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June 13, 2007
Parable of the Mustard Seed
I have been thinking a great deal about the Indian parable about the Mustard Seed. Our family is facing the end of life and I am trying to remember the comforting thoughts I needed when I was a kid. I lost two grandparents when I was around 10-11 and lost another just before I was married at age 23. I never knew my maternal grandmother as he left the family when my mother was young.
Found this neat page from Plochman's Mustard that includes the religious associations of the mustard seed. The search links are wrong - try this: http://www.google.com/search?q=mustard+buddha. This is a nice version of the story.
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June 03, 2007
Special Libraries Association Paper - Almost an eJournal
This is a contributed paper for the Special Libraries Association meeting in Denver (June 4, 2007):
Title: Almost an eJournal: Using the Library Catalog for Local Hosting and Management of Electronic Periodicals
Abstract: In 2005, the Kresge Business Administration Library at the University of Michigan acquired a new electronic periodical for its collection that had to be locally hosted by the library and was not currently part of any article database. Pressed with a need to present this resource to users in a way that would facilitate and promote use, a plan was developed to create individual records for each issue of this periodical and place them into the library’s public catalog. The article describes the rationale for local hosting of electronic resources, licensing considerations, creating search and discovery opportunities for these items, the creation of library catalog records for the issues, workflow methods and the promotion for this material to the Ross School community. Also discussed will be the ways that this program will be expanded to showcase other resources for the library community.
This is not in the slides...but it was my epiphany while listening to the keynote with Former Vice President Al Gore. He said (paraphrased) that the librarians’ role is to find and "characterize" data/information for the public or our users. In turn, the librarians should "translate" it into the a way to make it accessible by the public. To a simple degree...this is my paper. I will try to get the exact phrasing and put it in the final paper.
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Topics for Discussion (ProQuest Advisory Committee Meeting, May 2007)
Topics for Discussion (ProQuest Advisory Committee Meeting, May 2007)
Participants who are serving on the ProQuest Advisory Board were asked to give their thoughts on a variety of issues related to databases and library resources. These included: Free and fee-based content; Advertising within Paid Databases; Trends in Library Financing and Budgets; Unmet Information Needs; Marketing of Library Services (Academic); Everything Else (Institutional Repositories, Open Access, & ILS). These are some thoughts from the perspective of the Kresge Business Administration Library on these issues.
PowerPoint Slides for the discussion (I may expand this later)
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IUG Presentation - “You Could Look it Up!� - Using Millennium Statistics
This is a presentation that I gave at the Innovative Users Group Conference in San Jose, California (May 14-17, 2007):
Title: “You Could Look it Up!� - Using Millennium Statistics
Abstract: Presentation from the 2007 Innovative Users Group Conference in San Jose, California (May 14-17, 2007). Millennium Statistics is a great tool that helps libraries create a large number of statistical reports with ease. MilStats (as it is known) is available in each Millennium program and offers the ability to save queries, save results, search by different types of records, re-run searches, and export reports easily into Excel or other programs. This session will give an overview of the features and functions of Millennium Statistics and show how to utilize this in your library.
http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/51498
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