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Information Commoner February 2010 Volume 4, Issue 7 Keeping Library Staff on Common Ground In This Issue At Your Service 2 Department News 2 Ask the Tech Guy 6 Employee Spotlight 8 Mike’s Message In the coming few months, we will be undergoing a procedural audit from the business office. We will be examining all of our practices in terms of handling money and financial transactions. In addition, we will be looking at our financial record keeping, making sure they are both efficient and needed. The audit gives the Library a perfect opportunity to look at the way we do things, to eliminate work that isn’t needed, and perhaps add some procedures that we are neglecting. The audit is a classic example of the need to look at all of our procedures, and ask why we are doing this or that. Getting too comfortable with our routines and settling into our jobs from day to day invites stagnation. We should always be asking ourselves how we can do our tasks better (or not at all). Emerson said that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. We wouldn’t want to be accused of that. Announcements Textbook Photocopying By Lesli Baker If a student would like to photocopy pages from a textbook, please do not send the student to the Visual Arts Lab. Any textbook copying must be done by the student, and the staff in the Visual Arts Lab will not be able to copy pages for them. Who would Win Do you remember the high school days when a highlight was voting for the “most likely” categories in the yearbook? The Library returns to high school with the class of 2010 for Who Would Win! A cast of 40 characters has been selected, and UVU students, faculty and staff will vote for their favorites in six categories beginning March 8. We hope you play along! What’s Our Policy 2 INFORMATION COMMONER At Your Service News from Systems Look up - Quiet up By Lesli Baker The Circulation staff is playing a great new game! No, it isn’t LibraryCraft or any of the other activities the Library has planned for this semester. Instead, Look Up - Quiet Up focuses on providing good customer service until March 15. Here is how you play: • Any of the supervisors or Library staff that enters the Library and is not greeted with eye contact steps to the desk and says look-up to the library aide. • If a library aide gets a look-up, report it to the supervisor. • The fewer look-ups an aide receives, the more points he or she has to qualify for an extra treat. The rules are the similar with Quiet-up. • Aides are asked to whisper when working in the stacks or other quiet areas of the Library. • If an aide is not whispering, give them a quiet up and let the supervisor know for tracking. The object of this game is to practice body language and to promote quiet in the Library. If you notice aides who are doing a great job on looking up and making eye contact, report them Judy. She loves positive, upbeat reports on our aides! Although the prizes are for the library aides, we can all take this game to heart and practice what we are encouraging our library aides to do! Remember to Look Up and Quiet Up! By Mark Stevens Self Checkout Unit on the Fourth Floor The 3M self checkout unit is in service on the 4th floor. If the unit runs out of receipt tape, please contact Alan Stephens or Trevor Morris. We are resolving a couple of minor glitches. Please report any problems or feedback to Mark Stevens. Emerging Technology Team Evaluates eReaders The Kindle DX and Nook eReaders are being evaluated by the Emerging Technologies Team during the next three weeks. Other Library staff will be the next evaluators. Some of the questions being addressed are: 1. Which eReader model is the best for the UVU Library? 2. What policies will govern lending them? 3. How will we commit titles to an eReader (since checking out each given unit sequesters all titles within that machine)? Generally speaking, the UVU Library will leverage the advantages of eReader technology to complement our existing suite of information services. An immediate example: when a faculty member must urgently obtain a book that is not yet in our collection, the eReader can download available titles instantaneously. Kindle DX Nook INFORMATION COMMONER 3 By Trevor Young The following is a list of recently added electronic reference titles. As with all electronic titles you may search for them in two ways: on our electronic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias list (www.uvu.edu/ library/researchtools/electronic_ encyclopedias. html) as well as in the catalog itself. All but one of these new titles are from Sage Reference Online. • 21st Century Education: A Reference Handbook • 21st Century Management: A Reference Handbook • 21st Century Psychology: A Reference Handbook • Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice • Encyclopedia of Environment and Society • Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives • Encyclopedia of Social Problems • Encyclopedia of Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery • Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods • Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education • Encyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior • Encyclopedia of Libertarianism • Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods • Sage Handbook of Healthcare • Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome This move introduces the Sage electronic platform to UVU Library and since we own multiple Sage titles, it behooves us to learn how to use the interface. As most of it is intuitive, I won’t go into too much detail. However, since I highly value the “search whole database” function in Oxford, I thought I’d see if Sage could emulate that model. It does, but it’s not quite as simple as Oxford. What if you want to search all of the Sage titles? Click on the Advanced Search tab (surreptitiously placed in the banner). This will reveal the “Not Finding What You Want” box on the far left. Clicking on Go will lead you to options on widening your search to some or all Sage titles. I prefer the simplicity of Oxford, but this has the advantage of specifying the exact titles you wish to search. More electronic reference titles and platforms are on their way, so keep your eyes peeled. News from Reference/Instruction E D I T O R I A L I N F O R M A T I O N The Information Commoner is an internal communication tool published once a month by and for the Utah Valley University Library staff. Input from all library staff is encouraged. The deadline for information submittal is the third Friday of each month. Send information to Lesli via email. 4 INFORMATION COMMONER News from Serials By Wendy Wise Binding/Issues Most 2009 issues in the Serials collection are now on the compact shelving. If a patron cannot locate an issue, there are a number of ways to help them locate what they need. 1. Verify they understand the LC call number classification system. 2. 2009 issues have been moved to the compact shelving. Please check that collection. 3. Call someone in serials (Debbie x6336, Wendy x8318 or Sarah x8313). Some issues are temporarily being held in Technical Services as we prepare them for binding. 4. The title/article may be available through one of our online resources. Please check the journals list on the Library's website. 5. If all else fails, a reference librarian can assist the patron to locate other sources of information. Symphony The conversion to Symphony has, in general, affected Serials workload and work flow, effectively doubling the amount of time it takes for certain processes. We have done what we can to streamline tasks associated with the system, but have found this tool has taken us a step backward. As we continue to set up prediction records, which could not be transferred during the conversion, there will be a delay in issues being routed to faculty/staff and issues being sent to the shelves. There is no way around this, and we are working as quickly as possible. Please note that it will take up to a year to finish setting up all the received titles with prediction records in Symphony. Did you know? The library aides in Serials/Technical Services are invaluable to our work and a necessary part of the staff, without them we would not be able to meet the demands of essential work. They do a tremendous amount. A part of their workload includes the daily processing of materials, sorting donations, sending duplicate materials to other libraries located around the United States, book repair, shelving, moving collections, answering patron questions, and various large scale projects. Thanks Heidi, Candace, and Ben! INFORMATION COMMONER 5 By Christy Donaldson The beginning of the year is always fabulous for film buffs. In mid-January, there is the Sundance Film Festival right here in Utah. In February, the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour comes to campus for two nights to show the best films of the previous year on mountain culture and sports. I took in six film screenings at the Sundance Film Festival this year. Highlights from the festival include the Aboriginal Australian musical Bran Nue Dae which was extremely funny. It followed a young man’s journey to discover what he really wanted out of life, and throughout cast members break out in song and dance. Then I got to see the Documentary Spotlight, the highlight of which was a film called Born Sweet about a young Cambodian villager with arsenic poisoning who becomes the star of a karaoke film to educate other young Cambodians about arsenic poisoning. Then I saw the film Life 2.0 which follows three individuals in Second Life (SL). One is a businesswoman who creates clothes, shoes, furniture and houses in SL and sells them to people. Then we follow the emotional and social stories of the other two individuals. One is a young man who created a 12- year-old female avatar. The other is the story of two individuals who meet and have an affair in SL and then in real life. It was very interesting because even the filmmaker when he was filming had no idea how the documentary was going to end because he was filming as things were really happening. The other interesting part was when the filmmaker asked the audience, which was over 200 people, how many people already had avatars in SL and about 30 people raised their hands. Then the filmmaker asked how many people were going to go out and create avatars in SL, he expected there to be quite a few, and not a single person in the crowd raised their hand! I will definitely be adding this film to the UVU Library's media collection when it becomes available. I followed this film up with the film Catfish about a young man who friends a family on Facebook and falls in love with the oldest daughter. He realizes that things aren't quite right and decides to actually visit the family in person to find out the truth. I will also be adding this film to the collection. Then I saw the Irish documentary His & Hers which was a collection of vignettes. The filmmaker shows women of all ages from childhood through old age talking about the men in their lives. It was a very touching film. The final film I saw, Leon Gast’s Smash His Camera, won the U.S. Documentary Directing award at SFF. It follows Ron Galella, the famous paparazzi photographer, through the eye of his camera while encountering and photographing hundreds of celebrities, including Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Marlon Brando. The film looks at the rights of the photographer and the privacy rights of celebrities. The film asks whether or not celebrities really do have a right to privacy, since they are considered public figures rather than private citizens. I will definitely be adding this to the collection. So for all you film buffs out there, don't miss the Oscar Award ceremony on TV on March 7. Until then try to catch as many films as you can that are still in the theater or have just come out on DVD. News From Media ASK THE TE CH GU Y Leopard Vs. Snow Leopard By Carlos Alarco Here is how to tell between the different versions of Mac OS X. Wireless printing is not available for Mac OS X Snow Leopard yet and checking the version should be the first troubleshooting step. 1. Click on the Apple logo, located on the top left corner of the desktop. 2. Choose About This Mac. 3. From the window that appears, check the version number under the text labeled Mac OS X. Version 10.5.X (Leopard) is compatible with iPrint Version 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) is not compatible. On a similar note there still is no wireless printing for Windows 7, hopefully a solution will be available by next month. 6 INFORMATION COMMONER By Judy Robertson The biggest thing going for Circ seems to be the opportunity to remodel the circ suite. We met with Jacques Thursday to discuss the possibilities that would work for expanding the office space and creating new space. Holly drew up the floor plans and most of us gave our input on how to utilize some of our space. The main concern was to provide an unobstructed view, if possible, for the supervisors. The plan is to have nine cubicles in the area, one for each supervisor, plus space for ERES, training stations, processing, storage, and space for student employees to keep their belongings while on duty, and printer and copier stations. We will also have access to the ex-mail room for storage. Now what will the consultant say? Some other items we want to implement are Quiet-up. We have had several complaints that our staff is noisy. Now, I don’t believe that is all the library staff since other departments occupy the building,. Nevertheless, we are committed to Quiet-up around the Circ Desk and in the stacks. We would like to propose that each office in the Library comply by having a quiet-up sign in their window to encourage all areas to participate. Look-up project. We will be working on a game/ prize that will reward those who are caught looking up and counting the total number of face to face interactions they have with patrons. Please help us accomplish this by stating the word LOOK UP every time you pass the Circulation Desk. Staplers are going bye-bye. We will now provide one automatic stapler for patrons to use. The heavy duty stapler will remain at the desk, and students may ask for it. Inventory is going again and progressing well. The audit for the petty cash has helped review the procedures and we are working on policies and procedures to comply. News from Access Services INFORMATION COMMONER 7 News from Technical Services By Keith Rowley You might be interested in knowing that we now have over 4,000 books in the Children’s Literature collection. Among these books are 76 Spanish language books that would be great for beginning Spanish students to read. Tell your friends who are taking beginning Spanish about these books. With the Media Department we have outlined some new steps for video processing which will greatly increase our awareness of where any video is in that process. With over 1,000 videos ordered every year, we have had to refine our processes to keep on top of everything. In cataloging we recently changed the subfield e to a subfield 4 in the author names. I know this means nothing to most people, but when you do an author alphabetical search you should see the name once instead of twice with some variation, like: Smith, John and Smith, John, editor. Editor is still in the record but it doesn’t show up in the author index. Occasionally you will see an author twice, with dates and without dates behind the name. If you notice one like that, let Keith know so he can verify the correct format and make the changes needed in the catalog records. In the last two weeks we have received around 400 music CDs which will be cataloged soon and available to our patrons. Most of these CDs are the classics of Rock ’n Roll, Jazz, and Country; a very eclectic collection of music for all tastes. News from the Sutherland Archives By Catherine McIntyre This semester in Archives I am supervising three history student interns, and they started this month. Tyler Mower and Whitney Bitton are both from the Public History class taught by Dr. Abigail Chandler, and will be working on the papers of several past UVU presidents. Tyler is processing the William Sederburg Collection and Whitney is helping with the Kerry Romesburg Collection. The third student, Courtney Whelan, is doing an internship with history professor William Cobb and is picking up some extra hours processing our collection of materials relating to the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commem-oration, such as posters, flyers, and other publicity materials. Brent and I are on the advisory board for a new student-run oral history project, the Vietnam Era Oral History Project. Professor William Cobb has conceived the project as a way to give students the opportunity to interview those whose lives have been affected in some way by the Vietnam War, and as a way to document those experiences as a valuable history of the time. Brent and Annie are setting up a web page (www.uvu.edu/library/ archives/vietnam.html) and we’ve arranged for a campus email account and telephone line devoted to this on-going project. The Archives will be the permanent repository for the interviews. Students will be looking to interview military veterans of that Continued on next page. Background information: I was born in the People’s Republic of China. My husband, Yingxian Zhu, works at UVU also, in the Math Department. I have one child, he is 25 years old and lives in San Francisco now. Before coming to UVU, I worked at the Law library of Arizona State University. When did you start working at UVU? What changes have you seen? I started working at UVU in 2003. We have a new library building now, that is the main change I have seen. Favorite things about job/UVU: Receiving new books is a fun thing to do. Job duties: Ordering and receiving books. Where did you go to school? I went to school both in China and in the U.S., and graduated from ASU. Favorite things to do in your spare time or hobbies: Watching TV, hiking and gardening. 8 INFORMATION COMMONER Continued from previous page. era, their family members, friends, and anyone else who can contribute to the project. If you or anyone you know might want to share experiences with a student interviewer, please let Brent or me know. The digital collections for Orem City Library and the Orem Heritage Museum have both been harvested into the Mountain West Digital Library (www.mwdl.org). We worked with them on assigning subject headings and are hosting the collection in CONTENTdm and on our server. To see the collections, visit the MWDL page and browse under collection partners alphabetically under Orem. While you’re there, check out the Provo collections as well! The Daily Herald ran an article on Saturday, February 13, about the digital collections of Provo City Library and Provo City, and our collaboration with them on those projects. We did all the digitization work on the Provo City Recorder’s collection of early city council records and are hosting the Provo Library collection of historic photos on CONTENTdm and our server. Brent did all the scanning and metadata for Provo Library as his previous job! It’s an interesting article, and I hope that it will generate interest in UVU Library’s digitized collections and the services we offer for potential digitization partners. Along those lines, we are talking with American Fork Library about the possibility of digitizing their historic photos, as well as materials from American Fork City and a chapter of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. I’ll have a progress update by the next newsletter. We’ve begun contributing some digitized materials to Utah Government Publications Online, through the State Library's Digital Library. Trevor Young has identified some older Utah State Government publications in our Reference Collection, such as Utah Vital Statistics, Utah Job Outlook, and the Statistical Abstract of Utah, which Brent will scan and then upload to the State Library’s Digital Library. The physical items can then be withdrawn from the Reference Collection, but still be easily available online at http://publications.utah.gov/ search/state.html. Employee Spotlight: Shuyi Zhu
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Full Text | Information Commoner February 2010 Volume 4, Issue 7 Keeping Library Staff on Common Ground In This Issue At Your Service 2 Department News 2 Ask the Tech Guy 6 Employee Spotlight 8 Mike’s Message In the coming few months, we will be undergoing a procedural audit from the business office. We will be examining all of our practices in terms of handling money and financial transactions. In addition, we will be looking at our financial record keeping, making sure they are both efficient and needed. The audit gives the Library a perfect opportunity to look at the way we do things, to eliminate work that isn’t needed, and perhaps add some procedures that we are neglecting. The audit is a classic example of the need to look at all of our procedures, and ask why we are doing this or that. Getting too comfortable with our routines and settling into our jobs from day to day invites stagnation. We should always be asking ourselves how we can do our tasks better (or not at all). Emerson said that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. We wouldn’t want to be accused of that. Announcements Textbook Photocopying By Lesli Baker If a student would like to photocopy pages from a textbook, please do not send the student to the Visual Arts Lab. Any textbook copying must be done by the student, and the staff in the Visual Arts Lab will not be able to copy pages for them. Who would Win Do you remember the high school days when a highlight was voting for the “most likely” categories in the yearbook? The Library returns to high school with the class of 2010 for Who Would Win! A cast of 40 characters has been selected, and UVU students, faculty and staff will vote for their favorites in six categories beginning March 8. We hope you play along! What’s Our Policy 2 INFORMATION COMMONER At Your Service News from Systems Look up - Quiet up By Lesli Baker The Circulation staff is playing a great new game! No, it isn’t LibraryCraft or any of the other activities the Library has planned for this semester. Instead, Look Up - Quiet Up focuses on providing good customer service until March 15. Here is how you play: • Any of the supervisors or Library staff that enters the Library and is not greeted with eye contact steps to the desk and says look-up to the library aide. • If a library aide gets a look-up, report it to the supervisor. • The fewer look-ups an aide receives, the more points he or she has to qualify for an extra treat. The rules are the similar with Quiet-up. • Aides are asked to whisper when working in the stacks or other quiet areas of the Library. • If an aide is not whispering, give them a quiet up and let the supervisor know for tracking. The object of this game is to practice body language and to promote quiet in the Library. If you notice aides who are doing a great job on looking up and making eye contact, report them Judy. She loves positive, upbeat reports on our aides! Although the prizes are for the library aides, we can all take this game to heart and practice what we are encouraging our library aides to do! Remember to Look Up and Quiet Up! By Mark Stevens Self Checkout Unit on the Fourth Floor The 3M self checkout unit is in service on the 4th floor. If the unit runs out of receipt tape, please contact Alan Stephens or Trevor Morris. We are resolving a couple of minor glitches. Please report any problems or feedback to Mark Stevens. Emerging Technology Team Evaluates eReaders The Kindle DX and Nook eReaders are being evaluated by the Emerging Technologies Team during the next three weeks. Other Library staff will be the next evaluators. Some of the questions being addressed are: 1. Which eReader model is the best for the UVU Library? 2. What policies will govern lending them? 3. How will we commit titles to an eReader (since checking out each given unit sequesters all titles within that machine)? Generally speaking, the UVU Library will leverage the advantages of eReader technology to complement our existing suite of information services. An immediate example: when a faculty member must urgently obtain a book that is not yet in our collection, the eReader can download available titles instantaneously. Kindle DX Nook INFORMATION COMMONER 3 By Trevor Young The following is a list of recently added electronic reference titles. As with all electronic titles you may search for them in two ways: on our electronic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias list (www.uvu.edu/ library/researchtools/electronic_ encyclopedias. html) as well as in the catalog itself. All but one of these new titles are from Sage Reference Online. • 21st Century Education: A Reference Handbook • 21st Century Management: A Reference Handbook • 21st Century Psychology: A Reference Handbook • Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice • Encyclopedia of Environment and Society • Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives • Encyclopedia of Social Problems • Encyclopedia of Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery • Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods • Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education • Encyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior • Encyclopedia of Libertarianism • Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods • Sage Handbook of Healthcare • Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome This move introduces the Sage electronic platform to UVU Library and since we own multiple Sage titles, it behooves us to learn how to use the interface. As most of it is intuitive, I won’t go into too much detail. However, since I highly value the “search whole database” function in Oxford, I thought I’d see if Sage could emulate that model. It does, but it’s not quite as simple as Oxford. What if you want to search all of the Sage titles? Click on the Advanced Search tab (surreptitiously placed in the banner). This will reveal the “Not Finding What You Want” box on the far left. Clicking on Go will lead you to options on widening your search to some or all Sage titles. I prefer the simplicity of Oxford, but this has the advantage of specifying the exact titles you wish to search. More electronic reference titles and platforms are on their way, so keep your eyes peeled. News from Reference/Instruction E D I T O R I A L I N F O R M A T I O N The Information Commoner is an internal communication tool published once a month by and for the Utah Valley University Library staff. Input from all library staff is encouraged. The deadline for information submittal is the third Friday of each month. Send information to Lesli via email. 4 INFORMATION COMMONER News from Serials By Wendy Wise Binding/Issues Most 2009 issues in the Serials collection are now on the compact shelving. If a patron cannot locate an issue, there are a number of ways to help them locate what they need. 1. Verify they understand the LC call number classification system. 2. 2009 issues have been moved to the compact shelving. Please check that collection. 3. Call someone in serials (Debbie x6336, Wendy x8318 or Sarah x8313). Some issues are temporarily being held in Technical Services as we prepare them for binding. 4. The title/article may be available through one of our online resources. Please check the journals list on the Library's website. 5. If all else fails, a reference librarian can assist the patron to locate other sources of information. Symphony The conversion to Symphony has, in general, affected Serials workload and work flow, effectively doubling the amount of time it takes for certain processes. We have done what we can to streamline tasks associated with the system, but have found this tool has taken us a step backward. As we continue to set up prediction records, which could not be transferred during the conversion, there will be a delay in issues being routed to faculty/staff and issues being sent to the shelves. There is no way around this, and we are working as quickly as possible. Please note that it will take up to a year to finish setting up all the received titles with prediction records in Symphony. Did you know? The library aides in Serials/Technical Services are invaluable to our work and a necessary part of the staff, without them we would not be able to meet the demands of essential work. They do a tremendous amount. A part of their workload includes the daily processing of materials, sorting donations, sending duplicate materials to other libraries located around the United States, book repair, shelving, moving collections, answering patron questions, and various large scale projects. Thanks Heidi, Candace, and Ben! INFORMATION COMMONER 5 By Christy Donaldson The beginning of the year is always fabulous for film buffs. In mid-January, there is the Sundance Film Festival right here in Utah. In February, the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour comes to campus for two nights to show the best films of the previous year on mountain culture and sports. I took in six film screenings at the Sundance Film Festival this year. Highlights from the festival include the Aboriginal Australian musical Bran Nue Dae which was extremely funny. It followed a young man’s journey to discover what he really wanted out of life, and throughout cast members break out in song and dance. Then I got to see the Documentary Spotlight, the highlight of which was a film called Born Sweet about a young Cambodian villager with arsenic poisoning who becomes the star of a karaoke film to educate other young Cambodians about arsenic poisoning. Then I saw the film Life 2.0 which follows three individuals in Second Life (SL). One is a businesswoman who creates clothes, shoes, furniture and houses in SL and sells them to people. Then we follow the emotional and social stories of the other two individuals. One is a young man who created a 12- year-old female avatar. The other is the story of two individuals who meet and have an affair in SL and then in real life. It was very interesting because even the filmmaker when he was filming had no idea how the documentary was going to end because he was filming as things were really happening. The other interesting part was when the filmmaker asked the audience, which was over 200 people, how many people already had avatars in SL and about 30 people raised their hands. Then the filmmaker asked how many people were going to go out and create avatars in SL, he expected there to be quite a few, and not a single person in the crowd raised their hand! I will definitely be adding this film to the UVU Library's media collection when it becomes available. I followed this film up with the film Catfish about a young man who friends a family on Facebook and falls in love with the oldest daughter. He realizes that things aren't quite right and decides to actually visit the family in person to find out the truth. I will also be adding this film to the collection. Then I saw the Irish documentary His & Hers which was a collection of vignettes. The filmmaker shows women of all ages from childhood through old age talking about the men in their lives. It was a very touching film. The final film I saw, Leon Gast’s Smash His Camera, won the U.S. Documentary Directing award at SFF. It follows Ron Galella, the famous paparazzi photographer, through the eye of his camera while encountering and photographing hundreds of celebrities, including Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Marlon Brando. The film looks at the rights of the photographer and the privacy rights of celebrities. The film asks whether or not celebrities really do have a right to privacy, since they are considered public figures rather than private citizens. I will definitely be adding this to the collection. So for all you film buffs out there, don't miss the Oscar Award ceremony on TV on March 7. Until then try to catch as many films as you can that are still in the theater or have just come out on DVD. News From Media ASK THE TE CH GU Y Leopard Vs. Snow Leopard By Carlos Alarco Here is how to tell between the different versions of Mac OS X. Wireless printing is not available for Mac OS X Snow Leopard yet and checking the version should be the first troubleshooting step. 1. Click on the Apple logo, located on the top left corner of the desktop. 2. Choose About This Mac. 3. From the window that appears, check the version number under the text labeled Mac OS X. Version 10.5.X (Leopard) is compatible with iPrint Version 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) is not compatible. On a similar note there still is no wireless printing for Windows 7, hopefully a solution will be available by next month. 6 INFORMATION COMMONER By Judy Robertson The biggest thing going for Circ seems to be the opportunity to remodel the circ suite. We met with Jacques Thursday to discuss the possibilities that would work for expanding the office space and creating new space. Holly drew up the floor plans and most of us gave our input on how to utilize some of our space. The main concern was to provide an unobstructed view, if possible, for the supervisors. The plan is to have nine cubicles in the area, one for each supervisor, plus space for ERES, training stations, processing, storage, and space for student employees to keep their belongings while on duty, and printer and copier stations. We will also have access to the ex-mail room for storage. Now what will the consultant say? Some other items we want to implement are Quiet-up. We have had several complaints that our staff is noisy. Now, I don’t believe that is all the library staff since other departments occupy the building,. Nevertheless, we are committed to Quiet-up around the Circ Desk and in the stacks. We would like to propose that each office in the Library comply by having a quiet-up sign in their window to encourage all areas to participate. Look-up project. We will be working on a game/ prize that will reward those who are caught looking up and counting the total number of face to face interactions they have with patrons. Please help us accomplish this by stating the word LOOK UP every time you pass the Circulation Desk. Staplers are going bye-bye. We will now provide one automatic stapler for patrons to use. The heavy duty stapler will remain at the desk, and students may ask for it. Inventory is going again and progressing well. The audit for the petty cash has helped review the procedures and we are working on policies and procedures to comply. News from Access Services INFORMATION COMMONER 7 News from Technical Services By Keith Rowley You might be interested in knowing that we now have over 4,000 books in the Children’s Literature collection. Among these books are 76 Spanish language books that would be great for beginning Spanish students to read. Tell your friends who are taking beginning Spanish about these books. With the Media Department we have outlined some new steps for video processing which will greatly increase our awareness of where any video is in that process. With over 1,000 videos ordered every year, we have had to refine our processes to keep on top of everything. In cataloging we recently changed the subfield e to a subfield 4 in the author names. I know this means nothing to most people, but when you do an author alphabetical search you should see the name once instead of twice with some variation, like: Smith, John and Smith, John, editor. Editor is still in the record but it doesn’t show up in the author index. Occasionally you will see an author twice, with dates and without dates behind the name. If you notice one like that, let Keith know so he can verify the correct format and make the changes needed in the catalog records. In the last two weeks we have received around 400 music CDs which will be cataloged soon and available to our patrons. Most of these CDs are the classics of Rock ’n Roll, Jazz, and Country; a very eclectic collection of music for all tastes. News from the Sutherland Archives By Catherine McIntyre This semester in Archives I am supervising three history student interns, and they started this month. Tyler Mower and Whitney Bitton are both from the Public History class taught by Dr. Abigail Chandler, and will be working on the papers of several past UVU presidents. Tyler is processing the William Sederburg Collection and Whitney is helping with the Kerry Romesburg Collection. The third student, Courtney Whelan, is doing an internship with history professor William Cobb and is picking up some extra hours processing our collection of materials relating to the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commem-oration, such as posters, flyers, and other publicity materials. Brent and I are on the advisory board for a new student-run oral history project, the Vietnam Era Oral History Project. Professor William Cobb has conceived the project as a way to give students the opportunity to interview those whose lives have been affected in some way by the Vietnam War, and as a way to document those experiences as a valuable history of the time. Brent and Annie are setting up a web page (www.uvu.edu/library/ archives/vietnam.html) and we’ve arranged for a campus email account and telephone line devoted to this on-going project. The Archives will be the permanent repository for the interviews. Students will be looking to interview military veterans of that Continued on next page. Background information: I was born in the People’s Republic of China. My husband, Yingxian Zhu, works at UVU also, in the Math Department. I have one child, he is 25 years old and lives in San Francisco now. Before coming to UVU, I worked at the Law library of Arizona State University. When did you start working at UVU? What changes have you seen? I started working at UVU in 2003. We have a new library building now, that is the main change I have seen. Favorite things about job/UVU: Receiving new books is a fun thing to do. Job duties: Ordering and receiving books. Where did you go to school? I went to school both in China and in the U.S., and graduated from ASU. Favorite things to do in your spare time or hobbies: Watching TV, hiking and gardening. 8 INFORMATION COMMONER Continued from previous page. era, their family members, friends, and anyone else who can contribute to the project. If you or anyone you know might want to share experiences with a student interviewer, please let Brent or me know. The digital collections for Orem City Library and the Orem Heritage Museum have both been harvested into the Mountain West Digital Library (www.mwdl.org). We worked with them on assigning subject headings and are hosting the collection in CONTENTdm and on our server. To see the collections, visit the MWDL page and browse under collection partners alphabetically under Orem. While you’re there, check out the Provo collections as well! The Daily Herald ran an article on Saturday, February 13, about the digital collections of Provo City Library and Provo City, and our collaboration with them on those projects. We did all the digitization work on the Provo City Recorder’s collection of early city council records and are hosting the Provo Library collection of historic photos on CONTENTdm and our server. Brent did all the scanning and metadata for Provo Library as his previous job! It’s an interesting article, and I hope that it will generate interest in UVU Library’s digitized collections and the services we offer for potential digitization partners. Along those lines, we are talking with American Fork Library about the possibility of digitizing their historic photos, as well as materials from American Fork City and a chapter of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. I’ll have a progress update by the next newsletter. We’ve begun contributing some digitized materials to Utah Government Publications Online, through the State Library's Digital Library. Trevor Young has identified some older Utah State Government publications in our Reference Collection, such as Utah Vital Statistics, Utah Job Outlook, and the Statistical Abstract of Utah, which Brent will scan and then upload to the State Library’s Digital Library. The physical items can then be withdrawn from the Reference Collection, but still be easily available online at http://publications.utah.gov/ search/state.html. Employee Spotlight: Shuyi Zhu |
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