(New) Clarkson University Library Director (Michelle L. Young)
Director .. dont offer tenure for that position .. she has an “Evergreen contract”
Director Goal: To set in motion the University Libraries’ transformation towards excelling academic excellence through the implementation of programs, policies and strategies geared towards the innovative vision of libraries in the 20th century.
Notes:
Risk Tolerant
Solicit [...]
Using Resources Wisely – Rich Dreifuss (Geneseo)
OCLC Report on Online Catalogs Catalog Reconstruction (Aleph 500 Cat)
large team
good management support
took 6 months (met every 3 or weeks) – subcommittees did work
used U Albany usability study
book “Benchmarking for Best Practices”
borrowed from U Albany (search options)
Notre Dame (search forms)
Duke (tabs)
MIT (two-way sortable columns)
used a wiki .. collecting ideas, [...]
Flexibility or Standards: Template or Not - can use own language
Pictures – students identify
Access? Assigned or Everyone (Potsdam)
Documents / Pdfs / ppts
Useful to have a basic research guide
Faculty training .. ESF
Citation
Refworks (Endnote?)
Springshare Community – see other people guides (can copy)
Link .. Don’t duplicate content on web
Can create own widgets in Admin – grab code
Encourage starring [...]
Keynote: R. David Lankes – Syracuse
The Mission of Librarians: To Improve Society Through Facilitating Knowledge Creation in their Communities
Screencast: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=760
See Join the Mission – http://www.DavidLankes.org
Serve
Innovate – bring about change
Lead – Librarians are trusted 3rd party source, lead on campus, obligation to say “you can be better”
… global mission .. improvement ..libraries about knowledge not [...]
