Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO)
33rd Annual Conference
Greater Columbus Convention Center
October 25-26, 2007

Program Schedule

Schedule-At-A-Glance

The Schedule-At-A-Glance is now available as a two-page Word file. Updated Sept. 20, 2007

Full Program

Thursday : Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5
Friday : President's Program | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Poster Sessions

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Session 1: 12:00 pm – 12:50 pm
Title: Accessibility and Usability for Web Sites: Are Accessible Web Sites Usable?
Presenter/s: David Robbins – Kent State University
Location: C-110
Summary: Are web sites that conform to Section 508 of the American Rehabilitation Act and the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web accessibility Initiative guidelines necessarily usable for people with or without disabilities? This presentation will discuss how web design can facilitate communication to people with disabilities, without sacrificing visual design. It will outline principles of design for accessibility and other standards. Recent evidence will be presented that indicates that people with disabilities develop workarounds for accommodation and text only sites. Suggestions for research and development for testing accessible sites will also be given.
Title: WorldCat Selection: Multiple Materials Vendors from One System
Presenter/s: David Whitehair – OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc.
Location: C-111
Summary: Join David Whitehair from OCLC to learn about WorldCat Selection, which is a new tool to help academic libraries that work with multiple materials vendors streamline the selection and ordering process. Selectors view records from multiple materials vendors in one system and take actions such as Select, Reject, Forward, or Defer. Acquisitions staff export bibliographic MARC records to complete the ordering process in the ILS.
Title: You Can’t Do That! Library Initiated Textbooks on Reserve Programs
Presenter/s: John Burke – Miami University Middletown; Krista McDonald - Miami University Hamilton
Location: C-113
Summary: This presentation describes a library-initiated, collaborative effort to purchase introductory course textbooks and place them on reserve. The positive of aiding student retention was juxtaposed in this effort against the negative of spending library funds on items with potentially short shelf-life. A document will be provided that includes: a checklist for planning and implementing a textbook on reserve collection; usage statistics for the first two semesters; and a bibliography of similar projects and other helpful resources.
Session 2: 1:00 pm – 1:50 pm
Title: Web 2.0 for Library Outreach
Presenter/s: Chad Boeninger – Ohio University
Location: C-110
Summary: This session will focus on the use of web technologies and social software to extend the reach of the librarian into the patron’s virtual user space. As a business subject specialist on a residential college campus, the speaker will demonstrate his personal experience in using various tools (wikis, blogs, Meebo widgets, Facebook, IM, social bookmarking, screencasts, Skype, and podcasts) to communicate the individual library user community. These tools, whether used individually, or collectively, can help a librarian to be more effective at serving the patron community, while making the librarian’s job easier at the same time
Title: A Stranger in the Library: Creating Digital Fluency in the Library
Presenter/s: Beth Anderson, William Davis – Wright State University
Location: C-111
Summary: In late 2001, the Wright State University Library launched a peer-to-peer media kitchen for students, called the STAC. In the STAC, students were given just-in-time assistance with multimedia projects in a cross-platform, technology rich environment. By creating the STAC in the library, teaching an innovative credit course, and providing support for multimedia projects, the Wright State University Library has created a catalyst for digital fluency. This session will describe the environment, course, and peer-to-peer technical support offered to students.
Title: LibCasting: Wield the "NET" to Catch Your Users
Presenter/s: Susan G. Paul, Ann Marie Smeraldi, Steve Stein – Lorain County Community College
Location: C-112
Summary: How can your library "reel in" the Millenials, Gen Xers, and Baby Boomers to meet their diverse needs? Podcasting and vodcasting are excellent tools for marketing and promoting your library. These technologies allow libraries to transform the virtual spaces inhabited by library users to meet their common need for information on demand and 24/7 customer service. The presenters will detail their development and implementation of library podcasts/vodcasts to market valuable library services and resources.
Title: Dealing with Unwelcome Transformations: Using a Condition Survey to Assess Collection Damage
Presenter/s: Heather Cole – Miami University
Location: C-113
Summary: Books and other library materials sustain damage from their environment as well as from use. When budgets are tight and conservation resources scarce, what can you do to determine what conservation your collection needs? Condition surveys are a simple method used to assess the conservation needs of a collection of any size. This presentation will demonstrate what to include in a survey, methods of conducting one, and what to do with the data once it has been collected.
Title: Five Years of Street Walkin': The Jerome Rollers Book Cart Drill Team
Presenter/s: Sara Bushong, Christine Plotts - Bowling Green State University
Location: C-114
Summary: Reindeer, toys, cows, candy, Chicago and a whistle! What do these have to do with library work? For University Libraries at BGSU this means the Jerome Rollers Book Cart Drill Team. From putting out the call for volunteers, marching in parades, and performing at the ALA annual conference in Chicago, this presentation will illustrate the drill team process and will provide an opportunity for participants to gain first hand experience twirling a cart.
Session 3: 2:00 pm – 2:50 pm
Title: Designing an Effective Mentoring Program In Your Library
Presenter/s: Terri Pasadyn - Cuyahoga County Public Library, Solon Branch
Location: C-110
Summary: A mentoring program can have a profound impact on an organization’s culture. It does not take the place of training or coaching in the area of staff development, but it does serve as a very important dimension in development – learning from the wisdom of others. This session will give you the necessary tools to develop a mentoring system that works for your library. Discover three types of mentoring, tips on being an effective mentor, and the challenges you may encounter during the planning process. The design of a current model will be discussed. See if the benefits of mentoring can make a difference in your library.
Title: What is Digital Curation? What is Digital Preservation?
Presenter/s: Linda Newman – University of Cincinnati; Peter Murray - OhioLINK
Location: C-111
Summary: The words "Digital Curation" and "Digital Preservation" are showing up with increasing frequency in the professional literature. What's different about the activities of curation and preservation in the digital realm, and what's not? What are "trusted repositories" and "trusted digital objects"? Do best practices exist or are they still being developed? And finally, is this a technical phenomenon, or a sociological one? This presentation will attempt to answer these questions.
Title: Is Print Reference Dead?
Presenter/s: Sue Polanka - Wright State University
Location: C-112
Summary: Is print reference dead? How can libraries leverage their reference collections for the benefit of their patrons? This presentation will share results from a recent study at Wright State University, demonstrating increased usage of the library’s electronic reference collection. Issues of cost, access, and the licensing of Ereference titles will be discussed using the results of a questionnaire distributed at the ALA Annual Conference program of the same title. This is an opportunity to engage in a lively, interactive discussion of the future of print and E reference with your colleagues.
Title: Class in the Stacks: The Future of Library Instruction
Presenter/s: Alyssa Jordan, Stephanie Smith – Youngstown State University
Location: C-113
Summary: The future of library instruction must be directed by an evolving awareness of student needs. This paper will present the experiences and findings of a faculty/library collaboration-in-progress combining library instruction and curriculum content. It will be argued that active, tailored instruction in real time yields a greater benefit than the more passive traditional library instruction that often occurs in a vacuum.
Title: Making the Big Switch: A Systematic Approach to Transforming Journal Collections From Print to Electronic
Presenter/s: Martin Jenkins, Karen Wilhoit – Wright State University
Location: C-114
Summary: Users are demanding more online journal access. Print runs grow, but our libraries and depositories do not. As budgets tighten, resources are expended checking in, claiming, shelving and binding print (or replacing it with microfilm). Come learn about one library’s systematic, revenue-neutral approach to converting a large portion of its periodical collection to electronic format. Topics include criteria for selecting titles, procedures for evaluation and conversion, cooperation with a serials agent, and marketing of the change to faculty
Session 4: 3:00 pm – 3:50 pm
Title: Community College Library 2.0
Presenter/s: Maureen Lerch, Lisa Nagy, Stephanie Livengood - University of Akron, Wayne College
Location: C-111
Summary: How can community college and two-year campus libraries harvest the potential of Web 2.0 tools? The staff from University of Akron Wayne College Library will demonstrate and discuss how our library investigated and implemented Web 2.0 tools including MySpace, blogs, and other collaborative tools to reach out to our students and communicate efficiently with each other.
Title: Bringing eLearning to Cataloging Training: An Innovative Approach in Training Next Generation Catalogers
Presenter/s: Sherab Chen, Tingting Lu – Ohio State University
Location: C-112
Summary: One of the challenges is how to provide effective and efficient training to a new generation of library workers. In a time of increased workloads, technological changes, reduced number of full time positions, and change of new staff pattern, the traditional one-on-one training method is becoming obsolete. eLearning is an interactive and efficient training aid in promoting learning. We will discuss how we designed an eLearning series for basic cataloging training.
Title: Are you Trained for a Library Transaction with an Animal? It Happens in Second Life
Presenter/s: Brian Gray – Case Western Reserve University
Location: C-113
Summary: Second Life (SL) is a 3-D virtual world that is built by the participants rather than a handful of paid programmers. It is truly web 2.0 in nature by giving ownership of the experience to each individual. Universities are now holding regular classes in this immersive setting. Reference hours, instructional sessions, book clubs, and other programming are being offered and designed by libraries for all online users to share. To really appreciate this environment, lets look at what libraries and other organizations are already doing, and explore the future of virtual reality in web development, education and libraries.
Title: Vendor Presentation: ebrary
Presenter/s: David Conkling - ebrary
Location: C-114
Summary: ebrary® is a leading eContent services and technology provider that has been serving the library, publishing, and corporate markets since 1999. More than 1,000 customers around the world serving more than 6.8 million end-users use the ebrary platform to acquire eContent from leading publishers as well as distribute their own PDF content online. ebrary has been named to the eContent 100 list of companies that "matter most" in the digital content industry for four consecutive years.
Session 5: 4:00 pm – 4:50 pm
Title: Creating a Climate for Innovation
Presenter/s: Glenda Thornton – Cleveland State University
Location: C-110
Summary: Have you ever been asked to be more innovative? Has your department been asked to come up with an innovative new idea? Have you read an article about an innovative library and wondered what made them so "innovative?" Have you ever made a New Year's resolution or developed a goal for yourself or your department to be more innovative, but didn't know how to get started? Or, do you just want to learn more about innovation and how to sustain it in your organization? If so, then this session is for you! Come and learn about innovation and how you can help create a climate where it flows naturally!
Title: Influence the Future! Encourage Future Academic Librarians by Supervising On-Site Practicum Experiences
Presenter/s: Mary Lou Baker Jones, Maureen Berry – Wright State University; William C. Barrow – Cleveland State University; Laura E. Kinner – University of Toledo; Katy Mathuews, Don A. Wicks, School of Library & Information Science, Kent State University
Location: C-111
Summary: Academic librarians have a lot of experience and knowledge to offer Library and Information Science students. This moderated panel discussion will present the points of view of various stakeholders in the student practicum experience. On-site supervisors, a recent practicum student, and a KSU SLIS faculty advisor will address the motivations, rewards and challenges of offering practicum experiences, with a special focus on the distance LIS learners and their on-site supervisors.
Title: Developing User-Centered Tutorials with Student Consultants
Presenter/s: Rob Withers, Jen-chien Yu, Eric Resnis – Miami University
Location: C-112
Summary: Miami University Libraries are developing an online tutorial that will introduce foundational level academic integrity issues and research competencies to entering students. The Libraries partnered with a course in which students create digital projects for external clients, asking them to assess the existing version of the product, and to develop content which reflects student sensibilities. This session will discuss challenges/benefits of incorporating a large body of student workers into a project under development.
Title: Training Non-Traditional Groups of People to do Cataloging
Presenter/s: Beverly McDonald – Ohio State University
Location: C-113
Summary: The presentation will discuss how someone relates to and trains non-traditional employees to do cataloging, how their work is reviewed/revised and whether or not the training is different from that used with more traditional library employees. The need for documentation and the format of that documentation will also be covered. The advantages and disadvantages of using non-traditional employees to do cataloging will be summarized.
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Friday, October 26, 2007

Breakfast Meet and Greet & Business Meeting, 8:00 am - 9:00 am
Location: Ballrooms 1 & 2
The President's Program, 9:00 am – 10:00 am
Location: Ballrooms 1 & 2
Speaker: Joseph Janes
Overview: "Hardly a day goes by that a new opportunity or technology or idea comes whizzing past at the speed of light, and most people can be forgiven for feeling overwhelmed and a little guilty for not taking them all on. In this talk, I want to help people to think about what makes the most sense in this fast-paced World of Tomorrow we're now in."
Session 1: 10:10 am – 11:00 am
Panel Session and Questions and Answers from Joe Janes’ presentation.
Moderator: Brian Gray
Panelists: Joe Janes, Chad Boeninger, Linda Dobb, Glenn Horton
Location: Ballrooms 1 & 2
Title: Making Good by Making Do: A Model for Web-Based Technology Innovation Using Limited Resources
Presenter/s: Gwen Evans – Bowling Green State University
Location: C-111
Summary: The art of "making do" with the tools and talents at hand is the guiding principle behind our "LITS labs" for collaborative development of web applications and services across the library. Using some fundamental principles such as simplicity, sustainability, sharing, open source application scavenging, and prudent use of student programming talent, within six months we mounted a variety of new services and web tools with library-wide cooperation and co-development.
Title: Designing Interactive and Dynamic Quiz Questions for Your Library Tutorials
Presenter/s: Kwabena Sekyere – Miami University
Location: C-112
Summary: This presentation discusses ways of using some new technologies (PHP, MYSQL and AJAX) to design dynamic and interactive quiz questions and answer choices for an online tutorial. This will help reduce the chances of students cheating by not going through a whole tutorial before attempting to answer the quiz questions.
Session 2: 11:10 am – 11:50 am
Title: Innovative Collaborations
Presenter/s: Linda Dobb – Bowling Green State University
Location: C-110
Summary: For libraries to not just survive but thrive in the coming decade, they will need to creatively partner with many different organizations and individuals. Different types of libraries will need to work together – public, school, specials, and academic; libraries may need to partner with corporations for the provision of services – coffee, the Internet, new transmission media; and, libraries on a campus may need to partner with other information providers – bookstores and IT services. This brief presentation will explore some innovative collaboration that is already taking place between academic libraries and other likely partners. In addition, some unlikely partners will be proposed in the search for new ways to serve and succeed with the next generation of students, faculty, and community members.
Title: Integrating Personalized Library Services Through a Campus Portal
Presenter/s: Vishwam Annam, Phil Flynn – Wright State University
Location: C-111
Summary: Many campuses have implemented web-based portal applications to provide users with one stop shopping for e-mail, calendars, campus services, and web-enhanced courses. This presents opportunities for libraries to develop services that are personalized, customizable, and integrated with the overall campus experience. Join us as we demonstrate a personalized library services tab which includes both static and customizable channels that can be tailored to a variety of patrons.
Title: Basic Search Techniques – What Really Works on the Web
Presenter/s: William Weare – Valparaiso University
Location: C-112
Summary: We use a variety of search techniques when searching the library catalog or a database. What about when searching the web? Phrase searching, proximity operators, Boolean logic, nesting, truncation, wildcards, and natural language—learn which search techniques really work (and which ones don’t) when searching Google, Yahoo, Live Search, and Ask. This is not another presentation on Web search "tips & tricks"—it’s a nuts & bolts review of basic, effective, & teachable search techniques
Title: Building Stronger Connections Through Collaboration: Creating a Virtual Library with an Academic Department
Presenter/s: Johan Oberg – University of Minnesota
Location: C-113
Summary: Today’s academic libraries need to build strong connections with users. One way to engage with users is to involve them in the process of creating web content. This presentation describes how a collaborative creation of a virtual library benefited both the library and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. The presentation will discuss the importance of user-centered objectives, guidelines for content, strategies for communication, and web usability advice.
Title: ALAO wants you! Getting involved with your Interest Groups
Presenter/s: Kevin Furniss – Denison University/ALAO Interest Group Coordinator
Location: C-115
Summary: ALAO Interest Group Coordinator Kevin Furniss gives you an overview of the Interest Groups and shows you how to get involved.
Lunch and Awards, noon – 1:00 pm
Location: Ballrooms 1 & 2
Vendors, Posters, & Interest Groups (No Conflict Time), 1:15 pm – 2:00 pm, Ballroom 3
Poster Sessions listed at end of program
Session 3: 2:00 pm – 2:50 pm
Title: Integrating Web 2.0 Tools into Your Web Site
Presenter/s: Glen Horton - Technology Coordinator SWON Libraries
Location: C-110
Summary: Software is increasingly being delivered as a service via the web. Using standards such as RSS and iCal, many of these web-based tools can be integrated with your library’s web site and each other. The presenter will demonstrate how free Web 2.0 tools like Google calendar/maps, Meebo, Del.icio.us, and more ca be used to enhance your library’s web site and let all of your staff easily create content.
Title: Are They Getting It? Using Response Systems in Library Instruction
Presenter/s: Maureen Barry, Sue Polanka – Wright State University
Location: C-112
Summary: This interactive program will introduce attendees to student response systems (SRS). SRS are wireless remote systems which immediately tally responses to questions, similar to the devices used on Millionaire. Presenters will discuss the benefits and costs of SRS, describe how the SRS were implemented into the information literacy curriculum for first-year students and a team of peer instructors, and demonstrate the ease of use of SRS through interactive questioning of the audience.
Title: More than Marketing: Innovative Outreach Programs for Academic Libraries
Presenter/s: Stacy Brinkman, Lindsay Miller, Eric Resnis, Frances Yates – Miami University
Location: C-113
Summary: Innovative outreach programs that promote library resources and services to diverse populations can position libraries to play a vital role in partnerships that transform learning and engage participants. This session will present details of three event programs and two organizations at Miami University Libraries that tackle the issue of marketing while also promoting information literacy initiatives, multicultural education, and community transformation. We will provide information on publicity, planning, partnerships, sources of funding, etc.
Snack Time, 2:50 pm – 3:10 pm
 
Session 4: 3:10 pm – 4:00 pm
Title: Virtual Reference Competencies: Technical, Communications, and References Skills for Virtual Reference Librarians or How do we show we're better than just Googling?
Presenter/s: Diane Kovacs – Kovacs Consulting
Location: C-110
Summary: Technical skills form a solid foundation for offering reference service online. Communications skills and Reference knowledge are what differentiate any transaction with a real reference librarian from Googling alone. This timely presentation will be followed by group discussion of the competencies cultivated by successful virtual reference librarians.
Title: EAD in Ohio: Moving Toward Implementation and Use of Encoded Archival Description
Presenter/s: Cara Gilgenbach – Kent State University; Amy McCrory, Beth Kattelman – Ohio State University; Rhonda Rinehart – University of Akron
Location: C-111
Summary: With the inception of an EAD Task Force in 2004, Ohio is now on the threshold of implementing a statewide repository of archival finding aids to increase access to its archival collections. This program will familiarize the public with Task Force activities and outline future plans. Members of the Task Force will demonstrate components of the Web-based EAD inputting application as well as provide information on the proposed EAD Finding Aid Repository and search environment.
Title: Taking Library Instruction Online: A Collaborative Venture
Presenter/s: Nancy Connor, Sharon Doughten – Cuyahoga Community College
Location: C-112
Summary: For the past year a librarian and instructor of Dietetic Technology at Cuyahoga Community College have partnered to develop a teaching and learning experience that incorporates a variety of technologies aimed at addressing the learning styles of a variety of students. This presentation highlights the process, the production and the impact of the partnership on student success.
Title: Success Plans for Faculty Librarians: Mentorship or Busy Work?
Panelists: Sara Bushong, Susanna Cleveland, Gwen Evans, Stefanie Hunker – Bowling Green State University
Location: C-113
Summary: New librarians have many expectations placed upon them during their probationary period. Are faculty success plans the answer? Can faculty success plans be the transformative technique to guarantee a successful career? This panel presentation will describe the process used to develop success plans, and engage in a discussion of the challenges and opportunities within this innovative trend.
Evaluations and Giveaways, 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Registration Tables

Poster Sessions

Title: A Pocketful of PDAs: How Much Instruction Do Students Need?
Presenter/s: Rose Guerrieri - Kent State University, Trumbull Campus
Summary: Do students find a two-hour instruction session in the use of PDAs to be of value? Does the session teach them skills and concepts that they already have? This poster presentation looks at feedback from the students.
Title: A Treatment Plan For Dental Library Podcasting
Presenter/s: Jan Cox - Indiana University School of Dentistry Library
Summary: In this content and contacts era which relies on IM, social networking (Second Life and Facebook) and other wireless m-technology, podcasting has emerged. Librarians and educators have begun to embrace podcasting, the hot new powerful online information delivery tool, to explore and harness its potential for teaching and learning. This poster summarizes the decision making process, issues, assessment tools and technical and design considerations matrix used in planning and developing an academic dental library podcast.
Title: Boost Book Budgets With a Book Fair
Presenter/s: Sheryl Gannon, Bobbi Bishop, Jenny Shetterly, Linda Warren – Heidelberg College
Summary: The staff at Beeghly Library has hosted three Scholastic Book fairs in the last four years. The purpose of conducting these book fairs was to supplement the library’s operating budget in the area of children’s literature. The poster session will show the process of organizing the book fair, examples of publicity pieces and promotions used with the event, and showcase some examples of books purchased with the funds raised from the events.
Title: Collaborating for Professional Growth
Presenter/s: Dominique Mikulec – Cuyahoga Community College
Summary: Academic librarians and support staff have additional professional growth options available to them in the State of Ohio. With statewide resource sharing, 24/7 virtual reference, and distance education, academic librarians and staff find themselves providing library services to customers in other types of libraries. The Ohio Library Council (OLC) offers professional/staff development, networking, and collaboration to academic librarians and staff.
Title: Enhancing Technology Services and Support at an Academic Library Service Desk
Presenter/s: Thomas Marker – Ohio State University
Summary: This poster focuses on specific ways in which the Prior Health Sciences Library and the Center for Knowledge Management (CKM) at the Ohio State University has worked to provide technology and technical assistance to customers. Highlights include do-it-yourself workstations, PDA and laptop configuration and troubleshooting, wireless Internet, as well as training and support for Library and CKM staff. Poster features hardware and software used at the library, as well as specific staff skill sets.
Title: Going to a Better Place: Using Better World Books for Gifts and Withdrawals
Presenter/s: Matt Feltner, Rita Johnson – Wright State University
Summary: See how one library partners with Better World Books for the disposal of withdrawn items and gifts. Using BWB expedites our weeding and gift processing workflows, brings a small revenue stream back to the library and to a literacy charity, and helps our selectors feel better about the fate of weeded items.
Title: Life’s Lonely Without My Jacket. Please Give Back
Presenter/s: Pat Wood, Janah Shumaker – Ohio State University at Marion
Summary: Hardback books generally come with a book jacket. Most libraries do minimal protection of the book jacket to preserve it, so that over time it becomes torn, faded or worn out. By using a method of hot lamination, the jacket can be well preserved which lasts much longer than it would with minimal protection. This makes the book much more appealing and allows the patron to read information that is provided on the inside of the book jacket.
Title: More than a Facelift: Transformation of the Library Catalog to Meet the Needs of the New Generation of Users
Presenter/s: Olga Hart, Lisa Pons-Haitz, Shelley Paden – University of Cincinnati Libraries/ UC Academic Information Technology & Libraries
Summary: The poster session describes the decision-making process behind the catalog redesign in a large complex university library system and the outcomes of the project. The main purpose of the redesign was improving access to the collection, including improving the catalog’s usability and integrating the catalog with related tools and services. The challenge was to provide a tool that meets the expectations of today’s patrons within limitations imposed by Innovative Interfaces, Inc. (III) software.
Title: No Longer Just a Luxury: The Need for a Library Communication Office
Presenter/s: Lindsay Midkiff Miller – Miami University
Summary: This poster describes the creation of the library communication office at the Miami University Libraries, which provides publicity support for library events including article generation and press releases, generating promotional materials and providing graphic design assistance. The office also helps promote the accomplishments of the libraries and library staff to local, state and national media. Discover the basics of starting a public relations/communications office in your library--everything from staffing, services - to potential partnerships and challenges.
Title: Patron-Driven Collection Development Using LibraryThing
Presenter/s: Kristen Gibson – Wittenberg College
Summary: LibraryThing was used to track the books requested by patrons. The items stored in LibraryThing were then sorted by LC call number to determine which subject areas needed more attention in terms of collection development.
Title: PubWEST: A Resource for Innovators
Presenter/s: Ran Raider – Wright State University
Summary: PubWEST, Web-based Examiner Search Tool, is made available to the general public by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) through its Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program (PTDL). The USPTO maintains six depository libraries in Ohio: Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, OSU, Toledo, and WSU. The staffs of the depositories are authorized by the USPTO to provide training and assistance to independent inventors and small businesses for their patent and trademark needs. The poster session will highlight some of the powerful features of PubWEST.
Title: Taking the Next Step with ILLiad – Document Delivery Service
Presenter/s: Barbara A. Gushrowski – Indiana University School of Dentistry
Summary: The Indiana University School of Dentistry Library currently uses ILLiad software for ILL lending and borrowing functions. Our satisfaction with ILLiad in these activities has led us to contemplate enabling the Document Delivery function. In an outreach effort to faculty, especially those located in separate facilities on campus, the library plans a pilot study to determine the interest in this service, cost to the library, and feasibility of providing this service permanently.
Title: The OhioLINK MEDLINE Tutorials: Coming Together and Reaching Out Through New Technology
Presenter/s: Maria Melssen – University of Toledo, Health Science Campus
Summary: After recognizing a gap in our existing instructional materials, a series of online tutorials detailing how to use OhioLINK MEDLINE were created using the software program Camtasia Studio by TechSmith. These tutorials, providing information from assessing information need to subject searching, were created by a team of library faculty, staff and administration and our Information Technology department. Through this experience, lessons were learned, challenges were overcome, and future research needs were recognized.
Title: Understanding Usage Patterns of Library Web Sites with Google Analytics
Presenter/s: Rob Withers, Rob Casson, Aaron K. Shrimplin – Miami University
Summary: Google Analytics is a free service that enables web developers to gather and analyze detailed information about how end-users interact with their web site, with capabilities extending beyond simply recording the number of visits a site receives. This session will explore one university’s experience with using Google Analytics to understand interactions with their library web site, identify barriers that prevent users from locating the information they need, and formulate possible solutions.
Title: "What Am I Supposed to Do?" Helping Front-Line Staff Handle a Crises with the Immediate Action Guide
Presenter/s: Elizabeth Brice, Betty Clevenger – Miami University
Summary: The Miami University Libraries has developed an Immediate Action Guide to help front-line staff and student assistants deal with emergency situations like water leaks, severe weather, power outages, etc. We will share the tool we’ve developed and the process we’re using to continue its improvement.
Title: Working With WIKI
Presenter/s: Heather K. Maloney, Michelle P. McKinney – University of Cincinnati Raymond Walters College
Summary: The staff at the Raymond Walters College Library found their workload and busy schedules made it difficult to regularly and effectively communicate important information. As a result, they incorporated a WIKI to improve overall communication and manage projects that require input from library staff. This poster presentation will outline the reasons for establishing a WIKI; a method for choosing the right WIKI; and putting this technology to use in a small library setting.
Title: Wright State University’s 40th Anniversary Photoblog
Presenter/s: Jane Wildermuth, Vishwam Annam – Wright State University
Summary: In honor of the 40th anniversary of Wright State University, the Libraries’ staff developed an interactive photoblog for campus and alumni community to share memories of WSU. Photographs representing 40 years of students, faculty and staff, cultural events, athletics, and campus life were posted. The Libraries then invited alumni, students, current and retired faculty and staff, and the community to visit the blog and add personal comments, photographs, and memories of WSU.