WORK LIBRARY

Karen Downing, Foundations and Grants Librarian, GRADUATE LIBRARY
Margie McKinley, Development Office, MLIBRARY

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Merle Rosenzweig / Anna Schnitzer

Merle: [I’d like learn more about] outreach, teaching various open classes, attending meetings. I would like to get a better understanding of the operations and activities of the Health Sciences Libraries.

Anna: [I’d like to share some of my experiences with] outreach, teaching open classes, attending meetings about disability issues. I’m interested in seeing how this system of SkillShare works and whether it leads to broader understanding of what colleagues do.

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Karen Downing / Margie McKinley

This is a stub.

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