Audio of presentations from “The Future of Cataloging: A PALINET Symposium” (May 2008) is available here.
Karen Calhoun gives the keynote address. Also at this link you can hear discussions of FRBR, RDA, and the infamous LC Report.
Yes, the end is near, the end of the library catalog– everything’s online now and despairing catalogers the world over rend their garments. But you want to laugh through your tears, don’t you?
“There’s No Catalog Like No Catalog,” the Ultimate Debate hosted by LITA’s Internet Resources and Services Interest Group at this year’s American Library Association annual conference, is an informed discussion of the OPAC’s future, and also a hoot. Panelists were Roy Tennant, Karen Coyle, Joseph Janes, and Karen Schneider.
Audio of the debate is available here.
Odum Library will close at midnight on Tuesday, November 25th and reopen at 9:00am on Saturday, November 28th in observation of Thanksgiving Holiday.
Did You Hear Wind Sing Your Name? An Oneida Song of Spring is a poem posing questions about emotions and spiritual experiences that signal the end of winter.
In The Star People: a Lakota Story a young girl tells how she and her little brother survive a prairie fire and are led home by the grandmother’s spirit.
Check out the new “Tip of the Day†link located on the Media Center’s Home Page. These tips will provide you with insight on services available at the Media Center as well as some ideas in which you may enhance your academic presentations!
Boy were we pleased at the results of our Reference Services survey!
For two weeks this semester, we asked Reference Services users to rate us on a scale from 1-5 (1 being “strongly disagree, 5 being “strongly agree”) for each of the following statements:
Based on those results, it looks like we got high scores for all four areas!
But that’s not all — we also evaluated ourselves, rating our service for each of the following statements:
Based on these results, it looks like we think we’re doing a pretty good job, but we think we can do better at teaching users how to evaluate information!
We got a pretty good response for the survey as well:
| User Responses: | ||
| Status | Number | Percentage |
| Undergraduate: | 27 | 90.00 |
| Graduate: | 2 | 6.67 |
| Staff: | 0 | 0.00 |
| Faculty: | 0 | 0.00 |
| Other: | 1 | 3.33 |
| Total | 30 | 100.00 |
| Surveys: | Number | Percentage |
| Complete | 29 | 72.50 |
| Incomplete*: | 11 | 27.50 |
| Total | 40 | 100.00 |
| *Incomplete surveys were not used for measuring statistics. | ||
This was the first of two Reference Services Satisfaction surveys we’ll be doing this year. We have a strong commitment to customer service, and are always looking for new ways to improve! Look for our next survey in the Spring! But you don’t have to wait to tell us what you think about Reference Services — just leave a comment below!
The survey was taken from: Miller, J. (2008). Quick and easy reference evaluation: Gathering users’ and providers’ perspectives. Reference & User Services Quarterly 47(3), 218-222.
