The Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative is pleased to announce the launch of a new diversity-related website called MizzouDiversity ( http://diversity.missouri.edu).  This site is designed as a directory, resource, and information center for all of our campus community to explore and enjoy.

Whether you are a student, staff, faculty or friend, opportunities are available to connect with others through activities and programs (http://diversity.missouri.edu/get-involved/programs.php).  You can learn about diversity-related research (http://diversity.missouri.edu/learn/researchers/) or statistics and demographics (http://diversity.missouri.edu/about/stats/ ), or identify a campus or community event that appeals to your interest and mood through the calendar (http://diversity.missouri.edu/calendar/ ).

If you are new to the Columbia area, we have information about ethnic markets and salons (http://diversity.missouri.edu/get-involved/markets-salons.php), places of worship (http://diversity.missouri.edu/get-involved/religion/index.php) and community organizations and programs (http://diversity.missouri.edu/get-involved/communityorgs.php) .

Over the next few months we will continue to introduce new features. Your comments and suggestions to help enhance this site are encouraged and welcomed!
Thank You,

The Office of the Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative

p.s. Don’t forget to check out the new Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative http://cdi.missouri.edu/ and MU Equity Office http://equity.missouri.edu/ websites as well!

Engaging Your Campus in Utilizing Institutional Repositories (ALA ALCTS)
May 11, 2011
1:00-2:00 p.m. (CST)
Ellis 4F51A

“Institutional repository (IR) best practices include engagement with administrators, faculty, staff, and students. Acquisition of research scholarship, publications, student theses/dissertations, and other academic objects can be challenging and frustrating. Marianne’s presentation will focus on successful marketing strategies, best practices for garnering IR content, and the development of open access mandates.”

More information @ http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/irs/051111.cfm

The Future of Integrated Library Systems:  PART 1: RDA & Cataloging (NISO)
May 11, 2011
Noon – 1:30 p.m. (CST)

NISO’s two-part May webinar looks at The Future of the ILS.

“Part 1 considers RDA & Cataloging from the perspective of the cataloger and the system vendor. RDA holds the promise to more closely align Function Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and Functional Requirements for Authorities Data (FRAD) to library catalogs. Numerous webinars and presentations at library meetings have informed catalogers that they will no longer have to abbreviate words unless abbreviations appear on the piece “in hand” and that they can list every single creator of a work in their cataloging records. For AACR2 proponents, however, RDA poses a disruptive shift in current cataloging practices, including the demise of 245 |h GMD’s and the need to adopt new practices in creating separate fields for content, carrier, and medium. In Part 1 of this two-part webinar series, a cataloger and a systems vendor will consider unleashing the potential of RDA and talk about what an ideal ILS that incorporates RDA might look like.”

More information @ http://www.niso.org/news/events/2011/nisowebinars/rda/

Genre Headings (OCLC)
May 12, 2011
9:00-10:00 a.m. (CST)
Ellis 4F51A

About upcoming changes to the way the Library of Congress genre terms are tagged in MARC records. Presenter, Linda Gabel, OCLC, will also discuss usage of other genre/form vocabularies in MARC records.

The Future of Integrated Library Systems: PART 2: User Interaction (NISO)
May 18, 2011
Noon-1:30 p.m. (CST)
Ellis 4G41

“Part 2 of the webinar (Part 1 is on May 11) looks at the future of the ILS from the perspective of the user. Numerous studies have shown that the typical user goes to Google before going to the library’s website. What changes are underway or envisioned that can drive the user back to using the library’s system or better yet make the library’s data work better in the greater web environment. We’re already seeing a Library 2.0 world where many libraries encourage users to add to the bibliographic information supplied by the cataloger. How can we take it even further, going beyond the library system “silo”. And what are the implications of an RDA-driven library catalog on the user interface? What happens in a world where RDA can set data free from the library system to be linked to and mashed-up with other data or applications? Part 2 of this webinar looks at developments that are both underway and envisioned for the future to radically change the way the user interacts with the library’s data.”

More information @ http://www.niso.org/news/events/2011/nisowebinars/userinteraction/

Cases and Commentaries: Intellectual Property Issues for Librarians (ALA ALCTS)
May 25, 2011
1:00-2:00 p.m. (CST)
Ellis 4F51A

“This webinar will discuss current issues in copyright and other areas of intellectual property law, explain why these issues are of interest to librarians and libraries, and describe the organizations that advocate on behalf of libraries in this arena.”

More information @ http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/052511.cfm

Re-engineering the Institutional Repository to Engage Users (ALA ALCTS)
June 1, 2011
1:00-2:00 p.m. (CST)
Ellis 4F51A

“All too many institutions jumped on the institutional repository bandwagon, only to find they had installed it… and no one came. So what do you do about a service in which you’ve already invested time and effort (and committed hardware), that your users couldn’t care less about? Do you invest more time and effort into marketing? Do you throw more and more person-hours into meetings with faculty, either in groups or one-on-one? Beg, borrow, plead, “we’ll do it all for you”? Or do you stop and approach the problem in a different way, by trying to figure out how your users do their work, and what it is they really need and want (and why the current system doesn’t meet those needs).

This webinar will touch on the initial situation at the University of Rochester, explore the ethnographic methods we used to address that last question, and how we responded. We will delve into the issues of investment and effort ($) to break with the past and start again. For example, the migration process was no small task: we will be very forthcoming about this. We will also comment on what it takes to run an Open Source program (there is no free lunch, as we all know). Finally we will cover how our new repository has changed our interaction with faculty and graduate students, and expanded the role the library now plays in our faculty and graduate students’ everyday work practices.”

More information @ http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/irs/060111.cfm

Return on Investment (ROI) in Linking the Semantic Web Together (NISO)
June 16, 2011 (we will be viewing a recording)
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. (CST)
Ellis 4F51A

More information coming soon @ http://www.niso.org/news/events/2011/nisowebinars/semanticweb/

Back from the Endangered List: Using Authority Data to Enhance the Semantic Web (NISO)
July 14, 2011 (we will be watching a recording)
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. (CST)
Ellis 4F51A

“Librarian use of authority files dates back to Callimachus and the Great Library of Alexandria around 300 BC. With the evolution of powerful computerized searching and retrieval systems, authority data appears to some to have outlived its usefulness. However, the Semantic Web provides an opportunity to use authority data to enable computers to search, aggregate, and combine information on the Web. Join this webinar to learn about the amazing services that can result when the rich data included in name authority files, and other standardized vocabularies are linked via the Semantic Web.”

More information @ http://www.niso.org/news/events/2011/nisowebinars/authoritydata/

Preserving Digital Content (NISO)
September 14, 2011
Noon – 1:30 p.m. (CST)

More information coming soon @ http://www.niso.org/news/events/2011/nisowebinars/preservation/

New Discovery Tools (NISO)
November 9, 2011
Noon – 1:30 p.m. (CST)
Ellis 4F51A

More information coming soon @ http://www.niso.org/news/events/2011/nisowebinars/discovery/

Assessment Metrics (NISO)
December 14, 2011
Noon -12:30 p.m. (CST)
Ellis 4F51A

More information coming soon @ http://www.niso.org/news/events/2011/nisowebinars/assessment/

Ernest Shaw (MU Libraries) and Michelle Wisdom (DoIT) will define cloud computing and discuss guidelines for usage at the University.

Date:  April 28, 2011
Time:  10:00-11:00
Place:  4F51A Ellis Library

 

Judy Maseles
Rhonda Whithaus
Technology Forum Coordinators