The Boston Library Consortium actively supports professional development and training opportunities for our member libraries. Member events are open only to staff at BLC member libraries, unless otherwise indicated.

Please contact us if you wish to collaborate with the BLC on a future event or program.

Upcoming Events

October 20, 2020
Webinar

Minitex Webinar: Teaching Information Literacy K-16

The challenges students face when conducting research can feel overwhelming. In this presentation, Reference Outreach & Instruction Librarian Linda Mork, a former high school English teacher, K-12 media specialist, and academic librarian, will offer ideas about teaching concepts from the ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy in order to help students of all ages understand and navigate the information ecosystem and provide strategies to help move them past common research roadblocks.

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This webinar is offered to staff at BLC member libraries as part of the pilot Professional Development Alliance. To learn more about the Alliance, and to see all available webinars, please visit the Professional Development Alliance Pilot Project page.

October 22, 2020
Webinar

BLC Webinar: Demystifying Research and Publishing in Libraries

This discussion-based webinar offers guidance for academic library staff who want to conduct research and get published. The webinar comes from the perspectives of four librarian authors and editors who are at varying stages of their careers. Speakers will attempt to demystify topics such as developing research ideas and methods, conducting research projects, writing for your audience, intriguing editors with unique angles to your work, and more.

Tips and tricks will be shared! Speakers will address a diverse range of publication types, from peer-reviewed articles to reviews and case studies. This webinar is designed for any and all library workers who want to explore pursuing research and publishing, including librarians going up for promotion, tenure, or review. Following the webinar, attendees will be provided with additional learning materials to keep.

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Learning Outcomes:

  • Attendees will understand how to develop research ideas and identify methodologies.
  • Attendees will identify the various elements and avoid the various pitfalls of the research, writing, and publishing process.
  • Attendees will understand the editorial process for various types of publications, think through their research agendas, and select the right venues for their work.

Presenters:

Michael Rodriguez is the Collections Strategist at the University of Connecticut Library, where he coordinates collection development and strategic initiatives. Prior to this role, he was Licensing & Acquisitions Librarian, also at UConn, and E-Learning Librarian at Hodges University in Florida. A 2017 graduate of the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship, he has published three book chapters and many articles and reviews in Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, Charleston Advisor, Technical Services Quarterly, and other venues. Michael is a column editor for Serials Review and was a Library Journal Reviewer of the Year and an Against the Grain Up-and-Comer.

Juleah Swanson is an Assistant Professor and Head of Acquisition Services at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research areas include exploring librarianship through the lens of racial, ethnic, and professional identity theory, as well as examining equity and inclusion in the knowledge production system, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Juleah has published a number of peer reviewed articles in journals such as College & Research Libraries, Journal of Academic Librarianship, In the Library with the Lead Pipe, and Library Resources & Technical Services. Juleah was a participant in the first cohort of the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship.

Ken Varnum is the Senior Program Manager for Discovery, Delivery, and Library Analytics at the University of Michigan Library. In this role, Ken is responsible for the library's discovery interface and the library's evolving and emerging analytics infrastructure. He received a master's degree from the University of Michigan's School of Information and his Bachelor of Arts from Grinnell College. Ken is editor of the open-access, peer-reviewed journal Information Technology and Libraries. In addition to numerous articles and chapters, he has written or edited five books, including 2019’s Beyond Reality: Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality in the Library.

October 22, 2020
Webinar

BLC Vendor Webinar: Project ReShare

Consortial partners, commercial developers and related technology-focused organizations came together in mid-2018 to create new resource sharing solutions amidst an environment of increasing market consolidation and concerns about worsening service. ReShare is an open source, community-owned resource sharing solution which can be self-hosted or hosted by a service provider to extend a shared index and resource sharing functionality to groups of libraries. Presenters will demonstrate the software, describe the partnership that created it, and will provide insight into planned future developments, with special focus on the specifications being developed for a suite of tools to facilitate controlled digital lending while making use of interlibrary lending workflows, controls and safeguards. More on the website: https://projectreshare.org/

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Please note that this webinar is open only to staff at BLC member libraries. The webinar will be recorded and shared within the BLC.

October 26, 2020
Meeting

BLC AUL/AD COI Virtual Meeting

The BLC AUL/AD COI will hold a virtual meeting on Monday, October 26th from 2pm-3:30pm. The agenda and login information will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

October 27, 2020
Webinar

ASERL Webinar: The Happy Place: Creating Positive Library Spaces Using Emotional Intelligence

Employee engagement can be challenging. In this fun and interactive workshop, participants will learn how to engage staff in meaningful ways while creating a culture of positivity and respect. Based on real life situations and years of communicating and working with staff, managers from Wake County will explore the key factors they discovered that contribute to a happy work environment. Participants will have an opportunity to share ideas that have worked in their organizations.

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Brandy Hamilton is currently a Regional Library Manager within the Wake County Public Libraries system, in the greater Raleigh Area. She holds a BA in English and an MLIS from the University of South Carolina. She has more than 18 years of library and management experience. Brandy has been active in the North Carolina Library Association for 18 years, holding a variety of positions. She is the current Chair for the Leadership, Administration, and Management Section of the association.

Rita Bhattacharyya is the Adult Services Department Manager within the Wake County Library System, located in the greater Raleigh area. She holds a BS in Social Work from Texas Tech University and a MLIS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Rita began her career as a youth services librarian and transitioned to adult services in 2014. Her professional interests are making sure that the library system provides exceptional service to all areas of the population.

This webinar is offered to staff at BLC member libraries as part of the pilot Professional Development Alliance. To learn more about the Alliance, and to see all available webinars, please visit the Professional Development Alliance Pilot Project page.

 

October 28, 2020
Webinar

LOUIS Webinar: Git and GitHub for Libraries

Git was built for programmers to keep track of changes to their code. GitHub was built for allowing programmers to share their code. But anybody can use this powerful and popular combo of software and platform, for writing, for building websites and for collaboration. This presentation will explain the basics of using Git and GitHub, for an audience of non-programmers, using examples from libraries.

Register Here!

 

This webinar is offered to staff at BLC member libraries as part of the pilot Professional Development Alliance. To learn more about the Alliance, and to see all available webinars, please visit the Professional Development Alliance Pilot Project page.

October 28, 2020
Webinar

NC Live Webinar: Tips and Techniques for Facilitating Meetings Online

As libraries continue to work online or in a hybrid format, the need for well-designed and effectively facilitated meetings rises. Disorganized or poorly run Zoom meetings can lead to wasted time and frustrated teams. Attendees will learn techniques they can use immediately to plan for a meeting and develop a participatory environment where all attendees are proposing ideas and contributing to the meeting's success. 

This session will be led by Angel Truesdale - Social Sciences and Business Librarian at UNC-Charlotte. 

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This webinar is offered to staff at BLC member libraries as part of the pilot Professional Development Alliance. To learn more about the Alliance, and to see all available webinars, please visit the Professional Development Alliance Pilot Project page.

November 06, 2020
Meeting

BLC Special Collections COI - Virtual Meeting

The BLC Special Collections COI will hold a virtual meeting on Friday, November 6th from 11am-12pm. The agenda and login information will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

November 06, 2020
Webinar

BLC Webinar: Collaboration, Learning Design, and Student Engagement in Hybrid and Online Courses

Changes in how instruction is delivered may lead Librarians who do reference and instruction to reflect on their role. The field of Learning Design both identifies the pain points of the learning process and offers conceptual tools Librarians can use to make that process more effective, individually or in collaboration with other instructors, regardless of the teaching modality. Using common Librarian tasks, this webinar will demonstrate scenarios of how to collaborate with an Instructional Designer and use Learning Design to both engage students and produce targeted outcomes that help students perform well in their courses.

By the end of the workshop, audience members will be able to describe techniques and concepts that create effective learning and will be able to collaborate with Learning Designers or other librarians to adapt their instruction and instructional support to the changing environment of online learning and the hybrid classroom.

Register Here!

Presenters:
John McCormick, Associate Director of Learning Design, Brandeis University

Peter Shea, Professional Development Director and Learning Designer, Middlesex Community College

Viral Amin, Reference Librarian for Electronic Resources, Bentley University Library

November 09, 2020
Meeting

BLC HRM Committee Fall Meeting

The BLC Heads of Resource Management (HRM) Committee will hold its Fall 2020 meeting on Monday, November 9th from 12pm-2pm. The agenda and login information will be shared via the Committee's list-serv.

November 09, 2020
Webinar

Controlled Digital Lending, An Overview with Chris Freeland (Internet Archive)

The BLC is pleased to bring  this webinar and Q&A session to our member libraries. Please join Chris Freeland, Director of Open Libraries, from Internet Archive for an overview of how controlled digital lending works. Attendees will learn how Internet Archive acquires books; how they are scanned in our scanning centers; how they are made available to blind and print disabled patrons; how they are made available to readers one-at-a-time via controlled digital lending; and how they are connected to Wikipedia and other resources. The session will also cover how libraries can join the Open Libraries program to provide access to these books for their patrons, as well as how Open Libraries can be used to make decisions about physical collections.

The webinar will take place on Monday, November 9th, 2020 from 2:00pm-3:00pm. Register via the link below. 

Register Here!

The webinar will be recorded and shared via this website and the BLC.Announce list-serv. The webinar is only open to staff at BLC member institutions.

About the presenter:

Chris Freeland is the Director of Open Libraries at the Internet Archive, working in support of the organization's mission to provide "Universal access to all knowledge." Before joining the Internet Archive Chris was an Associate University Librarian at Washington University in St. Louis, managing Washington University Libraries' digital initiatives and related services. He holds an M.S. in Biological Sciences from Eastern Illinois University and an M.S. in Library and Information Science from University of Missouri-Columbia. His research explores the intersections of science and technology in a cultural heritage context, having published and presented on a variety of topics relating to the use of new media and emerging technologies in libraries and museums.
 

November 10, 2020
Webinar

BLC Vendor Webinar: JSTOR Open Community Collections

JSTOR Open Community Collections: Getting Primary Source/Special Collections into the Research Workflow

Join us on Tuesday, November 10, from 1:00-2:00 PM EST to hear how JSTOR is working with institutions to make their special collections and archive content openly available through their Open Community Collections initiative. This quickly growing program is already helping faculty and scholars worldwide enhance their teaching and research with rich primary source materials. This session for BLC member institutions will be led by Bruce Heterick, SVP of Open Collections & Infrastructure, who will detail the goals of this initiative, spotlight the collections that are being contributed daily, share data on usage, and outline how your library can share digitized text and image collections in the JSTOR channel.

Register Here!

November 18, 2020
Meeting

BLC Business COI Virtual Monthly Meeting - November 2020

The BLC's Business COI holds monthly virtual meetings; this month's meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, November 187th at 9am. Login information and any agenda items are shared via the COI's list-serv and Slack channel. 

November 19, 2020
Webinar

BLC Webinar: Understanding China Data & Business Research

Please join Edward Lim (UConn) and Jiebei Luo (Boston College) on Tuesday, November 19th at 11am as they provide an overview of selected official statistical information collected in the People’s Republic of China, with a particular focus on economic and financial data on Mainland China. It will explore options beyond the official statistics and ‘known data’ and discuss what needs to be considered when ‘thinking’ about data used for economic and financial research.

Attendees will be able to:

  • Identify China's information custodians.
  • Identify and use suitable tools to find and access different information sources related to China.

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Edward Lim is the Business & Entrepreneurship Librarian at the University of Connecticut. He joined in March 2020 just as COVID-19 unfolded, so he has been working remotely from Singapore. Edward has been a business librarian since 2011. Previously he worked at New York University Shanghai in China as the Reference and Research Services Librarian for Business. His time at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore allowed him to experience stints in library user experience, marketing & outreach, and access services. Follow @BarbarianEd on Twitter and ask him anything.

 

Jiebei Luo is a Data Services Librarian at Boston College’s O’Neill Library, where she provides services and support related to research data acquisition, management, curation and visualization. She offers a variety of data instruction workshops and research consultation sessions for faculty and students. She is currently also serving as the interim liaison librarian for economics and business data. (Her research interests center on data literacy instruction, evidence-based statistical analysis, data visualization, scholarly communication, and library assessment.)

Past Events

October 15, 2020
Meeting

BLC CRMM COI October 2020 Meeting

The BLC's Continuing Resources and Metadata Management COI will hold a virtual meeting on Thursday, October 15th, from 2:00pm-3:00pm. The meeting agenda and login information will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

October 14, 2020
Webinar

CARLI Webinar: Assessment of Student Learning in Academic Libraries

The assessment of learning is not a new practice – it has unfolded within institutions of higher education since the 1980s. The National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA), formed in 2008, has been examining assessment processes and practices in the United States to better understand meaningful, sustainable engagement with authentic assessment of student learning. While historically, assessment has occurred within institutions of higher education, learning occurs in a variety of contexts and places. Increasingly, efforts are unfolding to capture and document evidence of student learning outside of traditional curricular experiences.

Given the intensified attention to assessment and accountability issues in the higher education sector, academic libraries and librarians in the United States have felt increasingly compelled to demonstrate the value they bring to their colleges and universities. Opening with an introduction to assessment, in this session, we will explore how academic libraries have approached assessment in recent years as well as current practices and future trends in assessing and documenting learning.

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Dr. Gianina Baker is currently the Assistant Director at the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment which is co-located at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Indiana University-Bloomington. As Assistant Director, Dr. Baker researches, writes, and presents on all topics related to the assessment of student learning outcomes on college and university campuses. Prior to this position, she served in roles of Counselor, Director of Institutional Research, and Director of Institutional Effectiveness & Planning, all at Richland Community College in Decatur, Illinois. She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Organization & Leadership with a Higher Education concentration from the University of Illinois, a M.A. in Human Development Counseling from Saint Louis University, and a B.A. in Psychology from Illinois Wesleyan University.

This webinar is offered to staff at BLC member libraries as part of the pilot Professional Development Alliance. To learn more about the Alliance, and to see all available webinars, please visit the Professional Development Alliance Pilot Project page.

October 13, 2020
Webinar

ATLA Webinar: Librarians Across Disciplines: Mitigating Archival Chaos

Librarians across disciplines unexpectedly inherit archival collections and are often faced with supervising materials despite lack of expertise and training. This situation proves especially challenging for theological libraries because of the variety of materials these collections include. Ranging from ephemera and photographs, to diaries, bibles, and congregational records, these collections offer hidden resources that document local communities and organizational history. Taking the time to minimally organize these collections creates opportunities to connect with faculty and patrons, and supports institutional and alumni relationships. 

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This session seeks to equip librarians and library administrators with basic tools to gain control of archival collections. Particularly geared towards small theological libraries with minimal archival staff, we will discuss basic archival principles, and outline steps for inventorying, describing, and digitizing archival objects. Participants will leave with tasks that can be introduced into workflows to mitigate archival chaos. The realization that taking even the first step towards archival control will give attendees great confidence in tackling their “stuff” and advocating for institutional support. 

Outcomes:

  • Gain understanding of the importance of archival collections and the ways they can be leveraged to support institutional goals. 
  • Obtain awareness of basic archival principles, including accessioning, arrangement and description, and processing. 
  • Acquire a number of achievable tasks that incorporate archival control into diverse settings and workflows.

This webinar is offered to staff at BLC member libraries as part of the pilot Professional Development Alliance. To learn more about the Alliance, and to see all available webinars, please visit the Professional Development Alliance Pilot Project page.

October 13, 2020
Meeting

BLC Media COI Meeting

The BLC Media COI will hold a virtual meeting on Tuesday, October 12th from 12pm-1pm. The agenda and meeting login details will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

October 13, 2020
Meeting

BLC Business COI Virtual Monthly Meeting - October 2020

The BLC's Business COI holds monthly virtual meetings; this month's meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, October 13th at 10am. Login information and any agenda items are shared via the COI's list-serv and Slack channel. 

October 06, 2020
Meeting

BLC Resource Sharing COI October Meeting - Virtual

The BLC's Resource Sharing COI will hold a meeting on Tuesday, October 6th from 10am-12pm. Login details and the agenda will be distributed via the COI's list-serv.

October 05, 2020
Meeting

EDI COI Caucuses Group Virtual Meeting

The BLC Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion COI has three working groups, focusing on different areas of EDI work. The Caucuses group will meet on Monday, October 5th from 1:00pm-2:30pm. Login information and details are available via the COI's list-serv.

October 01, 2020
Meeting

EDI COI Education Group Virtual Meeting

The BLC Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion COI has three working groups, focusing on different areas of EDI work. The Education group will meet on Thursday, October 1st from 12:30pm-2pm. Login information and details are available via the COI's list-serv.

October 01, 2020
Meeting

BLC Health Sciences COI October Meeting

The BLC's Health Sciences COI October meeting will take place on Thursday, October 1st at 11am. The agenda and login information for the meeting will be distributed via the COI's list-serv.

September 29, 2020
Webinar

SEFLIN Webinar: Browser and Smartphone Privacy Tips

Recent news about social media, smartphone apps, and data breaches highlight the fact that much of our online activity is tracked, monetized, and often tied to our offline identities. Fortunately, there are steps we can all take to keep our online activities and identities more private. This webinar will cover tips and strategies to more privately browse the internet and use smartphones. Topics will include:

  • Privacy tips and extensions for popular Internet browsers
  • Smartphone privacy tips
  • Privacy-focused Internet searching
  • Tips for Teaching Others

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Learning Objectives:

  • Identify 3 browser extensions to increase online privacy
  • Identify 3 Smartphone settings and features to increase privacy
  • Incorporate these tools and tips into existing classes

This webinar is offered to staff at BLC member libraries as part of the pilot Professional Development Alliance. To learn more about the Alliance, and to see all available webinars, please visit the Professional Development Alliance Pilot Project page.

 

September 23, 2020
Webinar

CARLI Webinar: Accessibility Benefits Everyone

Are you losing patrons because your web site is too difficult for them to use? Are there unintentional roadblocks hidden in your web pages? This presentation will share ideas on how to improve things to benefit all of your audiences. Things like:

• Using good link text
• Effective alternative text for images - when to use ALT and when not to
• Information architecture - can your users easily find relevant information
• Simple usability tests to uncover hidden blind spots
• Page structure - does your site have it?
• Easy ways to test your site for accessibility
• How does your website sound? Using screen readers
 

Register Here

This webinar is offered to staff at BLC member libraries as part of the pilot Professional Development Alliance. To learn more about the Alliance, and to see all available webinars, please visit the Professional Development Alliance Pilot Project page.

 

September 22, 2020
Meeting

EDI COI Best Practices Virtual Meeting

The BLC Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion COI has three working groups, focusing on different areas of EDI work. The Best Practices group will meet on Tuesday, September 22nd from 1pm-2:30pm. Login information and details are available via the COI's list-serv.

September 21, 2020
Webinar

SCELC Webinar: Chaos is a Ladder: Assessing Opportunities on the Fly

The COVID pandemic challenges consortia and libraries to innovate. In this two-part session SCELC Staff will share how it responded to these challenges. First, a debrief on recent pandemic-related obstacles that SCELC converted into successful programming, and the strategic assessment techniques that drove our response. Second, we will break into hands-on breakout sessions, where attendees work together in groups, employing SWOT analysis principles to assess their own organizational challenges, with some guidance from pain points identified in the May 2020 ICOLC pandemic planning call.

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This webinar is offered to staff at BLC member libraries as part of the pilot Professional Development Alliance. To learn more about the Alliance, and to see all available webinars, please visit the Professional Development Alliance Pilot Project page.

 

September 17, 2020
Webinar

NC Live Webinar: Cultivating a Growth Mindset

Growth mindset, the belief that we can improve, seems simple but is nuanced, powerful, and relevant to any person. In this session, Eduardo Briceño, who co-founded Mindset Works with Carol Dweck and has two TEDx talks watched by millions, will deepen our understanding of growth mindset theory and practice. He will share key research, common misconceptions, and ways that we can all cultivate a growth mindset in ourselves and in others. Come prepared to reflect as well as capture insights and next steps.

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This webinar is offered to staff at BLC member libraries as part of the pilot Professional Development Alliance. To learn more about the Alliance, and to see all available webinars, please visit the Professional Development Alliance Pilot Project page.

 

September 17, 2020
Webinar

The New PubMed: Highlights and Feedback

In this overview of the redesigned PubMed interface, Margot Malachowski will demonstrate how librarians can teach their students how to apply search strategies using PubMed best practices. Participants will learn how to instruct students in the usage of PubMed features, and how they can participate in iterative design through feedback channels.

About the Presenter:

Margot Malachowski (she/her) is an Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Network of the National Library of Medicine, New England Region (NNLM NER) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA. At NNLM NER, Margot supports health information outreach through hospital libraries, public libraries, senior centers, adult literacy programs and public health organizations. Margot worked as the Community Outreach Librarian for Baystate Health in Springfield, MA from 2008-2016. From 1996-2008, she worked in public libraries in Amherst, MA, Carrboro, NC and Durham, NC.

September 17, 2020
Meeting

BLC Business COI Virtual Monthly Meeting - September 2020

The BLC's Business COI holds monthly virtual meetings; this month's meeting is scheduled for Thursday, September 17th at 10am. Login information and any agenda items are shared via the COI's list-serv and Slack channel. 

September 15, 2020
Webinar

NC Live Webinar: Best Practices for Marketing & Social Media

A library’s social media presence has the potential to increase community engagement and bring your current programming to an online audience. Even with limited staff and time, Libbie Hough - Communications Manager for Orange County Public Library - will share best practices for marketing library services and events as well as ways to manage user engagement over time. Learn how social media platforms can help your library build local partnerships and connect with your community online.

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This webinar is offered to staff at BLC member libraries as part of the pilot Professional Development Alliance. To learn more about the Alliance, and to see all available webinars, please visit the Professional Development Alliance Pilot Project page.

September 15, 2020
Webinar

LOUIS Webinar: Introduction to Creative Commons Licensing

Dr. Jeanne Pavy, a graduate of the Creative Commons (CC) Certificate program will present an introduction to CC licenses including the impact of CC licenses in higher education. She will explore how developing this expertise can better position the library to support a culture of open (OER, OA, etc.) on campus. She will also share insights from the CC Certification Course for those who might be considering enrolling in the course.

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This webinar is offered to staff at BLC member libraries as part of the pilot Professional Development Alliance. To learn more about the Alliance, and to see all available webinars, please visit the Professional Development Alliance Pilot Project page.

September 14, 2020
Meeting

Alma/Primo Collaboration Working Group Virtual Meeting

The BLC's Alma/Primo Collaboration Working Group will hold a virtual meeting on Monday, September 14th from  1:00pm-2:30pm. Login information and agenda topics will be shared via the working group's list-serv.

September 03, 2020
Webinar

Best Practices for Effective Email Outreach

Effective and appropriate communication is now more important than ever. In a profession driven by collaboration and cooperation, the nuances of communication and tone can set the tone for future interactions. Informed by the DISC model, this webinar will teach participants how to craft their message depending on the audience, successfully apply the DISC model, and draw on this knowledge for any future communications.

Attendees will be able to:

  • Understand the need to adjust their communication style based on the recipient.
  • Apply the DISC model to gather information as to their recipient's communication style.
  • Use what you have learned to create an effective email for each person

About the presenter:

Khyle Hannan joined Northeastern University in August of 2018 as Entrepreneurship Librarian. In this role, he is responsible for working with university students, faculty, staff, and alumni in helping them research, plan and realize their entrepreneurial aspirations. Khyle has been working in higher education for over 18 years and is committed to teaching the importance of an entrepreneurial mindset as an essential component for success.

September 03, 2020
Webinar

ATLA Webinar: Creating Patron Driven Acquisitions for Your Library

Due to a large online student presence in part by two fully-accredited online degrees at Fuller Theological Seminary, the David Allan Hubbard Library recognized this pedagogical shift and developed its own patron-driven model in library acquisitions as a departure from "classic" collection development methods.

Presented by Daniell Whittington, Executive Director, Emilio Núñez, Assistant Director, and Audrey Chun, Electronic Resources Librarian & Head of Electronic Services, Fuller Theological Seminary.

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This webinar is offered to staff at BLC member libraries as part of the pilot Professional Development Alliance. To learn more about the Alliance, and to see all available webinars, please visit the Professional Development Alliance Pilot Project page.

August 12, 2020
Meeting

BLC Business COI Virtual Meeting - August 2020

The BLC Business COI will hold its August 2020 meeting on Wednesday, August 12th, at 10am. Login information and meeting agenda will be distributed via the COI's list-serv and Slack channel. For information on how to join the channel, please contact the COI Co-Chairs.

August 05, 2020
Meeting

BLC Health Sciences COI Virtual Meeting

The BLC Health Sciences COI is holding a virtual meeting on Wednesday, August 5th, 2020 at 3:30pm. The agenda and meeting login details are being shared via the COI's list-serv.

August 05, 2020
Symposium

Slides Available: Science Librarianship in the Time of COVID-19: A Virtual Half-Day Conference hosted by the Boston Library Consortium’s (BLC) Science and Engineering Community of Interest.

Science Librarianship in the Time of COVID-19

 

Since March 2020, science librarianship has rapidly evolved to meet changing needs as well as to comply with social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic. What are the challenges of working and adapting to the so-called “new normal” of the COVID-19 era?  What are the hacks, methods, or activities that you have designed or created to meet the new needs of library patrons and users? What do you anticipate evolving in the future of academic librarianship?  Presenters will talk about how remote work has informed changes to reference services, pedagogy, outreach, and practice. 

This virtual conference includes six 15-minute presentations and six 5-minute Lightning Talks. Speakers are science librarians from across the United States and Canada.

Program Details

Slides

July 30, 2020
Meeting

BLC Science and Engineering COI - Virtual Meeting

The first meeting of the new Science and Engineering COI will take place on Thursday, July 30th, 2020 from 2:00-3:30pm. This new COI combines the now inactive Chemistry and Engineering COIs, and broadens its scope to include BLC librarians in other science disciplines. The login details will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

July 24, 2020
Meeting

BLC Continuing Resources and Metadata Management COI Summer Meeting - Virtual

The BLC's Continuing Resources and Metadata Management COI will hold a virtual meeting on Friday, July 24th from 2:00pm-3:00pm. The agenda and login information will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

July 15, 2020
Meeting

BLC Media COI Virtual Summer Meeting

The BLC's Media COI will hold a virtual summer meeting on Wednesday, July 15th at 2:30pm. The agenda and login information will be distributed via the COI's list-serv.

July 15, 2020
Webinar

Supporting OER on Your Campus in the COVID-19 Era

Supporting OER on Your Campus in the COVID-19 Era

With online education thrust into the limelight due to the COVID-19 pandemic, faculty are scrambling for resources to support remote learning this summer and fall. The crisis presents a golden opportunity to advocate for the use of open educational resources (OER) as an alternative to high-cost textbooks.

This webinar will provide information and resources for librarians and other campus support staff who wish to advocate for the adoption, adaption, and creation of Open Educational Resources on your campus. BLC is a consortial member of the Open Textbook Network. We will discuss the benefits of that membership and how OTN resources can help support your work. The presenter will also discuss successes and challenges on their campus.

The webinar will take place via GoToWebinar on Wednesday, July 15th from 10:00am-11:00am. The recording and slides will be made available via BLC.Announce, and the Member Events page.

Presenter:

Jeremy Smith is the Open Education and Research Services Librarian at the UMass Amherst Libraries. He is responsible for managing all library efforts around OER on campus and is involved with regional and national OER efforts. He is also the library liaison to the Journalism and Communication Departments.

July 14, 2020
Meeting

BLC Health Sciences COI -- Virtual Summer Meeting

The BLC's Health Sciences COI will hold a virtual summer meeting on Tuesday, July 14th, from 3:00pm to 4:00pm. The agenda and login information will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

July 13, 2020
Meeting

BLC Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion COI Meeting - Virtual

The BLC's Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion COI will hold its first meeting on Monday, July 13th from 1:00pm to 2:30pm via Zoom. The agenda and login information will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

July 06, 2020
Webinar

Webinar: Do I need alt-text? A conversation about accessibility in academic libraries

How can academic libraries make their services and materials more accessible to everyone? Join Esther Brandon and Sarah Ferguson for a conversation on how to implement best practices for accessibility. The session will begin with a mini-lecture on the policies and practices from Brandeis University followed by a Question and Answer session. Please submit questions in advance about accessibility issues, policies, best practices, or guidelines. The remainder of the session will be an open conversation between presenters and participants, where you can share the successes or challenges you face at your academic library. 

Send in your questions about accessibility via the webinar registration form.

Learning Objectives: 

  • Identify concrete accessibility policies and practices to enact in your library  
  • Learn about the accessibility concerns faced at other libraries 
  • Participate in a conversation around successes and challenges  

Agenda: 

  • Presentation on accessibility practices and policies for academic libraries 
  • Q&A for submitted questions about library accessibility  
  • Participants share successes and challenges in a group conversation via chat 

Bios: 

Esther Brandon is the Digital Literacy Specialist for undergraduate and graduate programs at the Brandeis University Library. She is an enthusiastic seeker of new instructional technologies that is focused on best teaching practices. Esther has a B.A. in Anthropology and International & Global Studies and a Masters of Arts in Teaching in Secondary Education for English Literature from Brandeis University. Before returning to higher ed, she taught in public schools K-12 focusing on using educational technology for instruction to support English Language Learners and students with moderate disabilities. 

Sarah Elizabeth Ferguson is the Program Director for Digital Accessibility at Brandeis University with almost 20 years of experience in higher education. She completed her undergraduate work at Connecticut College and earned her Masters in education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, with a focus on special education technology. Ferguson is a linguaphile with a passion for painting, dogs, and the color purple.

 

June 30, 2020
Meeting

BLC Resource Sharing COI Meeting -- Virtual

The BLC's Resource Sharing COI will hold a meeting on Tuesday, June 30th, 2020 from 10am-11am to discuss fall opening plans across member institutions. The meeting agenda and login instructions will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

June 11, 2020 to June 12, 2020
Meeting

Meeting of the BLC Board of Directors and Annual Retreat

June 08, 2020
Meeting

BLC Access Services COI Virtual Meeting

The BLC Access Services COI will hold a virtual meeting on Monday, June 8th from 10:00am-11:30am. The agenda and login instructions will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

May 22, 2020
Meeting

BLC Heads of Resource Management Committee Meeting -- Virtual

The BLC's Heads of Resource Management Committee will meet on Friday, May 22nd from 10:30am-12:00pm. The agenda and login information will be distributed via the Committee's list-serv.

May 18, 2020
Meeting

BLC Health Sciences COI - Spring Virtual Meeting

The BLC's HEalth Sciences COI will hold its Spring virtual meeting on Monday, March 18th, 2020 from 2:00pm-3:00pm. Login details and the agenda will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

May 11, 2020
Meeting

BLC Resource Sharing COI Virtual Meeting: Recommendations for returning library materials

The Resource Sharing COI will hold a meeting on Monday, May 11th from 10:00am-10:30am to discuss recommendations for returning library materials. Login details will be distributed via the COI's list-serv.

April 16, 2020
Webinar

Recording Available! Resource Sharing and Streaming Media: Survey of the Landscape, presented by the BLC Media COI

Technology changes bring exciting benefits and challenges for academic libraries. The emergence of streaming media vendors such as Kanopy and Swank has opened the door to questions that touch on the essence of our work: What can be shared? What are the limits for inter-library loan in a streaming media landscape? What are the legal implications for libraries when sharing streaming media?

This webinar will provide a brief survey of this landscape, addressing questions of streaming media and resource sharing. Members of the SILLVR Project - Katy Divittorio, Philip Gaddis,  and Sommer Browning, will present on the work of the project and provide an overview of implications for resource sharing.

Following this presentation, Kyle K. Courtney will address some of the questions and uncertanties faced by librarians as streaming media becomes more prevalent. How do we address the needs to enable scholarship and access in a consumer-licensed world? Libraries have traditionally relied on a suite of copyright exceptions to provide all types of media used by students, faculty, and the public. These exceptions are threatened by the rise of licensed digital materials and consumer-facing companies (Netflix, Spotify, Steam, and more) that will not offer libraries a license at any price. How can libraries provide access, preserve culture, and save the public record in an era where we cannot lawfully acquire popular and scholarly media? Kyle K. Courtney will outline the problem and advance new legal insights to reducing the legal risk of using commercial platforms for popular media.

More about the SILLVR Project

SILLVR is an innovative project that allows for ILL of streaming video. Launched in January 2020, this project created a way to share streaming videos across libraries for the first time. This presentation will delve into partnerships forged, details of the agreements, and the new ILL workflows created. Data from the pilot, project outcomes and challenges will be shared. The presentation will end with advice on how attendees can implement their own dream initiatives. 

Presenters

  • Katy Divittorio is the Head of Collections Strategies at the Auraria Library. In this role she provides leadership to the Collections Strategies Department which acquires, licenses, and assesses collections, manages the physical library stacks, and oversees ILL.
  • Philip Gaddis is the Acquisitions and Interlibrary Loan Manager for Auraria Library. He oversees the direct (non-consortia) acquisitions of electronic resources as well as all aspects of ILL. 
  • Sommer Browning is the Associate Director of Technical Services at the Auraria Library. In this role she oversees the Collections Strategies department, the Discovery and Metadata department, and the Systems Administration unit.
  • Kyle K. Courtney is the Copyright Advisor and Program Manager at Harvard University, working out of the Office for Scholarly Communication. He works closely with Harvard Library to establish a culture of shared understanding of copyright issues among Harvard staff, faculty, and students. His “Copyright First Responders” initiative is in its sixth year, and has spread beyond Harvard to reach libraries, archives, and cultural institutions in the Northeast and Norhtwest. He also currently maintains a dual appointment at Northeastern University: teaching at the School of Law, and also teaching “Cyberlaw: Privacy, Ethics, and Digital Rights” for the interdisciplinary CyberSecurity & Information Assurance program at the College of Computer and Information Science. 

 

 

 

 

April 16, 2020
Meeting

BLC Leads Alumni Virtual Meeting

The BLC Leads 2017 and 2018 participants will meet virtually on Thursday, April 6th from 10:00am-11:00am for a group discussion. The readings and call in information have been shared via the BLC.Leads List-Serv.

April 13, 2020
Meeting

BLC Resource Sharing COI Spring Meeting -- Virtual

The BLC Resource Sharing COI will hold its virtual Spring meeting on Monday, April 13th, from 2:00pm-3:00pm. Agenda and registration details will be shared via the COI's list-serv. This meeting of the COI was recorded. Please find the recording and slides below.

The comments and suggestions shared by attendees are posted on the Resource Sharing COI Wiki.

April 13, 2020
Meeting

BLC AUL/AD COI Virtual Meeting

The BLC's AUL/AD Community of Interest will hold its next virtual meeting on Monday, April 13th, 2020 from 10:00am-12:00pm. The agenda and login instructions will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

April 09, 2020
Meeting

BLC Special Collections COI - Virtual Meeting

The Special Collections COI will hold a virtual meeting on Thursday, April 9th from 12:00pm-2:00pm. The agenda and remote login instructions will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

April 01, 2020
Meeting

BLC Heads of Resource Management Committee Virtual Meeting

The Heads of Resource Management Committee have scheduled a meeting on Wednesday, April 1st, from 10:00am-11:00am. Location details and the meeting agenda will be shared via the Committee's list-serv closer to the date.

March 30, 2020
Meeting

BLC Alma/Primo Collaboration Working Group Meeting - Virtual

The Alma/Primo Collaboration Working Group will hold a virtual meeting on Monday, March 30th, 2020, from 10:00am-12:00pm. The agenda and login options will be shared on the list-serv prior to the meeting.

March 27, 2020
Meeting

BLC Access Services COI Spring Meeting -- Virtual Meeting

The Access Services COI will a virtual meeting on Friday, March 27th from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. The agenda and remote login options will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

March 16, 2020
Meeting

BLC Chemistry COI Meeting -- Virtual Meeting

The BLC's Chemistry COI will hold a virtual meeting on Monday, March 16th, from 10:00am-12:00pm. Remote attendance information and the agenda will be provided closer to the date via the COI's list-serv.

March 13, 2020
Meeting

Meeting of the BLC Board of Directors - Tufts University, Medford, MA

March 09, 2020
Meeting

BLC Heads of Resource Management Committee Meeting -- Virtual

The Heads of Resource Management Committee is scheduled to meet virtually on Monday, March 9th from 2:00pm-4:00pm. Log in details and the agenda will be made available closer to the meeting.

March 09, 2020
Webinar

BLC Resource Sharing Webinar: Rapido with Mike Richins

The BLC Resource Sharing COI is scheduling a series of deep dives into software and workflows of particular interest to its members. 

The second in the series is a webinar with Rapid's Mike Richins. The recording and slides are available below.

Please email questions about Rapido to the Resource Sharing COI Co-Chairs for them to forward to the presenters.

March 03, 2020
Webinar

BLC Resource Sharing Webinar: Open Access Button with Joe McArthur

The BLC Resource Sharing COI is scheduling a series of deep dives into software and workflows of particular interest to its members. 

The first in the series is a webinar on the Open Access Button, with Joe McArthur.

The presentation recording and slides are available below:

February 13, 2020
Webinar

Tips for Implementing a Library Mentoring Program, a BLC Expanding Knowledge Webinar

Tips for Implementing a Library Mentoring Program

A library mentoring program can contribute to staff success by providing onboarding support and building relationships. This webinar will cover the essential needs to consider when creating a mentoring program, and offer practical recommendations on how to start building a mentoring program in your library.

Learning outcomes:

  • Participants will be able to
  • Articulate the benefits of a library mentoring program
  • Understand the basic needs for administering a library mentoring program
  • Decide on the next steps for their institutions

Presenter bio:

Laura Evans (levans@amherst.edu) is the Head of Cataloging/Metadata at Amherst College. Previously, she was the Assistant Head of Cataloging at Binghamton University, where she participated in the library’s mentoring program as both a mentor and a mentee. She is also a member of the ALCTS Mentoring Program Subcommittee, and is the author of the article Supervisors as Mentors, published in College and Research Library News in July/August 2019.  

February 12, 2020
Meeting

BLC Health Sciences COI Meeting -- Virtual Meeting

The Health Sciences COI has scheduled a meeting for Wednesday, February 12th, from 1:00pm-2:00pm. The agenda and meeting details will be shared on the COI's list-serv.

February 03, 2020
Training

BLC Workshop: Library Staff Training on Mental Health

Library Staff Training on Mental Health: How Staff Can Better Serve Challenging Patrons and Their Behaviors

Academic libraries are more than the books they house, they are the combination of the collections they steward, the services they offer, and the spaces where they make their patrons feel comfortable.

As staff in libraries serving primarily students and faculty, it is important to have an understanding of the ways in which patrons can experience a variety of mental health challenges, and how library staff can handle these patrons in a caring and professional manner.

Students in particular can experience a range of issues, stemming from the pressures of a new environment, increased expectations, and lack of a support network. As a result, they may become depressed or self-harming, anxious, disruptive, and have other issues that can be distracting, scary and troublesome to staff and other patrons. 

This workshop will: 

  • Provide a better understanding of the range of mental health issues presented by patrons that might affect a library setting; 
  • Identify clear ways to take action in a variety of scenarios to keep all patrons and staff safe; and 
  • Bring library staff together to share the training experience and support one another.

This training is fun, will give participants specific language to use and new approaches to implement, will give participants information about mental health which will be useful to them personally, and is interactive and empowering.  Presenter Jon Mattleman has over three decades of work in public service, facilitates 75+ trainings a year for library staff, parents, and professionals, and gives people tools they can use immediately. Learn more about Jon at www.jonmattleman.com

Workshop Logistics:

The BLC is pleased to bring this workshop to our member libraries on Monday, February 3rd from 10:00am-12:00pm. Registration will close on Thursday, January 30th.

Register here 

  • Capacity: This workshop is limited to 40 participants. We encourage libraries who wish to send multiple participants to limit to 2-3.
  • Participants are encouraged (not required) to submit examples of issues faced at their institutions. These examples will be anonymized and used during the workshop.
  • Coffee and lunch will be provided
  • Directions: Attendees are encouraged to take public transit or carpool to the workshop, as there may be limited parking available near Boston College's Theology and Ministry Library (TML). The TML is on the Green Line. There may be limited parking available in the parking garages located in Boston College's Newton Campus, a short walk to the TML. For more directions, please visit https://libguides.bc.edu/tml/visit
  • There will not be a remote option for this workshop.
  • Please contact Mei Mendez (mmendez@blc.org) with any questions.
January 16, 2020
Meeting

BLC Continuing Resources & Metadata Management COI Meeting -- Northeastern University

The BLC Continuing Resouces and Metadata Management (CRMM) COI will meet on Thursday, January 16th, 2020 from 1:00pm-3:00pm at Northeastern University. A remote option will be available, and agenda details will be shared via the CRMM list-serv.

December 12, 2019
Webinar

BLC Expanding Knowledge Webinar: Coordinating Collaboration: Bringing Local Primary Source Education to the Boston Public Schools Curricula

The latest installment in the BLC Expanding Knowledge Webinar series will take place on Thursday, December 12th from 11:00am-12:00pm. 

Join Molly Brown and Regina Pagani to learn about a collaboration between Boston Public School educators and the Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections that brought high school students into the archives to do primary source research. In this webinar we’ll share strategies for creating and sustaining partnerships with external collaborators, the process of incorporating archives into curricula, and specific activities for engaging students in primary source research. Using our collaboration with Boston Public School educators as a guide we'll discuss using experiential and hands-on techniques of teaching with archives.  Anyone interested in archives, teaching with primary sources, and growing your collaborative network is welcome! 
 
After this webinar attendees should be able to: 

  • Envision how to use collections to engage local partners 
  • Identify collection strengths and how to leverage them for collaboration  
     

About the presenters:

Molly Brown

Molly Brown is the Reference and Outreach Archivist at Northeastern University’s Snell Library. Molly holds a BA in History and English Literature from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. She received an MA in History and MLIS with an archives concentration from Simmons University. Molly’s work at Northeastern centers on community collaboration, archival access, and experiential learning with primary sources.

 

Regina Pagani

Regina Pagani is the Arts, Humanities, and Experiential Learning Librarian at Northeastern University’s Snell Library. She holds a BA in History and English Literature from St. John’s University and an MLIS with an archives concentration from Simmons University. She is interested in experiential learning opportunities across the library’s collections, services, and space

December 06, 2019
Meeting

Meeting of the BLC Board of Directors - University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

December 05, 2019
Meeting

Heads of Resource Management (HRM) Committee In-Person Meeting

The Heads of Resource Management Committee will have an in-person meeting on Thursday, December 5th from 10:00am-12:30pm. Location and agenda details will be shared via the Committee's list-serv.

December 04, 2019
Meeting

BLC Alma/Primo Collaboration Working Group

The BLC's Alma/Primo Collaboration Working Group will have an afternoon meeting on Wednesday, December 4th, hosted by Tufts University. Agenda and other details will be shared via the group's list-serv.

December 03, 2019
Training

BLC Vendor Webinar: ILLiad 9.1 Overview

Atlas staff will provide an overview of the ILLiad 9.1 release for the BLC member libraries. While the webinar will be recorded, we encourage attendance for the opportunity to ask questions of the staff. The webinar will take place on Tuesday, December 3rd at 10:00am.

Register Here!

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about joining the webinar.

November 22, 2019
Meeting

BLC Access Services COI Meeting

The BLC Access Services COI will meet in person and on line on Friday, November 22nd, from 10:00am-12:00pm, at Boston College's O'Neill Library, in the Connors Family Learning Center, Room 200. For directions to the library, please click here. Agenda and virtual meeting details will be shared via the COI's list-serv. 

November 18, 2019
Meeting

BLC Special Collections COI - Virtual Meeting

The BLC Special Collections COI will hold a virtual meeting on Monday, November 18th, from 1:00pm-3:00pm. The agenda and login details will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

November 18, 2019
Meeting

BLC Technology COI Fall Meeting - Boston College

The BLC's Technology COI will hold its 2019 Fall meeting on Monday, November 18th from 9:00am-1:00pm, at Boston College's Theology and Ministry Library. The agenda and logistics information will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

Presentations from this meeting are now available, please find them below:

November 13, 2019
Meeting

BLC Resource Sharing COI Fall Meeting - Wesleyan University

The BLC Resource Sharing COI will hold its Fall Meeting on Wednesday, November 13th at Wesleyan University, from 9:00am-3:00pm. The meeting will take place in the Develin Room (2nd floor) of the Olin Library. Additional information, including options for remote participation, will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

October 31, 2019
Meeting

BLC Associate University Librarians/Associate Directors COI Meeting

The Associate University Librarians/Associate Directors COI will hold its fall meeting on Thursday, October 31st, from 10:00am-3:00pm at the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Agenda and other logistics details will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

October 24, 2019
Meeting

Heads of Resource Management (HRM) Committee Virtual Meeting

The Heads of Resource Management Committee will have a virtual meeting on Thursday, October 24th from 10:00am-12:00pm. Log in and agenda details will be shared via the Committee's list-serv.

October 15, 2019
Meeting

Health Sciences COI Fall Online Meeting

The Health Sciences COI will hold its virtual fall meeting on Tuesday, October 15th, from 10:00am-11:00am. The agenda and login details will be distributed via the list-serv.

October 11, 2019
Meeting

BLC Media COI Fall In-Person Meeting

The Fall meeting of the BLC Media COI will take place on Friday, October 11th from 11am-2pm at UMass Amherst. The agenda and additional information will be shared via the Media COI list-serv.

October 02, 2019
Webinar

Esploro Presentation and Demonstration

 

Ex Libris Esploro Presentation & Demonstration

Wed, Oct 2, 2019 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM EDT

Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.

https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/303357829

You can also dial in using your phone. United States: +1 (786) 535-3211 Access Code: 303-357-829

September 26, 2019
Meeting

Heads of Resource Management (HRM) Committee In-Person Meeting

The Heads of Resource Management Committee will have an in-person meeting on Thursday, September 26th from 10:00am-12:30pm. Location and agenda details will be shared via the Committee's list-serv.

September 24, 2019
Webinar

Expanding Knowledge Webinar: Licensing 101: Strategies for Managing Risk & Expanding Knowledge

 Licensing 101: Strategies for Managing Risk & Expanding Knowledge webinar.

This webinar introduces a framework and best practices for effective licensing of library collections and services. It will address common concerns such as learning the legalese, developing negotiation skills, reducing legal risk, and ensuring bang for your buck. It will also illustrate ways in which licensing can nudge the scholarly communication ecosystem toward equitable and sustainable futures.

Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of licensing (vocabulary, best practices, concepts), along with pointers on how to apply this knowledge strategically in their dealings with vendors and colleagues. This webinar is designed for library staff who are new to licensing or need a refresher, but the strategies and case studies described in the webinar will benefit attendees at all levels of experience.

Presenter

Michael Rodriguez (he/him/his) is Collections Strategist at the University of Connecticut. He collaborates to conceive, communicate, and implement strategies to analyze, build, and leverage collections. Prior to his current role, Michael served as Licensing & Acquisitions Librarian, also at UConn, negotiating vendor contracts cumulatively worth millions of dollars per year. Michael holds a BA in history and English from Florida Gulf Coast University and an MLIS from Florida State University. He is President of the ACRL New England Chapter.

September 23, 2019
Meeting

Alma/Primo Collaboration Working Group Meeting--Northeastern University

The next meeting of the Alma/Primo Collaboration Working Group will take place on Monday, September 23rd from 10:00am-12:30pm at Northeastern's Snell Library, room 322.

Agenda and additional details will be distributed via the Working Group's list-serv.

September 20, 2019
Meeting

Meeting of the BLC Board of Directors - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, MA

September 17, 2019
Webinar

BLC Vendor Webinar: Reprints Desk, Inc.

A number of the BLC member libraries currently use the document delivery services from ReprintsDesk.  The Article Galaxy Collection is a new offering from ReprintsDesk and may be of interest to supplement your current offerings.  The Collection features articles from over 40,000 journals and chapters from over 450,000 books, ideal for filling gaps in your collection holdings. To hear more about The Article Galaxy Scholar Collection, plan to attend the informational webinar on  Tuesday, September 17th at 2pm. 

During this 30-minute webinar, Reprints Desk will provide an overview of the Article Galaxy Scholar Collection of journal articles with special copyright royalty rates and demonstrate how their services streamlines article acquisition workflows both directly and through integrations with systems such as EBSCO, Alma, ILLiad, Odyssey and RapidILL. The webinar will include a brief demo of the Article Galaxy Scholar Platform currently in development, which will provide semi-automated mediation service for on-demand document delivery.

The webinar will be recorded and shared via the BLC website upon completion.
 

August 27, 2019
Webinar

Expanding Knowledge Webinar: Takeaways from the BLC Leads Program

Sarah Hutton, Head of Student Success & Engagement at the W.E.B. DuBois Library (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and a member of the 2018 BLC Leads cohort, will provide an overview of her experiences in the program and their continued impact on her career and institution. Her presentation will also address the program's cohort model and its benefits.

The webinar will take place on Tuesday, August 27th from 1:00-2:00pm. Please register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2544285700810103820

Webinar attendees will leave the webinar with an understanding of the program structure and its applicability to their work and institutions. More information about the BLC Leads program, which will open for applications for the 2020 cycle in the fall, is available on the BLC website.

About Sarah:

Reporting to the Associate Dean of Research & Learning, Sarah leads a department of 11 FTE and 40+ student employees, advocating for, promoting, and providing innovative technologies, spaces and education that will most effectively allow undergraduates at UMass Amherst and the Five Colleges to become more creative, technologically adept, and critically engaged in research and scholarship. Sarah holds a Bachelor’s degree in counselling (dual minors in psychology and art), a master’s degree in library and information studies (including information literacy instruction certificate), and is currently a Ph.D. student in the Educational Policy and Leadership program in the College of Education. Sarah's email is shutton@library.umass.edu

August 13, 2019
Meeting

BLC Special Collections COI Meeting

The BLC Special Collections COI will hold a meeting on Tuesday, August 13th, from 10am-1pm at Tisch Library, Tufts University. The first part of the meeting will be held in conjunction with the Resource Sharing COI, in order to discuss the results of the recent survey on resource sharing and special collections materials at BLC member libraries. The agenda and login information for those attending remotely will be shared via the Special Collections COI list-serv.

August 13, 2019
Meeting

BLC Resource Sharing COI Summer Meeting - Tufts University

The BLC Resource Sharing COI will hold its summer meeting on Tuesday, August 8th at Tufts University. Additional details will be shared via the COI's mailing list. 

July 24, 2019
Training

Ex Libris Solutions Day for the BLC

On Wednesday, July 24th, the BLC and Ex Libris will sponsor a vendor solutions day at the Boston College Theology and Ministry Library.  The day will run from 10:00am to 3:45pm and will include updates on the following:

  • Ex Libris / Alma Update
  • Impacting Teaching & Learning with Leganto
  • Rialto, Transformative Selection
  • Esploro, a Next-generation Research Repository
  • Next-generation Resource Sharing

While this series of updates will likely be of most interest to the BLC libraries already using the Alma/Primo suite, we encourage others who may wish to learn more, particularly since products such as Esploro and the recently announced next-generation resource sharing services do not require Alma/Primo.

Registration for this event is now closed. Please contact Mei Mendez (mmendez@blc.org) to be placed on the wait list.

Event Agenda:

10:00am              Ex Libris / Alma Update

11:00am              Impacting Teaching & Learning with Leganto

Noon                     Lunch (provided by Ex Libris)

1:00pm                 Rialto, Transformative Selection

1:45pm                 Esploro, a Next-generation Research Repository

2:45pm                 Next-generation Resource Sharing

3:15pm                 Feedback / Q&A

3:45pm                 Adjournment

 

 

June 10, 2019
Meeting

Alma/Primo Collaboration Working Group Meeting -- Boston College

The Alma/Primo Collaboration Working Group will have an in-person meeting on Monday, June 10th at Boston College. Coffee and refreshments will start at 10:00am and the meeting will take place from 10:30-12:30pm, with lunch.

Additional details will be provided via the group's list-serv.

June 06, 2019 to June 07, 2019
Meeting

BLC Board Meeting and Retreat - Warren Conference Center

May 22, 2019
Symposium

Networking Day 2019

The BLC is pleased to announce our annual Networking Day membership meeting was held at Brandeis University in the Sherman Hall Function Room on Wednesday, May 22nd from 9:30AM-4:00PM.

The keynote speaker was DeEtta Jones, of DeEtta Jones & Associates, who spoke on Courageous Leadership. Focusing on what it means to be a leader of conscience, DeEtta shared guidance for both senior leaders and those early in their leadership journey.  DeEtta has been a leading voice in shaping contemporary thinking and practice around workplace culture, personal transformation, diversity and inclusion and was the primary architect of the BLC Leads leadership development program.

Following a panel of BLC Leads participants and lunch, Susan Stearns provided an update on the BLC.  At the conclusion of Networking Day, a number of the BLC Communiities of Interest held meetings.  

All available presentation slides are linked below as is a video of the introductions and Keynote (starting at minute 6:54).

Agenda

9:30 am  Registration and Continental Breakfast
10:00 am Welcome: Simon Neame, President of the BLC and Susan Stearns, Executive Director
10:15 am Keynote Slides: DeEtta Jones of DeEtta Jones & Associates | Video
11:45am Panel of BLC Leads Participants – Graduates of the 2017 and 2018 BLC Leads Leadership Institute will discuss how the program has shaped their leadership.
12:45pm Break to setup for Lunch
1:00pm Lunch    
1:45pm BLC Update – Susan Stearns
2:00pm

Lightning Talks: What’s New at BLC Libraries – BLC member libraries’ staff will provide brief presentations on initiatives and projects of interest.
3:00pm Break
3:15pm Breakout Sessions for the BLC Communities of Interest – Locations TBD
3:30pm BLC Leads Meet Up – Participants in the 2017 and 2018 program are invited to a meet up with light refreshments.  BLC Board Members are welcome to join.

           

     

        

     

   

          

         

       

 

May 17, 2019
Webinar

Expanding Knowledge Webinar: De-mystifying E-resource access - What every librarian should know

The BLC is pleased to announce the next webinar in the Expanding Knowledge series: De-mystifying E-resource access - What every librarian should know, presented by Emily Singley (Boston College) and Viral Amin (Bentley University). The webinar will take place on Friday, May 17th, from 1:00pm-2:00pm. Register and find more information below.

Have you ever been unable to access an e-resource? Do you wish you understood why? Access and authentication of library e-resources is an increasingly complex area often only understood by a few “techy” people in the library. In this webinar, Viral Amin and Emily Singley of the BLC’s Technology COI will provide a roadmap to e-resource access designed to give librarians the vocabulary and knowledge needed to better understand patron frustrations and make more informed collection development decisions. Attendees will gain a fundamental understanding of how different authentication methods work (including EZProxy and Shibboleth) and will also learn where the access environment is heading and how current trends will impact libraries and users in the future.
 

Learning outcomes:

  • A basic understanding and vocabulary for common library e-resource access mechanisms (e.g., EZProxy, Shibboleth)
  • Awareness of implications of e-resource access options when making collection development decisions
  • Knowledge of current trends in the area of e-resource access, including RA21 and SciHub

Presenters:

Emily Singley is the Head of Library Systems at Boston College, where she manages library technology services. She previously held technology positions at Harvard University, Southern New Hampshire University, Curry College, and the University of Minnesota. Emily is the Co-Chair of the BLC's Technology COI. She can be reached at emily.singley@bc.edu

Viral Amin is the Electronic Resource Librarian at Bentley University.  In addition to the duties for that role, he provides Reference, Instruction, and Liaison services for Math, Finance, and Economics.  In previous positions, his responsibilities included Technical Services, Library IT, and Data Management. Viral can be reached at vamin@bentley.edu.

What you’ll learn:

  • How e-resource access works - taking a look under the hood, breaking it down
    • IP Authentication (EZProxy)
  • The future of e-resource authentication
    • Federated Identity management (e.g., Shibboleth)
    • RA21
  • Why it matters and what *you* can do
    • Piracy (SciHub)
    • Privacy

The webinar will be recorded and shared with BLC members. Please contact Mei Mendez (mmendez@blc.org) with ideas for other professional development opportunities.

May 03, 2019
Training

Joint Project Management Workshop -- BLC and IPLC

The Boston Library Consortium (BLC) and the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation (IPLC) are pleased to offer a one-day workshop on Project Management on Friday, May 3rd from 9:30am to 3:30pm, at Boston College's Theology and Ministry Library, room 112 (directions and parking information below).

This interactive workshop will begin with a brief presentation on project management and communication strategies, followed by hands-on discussion of agile and scrum methodologies, as well as an overview of Gantt charts and project networks. Participants are invited to bring a current or upcoming project in order to take full advantage of the exercises.

Registration is limited to 30 participants from both consortia, and if more than one individual from a single institution is registered, they will be placed on a waiting list until all institutions are represented. Registration is closed for this event. 

Participant Objectives:

Following this session, participants will be able to:

  • articulate one reason establishing a communication strategy is an essential element of project management (e.g. establishing norms and professional expectations for a project).
  • name and describe at least one attribute of one Agile project management methodology (e.g. Scrum or Kanban).
  • name and describe at least one attribute of traditional project management methodologies (e.g. project network, Gantt chart.)
  • apply at least one aspect of either Agile or traditional project management to their work.

Workshop Agenda:

Time/Duration Topic/Activity
9:30am-10:00am Breakfast/Networking
10:00am-10:15am Welcome | Workshop Goals | Introductions
10:15am-11:00am Introduction to Project Management
11:00am-11:15am Break
11:15am-12:15pm Project Management: The Human Element
12:15pm-1:15pm Lunch
1:15pm-1:45pm Agile & Scrum: What are they and How to use them
1:45pm-2:30pm Hands on Scrum: Writing & Sharing Stories for a Project | Writing & Timing Tasks for a Project
2:30pm-3:00pm Gantt Charts & Project Networks: What are they and How to use them
3:00pm-3:15pm Hands on: develop Gantt chart based on Scrum exercise
3:15pm-3:30pm Wrap up | Questions

About the instructor:

Galadriel Chilton is the Director of Collections Initiatives for the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation, a partnership of 13 academic libraries (Brown, Dartmouth, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Penn, Princeton, Yale, and Stanford). In this role, she plans, implements, and oversees collaborative collection initiatives and projects. She earned her Bachelor of Arts at Berea College, holds a Master of Library Science from Indiana University, a Master of Arts in educational technology and instructional design from San Diego State University, and a certificate in project management from Cornell University.

Directions and Parking:

Please visit the Theology and Ministry Library's webpage for directions. Parking is available in the lots located to the left and in front of the Library. Additional parking is located past the library, and to the right. Boston College's Parking Department will be informed of the event and will not ticket non-BC vehicles. Please let Mei Mendez (mmendez@blc.org) know if you experience any difficulties or have any questions).

The Boston College Theology and Ministry Library is located on the Green Line. Please consult the MBTA website for additional information.

Room 112 is located in the first floor of the library.

 

May 01, 2019
Meeting

Heads of Resource Management (HRM) Committee Virtual Meeting

The Heads of Resource Management Committee will hold a virtual meeting on Wednesday, May 1st, 2019, from 10:00am-12:30pm. Login information and the meeting agenda will be distributed via the HRM list-serv.

April 30, 2019
Meeting

Associate University Librarians COI Meeting

The Associate University Librarians COI will meet on Tuesday, April 30th from 10:00am to 2:00pm at UMass Boston, in the Library's Teaching Lab. Directions, logistics information, and the meeting agenda will be shared via the BLC.AUL list-serv.

 

 

April 26, 2019
Symposium

The Section 108 Dilemma: Red Tape, Video Tape, and Digital Conversion

The Boston Library Consortium’s Media Community of Interest is happy to announce our spring program: The Section 108 Dilemma: Red Tape, Video Tape, and Digital Conversion

Friday, April 26, 2019, 10:00am-3:30pm | Brandeis University, Waltham, MA | Sponsored by the Boston Library Consortium (BLC)

Slides

About this Event

As older formats become obsolescent, today’s academic libraries are making decisions about weeding and preserving older audio and video formats. But it isn’t simply a decision to keep or to save: copyright law and technical work for conversion are complex considerations. This program attempts to help unpack the red tape and skills involved in preserving analog video and audio with experts on copyright, analog to digital conversion, and new initiatives.  Please learn about the dilemmas, find answers, and contribute to the discussion that academic libraries need to have.   A flyer for the event is available here.

Event Program (link will open a pdf document)

Speakers:

Kyle Courtney, Program Manager and Copyright Advisor, Office for Scholarly Communication, Harvard University

Kyle K. Courtney, a lawyer and librarian, serves as Copyright Advisor for Harvard, working out of the Library's Office for Scholarly Communication. He works across the University to help establish a culture of shared understanding of copyright within the Harvard community. His “Copyright First Responders” initiative is in its 6th year at Harvard, and he runs a parallel national network that has spread the program to libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions in Rhode Island, California, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska (Massachusetts coming soon). He is a published author and nationally recognized speaker on the topic of copyright, technology, libraries, and the law.

Jessica Fjeld, Lecturer on Law and Clinical Instructor, Cyberlaw Clinic, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School, Cyberlaw Clinic

Jessica Fjeld is a Lecturer on Law and the Assistant Director of the Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. She focuses her legal practice on issues impacting digital media and art including intellectual property; freedom of expression, privacy, and related human rights issues; contract; and corporate law. Recently, she has emphasized work with AI-generated art, the overlap of existing rights and ethics frameworks on emerging technologies, and legal issues confronted by digital archives. Before joining the Clinic, Jessica worked in Business & Legal Affairs for WGBH Educational Foundation, where she advised the American Archive of Public Broadcasting along with numerous WGBH productions. She holds a JD from Columbia Law School, where she was a Hamilton Fellow, James Kent Scholar and Managing Editor of the Journal of Law and the Arts; an MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts; and a BA from Columbia University. 

David Shea, Student attorney for the Harvard Cyberlaw Clinic

David Shea is a second-year law student at Harvard Law School (HLS). He is currently a student attorney in the HLS Cyberlaw Clinic while taking coursework in Copyright law. He is also interested in criminal justice reform with a particular bent on sentencing and prison reform which has led him to a position as both Lead Article Editor and Executive Online Content Editor for Harvard's Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. David is a member and active participant in Harvard's Prison Legal Assistance Program (PLAP) and has interned at the Federal Public Defender's Office in Baltimore, Maryland. This summer David plans to begin a career in white collar defense and general litigation with a Washington D.C law firm. Before pursuing his J.D., David received an A.B. in History from Princeton University and a Masters in Urban Planning (with coursework in Real Estate Finance) from The University of Southern California before working for a number of years in private real estate investment.

Sarah McCleskey, Head of Resource and Collection Services, Hofstra University

An academic librarian with over 25 years’ experience in a variety of institutions, Sarah McCleskey has been Head of Resource and Collection Services at Hofstra University Library since 2004 and previously held positions at Clemson University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, working with film and media, architecture and the fine arts. She has expertise in project planning and management, collection management, copyright and scholarly communication, licensing, film programming, fundraising, and personnel management. She is a frequently published author and professionally active, with experience organizing and facilitating at numerous conferences. Sarah serves on the Academic Libraries Video Trust advisory board, and has just completed a three year term on the editorial board of the Journal of Copyright in Education & Librarianship. Sarah holds both an MSLS and MA from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BA in Latin and Politics from Randolph-Macon Woman's College.

Jonathan Iannone, Digital Media Supervisor, Northeastern University Libraries

Jonathan Iannone is a Recording Studio Supervisor at Snell Library Recording Studios at Northeastern University. He has many years of experience digitizing media for various projects. He understands and implements preproduction, production and post production solutions in a academic setting in a very active recording facility within Snell Library. Jonathan has a BFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College with a Minor in Communication Studies. 

Kimberly Kennedy, Digital Production Coordinator, Northeastern University Libraries

Kimberly (Kim) Kennedy is the current Digital Production Coordinator at the Northeastern University Library.  She manages A/V and paper-based material digitization.  Before coming to Northeastern, she worked as a Scanning and Document Delivery Associate in the MIT Libraries.  She has a MSLIS from Simmons University and a BA from Tufts University.   

Chris Lewis, Media Librarian, American University

Chris Lewis has been the Media Librarian at American University in Washington DC since 1992. He has an avid interest in film of all genres including documentary, film noir, international film, and arthouse cinema. He has also been an innovator in outreach to users – using blogs, social media, posters, and web pages - and was an early enthusiast for streaming video. He has been driving videotape conservation efforts at AU since the first month he arrived – when a videotape with a particularly bad case of sticky shed clogged one U-matic player after another to the chagrin of a consternated faculty member.

Phil Salvador, Collections Coordinator, American University

Phil Salvador is the Visual Media Collections Coordinator at the American University Library. Among his collection management responsibilities, he implements the library’s VHS conservation workflow. He has worked at the American University Library since he started a student employee ten years ago, and he received his Master's in Library and Information Science from Catholic University in 2015. He loves ephemeral media and seeing what unique titles the library has in its collections.

Meghan Bergin, Metadata Coordinator, UMass Amherst Libraries

Meghan Banach Bergin is the Head of the Metadata Unit at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.  She serves on the ALA ALCTS Program Committee and the New England Technical Services Executive Board and is a member of Online Audiovisual Catalogers (OLAC).  Her areas of expertise are in metadata, technical services management, scholarly communication, and digital preservation.  In her spare time she enjoys practicing yoga and riding horses.

Gabe Stetson, Coordinator of Digital Curriculum, Reserves, and Media, UMass Amherst Libraries

Gabe Stetson is the Coordinator of Digital Curriculum Reserve and Media at the UMass Amherst Libraries.  While the primary focus of his work these days is addressing course material affordability issues, he still enjoys digging through dusty basement collections of obsolete media and the challenges associated with preservation and access.

Bryce Roe, Manager of Audio Preservation Services, Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC)

Bryce Roe is the Manager of Audio Preservation Services at Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), where she confers with collection-holding institutions and individuals to evaluate their audio collections and develop preservation proposals. Bryce earned her MLIS in Archives Management from Simmons College, and a BA in Music with a concentration in Ethnomusicology from Oberlin College.

Dawn Aveline, Director of Preservation Programs, Preservation Technologies

Dawn Aveline joined Preservation Technologies in January 2019, bringing with her 8 years’ experience in library and archives preservation. In 2010 she entered UCLA’s Master of Library and Information Science program with a focus on Archival Studies. She worked as a student assistant in the UCLA Library Preservation Program, until graduating in 2012 and joining the Library full-time as Associate Librarian/Preservation Specialist. In 2013, Dawn was appointed Preservation Officer and Head of Preservation and Conservation for UCLA Library. She led a team of experts engaged in preservation support and advocacy for the University’s collections. During her tenure Dawn facilitated the department’s relocation and implemented the expansion of the Audiovisual Studio, adding film scanning and grooved media transfers, an eightfold increase in compact cassette and micro-cassette digitization, and doubling the video transfer capabilities.

 

Event Logistics:

For questions, contact the event committee: Laura Jenemann (ljeneman@bu.edu), Debra Mandel (d.mandel@northeastern.edu) , Joanna Fuchs (jmfuchs@brandeis.edu) and Mei Mendez (mmendez@blc.org).

The event will take place in the Treasure Room of the Brandeis Library. Please refer to this campus map to note the Library's location.

Driving & Public Transit Information

From Mass Pike I-90 Eastbound

  • Take exit 14 for I-95/Rt 128. Keep left for 95/128 North. While on the ramp, exit immediately onto exit 24 for Route 30. Bear left onto Route 30. Turn right at the first traffic light onto River Road. Follow this for 1.5 miles, where it turns into South Street. Brandeis is one-half mile ahead on the left, at 415 South Street.

From Mass Pike I-90 Westbound

  • Take exit 15B for Weston, Rte. 30. At the end of the ramp, turn right onto Park Road. At the traffic light, turn right onto Route 30. Turn left at the next traffic light onto River Road. Follow this for 1.5 miles, where it turns into South Street. Brandeis is one-half mile ahead on the left, at 415 South Street.

From I-95/Route 128 Southbound

  • Take exit 24 for Route 30. At end of ramp, proceed through traffic light (across Route 30) onto River Road. Follow this for 1.5 miles, where it turns into South Street. Brandeis is one-half mile ahead on the left, at 415 South Street.

From I-95/Route 128 Northbound

  • Take exit 24 for Route 30. Route 30 is one of several options at this exit, so follow signs carefully. Turn left at the top of the ramp onto Route 30. Turn right at the traffic lights onto River Street. Follow this for 1.5 miles, where it turns into South Street. Brandeis is one-half mile ahead on the left, at 415 South Street.

Commuter Rail (Fitchburg Line/South Acton Line)

  • Commuter train service is available from Boston's North Station (Fitchburg/South Acton line) to the Brandeis/Roberts Station that borders the campus. See MBTA site for schedules.

Parking Information:

Visitor Passes
For anyone driving to the event, you will need to get a visitor pass from Public Safety. When you enter campus, you will go to the Information Booth located at the Main Entrance. You will tell the parking attendant that you are here for a BLC event at the Library. The attendant will ask you some vehicle information before issuing the pass. Your visitor pass will allow you to park in any area designated as blue.  

If for some reason, there is no attendant at the Information Booth, you will need to go to Public Safety in Stoneman to get a visitor pass. To get to Stoneman, from the main entrance you will turn right up the Loop Road. You will pass the Science center on your left and on your right, you will see the bridge crossing South Street. On your right-hand side is Stoneman it is across stair leading up to the Usdan Castle.

Parking
With a visitor pass, you can park in any lot or area designated as a Blue Zone. Areas to park:
Along the Loop Road from the Usdan Student Center to the Chapels, Kutz Hall lot, North Parking Lot, the small lot in front of the Heller School, and the small lot in front of the Library across from the Mandel Center.

 

Lodging:

The following hotels are located near Brandeis University. 

Boston Marriott Newton (5min car ride to campus)

2345 Commonwealth Avenue

Newton, MA 02466

617-969-1000

 

Best Western TLC Hotel (10min car ride to campus)
380 Winter St.
Waltham, Massachusetts 02451
781-890-7800


Courtyard Boston Waltham (10min car ride to campus)
387 Winter St.
Waltham, Massachusetts 02451
781-419-0900
866-419-0999


The Westin Waltham Boston (10min car ride to campus )
70 Third Avenue
Waltham, Massachusetts 02451
781-290-5600 front desk
800-937-8461 reservations

 

 

 

 

April 04, 2019
Webinar

Collections Strategies: Perspectives from BLC Libraries

More and more, library leaders are implementing innovative strategies that advance efforts to transform collections activities from an outside-in model (publisher/provider content) to an inside-out approach (locally created and distinctive content). This can include an emphasis on Open Access, Open Education Resources, Library Publishing, Digital Scholarship, Data Science initiatives and more. Collections transformations should be informed by data, values, and strategic direction, while providing oversight of the building, shaping and presenting of content. This webinar will present theoretical and practical approaches to this new way of thinking about collection management, allowing attendees to consider implementing this shift into their thinking about library collections.

Webinar Presenters:

Sally Krash, Associate Dean for Content and Discovery (UMass Amherst): A Coalition for Transformation

Mark Paris, Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources (Brandeis University): Impactful Campus Collaborations Beyond your Faculty

 

April 01, 2019
Meeting

Heads of Resource Management (HRM) Committee In-Person Meeting

The Spring in-person meeting of the Heads of Resource Management Committee will take place on Monday, April 1st from 10:00am-12:30pm. Location and other information will be shared via the HRM list-serv.

March 28, 2019
Webinar

Expanding Knowledge Webinar: Strategies for Effective Library Marketing and Communications

In response to the recent survey to BLC librarians, Mary Moser (UMass Boston) and Annie Harrison (Brandeis University), have partnered to bring library and marketing expertise together and share Strategies for Effective Library Marketing and Communications. This Expanding Knowledge webinar will take place on Thursday, March 28th, 2019, from 11:00am - 12:00pm.

How do you get the word out about your library’s resources, services, and programs? Two library communication staffers will share best practices, tips, and tools for identifying, developing, and adapting communications strategies that will work for your campus and library staffing levels. The webinar will cover: library and campus branding and style guides; campus partnerships for communication and outreach; email and social media strategies, including accessibility concerns; and developing a communication plan for your library.

 

Presenter Information:

Annie Harrison is the Strategic Communications & Marketing Specialist at the Brandeis Library. She has a BS in Journalism and Political Science from Central Michigan University, and she is currently working on her MS in Digital Marketing and Design at Brandeis. She began her career at Clarkson University as a social media manager and news writer, and now supports the Brandeis Library in developing written and visual content for print and digital marketing channels as well as preparing annual reports and other strategic planning materials.

Mary Moser is the Engagement and Advancement Librarian at UMass Boston. She has an MLS from Indiana University and an MA in Educational Technology Leadership from the George Washington University. After a decade of coordinating library instruction programs in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Massachusetts, she now coordinates grant writing, fundraising, and communication initiatives for Healey Library.

 

This webinar will be recorded and shared with BLC member libraries.

March 25, 2019
Meeting

BLC Health Sciences COI - Spring Virtual Meeting

The Health Sciences COI will have its Spring virtual meeting on Monday, March 25th from 10:30am-11:30am.  The meeting agenda and login information will be shared in the COI's list-serv.

March 22, 2019
Meeting

Special Collections COI Meeting and Digital Preservation Demonstration -- Tufts University

The BLC Special Collections COI co-conveners will host a combined COI meeting and informal digital preservation demo and discussion at Tufts University on Friday, March 22nd. The proposed schedule is below. Additional details will be shared closer to the date, via the COI list-serv.

12:00pm-1:00pm: Special Collections Community of Interest Meeting
1:00pm-2:30pm: Digital Preservation at Tufts Demos and Discussion
2:30pm-3:30pm: Repository Tour of Tufts Digital Collections and Archives

COI members are welcome to attend any portion of the day, though attendance to the digital preservation session may be limited to one or two people per institution if response is greater than we anticipate.

For planning purposes please RSVP to archives@tufts.edu by March 1.

March 14, 2019
Meeting

BLC Board Meeting - Beechwood Hotel, Worcester, MA

March 13, 2019
Meeting

BLC Resource Sharing COI Spring Meeting -- Law Library, Boston University

The Resource Sharing COI's Spring meeting will take place on Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 from 9:30am to 2:00pm at Boston University's Law Library. An optional tour of the library is available after the meeting. The agenda and directions information has been shared in the COI's list-serv. 

March 05, 2019
Webinar

Expanding Knowledge Webinar: Exploring New Competencies for Subject Librarians: What Are They? Do We All Need Them? And How Do We Acquire Them?

The Expanding Knowledge Webinar series for the Boston Library Consortium opens 2019 with a webinar addressing the changing roles of subject liaisons. Anna Marie Johnson, Head of Research Assistance & Instruction at the University of Louisville Libraries and the author of the recent article "Connections, Conversations, and Visibility: How the Work of Academic Reference and Liaison Librarians Is Evolving," published in Reference & User Services Quarterly in January 2019, will talk about this resesarch and its implications for subject liaisons and their colleagues.

 

The webinar, titled Exploring New Competencies for Subject Librarians: What Are They? Do We All Need Them? And How Do We Acquire Them? will take place on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 from 11:00am - 12:00pm.

The webinar recording and slides are now available. Please take a look at them here:

Based on the presenter’s sabbatical research and ten years of experience training new research and subject librarians , this presentation will explore the new work that librarians are being asked (or feeling like they need) to take on such as data management, digital scholarship, copyright and scholarly communications, research assignment consultation, and more. In addition, the layer of one’s subject responsibilities can either provide direction or additional complexity and what does that look like? Finally, even if we see a need for new competencies, how do we acquire them, given the realities of our day-to-day work? What can we let go of? This presentation is intended to provide a starting point for these conversations at the participants’ libraries.

Find out more about Anna Marie Johnson here.

 

This webinar will be recorded and shared with BLC member libraries.

February 28, 2019 to February 28, 2020
Meeting

BLC Media COI Winter In-Person Meeting

The BLC Media COI's meeting will take place on Friday, February 28th, 2020 at Northeastern University's Snell Library, room 269A. A virtual option will also be available.

The meeting is set for 10am-1:00pm.  The first hour will focus on the working groups preparing the Resource Sharing and Streaming Media: Survey of the Landscape webinar, and the COI poster for the 50th Anniversary celebration. The formal COI meeting will begin at 11:00am.

COI members are encouraged to attend from 10:00am if interested in participating in any of the working groups. Parking and other details are forthcoming.

February 15, 2019
Meeting

BLC Media COI Spring Meeting -- Mugar Library, Boston University

The Spring Meeting of the Media COI will take place on Friday, February 15th from 11:00am to 1:00pm, at Boston University's Mugar Library. Should the meeting be cancelled due to snow, the alternate date is Friday, March 8th, from 11:00am to 1:00pm.

The agenda and virtual attendance instructions will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

February 13, 2019
Meeting

BLC Alma/Primo Collaboration Working Group

The BLC Alma/Primo Collaboration Working Group will have a meeting on Wednesday, February 13th from 12:30pm - 2;30pm at Northeastern University. The agenda and login information for virtual participation will be shared on the group's list-serv.

February 13, 2019
Meeting

Special Collections COI Virtual Meeting

The BLC Special Collections COI will hold a virtual meeting on Wednedsday, February 13th from 10:00am to 11:00am. The meeting agenda and login information will be shared via the COI list-serv.

January 18, 2019
Meeting

BLC Special Collections COI - Virtual Meeting

The BLC Special Collections COI will meet virtually on Friday, January 18th, 2019 from 11am-12pm. The agenda and login information will be distributed via the list-serv closer to the meeting date.

January 15, 2019
Meeting

BLC Health Sciences COI - Virtual Meeting

The BLC's Health Sciences COI will have a virtual meeting on Tuesday, January 15th, 2019 from 10:30am-11:30am. The login information will be distributed via the COI's list-serv.

December 10, 2018
Meeting

BLC Heads of Resource Management Committee Meeting -- WHOI

The Heads of Resource Management Committee is meeting on Monday, December 10th at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.  An agenda and remote login instructions will be distributed via the Committee's list-serv.

December 07, 2018
Meeting

BLC Board Meeting - Bentley University

December 05, 2018 to December 06, 2018
Symposium

Shared Print Monograph Summit

The Shared Print Monograph Summit organized by the Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST), reconvenes thinkers and practitioners in the area of shared print to explore a national solution to collective collection management, preservation, and access. The event is by invitation only.

November 30, 2018
Meeting

CRRM COI Meeting

The Continuing Resources and Metadata Management COI will meet on Friday, November 30th, 2018, from 10:00am-12:00pm, at Snell Library, Northeastern University. Meeting details and remote participation information will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

November 27, 2018
Meeting

AUL COI Meeting -- Northeastern University

The Asociate University Librarians COI will meet on Wednesday, November 27th, 2018 from 10:00am-2:00pm, at Northeastern University. Agenda and remote meeting details have been distributed via the AUL COI list-serv.

November 20, 2018
Meeting

Special Collections COI Virtual Meeting

The Special Collections COI will have a virtual meeting on Tuesday, November 20th at 3pm. Login details are available via the COI list-serv.

November 14, 2018 to November 15, 2018

BLC Leads Institute 2 - UMass, Amherst Hotel & Conference Center

This is the second in-person institute for the BLC Leads 2018 leadership program.

It will be held November 14-15, 2018 at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst Hotel and Conference Center.

November 13, 2018
Webinar

Expanding Knowledge Webinar: Report from the OA2020 Transformation Workshop

This webinar will review key points from the workshop and provide key steps that the BLC could take to accelerate the transition of scholarly communications to open access. The webinar will provide a clear understanding of the strategic and practical aspects of transitioning to OA, give attendees the ability to create and implement their own OA2020 roadmap within their own institutions, and provide best practices in managing and leading the open access transformation.

Presentation Recording

Presentation Slides

Webinar presenter Marilyn Billings is the Head of the Office of Scholarly Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She provides leadership in alternative scholarly communication strategies, including open access, open education and the role of digital repositories in today’s academic environment. She provides oversight of the UMass Amherst institutional repository ScholarWorks @ UMass Amherst and provides leadership and inspiration for the campus’ Open Education Initiative established in 2011. From November 2017 – July 2018, she held the position of Interim Director of Instructional Innovation at UMass Amherst. Current research interests include the Open Scholarly Commons and how various open initiatives tie into that broader framework. At the national level, she is a member of SPARC’s OER Advisory Committee, the Library Publishing Coalition Board and is an Open Textbook Network presenter.

For more information and a listing of presentations, please visit http://works.bepress.com/marilyn_billings/

 

November 05, 2018 to November 06, 2018
Training

IIIF Workshop: The International Image Interoperability Framework: What is it, and how can I use it?

The Boston Library Consortium is pleased to announce a two-day IIIF Workshop on November 5th and 6th.  The workshop: The International Image Interoperability Framework: What is it, and how can I use it? - will be hosted at Northeastern University’s Snell Library, room 421. This workshop is open to librarians and cultural heritage practitioners from BLC member institutions. 

 

Space is limited, please register here.

 

Access to image-based resources is fundamental to research, scholarship and the transmission of cultural knowledge. Digital images are a container for much of the information content in the web-based delivery of images, books, newspapers, manuscripts, maps, scrolls, single sheet collections, and archival materials. Yet much of the Internet’s image-based resources are locked up in silos, with access restricted to bespoke, locally built applications. The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) is a set of shared application programming interface (API) specifications for interoperable functionality in digital image repositories. The IIIF is comprised of and driven by a community of libraries, museums, archives, software companies, and other organizations working together to create, test, refine, implement and promote the IIIF specifications. This workshop will provide a clear and thorough understanding of what IIIF is, how it works, and how it can be applied to enhance image access and resource sharing.

“The International Image Interoperability Framework: What is it, and how can I use it?” workshop will be taught by Ben Brumfield and Sara Carlstead Brumfield of Brumfield Labs.  Ben and Sara have been working with IIIF for years, participating and presenting in IIIF groups on discovery and manuscripts, and leading workshops for museums and libraries. Their technical projects include building IIIF support into FromThePage, a manuscript transcription software and developing Pontiiif, an IIIF manifest search engine. 

A detailed agenda is forthcoming, please contact Patrick Yott (p.yott@northeastern.edu), Associate Dean for Digital Strategies and Services, Northeastern University Libraries with any questions.

 

Please bring a laptop with a browser that supports HTML 5 (see https://html5test.com/results/desktop.html for the latest browser versions).  The latest version of Firefox and any of the recent versions of Chrome should be fine. 

 

October 30, 2018
Meeting

Resource Sharing COI Meeting -- UConn

Date:                     Tuesday, October 30

Time:                     9:30-3 

Location:              UConn Homer Babbidge Library, Heritage Room 4th Floor

Parking:                South Parking Garage: rates are here (it is about a 5-10 minute walk from there to the Library)

Campus Map:    https://maps.uconn.edu/

October 29, 2018
Meeting

BLC Heads of Resource Management Committee Meeting -- Boston College

The BLC Heads of Resource Management Committee is meeting in person at Boston College on Monday, October 29th, 2018, from 10:00am to 12:30pm. Remote access is available and has been distributed via the HRM list-serv.

October 19, 2018
Meeting

Streaming Media COI Meeting -- UMass - Amherst

October 18, 2018
Meeting

Special Collections COI - Virtual Meeting

The BLC Special Collections COI will hold its virtual fall meeting on Thursday, October 18th, 2018 at 11am. Login details and the agenda can be found in an email to the COI.

October 16, 2018
Meeting

Technology COI Meeting - Boston College, Theology and Ministry Library

October 03, 2018
Webinar

Expanding Knowledge Webinar: CollabOERation: Partnering with your campus bookstore on affordability and OER efforts

The BLC is pleased to announce the October webinar of our Expanding Knowledge Webinar Series "CollabOERation: Partnering with your campus bookstore on affordability and OER efforts" moderated by  Jeremy Smith, UMass Amherst Libraries & Apurva Mehta, UMass Boston on Wednesday, October 3rd at 1pm.

Learn how to partner with your bookstore to advance affordability and open educational resources efforts on your campus. This experienced panel will discuss their efforts at studying and implementing successful, and not so successful, library bookstore collaborations.

Recording

Slides

Panelists:

Steven Bell, Associate University Librarian for Research & Instructional Services

Temple University | bells@temple.edu | (215) 204-5023

Steven J. Bell is the Associate University Librarian for Research and Instructional Services at Temple University. He writes and speaks about academic librarianship, learning technologies, library leadership, higher education, open learning content, design thinking and user experience. He currently writes at Designing Better Libraries, a blog about design thinking and library user experiences. He authors weekly columns for Library Journal Academic Newswire, "From the Bell Tower" and "Leading From the Library". He is co-author of the book “Academic Librarianship by Design” and editor of the book “Crucible Moments: Inspiring Library Leadership”.

 

Rachel Dilley, OER Librarian

Columbus State Community College |rdilley2@cscc.edu | (614) 287-2895

Rachel Dilley is the Open Education Resources Librarian at Columbus State Community College. Prior to joining Columbus State in March 2017, she worked as an adult services librarian at a small public library and as a circulation clerk at a county law library.  Dilley spent the first 20 years of her career working as a paralegal before obtaining her M.L.I.S. from Kent State University in 2016. She is an active member of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources as well as the Academic Library Association of Ohio.

 

Evan Jablonka, Textbook Coordinator

Columbus State Community College | ejablonk@cscc.edu | (614) 287-3890

 

This webinar is presented by the Open Education Resources COI, visit their webpage for additional information.

Please contact Mei Mendez  if you have any questions or suggestions for future Expanding Knowledge Webinars.

 

September 25, 2018
Meeting

Chemistry COI Meeting -- Conference Call

Call information for the Chemistry COI meeting can be found in a message to the COI's list serv.

September 20, 2018
Meeting

Committee Meeting: Heads of Resource Management -- Tufts University

September 17, 2018
Meeting

BLC Board Meeting - University of Massachusetts, Amherst

September 11, 2018
Webinar

Expanding Knowledge Webinar: Writing and Assessing Learning Outcomes for Library Instruction

The BLC is pleased to announce the September webinar in our Expanding Knowledge Webinar Series "Writing and Assessing Learning Outcomes for Library Instruction" with Dianne Brown, Social Science Research and Instruction Librarian and Jennifer Ferguson, Team Lead, Arts & Humanities Research & Instruction, both at Tufts University, on Thursday, September 13th at 10am.

Recording

Slides

As we approach the busiest time of the year for library instruction, please join Dianne and Jennifer for an introduction to backwards design, writing measurable learning outcomes, and choosing appropriate assessment instruments. Whether you are new to teaching, have been teaching for many semesters, or are just curious about what teaching librarians do, this webinar will provide practical approaches to planning for teaching and assessment. We welcome library staff who teach in any context, from first-year instruction, to subject-based classes, to non-traditional workshops. Join us to get useful teaching tips you can apply right away!

Learning outcomes for this webinar are:

  • After this webinar, attendees will be able to write a measurable learning outcome within a library instruction context.
  • After this webinar, attendees will be able to map a learning outcome to an appropriate assessment instrument.
  • After this webinar, attendees will be able to identify the importance of backwards design when planning library instruction.

About the Presenters:

Dianne N. Brown has worked as the Social Science Research & Instruction Librarian at the Tisch Library at Tufts University for two years. Prior to working at Tufts, Dianne was a Research & Instruction Librarian at Lesley University. She holds an M.Ed with a concentration in online teaching and learning from Lesley University and an M.S. LIS from Drexel University. Her background in early and elementary education has developed into a lifelong commitment to constructivist educational practice. She considers herself a teacher first, and a librarian second.

Jennifer S. Ferguson is the Team Lead for Arts & Humanities, at the Tisch Library at Tufts University. Prior to working at Tufts, Jennifer was the Liaison Librarian for Arts, Humanities, and Careers at Beatley Library, Simmons College, and the lead reference librarian at Regina Library, Rivier University. She holds a BA from UCLA, an MA from Rutgers University, and an MSLIS from Simmons College. Her book, Using Authentic Assessment in Information Literacy Programs, will be published by Rowman & Littlefield in September 2018.

 

Please contact Mei Mendez  if you have any questions or suggestions for future Expanding Knowledge Webinars.

 

July 31, 2018
Meeting

BLC Leads Summer Meet Up - Boston College

Participants in the 2018 BLC Leads program are invited to a Summer Meet Up at Boston College's O'Neill Library.  Details about the agenda are forthcoming. 

Visitor parking is available in the nearby Commonwealth Garage, as indicated on this map.

July 18, 2018
Meeting

Streaming Media COI Meeting - Boston College

A special Streaming Media COI meeting/captioning session will take place from 2:00-5:00pm on Wednesday, July 18th at Boston College.  We will spend the first hour or so talking about our goals for FY '19  and planning our fall meeting. From 3:00-5:00pm we will do some captioning using YouTube, ideally breaking up into teams.

RSVP to Debra Mandel (d.mandel@northeastern.edu) by July 9th.

 

LOCATION: Boston College O'Neill Library:  https://libguides.bc.edu/oneill , Digital Studio, Room 205.

MAPS:  https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/about/maps-and-directions.html

PARKING: There is free, one-hour parking along Comm. Ave.  After 3, it is just free, no time limit.  So if you come a little bit after 2, you can park for FREE!  Otherwise, there is parking in BC garages for $6.

June 19, 2018 to June 21, 2018

BLC Leads 2018 Institute 1

This 3-day in-person event is part of the BLC Leads 2018 leadership program for BLC member libraries.

It will be held June 19-21, 2018 at the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, MA.

See BLC Leads 2018 for details of the full program.

June 13, 2018
Meeting

Resource Sharing COI Meeting - Boston College

June 13, 2018 to June 15, 2018
Training

2018 New England Science Boot Camp - 10th Anniversary

Join us for the 10th Anniversary of the New England Science Boot Camp for Librarians held on June 13-15, 2018 at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Science Boot Camp is an immersive experience that provides librarians with the opportunity to network with peers and learn about topics in physical sciences, health sciences, life sciences, and technology. The topics for this year’s SBC science sessions are:

Genetic Counseling
Ecology
Materials Science

 

Registration will open in Spring 2018.

 

For updates and more information, visit http://guides.library.umass.edu/sciboot18

For general questions, please contact Ellen Lutz at lutz@library.umass.edu

June 07, 2018 to June 08, 2018
Meeting

Board Meeting and Annual Retreat - Warren Conference Center, Ashland, MA

June 01, 2018
Training

BLC Sponsors 8th Annual Social Science Librarians Boot Camp - June 1 at Tufts

The BLC is sponsoring the 8th annual Social Science Librarians Boot Camp will be held on Friday, June 1st at Tisch Library, Tufts University in Medford, MA.

The conference is an opportunity for librarians working in the social sciences to come together to hear the latest research on social science topics, learn new skills, and network with peers.

Registration will open in Spring 2018. Check the SSLBC website for the latest information.

May 30, 2018

Networking Day 2018

The BLC is pleased to announce our annual Networking Day will be held at Brandeis Univeristy in the Sherman Hall Function Room on Wednesday, May 30th from 9:30AM-5:00PM.

PLEASE REGISTER HERE

The keynote speaker is Dr. Robert W. Livingston of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He will be presenting "Strategies for Building and Leveraging Diversity". This presentation will give participants a deeper understanding of the challenges and benefits of diversity, as well as practical tools for promoting a diverse and inclusive work environment. Participants will learn about the psychological and structural determinants of prejudice and discrimination, with a focus on understanding the nature of racism and sexism.  Dr. Livingston will also present a model for how individuals and organizations can move from conversation to action to progress.

This year's lightning talks are as follows:

  • "Creating Virtual Pathways for Real Results: Course Collaborations for Integrating Virtual Reality Into the Curriculum" – Sarah Hutton, UMass, Amherst
  • "Something There is that Loves a Wall: Anonymous Reference Queries" – Steven Runge, Boston College
  • "Mapping Campus Research: A Student-Centered Exploration"– Erica Shattle, Tufts University
  • "Data Architecture Framework for Library Collections" – Patrick Carr and Greg Colati, UConn
  • "Kickstarting the Diversity Conversation: The Libraries Diversity Reading Group at Williams Libraries" – Jonathan Miller, Williams College
  • "Data Visualization at the Library: The Many Uses of Tableau" – Carla Spina, Boston College
  • "The College Matters for U Program" – Annette Vadnais, UMass, Amherst
  • "Mid-Year Orientation: Bringing Light, Warmth, and Information Literacy to January" – Amanda Nevius, Hirsch Health Sciences Library, Tufts University

Select BLC Communities of Interest will be meeting at the conclusion of Networking Day. If you have any questions, please email Executive Director Susan Stearns. 

May 08, 2018
Webinar

May Expanding Knowledge Webinar: Visualization and Assessment

The BLC was pleased to announce the May webinar of our Expanding Knowledge Webinar Series "Expanding Knowledge: Visualization and Assessment" with Steven Braun, Data Analytics and Visualization Specialist at Northeastern University and Konstantin Starikov, Head of Circulation and Interlibrary Loan Services at Boston University, on Tuesday, May 8th, from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM.

A full recording of the webinar is archived in the "Member Events"  section of the BLC website.

In this webinar, attendees obtained a basic understanding of assessment, data visualization, and their uses in a library setting. The presenters addressed these questions while providing a gentle introduction to both topics, showing some examples of their use, and suggesting resources for further learning: What is assessment, and how can it be used to improve the user experience? What is data visualization, and how can it help us in assessment? 

Steven Braun received his M.S. in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University and his B.A. in chemistry and Asian studies from St. Olaf College. His visualization work emphasizes interdisciplinary connections that challenge the ways in which we understand information, experience, and narrative in the world around us. For samples of Steven’s work, see http://www.stevengbraun.com.  

Konstantin Starikov's primary areas of interest are user services, digital scholarship, scholarly communications and the relationship between the humanities and sciences. He holds a PhD in Russian Studies from Brown University and a Master’s Degree in Social Sciences from The University of Chicago. He has been co-chairing the Assessment COI at BLC since 2015.

 

April 27, 2018
Symposium

Streaming Media for All: Accessibility Guidelines and Best Practices - April 27th

The BLC sponsored our Streaming Media COI's event "Streaming Media for All: Accessibility Guidelines and Best Practices", on Friday, April 27th at the Theology and Ministry Library at Boston College from 10AM-4PM. 

Presenters addressed best practices, services, guidelines and workflows at their institutions regarding captioning and/or audio description of their collections, whether commercial or newly created content. There was also a segment with commercial streaming media vendors who showcased their accessibility features. Attendees learned about services and products that can enhance media accessibility at their institutions. 

Speakers:
Kyle Courtney, Copyright Advisor, Harvard University
Carli Spina, Head Librarian, Assessment and Outreach, Boston College 
Laura Quilter, Copyright and Information Policy Librarian, UMass Amherst
Shirley Cho, Academic Resources and Operations Specialist in the Center for Teaching Excellence, Boston College
Jeremy Smith, Digital Projects Manager, UMass Amherst 
Holly Mockavak, Head, Music Library, Boston University 

Kate Silfen, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Librarian, Boston University

Vendors:
Kaltura
3Play Media 
WGBH
Kanopy
Infobase (Films on Demand)
Alexander Street Press/Proquest
Swank Motion Pictures 

 

April 26, 2018
Training

Active Learning with Primary Sources Workshop

The BLC was pleased to announce our collaboration with the Librarians Active Learning Institute,  a half-day workshop specially designed for BLC member libraries: "Active Learning with Primary Sources". With instructors from Dartmouth College: Laura Barrett, Director of Education and Outreach, and Archivist, Peter Carini. The workshop was held in the John J. Burns Library at Boston College on April 26th from 1PM-5PM.


In this workshop, participants engaged in a reflection activity to consolidate their learning, discussed applications for their teaching, asked questions, and discussed points of interest.
At the end of this session, participants are able to utilize backward design in teaching, create measurable learning objectives, and outline learning activities, instructional methods, and assessments.


 

April 24, 2018
Meeting

AUL COI Meeting - April 24th, 10AM-2PM

The next BLC Associate University Librarians COI meeting  will be on April 24th from 10am to 2pm in Room 204 of the Tisch Library at Tufts University. 

Click here for directions to Tufts and parking information.

Those driving can park in the Dowling Hall Parking Garage for $8 and pay by credit card upon exit. Alternatively, you can also park in a surface lot and buy an $8 parking permit online with a credit card using this site. 

The agenda will be sent to the COI listserv prior to the meeting.

April 18, 2018

April Expanding Knowledge Webinar: Library Instruction and Teaching

The BLC held the April webinar of our Expanding Knowledge Webinar Series "Expanding Knowledge: Library Instruction and Teaching" with Dianne N. Brown, Social Science Research & Instruction Librarian at Tufts University  and Lorraine Heffernan, Business & Economics Librarian at UMass Dartmouth, on Wednesday, April 18 from 10:00 to 11:00 AM.

The webinar presented an overview of current approaches to library instruction for library staff at all levels of involvement. Topics covered Information Literacy in theory and practice, the shift from the ACRL Standards to the ACRL Framework, differentiating teaching for various populations, using classes to promote other library services, and current pedagogies and tools. 

 

Dianne N. Brown has worked at the Tisch Library at Tufts University for two years. Prior to working at Tufts, Dianne was a research & instruction librarian at Lesley University. Teaching is Dianne's favorite thing about being a librarian.

Lorraine Heffernan has worked as a business & economics librarian for seven years, and had been the library instruction liaison for freshman English classes for several years.  She is a career changer who previously spent many years working in finance within the securities industry.

 

April 13, 2018
Meeting

Special Collections COI Meeting - April 13th, 12-1PM

The Special Collections COI will be meeting virtually this Friday, April 13th, from 12-1PM. At this meeting the COI will discuss the feedback given by the BLC Board on their Digitizing Immigration proposal. Please come ready to re-evaluate and discuss project goals and to help decide on the direction that should be taken with this proposal. If you cannot make the meeting this Friday you are welcome and encouraged to comment once the notes have been shared with the group.

Virtual Zoom Information:

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://brandeis.zoom.us/j/496704470
Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll):  +16465588656,496704470#  or +16699006833,496704470# 
Or Telephone:
    Dial:
    +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll)
    +1 669 900 6833 (US Toll)
    Meeting ID: 496 704 470
    International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/cFn3eBl7d
 

April 09, 2018
Meeting

ALMA/PRIMO COI Meeting - April 9th 10AM-12:30PM

The BLC's ALMA/PRIMO Collaboration Working Group's next meeting will be held on April 9th from 10-12:30 at Northeastern Universiy in the Snell Library, Rm. 322 (Office of the Dean on the 3rd floor).  Coffee service and lunch will be provided. Virtual attendance is available. Further details will be sent to the COI listserv prior to the meeting.

Members, please RSVP through the COI listserv

March 23, 2018
Webinar

March Expanding Knowledge Webinar: Health Science Services and Resources

The BLC was pleased to announce the March webinar of our Expanding Knowledge Webinar Series "Expanding Knowledge: Health Science Services and Resources" with Amanda Nevius, liaison to the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine at the Hirsh Health Sciences Library and Hilary Kraus, Associate Librarian for Nursing & Health at UMass Dartmouth, held on Friday, March 23, 2018 from 10:00-11:00AM. 

This webinar presented an overview of research assistance on health sciences topics for librarians with all levels of experience. Topics included an introduction to health sciences users and their needs, as well as a range of free and subscription-based resources available in BLC member libraries to answer their questions. It also discussed how knowledge of the health sciences can assist librarians with their own work.

Amanda Nevius has worked in health sciences libraries for 10 years, with the majority of her time focused on research and instruction in academic libraries supporting graduate and postgraduate health sciences programs. She is the co-chair of the BLC's Health Sciences COI.

Hilary Kraus has worked as a science and health science librarian for over 15 years, primarily as liaison to nursing faculty and students. Prior to moving to New England, she served as liaison to the colleges of nursing at DePaul University and Loyola University in Chicago. She is the co-chair of the BLC's Health Sciences COI.

March 23, 2018
Meeting

HRM COI Meeting - March 23, 2018

The Heads of Resource Management COI will meet on Friday, March 23rd, 10:00AM-12:30PM.

The location and other details will be emailed to the COI listserv prior to the meeting.

March 21, 2018
Webinar

BLC's American Archive of Public Broadcasting Webinar Series - Part II

The BLC was pleased to announce the second webinar in our two-part webinar series on the the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB). The AAPB is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the WGBH Educational Foundation to preserve at-risk public media and provide a central web portal for access to unique programming. The entire collection is available on location at the Library of Congress and WGBH, and almost 30,000 programs are available online at americanarchive.org. 

Part II - Wednesday, March 21, 1:30-3:00PM

In this webinar, panelists Casey Kaufman (WGBH), Ingrid Ockert (Princeton University), and Mark Williams (Dartmouth College), explored specific use cases for librarians and researchers in accessing and making use of the AAPB collection. They included a general overview of how scholars and researchers are seeking to use digital AV collections, a brief recap of how AAPB provides access to its collection to researchers and the general public, incorporating AAPB into subject-specific LibGuides, use of audiovisual collections in traditional historical research and in academic coursework, and examples of how AAPBmetadata and transcripts can be used in digital humanities research and data mining. 

March 13, 2018
Meeting

Board Meeting - UMass - Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA

March 02, 2018
Webinar

BLC's American Archive of Public Broadcasting Webinar Series - Part I

The BLC has announced the first webinar of our two-part webinar series on the the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB). The AAPB is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the WGBH Educational Foundation to preserve at-risk public media and provide a central web portal for access to unique programming. The entire collection is available on location at the Library of Congress and WGBH, and almost 30,000 programs are available online at americanarchive.org. 

This two part webinar series provided an overview on the AAPB as well as review ways in which it can be effectively used a a resource for teaching and research.


Part I - Friday, March 2, 10:00-11:00AM 
This webinar covered AAPB's background, governance and infrastructure. Casey Kaufman and Ryn Marchese of WGBH discussed the scope, content and provenance of the AAPB collection; methods of searching, navigating, and accessing content in theAAPB; examples of the types of materials available in the AAPB collection, and the scholarly and research value of audiovisual collections and specifically public media archives.

 

LEARN ABOUT PART II HERE

 

 

March 01, 2018
Meeting

Resource Sharing Spring Meeting - March 1, 2018

The next BLC Resource Sharing COI Meeting will be on March 1st, 2018 from 9:00AM-2:00PM at Northeastern University, Snell Library, Room 90.

Special Guests:

Rachel Frick (Executive Director, OCLC Research Library Partnership)

Dennis Massie (Program Officer, OCLC Research)

Presenting - “The Value of Resource Sharing”

Key Themes:

Resource sharing must be considered in the context of the entire library, not in isolation.

Opportunities to collaborate are abundant and must be prioritized.

Most libraries lend so that they can borrow.

Data can help us understand our environment; rethink our priorities, policies and procedures; and demonstrate the value of collection-sharing.

Patrons are the key to everything!

 

Agenda and more information to follow.  

February 28, 2018
Meeting

Chemistry COI Conference Call - Wednesday, February 28, 1-2PM

The BLC's Chemistry COI will have a conference call on Wednesday, February 28th form 1-2PM. Please see the GoTo Meeting call-in information below.

Please join this GoTo Meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone:
https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/854192933 

You can also dial in using your phone:
United States: +1 (786) 535-3211 

Access Code: 854-192-933 

First GoToMeeting? Let's do a quick system check: https://link.gotomeeting.com/system-check 

 

February 26, 2018
Webinar

February Expanding Knowledge Webinar: Data Analysis for Collection Management

The BLC's February webinar of our Expanding Knowledge Webinar Series "Expanding Knowledge: Data Analysis for Collection Management" with Mark Paris, Brandeis University's Collections Analysis Librarian and Sally Krash, the Interim Associate Dean for Content & Discovery at UMass Amherst Libraries, was held on Monday, February 26, from 10:00-11:00AM. 

This webinar presented an introduction to data analysis for collection management for the non-practitioner and provide insight into its relevance and application in participants' daily work in their library. 

Mark Paris identifies ways of improving the access and usage of resources for Brandeis, which has included using analytics to refine approval and DDA profiles for accquisitions. He also focuses on building analytical tools that help to facilitate conversations with academic departments and allow the library to begin thinking about an overall collection strategy. 

Sally Krash provides creative leadership and administrative oversight for scholarly resource collections, discovery systems and access services. She leads innovative projects in the areas of collections strategies and resource management platforms.

 

February 23, 2018
Meeting

Access Services Winter COI Meeting - February 23, 10-12PM

The next Access Services COI Meeting will be held on February 23 from 10AM-12PM at Brandeis University. 

The topic will be:  Access Services as Liaison to the Campus.  This can include:  partnerships outside the library, safety and security, marketing, basically being a 411 for the campus, and outreach and community engagement initiatives. 

We will also have the capability for virtual participation, please indicate on the rsvp if you are interested in that option.  Parking and room information will be sent  to the COI listserv prior to the meeting.

RSVP HERE

February 23, 2018
Training

BLC's Educating with Wikipedia Half-Day Workshop - February 23, 2018

The BLC held an “​Educating with Wikipedia” workshop with Zach McDowell, Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Former Research Fellow at the Wiki Education Foundation; ​Anna Newman, ​Librarian for Digital Academic Strategies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Phoebe Ayers, Librarian for Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at MIT; Greta Kuriger Suiter, Processing Archivist at MIT; Amanda Rust, Assistant Director of the Digital Scholarship Group and Digital Humanities Librarian at Northeastern University, and Amy Carleton, Lecturer of Comparative Media Studies/Writing at MIT.

The event took place on the ​Boston University campus at Hillel House in the Bay State Road Room on Friday, February 23, 2018 from 10:00AM-2:00PM. 

How many times have you heard “don’t use Wikipedia"? Recent research suggests that Wikipedia-based assignments are more valuable for learning about the reliability of online sources, the class topic, and writing for a general audience, as well as developing information literacy, critical thinking, and technical skills. This session will introduce the research, illustrate best practices, and engage participants in revising their assignments to include Wikipedia-based components.

Facilitators presented information on learning with Wikipedia, and then engage participants in active discussion and workshopping of assignments, incorporating learnings from the research to improve their pedagogy.
Participants learned how and why teaching with Wikipedia is helpful for developing critical thinking and information literacy skills. This will lead to discussions and engagement on incorporating Wikipedia assignments into their classroom, and participants will leave with a plan of action to help incorporate Wikipedia into a variety of STEM courses.

 

Zachary McDowell was previously a research fellow at the Wiki Education Foundation, studying student learning outcomes and digital literacy using Wikipedia. He has been teaching with Wikipedia since 2011.

​Anna Newman was previously the Open Access Specialist at Boston University, where she organized Wikipedia editing events to promote open access to knowledge.

Phoebe Ayers  served four years on the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia and its sister projects. She is the co-author of a book about Wikipedia, and is a long-time member of the project's community.

​Greta Kuriger Suiter has presented on various ways of teaching with Wikipedia at conferences and events across the country including the 10th Annual Conference of African American Librarians and the Conference on College Composition and Communication this year.

​Amanda Rust has held offices in a national forum for literature librarians, and presented or written on topics like information literacy and instruction, Drupal and website design, post-custodial theatre archives, library special collections and Wikipedia, inclusive information systems design, and digital humanities pedagogy.

Amy Carleton teaches with Wikipedia and studies communication and collaboration in online communities. 

February 14, 2018
Meeting

Health Sciences COI Virtual Meeting - February 14th

The BLC's Health Sciences COI will hold a virtual meeting on Wednesday, February 14th, from 10:30AM-12:00PM. The meeting will be held using Google Hangouts and the link to join will be sent to the COI listserv the morning of.

February 13, 2018
Meeting

Winter Streaming Media COI Meeting

The next Streaming Media COI meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 13th, 2018 from 11am to 1PM at Boston University.

The snow date for this meeting is Friday, February 16th from 11-1. 

Details for attending in-person or virtually will be sent to the COI listserv prior to the meeting.

February 05, 2018
Meeting

ALMA/Primo COI Meeting - February 5th

The next ALMA/Primo Collabration Working Group Meeting will be held on February 5th, 11:00AM-1:00PM. Location TBD.

Details will be emailed to the COI listserv prior to the meeting. 

February 05, 2018 to February 06, 2018
Training

SCCTP Basic Serials Two-Day Training - February 5-6, 2018

The BLC held a SCCTP Basic Serials Two-Day Training with Cathy Weng, Head of Cataloging at the College of New Jersey Library, at Tufts University on February 5th-6th, 2018. 


This free training for BLC members provided the basic principles of serials cataloging for original and copy cataloging for print serials. The training focused on the elements contained in the CONSER standard record (CSR), including appropriate MARC 21 tagging, as well as problem-solving and decision-making relative to serials cataloging. All materials were based on the CONSER standard record documentation, CONSER Editing Guide, and CONSER Cataloging Manual. 


Cathy Weng's previous experiences include working as Head of Serials Cataloging Unit at Temple University Library in Philadelphia, cataloger at the H. W. Wilson Company in New York and serials cataloger at Tufts University Library in Boston. She received her MLS from SUNY Buffalo. Cathy has been an SCCTP trainer since early 2000s and frequently gives workshops in mid-Atlantic region.

 

January 31, 2018
Meeting

HRM COI Teleconference - January 31, 2018

The Heads of Resource Management COI will have a teleconference meeting on Wednesday,  January 31st, 10:00AM-12:30PM.

Details will be emailed to the COI listserv prior to the meeting.

 

January 12, 2018
Meeting

Special Collections COI Meeting - January 12, 2018

The BLC's Special Collections COI will have its next meeting at the State Library of Massachusetts on Friday, January 12th from 12:00PM-3:00PM. 

Further information and virtual attendance will be emailed to the COI listserv before the meeting. 

January 08, 2018

Winter Engineering COI Meeting - January 8, 10AM

The next Engineering COI Meeting will be held on January 8th, 10AM at UMass Lowell.

Agenda:

10:00 - 10:20  Welcome & Introductions
10:20 - 11:20  Mini-Presentations
11:20 - 11:30  Break
11:30 - End     Roundtable Discussions

More information will be sent to the COI listserv prior to the meeting.

December 13, 2017
Webinar

Expanding Knowledge Webinar: Introduction to Resource Sharing-ILL

The BLC is pleased to announce the next webinar of our Expanding Knowledge Webinar Series, "Expanding Knowledge: Introduction to Resource Sharing-ILL" with Dzintra Lacis, Brandeis University's Resource Sharing Librarian and Angie Batson, the Resource Sharing Specialist at Wellesley College was held on Wednesday, December 13th, from 10-11AM. 


This webinar presents an introductory view of resource sharing and ILL to the non-practitioner and provides insight into its relevance and application in participants' daily work in their library. Topics include ILLiad, lending and borrowing, research services, unmediated ILL technology, the future of resource sharing, and the upcoming transfer to Tipasa. A full recording of the webinar, slides, and further links for more information are available in the Archives of the BLC's "Member Events" page.

Dzintra Lacis has worked in Resource Sharing/Interlibrary Loan for 15 years. Before Brandeis she was a library aide in the same public school system attended by her daughter. During that time she developed a keen interest in libraries inspiring her to return temporarily to Australia for library studies at the University of South Australia. 

Angie Batson has worked at Wellesley for 4.5 years. Before Wellesley, she worked in Interlibrary Loan at Northeastern University for 7 years and as the Evening & Reserves Supervisor at Lesley University for 4 years.  She has her Master’s in Elementary Education but developed her love of libraries while working various work-study positions in college.  Angie enjoys all things ILLiad, evaluating workflows, and enjoys supervising and working with her students. 

 

December 08, 2017
Meeting

CRMM COI Meeting - December 8, 10AM-12PM

The Next BLC Continuing Resource Management COI Meeting will take place from 10:00AM-12:00PM at Northeastern University

December 05, 2017
Meeting

Board Meeting - Wellesley College, Wellesley

December 04, 2017
Webinar

Expanding Knowledge Webinar: Introduction to Scholarly Communication

The BLC held the third webinar in our Expanding Knowledge Webinar Series, "Introduction to Scholarly Communication" with Erin Jerome, UMass Amherst's Open Access and Institutional Repository Librarian and John Furfey, the Senior Automation Services Officer at MBLWHOI on Monday, December 4th, from 10:30-11:30AM. 

 

In the webinar, Erin Jerome presented a broad introduction to scholarly communication to the non-practitioner and John Furfey provided insight into its relevance and application at MBL/WHOI, including some recent advances in scholarly communications technology.


Erin Jerome manages ScholarWorks, the UMass Amherst's institutional repository.  She is also responsible for managing the Libraries’ Open Access Fund and for supporting the implementation of the faculty Open Access Policy. 

John Furfey provides support for citation and bibliographic management and operates the systems tracking the research output of the Woods Hole scientific community. John is also the Library liaison to the MBL Bay Paul Center.

You can find a full recording of the webinar in the "Member Events" section of the website.

November 30, 2017
Meeting

Heads of Resource Management Meeting

HRM Meeting.  UMass - Amherst.

November 13, 2017
Webinar

November Expanding Knowledge Webinar: Introduction to Special Collections

The BLC is pleased to announce the next webinar in our Expanding Knowledge Webinar Series "Introduction to Special Collections" with Ruth Rogers, Curator of Special Collections at Wellesley College and Giodana Mecagni,  Head of Archives and Special Collections that took place at Northeastern University on Monday, November 13th, from 10:00-11:00AM. 

This webinar presented a broad view of special collections to the non-practitioner and provide insight into their relevance and application to the work of library staff in general.

Ruth Rogers is the Curator of Special Collections in the Clapp Library at Wellesley College, where she teaches, acquires and administers a collection of over 40,000 items. Rogers specializes in the evolution of the book as material culture, visual communication and artistic form. Additionally, she lectures on the critical reading of artists' books and their research use in the academic curriculum.  

Giordana Mecagni is Head of Special Collections and University Archivist at Northeastern. Prior to that she held various positions at Associated Grant Makers in Boston, the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe/Harvard, and at Harvard Medical School’s Center for the History of Medicine.  She holds a BA in Sociology and Women’s Studies from the University of New Hampshire, and an MLIS with an archives concentration from Simmons.  

 

October 25, 2017
Meeting

Joint AUL/HRM COI's meeting

Joint meeting of the AUL/AD COI and the Heads of Resource Management (HRM). Venue TBD.

October 17, 2017
Webinar

Open Educational Resources​ and Current Open Textbook Network Initiatives Webinar

The BLC is pleased to announce our new webinar "Open Educational Resources​ and Current Open Textbook Network Initiatives" with UMass Amherst's Digital Project Manager, Jeremy Smith. The webinar took place on Tuesday, October 17th, from 11AM-12PM. 


In this webinar: Jeremy Smith discussed the 2017 Open ​Textbook ​Network (OTN)​ Summer Institute and Summit which he attended in August of 2017, representing the BLC. He discussed recent OTN initiatives, such as their Publishing Cooperative, the creation of new open educational resources, and the development of an open textbook authoring platform. He also shared recent OTN news and discuss how libraries are collaborating with the OTN to create resources for use with local OER initiatives across the BLC.

We recorded the presentation and archived it on the BLC website in the "Member Events" section.

 

Photo: OER Global Logo by Jonathas Mello is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Unported 3.0 License

September 27, 2017
Webinar

September Expanding Knowledge Webinar: Introduction to Digital Humanities

The BLC's first webinar of our Expanding Knowledge Webinar Series "Expanding Knowledge: Introduction to Digital Humanities" with Boston College's Head of Digital Scholarship Sarah Melton and Senior Digital Scholarship Librarian Anna Kijas took place on Wednesday, September 27th from 10:00-11:00AM. 

In the webinar, Sarah and Anna addressed some frequently asked questions about libraries and digital humanities, such as what is digital humanities, and how are librarians engaging in digital methodologies in their work? What types of digital humanities activities are BLC institutions participating in? How can librarians learn more about digital humanities?

Sarah Melton is the Head of Digital Scholarship at Boston College Libraries where she oversees the digital scholarship group. 

Anna Kijas is Senior Digital Scholarship Librarian at Boston College Libraries where she experiments with the application of digital humanities tools and methods, focusing as much on the process, as on the final product. 

The presenters' slides and a full recording of the webinar are available in the Member-Events section of the website.

September 18, 2017
Meeting

Heads of Resource Management COI Meeting

September meeting of HRM at Boston College.

September 12, 2017
Meeting

BLC Board Meeting - UMass Medical, Worcester

July 26, 2017
Webinar

Webinar on Universal Design for Learning and The Simplicity Cycle

The Boston Library Consortium was pleased to host a webinar on "Universal Design for Learning and The Simplicity Cycle" with presenter Dianne N. Brown, the Social Science Research & Instruction Librarian at Tufts University on Wednesday, July 26th from 10:00-11:00AM. Dianne gave a lightning talk on this topic at this year's Networking Day; this webinar expanded on her Networking Day presentation.

The webinar was presented using GoTo Meeting, please see below for instructions to access the meeting. Feel free to join with other colleagues at your institution and participate in a group if you like.  We recorded the presentation and archived it on the BLC website. If you were unable to attend, you can see that recording here. You can find the special highlight on the webinar here. If you have any questions please contact Mei Mendez.

 

July 25, 2017

BLC Sponsors ORCiD Workshop at Boston College

The Boston Library Consortium held a half-day ORCiD Workshop at Boston College on July 25th from 8:30am-12:30pm. 


Alice Meadows, Senior Representative of ORCiD, discussed the importance of persistent digital identifiers, ORCiD's significance in research information management, and how your institution can benefit from ORCiD. 


Jane Morris from Boston College, Leslie Button from UMass-Amherst, and Rebecca Reznik-Zellen from UMass-Medical presented and had a panel discussion on how ORCiD is being integrated at their institutions and shared their thoughts and experiences using ORCiD.


Registration ended Tuesday, July 18th. You can view a special highlight on the event here.

June 15, 2017 to June 16, 2017
Meeting

Board Meeting and Annual Retreat

Thursday, June 15, 2017 - 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Friday, June 16, 2017 - 9:00am - 12:00pm

Venue TBD

May 17, 2017
Meeting

Management Council Call

April 19, 2017
Meeting

Management Council Call

March 30, 2017
Meeting

Heads of Resource Management Meeting

Venue TBD.

March 22, 2017
Meeting

Management Council Call

March 16, 2017
Meeting

Board Meeting

Venue TBD

February 14, 2017
Meeting

Management Council Call

January 19, 2017
Meeting

Management Council Call

December 20, 2016
Meeting

Management Council Call

December 19, 2016
Meeting

Board Meeting

The location of this meeting is Tufts University. Further details TBA.

November 22, 2016
Meeting

Management Council Call

October 20, 2016
Meeting

Management Council Call

September 22, 2016
Meeting

Board Meeting

The location of this meeting is Williams College. Further details TBA.

September 21, 2016
Meeting

Management Council Call

July 21, 2016
Meeting

Management Council Call

June 21, 2016
Meeting

Management Council Call

June 15, 2016 to June 17, 2016

2016 New England Science Boot Camp

This year’s Science Boot Camp will be held June 15-17, 2016 on the campus of University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The science topics for this year’s boot camp include Nursing, Physics and Civil & Environmental Engineering. 

June 09, 2016 to June 10, 2016
Meeting

BLC Board Retreat

The location of this meeting is the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, MA. Further details TBA.

June 01, 2016 to June 04, 2016

Academic Library Advancement Network (ALADN) Conference 2016

The 2016 Academic Library Advancement Network (ALADN) Conference in Boston, MA is co-sponsored by the Boston Library Consortium and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

May 24, 2016

Networking Day 2016

Location: Sherman Function Hall, Brandeis University 

May 18, 2016
Meeting

Management Council Call

May 13, 2016

ACRL/New England Chapter 2016 Annual Conference

Holistic Librarianship: Broad Thinking for Diverse and Creative Solutions

The Radisson Hotel Manchester Downtown, Manchester, New Hampshire

April 13, 2016
Meeting

Management Council Call

April 06, 2016
Symposium

University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian e-Science Symposium

Please mark your calendars! The ninth annual University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian e-Science Symposium will be held Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester.

The theme for the symposium is Library Research Data Services:  Putting Ideas into Action. The morning keynote and breakout sessions will feature services that libraries are currently implementing to support research data management. Following post-lunch poster presentations, the afternoon panel presentations will focus on data science, what current library education is doing to support it, where the gaps are, and what competencies librarians engaging in data science need to have.  

As of this date, the following e-Science Symposium speakers have been confirmed:

· Kendall Roark (Keynote), Assistant Professor, Research Data Specialist, Purdue University Libraries, CLIR/DLF eResearch Faculty

· Margaret Henderson, Director of Research Data Services, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries

· Hillary Miller, Scholarly Communications Outreach Librarian, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries

· Lisa Johnston, Research Data Management/Curation Lead and Co-Director of the University Digital Conservancy,University of Minnesota 

· Jake Carlson, Research Data Services Manager, University of Michigan Libraries

· Suzie Allard, Associate Dean for Research, University of Tennesee at Knoxville and Co-investigator of DataONE

· Rong Tang, Associate Professor, Simmons School of Library and Information Science, Boston, MA

· Christopher Erdmann, Head Librarian, Wolbach Library, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

· Daina Bouquin, Assistant Head Librarian, Wolbach Library, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

· Myrna Morales,  Doctoral Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Registration for the symposium will open in early January and will be announced.

March 28, 2016
Meeting

Special Collections COI Meeting

State Library

March 24, 2016

March Author Talk: John Stauffer

Picturing Frederick Douglass by John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd, and Celeste-Marie Bernier 

Thursday, March 24, 2016—Noon to 1:00 pm

State Library of Massachusetts—Room 341, Massachusetts State House

March 21, 2016 to March 23, 2016

NERCOMP conference

Providence, RI

March 21, 2016 to March 22, 2016

Software Carpentry Workshop at University of Connecticut

Registration Link:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/software-carpentry-at-university-of-connecticut-registration-21392610875

March 17, 2016 to March 18, 2016

JupyterDays Boston 2016

Registration for the event, which will be held at the Harvard Law School on March 17 - 18 has just opened at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jupyterdays-boston-2016-tickets-21440120979 

Note that the registration rate of $25.00 is valid only through Feb. 29th.

 Day 1 - March 17

9:00 - 9:30: Check in, network, and enjoy breakfast

9:30 - 10:30: Project Jupyter Keynote with Q&A

10:30 - 12:00: Birds of a Feather (BoF) session and lively discussion

12:00 - 1:30: Yummy lunch (provided) and more BoF discussions

1:30 - 2:30: Two brief talks by members of the Jupyter community

2:30 - 2:45: Relax, it’s break time

2:45 - 3:45: Two brief talks by members of the Jupyter community

3:45 - 4:00: Get up and stretch

4:00 - 5:30: Panel Discussion: Jupyter in education

 

Day 2 - March 18

9:00 - 9:30: Check in, network, and enjoy breakfast

9:30 - 10:30: Introduction to Docker and Jupyter

10:30 - 12:00: Deploying Jupyter on Carina

12:00 - 4:30: Lunch (on your own), coding and projects

4:30 - 5:00: Closing remarks

March 08, 2016
Meeting

BLC Quarterly Board Meeting

The location of this meeting is University of Connecticut. Further details TBA.

March 07, 2016 to March 08, 2016

Data Carpentry Workshop at the University of Connecticut

Registration Link:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/university-of-connecticut-data-carpentry-workshop-tickets-20997062780

March 07, 2016 to March 08, 2016

Data Carpentry Workshop at Boston College

Registration Link:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-college-libraries-data-carpentry-workshop-tickets-20995895288 

March 01, 2016
Meeting

Resource Sharing COI Meeting

This meeting will be held at Brandeis University. Further information TBA.

March 01, 2016
Meeting

Management Council Call

February 23, 2016
Meeting

eBook Working Group Meeting

Boston College

February 10, 2016
Meeting

Management Council Call

February 02, 2016
Meeting

Heads of Resource Management meeting

Northeastern University

January 13, 2016
Meeting

Management Council Call

December 18, 2015
Meeting

AUL Video Streaming Meeting

This meeting will be held at Northeastern University,  Snell Library, room 214.

December 18, 2015
Meeting

Management Council Call

December 10, 2015
Meeting

BLC Quarterly Board Meeting

The location of this meeting is Tufts University, Tisch Library, Austin Conference Room. Further details TBA.

December 03, 2015
Meeting

eBooks Meeting

This meeting will be held at Boston College, O'Neill library (further info TBA).

December 03, 2015 to December 04, 2015
Training

Basic Serials Cataloging Workshop (RDA)

Dates: Thursday and Friday, December 3 - 4, 2015 9:30am - 3:30pm

Location: Gardner Jackson Room, Mezzanine Level, Goldfarb Library, Brandeis University

Description: This two day workshop is based on the SCCTP Basic Serials Cataloging Workshop as revised for RDA.  The materials cover basic serials cataloging based on RDA, the CONSER Standard Record and other guidelines of the PCC.  The course is designed for those new to serials, beginning serials catalogers and other catalogers working with serials.  

The course is designed as a two day session of 6.5 hours each day.

​Trainer: The trainer is Ms. Cathy Weng, Head of Cataloging at The College of New Jersey Library.

This BLC sponsored training is open to all BLC member libraries.

IMPORTANT Note: Initial registration will be limited to two staff per BLC library.  If you wish to send additional staff, please send a separate email to Susan at sstearns@blc.org, indicating the staff in priority order.  If seats remain as of early November, she will register the additional staff and inform them.

Register HERE.

November 20, 2015

New England e-Science Program Research Data Management Roundtable Discussion

The New England e-Science Program will be sponsoring this New England Research Data Management Roundtable Discussion, intended for librarians, to be held in the Faculty Conference Room at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA.

Registration information TBA.

November 20, 2015

New England e-Science Program Data Tools Forum

 The New England e-Science Program will be sponsoring this Data Tools Forum, intended for librarians and researchers, to be held in the Faculty Conference Room at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA. It will feature presentations on open source tools that are commonly used for working with data. 

Registration information TBA.

November 18, 2015
Meeting

Management Council Call

November 17, 2015
Meeting

HRM Meeting

This meeting will be held at Tufts University.

November 16, 2015
Meeting

Resource Sharing COI Meeting

This meeting will be held at Tufts Health Science Library, Sackler 516- 145 Harrison Avenue, Boston.

November 13, 2015
Meeting

AUL Meeting

This meeting will be held at Boston College (further info TBA).

November 09, 2015
Meeting

Special Collections COI Meeting

This meeting will be held at the State Library of MA.

October 23, 2015

Publishing Returns to the Academy: Scientist-Authors and Publishing: a Panel Discussion

Sponsored and hosted by the MBLWHOI Library: Redfield Auditorium, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 

Invited Panelists:

Susan Skomal, BioOne / Elementa Journal

Michael Markie and Omer Gazit, f1000

Amy Brand, MIT Press

Joshua Gray, USCG Academy / Journal of Toxicological Education

Moderator: Heather Goldstone, science editor, WCAI, the Cape and Islands NPR Station

This program will be webcast by the MBLWHOI Library.
Contact Ann Devenish adevenish@whoi.edu for webcast information. 
 
More information HERE.


This program celebrates International Open Access Week 2015  

 Twitter hashtag for live questions during the event: #pubacad15

October 21, 2015
Meeting

Management Council Call

October 16, 2015
Meeting

Consortial Collecting Advisory Group Meeting

This meeting will be held in the administrative conference room of the Snell Library at Northeastern University.

A conference line for remote attendees will be available at: 1-800-791-2345  conference code: 59182#.

October 14, 2015
Training

Using Tableau for Data Visualization and Assessment in Libraries

The BLC is pleased to sponsor a working on using the Tableau analytic and data visualization tool for assessment in academic and research libraries.  The event will be held at W.E.B. Du Bois Library on the campus on the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Wednesday, October 14th from 10:00am to 2:00pm.  The session will include an overview of how Tableau is used at the University of Connecticut, a review by a representative from Tableau on the product packaging and pricing, and a hand-on introduction to using Tableau with library data.  This will include creating visualizations for multiple chart types, building a dashboard with Tableau, using filters, and other features.  The session will end with an opportunity for the participants to explore visualizations on their own with assistance from librarians more experienced in using Tableau.

Rachel Lewellen and Jessica Adamick from UMass Amherst as well as Steve Batt from UConn will be presenting and assisting with the hands-on portion of the workshop. The workshop is being held in a computer classroom on the UMass Amherst campus which includes 32 workstations for participants.  

Space is limited, so please register here.

October 05, 2015
Meeting

AUL/AD COI Meeting

This meeting will be held at UMass Medical School.

September 29, 2015
Symposium

Open Educational Resources Workshop

This workshop focusing on Open Educational Resources will feature keynote speaker David Ernst, Chief Information Officer of the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. David is the Executive Director of the Open Textbook Network, a program that works to improve higher education access, affordability, and success for all students through the advancement of open textbooks. Through this initiative, David created and manages the Open Textbook Library (http://open.umn.edu) - a single source for faculty to find quality openly licensed textbooks.

The workshop will be held at Boston College, Theology and Ministry Library auditorium (room 113).

Register for the workshop here.

September 25, 2015
Meeting

Continuing Resources and Metadata Management Meeting

This meeting will be held at Williams College.

September 23, 2015
Meeting

Management Council Call

September 18, 2015
Meeting

BLC Quarterly Board Meeting

The location of this meeting is University of New Hampshire, Dimond Library, Room 343. 

September 16, 2015
Meeting

Meeting with Scott Bard of 1Science

Meeti with Scott Bard of 1Science, an open access journal discovery platform: http://www.1science.com at Tufts University, Tisch Library, Austin Conference room.

"Our belief is that there should be an easier way to search for open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly literature that will save libraries time and money. Our technology is developed to respond to day-to-day searching needs for high-quality content. It is suited for librarians, researchers, faculty and students. We have worked very closely with faculty to build a solution that they want to use.  The benefits of our solution focus on the following:

-Save on costs (both subscription and ILL)
-Find all OA, high-quality peer reviewed journal articles on the internet
-Expand a library's collection with OA content
-Support students and researchers with high-quality literature by focusing on peer reviewed articles
-Provide patrons with a seamless, intuitive user experience

All our content is verified and curated thanks to the 14 years of experience in bibliometrics provided by our parent company Science-Metrix, a leader in the international research and statistics community.

We are continuously improving our product to match the needs of the librarians, researchers and students. Since January 2015, we have met with more than 65 universities and consortia to obtain their feedback.  Additionally we focused on curating our data, and developing a premium platform for all their search and discovery needs. In the second half of 2016, we aim to provide analytics and insights that will help universities evaluate the state of OA by country, measure an institution’s OA performance and benchmark it against their peer institutions as well as other institutions.

Additionally, as universities are faced with static or declining budgets, it is more important than ever to make the right decisions regarding their holdings and ensure the proper acquisition mix.  Based on our discussions with Universities we have introduced an additional service, The Holdings Analysis Service.  We will perform a bibliographic analysis of the institution's electronic journals collection by determining, for each journal, what proportion of the holding's articles are available in Open Access. The resulting report will present the journal's usage by looking at the citations made by the institution's authors as well as which journals their authors are publishing in over time. Provided the institution can make this data available, downloadable statistics per journal can also be added. This is a powerful and useful tool for libraries in several ways, from helping to inform journal cancellation decisions to quantifying an institution’s research and publishing trends."

August 28, 2015
Webinar

Health Sciences COI Online Meeting

Meeting login:
https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/185769341

Join the conference call.
800-791-2345 conference code: 59182#
 

August 18, 2015

Data Management Events for NE Librarians

In the MORNING, tour a world-class computational center in Holyoke, MA. The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) serves the growing research computing needs of five of the most research-intensive universities in Massachusetts: BU, Harvard, MIT, Northeaster, and the University of Massachusetts. The computers in the MGHPCC run millions of virtual experiments per month, supporting thousands of researchers in Massachusetts and around the world.

In the AFTERNOON, attend the first Research Data Management Roundtable discussion at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This is an informal gathering of librarians actively engaging in data services (e.g. planning data services, serving on library data service advisory group, consulting on dmps, data curation, teaching rdm, data curation.) and the first in a series of discussions focusing on practical details and learning from our colleagues about research data management. The discussion topics for this session are our organizational structures, both within the library and across campus.

Later Roundtable events will reach out to librarians just beginning to work in research data management.

Further information on these events is available at the libguide August 2015 eScience Events in MA - Tour & Roundtable, http://classguides.lib.uconn.edu/nerdmtable

Registration for both events is here:  http://goo.gl/forms/3a1DJKocFF

Registration opens on July 1 and closes on August 7. Space is limited to 25 participants. The Roundtable event is sponsored by the New England Regional Medical Library’s eScience Advisory Board. For details, contact Donna Kafel at Donna.Kafel@umassmed.edu.

August 05, 2015
Meeting

Management Council Call

July 28, 2015
Meeting

Resource Sharing COI Meeting

This meeting will be held at MBLWHOI.

July 23, 2015
Meeting

Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust Collection Analysis Meeting

THis meeting will be held at UMass Amherst. Further information TBA.

July 20, 2015
Meeting

Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust Collection Analysis Meeting

This meeting will be held at Brandeis University in the Rapaporte Treasure Hall. Further information TBA.

June 25, 2015

Management Council Call

Monthly call of the BLC Management Council.

June 22, 2015
Meeting

JSTOR Meeting

This meeting will be held at Brandeis University, Farber Library. 


A conference phone is available for anyone who cannot make it in person:
800-791-2345  conference code: 59182.
 

June 22, 2015
Meeting

Chemistry COI Meeting

This meeting will be held at MIT, Hayden Library Conference Room, bldg 14S-336.

June 22, 2015

EAST Membership Meeting

This meeting will be held in the Napoli Trophy Room in the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center at Brandeis University.

June 17, 2015 to June 19, 2015

2015 New England Science Boot Camp

This year’s Science Boot Camp will be held June 17-19 on the lovely campus of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.  Selection of this year’s science session topics has not been finalized, but will be announced in February. In addition to the three science sessions, this year’s boot camp will feature an evening presentation on the History of Science and a hands-on Capstone activity in which boot campers will work collaboratively to create data management plans from actual research cases.

This year Science Boot Campers can opt to arrive early on Tuesday evening or stay an additional night on Friday (at additional cost) to enjoy the sights and activities in the Bowdoin area. A tour of Bowdoin’s Coastal Center on Orr’s Island will be available to campers who opt to stay later on Friday.

Are you going to SLA in Boston? Consider heading up to boot camp afterwards!  Brunswick is the gateway to mid-coast Maine and is an easy three hour drive from Boston. Public transportation is also an option, via Greyhound bus or the Amtrak Downeaster.  Each provide daily service from Boston to Brunswick.

Registration is located here. For further questions, please contact Donna Kafel, at donna.kafel@umassmed.edu.

June 11, 2015 to June 12, 2015
Meeting

BLC Board Retreat

The annual BLC Board retreat will be held at the Warren Conference Center in Ashland, MA.

June 05, 2015

Social Sciences Librarians Boot Camp

The fifth annual Social Sciences Librarians Boot Camp will be held at Tisch Library at Tufts University, Medford MA on Friday, June 5 from 8am-4:45pm (post-Camp reception from 4:45-6pm).

The registration fee is $60. To register, go to http://sites.tufts.edu/sslbc2015/ and select the registration tab. You’ll also see a list of confirmed speakers, topics and an overall schedule for the day.

In the meantime if you have questions, please contact sslbc2015@elist.tufts.edu. You may also look at this year’s website to get a feel for the day. Follow us on Twitter: @SSLBC.

June 02, 2015

Networking Day 2015

The Boston Library Consortium invites all members to the BLC's Annual Networking Day to meet new colleagues and catch up with old ones.  We are delighted to have Dan Cohen, Executive Director of Digital Public Library of America and Chris Bourg, Director of MIT Libraries as our featured speakers this year.
 

Program Details & Schedule

Location: Sherman Function Hall, Brandeis University

Directions to Brandeis
Campus Map

Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2015, 10:00 am (Registration and Continental Breakfast start at 9:30 am)

Schedule

9:30 am - 10:00           
Registration & Continental Breakfast
10:00 - 10:15    
Welcome: John Unsworth, President of the BLC Board and Susan Stearns, BLC Executive Director
10:15 - 11:15           
Keynote: Dan Cohen
11:30 - 12:15 pm     
Keynote: Chris Bourg
12:15  - 12:30         
Update on the BLC
12:30 - 1:30            
Lunch
1:30 - 3:00            
Lightning Talks: What's New at BLC Libraries 

  • Jeanne Antill, UMA: Providing services through the Makerbot Innovation Center
  • Linda Plunket, BU: An update on the SHARE project
  • Rachel Lewellen, UMA: Data visualization with Tableau
  • Donna Mullen and Margaret Manion, UML: Using Jeopardy in library instruction
  • Sarah Hutton and Jessica Adamick, UMA: Transforming the learning commons with microclimates
  • Giordana Mecagni, Northeastern: The YMCA GrandMarc project
  • Charlotte Roh, UMA: Open educational resources
  • George Depres, Brandeis: University records management
  • Alicia Morris and Alex May, Tufts: Creating metadata for images in the Trove institutional repository
  • Diann Smothers, Northeastern: Using screencasting for online instruction
  • Elliot Brandow, BC: The Digital History Initiative

3:00 - 3:30            
Break
3:30 - 4:30           
Breakout sessions for COIs and working groups 

Registration:

Please register for the Annual Networking Day HERE. Last day to register is Friday, May 15th by 5:00 pm.

About the Featured Speakers:

Dan Cohen is the Founding Executive Director of the DPLA, where he works to further the DPLA’s mission to make the cultural and scientific heritage of humanity available, free of charge, to all. Prior to his tenure, Dan was a Professor of History and the Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. At the Center, Dan oversaw projects ranging from new publishing ventures (PressForward) to online collections (September 11 Digital Archive) to software for scholarship (the popular Zotero research tool). His books include Digital Histroy: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving and Presenting the Past of the Web (with Roy Rosenzweig) and Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith. Dan was an inaugural recipient of the American Council of Learned Societies’ Digital Innovation Fellowship. In 2011 he received the Frederick G. Kilgour Award from the American Library Association for his work in digital humanities, and in 2012 he was named one of the top "tech innovators" in academia by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Dan received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton, his master’s degree from Harvard, and his PhD from Yale.
Chris Bourg is the Director of Libraries at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she also has oversight of the MIT Press. Prior to assuming her role at MIT, Chris was Associate University Librarian for Public Services at Stanford University. Chris has a PhD in Sociology from Stanford University, and spent 3 years on the faculty at the United States Military Academy at West Point. She is keenly interested in issues of diversity and inclusion in higher education; and in the role libraries play in advancing social justice and democracy.

May 28, 2015

Management Council Call

Monthly call of the BLC Management Council.

May 13, 2015
Meeting

Consortial Collecting Advisory Group Meeting

This meeting will be held at Northeastern University.

May 11, 2015
Meeting

Special Collections COI Meeting

This meeting will be held at the State Library of MA.

The State Library's Special Collections Department is in Room 55 of the State House. (Please note: the Main Library is Room 341; Special Collections is in a different physical location within the State House.)

The easiest way to get there is to come in the main entrance of the State House-- called the Hooker Entrance because of the large equestrian statue out front of General Hooker-- which is right across Beacon Street from where Park Street comes up from the Park Street T stop. It is about a 3-minute walk up Park Street from the T stop.

Come in the Hooker entrance and go through security (metal detector, bags and parcels through a scanner), then head left across the first floor to the West Wing of the building. At the end of the West Wing hallway, walk down one flight of stairs, or, take the elevator one level down to the Basement. You will see the door to Special Collections (Room 55) there.

The department phone number is 617-727-2595.

April 27, 2015
Meeting

Heads of Resource Management Committee Meeting

This meeting will be held at Williams College, Sawyer Library, 4th floor conference room.

10:15-10:30-light refreshments

10:30-12:30 - meeting

12:30 1:30- lunch in meeting room, continued discussion over lunch

1:30-2:30 - tour of new building

April 24, 2015
Meeting

AUL COI Meeting

The AUL COI will meet at University of Connecticut.

April 23, 2015

EPA Library Discussion

Learn about US EPA collections, databases and services at the EPA Library in Boston. Sabrina Holley-Williams, Library Director, will host.

April 23, 2015

Management Council Call

Monthly call of the BLC Management Council.

April 21, 2015
Meeting

eBooks Meeting

This meeting will be held at Boston College, O'Neill Library, room 406.

 


9:30 -10:15 - ProQuest update with Mike LoGreco
10:15 -10:45 - Internal discussion
10:45 - 11:15 - Taylor & Francis Q&A with Evelyn Elias (Tom O'Hare's boss)
11:15 - 12:00 - Discussion of T&F program
12:00 - 12:30 - Discussion of Wiley/JSTOR programs
12:30 - 1:00pm Determine next steps and next meeting. 

April 16, 2015

eBook Vendor Day at UMass Amherst

Are you interested in what the eBook vendors are now offering?  April 16, 2015 is eBook Vendor Day at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Room 2601 of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library.

Each presentation will be 45 minutes.  You can attend all sessions or choose which sessions you want to attend. 

Agenda: 

Continental Breakfast will be provided from 8:30 – 9:00.

9:00:  JSTOR 
9:45:  EBSCO 
10:30:  ACLS Humanities eBook 
11:15:  Break 
11:30:  Project Muse 
Lunch is served from 12:15 – 1:00 
1:00 – SAGE 
1:45 – Oxford University Press 
2:30 – ProQuest

There is a waiting list for this event. Please contact Joanne Montogmery at  joanne@waldolib.org.

Parking information can be found at:  http://parking.umass.edu/images/maps/mapGarageParking.pdf.  Parking garage (H) is the closest parking to the library. 

If you have any questions, please contact Joanne Montgomery at joanne@waldolib.org.


This event is co-sponsored by WALDO and the BLC.

April 09, 2015
Symposium

7th Annual University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian e-Science Symposium

University of Massachusetts Medical School (Faculty Conference Room), Worcester, Mass.

Registration is now closed. If you would like to be added to the waiting list, please contact Raquel Abad, Project Coordinator, at raquel.abad@umassmed.edu.

Symposium Agenda 


Confirmed speakers are:

  • Philip Bourne, PhD, Associate Director for Data Science, National Institutes of Health
  • Jane Silverthorne, PhD, Deputy Assistant Director, Biological Sciences Directorate, National Science Foundation
  • Caroline Kuo, DPhil, MPhil, Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University
  • David Fearson, PhD, Data Management Consultant, JHU Data Management Services, The Sheridan Libraries,Johns Hopkins University
  • Michael Witt, MLS, Head, Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2), Purdue University

Directions, Parking, and Hotel Accommodations

The University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian e-Science Symposium encourages New England region libraries to collaborate and support e-science initiatives at their institutions. Featuring presentations by nationally recognized leaders in the e-Science arena, the symposium is an educational opportunity for librarians to learn about e-Science resources and current initiatives. The symposium also provides a forum where librarians can discuss new library roles for engaging research communities and supporting networked science.

Sponsors:

April 07, 2015 to April 08, 2015

Plum Analytics Altmetrics Sessions

The Boston Library Consortium and Plum Analytics are pleased to invite you to learn more about modern metrics, aka altmetrics, and how you can leverage their power within your library and institution. At this session, Andrea Michalek, co-founder and President of Plum Analytics, will discuss the background and history of altmetrics, describe PlumX, a metrics product, and share stories of how those that perform, fund and publish research are using the service. These use cases will include:

  • Adding metrics to your Institutional Repository to add value for your authors
  • Using metrics in the new NIH Biosketch portion of grant application
  • Telling the story of your research for scholarly communication
  • Understanding the impact of non-STEM and non-Article research.

We are offering this session at two locations:

April 7 (Session 1)
Location: UMass Amherst
10:00 – 10:30am     Arrival and coffee
10:30 – 10:45am     Welcome and introductions
10:45 – 11:30am     Overview of Altmetrics
11:30 – 12:15pm     Case studies of how institutions are using PlumX
12:15 – 12:30pm     Questions and discussion

April 8 (Session 2)
Location: Boston College, Theology and Ministry Library auditorium (room 113)
10:00 – 10:30am      Arrival and coffee
10:30 – 10:45am     Welcome and introductions
10:45 – 11:30am     Overview of Altmetrics
11:30 – 12:15pm     Case studies of how institutions are using PlumX
12:15 – 12:30pm     Questions and discussion

To register for either session, please click HERE.

April 03, 2015
Meeting

Resource Sharing COI Meeting

Where: Williams College

When:  Friday, April 3, 2015, 9:30-2:00

Agenda:          

9:30-10:15

  • Coffee, tea, and mingling
  • Tour of Library

10:15-12:30

  • New staff introductions
  • Report from Resource Sharing Working Group
  • Best Practices/Must-Dos discussion
  • UPS Shipping Pilot conclusions, how do we proceed?
  • Interstate Delivery
  • IDS Project, how it might work for BLC
  • General Discussion

12:30-1:30

  • Lunch- Continue Discussions

1:30-2:00

  • Wrap-Up 

Driving and Parking Directions:

http://library.williams.edu/directions.php

Local Lodging:

Blackinton Manor B&B
5 Rooms available  $175-$215/evening
(413) 663-5795
http://www.blackinton-manor.com/
 
The Orchards Hotel

$129/evening
800.225.1517
http://www.orchardshotel.com/

Williams Inn
$109/evening
(413) 458-9371
http://www.booking.com/hotel/us/williamstown-1090-main-street.en-us.html?aid=311088;label=williamstown-1090-main-street-eFo4oNXxrwqNa_mnddAhCAS8

April 01, 2015
Training

Wikipedia Workshop and Hackathon

This day-long Wikipedia workshop and hackathon on April 1, 2015 at Northeastern University will be hosted by Amanda Rust, Digital Humanities Librarian. It will introduce participants to some of the various ways to contribute to Wikipedia, with a focus on Special Collections and Archives. The first half of the day will provide background and discussion exercises, while the second half will primarily be devoted to leading participants through hands-on editing work on Wikipedia. All levels of experience are welcome, and participants are encouraged to bring their own ideas for work in the afternoon. Participants will leave with a better understanding of Wikipedia's community principles and goals, ideas for developing their own library programs, some hands-on editing experience, and resources for further help.

 

Registration is now closed but you may email Ondi Gottesman at ogottesman@blc.org to be placed on a waiting list.

 

Location and Schedule:

Location: Room 422 in Snell Library (take the main library stairwell to the fourth floor and turn right)

Morning: 9:30am - 12:30pm (with 15-minute break). Introduction to Wikipedian principles and community, potential uses in Archives & Special Collections. 

Lunch: 12:30pm – 1:30pm.

Afternoon editing salon: 1:30pm - 4:30pm. Brief introduction to hands-on editing, work on getting comfortable on Wikipedia or planning projects for attendees' home library.

March 27, 2015
Webinar

Webinar: Transitioning from First Search to WorldCat Discovery

This webinar session will focus on the transition of FirstSearch to WorldCat Discovery Services for the BLC libraries.  

WebEx Link: https://oclc.webex.com/oclc/j.php?MTID=m5c4b5924f05a61c7de58add5523b7edb

Meeting number: 718 498 828

Phone #: 1-877-668-4490 

Access code: 718 498 828

March 24, 2015
Webinar

Reprints Desk Webinar

Reprints Desk BLC Demo Webinar

Join WebEx meeting-

Meeting number: 808 995 693
Meeting password: Redsox

Join by phone-
1-650-479-3208 
Access code: 808 995 693

 

March 23, 2015
Meeting

eBooks Meeting

This meeting will be held at Brandeis.

March 23, 2015
Meeting

Heads of Resource Management Committee Meeting

This meeting will be held at Brandeis.

March 20, 2015
Meeting

Continuing Resources and Metatdata Manegement Meeting

The CRMM group will meet at Wellesley College on Friday, March 20th, from 12:00-2:00. Further details are forthcoming.

March 20, 2015

Management Council Call

Monthly call of the BLC Management Council.

March 17, 2015
Webinar

ACI Scholarly Blog Index Webinar

A BLC member libraries webinar on the new ACI Scholarly Blog Index will be held on Tuesday, March 17th at 2:00pm Eastern.  You can use this URL to access the webinar: join.me/acimeeting
A dial-in number to use for the presentation is: 1-877-811-6397  x2010

ACI Scholarly Blog Index is a editorially curated collection of scholarly blogs selected by domain experts for the academic market--students and researchers.  The blogs are written by professors, researchers, and industry experts and present their current views.  Full author credentials are included in a record along with the author's social connections, and links to their scholarly work-- journals and books. An altmetric community score is calculated for authors and blog posts. Please join the webinar for a closer look at this new scholarly resource.


ACI Scholarly Blog Index is published by the ACI Information Group. Founded in 2004, ACI Information Group is the world's leading aggregator of editorially selected and curated social media publicatons.
 

March 09, 2015
Meeting

Special Collections COI Meeting

This meeting will be held at Boston College.

March 03, 2015
Meeting

Board Meeting

The quarterly BLC Board meeting will be held at Brandeis University.

February 24, 2015
Symposium

Regional Resource Sharing Symposium: Interstate Opportunities

The Boston Library Consortium and the Massachusetts Library System are pleased to announce the Regional Resource Sharing Symposium: Interstate Opportunities.  Join your colleagues throughout the Northeast to begin a discussion of interstate collaboration on resource sharing and delivery.

Our keynote speaker, Valerie Horton, Minitex Executive Director, comes with rich interstate resource sharing experience.  Valerie was a co-founder of the COKAMO interstate delivery in Colorado, Kansas, and Missouri. Currently her organization provides and supports resource sharing in four states in the upper Midwest (Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Wisconsin).

For more information about the event or to register, visit http://guides.masslibsystem.org/interstate

About the Massachusetts Library System

The Massachusetts Library System, a state-supported collaborative, fosters cooperation, communication, innovation, and sharing among member libraries of all types.  The MLS promotes equitable access to excellent library services and resources for all who live, work, or study in Massachusetts.

Contact: 

Greg Pronevitz, Executive Director, Massachusetts Library System

greg@masslibsystem.org | 508-357-2121 x303

February 20, 2015
Meeting

eBooks Meeting

The eBooks group will meet on Friday, Feb. 20th, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm, at Boston College, O'Neill Library, Room 406.

February 18, 2015

Management Council Call

Monthly call of the BLC Management Council.

February 09, 2015
Meeting

Heads of Resource Management Committee Meeting

This meeting will be held at Brandeis.

January 21, 2015

Management Council Call

Monthly call of the BLC Management Council.

January 12, 2015
Meeting

Special Collections COI Meeting

This meeting will be held at Northeastern University, Snell Library, room 421. 

December 15, 2014
Meeting

E-Books Meeting

This meeting will be held at Boston College, O'Neill Library, Room 413.

December 04, 2014
Meeting

Board Meeting

The quarterly BLC Board meeting will be held at UMass Dartmouth.

November 25, 2014

BLC and Digital Science Workshop: "Addressing the Emerging Needs of the Research Ecosystem"

The Boston Library Consortium and Digital Science invite you to attend a workshop focused on the management, dissemination, and collaboration around research data in the university.  Today’s research ecosystem is increasingly complex and includes players from many different departments and groups within the academy: research and sponsored program staff, the CIO and IT staff, library deans/directors and their scholarly communications and research data management librarians, university marketing and communications staff and, of course, the researchers themselves. 

Meeting the diverse requirements of these varied groups in efficient and cost-effective ways requires that quality data are able to flow in and out of university information systems, often populating such diverse technologies as grants management systems, researcher profiles, institutional repositories, and enterprise data warehouses.  Non-traditional measures of research impact such as Altmetrics and the increasingly prevalent funder mandates create new challenges for universities as they look to ensure a robust research information management environment.

On Tuesday, November 25th, the workshop will be held at UMass Medeical School in Worcester. Lunch is included.

November 21, 2014

BLC and Digital Science Workshop: "Addressing the Emerging Needs of the Research Ecosystem"

The Boston Library Consortium and Digital Science invite you to attend a workshop focused on the management, dissemination, and collaboration around research data in the university.  Today’s research ecosystem is increasingly complex and includes players from many different departments and groups within the academy: research and sponsored program staff, the CIO and IT staff, library deans/directors and their scholarly communications and research data management librarians, university marketing and communications staff and, of course, the researchers themselves. 

Meeting the diverse requirements of these varied groups in efficient and cost-effective ways requires that quality data are able to flow in and out of university information systems, often populating such diverse technologies as grants management systems, researcher profiles, institutional repositories, and enterprise data warehouses.  Non-traditional measures of research impact such as Altmetrics and the increasingly prevalent funder mandates create new challenges for universities as they look to ensure a robust research information management environment.

On Friday, November 21st, the workshop will be held at Tufts University (Medford campus). Lunch is included.

 

9:30AM: Introduction and Welcome, Susan Stearns, Boston Library Consortium, Susan Pastore, Digital Science

9:45AM: Research Information Management: Making Sense of it All - The creation of an authoritative institutional data source requires a thorough understanding of the subject area, the adoption of effective processes, strong stakeholder communication and a comprehensive appreciation of available sources of supporting data. 

Faced with growing competition for future funding and increased calls to both disseminate and demonstrate the impact resulting from research activity carried out by their researchers, many research intensive institutions are now implementing Research Information Management Systems (RIMs) to help collate the often fragmented sets of data maintained across an institution and to blend these with external data sources in a bid to reduce the administrative burden historically associated with capturing and managing data about an institution’s research activity.

In this session, the presenter will reflect on the emergence of research information management systems, their key functions, the types of data they can capture; the intersection of RIMs with other institutional systems (e.g. Institutional Repositories and Profile Systems) and the resulting benefit afforded to institutions that deploy institution-wide RIM systems.

Based on both his own experience of implementing a RIM at Imperial College London and having worked with many other leading research institutions whilst at Symplectic, the presenter will also discuss how research libraries and librarians are often uniquely placed to promote and support the adoption of RIMs by Faculty and how they also often go on to play a more central role in the planning of future institutional research information data collection. 

11:00AM: One University’s Transition to the Research Information Age- The University of New Hampshire is in the final stages of implementing two types of research information systems. As a relatively small land-, sea- and space-grant institution, with by far the lowest per capita state support among its peers, moving initiatives like this forward faces particular challenges. This talk will focus on telling the UNH story, which is still very much in its early stages but also has a lot of lessons that have been learned. Important parts of the story include the development and socialization of the imperative for undertaking this effort, securing funding, and working with a myriad of organizations including central IT, Research Computing, the central administration, Project Management Office and even the library! This talk will provide details about the strategy used to develop and move this initiative forward, including details of the arguments used to “sell” the need for this type of intelligence. The strategy for this necessarily hit on many different levels: the need and benefit to individual faculty researchers, integration with strategic initiatives in the library, and benefits to upper administration, center and institute directors, and the larger positioning of the university in a competitive landscape. This presentation will also highlight some of the challenges that have been encountered – in particular, those many challenges that were completely unexpected during the planning phases!

12:15: Lunch

1:15: The Evolving World of Research Data Management: Options and Opportunties- Technology for data management is always evolving. Much of the newest functionality for researchers is led by innovation in other spaces. Management, dissemination and collaboration around research data is key to both the development of scholarly communication and quickly becoming a requirement as more and more funders see the benefits of open research.  

With new funder mandates, researchers as well as institutions are faced with a research data management problem. Management, dissemination and collaboration around research data is key to both the development of scholarly communication and quickly becoming a requirement as more and more funders mandate open data. Technology is helping researchers to be able to communicate both positive and negative research results more openly, share data that has previously been locked away on desktops, and develop research objects as a publishing output in its own right.  figshare is at the forefront of both cloud based research management and collaboration and the drive towards open data as well as being one of a myriad of new technology companies operating in the research area.  

This session will look at the research data management landscape and the different approaches that are being taken to adjust to the various funder mandates.

 

Our Speakers:

Dr. Mark Hahnel

Dr. Kevin Gardner

Jonathan Breeze

 

To Register: Email Susan Stearns, Executive Director, Boston Library Consortium – sstearns@blc.org  - and include any dietary requirements for the lunch.

 

November 20, 2014
Meeting

Alma COI Meeting

This meeting will be held at  Boston University, Administrative Conference Room in Mugar Memorial Library, 771 Commonwealth Avenue.

November 19, 2014

Management Council Call

Monthly call of the BLC Management Council.

November 17, 2014
Meeting

Heads of Resource Management Committee Meeting

This meeting will be held at Boston University.

November 12, 2014
Meeting

Chemistry COI Meeting

The Chemistry COI will meet at Boston College.

November 10, 2014
Meeting

Special Collections COI Meeting

This meeting will be held at UMass Boston.

November 06, 2014
Webinar

PlumX Webinar

To join the online meeting (Now from mobile devices!) 
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1. Go to https://ebscomeetings.webex.com/ebscomeetings/j.php?ED=282359202&UID=1573011267&RT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D 
2. Enter your name and email address. 
3. Enter the meeting password: (This meeting does not require a password.) 
4. Click "Join Now". 

 

To join the audio portion of the Personal Conference meeting 
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To receive a call back, provide your phone number when you join the meeting, or call the number below and enter the access code. 
Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada): 1-877-668-4490 
Call-in toll number (US/Canada): 1-408-792-6300 
Access code: 576 672 427 
 

 

November 04, 2014
Webinar

PlumX Webinar

To join the online meeting (Now from mobile devices!) 
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1. Go to https://ebscomeetings.webex.com/ebscomeetings/j.php?ED=282358932&UID=1573011857&RT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D 
2. Enter your name and email address. 
3. Enter the meeting password: (This meeting does not require a password.) 
4. Click "Join Now". 

 

To join the audio portion of the Personal Conference meeting 
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To receive a call back, provide your phone number when you join the meeting, or call the number below and enter the access code. 
Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada): 1-877-668-4490 
Call-in toll number (US/Canada): 1-408-792-6300 
Access code: 579 375 348 

October 28, 2014
Meeting

eBooks Meeting

This meeting will be held in room 413 of the O'Neill Library at Boston College. 

October 24, 2014

Open Access Week: “Extending the Reach of Your Science” at MBLWHOI Library

The MBLWHOI Library at Woods Hole is sponsoring a lunchtime discussion “Extending the Reach of Your Science” on Friday, Oct. 24th at 12:15pm at WHOI (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Smith Conference Room (across the street from the Woods Hole Market). See here for further details as well as a picture of their famous 2011 Open Access cake!

A full list of BLC Open Access Week activities is available here.

October 24, 2014
Meeting

Heads of Resource Management Committee Meeting

This meeting will be held at Northeastern.

October 23, 2014

Open Access Week: A Dialogue with Peter Suber at UMass Amherst

UMass Amherst is hosting the well-known Open Access champion, Peter Suber, in a dialog on open access on Thursday, October 23rd, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, in 160A Events Hall West, Commonwealth Honors College.  Suber, the author of Open Access, is the director of the Office for Scholarly Communication at Harvard, director of the Harvard Open Access Project, faculty fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and senior researcher at Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).  See details here.

A full list of BLC Open Access Week activities is available here.

October 23, 2014

Open Access Week: Webcast- "The Right Metrics for Generation Open" at Northeastern

Stacy Konkiel of Impactstory presents a guide to getting credit for practicing open science. See details here.

A full list of BLC Open Access Week activities is available here.

October 23, 2014

Open Access Week: 3D Printing Presentation: Andreas Aghamianz at Northeastern

Northeastern student Andreas Aghamianz (COE ‘18) will discuss the process of fabricating and assembling his open sourced inMoov robotic hand. See details here.

A full list of BLC Open Access Week activities is available here.

October 22, 2014

Open Access Week: "Research Data Management III: Demystifying Metadata" at Tufts

Metadata -data about data- is an increasingly important component of research management plans.  This session will increase your understanding of how metadata facilitates discovery in an online and linked environment.  The instructors will introduce you to the principles of metadata creation, along with the most common types of metadata schemas and standards currently used by researchers.

See details here.

A full list of BLC Open Access Week activities is available here.

October 22, 2014

Open Access Week: Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon at Northeastern

Join us to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of under-represented groups in Massachusetts and U.S. history. This hack-a-thon style session will focus on editing and updating Wikipedia pages in a group setting. You do not need any prior experience with Wikipedia to participate, just bring a laptop and a power supply. See details here.

A full list of BLC Open Access Week activities is available here.

 

October 22, 2014

Open Access Week: "Generation Open" Information Fair at UMA

From open access to open source, open content and open science, come get your fix of all things open at UMass Amherst. Representatives from Wikipedia, the UMass Knowledge Commons Workshop, Pioneer Valley Open Science, the UMass Amherst Libraries, and many others will be on hand to share openly accessible resources, and help you get involved in opening access for all.

See details here.

A full list of BLC Open Access Week events is available here.

October 22, 2014
Meeting

Open Access Week: Discussion on Proposed OA Opt-Out Policy at BU

Boston University will be sponsoring a meeting for faculty and other interested parties to discuss the proposed open access opt-out policy, why BU is pursuing the policy, the changes it represents and plans for its implementation with a focus on promoting  faculty and student research. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 22nd in the GSU Conference Auditorium, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Second Floor. A reception will be held directly after in the Ziskind Lounge. Details are available here.

A full list of BLC Open Access Week activities is available here.

October 22, 2014

Management Council Call

Monthly call of the BLC Management Council.

October 21, 2014

Open Access Week: "Research Data Management II: Research Data Lifecycle" at Tufts

Data is typically considered in two broad categories: quantitative and qualitative. In the realm of quantitative data, ‘number’ and ‘data’ are not synonymous.  The workshop will define research data, the range and stages of data and potential storage formats.

See details here.

A full list of BLC Open Access activities is available here.

October 21, 2014

Open Access Week: "Boosting Your Course with Open Education Resources" at UMA

Join faculty members in a moderated discussion about planning for and using online education materials as alternatives to high-cost textbooks in a variety of disciplines. The moderators represent faculty who have received campus Open Education Initiative grants funded by the Provost’s Office and the University Libraries.

See details here.

A full list of BLC Open Access Week activities is available here.

October 20, 2014

Open Access Week: "Generation Open" Webcast at UMass Medical School

UMass Medical School will kick off Open Access Week with a live webcast: “Generation Open” on Monday, October 20th from 3:00 – 4:30 pm at the Lamar Soutter Library classroom. Details are available here.

A full list of BLC Open Access Week activities is available here.

October 20, 2014

Open Access Week: Webcast- "Generation Open" Panel Discussion at Northeastern

Speakers will discuss the importance of students and early career researchers in the transition to Open Access and explore how changes in scholarly publishing affect scholars and researchers at different stages of their careers. See here for details.

A full list of BLC Open Access Week activities is available here.

October 20, 2014

Open Access Week: "Open Access, Copyright, and Fair Use for Theses and Dissertations" at UMA

This event will give graduate students an overview of open access and the benefits of choosing open access for electronic theses and dissertations. An overview of copyright and fair use as it relates to theses and dissertations will also be presented. Discussion time will explore graduate students' thoughts about open access and copyright issues.

See details here. 

A full list of BLC Open Access Week activities is available here.

October 20, 2014

Open Access Week: "Field Guide to Predatory Publishers" at Tufts

See event details here.

A full list of BLC Open Access Week activities is available here.

October 20, 2014

Open Access Week: Wikipedia Training Session and Edit-a-Thon at UMA

Have you ever wanted to use Wikipedia in your classroom? Have you been asked to help instructors with Wikipedia assignments? Do you just think Wikipedia is great and want to help students and/or instructors use it better?

Zach McDowell, ABD in the Department of Communication, is a Wikipedia Education Fellow and Campus Ambassador and will lead this short training introduction to help introduce the fundamentals of using Wikipedia in the classroom. This training is open to instructors, librarians, and any support staff that are interested in using Wikipedia as a teaching tool. Zach is joined by Laura Quilter, copyright librarian at UMass, a fellow Wikipedian and advocate for combating systemic biases on Wikipedia.

Agenda will include an overview of Wikipedia's principles, an introduction to the mechanics of editing pages and communicating with others, and an overview of how the Wikipedia Education program works. Following the initial training, we will have an edit-a-thon for hands-on experience.

See details here.

A full list of BLC Open Access Week activities is available here.

October 16, 2014 to October 17, 2014
Training

ArchivesSpace Training Event

The ArchivesSpace Training two-day event will be held at Boston College, O'Neill Library, Room 307. 

 

Schedule

First Day (October 16th)

9:00 am Introductions – Standards context – Learning objectives & what won’t be covered
9:30 am Application overview
9:45 am Public interface
10:00 am Repository records – EXERCISE 1
10:30 am User records - EXERCISE 2
10:45 am BREAK (15 minutes)
11:15 am Location records – EXERCISE 3
11:30 am Accession records – EXERCISE 4
12:30 pm LUNCH (1 ¼ hours)
1:45 pm Resource descriptions (Single level records) EXERCISE 5
3:00 pm BREAK (15 minutes)
3:15 pm Resource descriptions (Multilevel records, Instances, and the Rapid Data Entry Tool) – EXERCISE 6
4:45 pm First day wrap up


Second Day (October 17th)

9:00 am Questions from first day & Overview of second day
9:15 am Authorities basics
9:30 am Agent (corporate, personal, family name) records – EXERCISE 7
10:15 am BREAK (15 minutes)
10:30 am Subject and other controlled vocabulary records -- EXERCISE 8
11:00 am Linking description parts – EXERCISE 9
11:30 am Exports – EXERCISE 10
12:00 pm LUNCH (1 ¼ hours)
1: 15 pm Importing legacy data– EXERCISE 11
2:00 pm Data Cleanup-- EXERCISE 12
2:30 pm Customizations
3:00 pm Bringing it all together – EXERCISE 13 (WRAP-UP EXERCISE)
Breaks as wanted
4:30-5:00 pm Follow up questions and workshop evaluation

October 08, 2014
Meeting

Open Access Funding COI Meeting

The Open Access Funding COI will meet to report on and discuss the work of its two sub-groups, plus discuss a few additional topics.

The meeting will be held at MIT’s Dewey Library, Building E53, room 212.

October 03, 2014
Meeting

Continuing Resources and Metadata Management Fall Meeting

The Continuing Resources and Metadata Management fall meeting will be held at Wellesley College.

Lunch will be served.

September 22, 2014
Meeting

HRM Meeting

The HRM meeting will be held at Tufts University, Tisch Library, Austin Conference Room.

September 17, 2014

Management Council Call

Monthly call of the BLC Management Council.

September 12, 2014
Meeting

Resource Sharing Working Group Meeting

The Resource Sharing Working Group will meet at:


Conference Room, Administrative Offices
Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
771 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA

September 11, 2014
Meeting

Board Meeting

The quarterly BLC Board meeting will be held at WIlliams College.

August 28, 2014

Management Council Call

Monthly call of the BLC Management Council.

August 14, 2014
Training

Rapid ILL Workshop

The Rapid ILL Workshop will be held at Tufts University, Tisch Library, room 223. Registration is now closed.

To join from WebEx:
1. Go to https://tufts.webex.com/tufts/j.php?MTID=m441ec353d192ce97619a37c021570b30
2. If requested, enter your name and email address.
3. If a password is required, enter the meeting password: 1234
4. Click "Join".

 

The RapidILL workshop for the Boston Library Consortium will focus on making best use of your Rapid membership.  Emphasis will be on workflow and process efficiencies, and we'll also take a look at the Rapid tools available, both new and old, to enhance your resource sharing.  Possible topics to be covered include:

•         Rapid and ILLiad interoperability
•         Using routing rules and custom queues to automate ILLiad workflow for Rapid
•         Rapid ILLiad Addon
•         Workflow for non-ILLiad libraries
•         Book chapter overview
•         Search holdings page
•         Effective use of holdings in Rapid
•         Collection Management tools
•         RapidX behind the scenes!
•         Statistics in-depth
•         Rapid and Open Access
•         Using document suppliers in Rapid

 New tools to be reviewed include:
•         RapidX4ALL
•         Lending call number and location lookup for non-Rapid requests in ILLiad
•         *Top secret new feature*


 We will also review and discuss RapidR (Returnables) in the context of the BLC and in the Rapid system in general.

Agenda

9:30 – 10:00am        Check in and light refreshments
10:00am – 12:30pm    Workshop
12:30 – 1:30pm        Lunch [provided]
1:30pm – 3:30pm    Workshop continued

August 07, 2014
Meeting

Management Council Call

July 31, 2014

Management Council Call

July 28, 2014
Meeting

E-Book Group 3-Year Kickoff Meeting

The E-Book group will meet at Boston College, O'Neill Library, room 413. 

July 24, 2014
Meeting

Resource Sharing COI Meeting

The Resource Sharing COI will meet at UMass Amherst. 

June 26, 2014
Meeting

Open Access Funding Models Meeting

The Open Access Funding Models group will meet at Boston College, O'Neill Library, room 413 to discuss the Springer project.

June 23, 2014 to August 07, 2014
Meeting

Resource Sharing Working Group Meeting

The Resource Sharing Working Group will meet at Northeastern University, Snell Library, room 320.

June 12, 2014 to June 13, 2014

BLC Board Retreat

The annual BLC Board retreat will be held June 12th-13th at the Warren Conference Center in Ashland, MA.

June 10, 2014

Social Sciences Librarians' Boot Camp

The fourth annual Social Sciences Librarians Boot Camp, hosted by Harvard Business School’s Baker Library, will be held at  the Harvard Innovation Lab (Batten Hall), on Tuesday, June 10,  from 8am-4:30pm (post-Camp reception from 4:30-6pm).

 

June 03, 2014

Networking Day 2014

The Boston Library Consortium invites all members to the BLC's Annual Networking Day to meet new colleagues and catch up with old ones.  We are delighted to have Constance Malpas, Program Officer at OCLC Research and Roger Schonfeld, Program Director for Libraries, Users and Scholarly Practices at Ithaka S&R as our featured speakers this year. Constance will discuss issues relating to the evolution of academic and research library collections with a focus on shared "collective" collections. Roger will discuss recent studies of attitudes, practices and needs of academic faculty and library deans.
 

Program Details 

Location: Room 100, Gasson Hall, Boston College
Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2014, 10:00 am
 

Schedule

9:30 am - 10:00        Registration & Continental Breakfast
10:00 - 10:15            Welcome: Tom Wall, President of the BLC Board and Susan Stearns, Executive Director of the BLC
10:15 - 11:15            Keynote: Constance Malpas
11:15 - 12:15 pm     Keynote: Roger Schonfeld
12:15  - 12:30           Brief update on the BLC
12:30 - 1:30               Lunch
1:30 - 3:00                 Lightning Talks: What's New at  BLC Libraries 

-Amanda Rust, Northeastern: Hosting a Wikpedia "edit-a-thon"
-John Furfey, MBLWHOI: Integrating alametrics tools and services for researchers
-Laura Quilter, UMA: Update on copyright cases and trends, touching on what's going on legislatively and in the courts
-Jane Ichord, Tufts University Hirsh Health Sciences Library: The value of frequent, informal one-on-one teaching opportunities as part of instruction for physicians-in-training
-Joe Natale, UConn: Using RapidILL for book chapters
-Sarah Hutton and Kate Freedman, UMA: Getting a credit bearing library research course off the ground
-Mary Moser, UMB: Graduate Work 101 2.0: An Online Tutorial to Meet the Research Needs of Graduate Students

3:00 - 4:30           Breakout sessions for COIs and working groups