ClimateQUAL Info Sessions

As discussed in last month's All Personnel Meeting, we have scheduled some information sessions related to the ClimateQUAL results. All sessions will be in the Hodges Reading Room and a DoodlePoll is included ti help us get an expected count of participants:  http://doodle.com/pwsnr9w8y58xs5tq

The dates and times are:

• Friday, September 28th at 11 am
• Tuesday, October 2nd at 4 pm
• Wednesday, October 3rd at 9:30 am
• Thursday, October 11th at 2 pm

We hope everyone can attend one of these sessions, slides from the ClimateQUAL presentation at the All Personnel Meeting are below:

Real Learning Connections

We are continuing with our Real Learnings Connection program for a third year with 3 projects and 4 wonderful graduate assistant's in our partnership with the School of Library and Information Science.  This program and these projects are studying the relationship between theory and practice by facilitating work and discussion between faculty, librarians and students.  Research of field literature and emerging trends within the field are also studied as per of this endeavour.

Our three projects starting this month are;

• Tech Services to study our transition to WMS and  how cloud computing is impacting the library environment, with Leslie Perry
• University Artifacts Project, to process and study how artifacts and archives can be accessible and useful for student research use, with Susan Taylor
• And Digital Media Commons, with a LIS student (Chelsea Deangio) and a Media Studies student (Samantha Chambers) is studying the needs of students in a digital environment, the impact our new DMC will have and how the two academic disciplines approach it from an educational point of view.

Please welcome these students and support them in their projects, thanks!
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New Art on First Floor

Many thanks to the Art Committee for setting up and rearranging art work on the first floor.  Please take a look, some of the maps that were displaced in the renovation have been put back in order (along with the Head), and some new prints which are copies or our special collections holding are displayed in the Reading Room and Reference.  QR codes that link to descriptions are coming.  Thanks Kimberly, Kathelene, Nancy, Audrey, Carolyn and Kathy.

Music Library Upgrade

The Music Library is upgrading some features this summer including a rearrangement of the LP's stored in the lower level:

This involves some new shelving along the walls and the LP's are currently staged for placement.

This also includes a weeding project for the reference collection and these shelves will be turned to accommodate some new furniture over the next few weeks:

More info to come soon but if you are over there they have a very attractive display case showing all of the changes:

Check it out!

Summer Time at the Libraries

In honor of the start of summer I wanted to share some photos to get everyone in the mood.  Remember we have two plots over at the official UNCG gardens:

Right now we have a flower bed going wild:

And a bunch of herbs doing very well:

And finally, Jackson through the daises...............Happy Summer!

NCLA Leadership Institute

I speaking with someone yesteday, I realized that some of you who are not NCLA members might not have seen this.  The Call for Applications is out for the 2012 NCLA Leadership Institute.  More information is at this link:  http://www.nclaonline.org/professional-development/event/2012-ncla-leadership-institute-cultivating-and-inspiring-nc-library-l

If you are interested in applying just know that you will need to be a member of NCLA but can join now in order to apply and be considered.  The venue is close to us and this year is much more affordable that in the past.  Please let me know if you have any questions.
Mike

SPA rep to AAG

We are looking for a new SPA rep to set on the Administrative Advisory Group (AAG) meetings.  With the change in the staff senate election process being a senator is not required but we would like this position to rotate to interested staff who have not served previously.  This assignment requires monthly attendance to a two hour meeting, typically and attendance at the AAG Retreat which will be on July 3rd this year.

If you are interested please let me (macrumpt@uncg.edu) know by June 23rd and a selection will be made from the group of those of you interested.

Thanks,
Mike

New case for Book Press materials

If you've been down the second floor north hallway, you'll notice a new feature, well its not new new but used new, its a case to house type and tools for the book press.  The bookcases have been moved along the side wall and the idea is to enhance the space with some photos and related paraphernalia.

Monday's Meeting Agenda

Below is the agenda for the All Personnel Meeting on Monday morning.  We will be meeting in the Reading Room so we can be more cozy and will have the donuts set up by 9:45.  We will pull our chairs from around the building but feel free to bring your own if that makes you more comfortable.

Next Week Please Join Us

The Staff Development Committee is hosting “Staff Development and Recognition Week” May 7th-11th.

We are asking that you please sign up for an event in advance if you think you may go so we can better determine the proper location for each event.  I have included the sign up links below.

We will start with an All Personnel Meeting on Monday morning at 10 AM and we'll be serving coffee and donuts, starting at 9:30.  A complete schedule with times and places will be discussed at that time and sent out via email.

Below is a list of the events we have scheduled, please sign up:

5/7- Volunteering in Greensboro     [Sign-up]  

5/7- Good Nutrition: On the Road to Better Health [Sign-up]

5/7- Greensboro Grasshoppers game [Sign-up]

5/8- Career Brand Management [Sign-up]

5/8- Followership Styles and Coaching Teams  [Sign-Up]

5/9- “The ABC’s of SPAs and EPAs”  [Sign-Up]

5/9- Lecture on “Bullying in the Workplace”  [Sign-Up]

5/9- HealthyUNCG Overview  [Sign-Up]

5/9- UNCG vs. Duke Baseball  [Sign-Up]

5/10- Future Technologies in the University Libraries  [Sign-Up]

5/10- Stress Reduction Techniques  [Sign-Up]

5/10- Medical Consumerism  [Sign-Up]

5/10- Stream Clean  [Sign-Up]        

5/11- Team Quest Adventures (at Piney Lake)

5/11- Ice Cream Social [Sign-Up]

2012 Student Learning Enhancement Award

University Libraries’ Associate Dean for Public Services Kathryn Crowe and Dr. Elizabeth Natalle from Communication Studies won the 2012 Student Learning Enhancement Award from the UNCG Senate Student Learning Enhancement Committee.  Crowe and Natalle’s study assessed information literacy skills in Communication Studies (CST) 300, a core course required of all CST majors. After identifying specific learning outcomes Crowe used a rubric to score “real-life’ performance evaluation in the form of a worksheet.  An initial pilot in 2009 indicated that students were not gaining needed skills so several changes were made during subsequent semesters: (1) require students to take several modules of the Libraries’ online tutorial (2) delay the library instruction session so that students have more time to develop their topics and absorb material from the tutorial (3) develop a tutorial on primary sources in Communication Studies.  The scores improved dramatically for the 3 learning outcomes:

This collaborative model offers an excellent opportunity for many departments to build a stronger relationship between themselves and the Libraries.  This authentic assessment of an assignment that was part of the sequence of the course provided evidence that students were not acquiring the skills that both the teaching faculty and librarians wanted them to learn.  The Libraries and the CST Department partnered more closely to develop focused outcomes and measure them more rigorously.  As a result we worked together to revise the pedagogy that improved students’ performance and integrated information literacy further into the CST curriculum.  Additional information is available in this article. 

If you can't find a cart at the grocery.......

.........it might be getting used for something else!

Our newest STAR

Congratulations to Ann Purdue for receiving from the Chancellor a Staff Star for her outstanding efforts this year.  Thanks Ann for all the hard work.

New Trees are doing well

Sorry this is a little late, but on Arbor Day our two trees in front of Jackson Library that frames the McIver statue were replaced as part of the Tree Campus USA certification:

And you never know who will be called in the help............................

Beth's International Intern

Many of you know that Beth Filar Williams worked virtually with an international student this semester which was a new and interesting experience for a lot of us.  Below is a comment and link to learn more about this experience.

 Zach did a really good job summarizing my international internship experience!  -Beth

http://www.uncg.edu/ipg/enewsworthy/specialproapr12.html

Fire Alarm work on Thursday April 5th

Next Thursday, April 5th, there will be work done on the fire alarm system related to the testing problem that occurred last week.  Last week when the fire alarms sounded and we evaluated, a problem was discovered between how the new third floor alarm talks to the tower side and the main building side.  The work on Thursday is to correct this problem so that it will not happen each time we are tested, which is suppose to be twice a year.  This means alarms will sound during this work, but this day was selected do due the expectation that it will be a light traffic day due to Friday being a holiday.  So please prepare accordingly:

Filling Ted's shoes

With the retirement of Ted Hunter, Mary Katherine Amos will transition to become the Day Manager of the Music Library.   We will be seeking a person to fill the role of the Evening/Weekend Manager.  The vacancy for this position will be posted on Job Search, and should be available for viewing by early next week.