Driven to democratize access to emerging technologies and the knowledge it affords, the Academic Library is well positioned to provide access to 3D Printing services to support the design learning pedagogy in higher education. Additive manufacturing technologies allow you to design, 3D print, and test your design in real time. In this 2-part series, you will learn about 3D Printing and develop an understanding for how the technologies can be implemented in the Academic Library.

This webinar has been postponed. The new registration link will be shared when it becomes available.

Presenter:

Elisandro Cabada is an Assistant Professor and the Medical and Bioengineering Librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he provides emerging technology services to support higher education. His research interests include studying the barriers to access, pedagogical affordances, and application of emerging and immersive technologies in research and instruction. Elisandro is a recipient of the 2021 Best Emerging Technology Award, awarded by the ALA RUSA Emerging Technologies Section.

Dr. Nettrice R. Gaskins is an African American digital artist, academic, cultural critic and advocate of STEAM fields. In her work she explores "techno-vernacular creativity" and Afrofuturism. Dr. Gaskins’ work explores how to generate art using algorithms in different ways, especially through coding. She also teaches, writes, "fabs" or makes, and does other things. She has taught multimedia, computational media, visual art, and even Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles with high school students who majored in the arts.

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About the BLC Virtual Chat

As trust in the written word continues to fray, are educators doing enough to prepare students for the new world of reading? In particular, what are practical ways to incorporate critical thinking and reading into library instruction? Who’s job is it to help students become deep and analytical readers? What opportunities for collaboration are there  at your institution for librarians, writing centers, and disciplinary faculty to facilitate conversation across campus towards improving students’ reading skills? 

This conversation with Alison Head will explore what fresh ideas can be surfaced to inspire librarians and educators to improve teaching and learning about critical reading while suggesting new avenues for inquiry and experimentation. During a virtual conversation with BLC library workers, the reading essay’s author, Alison Head, will reflect on these issues, drawing on 12 large-scale PIL research studies she has designed and directed since 2009, and her experience developing and teaching new media courses as the Roy Disney Visiting Professor at Saint Mary’s College in California for 10 years. Alison is also  Editor for the PIL Provocation Series, and was a Research Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman-Klein Center, 2011-2015, a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2011-2020, and, since 2016, has been a Senior Researcher at the metaLAB (at) Harvard. 

This event is co-sponsored by the BLC and Project Information Literacy, a nonprofit research institute. The 50-minute virtual discussion, which is limited to 35-40 participants and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

About Alison’s Essay

For many decades, professors have held onto the notion that college develops students into critical and analytical readers, who can arrive at a deeper understanding of texts through inference and making connections of their own. In “Reading in the Age of Distrust,” Alison argues many educators and librarians may be overlooking how the task of reading has dramatically changed in a world plagued by an endless stream of misinformation while students are increasingly prone to distrusting of news and information. 

The PIL Provocation essay argues that college students must be taught how to be skillful, discerning readers, who can engage actively with texts and better understand the source of information and how it is being disseminated at warp speed across a vast universe of connected networks. For today’s students, these critical reading skills are urgently needed in a chaotic world where information is a free-for-all and even the smartest people can get fooled. 

About PIL’s Provocation Series

During 2021, Project Information Literacy, a research institute in the U.S. that studies students’ information practices, is offering virtual chats with PIL Provocation Series authors about their recent essays. Reaching beyond any one discipline or, indeed, any singular notion of what “literacy” means today, each essay  in the PIL Series offers new insights, drawing from scholarship and the flow of current events, to provoke thought and conversation among practitioners and across boundaries. This Series seeks to facilitate discussion and share ideas about improving teaching and learning while exploring new avenues for inquiry, experimentation, and further research.

Laura Hibbler

Associate University Librarian for Research and Instruction, Brandeis University

Alison Head

Executive Director, Project Information Literacy

Editor, PIL Provocation Series 

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Leaders and team members aim to attain goals, to meet objectives, and please all of their stakeholders and employees along the way. This webinar will focus on a key leadership distinction: excellence versus perfection, and how a leader or team member’s overall effectiveness is influenced by how aware they are of their own inclination (and that of their team members) toward each dimension. The discussion will cover:

• What does it mean to be an “excellent leader or team member” versus a “perfect leader or team member”? What happens to a team member or leader, and the organization they support when their journey toward excellence diverges to a quest for perfection?
• How metrics and key performance indicators can work for, and against a team member or leader’s effectiveness. And, how might one shape these important measures to motivate toward excellence.
• Coaching team members who may be seeing the pursuit of perfection as a surrogate for achieving excellence. How to help them view their own contributions through the lens of excellence, and to help them refocus their efforts and energy accordingly.

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Presenter Garry Sanders is Principal, AssistLeadership, LLC and is an Executive Coach having earned a Certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University, and the designation of Professional Certified Coach by The International Coaching Federation. He is coaching leaders and team members at universities, businesses, and government agencies around the United States. He says that he “practices imperfection daily.”

The BLC Access Services COI will hold a virtual meeting on Friday, May 14th from 10:00am-11:30am. The agenda and login information will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

This workshop will provide a hands-on introduction to Tableau, a free tool for creating data visualizations. Its drag-and-drop interface provides tools to build a variety of visualizations with no coding required, and visualizations can be embedded in websites by copying and pasting embed code. In this workshop, participants will create an interactive dashboard together along with static charts. Resources will be shared to help attendees continue learning how to use this resource beyond the workshop.

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No prior experience is required but attendees will need to download and install Tableau prior to the workshop: https://unc-libraries-data.github.io/Tableau/download.html

Presenter:

Lorin Bruckner, Data Visualization Services Librarian at UNC-Chapel Hill

With the staggering amount of information being created and shared today, how can we strengthen our skills to separate truth and fact from misinformation, disinformation, or mal-information? When information changes quickly, how can we grow our ability to make decisions based on the most accurate and trusted sources we have at the time? Come to gain ideas and practices to improve your information literacy.

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Presenter:

Lisa Hinz, Extension Educator, Leadership and Civic Engagement, University of Minnesota Extension Center for Community Vitality

Are you interested in fair use, but not interested in long lectures on the topic? Would you like to test your fair use knowledge and have some fun? If the answer to either or both of these questions is yes, then join us as we play the Fair Use Gameshow! Your host, Sara Benson, the Copyright Librarian at the University of Illinois will ask fun, challenging fair use questions to the audience and our panel of esteemed copyright experts will chime in with their opinions. Join the fun as the panel including Melissa Ocepek, Assistant Professor at the iSchool, Pia Hunter, Access Librarian and Online Learning Consultant at the University of Illinois College of Law, and Barbara Kaplan, Faculty Outreach Librarian at the University of Illinois College of Law discuss the many nuances of fair use.
 

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Presenters:

• Sara Benson, Copyright Librarian at the University of Illinois;
• Melissa Ocepek, Assistant Professor at the iSchool at the University of Illinois;
• Pia Hunter, Access Librarian and Online Learning Consultant at the University of Illinois College of Law;
• Barbara Kaplan, Faculty Outreach Librarian at the University of Illinois College of Law

The Heads of Resource Sharing (HRS) Committee will hold a meeting on Monday, May 3rd from 11:30am-1pm. The agenda and log in information will be distributed via the HRS list-serv.

In October 2020, the BLC announced the launch of the OpenBLC pilot initiative to support faculty adoption of OER across the 19 member libraries, supported by a generous grant from the Davis Educational Foundation.

During the 2020-2021 academic year, the OER Community of Interest will lead a core group of librarians and staff from the member libraries in designing a workshop series for faculty to increase their understanding and awareness of open textbooks. The Presidential Grant from the Davis Educational Foundation will fund $200 stipends for up to 50 faculty members who attend a workshop and review an open text in the Open Textbook Library, a collection of 800 freely available electronic textbooks supported by the OEN.

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Faculty at any of the 19 BLC member libraries are invited to attend this workshop for an overview of the current state of Open Educational Resources (OER) as tools to facilitate access, inclusivity, and equity, and as tools to change the landscape of higher education pedagogy.

Workshop participants will have an opportunity to explore OER in their discipline, and will leave with a stronger understanding of their role as OER consumers, creators, and advocates.

Share your expertise by writing a review of an open textbook in the Open Textbook Library, a collection of more than 850 freely available electronic textbooks.

This workshop will be offered once in April and once in May 2021. More information about OpenBLC can be found via this link: blc.org/openBLC

This workshop has been postponed and will be rescheduled for the summer. Information on the new date and time will be shared via BLC.Announce*

Providing reference services requires managing uncertainty, both for users and for library workers. As information professionals, we are tasked with bridging the gap between our expertise in information science and users' knowledge of their discipline. Yet there can be a disconect between health sciences users' understanding of an inquiry and our own, misunderstandings protentially exacerbated by difficulties communicating in virtual environments. What role does context play in both the asking and understaning of reference questions? How do we identify the implicit assumptions in our interactions? And how do we improve these consultations in virtual spaces?

In this workshop, we will share experiences about user interactions in reference services, with a goal of discussing as a group how to best communicate with our users during academic reference interviews. We will facilitate a conversation between participants and presenters to explore how our users approach academic libraries with similar questions, but for different reasons and at different times in their lives, and how this has changed when our reference consultations are entirely online. We will discuss how our constantly changing interaction with the world creates new knowledge and ways to bridge these gaps for library users -- and ourselves.

Working in groups, we will explore through conversation how we make sense of the academic health sciences questions our patrons are asking and how to approach these gaps in virtual consultations. We will discuss:

• What assumptions do we have about the patron in a reference consultation? What assumptions do you think the patron has about us?
• What are the gaps between the language and needs of the patron and the goal of their questions?
• How can we facilitate these informed consultations over video reference?

This one-hour interactive workshop is intended for all library staff members, particularly those working in academic health sciences and medical spaces, as well as library science students and anyone who works with academic health subjects and health-related questions. The presenters recognize that learning is an ongoing process and aim for this to be a sharing opportunity for workers at all experience levels.

Outcomes:

Working as a group to consider health literacy from patrons' perspectives, participants will:

• Be able to approach reference consultations as user-focused experiences
• Recognize our own information seeking behaviors
• Feel more comfortable engaging with reference consultations in virtual spaces

About the Presenters:

Alyn Gamble, Research Librarian for the Sciences, Tisch Library, Tufts University

Christina Heinrich, Research and Instruction Librarian, Hirsh Health Sciences Library, Tufts University

Andrea Kang, Research and Instruction Librarian, Hirsh Health Sciences Library, Tufts University

Sarah Passinhas-Bergman, Library Reference Assistant, Hirsh Health Sciences Library, Tufts University

Join the Boston Library Consortium and the ACRL New England Leadership Development Committee on Friday, April 9, from 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon EDT for a conversation and open dialog addressing antiracism through policies and professional practice in academic libraries.

Webinar Recordings:

• Part One: Introduction, Kenausis, Espinal, & McGhee
• Part Two: Dawes, Q&A

Presenter Slides & Resources:

• Isabel Espinal
• Veronica Kenausis
• Resources shared by attendees and panelists 

Hear four leaders in the profession share their experiences in taking action in their libraries and communities through topics such as promoting diversity, recruitment and retention efforts, having difficult conversations, evaluating institutional policies, and shifting the culture.

• Trevor A. Dawes
• Isabel Espinal
• Veronica Kenausis
• Ida McGhee

Racism is a public health crisis, and is undoubtedly shaping, reframing, and reimagining the future of academic libraries. There’s much work ahead of us to educate ourselves as antiracists, to always and everywhere affirm that Black Lives Matter, and to celebrate and promote the contributions and leadership of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in libraries. 

This event is free and open to all. Registration is required. 

In this interactive webinar, you’ll learn where you can find free graphics, photos, and illustrations that go beyond the most popular free image sites like Pixabay and Unsplash. We’ll review several free resources for photos that feature models that are BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, and/or plus-sized. You’ll learn how to use Google Images’ newly updated search tools to discover open images. And we’ll cover how to reuse and fully attribute all of this rich free and Creative Commons-licensed material for both nonprofit and commercial purposes. You’ll come away with both wonderful new sources for illustrating your projects and the skills to confidently and legally make the most of them!

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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.

Showing movies on campus and in the classroom, whether physical or virtual, requires consideration of several provisions of the Copyright Act as well as potential licensing restrictions from film distributors and streaming services. During this webinar, we will tackle questions about public performance, streaming video, and the DMCA exemptions allowing the “ripping” of DVDs. Attendees will leave with strategies to employ when responding to the demand for showing films at campus events and in the physical and virtual classroom.

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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.

COVID-19 has required necessary adjustments for libraries across the country. Its rapid effect on the world called for immediate flexibility and viable options for continuing to provide library resources and services in the safest environment possible for everyone. Proactivity, planning, and teamwork played an intricate part of the Leonard S. Washington Memorial Library's strategy for the continued offering of library resources and services.

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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.

Grab your coffee and tea and join us for an intimate discussion with ALA Executive Director, Tracie Hall. Tracie promises "Real Talk" and we are all in for her wisdom, grace, vision, intellect and insight about librarianship and about making life choices. Register early to make sure you have your virtual seat. In February 2020, Tracie D. Hall was appointed the American Library Association’s 10th executive director in its 143-year history. In her new role, Hall oversees the oldest and largest library association in the world, made up of 57,000 members and more than 200 staffers. Hall is the first female African American executive director in ALA’s history. Upon Hall’s appointment ALA President Wanda K. Brown observed that “Her unique combination of philanthropy and library know-how position her to be the leader ALA needs today. She is optimistic, energizing, and innovative, qualities that will serve the association well as it continues its investments in advocacy, development, and information technology.”

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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.

The BLC Business COI will hold its March monthly meeting on Tuesday, March 16th from 10am-11am. The agenda and login details will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

Digital humanities, defined as the application and intersection of digital technologies with the disciplines of the humanities, offers new methods of access for intellectual inquiry. Olivia Peacock will share about her efforts to create Digital Black History, a free searchable listing of digital Black History projects that have been created by individuals and institutions. This website not only curates those projects, but also lets users use keywords to search for the appropriate resources to supplement their research. Dr. Jan Davidson (Cape Fear Museum, NC) will describe a new online map and timeline which pieces together a timeline of the events that led up to the 1898 Wilmington Massacre.

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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.

The BLC's Continuing Resources and Metadata Management COI will hold a virtual meeting on Monday, March 1st, at 10:00am. The agenda and login information will be shared via the list-serv.

Generating fundable grant project ideas for new grant opportunities can be a daunting task when considering the time it takes to prepare the grant application along with creating competitive fundable applications. So during this webinar, the presenters will provide valuable feedback about grant ideas and how to improve your grant application. If you are interested in getting expert advice, we will need a quick summary of the grant idea, total funding amount along with the proposed funding agency/program name (s). Submission of grant project ideas should be sent to enorlin@aserl.org by February 19, 2021. We will prioritize the grant idea submissions during the first part of the workshop.

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Bess de Farber serves as the grants manager for the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida Libraries and held the same position at the University of Arizona Libraries. She is the author of Collaborative Grant-Seeking: A Practical Guide for Librarians (2016), and co-author of Collaborating with Strangers: Facilitating Workshops in Libraries, Classes, and Nonprofits (2017). Her latest book, Creating Fundable Grant Proposals: Profiles of Innovative Partnerships, will be released March 2021.

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

BLC members libraries can save on document delivery charges on scholarly content from over 40,000 journals and chapters from over 500,000 books with the Article Galaxy Academic Collection. With an on-demand document solution, your library can fill the gaps in your existing collection holdings and ILL needs.  During this webinar, you will get an overview of special copyright royalty rates and a demonstration of how our service streamlines article acquisition workflows both directly and through integrations with systems such as EBSCO, Ex Libris, ILLiad, and RapidILL. 

• Webinar Recording

Together with Jennifer Carroll, Collection Management Librarian at the University of New Hampshire, we’re also providing a preview of the soon to be released Article Galaxy Scholar. This platform is the first of its kind library solution that brings together: making open access article discovery more visible, improving end user experience, and helping universities better forecast and make budgeting decisions based on comprehensive and cross-publisher usage data, all while incorporating the benefits you already get from our document delivery service.

To hear more about the Article Galaxy Academic Collection and Article Galaxy Scholar Platform, plan to attend the informational webinar on February 23, at 2pm.  

“With Article Galaxy Scholar, Reprints Desk is giving the library community something we have long needed; a reliable and fully customizable content provider that sits between the subscription model and traditional interlibrary loan.  This completely changes how we build and maintain our collections.”

David McCaslin. Library Director, Whittier College

Meeting slides and recordings will be added to the BLC website. The slides and recording from a previous vendor webinar from Reprints Desk from 2019 is available here.

The BLC's Heads of Resrouce Management Committee will hold a meeting on Tuesday, February 23rd from 9:30am-11:00am. The agenda and login information will be distributed via the Committee's list-serv.

The BLC Business COI will hold its February 2021 meeting on Thursday, February 18th from 9am-10am. The agenda and login details will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

The BLC's Alma/Primo Collaboration Working Group will hold a meeting on Friday, February 12th from 10:00am-12:00pm. The agenda and login information will be shared via the working group's list-serv.

Engaging presentations can make us laugh, help us understand the subject matter and, most of all, serve as inspiration to take action. This does not happen overnight, but with practice we can tweak our content engagement strategies to make sure our message is being heard. During this webinar, I’m going to talk about scientific backed techniques to boost your content and increase audience interest. These following ideas are designed to enhance your virtual presentations to transform it from a passive experience to an actively engaged and collaborative one.

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

The BLC's Heads of Resource Management Committee will hold a meeting on Thursday, January 21st from 3:00pm-4:30pm. The agenda and login information will be shared via the HRM list-serv.

Are you ready to transition from podcast consumer to creator? In this session participants will explore how librarians use podcasts to promote services and programming. Learn strategies and tools for recording and sharing podcasts. Recommendations and tips for facilitating patron production of podcasts will also be shared.

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

The BLC's Science and Engineering COI hosted the second Science Librarianship in the Time of COVID-19 meeting. Held on Wednesday, January 13th, 2021 from 1:00pm-4:05pm (EST), the event showcased several lightning talks and presentations.  Slides from the event have been archived in the OSF and below. The full agenda is available here.

The BLC's Health Sciences COI will hold a virtual meeting on Tuesday, January 12th, from 10:00am-11:00am. The agenda and meeting login information will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

The BLC Heads of Resource Management Committee will hold a meetin og on Wednesday, December 16th from 3pm-5pm. The agenda and login information will be distributed via the Committee's list-serv.

Join us for an eye opening discussions as 3 former librarians discuss why they left the profession. Co-moderated by Twanna Hodge (DEI Librarian, University of Florida) we will ask the panelists: Why did you decide to become a librarian? How were you recruited? Describe your experience working in libraries? How long did you stay in the profession? Why did you leave? What did you like about being a librarian? What was frustrating? What advice would you provide DEI and other committees who are designing recruitment/retention programs? After our questions, we will open it up to the audience for a lively discussion.

Ira Revels is the Owner and Principal of Ira Revels Consulting, LLC a Connecticut-based management consulting company. Ira has nearly 20 years operating in fast-paced, high-performance organizations and teams. Her professional background includes Strategic Management Consulting, Educational Technology, Fundraising, Training, and Facilitation. Michael Eric Owens is President of M.E.O. Consulting. He is a distinguished scholar, writer, and speaker. Michael is also the founder of and serves as the Executive Director of the Ralph Ellison Foundation. He is the host of the One Mic, One Voice show, which has an international listening audience. Rinata White is a Student Music Therapist, Teacher and Former Librarian.

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This webinar is offered to all library workers 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.

This presentation will address the importance of ethical cataloging in challenging multiple forms of bias in descriptor assignment and collection building. Control of such bias supports accurate, equitable, and inclusive collection access and increases findability of relevant resources. Presenters will cover how cataloging and reference/instruction librarians inform each other’s work to support the goal of critical, responsible librarianship.

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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.

Join us in discussing what data literacy is and why it’s important for librarians of all types. Presenters will examine data literacy in both public and academic library contexts and how this is already an integral part of librarians’ work. We’ll end by considering how librarians can leverage data literacy skills to become better advocates for themselves, their libraries, and communities.

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This session will be led by Nancy Lovas, Entrepreneurship Librarian at UNC-Chapel Hill, and Morgan Ritchie-Baum, Business & Nonprofit Librarian at Greensboro Public Library.

This webinar is offered to all library workers 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.

The BLC Access Services COI will hold a virtual meeting on Friday, November 20th from 10am-12pm. The meeting agenda and login information will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

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. 

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.

• Webinar Slides
• Webinar Recording

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.

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.

• Webinar Recording
• Webinar Slides
• Webinar Handouts:
  • University Teaching - Learning Ecosystem (pdf)
  • Learning Science & Design Resources (Word document)

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

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.

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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.

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.

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.

• Webinar Recording
• Webinar Slides

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.

Meatspace: the corporeal opposite of cyberspace. In pre-COVID times, our libraries were champions of building rich, collaborative programming in meatspace. But this far into our post-COVID reality, we’ve all developed an intimate awareness of the limitations of Zoom, et al. and the kinds of programming that fits (or doesn’t fit) into a web-meeting model of video feeds and flat screen shares.

Two SCELC Member libraries experimented together to transcend meatspace by implementing virtual reality spaces powered by Mozilla Hubs.

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University of the Pacific held their computer science capstone project showcase in Mozilla Hubs. Held in virtual rooms, students presented their project and discussed their learning outcomes from their semester. Faculty, teachers, alumni, and visitors had the opportunity to talk and learn about current Pacific students CS projects.

The University of La Verne Library hosted its annual Faculty Book Day, Faculty Research Day, Student Research Day and Mini Maker Fair virtually using Mozilla Hubs. Faced with canceling these popular face-to-face events, UoP shared its experience with Hubs. Within three weeks, ULV staff created virtual rooms (even designing the outdoor space where the Maker Fair is held every year) and successfully hosted all four events.

Both will share their experiences in projecting the best aspects of presenting in meatspace into cyberspace, and how you might do the same for your libraries.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

• Webinar Recording
• Webinar Slides 
• DISC Behavioral Assessment Handout
• Effective Email Outreach Handout
• DISC Wheel Handout

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.

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.

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.

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.

• Webinar Slides (Google Slides | PDF)
• Webinar Recording

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

• Webinar Recording
• SILLVR Presentation Slides and Collaborative Librarianship article (referenced during the webinar)
• Copyright Presentation Slides and Copyright in COVID-19 post (referenced during the webinar)

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. 

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.

• Recording
• Slides
• Link to Wiki

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.

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.

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.

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.

• Recording
• Slides

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

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:

• Recording
• Slides

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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:

• Seamless Access: The Successor to IP Filtering by RIch Wenger | Keynote Presentation 
• AI Working Group Presentations
• Lightning Talks:
  • Full Text Finder: The Sci-Hub Killer by Luke Gaudreau and Ben Florin
  • FOLIO and the Five Colleges Consortium by Steve Bischof
  • Help in Context: Introducing the primo-explore-help-menu by Mike Ward and Aidan Sawyer
  • Beyond Bento: A new discovery experience at Smith College by Rob O'Connell
  • National Public Health Coordination Office PHDL Program by Javier Crespo, Kathy Downing, and Cecilia Vernes
  • Selenium: where there is no API by Henry Steele
  • Model-View-Controller MVC Web Programming Paradigm by Viral Amin
  • Innovative Ways to Obtain Stats to Improve Library Services by Berika Williams
  • Virtual Catalog Browse by Call Number Using Alma, OAI-MPH, and Solr by Greg McClellan

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.

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.

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

 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.

• Webinar Slides
• Webinar Recording

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.

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.

• Webinar Recording
• Slides

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

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. 

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.

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:

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.

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.

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 Slides: Sally Krash | Mark Paris
• Webinar Recording

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

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.

• Slides
• Webinar Recording

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

September meeting of HRM at Boston College.

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

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

Venue TBD

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

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. 

State Library

Providence, RI

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

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

Boston College

Northeastern University

Monthly call of the BLC Management Council.

Monthly call of the BLC Management Council.

Monthly call of the BLC Management Council.

Monthly call of the BLC Management Council.

Monthly call of the BLC Management Council.