Alex George has published six novels, is the owner of Skylark Bookshop in Columbia, and is the founder and director of the Unbound Book Festival. Then there’s his day job (he’s an attorney.) Alex will talk about literary citizenship – its rewards, its challenges, and why it couldn’t be more important.
Informed by ideas and insights from the past 40 years, the new Inspire platform from Innovative gives your library a powerful foundation for modern library solutions. Re-engineered from the ground up, Inspire is a different kind of tool that will have multiple modules that deliver dynamic and intuitive experiences. It is designed for easy configuration and maintenance and scales and evolves as your library’s needs change. We’ll also share industry trends and research that helped identify Inspire as the right solution for libraries.
Vice President, Executive Library Advocate and Strategist, Innovative
Tom brings a deep knowledge of industry practices with over 25 years of experience helping libraries maximize their systems and get meaningful results. After receiving his MLS from the University of Maryland College Park, he built an impressive career at Innovative, learning about... Read More →
Decision Center is a web-based, user friendly reporting software that allows library staff to analyze circulation and collection costs and trends without requiring you to perform complex Boolean queries in advance. There are many queries already pre-defined in Decision Center; we will only be demonstrating and practicing some of these in training, but encourage users to explore all of the possible reports on your own.
Decision Center is an integrated solution and operates seamlessly with Sierra.
In 2015, Covenant Seminary began implementing plans for a second campus. The Library received a donation of over 2,000 books to create a library on-site in Nashville, TN. Using a combination of paper work forms, Sierra Mobile Worklists, and simplified technical and physical processing, the bulk of this collection was ready to ship to Nashville within a year. When evolving realities on the ground failed to live up to expectations, library leadership decided this collection would best serve the institution’s needs if located on-site in St. Louis for the indefinite future. Using Create Lists, Excel, lots of math, and elbow grease, we set up this collection in a special location within the Covenant Seminary Library in St. Louis. We'll talk about barcode numbering; prepping and sorting physical books; quick technical and physical processing; collection development to augment the designated book donation; prep for shipment and unloading off-site; the actual set up when off-site became on-site; and the use of the collection and the space to-date.
Learn practical solutions on changing your student worker training and realizing your student worker's fullest potential. Our student centered culture focuses on making sure that all patrons receive the same level of service no matter what time of day or day of the week they come in or call the Library. We changed our student worker model, job descriptions, and training to help maximize their role in our staff.
Training student workers in the library is hard, failure is almost guaranteed. Since 2014 I have been trying to fix my library's training for student workers. During this time I've had many successes and failures. In this presentation I will talk about where we've been, what worked, what didn't and what we plan to do in the future to better our student worker training.
With more and more of our collections shifting from print to electronic, having a system in place to manage all of the complicated aspects of an electronic resource’s life cycle is more important than ever. The first group of MOBIUS libraries has now been implemented on Innovative’s ERM and Knowledge Base systems and we want to tell you all about it. Join us to learn more about these products and what they can do, as well as our experiences during implementation from the MOBIUS staff and library perspectives.
Vice President, Executive Library Advocate and Strategist, Innovative
Tom brings a deep knowledge of industry practices with over 25 years of experience helping libraries maximize their systems and get meaningful results. After receiving his MLS from the University of Maryland College Park, he built an impressive career at Innovative, learning about... Read More →
Learn how the program review process can work to your advantage in advocating for change and gaining support from your administration. Join Cynthia Duffenhoffer, from Central Methodist, as she shares her insights as an HLC reviewer and hear from Angela Grogan, from Westminster, as she shares some lessons learned with the review process.
Updating and managing a course reserve section can feel like a battle, particularly for a new librarian. Join Access Services Librarian Jessie Robey as she recounts her first year of working with Lincoln University's course reserves. Learn what worked, what didn't work, and what she's planning next.
I am a new Access Services librarian coming from a public library position. I want to learn as much as I can about our discipline! I'm open to any and all information.
Tuesday June 4, 2019 10:30am - 11:20am CDT
Parliament II
If you have worked in a library for any measure of time, your budget has been cut. Continually, library administration is asked to do more with less, or at the least, to do the same with less. While smaller libraries have historically been the main target of budget cuts, larger libraries are now experiencing unprecedented budget cuts as well. This presentation will look at practical ways our library and other libraries have dealt with budget and staffing cuts. The presentation will also look at budget management from a business standpoint, as well as trends and information in the greater library community. Budget cuts, whether for personnel, services, or resources, seem to be inevitable. How can libraries respond pro-actively instead of reactively? How can student workers be used for additional library tasks? How can we effectively defend our current budgets to our administration?
Today’s “information revolution” is in many ways a new permutation of the revolution brought on by the “printing revolution” of the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Martin Luther, for example, was a relatively obscure cleric who suddenly found himself addressing the world. This was not intentional on his part, but a new technology allowed his message to “go viral,” and he found himself at the forefront of a revolution. In a similar manner, today’s “digital revolution” has given voice to people who previously had no way to communicate with a wide audience, and has had tremendous social, political, and cultural implications. But it also has implications for students and their research. In this presentation, I would show how I use materials in the rare book collection at Drury’s F. W. Olin Library to teach students lessons on information literacy, and illustrate how I draw parallels between early information technology and that of today. The lessons for students are that we all have a tendency to assign tremendous authority to texts (sometimes even erroneous texts, and we must remember that the Internet is very text-intensive), and that images, whether they be today’s memes or a 16th century woodcut cartoon, sometimes communicate ideas more effectively than a text. Ultimately, I aim make students think about how they approach online texts and materials, and how they judge the validity of source material they find online and elsewhere.
This presentation is a continuation of ERM & KB Implementation. Join us to learn more about ERM and Knowledge Base implementation from the library perspective and find out about Innovative Interfaces' plans for the future of electronic resources management.
Vice President, Executive Library Advocate and Strategist, Innovative
Tom brings a deep knowledge of industry practices with over 25 years of experience helping libraries maximize their systems and get meaningful results. After receiving his MLS from the University of Maryland College Park, he built an impressive career at Innovative, learning about... Read More →
The MOBIUS Overdrive Shared Collection is now more than a year old and continues to attract attention and serve as a national model for other academic groups. Join us to learn how the collection has become one of OverDrive's most successful academic consortial collections. With a focus on affordability and how the Overdrive collections can contribute to institutional cost savings, we will talk about the growth in the collection this year and the factors that we believe contribute to its ongoing success. We will also share how we resolved ongoing issues, new strategies for promoting to faculty and students, and new developments and features that make OverDrive a powerful tool for academic libraries.
This discussion will focus on what it’s like to be a public library in predominantly academic consotia and how to advocate for ourselves and unite our growing membership
We will present the results of our study on the affective dimensions of information literacy, including frustration and anxiety with the process of and expectations surrounding academic research, feelings of information overload, and internalized guilt and shame about relying on web sources, as well as the intersections with class status and economic privilege. We examine themes that emerged through directed conversations with focus groups of students enrolled at the Springfield, Missouri campus of Ozarks Technical Community College. We will also describe the affective thresholds that are suggested by our findings, and the implications for teaching and learning.
From WorldShare Management Services (WMS) to the Digital Collection Gateway to the new Library 100, OCLC products and services continue to expand and to provide opportunities for increasing access to library collections. Presenters will give overviews of: 1) Major OCLC products, such as WorldCat Management Services and the Digital Collections Gateway; 2) Products OCLC has created using WorldCat metadata, such as WorldCat Identities and The Library 100; and 3) Other good-to-know OCLC activities and services that support libraries. Rather than giving an in-depth description for any one service or product, this will be a quick overview and introduction to several, with pointers to additional information.
The 2018-2021 MOBIUS Strategic Plan is the framework that guides the membership into the future. Join the MOBIUS Board President, Vice-President/President-Elect and Treasurer for a conversation on the strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results from the 1st year of the strategic plan, as well as a look ahead.
Resource Description and Access (RDA), first implemented in 2013, introduced several changes to descriptive cataloging guidelines. Whereas many libraries were early adopters of RDA, there are still libraries who have not yet adopted RDA or have not adopted it fully. If your library has not yet adopted RDA, or if your library has adopted RDA, but you are feeling overwhelmed with the task of keeping up with the changes to RDA, this presentation will help bring you up-to-date. The presenters will cover changes to several fields, including main entry, title and statement of responsibility, publication information, physical description, and the new 33X fields. In addition, presenters will suggest some beneficial freely available resources to aid in understanding and accessing RDA. An overview of recent changes to RDA, MARC, and BIBFRAME will also be discussed.
open+ is a comprehensive system that allows libraries to provide more flexible hours, making them more accessible to the community. Designed to complement staffed library hours, open+ can be implemented in a number of different ways to meet various library service models. From extending access to an entire library or only a section of it, providing full self-service resources or mainly a holds pick-up area, open+ allows libraries the flexibility to extend access in the way that best meets the needs of their community and space. There is no one size fits all approach with this technology. Adding more open hours in the mornings or evenings can create a consistent and convenient schedule for your community and meet the needs of different users. Currently averaging 52.8 open hours per week, US public libraries have a way to go before they approach 2008’s high mark of nearly 60 hours, according to Library Journal1. open+ allows libraries to easily increase their hours to provide the most convenient access to their community without a large need for increased staffing cost.
MOBIUS has been involved in an open-source library project, the Evergreen ILS, for close to ten years. Come hear more about what open-source is (and how it isn’t a chaotic free-for-all), the history and present state of the Evergreen ILS, how MOBIUS is involved in Evergreen and the Evergreen Community, and what MOBIUS’s open-source hosting and management service, MOSS (MOBIUS Open-Source Solutions) is.
Inspire Discovery marks the beginning of a new era for Innovative libraries. As the first module on the new Inspire platform, this revolutionary experience gives users the most comprehensive and contextual search results ever available. Discovery uses native linked data to reveal multi-dimensional relationships and uncover new, unexpected connections and ideas. By transforming MARC records into BIBFRAME, Discovery accesses a broader collection of resources from across the library. The search results are contextual, relevant, and delivered in a visual, intuitive, and accessible interface. In this session, take a deep dive into Discovery with a demo and explanation of how it works, and how it will benefit your library.
Vice President, Executive Library Advocate and Strategist, Innovative
Tom brings a deep knowledge of industry practices with over 25 years of experience helping libraries maximize their systems and get meaningful results. After receiving his MLS from the University of Maryland College Park, he built an impressive career at Innovative, learning about... Read More →
Tuesday June 4, 2019 1:50pm - 2:40pm CDT
Picadilly's
In 2017, Western Kentucky University completely revamped the mission statement for their Information Literacy program. I was involved as the Research Instruction Coordinator and chair of the task force. We had several important goals, including ensuring that our IL program met the needs of the institution and that it fit into other university initiatives. More universal, however, was the need to integrate the mission and goals for IL with the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education and the Information Literacy VALUE Rubrics from the American Association of Colleges & Universities. During this process, we learned valuable lessons that can be replicated by academic libraries of any size. Some of these principles have already been used at Missouri Valley College.
I started at Missouri Valley College in July 2018 after 19 years at Western Kentucky University. I also worked at New York Public Library and Hamline University Law School (St. Paul, MN). Besides my MLS, I have a law degree and an Ed.D., and am knowledgeable about copyright law.
Two half sessions! On the Road Again: The MOBIUS Courier Network. (30 min) The MOBIUS courier network conjures up images of 18-wheeler tractor trailers, CB radios, and bands of good-natured misfits trying to outrun the law while speeding through states across the midwest. Get up to date on where we are with this ever-growing network of cars, vans, and trucks that are delivering materials across thousands of miles and multiple states each and every day. Learn more about what’s in store as we look to move into a new state later this year!
You Can Take it With You: Exporting out of Create Lists. (20 min) Create Lists is a hallmark of Innovative systems going back decades. Create Lists enables you to export selected fields from a review file to a delimited file and do many things with it, from downloading it, to prepping it for further revisions, to creating a Featured List of records that can be browsed by patrons from the public catalog. Learn more about some of the nuances this amazing application can do for you.
Join Chris Pryor from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental Region as she discusses ways to improve personal health and well-being by creating a healthy library workplace. The session will explore what a healthy work environment looks like and help attendees identify changes they can make at an individual, team, and organizational level to improve health and wellness for everyone.
I have been using ArticleReach since May of 2017. First while working at East Central College and then when I transferred to St. Charles Community College. We are fairly active with ArticleReach in both requesting and supplying articles. The challenging part has been keeping statistics since there are other libraries within our cluster that also participate in ArticleReach. It is easy to get statistics for the cluster, but more difficult for the individual library. While I'm sure my method for pulling statistics may be flawed, it works. Through this session, perhaps others can share how they keep statistics.
Director, Library Services at Donald R. and Barbara D. Means Library at East Central College in Union, MO. Interested in affordable and open educational resources for students at community college level, assessment of Institutional Student Learning Outcomes, and supporting varied... Read More →
The library wanted to help facilitate growing the Library/Faculty relationship, and the liaison program is a perfect opportunity to do just that. Over the last year a committee was formed to rebuild and enhance the library liaison program. New initiatives included publishing a Library Liaison Program LibGuide, creating a timeline with communication templates, conducting a baseline survey and follow up survey, face-to-face meetings between subject librarians and departmental liaisons, hosting a liaison appreciation event and more robust involvement in the department allocation and collection management process. We have seen an increase in open communication with not only department liaisons but all faculty, including instruction sessions for new faculty and by librarians other than the Instruction Librarian, OER inquiries, faculty research consultations, and more student engagement with librarians. The positive remarks from both department liaisons and librarians have been flowing all year!
For any of us who supervise student workers, we know that staying abreast of current trends and tools for efficiency and relevancy are a continuous process. In this session, I will share with you the policies, documents, and tools the Missouri S&T student employment team and I use for all aspects of supervision. Then, we will have time at the end to share best practices with each other. Even if you do not currently supervise student workers, please feel welcome to join us for this session.
Is there an upcoming conference, workshops, seminar, or course you’d like to attend? How about an amazing trainer or workshop you’d like to bring to your library? If so, the Missouri State Library can help! Join Lisa Stock, MOSL’s Adult Services Consultant, as she discusses the Show Me Steps to Continuing Education grants, including an overview of grant requirements, such as grant priorities, minimums, maximums, and allowable costs. Examples of awarded Show Me Steps grant projects will be shared.
DPLA, the Digital Public Library of America, aggregates metadata for digitized resources and offers a portal for searching across collections. Thanks to the generous sponsorship of MOBIUS, MissouriHub was able to join DPLA in 2018 as a full member. (MOBIUS rocks!) How has the membership model changed our relationship with DPLA? What else is going on with DPLA? (Spoiler alert: A lot.) What are MissouriHub's plans for the coming year?
The Lee Library at Crowder College partners with Speech faculty to instruct in advanced search database skills. During the Fall Semester 2018, we conducted a prototype instruction program introducing modern pedagogy and andragogy in an effort to facilitate more effective student learning. The presentation will provide theoretical background for decisions regarding the prototype class, results of the project, and future plans for innovation in the library instruction program.
For today's hustle and bustle of a library as a community hub, how can staff possibly create a safe space while also opening the doors to everyone? Is it possible to improve safety while still making your library welcoming and functional? In a word, yes! By taking a few key steps, your library can remain a welcoming, fun place for patrons of all ages, while keeping their safety a top priority. Our presenters will showcase procedures along with building modifications, both simple and complex, that staff can begin implementing right away to make their libraries safer. Real-world examples from both presenter’s perspectives will be shared, including lessons learned and how to overcome difficult safety challenges.
Over the course of the last year the library has offered many events and programs including Open House, Southern Welcome, Third Thursday community art event, Login at Your Library, Adulting 101 series, voter registration, National Library Week book end painting, Tea for Finals and Open Education Week. The library budgeted less than $1000 for all of this programming! How did the library do it? Used current resources! Some of the programming only required a table, paper, laptop and manpower. Partnerships are a must! Creating partnerships throughout the campus community enhances the library’s ability to provide such programming as Adulting 101, which includes budgeting and finance, housing, mental and physical health and job hunting. Working with other campus departments such as art and even daycare to provide free art displays. We will explore No Cost and Low Cost options and discuss wise investments. It is possible to provide affordable programming and do more with less.
This will be a half-day workshop for librarians interested in learning how to provide Open Textbook Network faculty workshops on their campuses. If you want faculty on your campus to adopt OER, leading OTN workshops is an effective and straightforward strategy. Since February 2018, MOBIUS members have completed 12 workshops. 63% of faculty who attended went on to say they’d adopt the open textbook they reviewed, and 76% of attendees walked away with a positive perception of OER. Training Outcomes
How to discuss textbook affordability issues with faculty and other stakeholders
How to address barriers to open textbook adoptions
Tools for successful workshops
Strategies for taking the model back to your campus and making it your own
If you have attended a library conference, workshop, or webinar recently, you have probably heard about Linked Data and BIBFRAME. But what does it mean? How does it work? How do you catalog without MARC tags?
Join Jodi Williamschen from the Library of Congress for an overview of linked data in libraries and a look at BIBFRAME. She will discuss the current BIBFRAME cataloging pilot underway at the library and will demonstrate the library’s BIBFRAME editor. Finally, feel free to bring resources to catalog — there will be time to experiment with the library’s demonstration editor at bibframe.org
Jodi Williamschen is a Senior Technical Metadata Standards Specialist in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office at the Library of Congress. At the Library, she is part of the team working on the BIBFRAME cataloging pilot and works with catalogers and developers to improve... Read More →
Change can be hard; sometimes we know it will occur, while other times it comes suddenly and unexpectedly. In this session we will discuss how to keep perspective and increase resiliency while dealing with change.
What you will learn:
Discuss aspects of change and why organizations change.
Identify change style preferences and how the styles relate to each other.
List the change adopter categories and the factors that impact change adoption.
Explain the benefits of a positive mindset and resiliency as it relates to change.
Outline responses to change, and review ways to cope.
Adapting to new demands is an important mechanism for both personal and organizational survival. Organizations that do it well have a competitive advantage over those that struggle with workplace change. This workshop will explore the organizational change process and what leaders can do to help their teams and organizations adapt more easily to change. What you will learn:
Discuss adapting to organizational change to remain competitive
Identify leadership strategies that create a thriving culture for change
Examine innovation characteristics that either help or hinder the organization from adopting change
Identify the common characteristics of five adopter categories to understand the unique needs of those faced with adopting change
Explore how people react to change and what you can do to help with their transition
Discuss communication strategies to create awareness, acceptance, adoption and advocacy of change initiatives
