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Banging Our Heads To The Music And On The Walls: First Year Ir Adventures, Michele Gibney, Jaime M. Goldman, Keri Baker
Banging Our Heads To The Music And On The Walls: First Year Ir Adventures, Michele Gibney, Jaime M. Goldman, Keri Baker
Michele Gibney
Creating an Institutional Repository from scratch creates a multitude of both opportunities and pitfalls in establishment of workflow, content creation, outreach and marketing policies, and stakeholder support. Nova Southeastern University’s Digital Commons based repository, NSUWorks, completed its first year in February 2015. During this session, the triumphs and tribulations of the first year will be discussed, along with future plans in order to give attendees a glimpse into one particular IR experience. Archival collection digitization, outreach/marketing, journal/book publishing, reporting tools, and collection development will also be covered. Spotify Playlist.
Information Mavens In Southeast Asia: The Need For Collaboration And Continuing Professional Development, Michele Gibney
Information Mavens In Southeast Asia: The Need For Collaboration And Continuing Professional Development, Michele Gibney
Michele Gibney
The following paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of programs in Southeast Asia that focus on intra-national, regional, and international collaboration efforts and continuing professional development activities. The opportunities and threats to such programs are analyzed as well as their successful and unsuccessful strategies. The author provides a list of personal recommendations for success drawing on proven methods utilized elsewhere. Though the primary focus is on library professionals in Southeast Asian Countries ((Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, the Philippines, Cambodia, and Brunei) some attention is paid to other Asian countries (China and India), as well as two African …
The Role Of Libraries, Librarians, And Information In Society, Michele Gibney
The Role Of Libraries, Librarians, And Information In Society, Michele Gibney
Michele Gibney
In the text Foundations of Library and Information Science by Richard E. Rubin and the online lectures for LIBR 200 at SJSU taught by Deborah Hansen, the history of information and librarianship is detailed and given scope. Some of the major points that the materials cover are: the missions and values of libraries, the beginning of libraries as institutions, librarianship as a profession, and the advent of technology, specifically, the World Wide Web. This paper will summarize these points as they have been detailed in the readings and then examine them from a personal perspective, one by one. Many interesting …