June 12, 2008
Spanning the Straits of Business Information: Kresge Library’s Embedded Librarian Program for MAP (Multidisciplinary Action Program) - Presentation and Paper for SLA
Contributed Paper and Presentation at the SLA Annual Conference in Seattle.
Abstract:
Embedded librarian programs have successfully been used to bridge the divide between libraries and distance learners, teaching faculty and lab researchers. The Kresge Business Administration Library (Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan) has created a unique approach to the embedded librarian model by having librarians work directly with in-residence student teams charged with solving ‘real world’ problems through Michigan’s signature action-based learning program, MAP (Multidisciplinary Action Program). With MAP, corporate and nonprofit organizations work with teams of 4-6 students charged with solving a problem or providing recommendations on very specific aspects of the sponsor’s work. This paper will describe the Kresge Library’s support of MAP and other action-based learning programs at the Ross School of Business. Topics will include how we work and communicate with MAP teams, examples of research and reference requests from the students, an assessment of our services, and how this changes the librarian relationships with students in their second year of study. This unique program offers exciting challenge to Kresge librarians, building bridges between the Kresge Library and the students and faculty participating in MAP, as well as between the overwhelming amount of business data, statistics and research available and the world of business practice.
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May 05, 2008
Report to the ProQuest Academic Advisory Board
Meeting with the ProQuest Academic Advisory Board today. As part of the meeting, each of the board members are supposed to come up with a 5-10 minute presentation on the state of affairs in the library world. I am hoping to expand on many of these themes, but here are the slides.
I will talk about this more later (once I am done with my performance evaluations...ugh). But I think it is critical that we do things that are amazing! I know budgets are tight, but this is a goal and a mission that is so critical for libraries to be a school's "competitive advantage."
I will write more later.
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April 28, 2008
IUG Presentations on Milstats (Milstats 101 & 102)
Milstats Presentations given at IUG 2008 in Washington, D.C.
Program Title: Milstats 101: Introduction to Milstats
Program Coordinator: Corey Seeman
Coordinator Institution: Kresge Business Admin Library, University of Michigan
Millennium Statistics is a very powerful tool that enables libraries to create statistical reports with ease. MilStats 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 introduction to Milstats and how libraries can utilize this powerful tool. This session will serve as a introduction to the program and showcase many basic features (with examples) to help people get started.
Program Title: Milstats: 102: Beyond the Basics with Milstats
Millennium Statistics is a very powerful tool that enables libraries to create statistical reports with ease. But it can do more than just count up records. In this presentation, we will look at Milstats beyond the basics and focus on some of the advanced functions that libraries can undertake, including: scheduling reports, working with periodic reports, running collection development queries, projecting budget increases, and fun with SCAT tables. This session will serve as a complement to "Milstats 101" and showcase some more powerful tools available to users.
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IUG Sessions on Funds - Funds (Huh!): What are they good for!
Program Title: Funds (Huh!): What are they good for!
Program Coordinator: Corey Seeman
Coordinator Institution: Kresge Business Administration Library (Univ. of Michigan)
Presented at IUG 2008 in Washington, D.C. (April 2008)
Presentation Slides URL:
Session Description (100 word limit for program publication): Funds are the building blocks of Acquisitions - allowing us to pay for orders and report expenditures. But for many sites, the fund structure lacks the ability to truly capture the information that the library wants and needs. We will explore the role that funds play in Millennium and look at: changing funds, statistical and financial reporting; and matching the funds with the fiscal close method used at your institution. The learning objective is to be able to evaluate your fund structure and use to determine if your existing structure still meets your needs.
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November 04, 2007
Research and Publishing in the Library World: the Academic Perspective
Presentation Title: Research and Publishing in the Library World: the Academic Perspective
Presentation to Michigan Library Association's Annual Conference (Lansing, Michigan, November 7, 2007)
PowerPoint and Handouts at Deep Blue (University of Michigan)
Abstract: Presentation about the publishing environment for academic librarians. The presentation focuses on establishing a workable pace for research, creating multiple iterations of a concept and theme, expanding a renewing topics, focusing writing on lessons learned at work, tracking citations and resources for library authors.
Description: This is the full description of the session: Join a panel discussion on library related research and publishing through the eyes of those involved. Learn what goes on in the development, review, and publishing of library research. Panelists will discuss how to select topics and do quality research, what journal editors look for, what peer reviewers look for and add to the process, and the experiences of a published scholarly researcher and a published action (practical programs) researcher.
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September 27, 2007
Presentations at Eastern Great Lakes IUG Meeting
These are the two presentations at EGL-IUG Meeting at the University of Akron, September 28, 2007.
Fantastic Funds and Rockin' Reports
PDF Slides
PowerPoint Slides
- Corey Seeman, Kresge Business Administration Library, University of Michigan -- We tend to live with the acquisitions system as it is setup vs. how we would like to have it setup. The perception is that making dramatic changes in the system will cause more headaches and heartaches than it is worth. This session intends to provide a understanding of the role that funds and reports play in the Innovative System. Discussed in this session will be topics such as how to better utilize the statistical reporting; matching funds, codes and reports with the desired statistical needs; and matching the fiscal close method in the Millennium System to match the method that is used at your institution.
You Could Look It Up: Using Millennium Statistics
PDF Slides
PowerPoint Slides
- Corey Seeman, Kresge Business Administration Library, University of Michigan --
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. (
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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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March 13, 2007
Innovative Interfaces Academic Library Directors Symposium
For the Innovative Academic Library Directors Symposium, I appeared on the following panel discussion:
The ILS and Discovery-to-Delivery: An Innovative panel of senior managers providing insights into how Innovative's current product lines and development plans provide opportunities for libraries to enhance their user's discovery experience.
Panelists include:
Neil Block, VP Worldwide Sales (Innovative)
Corey Seeman, Kresge Business Administration Library, University of Michigan
This is the presentation topic I came up with: "The ILS and Discovery-to-Delivery: Late Night Thoughts on Silos, Scope, Sodoku and Simplicity"
Really do not have an abstract, but if I did, it would be about how we can promote creativity in the library and use our ILS (catalog) in ways that allow us to easily extend our reach to the patrons. I will try to expand on this theme later.
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October 17, 2006
Eastern Great Lakes IUG -- RSS Feeds and the Web OPAC
Eastern Great Lakes IUG -- RSS Feeds and the Web OPAC
Presentation by Corey Seeman, October 20, 2006
Description: With Release 2006 LE, WebOPAC pages can display RSS feeds in a great variety of formats. In this presentation, the speakers will be discussing some of the ways to use and take advantage of this new feature of the WebOPAC. Also, the presenters will be discussing the new outgoing feeds with the new 2006 Feed Builder product. The presenters will be focusing on both the technology itself and then talk about how RSS can enrich the users experience.
Links to Demo Pages:
Incoming RSS Feeds Page for Federal Reserves Speeches and Research
Incoming RSS Feeds for Best Practices Database
Incoming RSS Feeds page for Medical Industry Intelligence
Questions asked at the session:
How frequently does the Feed Cache?
See user manual page #106909 for more information (this is the link to the manual page on CSDirect). Use the RSS_MIN_TTL WWWOption to set this value.
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