LYRASIS Polite Debate Society - Information Literacy Assessment: What Works? What Doesn't?

During the last Polite Debate Society, we addressed Information literacy from the teaching perspective... How to teach the Hard Stuff. In part 2 of the series, panelists from the information literacy community will spend 90 minutes discussing key issues in information literacy assessment. The teaching landscape for IL librarians continues to evolve rapidly. Assessment strategies used previously in the traditional classroom environment are challenging, if not impossible to implement in an educational setting where we use both the physical and virtual classroom, where technology dictates our approach to teaching so heavily, and where many deal with the pressure cooker of the "one shot" class. Still others are learning what kinds of assessment strategies are most effective in the semester long credit bearing information literacy course. In our Polite Debate Society session, our panel will review and critique some common assessment strategies, discuss what works and what doesn't in a variety of settings, and share ideas for best practices in information literacy assessment.

Date: July 19th, 2013
Time: 1:00-2:30 ET

Host: Russell Palmer

Panelists:

Annemarie Roscello, Associate Professor at Bergen Community College in Paramus
Andrea G. Stanfield, Information Literacy Coordinator at the University of West Georgia.

For more information and to register, click here.

LYRASIS 2nd Friday - Resource Sharing Detective Work: Find it and Get it Using Free and Open Access Resources

The digital word is rapidly changing our approach to resource sharing. Institutional repositories, open access resources, and digitization projects are quickly opening doors to previously inaccessible information.

In this free 90 minute 2nd Friday Series session, Russell Palmer, resource sharing and reference specialist at LYRASIS, will share resources, tips, and tricks to help reference and resource sharing staff find and retrieve scholarly articles, newspapers, archival records, maps and other materials that are sometimes challenging to get into the hands of users.

After this session, attendees will be able to:

• Utilize digital resources more effectively as they pursue challenging reference and resource sharing requests
• Decrease the number of unfilled resource sharing requests
• Understand the scope of digital information available in institutional repositories, open access resources, and digital collections

Presenter:  Russell Palmer

Date:  August 9, 2013
Time:  12:30-2:00 ET

For more information and to register, please click here.

LYRASIS 2nd Friday - Graphic Design for Non-Designers: Design and Branding for Libraries and Cultural Heritage Institutions

It is likely that in your work or personal life, you have been asked to create some communication on paper, on-screen, or in some visual presentation. One problem with this is that the only tools that you are given to complete the task are ones like Microsoft Word or PowerPoint or Publisher, which are not dedicated design tools, but rather fill-in-the-blank approaches to design, where your creativity is limited to what the application provides in a pre-packaged way. Another issue is that in our society, we are typically taught reading, writing, and mathematics, but seldom taught even the most basic visual communication concepts.

In this 1.5 hour overview, John LeMasney, Manager of Educational Technology Training at Princeton University, will offer an overview of the foundation of design principles, free tools for design and illustration, and the basics of branding and visual communication that will lead to creating more effective visual messages.

Host:  Regan Harper
Guest Presenter: John LeMasney, Manager of Educational TechnologyTraining,
Princeton University

Date: July 12, 2013

Time: 12:30- 2:00 ET

For more information and to register, click here.

Evergreen Demo: Interested in the Evergreen Open Source ILS? (Live Online)

New Dates Added!

Evergreen Demo: Interested in the Evergreen Open Source ILS? (Live Online)

Interested in the Evergreen Open Source ILS? Join us for a one hour session about the LYRASIS Evergreen ILS services which include hosting, migration and support and demonstration of the system.

Presenter:  Jennifer Bielewski

12/5/2013  1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST
1/9/2014    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST
2/11/2014  1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST
4/1/2014    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST

Seats available.  For more information and to register, click here.

LYRASIS Member Showcase - Preserving the Photographic Legacy of HBCUs: A Project Funded by the Mellon Foundation

In December 2010, LYRASIS received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to improve the preservation of significant photographic collections held in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Following a survey of the needs of these collections and a Preservation Symposium, ten institutions were selected to receive grants to support preservation demonstration projects, staff training, environmental monitoring, and student internships. The HBCU Photographic Preservation Project has enabled participants to address the needs of their significant at-risk collections ensuring their availability to scholars.

In this session Steve Eberhardt, Project Coordinator, will speak about the structure of the project and the collections involved. Steve received his M.A. in Sociology from Georgia State University in 1993 and has worked on various preservation projects at LYRASIS (formerly SOLINET) since 1994. He served as the Coordinator in the previous Mellon-funded HBCU Photographic Preservation Project.

Host: Regan Harper
Presenter: Steve Eberhardt, Project Coordinator HBCU

Date: Decmeber 5, 2013
Time: 1:00-2:00 ET

For more information and to register, click here.

Digital Collection Road Trip: The Digital Library of Georgia

The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is a portal to over a million digital objects from collections across the state of Georgia, and across the country. As part of GALILEO, Georgia’s statewide virtual library, the DLG collaborates with libraries, archives, museums, and government agencies to provide online access to an ever increasing amount of digitized history. This presentation will provide background on the structure and development of the DLG while highlighting four important and popular collections: Vanishing Georgia, Georgia Government Publications, Georgia Historic Newspapers, and the Civil Rights Digital Library.

Host: Regan Harper
Guest Presenter: Andy L. Carter, Digital Project Archivist

Date: June 20th, 2013
Time: 1:00-2:00 ET.

For more information and to register, click here.

Digital Collection Road Trip - Mountain West Digital Library: Sharing the Digital Collections of a Region

The Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) provides a central search portal to over 700,000 digital resources about Utah, Nevada, Idaho, and Arizona. As a program of the Utah Academic Library Consortium for the last twelve years, MWDL brings together more than 60 partners, including academic libraries, public libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and government agencies to share expertise and resources for digitization, hosting, and aggregated search. As one of the first six service hubs to the Digital Public Library of America, MWDL provides the on-ramp for DPLA participation to memory institutions in the Mountain West. Sandra will talk about how the MWDL network came together and how partners work together across the region. She will also discuss the different perspectives often offered by larger aggregations of digital materials, and increasing open access to digital collections.

Host: Russell Palmer
Presenter: Sandra McIntyre, Program Director, Mountain West Digital Library

Date: Monday, August 26th 2013
Time: 1:00-2:00 ET

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