Morning Breakout Sessions
11:30 am to 12:20 pm
Note: Breakout Session room locations can be found on the program insert.
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B01. VALE Open Source ILS Project: An Update Anne Ciliberti, William Paterson University Marianne Gaunt, Rutgers University The goal of the VALE OLS Project is the creation of a single-instance shared library system for all VALE libraries. One of the desired outcomes of such a system would be the seamless sharing of resources across all participating libraries. This system would enable all users (faculty, students, staff and public) of VALE participating libraries to discover and obtain resources from any library to meet their information needs. In this session, the co-chairs of the VALE Open Source ILS Steering Committee will provide an update on the overall progress of this project, and open the floor to questions. |
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B02. Keynote Speaker Follow-Up Session Brian Mathews, Associate Dean for Learning and Outreach, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Libraries You are invited to continue the conversation with our Keynote Speaker in an informal exchange session. |
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B03. Adaptive Learning Systems: An Academic Library Role? Greg Fallon, Passaic County Community College Richard Sweeney, New Jersey Institute of Technology This session will provide an adaptive learning systems presentation (Knewton, ALEKS, Cognitive Tutor, etc.) followed by a participant discussion of outside class potential roles for academic libraries. Adaptive learning software is built with artificial intelligence and marketed among schools and colleges. Sometimes called machine tutoring, adapted learning is not just programmed learning. |
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B04. UMDNJ Mobile Initiative: What Went Wrong and Ended Up Right! Stephen Modica, UMDMJ Jenny Pierce, UMDMJ Lisa Price, UMDMJ Betty J. Swartz, UMDMJ Yingting Zhang, UMDMJ UMDNJ University Libraries' first mobile initiative started in 2010. This session will review the timeline from the creation of the mobile working group, to finding funding, the purchase of devices, and finally distribution to four campuses. We will use the story of the unexpected challenges and final successes as a way to increase awareness of issues surrounding new technology and large institutions, including hospital security, staff comfort, mobile device security, institutional purchasing and finally, that it is possible to incorporate mobile and emergent technologies into medical libraries. We will end with a review of where we are today and future plans. |
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B05. Meeting Challenges by Embracing Change: Creating and Implementing an Information Literacy Curriculum Map Leslin Charles, Berkeley College Matthew Regan, Berkeley College Having demonstrated the value of Information Literacy to faculty and administrators and engaged students in the proper access, use, and documentation of information via our Library Liaison Programs, we at Berkeley College encounter a new challenge. With limited staff, a burgeoning student population, and constantly evolving curriculum, how can we ensure that students are receiving a systematic/hierarchical set of Information Literacy competencies? By creating and implementing an Information Literacy Curriculum map, which provides a cohesive delivery of Information Literacy skill building across the curriculum. This session will address the creation, structure, and implementation of an Information Literacy Curriculum map. |
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B06. Utilizing Usage Data to Develop an Ebook Collection: Strategies and Considerations Forrest Link, The College of New Jersey Yuji Tosaka, The College of New Jersey Cathy Weng, The College of New Jersey In an effort to ascertain where future eBook purchases would be most appropriate, librarians at the TCNJ Library ran reports on Voyager to generate lists of heavily-circulated monographs, heavily-browsed monographs, and monographs for which there was repeated ILL demand. These lists were submitted to major eBook aggregators to identify which titles were also available as eBook equivalents. The resulting matches were then examined by subject and by publication date. An analysis of these data highlights areas where eBook collecting would most effectively meet user needs. This presentation will describe the study methodology, data analysis and findings. |
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B07. The Proof is Out: How They Really Do Research Beth Bloom, Seton Hall University Marta Deyrup, Seton Hall University The presenters will discuss the preliminary results of their research, which was funded by a $15,000 Google grant. The investigators are using state-of-the-art technology to document undergraduate student research techniques at Seton Hall University, and also to measure the effect librarian intervention has on student research performance. The session will include examples from some of our video and sound recordings. The presenters will then open up the discussion to allow the audience to share their own experiences, as we look for suggestions on how to best use the results of our research in order to improve our instruction program. |
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B08. Move Into the Cloud, Shall We? Sharon Q. Yang, Rider University Cloud Computing is both a trend and technology to deliver software (SaaS) and hardware as a service, not as a product. It involves a centralized data center, virtual server space, and secure transfer of data over the internet. The alleged advantages of cloud computing include low cost to own, agile updates, and openess, to name a few. Library system vendors are now beginning to offer cloud computing options. For instance, Ex Libris will release Alma early next year. It is an Integrated Library System with a discovery layer based on cloud computing. Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) also offers virtual servers for cloud computing and charges customers by the hour; other vendors offer similar services. If this phenomenon continues for the next several years, librarians will face the decision of whether to move into cloud computing sooner or later. This presentation will explain cloud computing in simple, easy-to-understand language. The discussion will focus on the pros and cons of moving into cloud computing for libraries. |
