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Database Maintenance From The Central Catalog To Your Local System, Leigh Ann Duncan, Erin Kilkenny
Database Maintenance From The Central Catalog To Your Local System, Leigh Ann Duncan, Erin Kilkenny
University Libraries' Staff Publications
As we start to anticipate next year's ILS Migration, one thing is certain: Clean data will make the migration easier--at the local and consortium levels. This presentation will provide ideas and resources to help institutions start or accelerate database and system maintenance in preparation for migration. Erin Kilkenny will discuss OhioLINK's database maintenance projects in the Central Catalog and highlight resources available via Ostaff. Leigh Duncan will share ideas for streamlining codes and data within your Sierra system.
Remember: Building Displays To Promote A Prominent Collection In The Community, Heather Back, Beth Anderson
Remember: Building Displays To Promote A Prominent Collection In The Community, Heather Back, Beth Anderson
University Libraries' Staff Publications
Poster presentation discussing some of the Wright State University Libraries' displays and programs to educate and mark Holocaust Remembrance Month.
Navigating The News: Responsible News Consumption Through Media Literacy, Mandy Shannon
Navigating The News: Responsible News Consumption Through Media Literacy, Mandy Shannon
University Libraries' Staff Publications
This presentation was prepared by Mandy Shannon for the annual Friends of the Libraries Luncheon. It focuses on seeking to hone skills of information literacy as it has become increasingly important with the prevalence of misinformation in the age of information.
Refreshing Your Sierra System, Leigh Ann Duncan
Refreshing Your Sierra System, Leigh Ann Duncan
University Libraries' Staff Publications
Although our Sierra system runs well day to day, looking closely at usage trends helped us determine what areas needed extra attention and where we could improve customer service (new circulation notices!). For our mature system, examining the major tables that run Sierra's circulation system—branches, item types, patron types, notice texts—was particularly important as our Library use has changed over the years. This program will share strategies for examining and streamlining system tables, and implementing circulation notices using print templates.
Shrink Your Sierra System, Leigh Ann Duncan
Shrink Your Sierra System, Leigh Ann Duncan
University Libraries' Staff Publications
Although our Sierra system runs well, periodic maintenance helps us recognize trends that determine when to grow and when to shrink our system. Changes on campus and in our community indicated it was time to closely examine our coding structure and do some cleanup. This presentation discusses ways to find and safely remove outdated patron types, item types, and other codes.
Library Use By College, Leigh Ann Duncan
Library Use By College, Leigh Ann Duncan
University Libraries' Staff Publications
Using Sierra and other library systems, we prepared reports for each of the colleges at Wright State University to show how they are using library services. This presentation demonstrates how to tie patron records to colleges and how to pull usage data based on college affiliation.
Exhibits In Libraries And Archives: The Nuts And Bolts, Bill Stolz
Exhibits In Libraries And Archives: The Nuts And Bolts, Bill Stolz
University Libraries' Staff Publications
You have an exhibit theme, photographs selected, and an opening date, now you just need to plan and build the actual exhibit. This can be a daunting challenge for the first-time exhibit builder, but there is hope. With a little patience, proper equipment, and supplies, an exhibit can take shape and provide another avenue to promote your collections.
Student Research Skills: Challenges, Myths, And Solutions, Mandy Shannon
Student Research Skills: Challenges, Myths, And Solutions, Mandy Shannon
University Libraries' Staff Publications
This is a presentation prepared by Mandy Shannon to discuss the Research Toolkit as a means to address various challenges to students on campus. It discusses the strengths of the toolkit, and shows data supporting its usage.
Preservation Perspectives: Exhibits In Libraries And Archives, Bill Stolz
Preservation Perspectives: Exhibits In Libraries And Archives, Bill Stolz
University Libraries' Staff Publications
Exhibits are wonderful tools for highlighting your collections and connecting with the community you serve. They also enable potential collaborations between donors, departments, authors, and community organizations. The exhibits themselves can be big or small, temporary or permanent—it is the content that matters.
Preservation Perspectives: The Disaster Plan, Bill Stolz
Preservation Perspectives: The Disaster Plan, Bill Stolz
University Libraries' Staff Publications
The winter and spring of 2018 certainly delivered a reminder to librarians and archivists about potential weather-related disasters in the workplace, and within our home collections. My last column focused on practical tips to prepare for and handle emergencies. Now we will focus on creating a disaster plan. If your institution does not have a plan in place, or if the plan has not been updated in three or more years, this is an excellent time to get to work.
University Libraries Materials Budget: Spring 2018, Sue Polanka, Karen Wilhoit
University Libraries Materials Budget: Spring 2018, Sue Polanka, Karen Wilhoit
University Libraries' Staff Publications
The University Libraries’ mission is to provide exceptional research services and resources to facilitate faculty and student success. We strive to uphold this mission in all we do. Our budget remains a challenge however, and limits our ability to provide exceptional resources. The Libraries’ materials budget has been flat or reduced every year since 2009. During that time, journal prices have increased an average of 5% to 6% per year, and book prices have increased an average of 1% to 2% per year. Because our budget has not kept pace with inflation, we have been forced to cancel over 800 …
Preservation Perspectives: Disaster Planning, Bill Stolz
Preservation Perspectives: Disaster Planning, Bill Stolz
University Libraries' Staff Publications
Summer is here, bringing the potential for storms, heavy rain, flooding, high winds, and more. However, it is not only summer storms we must be concerned with, as disaster can strike at any time, caused by Mother Nature or by humans – think plumbing or electrical problems. In any event, we as archivists, librarians, and home historians should be ready for any type of disaster by being prepared and having a plan. Today we will focus on preparing for a disaster at home or in the office. Next time we will explore the disaster plan itself.
Integrating Your Sources: A Presentation For Biostar Students, Holly A. Jackson, Jill Tussing
Integrating Your Sources: A Presentation For Biostar Students, Holly A. Jackson, Jill Tussing
University Libraries' Staff Publications
You've searched for articles and books and you have a list of sources that are on your topic. Now how are you supposed to use them in your paper? In this workshop, staff from the Writing Center and a librarian take you through the process of integrating those sources in your paper. Learn how to quote and paraphrase while avoiding plagiarism and keeping your voice the focus of your paper.
Preservation Perspectives: The Magic Of Outreach, Bill Stolz
Preservation Perspectives: The Magic Of Outreach, Bill Stolz
University Libraries' Staff Publications
The article discusses the importance of outreach programs among collectors and archivists. It mentions the hurdles of being a collector as his collection is often kept and that the challenge is in raising awareness. It adds that outreach is a tool where collectors and archivists can promote, protect and connect the community to one's collection and archive.
Google Like A Pro!, 2017, Mandy Shannon
Google Like A Pro!, 2017, Mandy Shannon
Instruction & Research Services Workshops
Do you love Google, but hate filtering through millions of results to find the type of information you need? Learn some of the tips and tricks of the information pros for how to make your use of Google more efficient for your information needs.
Stop Searching And Start Finding: Effective Search Strategies, 2017, Mandy Shannon
Stop Searching And Start Finding: Effective Search Strategies, 2017, Mandy Shannon
Instruction & Research Services Workshops
Sorting through different information sources can be stressful. You've heard that using the library databases give you better results, but how do you find them? With the help of Jimmy Fallon and Jonah Hill, we’ll explore how to search the databases to find better results faster and easier.
Preservation Perspectives: New Year & New Goals, Bill Stolz
Preservation Perspectives: New Year & New Goals, Bill Stolz
University Libraries' Staff Publications
The article discusses the importance of making realistic goals for 2017 such as reappraising existing archival library collections, addressing preservation concerns and creating new or updated finding aids for easier accessibility of collections. It offers information on the basic questions needed to be asked in reviewing collections such as the appropriateness of collection to policy and scope, adequacy of storage location and its types of formats.
Academic Librarians’ Attitudes About Civic-Mindedness And Service Learning, Maureen Barry, Laura A. Lowe, Sarah E. Twill
Academic Librarians’ Attitudes About Civic-Mindedness And Service Learning, Maureen Barry, Laura A. Lowe, Sarah E. Twill
University Libraries' Staff Publications
Although discourse on the civic engagement of libraries as institutions is plentiful, there has been little discussion of librarians as individuals. Librarianship is more than being a trustee of information. It includes responsibility for the common good. Libraries provide tools for education on social and political issues, but they can also collaborate in activities that improve well-being in their communities. Participating in service learning is one way that librarians on academic campuses can get involved. This study used a standardized scale to measure civic-mindedness among academic librarians and examine characteristics and activities, including service learning, related to variation in its …
Leveraging Youtube For Storage Management And Accessibility, Jane S. Wildermuth, Elisabeth R. Shook, Andrew Harris
Leveraging Youtube For Storage Management And Accessibility, Jane S. Wildermuth, Elisabeth R. Shook, Andrew Harris
University Libraries' Staff Publications
In an effort to improve the users’ experience when accessing our institutional repository, we decided to add closed captioning to all videos. We investigated a number of options such as local streaming servers and vended products, but could not find one that could meet our needs in terms of accessibility, compatibility with our repository platform, and easy of storage and management of videos. We then decided to test YouTube as a possible solution. We were pleased to learn that YouTube had auto closed captioning/transcription, a method of merging previously transcribed text with videos posted in YouTube, and an easy method …
The Write Time To Collaborate: Strengthening The Ties Between The Library And Writing Center, Holly A. Jackson
The Write Time To Collaborate: Strengthening The Ties Between The Library And Writing Center, Holly A. Jackson
University Libraries' Staff Publications
Poster highlights the successful relationship between the Wright State University Libraries and the WSU Writing Center.
User-Focused Redesign: Using Survey And Usability Data To Redesign A Library Website, Leigh Ann Duncan, Mary Lou Baker Jones, Jane S. Wildermuth
User-Focused Redesign: Using Survey And Usability Data To Redesign A Library Website, Leigh Ann Duncan, Mary Lou Baker Jones, Jane S. Wildermuth
University Libraries' Staff Publications
Are library websites meeting our users’ needs? Usability testing is one way to answer this question. Panelists will share the planning process and usability testing method employed for the redesign of an academic library website. Observations, video clips from the tests, and practical application of the findings will be shared.
Circulation Rules, Leigh Ann Duncan
Circulation Rules, Leigh Ann Duncan
University Libraries' Staff Publications
Circulation policies need be updated as library collections expand and change. This presentation will suggest reports to run, comparisons to make, and tables to be familiar with in order ensure your circulation policies are in step with your library collections. We’ll examine specific circulation parameters such as the Loan Rule Determiner Table, Patron Blocks, and Loan Rules. We’ll also discuss how Create Lists and Statistical Reports can identify problematic areas in your item record coding.
Preservation Perspectives: Continuing Education, Bill Stolz
Preservation Perspectives: Continuing Education, Bill Stolz
University Libraries' Staff Publications
The author encourages public librarian in Kentucky to attend one-day conferences focused on archives, preservation, and historical research. Topics discussed include this year's spring conference offered by Kentucky Council on Archives (KCA) with the theme "If These Walls Could Talk: Exploring and Managing Facilities in Archives" and the 32nd Kentucky Archives Institute on June 17 with genealogist J. Mark Lowe's speaking on early Kentucky courts.
Our Rich History: Covington Ladies Home Celebrating 130th Year, Serving Senior Women With Quality Care, Bill Stolz
Our Rich History: Covington Ladies Home Celebrating 130th Year, Serving Senior Women With Quality Care, Bill Stolz
University Libraries' Staff Publications
2016 marks the 130th year of operation for the Covington Ladies Home located at 702 Garrard Street in the Licking Riverside Historic District. The organization, originally called the Home for Aged and Indigent Women (still visible in the stone above the main entrance today), was founded in 1886 by Covington resident Ellen B. Dietrick, an early advocate for equality and education for women, with the goal of providing care for women over the age of 60. Today, 130 years later, the mission of the Covington Ladies Home is the same, “to serve senior women, regardless of their economic circumstances, by …
Preservation Perspectives: Family Photographs Part Ii - Labeling And Preservation, Bill Stolz
Preservation Perspectives: Family Photographs Part Ii - Labeling And Preservation, Bill Stolz
University Libraries' Staff Publications
The article offers tips for preserving family photographs for the next generation. Tips include finding a space where humidity and temperature remain constant and away from the light, contacting an expert when in doubt about photograph preservation and purchasing photograph storage supplies and enclosures from reputable national suppliers like Gaylord Archival and Hollinger Metal Edge.
Librarians In The Midst: Improving Student Research Through Collaborative Instruction, Mandy Shannon, Vaughn Shannon
Librarians In The Midst: Improving Student Research Through Collaborative Instruction, Mandy Shannon, Vaughn Shannon
University Libraries' Staff Publications
We test whether and how well the presence of an embedded librarian improves the quality of student research. Students in introductory-level courses tend to have very low levels of research skills and experience. Though faculty are frustrated by this lack of skills, both students and faculty tend to have only a peripheral knowledge of the role librarians can play in helping develop their research skills. Studies suggest that embedding librarians into course instruction is the preferred method for improving students’ research skills, yet the political science teaching and learning literature rarely addresses this issue, or focus on single class experiences, …
Collaborating For Student Success: An E-Mail Survey Of U.S. Libraries And Writing Centers, Holly A. Jackson
Collaborating For Student Success: An E-Mail Survey Of U.S. Libraries And Writing Centers, Holly A. Jackson
University Libraries' Staff Publications
After re-starting a collaborative partnership between the library and writing center at wright state university, the librarians and writing center staff involved wanted to compare data with other existing collaborations. With a limited amount of data available in current literature, they conducted an e-mail survey of librarians, writing center staff, and writing tutoring services staff from across the country. This survey found that the majority of participants had a writing center on campus and that around two-thirds of respondents had an existing partnership. The scope of these collaborations varied and many commented on a need for more communication, planning, and …
Preservation Perspectives: Family Photographs, Part I-Identification, Bill Stolz
Preservation Perspectives: Family Photographs, Part I-Identification, Bill Stolz
University Libraries' Staff Publications
The author opines on identification of photographs. Topics discussed include identifying the type of photographs through the online chart by The Northeast Document Conservation Center, scanning and email the image to family members, and noticing clothing, hats, and hair, and checking the background and objects in the photograph.
Dunbar Library Building Use Study, Mandy Shannon, Donna Bobb, Phil Flynn, Sue Polanka, Matthew Shreffler, Bette S. Sydelko
Dunbar Library Building Use Study, Mandy Shannon, Donna Bobb, Phil Flynn, Sue Polanka, Matthew Shreffler, Bette S. Sydelko
University Libraries' Staff Publications
The Dunbar Library Building Use Report is a comprehensive examination of the ways the building is used and the changes that are necessary to accommodate the evolving needs of students, faculty, and staff.
Reap What You Sow: Connecting Library Service Data To University Learning Outcomes, Mandy Shannon, Sue Polanka, Jason Lipiec
Reap What You Sow: Connecting Library Service Data To University Learning Outcomes, Mandy Shannon, Sue Polanka, Jason Lipiec
University Libraries' Staff Publications
Discover an innovative homegrown product for recording all reference, instruction, and collegial activities. This tool maps activities to university learning outcomes and generates reports to communicate the library’s value to campus stakeholders. Learn about how this product was developed, its use, and how one department has responded to it.