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jeanbean — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:28:34 +0000

4/28/09

This is a security video of our library flood. We had just moved into our new facility. We received some unusual amounts of rain overnight in a short time period. The rain pooled outside the lower level so fast and broke through two windows. The result was a flood in our basement level. Around 14 inched of water over the whole surface. We are in the renovation process as I write this post. What steps would you take to prevent and cleanup the damage? Constructive comments welcome. http://www.atsu.edu/library/flood.htm

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Medical Library Move update

jeanbean — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:30:06 +0000

4/21/09

We moved into our new building in July 2008. On July 24 the lower level flooded. Update:

We have moved all the books and journals back to the old stacks so cleanup can start. Molded wall board is being removed and repaired. New carpet will be installed. Repairs to the motorized compact shelving must be made. Workers have built a levy around the outside perimeter of the library grounds to avoid rain water from pooling and running down to lower level. The sidewalks have been reset to go over the levy.

MLA Week 8 Class MashUp and Searchroll

jeanbean — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:35:41 +0000

Week 8
2. Write about the Mashup you found on your blog.
My Week 8 blog entry on Mashups: http://oilmoney.priceofoil.org/
Site by Greg Michalec and Skye Bender-deMoll for Oil Change International Authors of this mashup: (I was not sure about the authority of the information they placed on this mashup) Follow the Oil Money is an interactive tool that tracks the flow of oil money in US politics. Click on one of the search tools on the right to find out which companies are pumping their dirty oil money into politics, who is receiving it, and how it correlates to key climate, energy and war votes. You can also read our key findings. Their data seems to come from the Center for Responsive Politics.
(202) 857-0044 • fax (202) 857-7809
info@crp.org • webmaster@crp.org
General Inquiries:
info@crp.org
The Center for Responsive Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy. The Center conducts computer-based research on campaign finance issues for the news media, academics, activists, and the public at large. The Center’s work is aimed at creating a more educated voter, an involved citizenry, and a more responsive government.
Oil Change International campaigns to expose the true costs of oil and facilitate the coming transition towards clean energy. We are dedicated to identifying and overcoming political barriers to that transition. This mashup covers the Presidential candidates for 2008 that have accepted money from oil companies. It covers funding between oil companies and members of the U.S. Congress. You may look up data specific to your state representative or senator just by entering your zip code. Follow the oil money congressional voting on bills that benefit the petroleum industry versus the public interest is very informative. It allows one to find out how your member of Congress voted on key climate, energy and war legislation — and how the amount of oil money they accepted compares to their colleagues. Members of Congress Who Take More Money from Big Oil Vote More Often for Big Oil at the Expense of the Public Interest
In the site analysis of eleven key votes in the House and nine key votes in the Senate on climate, energy and the war in Iraq, a strong correlation between the tendency to vote for Big Oil (1) and increased amounts of money received from the oil industry was found.
• Overall, House and Senate members who voted for Big Oil took almost four times more oil money (2, 3) than those who voted in favor of the public interest. In the House, members who voted for Big Oil accepted almost four times more oil money (4) than those who voted in the public interest. In the Senate, they received 2.6 times more oil money.
I was not sure about the validity of the information presented. It could be just the opinion of the authors, but I tend to believe what they are saying about the Congress and oil companies.

I am taking you to the “Explore Searchrolls” page to just search Rollyo. Type “librarianblogs” into the search box. Done
Click the librarianblogs Searchroll. This is a Searchroll that will search select librarian blogs. Done
Search for “privacy” Done

Browse the results and write something about what these bloggers said about privacy in your blog.

I enjoyed the librarianblog on “Digital Reference.” The reference librarian was listening to library podcast commuting to work. She commented that she wished she could multi-task and listen while reading a book at the same time. I am sure some could read and listen to podcast music. Listening to someone’s voice and reading at the same time would be impossible for me. She joined a librarians blog and was thrilled to find that joining the network might lead to making new friends in LibraryLand. Although she spends a lot of time online doing IM, using chat tools like Chatango, posting to blogs, reading blogs, contributing to wikis, etc., and have established a number of online friendships this way, she finds nothing beats actually meeting online friends in person. My conclusion is that a busy librarian will have to be very organized to participate in the web 2.0 social networking tools and find innovative ways of using them for communication and education.

Advanced (Optional): Visit Rollyo http://www.rollyo.com/, and do the following:
Create Custom Searchroll that will search Web sites of your choice. I am going to custom search Osteopathic web sites and label it “Osteopathic Resource”.
Make newly created Searchroll publicly accessible
Post link to Searchroll in your blog My Searchroll is Osteopathic Resource

http://www.rollyo.com/search.html?q=osteopathic&site=www.ostmed-dr.com&sid=370373

MLA Week 7 Week 7 – Podcasting and Online Hosted Video

jeanbean — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:06:37 +0000

4/22/08 Youtube video entitled “where’s the Library?” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O82TRGiJDE4

Reading Exercise:
Podcasting News – “What is Podcasting?”

Podium – “What is podcasting?”
http://www.podiumpodcasting.com/whatispodcasting/index.html done

http://www.podcastingnews.com/articles/What_is_Podcasting.html done

Discovery Exercise:
Podcasting
1. Browse the podcasting directory site podcast.net (http://www.podcast.net/) done ( topics: Entertainment, arts, business & money, sciences etc.)and Podcast Alley (http://www.podcastalley.com). done Don’t worry about subscribing at this point. Explore the categories and locate the Heath section. Take note of the topics available.
2. Explore one of the podcast sites below for Health Sciences. done Listen to a podcast online.

University of Tennessee Health Science Center – Health Sciences Library Podcasts
http://library.utmem.edu/media/podcasting/Podcast/Podcast.html done
Claude Moore Health Sciences Library – History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series
http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/library/wdc-lib/historical/lectures.cfm done

3. Create a Odeo account done
4. Within Odeo search for any topic that interest you (you might try library, health, or technology) done
5. Click on one of the results that you find interesting. (Library) Listened to Podcating: Browsing Library of Congress.
6. Click on “Subscribe”. done
7. Click on the “My Audio” tab. You will see your section along with the latest “show”. Future shows will be delivered here as they are made. done

Reading Exercise:
7 things you should know about…YouTube
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7018.pdf done

Discovery Exercise:
1. Search YouTube and find an example of a library using YouTube. MY Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_uOKFhoznI done

2. Find a video you like and want to share on your blog. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O82TRGiJDE4 “Where’s the Library?” done

Blog Exercise
Write a blog entry discussing how you felt about the experience of using YouTube and what you think about this service. When I was in graduate school for Library and Information Science course, I was required to do a project that illustrated a type of library service. I chose to make a video of a librarian doing ready reference for 3 different types of patrons with very different needs. I believe YouTube could be used by librarians to demonstrate types of services provided to patrons. It could be used to give a tour of the library for orientation. Do you see any potential uses for Podcasting in the library. If so what and why? Our library already has a contract with ITunes to do podcasting. Visiting speakers for our medical school are video taped and the audio content may be placed online as a podcast so medical students missing the lecture can listen in at their own convenience. done

MLA Week 6 Exercises

jeanbean — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:48:08 +0000

Step 1: Set up an online photosharing account. We suggest using flickr, but there are several others listed in the Wikipedia reading from which you may choose. done

Step 3: Post the photo(s) on to your Facebook done site and your blog done . You can add these photos to your Facebook page through the photos section or through adding one of the many flickr applications.

Step 2: Upload one or more digital photos using flickr or any other image sharing service. done

Step 4: Blog about the process on your personal blog for this course and share how this concept might be used in your library. Library staff could use a blog as a working discussion on library issues such as policy procedures and changes, as a place to document and report problems, list what’s new happening in the library, and for scheduling special meetings and training. The blog could serve as a place to list new book or media arrivals and where new online databases and full-text materials reside. News of “What’s Happening in the Library,” could reside on library blog for our patrons to visit.

WEEK 5 Web Office Tools: April 8, 2008

jeanbean — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:55:40 +0000

I) Is this the future of all software products? I think collaborative office tools could be a very useful tool for group projects. Work on documents can be shared and with permission others can access a document and this saves a lot of time emailing back and forth to make edits. I like this idea and consider it a useful tool and yes I think we should have this software option in an academic setting. I think might be especially useful for Masters in Biosciences students that are working on their thesis. They could use office tools to collaborate with their project mentor. The mentor could go in and make suggestions, point them themes or ideas they should be considering and help them avoid potential errors with their project. Could be a real hands on approach for the mentor and the student. There is definitely a learning curve to overcome for these tools to catch on. But they are fun, easy, and most of all collaborative.

Using RSS feeds at the library

jeanbean — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:51:45 +0000

RSS feeds help us keep us with the latest content in any area of interest. Librarians could use to find about latest uses of technology for the library. You could use a feed to publish your library news or resources available. RSS saves time. Instead of remembering to visit a favorite Website, the news or information you want comes directly into your computer at whatever interval you want. In addition, most RSS feeds contain only links, headlines, or brief synopses of new information. That means that the small amount of data found in an RSS feed can be sent to any XML-compatible device, a cell phone, pager, or handheld computer, without a lengthy download process. This also provides a way for you to receive customized information without having to reveal personal information about yourself.

MLA Week 4 Social bookmarking (March 31-April 6) 2008

jeanbean — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:50:12 +0000

Discovery Exercise:

Take a look around del.icio.us using the SJLibraryLearning2 account that was created for the San Jose Public Library’s Learning 2.0 program. Done
Explore the site by clicking on tags and usernames. Try finding a bookmark that has also been bookmarked by a lot of other users–click on the “saved by” link. I clicked on Reference that had 57 saved links. Can you see the comments they added about this bookmark or the tags that they used to categorize this reference? yes
Create your own del.icio.us account and bookmark at least 5 items. Has anyone else bookmarked the same things? Yes (suggestion: bookmark one page from your Wetpaint wiki to your del.icio.us account) Done Bookmarked six in all.
Create a blog post about your experience and thoughts about this tool. Can you see the potential of this tool for research assistance? Or just as an easy way to create bookmarks that can be accessed from anywhere?

1) CiteULike (citeulike.org), a social book marking service, allows articles to be tagged with useful keywords for later retrieval. One could use MeSH terms for social book marking tags. If an individual medical library wishes to index various Web resources using MeSH, Del.icio.us or a similar social book marking tool is a convenient way to do so. For making book recommendations in the library, tag the books in ways that make sense, but where one could rate them to give faculty a better idea of what the books really worth their time. For 1st year medical students who have to do a history of medicine project–you could create a tag particular to that assignment. Many students and others already use this kind of task tagging–to create their own bibliographies through just one tag.

2) Connotea allows the author can keep track of their bibliography as they are writing. Others can access that bibliography and its links more easily after it’s published. Authors can keep adding to that bibliography as they see more resources that fit. Other people can use the same tag to add resources they think are important to be joined to that paper as they see them, whether it is a paper that builds on the findings of the original or is otherwise relevant. Basic Science researchers could use Connotea for collaborative research. This Connotea method has been used in a couple places in the medical library world. It recognizes the reference and automatically add in the bibliographic information for you. Find the list of references you want your colleagues to see and then email them a link to the page. You can access Connotea from any computer and can Save references as you work without having to switch programs. You can choose to make them private, or shared with just a select group of other Connotea users if you prefer.

3) My Del.icio.us

Bookmarks: http://del.icio.us/louissid

MLA CE WEEK 1 discovery exercises

jeanbean — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:49:37 +0000

Step 1: created a blog in WordPress.com

http://jeanbean.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/mla-ce-week-1/

Step 2: Set up an RSS reader in Google Reader. http://www.google.com/reader/view/#overview-page

Step 3: Subscribed to 5 RSS feeds:

1- Teresa Hartman Education Resources http://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/user%2F05640169993769544020%2Flabel%2FTeresa%20Hartman%20Educ%20Res

2- Alzheimers

http://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/user%2F05640169993769544020%2Flabel%2Falzheimers

3- Social Networking Taskforce

http://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/user%2F05640169993769544020%2Flabel%2FSocial%20networking%20task%20force

4- Connect Mark Funk

http://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/user%2F05640169993769544020%2Flabel%2FConnect%20Mark%20Funk

5- JMLA http://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/user%2F05640169993769544020%2Flabel%2FJMLA

One journal table of contents: JAMA

http://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fjama.ama-assn.org%2Frss%2Fcurrent.xml

One PubMed Search: Using Google reader: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care RSS feed

http://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/user%2F05640169993769544020%2Flabel%2Fosteopathic%20medicine%20and%20primary%20care

Step 4 MLA CE WEEK 1

When I first started this course I new very little about blogs and RSS feeds. The tutorial have been very helpful as well as the exercises. I have learned that librarians are using blogs to deliver information services to their users as well as to collaborate and communicate with other library professionals. They could use a blog to publish news about their library or information on a specialized subject such as Osteopathic Medicine.

MLA Week 3 Social networking class 3/2008

jeanbean — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:40:04 +0000

1) How can social networking be used by MLA to connect members? MLA can use blog and wikis to post information to its members and keep them abreast of upcoming events. Good way to offers classes on learning about social networking tools and sharing discussion on library topics. 2) Should your library have a Facebook or MySpace page? Facebook or MySpace would have to be visited on a regular basis to discover what kinds of information patrons are requesting. This required time taken away from other duties. But I think our medical students would like it if we had a Library Facebook page. After all several of our students already use Facebook to comunicate socially. 3) Are there privacy concerns for individuals when using social networking sites? Items of concern could be aggresive advertising, unwanted friends, and employer snooping in employee social networking profiles. Would looking at a persons profile violate data protection laws? Only the individual can ensure the privacy settings.

4) What did you like or not like about your experience with Facebook or MySpace? It if very easy and intuitive to become a user of Facebook. I have used Facebook to connect with colleagues that are serving on the MLA membership Committee. We could use Facebook to communicate about our MLA new members breakfast. We could also use to discuss what kinds of information the new members need to hear and about connecting with their mentors at MLA.