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October 27, 2008
Skillshare: Gillian Mayman and Nicole Scholtz
Gillian Mayman
To share: Teaching a 3-credit course at the School of Public Health on using Social Technologies for Health Communications which involves prepping for class, reviewing student work, teaching class. / Working on a outreach grant with two Public Health Departments to integrate web 2.0 technologies into their work. This involves giving presentations and teaching classes (and prepping for them), exploring 2.0 solutions to department problems, brainstorming, implementing projects, meeting with the health departments in Flint and Monroe. / Proposing a mini-course to be taught at the School of Public Health in the spring on information resources for graduating students which will involve figuring out what exactly I want to teach and writing up a proposal.
Nicole Scholtz
Some daily work activities that I could share with a colleague are developing workshop materials and lesson plans on data sources and GIS software. Another kind of daily work is working with students and faculty on finding and using data. I do this in the SAND-Central lab in the Graduate Library for at least a few hours a week, and the SAND-North lab in the Art and Architecture building on North Campus for 4 to 8 hours a week, as well as sometimes by email, although the nature of the questions we get is usually best dealt with in person. Other daily work includes updating tutorial content to be current with the versions of software likely to be used by our constituents, and developing content for our blog on various data related topics.
I am interested broadly in two areas. 1. Collection development and department liaison activities of subject specialists or affiliated staff, in any field. I have worked as an Info Resources Reference Specialist with serials and website work, as well as with some circulation and cataloguing functions, so someone doing something different would be preferable. 2. Development and administration of things such as SearchTools, Aleph, Verde, products produced by DLPS, from the more technical (develop/programmer or systems) standpoint.
In the 1st area I am interested in, observing a colleague doing collection development and/or department liaison activities would help me better understand my role as a non-collecting (at least not in terms of traditional bibliographic materials), non-directly-liaising public services librarian, of which there are not many! I would also better understand the relationship between department and subject specialist (or affiliated staff member), which is key to understanding how the library serves its constituents all over campus. I think this would help me better achieve my own goals as a multi-disciplinary public services librarian by allowing me to make more informed decisions about how to collaborate with subject specialists. / In the 2nd area I am interested in, observing development and administration of one of our large sets of data would help me further understand some of the skills needed to handle such large datasets in either open or proprietary systems.
Posted by dueberb at October 27, 2008 09:15 AM
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We've scheduled time to meet for coffee and talk about how we'd like to proceed.
Posted by: gmayman at October 27, 2008 09:36 AM
The instruction Gillian does is very different in structure than what I do. Gillian has multiple sessions in which to produce content, and the students' disciplinary background is (probably) a bit more uniform. I do one-off workshops, and most aren't even course-integrated (although my unit does do some of these). Sometimes we target a specific disciplinary audience, but more often we get a grab bag of people from across disciplines. I plan to observe two of Gillian's class sessions this semester to see more how this difference plays out.
Posted by: nscholtz at November 7, 2008 10:07 AM
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