Librarian by Day

My second and last presentation at the Missouri Library Association Conference.  It was initially scheduled to be in a very small room, luckily I was able to get it moved.

Information literacy

synchronous & asynchronous communication

online tutorial

camtasia to record screen & add audio

library instructional videos

library blog – rss feed to libraries page

meebo for IM service

on ground instructions

nilrc.org/imlis/default.asp _ NILRC information literacy toolkit

This is my first session of the day, done by MOREnet where our Ebscohost is from

quick view – pop up window with abstract overview
gives narrow results by subject area option
narrow by publication
bread crumb trail easy to remove any term from the search with X button
full text check box
slider for date ranges
related images – get preview of first four
new to use back button from ebschost not the back button in the browser
newspaper via newsbank – can see things that are available thru morenets newsbank subscription
rss for searches we’ve made

my ebscohost folder – add to folder link under search results

• myfolder holds items from that search session, so you need to sign into myebsco to keep items in your permanent folder so they don’t go away when you navigate away from the page
• create an alert
• can create folders within my ebscohost
• can share articles with other users
• rss feed for searches – can send to more than one email address
• bookmark & share window popups a huge list of services including delicious, twitter, digg facebook etc

Cite this article – give citation for article already formated for APA, MLA, Chicago etc

can export in to bibliographic management software or just copy & paste

support site – support.ebschost.com -

• help sheets, user guides, staff can use FAQ pages handouts in own training etc, handouts are usually one or two pages
• has a section on recent upgrade & changes – ebscohost 2.0 help center

I’m at the Missouri Library Association Conference this week and today was the first of my two presentations.  Originally Robin & I were going to co-present (we each write half the lessons) but because she’s so crazy busy and I felt bad for bailing on her for the MaintianIT Webinar, I offered to do this one on my own.

Library Learning 2.1

Library Learning 2.0

My first session at MLA,  Collaborating in the Cloud by Robin, I’d heard so much about it I had to see it for myself.

definition of collaborating from wikipedia

adds distance option & time option across country or across continent

collaboration isnt just for others but also allows you to back up your own documents

peer networking don’t have to deal with hierarchies

tools

• social calenders

• social networking sites

• social bookmarking

• social desktops

• social wikis

• social documents

• groupware

bad thing about the cloud is that all info is outside the company firewall might not be so secure