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Upcoming ARLD meeting – Thursday, September 10th

Vote on Name Change at September 10 Business Meeting

ARLD will hold a vote during our September 10 business meeting to change our name from the Academic and Research Libraries Division to ACRL Maryland Chapter.  This name change will better reflect our status as the state chapter of ACRL.  All members are encouraged to attend and cast their vote.

The meeting will be held on September 10 from 1-3pm at the UMBC library in room 353G.

Directions to the campus may be found here: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/directions/

You may also request a parking pass by contacting Katy Sullivan at Sullivan@umbc.edu. Please provide her with your home address.  All parking pass requests should be made by September 1.

What Do Faculty and Students Want/Need from Librarians?

You can find out at Capitol College on September 18.  The Academic and Research Libraries Division of MLA is sponsoring two programs – one in the morning and one in the afternoon – to explore questions surrounding what faculty and students want and need from academic libraries.

Morning Program: What Faculty Want/What Students Need
September 18, 2009
9:30 – 1:30 (lunch included) 2.5 contact hours
Capitol College, Avrum Gudelsky Auditorium
Cost: MLA Members $65, Non-Members $90, Students $57.50
Speakers:
Susan Strasser: Professor of History, University of Delaware
Judi Briden: Digital Librarian for Public Services and Brain & Cognitive Sciences Librarian, Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester

Join the Academic and Research Libraries Division of MLA on September 18 at Capitol College for a discussion on what faculty and students expect and need from academic libraries.

Prof. Susan Strasser will begin the day with a provocative presentation of what faculty want from academic librarians and stimulate discussion by offering her perspective as a faculty member.  Dr. Strasser is a popular speaker on the “Faculty Point of View” at the prestigious Frye Leadership Institute.  She has taught at Bard, Princeton and George Washington University as well as the University of Delaware, she has won numerous awards, and she has been the Senior Resident Scholar at the Hagley Museum and Library for many years.

Dr. Strasser will be followed by a presentation on the needs of an academic library’s other main constituent: students.  While many have  opinions about what students need from libraries, librarians at the University of Rochester conducted ethnographic research with their own students to find out. They looked at how their students did their work in the context of the university. Judi Briden discusses how the research was conducted, what they learned, and changes they’ve made to improve services and facilities to better meet students’ needs.

Afternoon Program: What Do Your Students Need? Do-It-Yourself Ethnographic Research for Libraries
September 18, 2009
2:00 – 3:30, 1.5 Contact Hours
Cost: MLA members $30, Non-members $45, Students $25
Capitol College
Presenter:
Judi Briden: Digital Librarian for Public Services and Brain & Cognitive Sciences Librarian, Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester

Learning about what students generally need is all well and good, but we all know that each campus is unique.  What you really want to know is what problems your students are facing and what your students need. In this session, Judi Briden will discuss in detail several ethnographic research techniques that were used at the University of Rochester Libraries. Attendees will have an opportunity to model some of these during the session. You can then take these techniques back to your home campus and use them to assess your own students and services.
[Note: due to the hands-on nature of this session only, it will be limited to 20 participants. The morning session is not limited]

Directions: http://www.capitol-college.edu/visit-campus/directions-campus

Registration:

You may register for either one or both programs.  To register, please complete the registration form at

https://www.mdlib.org/happenings/register.asp

You can submit the form online, or print it out and mail the form to the Maryland Library Association.
Please remember to be clear about the program(s) for which you are registering.

Susan Strasser, Professor of History at the University of Delaware, has been praised by the New Yorker for “retrieving what history discards: the taken-for-granted minutiae of everyday life.”  Her books include Never Done: A History of American Housework (1982), which won the Sierra Prize of the Western Association of Women Historians; Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market (1989); and Waste and Want:  A Social History of Trash (1999), winner of the Abel Wolman Award from the Public Works Historical Society.  She studied at Reed College and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and has also taught at The Evergreen State College, Princeton University, George Washington University, and the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture.  Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Rockefeller and Guggenheim foundations, the German Historical Institute, the Harvard Business School, the American Council of Learned Societies, Radcliffe College’s Bunting Institute, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Cultures of Consumption Programme, Birkbeck College, University of London. She is currently working on A Historical Herbal, an account of medicinal herbs in American culture.

Upcoming meeting – August 4th

ARLD will hold their next meeting on August 4, from 1-3 pm. We will be meeting at the UMBC library in conference room – 353G in the Library’s Administration office.

Directions to the campus may be found here: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/directions/.

Agenda items for the meeting include:

• Voting on changing the name of the division from ARLD to ACRL MD Chapter
• Progress reports and perhaps brainstorming on program ideas for ARLD’s spring program and the 2010 MLA Conference
• Promoting the Sept 18 program (http://arldmla.wiki.zoho.com/Meetings-and-Events-Schedule.html)
• At the end of the meeting Shu Qian will provide a short presentation on the interactive learning space at UMBC that includes an interactive wiimote whiteboard. A short tour of the space will follow.

Snacks and drinks will be provided.

If you would like a parking pass for free parking please send an email to Katy Sullivan at sullivan@umbc.edu with your home mailing address. Home addresses are requested as several people did not receive their passes in time due to hang ups in campus mail systems. Please send your request by July 28 to allow time for the pass to be mailed to you prior to the meeting.

ARLD Meeting July 7 1-3pm

ARLD will hold their next meeting on Tuesday, July 7 from 1-3 pm.  We will be meeting at the UMBC library in conference room – 353G in the Library’s Administration office.

Directions to the campus may be found here: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/directions/

Attendees can request a parking pass that lets them park at any meter.
In order to receive a parking pass please email Katy Sullivan (sullivan@umbc.edu) with your address (home address preferred) and a parking pass will be mailed to you.  The woman who handles the parking permits is going to be out in early July, so the earlier you can request one the better.

Agenda items for the meeting include:

• The introduction of the new ARLD officers for 2009-2010

• Discussion of a name change for the division from ARLD to ACRL MD Chapter

• Brainstorming and discussion of program ideas for ARLD’s spring program and the 2010 MLA Conference

• Then at the end of the meeting Kay Kazinski, Library Tech Coordinator from Towson University will provide a short demonstration/presentation on the LibX toolbar.

Snacks and drinks will be provided.

We hope to see you there.

New York City Bus Trip/Library Tours

New York City Libraries Bus Tour

Friday November 14, 2008
6:00/6:30 AM (bus pick up in Maryland) – around 9:00 pm (bus drop off in
Maryland)

Costs: MLA members $85, Non-members $128, Students $72

Explore two of New York City’s best cultural attractions.  Our first tourwill be of the Paley Center for the Media, the world’s foremostinstitution dedicated to the discussion of the cultural, creative andsocial significance of television, radio and emerging platforms for theprofessional community and media-interested public.  Lunch is on one’s own– a list of suggested nearby eateries will be provided.  We will reconveneat 1:30 PM to tour the Museum of Modern Art Library, a comprehensive collection devoted to modern and contemporary art.  Note: the tour cost does not include admission to the Museum of Modern Art ($20) itself, only the cost of admission for the library tour .  Librarians at both museums will discuss the services they provide researchers and will exhibit select items from their collections.  There will also be free
time to experience some of the cultural riches of the City on your own.

The bus will leave from a TBA location at 5:30 PM.

There will be two morning bus pick up locations.  The first pick up will
leave the Rolling Road/I-195 park and ride at 6:00 AM.  The second pick up
will leave the Providence Road/I-695 park and ride at 6:30 AM.  Attendees
are asked to include their chosen pick up location when registering for
the program.  A light breakfast snack will be provided.

Register online at https://www.mdlib.org/happenings/register.asp, or call
the MLA office at 410.947.5090.

Contact  Lucy Holman at 410.837.4333 or lholman@ubalt.edu, Katy Sullivan
at 410.455.1783 or sullivan@umbc.edu, or Joanne Helouvry at 410.617.6834
or jhelouvry@loyola.edu, with any questions.

MLA cannot issue refunds for any cancellations after October 31, 2008.
This program is worth 2.5 contact hours for continuing education.

This program is sponsored by the Academic and Research Libraries Division
of the Maryland Library Association.

Next ARLD Meeting 10/10

Would you like to meet new colleagues, share ideas for improving library services and learn about the latest research on  Wikipedia?  Please join the Academic Libraries Research Division (ARLD) of the Maryland Library Association for a meeting on Friday, October, 10.  We’ll discuss  ARLD  programs, including the November bus tour to NYC libraries, plans for the MLA conference and a for a spring program.

In addition, Lucy Holman, Director of the Langsdale Library, University of Baltimore, will discuss her recent study on Wikipedia (Rector, Lucy Holman. “Comparison of Wikipedia and other encyclopedias for accuracy, breadth, and depth in historical articles.”  Reference Services Review 36.1 (2008): 7-22 )

Hope to see you on October 10!  ARLD is the Maryland chapter of ACRL (Academic and College Research Libraries), ALA.

Place:  Loyola Notre Dame Library http://www.loyola.edu/library/directions.htm

Date:  Friday, October 10, 1-3pm

More information about the Sept. 18 program

Registration is now open for ARLD’s program on Open Source ILS systems.  Sign up today and make sure you too know how open source software can benefit your library.

Cost

MLA members  $50

Non-members  $75

Students     $42.50

Register at:  https://www.mdlib.org/happenings/register.asp or call the MLA Office at 410-947-5090

Registration Deadline:  Friday, September 5, 2008.

Continental breakfast  9:30-10am

Lunch: Assorted sandwiches, etc. Please specify vegetarian

Directions to Chesapeake College:

http://www.chesapeake.edu/generalinfo/directions.asp

The LRC/library is half way around the circle known as College Drive.  No parking passes are necessary and  there are usually lots of free spaces across the circle from the LRC.

Save the date for ARLD’s fall program

Title:  Open Source Catalogs, OPACS and more:  the next generation is here now!

Date:  Thursday, September 18, 2008

Time:  9:30-2 (breakfast and lunch included)

Place:  Chesapeake College Library, Wye Mills, MD (beautiful library not far from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge!)

Directions and registration information to follow.

Looking for a Web 2.0 portal, OPAC or catalog?  Find out how to use open source software to create a customizable interface, or even a fully featured ILS, that is easier to search, allows users to interact and encourages them to come back to your website.  Save this date for a highly informative program appropriate for public and academic libraries; cataloging, collection management, technical, public services and administrative staff (and others!).  Presenters include Andrew Nagy, Villanova University, who developed a free, open source resource discovery application called VuFind.  VuFind  replaces the web interface to a library catalog.   Jerry Keiser and his staff from the Kent County  Public Library will discuss their implementation of Evergreen, an open source ILS developed by the Georgia Public Library Service.

The speakers will provide background on open source and compare open source and proprietary systems.  They’ll give the nuts and bolts of developing and deploying an open source application or ILS; discuss the expertise, software and hardware required; and address ways of obtaining support for an open source system. 

Next ARLD Meeting 7/25/08

Please join the Academic Research Libraries Division (ARLD), the MD chapter of ACRL, on Friday, July 25, from 1-3pm at the Albert S. Cook Library, Room 13,  at Towson University.  Meet and greet colleagues, share concerns, develop program ideas and enjoy the captivate(ing) demonstration!  We’d love to see you in person but we are  arranging teleconferencing from other libraries so stay tuned and don’t let the distance keep you away!

David Dahl, Towson’s new Emerging Technologies Librarian will give the presentation:

Title: Adobe Captivate, or, Powerpoint is SOOO Last Year

“Adobe® Captivate® 3 software enables anyone to rapidly create powerful and engaging simulations, scenario-based training, and robust quizzes without programming knowledge or multimedia skills” (www.adobe.com/products/captivate).  How can libraries benefit from Captivate?  What must be considered when creating a Captivate project?  This presentation will detail current and potential uses of Captivate as well as strategies for creating a successful project.

All are welcome!  Drinks and snacks provided.

Parking permits will be provided for the Towsontown Garage on campus – please email Patty MacDonald for a parking pass pmacdonald@towson.edu.

Directions to Cook Library:  http://cooklibrary.towson.edu/directions.cfm