This session will provide the definition of mentoring and also provide some comparison/contrast such as formal vs. informal, virtual vs. physical, subject focused vs. general, mentoring vs. coaching, etc. Additionally, we will address the issues of mentoring for students in academic institutions of higher education. It will present ways academic librarians can become involved in the lives of students and examples of academic success in and beyond the building.

Developing outcome-based library instruction is one of the challenges faced by academic librarians today. This session will provide an overview of how a team of librarians at Southeastern Louisiana University formed an Assessment Working Group to improve assessment of student learning outcomes in their information literacy credit course, Library Science (LS) 102: Introduction to Information Research. The presentation illustrates how the working group identified core competencies for the course, created a standardized departmental final exam, and continues to explore other assessment measures.

In addition to meeting several ACRL information literacy objectives, high school students who learn to find and use electronic information also increase their chances of academic success in college. “Beyond Recreational Literacy,” the focus of this presentation, is a cooperative project of LSU Eunice with Eunice High School for implementing dedicated computer access to college services, including library databases, for early-admission college students. The two-year project (2013-2014) includes surveying the need for access and instruction at the local high school; installing dedicated computers with default links to the LSUE website; training teachers in the use of myLSUE, LeDoux Library databases, and LOUIS; publicizing the service; instructing students in online library research; and assessing the results.

Highlight how the library formed local partnerships to fulfill the University's strategic priority to promote lifelong learning in the Community

Covers from installation process, customization, installing modules, page building, updates

This presentation will explain online branding techniques, and how they can be used in action to reach your users. In response to crisis, a new website was needed for explaining LOUIS to the general public and generating their support. SAVELOUIS.ORG was made for this purpose, and specific design decisions were made with this type of audience in mind. It is a website on its own, but it has other parts in "Web 2.0" tools which carry out certain functions and there are ways to make these different accounts appear to be part of a coherent whole.

After storing up a wealth of information after many years of working as a system administrator, how does one successfully train the next in line in a relatively short time? The speaker will discuss strategies for training the next system administrator that goes well beyond the LOUIS System Administrator Responsibilities document.

With years’ worth of approval plan books sitting unused on the shelf and grim book budget forecasts for the future, we needed a new way to select books for purchase. Feeding faculty ILL requests into Acquisitions helped us to acquire books that faculty really needed, not just what they were “supposed” to want. In this session we’ll share the results of an ILL-driven Acquisitions pilot project at UNO Library, including lessons learned and plans for the future.

In 2010,the Louisiana Archives and Manuscripts Association (LAMA), Le Comité des Archives, Louisiana Association of Museums (LAM), and LYRASIS (regional library services organization) collaborated to create the Louisiana Libraries, Archives, and Museums Preservation Project (LA LAMPP) to provide training and education in preservation planning, to survey cultural heritage institutions on the preservation status of their historical materials, and to develop a comprehensive plan for statewide preservation of cultural heritage resources. LA LAMPP received funding under the Institute of Museum and Library Services’ National Leadership Grant Program for a Statewide Connecting to Collections Planning Grant. The statewide survey was conducted between October 2010 and February 2011. In addition to focusing on traditional preservation practices and needs, the survey gathered information on digitization and digital preservation issues among Louisiana’s cultural heritage organizations. Laura McLemore, LSU-Shreveport, Project leader, and Tom Clareson, LYRASIS consultant on the grant, will present the findings of the Planning Grant (from survey results, workshop feedback, and Advisory Committee meeting discussions), and what the plans for the future would be under either an IMLS implementation grant or other types of funding.

A review of LearningExpress library and demonstrate the resource and how it is helping students throughout Louisiana and the United States.

A review of LearningExpress library and demonstrate the resource and how it is helping students throughout Louisiana and the United States.

Join us as we revisit our journey from 1990, when only six Louisiana academic libraries were automated and only four had internet access, to the present where we partner with Academic Libraries, State and Private Libraries, Museums and Archives to provide a multitude of products and services to 47 consortia members.

In the fall of 2010, Sims Library at SLU paired with three groups of students in a junior/senior level marketing class focusing on public relations. Each group was tasked with creating outreach and PR materials for various library services and was paired with a librarian "community partner" who worked closely with them. In addition to the project, students were required to work volunteer hours as part of their project. Sims Library does not have a librarian in charge of outreach; thus the project was a great way for us to "outsource" PR materials. The presentation will cover the successes and lessons learned in the project.

This presentation is the culmination of four years of our using interests in various aspects of music to engage students at various levels, and in all disciplines, at Nicholls State University. We will chronicle our evolution from hosting a Beat Poetry Reading and Performance Happening (known on our campus as Beats and Bongos), which attracted 17 participants in 2007, to our becoming involved with more than a half-dozen music-based events, including hosting a live/online radio show (The Holy Librarians’ Archive of Weird, Rare, and Interesting Music, which has won two university media awards); creating a Facebook page (The Holy Librarians, which has 3000+ friends); hosting dance demonstrations (German, Punjabi, and Nepalese folk dance, and American tap) in the library; presenting informative sessions on Bhangra-Beat music and dance competitions; hosting our faculty book club reading (Daniel J. Levitin’s This is Your Brain on Music); teaching a for-credit, senior level film music course; and beginning the process of creating a Music and Arts Resources Center, which will house world and historical instruments. In the four years we have been hosting such events, we have engaged over a thousand Nicholls’ students and faculty members directly and virtually, as well as geographically diverse people who had never heard of Nicholls or Ellender Library beforehand.

This live demonstration, presented by IEEE Client Services Manager Jalyn Kelley, will cover how to get the most out of your IEEE Xplore subscription, what’s new with IEEE, and upcoming enhancements to the database. IEEE Xplore is the premier database for research in electrical engineering, electronics, computer science and related disciplines.

QR code use is on the rise in higher education. This low-cost, low-maintenance technology may be just what you need to boost your library’s access to information. Come by and find out what QR codes are, how to generate them, and what you can do with them in your library!

Training materials on RDA thus far have tended to concentrate on relatively cosmetic changes to MARC records that RDA will require in the descriptive portion of the cataloging record (e.g., the elimination of most abbreviations and the addition of new MARC fields for content, carrier, and media type) while neglecting the equally important concept of RDA relationships. Training documentation has also focused primarily on the monograph rather than on non-book formats like serials. This presentation will attempt to shed light on these sometimes disregarded aspects of RDA. Drawing on the FRBR and FRAD models on which RDA is based; it will devote special attention to the important relationships between Group 1, Group 2, and Group 3 entities and their representation in MARC records, with a particular emphasis on core relationship elements in RDA. It will also highlight some of the more important RDA instructions for cataloging serials. The presentation will conclude with recommendations about steps libraries should take to prepare for the implementation of RDA.

In Spring 2011 the UNO Library implemented ScholarWorks@UNO, an open access repository of the research, scholarship, and creative work of the university. Our presentation will focus on the various factors to consider in creating an institutional repository, including preliminary tasks like defining the purpose of the repository, identifying funding, choosing a platform, and engaging campus stakeholders, as well as elements of the actual implementation process such as design, allocation of staff, policy development, outreach, and evaluation of services. We will share examples from our own experience and from other library implementations, and relate the range of potential benefits, to both the library and the university, of this dynamic new resource.

Librarians -- and professionals in other fields – have frequently complained that Internet websites are often the source of unreliable information. This unreliability has been the source for books, journal articles, conference presentations, and countless personal conversations. In contrast, anonymous chain e-mails receive less attention from librarians and other researchers. Many well-meaning people receive and forward anonymous chain e-mails containing questionable information and outright falsehoods. This forwarding simply reinforces misinformation in the public's mind. I offer two examples of pre-Internet quotation hoaxes that persist in the public's mind. Lastly, I illustrate several fact-checking sources to assist librarians in their reference work with these types of questions.

This session will cover the new services and resources available from the State Library of Louisiana provided through the Louisiana Libraries: Connecting People to their Potential, a Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP) grant from the Department of Commerce. New services and resources include: Homework Louisiana, Louisiana Jobs and Careers Center, new databases, laptops to check out from public libraries and more.

Strategic plans fail for lack of effective leadership. What leadership is required?

In this session, you will hear an update on what’s new and coming soon in Symphony. Have you worked with the power tools and new report outputs? Take a look.

Keeping all statistics in one spreadsheet can get messy and confusing—and it leaves us vulnerable to losing our statistics in the event of technical difficulties. To organize and preserve the statistics, we copy data from Google Documents on a weekly basis into stable spreadsheets organized by month. To prevent the loss of data, we use cloud computing, saving them in a shared folder in Dropbox. We keep the original data in separate tabs, allowing us to calculate weekly and monthly totals by type of interaction, time of day, and day of the week. Using free cloud computing applications allows us to keep more accurate reference statistics throughout the library and better serve our patrons.

Budget cuts have really put a damper on the Library keeping up with the expectations of students as users of technology. This last fiscal year the UNO Library was able to purchase iPad2s for the reference faculty and staff. This presentation will demonstrate what we have learned so far and what we plan to do with them this school year.

This presentation will cover the fundamentals of web accessibility, including why it is important, and share some simple best practices. The presenter will show data about the accessibility of Louisiana's academic library web sites, and compare it to a sampling of North American library web sites. The data reflect only 4-year academic libraries, but the issues and best practices are useful for all libraries.

Prior to the 2011 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference held in New Orleans in June, the three U.S. National Libraries, (Library of Congress (LC), the National Agricultural Library (NAL), and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) announced their decision to adopt the new cataloging code, Resource Description and Access (RDA) with a recommended implementation date not to proceed January 2013. This session is designed to provide cataloging managers with strategies and tips on how to introduce and prepare their libraries and staff for the transition to the new code.

This session will talk about the most recent additions to Gale’s line of library research resources as well as changes and updates to the Gale tools you use every day.