Recent Activities (in reverse chronology)
Next Meeting: August 21, 1-2PM, Library West 419:
August 18 meeting rescheduled to August 21 per conflict with LFA meeting.
July 28, 10-11am in Library West 419
July 28, 2008 notes
- West 419 is preferred for a meeting location
- First year postmortem of work in process, work completed or self-sustaining, and next steps
- Discussed VIVO, wikis, blogs (need a class), survey, blog for all minutes, and more, but many people couldn't make it so we will most likely continue this at the next meeting
- Tech Expo at the InfoCommons is coming up
June 3, 10:00-11:30am in the Smathers Conference Room
Lots of people are out right now (ACCURIL, Cornell, Educause). so this meeting will largely be an update and then we'll meet again after ALA.
Updates on campus technology:
Libraries & Campus Tech Projects/Tools:
Others:
Discussion
- Discussion of what worked & didn't for the Expo (i.e. next time needs to be in West during a busier semester time, like the first few weeks of classes)
- Discussion of next steps
- Working on getting the Libraries' work added to pages like the CITT toolbox
- LibGuides policy/setup needed, a potential draft policy is on the LibGuides wiki page.
- Val, Sara, and Winston go to Ithaca June 1-4th for a VIVO training session, and will likely present at the July 10th Cross-divisional meeting (and maybe others after that as needed).
Potential policy draft (based on the blog policy):
Account Creation:
- All LibGuides accounts must be approved by the supervisor for the department and branch (when applicable) in which the account owner works.
- All passwords must be secure, following normal UF guidelines.
- All account creation will be through sys help that lists the account owner's department and branch, and confirms supervisor approval.LibGuides accounts are for full time library staff (for others, please provide additional reasoning in the SysHelp).
- For changes in LibGuides administrators, use a SysHelp and submit the name of the LibGuide(s), the name of the previous administrator, and the name of the new administrator. (Changes may be confirmed with department supervisors. This is to ensure up-to-date account information for coordination and maintenance.)
Comment Moderation:
- Comment moderation is at the discretion of the LibGuides administrators registered by the accounts creation with Systems. They are responsible for both content moderation and comment moderation. They may enable or disable comments. They are responsible for maintaining University Standards.
Coordination: Templates & Shared Guides
Each branch or department will:
- Ensure coordination and maintenance for published guides, with at least one active account assigned for each guide and a method for ensuring updates for collaboratively maintained guides.
- Assign a single person to be a LibGuides liaison, like other Systems Liaisons for the purposes of coordination and support.
- Coordinate with the Library Webmaster to plan and implement centralized guidelines for design and layout that follow the basic design requirements already established. The Library Webmaster will share the plans across the libraries so that innovative ideas and common resources are easily shared throughout the libraries.
April 15, 10-3 in the Smathers Conference Room & 1A (or the hallway if the Read-A-Thon is rained out and in 1A). Full showcase! Expo/Showcase: Stuff to Do
April 9, 10:30-11:30am in the Smathers Conference Room & 1A
Staff Pre-Showcase
This will be our rehearsal/draft presentation for staff at all of the libraries. We'll cover all of the same topics, so we'll need all materials available by now, but this will also be a draft for the full showcase next week. It looks like most of us can make this, but if not please email me. This date is tentative pending our availability. Expo/Showcase: Stuff to Do
March 20, 12:30-1:30pm in the Smathers 1A
LibGuides Brown Bag
Meeting: March 13, 10:30-11:30am in the Smathers Conference Room
Planning the Expo:
March 6, 10:30-11:30am in the Smathers Conference Room
This meeting was meant to plan the
Expo (Defining what to include; Defining what's needed; Where--most likely 1A, but what other areas needed?) but we got LibGuides! Michele and Tom M. came to help clarify the current needs as this all evolves and the meeting centered on what to do to help support LibGuides and the group decided to hold a journal club/brown bag to discuss it with the many folks already using it. Our next meeting will be to plan the expo.
February 21
Went over what we'd accomplished since the last meeting. We were hoping to have some tech infrastructure (wikis, blogs, CMS, LibGuides), but we don't. Laurie emailed Michele to see how to best proceed without those tools and copied the group on it.
Discussion of the expo was lively and we're aiming for April 16 for right now.
Jason sent the Toolbar out to all staff this morning.
February 7
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20080207.doc)
Agenda:
- Chris Sessums coming to the group to speak about Web 2.0 from a library-user perspective (Chris directs the distance learning programs in the College of Education, and his research is on Web 2.0 for teaching and research).
- Discussion of new charge.
- New charge is to plan the showcase/expo event to get patrons interested in what the Libraries have and do and what we could do. We will show all developed tools at this point, but we will have the expo whether or not we have new services to release. This will be this spring, so March or April.
- The larger part of the new charge is to develop subject-based virtual library landing and supplemental pages, working from what Peter McKay has developed for the Business Library to extend that model into one for psychology, education, law, and/or another area. I would think we would work on these areas because we have collection managers/subject specialists from each on the committee. We can choose two or three if that's better, but we need to do at least two and we'll need to have drafts done by early March for director and Collection Management review.
- Set up groups for the subject-based virtual library landing and supplemental pages.
- Group 1: Gender Studies
- Group 2: Education
- Group 3: Expo
- Group 4: Optional additional subject-based group
- Notes:
- Chris Sessums came and spoke and his notes are on his wiki: http://onewisdom.pbwiki.com. He works with distance education and with using technology to connect teachers as professionals, so his work is right in line with what we do. He's a great resource for any of our work, and an excellent speaker for events.
- We spoke briefly about the new assignment and signed up for different groups. We need to set up and plan an expo and make the template for the subject guide virtual libraries and start developing content for them. For the expo, people mentioned the tech showcase and that we could promote our expo at it, and people mentioned the work done by Rochester and the University of Minnesota and how they gave people art supplies and asked them to design the perfect library and others used easels with markers and posted a question and day and the answer to increase knowledge and interaction.
January 31:
Tools page added to Library Website, with toolbar, games, RSS help page, and available to add to new items to as they come up. Additions to the page can be from the group or from anyone in the libraries!
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/tools/
Yay for the toolbar being out (even quietly for a bit before a big release)!
Spring Meeting Times; responses by day/time:
Based on everyone's responses, Thursday mornings are best.
January 24 (Thursday): 10-11am, in Library West room 419 -- please note new location!
Michelle will be attending this meeting and discussing goals for the rest of the Working Group, so the other January 10 meeting was cancelled and the information below may change.
- Goals for rest of Committee time:
- Finish projects in development (this may include writing policies).
- Connect these and/or other Web 2.0 technologies
- To use-cases in and for the Libraries, this may include other committees and groups
- Tom Minton asked if there might be a sort of MyLibrary portal to allow patrons to create a personal library page using GatorLink authentication. This might be something to examine now or after the Libraries are on campus AD so that this could more easily be tested if it does matter.
- To publication and conference options: ACRL 2009, others.
- Involve others: student surveys, staff surveys, events like the showcase or a symposium/exploratorium?
- Everything should do at least two things (presentation becomes a publication; fun technology serves a need and creates a presentation or publication). What areas do we want to target?
- Discussion of what areas to help with Web 2.0 (with an eye toward internal professional development through publications and presentations)
- Specific services/groups: Recruitment? Services? Instruction? Promotion?
- Development/Outreach: Approve/veto adding Library 2.0 components or overall to areas/experts for the speakers bureau and other outreach areas. If approved, who to add and what areas?
- Collaborations: Asking people here who are involved with larger groups how we can collaborate?
- A group of us could write a proposal for this to use two subject areas (two affiliated departments, one science and humanities, or one undergrad and one grad of any type; or however many work for a useful data sample) working with faculty from corresponding academic departments and then use that collaboration to develop better/more/new library services in terms of Web 2.0 services that support the department, the LIbraries, students, faculty, and that serve as a model for this to be extended across UF.
- This could be with VIVO, while it lives outside of this committee, it could be a project to further investigate how to use it to join multiple departments/groups.
- The program is to conduct "activities with the goal of producing a publishable project, web workspace, course offering or other predetermined outcome which is interdisciplinary (or cross-disciplinary) and community
building." We could be info-tech liaisons with two other groups, making a collaborative web workspace that meets current needs, forsees upcoming needs, a paper(s) could come of the collaborative development work, and we could make or revise an existing course based on the collaboration.
January 10 (Thursday): 10-11am, in the Smathers East Conference Room (Smathers, 1st Floor); cancelled
Dec. 10, Monday
Comments/changes were due by 5pm or notification of more time, if needed. No requests were received for additional time, so the Preliminary Report was submitted (
20071210.doc).
Comments/changes on current Library 2.0 page were due 5pm. The page will go to the Resource Navigation Committee for review: Library 2.0 Page. Please note that this page includes toolbars so approval on this page will mean their release--let me know if this isn't good. No requests for additional time, so the page has been sent to the RNC.
Tuesday, December, 4, 10:30-12pm, in the Smathers East Conference Room (Smathers, 1st Floor)
- Agenda from meeting
- Library 2.0 Showcase, postponed until something to show
- Discussed working with others, like NEFLIN, or internally to connect the Web 2.0 work with possible publications
- Maybe present at this? or for ACRL 2009
- Plan January meeting time.
- Set goals for the rest of the Working Group duration (through August 2008).
- Plan student survey (and any others to be done). Survey will be created by subgroups for their topics and then compiled together. Will be sent in early spring semester.
- Reading presentations and watching Web 2.0 Summit videos and using in next steps?
Tuesday, Nov 6, 11-12pm, in the Smathers East Conference Room (Smathers, 1st Floor)
Summary:
Discussed having a Library 2.0 showcase and we will plan on doing that for early February (after ALA) and Marilyn may check with Chris Sessums on him attending/speaking and Missy may check with her superpatron, and we all may start adding other people to subgroups from outside the library now or after the showcase. Showcase may be planned for the Plaza of the Americas; if so, we'll ask Barbara Hood for help in getting a permit and equipment to have electricity, a projector, and computers there.
Discussed adding Library 2.0 components or overall to areas/experts for the speakers bureau and other outreach areas.
Discussed preliminary report and the subgroups will complete their areas and offer overall comments and suggestions for it and we'll finalize it between now and the next meeting.
Discussed spring meeting schedule: do T and R mornings at 10:30am work for everyone or what day and time would be best?
Agenda:
- Schedule a Library 2.0 showcase where we show what we've made and what we're investigating!
- Discusss subreports (due Dec 10): Each subgroup will contribute a modular section on the technology they are investigating. The subreport will define the technology, why it was chosen for investigation, what has been done, what are the next steps? The next steps may be implementation, choosing to pursue another technology, or what else is needed to pursue that technology further (money, programming help?).
- The larger group will also discuss what to include in the larger report for background and for the general roadmap to Library 2.0.
20071105Lib20.doc
- Plan December and January meeting times.
- Firefox sticker applications due Nov 9, do we want to and can we apply?
- Remind Missy to talk about the student who discovered what we're doing...
- Agenda: 20071106Agenda.doc
- Thurs, Oct 4, Meeting:
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- Discussed planning student survey. Each project group will contribute survey questions for the overall survey.
- Went over feedback from the Libraries staff survey: major categories were:
- Want: more email space; blogs; documentation/training
- Receptive: Facebook, Tagging, wikis, toolbars, SL and games
- Confused: toolbar (some thought this would go on the library homepage), UF databases, wikis, SL and games
- Went over group work: what's been done, what's coming up.
- Discussed planning milestones for the subgroups and subreports on development activities and will plan at next meeting, by the end of this semester to share with the Directors of Technical Services and Public Services.
- Planned to discuss sharing information for first milestone via a Library 2.0 showcase. Showcase could be in a brownbag/training course format and would include all projects, resource pages (possible sample page), what to build now so that others can easily follow along and contribute?
- Discussed possibility of Library WebCT course for internal training.
- Libraries staff survey sent and is online here. Survey results are here.
- Groups are basically full and should be setting meetings and planning from there!
- Sent Email Request for Volunteers (text is here)
- Emailed Amy Buhler about working on tagging and toolbar groups after Stephanie mentioned Amy's presentation covered both
- Met on Wed. and group decided to form small groups to investigate different technologies
- First meeting, with homework to define technologies and needs
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