Tame The Web » TTW Mailbox http://tametheweb.com Libraries, Technology and People by Michael Stephens Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:37:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Glendale Patrons on Web Site for Library Week http://tametheweb.com/2009/04/30/glendale-patrons-on-web-site-for-library-week/ http://tametheweb.com/2009/04/30/glendale-patrons-on-web-site-for-library-week/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:46:24 +0000 Michael http://tametheweb.com/?p=5164  

Michael Schmidt, Librarian in Adult Reference at Glendale Public Library in Glendale, Arizona, writes:

Just thought I’d pass this your way. I attended your talk at Burton Barr in PHX a while back and when the call for National Library Week projects went out in my library I was thinking [...]]]>  

glendaleMichael Schmidt, Librarian in Adult Reference at Glendale Public Library in Glendale, Arizona, writes:

Just thought I’d pass this your way. I attended your talk at Burton Barr in PHX a while back and when the call for National Library Week projects went out in my library I was thinking about some of the things you talked about. Here’s the result: patron photos and comments on the banner of our homepage. Give it a few secs once it loads. You can click on the banner to see all photos and complete comments. Keep the faith!

http://www.glendaleaz.com/library/

 

]]> http://tametheweb.com/2009/04/30/glendale-patrons-on-web-site-for-library-week/feed/ 2 TTW Mailbox: Ticer’s International Summer School http://tametheweb.com/2009/03/30/ttw-mailbox-ticers-international-summer-school/ http://tametheweb.com/2009/03/30/ttw-mailbox-ticers-international-summer-school/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:53:13 +0000 Michael http://tametheweb.com/?p=5067 From 28 July – 5 August 2009, Ticer’s international summer school “Digital Libraries à la Carte” will be held at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. The programme of this annual event for librarians and publishers is completely renewed. You can pick your choice from a ‘menu’ of seven one-day modules:

Module 1: Strategic Developments and Library [...]]]> From 28 July – 5 August 2009, Ticer’s international summer school “Digital Libraries à la Carte” will be held at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. The programme of this annual event for librarians and publishers is completely renewed. You can pick your choice from a ‘menu’ of seven one-day modules:

  • Module 1: Strategic Developments and Library Management
  • Module 2: Change – Making it Happen in Your Library
  • Module 3: Tomorrow’s Library Leaders
  • Module 4: Integrated Search Solutions Toward Catalogue 2.0
  • Module 5: Institutional Repositories – Preservation and Advocacy
  • Module 6: Libraries and Research Data – Embracing New Content
  • Module 7: Libraries and Collaborative Research Communities

The course website can be found at www.tilburguniversity.nl/ticer/09carte/. Those registering before 1 May 2009, will get a €150 discount.

The course is recommended by LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries), JISC, DEFF (Denmark’s Electronic Research Library), CBU/KUB (the conference of university libraries in Switzerland), Helsinki University Libraries, and NFF (Norwegian Association of Special Libraries).

The course is targeted at library managers/directors, deputy librarians, library middle management, digital library project managers, IT/systems librarians, IT specialists, information specialists, and repository managers from academic, research and special libraries, and at publishers and researchers.

To guarantee an interactive programme, the number of participants is limited, lectures contain an interactive component, experiences can be exchanged via creative coffee sessions, and two modules are workshops with working group sessions.

Some of the subjects covered:

  • The future generation of students and researchers
  • Outsourcing library systems
  • Evidence-based librarianship
  • Strategic marketing
  • Change management
  • Leadership development
  • Integrated search solutions (facetted search, FRBR, mash-up, etc.)
  • eXtensible Catalog, Primo, Summa and VUfind compared
  • Open Access advocacy
  • Preservation and conservation of institutional repositories
  • Does Open Access increase citations?
  • Preservation and curation of research data – the library’s role
  • Research collaboratories and virtual research environments – the library’s role

Course directors are Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard, Deputy Director General, Royal Library, Denmark and Jan Wilkinson, University Librarian and Director at The University of Manchester.

Top speakers will present their views. Below is just a small selection.

  • Amos Lakos, former librarian Rosenfeld Management Library UCLA, won several awards for his work on evidence-based librarianship
  • John Palfrey is co-author of “Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives”
  • Irmgard Boomers, Head User Services at the Dutch national library, will offer a refreshing view on the strategic marketing of libraries
  • Jan Wilkinson, University of Manchester, and Lucy Jeynes, Larch Consulting, have developed several successful change management courses for Ticer and, this year, present a new leadership course as well as the change management course
  • Jørgen Madsen, IT Consultant at The Royal Library in Denmark, is manager of the Ex Libris Primo project at the Royal Library.
  • David Lindahl is a principal investigator for the eXtensible Catalog Project hosted at the University of Rochester, River Campus Libraries
  • Alma Swan, director of Key Perspectives Ltd, is well-known for her research into and work on Open Access
  • Tim Brody, researcher at the University of Southampton and core developer for EPrints.org, is an expert on the impact of Open Access on citation
  • Chuck Humphrey has run a successful data library at the University of Alberta, Canada, since 1992
  • Ken Miller, Associate Director at the UK Data Archive, will lecture on the preservation and curation of research data
  • John T. Butler, Associate University Librarian for IT at the University of Minnesota, has lead virtual community development projects in several disciplines
  • Gary M. Olson, Professor at the University of California, Irvine, has conducted research into computer supported cooperative work for more than two decades

A profound update in just one to seven days?
Then Tilburg is the place to be this summer!

Further information
Ms Jola Prinsen, Manager Ticer
Tilburg University, Library and IT Services
P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 13 466 8310, fax +31 13 466 8383, jola.prinsen@uvt.nl
www.tilburguniversity.nl/ticer/09carte/

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