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On Wisconsin: Museum gets bigger digs for old technology : Wsj - http://host.madison.com/wsj...
I didn't realize this place was moving. I will have to go!
- RepoRat
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Recovered diary gives rare view into Third Reich - CNN.com - http://www.cnn.com/2013...
"A criminal investigation is now under way to determine how the papers ended up in the possession of Herbert Richardson, an academic in Buffalo, New York, according to a government official. A CNN reporter's calls to Richardson seeking comment on the case were not returned."
- RepoRat
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So maybe Sarah G. or someone else can satisfy my curiosity: if Richardson ends up in the slammer over this, what happens to the civil suit against Askey?
- RepoRat
(to be PERFECTLY clear, the CNN wording is perfectly UNCLEAR about whether Richardson himself is a target of the investigation... but that doesn't seem unlikely to me.)
- RepoRat
Based on my experience as a (rules) lawyer (in Dungeons & Dragons), I'd say the suit would still go forward since being in jail is not fatal factor to a civil lawsuit.
- Andy
Well, the first time they seized Nazi war documentation from Richardson, the news reports said that "no charges would be laid" against Richardson. Which sort of implies that it was a possibility. the power of attorney stuff is VERY dodgy, as far as I'm concerned. And there's nobody else involved in this case but Richardson.
- DJF
... that we know of, at this point.
- RepoRat
LOL Andy
- lris
Looks like it hit the wires, as the story is everywhere now.
- Jason Griffey
IANAL but regardless of that power of attorney, surely if Kempner didn't have the stuff legally and Richardson got it via that route and Richardson clearly knew that Kempner didn't have the stuff legally since they already seized a bunch of stuff from him which is kind of a clue-by-four... it seems to me that they could make a case that he was knowingly in possession of goods that he had no earthly right to be in possession of.
- Deborah Fitchett
I had to comment on the BoingBoing story, as they made no mention of the connection between Richardson and Mellen, which they also covered. :-)
- Jason Griffey
Court rules [rolls d20 behind screen] in favor of Andy, the 4th level gnome rules lawyer. Adjourned until the Paladin of the Red Clover returns from the expedition to the Barrier Peaks. *gavel* *doritos*
- bevedog
Our boy's made a statement by fax: http://www.nytimes.com/2013...&
- RepoRat
I am loving this. from the Times: "The idiosyncratic Mr. Richardson, 81, has long been a figure of controversy within some scholarly precincts for the quality of the books he published and for suing critics of his press for libel."
- $tephanie•Gardening
I guess the Times can't use the word "whackaloon."
- RepoRat
not without getting sued, no.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Speculation on whether Richardson will be prosecuted: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news... Apparently the pissier he is (and he's known for pissiness), the more likely he gets the book thrown at him?
- RepoRat
Oh NG, you subtle publication: "Herbert Warren Richardson of Lewiston, N.Y., who says he is an academic and publisher..."
- Catherine Pellegrino
^^ LOL
- lris
I saw that and grinned.
- RepoRat
"the more likely he gets the book thrown at him"... I see what you did there!
- maʀtha
"One scholar who had contact with him suggests that he is a difficult eccentric."
- barbara fister
Hehehehe
- lris
"One scholar [who notably IS NOT NAMED for fear of being sued] who had contact with him suggests that he is a difficult eccentric."
- Catherine Pellegrino
No shit, a difficult eccentric you say?
- bevedog
First conference presentation as a librarian, and only second one ever. Thanks to all for help. LSW will get a shout :)
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(psst! they only get easier after this. ;) )
- RepoRat
Go, Pete, go!
- Marie
rock it, peeeeeeeete!
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
from BuddyFeed
it's the one time they tell you NOT to imagine your audience naked.
- Andy
Slay em Pete.
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
I enjoyed it :) Think it went well.
- Pete #TeamMonique
Codsignal for a friend!
"I am doing some research on endowed chairships in regional comprehensive universities. Firstly, I'm trying to clarify the roles of endowed chairs at other universities (i.e., how they "fit" in the home department), including which arrangements lead to greater success and which arrangements lead to more problems. Secondly, I need information about salary and salary differentials. I need something better than salary.com or glassdoor.com. For a university where salary is a matter of public record (and relatively accessible online), that will be difficult enough, but I might be able to scare up some pertinent information. Can you guys direct me to some sort of central database (known only to special librarians like you) or some obscure university study for the information I seek?"
- The LB: #TeamMonique
Thanks for any suggestions!
- The LB: #TeamMonique
Hrm. if the person can identify who holds a current endowed chairship, they can search online databases available for some public uni systems (like the UTn system), but you wont know if that salary number includes other grants/awards/adjunct work, so even those numbers arent really accurate (just somethign to be aware of as researcher gathers those salary numbers). Clarifying the roles...
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- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
UFL works in the sunshine and has their salaries publicly available (see http://www.ir.ufl.edu/factboo...), but I don't know if it names whether or not the person is paid as an endowed anything.
- Marie
Thanks, y'all. Any ideas are welcomed! :)
- The LB: #TeamMonique
States that work with sunshine laws like marie described will be easier; other than that, I dont know of any central database maintained; our uni has a hard enough time maintaining its own lists of endowed chairs (we discovered last year we lost a few through attrition and inattentiveness!). The most likely place for those records to live though is in the provost's office, I would imagine... Im intrigued.
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
If someone else studied this and compiled the information it may be available. Otherwise - this doesn't fit the category of "stuff we have to tell some central authority about" so is going to require lots of data-gathering.
- barbara fister
Yeah, it's probably not a convenient question to ask. Thank you all for your assistance!
- The LB: #TeamMonique
from Android
Donica's MLIS Student Musings: Weeding, growing, public backlash, and more--Smile Politely article expresses public dismay with Urbana Library - http://donicamlis.blogspot.com/2013...
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"DonicaJune 14, 2013 at 3:29 PM I'd like to say that Nectoux makes it seem like staff were brought in to engage in a massive weeding project. The truth is, library staff have been weeding books for months and the fiction and children's collections have been weeded with care and staff have taken a lot of time and consideration before marking books as discarded and ready for shipment to Better World Books. Lissak skipped several steps in the process by having staff pull books and box them without evaluation by full time professional staff members. This occurred over the last week or so with the non-fiction collection only. It's still devastating, but the temporary shelvers were not mysteriously hired to massively weed books. They were hired for the RFID tagging project that was anticipated to be underway by now."
- maʀtha
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it will take some time to sort out the truth in all of this. I hope more staff come forward.
- maʀtha
Petition | The Administration of the Urbana Free Library: Hold a public forum and make Lissak explain her decisions. | Change.org - https://www.change.org/petitio...
petition regarding UFL's weeding debacle
- maʀtha
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surely we can get 100 signatures on this, easy
- maʀtha
Fwd: Saw comedian @BradWollack tonight in SanDiego and he said #librarians act like c*nts. Clearly he wasn't partying us at #sla2013 (via http://friendfeed.com/librari...)
still kind of tourqued that I didn't have a snappy comeback at this...
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
True Stories.pptx - https://docs.google.com/file...
Fabulous RA presentation from Rick Roche.
- laura x
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I wonder if there's a gender dimension to this fiction promotion - lots of studies have found men more interested in non-fiction than women, for whatever reason. Also curious about genre shelving in PLs. (ours doesn't - too small) but fiction can be in clumps of "the kind I like" but non-fiction is all in one sequence. As it almost certainly should be - but less of a stratification of "fun" and "serious" that you get with fiction.
- barbara fister
Going to Taylor and Francis Library advisory board this weekend. What would you like me to pass on to them?
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Also covering CRC stuff.
- OMG 404 Joe
from iPod
Well, for starters ...[redacted as being entirely unhelpful]
- barbara fister
from iPhone
Will mention non green compliant and that library journal editors leaving. Administration something?
- OMG 404 Joe
from iPod
Plz to mention complete lack of customer service? Our electronic resources librarian has been trying to work with them since November to no avail.
- The LB: #TeamMonique
all of the above, including: tough to get in touch with their customer service peeps. AND: high cost! One of my colleagues edits a journal that she recently migrated to T&F. Cost-to-library went from $65 to $385. Print-only = $100. Why is $285 for online access?! Also, T&F removed current coverage from Subject Database, so we MUST buy online + print. I have discussed this with editor (after the fact).
- $tephanie•Gardening
ask them wtf about the drm on their ebooks. they freakin disappear after a while? using the fileopen plugin? w - t - f ... but you might rephrase
- Christina Pikas
To Ms. Gardening. What was the journal that jumped from $65 to $385? What was the subject database that had removed current coverage (has the journal with an embargo period?)? Why would you have to get print+online if you have online access while Database X has an embargo? Wouldn't online only still suffice?
- OMG 404 Joe
To Ms. Pikas. Could they use Springer with their DRMless ebooks as a model to emulate?
- OMG 404 Joe
American Journalism. Communication and Mass Media Complete has it "through present" but editor tells me that will end soon. No option to buy online-only - just "print" or "print+online."
- $tephanie•Gardening
Got it. Thanks.
- OMG 404 Joe
thanks, Grumpy!
- $tephanie•Gardening
Springer would be a good one to emulate for sure
- Christina Pikas
This is more of a CRC meeting, but T&F things will be discussed. I wasn't sure what the concentration was going to be till now.
- OMG 404 Joe
What is your favorite font for headings or for body text on conference posters? Our current mockup is in Tahoma (which will probably cause many of you to unsubscribe to me and/or hide this post) but we're considering switching to Arial. Helvetica appears not to be an option. Are we ignoring another obvious contender?
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eeeesh, Arial? gack. Um, maybe Futura Condensed? Optima Bold? Gill Sans?
- RepoRat
We could do Gill Sans, which I do rather like. Futura Condensed and Optima Bold aren't available. (We're limited to whatever comes standard with the Windows version of Powerpoint 2010.)
- Catherine Pellegrino
Oh sigh. If you'd upgraded from Office 2000-2003, you'd have LOADS of choices, since Office used to come with a wide variety of first-rate typefaces. There are various free typeface sites that might help. If you're devoted to sans serif for the text, you might consider Calibri or Candara or one of the other "C" faces commissioned by MS for Windows, but Gill Sans is a pretty good choice as well. (I'm not the right one to ask: I'd go for a serif for body text, e.g. Constantia.)
- Walt Crawford
In any case: Not Arial. Please, not Arial. I dislike Helvetica, and Arial's even a little worse.
- Walt Crawford
You want it to be sans? Because I like Perpetua and Perpetua Titling if you can use a serif font. Franklin Gothic seems to have a lot of weights, too. I'm assuming you have these: http://support.microsoft.com/kb...
- bevedog
We're pretty sure we want sans. Every poster we looked at (as in actual, physical posters hanging on the walls in academic buildings on campus from various poster sessions) that used a serif font was damn near unreadable.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Since you are soliciting advice, remember that line length and line height (leading) make a big difference when it comes to readability, too. It's not just font choice.
- bevedog
Yep. I think we're okay on both of those, with one minor exception that I can't figure out how to get around.
- Catherine Pellegrino
I really hate Arial in ways I can't articulate, really. I find clean serif fonts easier to read for the texty bits of a poster , while headings are better in sans. I like Palatino and Cambria for text. A poster in all sans makes my eyes cross, honestly. But then, if the poster is mostly graphic and doesn't have huge chunks of text, it probably wouldn't kill me.
- kaijsa
Okay, it seems like, to get any further/clearer on this, an image of the actual poster is necessary, so on Monday I'll see about providing that (since I can't from home). For now, though, thank you for your thoughtful insights!
- Catherine Pellegrino
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Anyone know if Steve Lawson and Marianne are affected by the fires in Colorado Springs?
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As of this morning, they're fine, but one of their co-workers is relocating for a while. Scary stuff.
- lris
Denver is awfully smokey. I think they live away from the fires in town. They did have some Tutt library employees last year who were effected. I know that a boy scout camp east of Co Springs has been evacuated, but I don't know anyone there this week. I knew a kid who was there when a tornado was near the camp last year, but that is a completely different story.
- OMG 404 Joe
OK, thanks. A librarian on FB shared some evacuation announcement for parts of Colorado Springs that was just put out by the National Weather Service.
- Stephen le Francoeur
Yeah, we are both fine, but some of our coworkers, not so much (I mean, they are ok! Just their houses are in jeopardy.). We both live in very downtown-central Springs - as my husband said last year about the big fires at the time, "honey, if *we* have to evacuate, the city's got even BIGGER problems than the wildfires..."
- Marianne
Good to know you both are doing well! I've got family in CS and I need to check in with my mom on if she's heard anything.
- Katie
Yeah, if Marianne and I need to evacuate, you'll know it because the front page of the NY Times will be "COLORADO SPRINGS ENGULFED IN FLAMES." I appreciate everyone thinking of us, though.
- bevedog
We love you <3
- maʀtha
Oh, my recent change of avatar photo is only subconsciously motivated by the real-life fires.
- bevedog
Your neighbors to the north are sending fire-extinguishing thoughts your way!
- kaijsa
It's raining here now; heard it rained at least a little in Black Forest. Hope for LOTS MORE, everybody :).
- Marianne
*rain dance*
- lris
Some tech never dies: In order to facilitate some online banking (oddly), I just used my multifunction printer as a fax machine (first connecting a phone line), since they needed a fax or USMail, and I didn't want to wait until Monday. Second time I've actually faxed from home in two years.
[Much more common to print out something, sign it, scan it in as a PDF, and attach it to email--but some banks and others won't accept that method.]
- Walt Crawford
PDF Alert http://www.stats.indiana.edu/maptool... This is my state. The areas in white don't have non-subscription library access. This makes me ill.
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I had no idea it was quite this bad. I grew up in that little white box above Hamilton East and let me tell you awesome it was not--we lived *on the wrong side of the street* of the library district boundary and routinely had to pay up to $200 a year to access the library IN OUR TOWN. We started looking at PLAC cards once those got legislated because they were usually cheaper. The day I was old enough to work there and get a free staff card was awesome.
- MontglaneChess
Ill?
- bevedog
We had access when I was a kid, but people about a mile down the road did not even though we had the same address in terms of city (they were in a different township). This is why I bristle when people talk about public libraries being free to everyone. In too many places, they are not.
- Katy S
And yes, it makes me ill to think of all of the people - children, especially - who don't have access to many library resources. Not everyone can afford the subscription fees.
- Katy S
I had no idea.
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
It would be great to have a national map like this. Had a friend in Illinois in one of those no-library holes. The horror.
- barbara fister
from iPhone
wow.
- Yvonne
what does the white part mean exactly? one of my PhD students is heading to Indiana & she LOVES libraries. She'd appreciate the bad news here, but it would help if I knew exactly what the news is. :-(
- $tephanie•Gardening
Yup, and Hancock County is fairly recent. It was just Greenfield (county seat) Public until I was in high school I think. I remember there being a lot of resistance to a countywide system, mostly not from the city.
- Hedgehog
Katy: No question. Public libraries serve 96% of the population. The 4% is scattered in various situations like those in Indiana. They're difficult situations to eradicate, because they usually involve rural areas with tax-resistant population. (Stephanie: The white part is areas that have no defined public library agency, thus no expectation of ability to use without buying a card.)
- Walt Crawford
Libraries in Indiana are funded through township property taxes. If you are outside of a taxing district/ your taxing district has no library, you have to buy a subscription. All of the white areas are townships that don't pay library taxes and thus don't have library services without a fee.
- Katy S
from iPhone
thanks Katy & Walt. Shared with my student-soon-to-be-professor-in-Indiana - so glad that she cares about this. :-)
- $tephanie•Gardening
Interesting. Mozilla Science Lab: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog... "...help researchers around the world use the open web to shape science’s future"
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Okay, librarians, I have a "uh, it was red..." puzzle for you. When I was a kid and not long into reading (say, age 4 or 5, which would have been 1982-3ish), I had a series of hardback books that each explained a main concept or thing. They were large (roughly 8x12) but only a 1/2-1 cm thick. One of them was called, simply, "Time." I think it was..
green. Just posting on the off chance this rings a bell for anybody. I think other books were things like dinosaurs, weather, that sort of thing. Basic concepts.
- Rachel Walden
I recall the How and Why Wonder Books from when I was a kid but the format sounds different.
- John Dupuis
those sound like the National Geographic books we had when i was a kid. like these: http://deflationland.blogspot.com/2012...
- Christa
Not a Brown Paper Schoolbook series by any chance? They had "This book is about time" http://ask.metafilter.com/60162...
- Kathryn is Blake in Hindi
Those books were GREAT, Kathryn.
- bevedog
Ooh, I think it might be the NG ones, but the BPS ones look cool! :) Thanks, all!
- Rachel Walden
The Wonder Books also apparently had hardcover, and one called Time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and http://img1.etsystatic.com/009...
- John Dupuis
Thanks, John!
- Rachel Walden
Pivot table, I made one. (ranking journals / databases to cut 1-5). Yay for pivot tables. Boo for cutting things.
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A former student writes: From one of the PUBLIC Library comment boxes: "I love everything about PUBLIC: the variety of books by authors from all over the world; the calm quiet—but not too quiet—atmosphere; the coffee; and most of all I love, love, love the sweet, kind, patient librarians who can find the answer to anything."
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Meet Lyla and Leonard, two of the library staplers. They have interesting personalities so they are cared for and not staplernapped. #staplerbrouhaha http://t.co/ubQwPGHfg3 and http://t.co/3LF2hKfisR
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The post Betsy linked to here http://friendfeed.com/lsw... made me wonder: Do you describe your public library's resources/card as "free," "supported by tax dollars," or something else?
How many of you have your own domain name & website? Worth it? I'm thinking of letting mine expire since I rarely use it.
I do. Not sure whether it's worth it.
- Walt Crawford
Yep. Worth it for me, as I have to hustle for part of my keep. :) I really need to update the dang pages, though. Putting that on my to-do list.
- RepoRat
I don't, but have been thinking about maybe making one. Curious to hear others' responses.
- $tephanie•Gardening
I do. I don't use it much (any more) but it is fantastic to have a place that is entirely mine -- not affiliated with my work, not subject to ads or datamining or whatnot -- to put stuff. Every now and then I find I need a place like that, and it's tremendously convenient to have it ready at the drop of a hat.
- Catherine Pellegrino
I do, I don't use it much, if ever, but every time it comes up for renewal, I still pay it. Mainly for what Catherine said.
- ellbeecee
I've got two. I've owned them about 13 years and 3 years roughly. I keep them, but I post on them less and less these days.
- OMG 404 Joe
I hadn't thought about the ads or the data-mining. Huh. I have an ex that creeps on me a little from time to time, which gives me pause. Ex: we broke up 14 yrs ago, and he recently checked out my LinkedIn profile. Maybe he was just bored.
- Yvonne
Now I feel guilty, Yvonne. I have an ex who I occasionally search out. Not in a "I'm going to keep tabs on him" but more in a "I wonder what hes' up to" kind of way, which has at times led to "oh, they had a baby! Cute! Yay for them!" (or less happy events). I never do anything with the knowlege, but...maybe I should stop that.
- ellbeecee
husband and i at one point talked about getting one with our last name and then we both could use it, but at the time there was a fraternity with the one we were looking for. now i think i'd want my own and not one with him since really i don't want him getting credit/blame for anything i do and vice versa
- Christina Pikas
I have one. I think of my website as my hobby, so the money I spend on it is on the one hand kind of a lot for a hobby and on the other hand a lot less than a lot of people spend on their hobbies.
- laura x
I have one. (I need to move my blog to an installation of Wordpress there sometime because Blogger has turned into a spamtrap.) It's been handy for collating things that wouldn't collate so tidily elsewhere, and also as a sandpit for practising various webcoding things.
- Deborah Fitchett
Sorry, ellbeecee. He's actually contacted me directly and left comments on postings a few times. I don't think you have anything to feel guilty about.
- Yvonne
I have one but just basically for my CV and for people to contact me. It's useful as something to point to when I do external speaking and need a bio since I'm generally unhappy with the way my work bio and page looks (and the way it can be updated).
- Sarah
if you were going to hear someone speak about their experiences combining acquisitions/colldev and ILL, what would you want to hear about? come on, you know you are dying to know more about this!
Perhaps something about balance between those areas? How they complement each other in your work environment. I'm thinking that at smaller libraries, this work is often done together by one person whereas larger systems separate it among different people, so what might be the advantages of this work model in a larger system?
- Katy S
I feel like what I just wrote was incoherent. How about this: Tell me why this is an awesome, rocking way to do things. That sounds simplistic, but why do you love the way this all works? I bet there's something in your answer that would lead the talk.
- Katy S
^ooh, that's good!
- Katy S
Developing the natural relationships between ILL and CD/Acq in terms of mission and actual work with the collection and user requests? (as someone coming from where ILL has been residing in Access for umptybillion years, pitching this sort of merge makes some folks itchy since it changes the home department for ILL)
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
opportunity cost of purchasing v borrowing from another system. How do you determine what you borrow v what you buy? When do you go from borrow to purchase? or from replacing to borrowing?
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
yay, I am on the right track! you've given me some ideas about specifics to mention though. thanks! :)
- holly #ravingfangirl
"Your library has a lot more to offer besides just checking out books. Best of all, in nearly all places, getting a library card is absolutely free. It's money (and resources) on the table, so why not make some use of your local branch?" http://lifehacker.com/the-bes...
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Lots of people probably don't know this.
- OMG 404 Joe
Fwd: Announcing a photo contest where you win stuff: "You with our book" http://orgmonkey.net/?p=1724 (via http://friendfeed.com/orgmonk...)
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I'm trying to develop a template/form for librarians to use to assess what percentage of their monthly (then aggregated into annual) time is spent on various parts of their job descriptions. (I'm trying to identify imbalances between our goals and how we use our resources.) Anyone have any suggestions or examples?
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Do you want something that folks fill in real-time or a form for them to try to remember at the end of the month what percentage they spent at what tasks? Not that I have either, but I'd be interested in the first, myself...
- WebGoddess
I have nothing for you, but I would love (love love LOVE) to see a similar analysis at MPOW. Hoo boy.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Personally, Robin, I'd love the former to be the norm, because apparently I should have been a billable attorney, but the latter is what I'm aiming for -- this is in preparation for a library faculty retreat.
- Jenica
what about an internal day in the life tracking tasks and time doing those tasks. A work diary if you will. or use a timesheet template to track task type (if you are looking at general big areas not specific duties) by day then week then month.
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
End-of-day revision of my Outlook calendar is how I do it currently. (it's how I reflect my actual-calendar versus my aspirational calendar (or how the calendar day starts before things go to hell...)
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
My goal is to give the librarians a form that they can fill out as a reflection exercise to generate data for me to use, looking back on this past academic year. That's the form/template I need. I'm thinking I'm going to have to build it, as no one seems to have such a thing, and yeah, Mo, that's what I'm leaning toward -- big chunks of time on big tasks -- because our schedules vary so much week to week. You can't ask an info lit librarian what a "normal week" looks like. No such thing!
- Jenica
Could one of your on campus grad students whip up something like this in excel? Dangit i wish I had a whiteboard to show you what I meant. And are they committed to doing it? We are switching to something called Gimlet to track our customer encounters. Maybe that would work for you? there are dropdowns and room for specific comments.
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
man, i wish i still had what we used before. it was just a simple time study form in an excel spreadsheet. You entered the time you spent and what the task was, though this was more of an ongoing tracking for a period of time, not after the fact. hmm.
- holly #ravingfangirl
I feel like there was a project ...minnesota? Minneapolis? Something that looked at (perceived actual) percentages of time spent on various duties vs. desired amount of time spent on duties, but I can't turn it up. Maybe someone else knows what it was?
- ellbeecee
Don't know if it would fit your needs and time limitation, but there used to be a terrific app on MacOS whose name escapes me now... However, lawyers, designers and others with multiple clients need to track how much time they're spending on which thing for billing purposes. So there are apps that allow people to clock in and clock out of a project. Something like that would allow...
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- Spidra Webster
I was going to suggest what Spidra suggested, but I think some of what you are looking for are the buckets to have folks assign their work to, and that I don't know. I was also thinking you could use a free shared tool like Libstats to collect it, but then everyone could see each other's information, so that might not work.
- Royce's favorite Anna
*mumbles something about creating a LibAnalytics dataset to do this...*
- Laura H.
Yo, vendors who troll LSW. This above thing is what we call positive proactive customer support.
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
thanks, y'all. If I thought I could get buyin on an ongoing time study, or that it would give me what I need, I'd pull on a lot of the threads you've all put in above. But this has to be simple and straightforward: I need people to sit and reflect on the past year and assign percentages of time to areas of work that are a part of their job responsibilities. I'm just gonna build it in excel...
- Jenica
There is a technique that I know some social-science researchers use: pinging people in some fashion, at which point they record what they are doing (or how they are feeling) RIGHT THEN. Do it often enough and you get a decent picture of what folks are up to. Of course, this would be a srs annoyance if carried on for too long!
- RepoRat
...although now Laura's got me looking at LibAnalytics and our last unused instance...
- Jenica
i've seen the diaries used in time studies and they're extremely boring word documents in many cases. at mpow we have to charge to different budgets for different tasks so that's no help
- Christina Pikas
This is not what anyone's looking for, but I use memiary.com to note down the five 'biggest' things I've done each day. Useful for a) those days when I feel like I've achieved nothing and b) looking over before going to meetings with my manager about what's going on / performance reviews.
- Deborah Fitchett
I wonder how much of my daily diary would be reading LSW.
- barbara fister
Anything asking people to estimate how they have spent their time more than a day in the past is likely highly problematic, especially if there is any sense of what the "right" way to have spent time is. When I attended the Senior Fellows program at UCLA, we tracked our own time, however we found best, for a week. Then we reflected. We shared our reflections rather than time spent per se. I think this is in a Peter Drucker book as a recommended exercise but I have no idea where my notes are!
- Lisa Hinchliffe
BTW, side note, folks might be interested to know that ACRL staff track their work time in 15 minute increments (to categories of projects). Makes for some amazingly useful budget docs!
- Lisa Hinchliffe
Data point: At not-library-MPOW, we log hours by job. For staff who aren't front-line, we find it really hard to remember even one day later exactly how we spent our time. ("First I put out this fire, then I made that phone call, then I think I went to pick up the brochures from the printer, how long did that take?")
- Mark Kille
I'm not planning to ask for that granularity - but instead, in February, looking back at your calendar, about how many hours did you spend in meetings? Doing instruction? Working help desks? Etc.
- Jenica
Sounds reasonable. I hope your team takes it in the spirit intended, and not as a process they have to spin in order to protect their interests (whatever those may be).
- Mark Kille
So is this a normal thing, to only provide references on your own (paywalled) site, even though you provide full text to aggregators? Because I'm highly irritated.
What is your usual procedure when researchers ask for help getting them, in that case?
- Jaclyn aka spamgirl
I don't think I have ever run across that.
- bevedog
wait, what? Am I understanding this correctly: the full text for articles in a particular journal is in aggregators, but the bibliography/references/works cited aren't included - those are only available on the publisher's own (paywalled) web site? That's the damndest thing I've ever heard.
- Catherine Pellegrino
there are some medical textbooks for which the references are only available on the companion website, with login, which can't be transferred when you sell the book
- Christina Pikas
Oh good, because I thought I was going crazy. I've emailed the corresponding author, and if that doesn't work I guess I'll send it to ILL. BAH.
- Jaclyn aka spamgirl
Oh, wait, are we talking about e-books or journals?
- Catherine Pellegrino
In this case it's a journal.
- Jaclyn aka spamgirl
That's just wrong. Also, screwy.
- barbara fister
The author sent us the references, thank goodness. Still...*shakes fist at journal*
- Jaclyn aka spamgirl
Excuse Me, Do You Have a Minute to Talk About Data Storage? - Cheezburger - http://cheezburger.com/7544693...
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What kind of computer did Jesus have? PC, Apple or Linux box?
- OMG 404 Joe
I used to have a button that read, "Jesus saves. Gretsky gets the rebound. He shoots. He scores!"
- Betsy #TeamMonique
But could he play standing on his head?
- OMG 404 Joe
What kind of computer did Jesus have? Windows ME, for two reasons--the obvious one (I mean...), and that it took a miracle for it to work the way you'd want it to.
- Walt Crawford
(I really want to use this image in class. I know I can't. But I want to!)
- RepoRat
omg, love!
- $tephanie•Gardening
Cod Alert: I need a program for the iPad that acts like either a whiteboard with large letters or a limo pick up sign. Ideas?
Educreations?
- lris
Maybe Bamboo paper? https://itunes.apple.com/us... (this is more a notebook app. It's ok, and I like it for notetakeing)
- ellbeecee
Thanks for the assist. We used inkflow. Worked wonderfully. If you are ala bound it is for one of the yalsa advocacy videos.
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
http://joblist.ala.org Man, they're not kidding about the lack of jobs in libraries these days.
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