Don’t Miss: Big Picture Presentation: Creating the Community of the Future – How Does the Library Fit In?

Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Burton Barr Central Library, 10 am – 11:30 am

Will Bruder, Principal Architect of will bruder+PARTNERS, will discuss his vision of the role and look of a public library within urban settings and political environments.

Will Bruder has been quoted as saying, “Architecture has its pragmatic side, but it also needs to be a search for poetic possibilities….I look for the unique and special qualities of the real world and sift away layers of fashion and novelty to get to (human) simplicity, where there’s something basic and good.” He received his architectural registration in Arizona in 1974, and a BFA degree was conferred upon him in sculpture by the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee.

To register:  http://www.lib.az.us/eventreg/

6th Annual Tribal Librarians Gathering Announced

Mark your calendar for Monday, September 29, 2008, 9 am – 4 pm, at the Arizona Health Sciences Library in Tucson.

Welcome	Pearl Yazzi/Ramona Tecumseh	9:00 – 9:05
Welcome	Gary Freiburger	9:05 – 9:10
Blessing	Tohono O’odham	9:10 – 9:15
HIV/AIDS Resources	Kristobal Fimbres	9:15 – 9:50
Sex Education Programs	Salt River Pima Tribe	9:45- 10:25
Break		10:25 – 10:35
Sex Education Resources	Annie Smith	10:35 11:00
HPV	Dr. Francisco Garcia	11:00 – 12:00
Lunch – Traditional Foods		12:00 – 1:00
Business Meeting	Pearl Yazzi/Ramona Tecumseh	1:00 – 1:30
Diabetes	Dr. Yvette Roubideaux	1:30 – 2:15
Break		2:15 – 2:30
Traditional Foods	PBS Film	2:30 – 3:00
Diabetes Resources	Jennifer Swift-Martin	3:00 – 3:45
Blessing/Closing		3:45 – 4:00

To register go to: http://www.lib.az.us/eventreg/ To sign up for dinner email pauflick@ahsl.arizona.edu.

Hotel Information:

The Windmill Suites of Tucson
At St Philips Plaza
4250 North Campbell Avenue
Tucson, AZ  85718

(520) 577-0007
(800) 547-4747

Located at the northern edge of Tucson in the foothills of the Santa
Catalina mountains and yet convenient to the Arizona Health Sciences
Center and University Medical Center straight south on  Campbell
Avenue,  St Philips Plaza is at the southeast corner of the intersection
of Campbell Avenue and River Road.  Please request the University’s
special rate of  $69.00/day + taxes.  There are no rooms being held so
please make your reservations as soon as possible.

ARL Offers Learning Opportunity — Scholarly Communication Outreach: Crafting Messages that Grab Faculty Attention

To be held March 11-12, 2009 in Seattle

• Librarians supporting scholarly-communication programs want to know how to identify issues that will resonate with faculty at their institutions and how to present those issues in ways that generate positive engagement with faculty. If this describes your situation, you won’t want to miss the new ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication workshop “Scholarly Communication Outreach: Crafting Messages that Grab Faculty Attention,” March 11–12, 2009, in Seattle, Washington.
• In the tradition of other Institute events, this workshop will emphasize active learning and hands-on work by participants, both individually and in groups. Throughout the workshop, participants will have structured opportunities to reflect on how to apply what they are learning to their own institution’s outreach activities, to share information and test ideas, and to begin planning for future outreach.

More info about the workshop here:  http://www.arl.org/sc/institute/inst-events/0309workshop.shtml

What is Open Access and why should I care?

Open Access is a growing international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. It encourages the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, everywhere, for the advancement and enjoyment of science and society.

Open Access is the principle that publicly funded research should be freely accessible online, immediately after publication, and it’s gaining ever more momentum around the world as research funders and policy makers put their weight behind it.

The Open Access philosophy was firmly articulated in 2002, when the Budapest Open Access Initiative was introduced. It quickly took root in the scientific and medical communities because it offered an alternative route to research literature that was frequently closed off behind costly subscription barriers.

Now Open Access is on a roll. Recent Funder Mandates — including that of the US National Institutes of Health (the world’s largest research funder), which now requires that all their funded research be placed in an openly accessible database — have further strengthened the prospects for Open Access to all research.

A new website at http://openaccessday.org/ has recently been established.

Open Access Day is October 14. 

This educational and fun series of events, competitions, and give-aways is brought to you by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), Students for FreeCulture, and the Public Library of Science (PLoS).

Open Access Day will help to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access, including recent mandates and emerging policies, within the international higher education community and the general public.

Here’s what Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC said about Open Access Day:

“The momentum behind Open Access to research has been accelerating for some time now, even before the mandates at the U.S. National Institutes of Health and Harvard University. Events beyond the US especially underscore the higher education community’s commitment to having the access they need. Open Access Day will provide a perfect way for folks to come together, consider and celebrate the ramifications of the global shift that we are experiencing”….More

More on the Ithaka Report – from Scott Plutchak’s blog

Some comments about the report out of Ithaka on the ground libraries are losing in academia. This is one my my favorite blogs to read; hope you enjoy it, too!

Libraries or Librarians (Redux)

Awhile back, I was sitting with a group of library directors discussing strategies for dealing with the difficult budget situations that we all find ourselves in this year.  I was struck with how focused the rest of the folks in the room were on protecting the collections budget at all costs.   It is emotional for them in a way that it isn’t for me.

I certainly don’t mean to suggest that I’m not worried about the impact of the cuts that we’re going to make this year — it’s going to be substantial and it is going to have a serious impact on the community that I serve.    But I am much more focused on the variety of services that we provide and making sure that we meet our commitment to getting people to the information that they need while helping them make appropriate and efficient use of it.  This’ll mean making greater use of ILL and being cleverer about taking advantage of the rapidly increasing amount of information that is freely available.  I see no reason to shed tears over that.

But then, for me, the focus has always been on what librarians do, not what the library is.

In a way, the Ithaka report that is getting some attention in the blogosphere the last week or so makes the same point.    The report points to a dramatic drop in the perception of faculty of the library’s role as portal or gatekeeper between  2003 and 2006…      

More of this posting, and to see Scott’s blog, visit:  http://tscott.typepad.com/tsp/2008/08/libraries-or-li.html

Scholars’ View of Libraries as Portals Shows Marked Decline

From the Chronicle of Higher Education

By JENNIFER HOWARD

Know your library user—and worry about who’s not using the library. That’s the main advice to librarians in a new white paper that notes “a growing ambivalence about the campus library” among faculty members as more and more knowledge goes digital.

The report was released last week by Ithaka, a nonprofit organization that promotes the use of technology in higher education. The paper probes the relationship between libraries and the faculty at institutions of all sizes, and how the digital shift is altering that relationship.

The authors, Roger Schonfeld and Ross Housewright, pulled together the highlights from two surveys conducted in 2006: one of American faculty members and another of librarians in charge of collection development. Mr. Schonfeld is Ithaka’s manager of research; Mr. Housewright is a research analyst. Ithaka conducted similar faculty surveys in 2000 and 2003, so the new report is able to examine trends over a six-year period…. MORE

From Forbes: Job Hunting In A Downturn

1. Network, network, network

We can’t say this enough. People get jobs through those that they know. Soon-to-be grads should be in touch with relatives, their parents’ friends and their friends’ parents. Tell them what you’re looking for, and ask if they have advice. The first person you ask won’t likely be able to hand you a great job, but he or she might know someone who knows someone–you get the point…

2. Interact offline

One of the strongest concerns among college career counselors is that this year’s graduating class is so accustomed to social networking online that they don’t know how to interact on the phone or face to face. Those computer skills might come in handy once you’re employed, but until then, engage in human interaction.

For the complete article, visit:  http://www.forbes.com/2008/03/04/jobs-graduating-downturn-lead-careers-cx_tw_0304bizbasics.html  For the Tips for Navigating the Downturn in Pictures, visit:  http://www.forbes.com/2008/03/04/jobs-graduating-downturn-lead-careers-cx_tw_0304bizbasics_slide_2.html?thisSpeed=20000

Today’s Arizona Library Jobs…

August 14, 2008 Announcement Ends September 12, 2008	Program Manager Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records Phoenix, AZ
August 11, 2008 Announcement Ends October 10, 2008	Interlibrary Loan/Reference Librarian Northcentral Unviversity Yavapai County, AZ
August 08, 2008 Announcement Ends October 07, 2008	Librarian I City of Glendale Glendale, AZ
August 05, 2008 Announcement Ends October 04, 2008	State Publications Depository Coordinator Wyoming State Library Outside Arizona, WYOMING
July 30, 2008 Announcement Ends September 28, 2008	Technical Services Manager (Main Library)_ Yuma County Human Resources Yuma County, AZ
July 30, 2008 Announcement Ends September 28, 2008	Branch Supervisor (Wellton Branch) Yuma County Human Resources Yuma County, AZ
July 30, 2008 Announcement Ends September 28, 2008	Branch Manager (Foothills Branch) Yuma County Human Resources Yuma County, AZ
July 29, 2008 Announcement Ends August 30, 2008	Curatorial Museum Assistant, The Center for Creative Photography The University of Arizona Libraries Tucson, AZ
July 23, 2008 Announcement Ends September 21, 2008	Library Technician The Art Center Design College Outside Arizona, NEW MEXICO
July 18, 2008 Announcement Ends August 29, 2008	Lead Librarian City of Scottsdale Scottsdale, AZ
July 14, 2008 Announcement Ends September 12, 2008	Library Automation Technician Navajo County Navajo County, AZ
July 03, 2008 Announcement Ends November 01, 2008	Public Services Librarian Phoenix School of Law Phoenix, AZ
June 19, 2008 Announcement Ends September 18, 2008	Assistant Dean for Technology Strategy (Chief Technology Strategy) The University of Arizona Libraries Tucson, AZ
June 10, 2008 Announcement Ends September 08, 2008	CORRECTIONAL POOL REGISTERED NURSE Department of Juvenile Corrections Phoenix, AZ
June 10, 2008 Announcement Ends September 11, 2008	CORRECTIONAL REGISTERED NIGHT SHIFT NURSE Department of Juvenile Corrections Phoenix, AZ
May 28, 2008 Announcement Ends August 28, 2008	Four Assistant Librarian Position Openings The University of Arizona Libraries Tucson, AZ

Tuesday, September 9 is First Phoenix Friends of SIRLS gathering

Based on feedback I have received from y’all, and with apologies for whom this date is impossible, I have schedule our first gathering for Tuesday, September 9, after 6 pm, at 550 E Van Buren*, Phoenix, 85004. Please mark your calendars and tell friends and colleagues who may not be on the listserv!

• I will have snacks and beverages at 6 pm and we will convene around 6 :30-6:45. We will wrap at 8:30 pm!
• Please consider coming and bringing your ideas, questions, challenges and successes to share. Also, please bring your calendars and/or PDAs so we can schedule future meetings. The lovely rooms at PPL are fully booked through September so rather than delay, I decided to host the meeting here to get us started.
• We are between 5^th and 7^th Streets on Van Buren, across the street from The Arizona Center on the west and the ASU Mercado on the south. If you want to come early, please do and we can organize a tour of the campus if you are interested. We will be in room 1252 which is in Bldg 1 (aka the 550 or PUHS Domestic Sciences Building) on the 2^nd floor. Please enter the building via the ramp on the east side. I will meet you there as the building is locked.
• *Parking is available in the lot along 7^th Street, and after 5 there is no charge. (See map.) I will alert Security that you will be here. If there is a game and charges are being levied for game-goers, tell the person that you are attending a meeting in the Library in Bldg 1. Print this notice and place it on your dash! There are parking meters along 5^th Street, too. See more info at:  http://www.medicine.arizona.edu/facilities/Phoenix/parking.cfm

Networking Your Way to a New Job or Career

by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.

 

Career experts estimate that the vast majority of job openings are never advertised or publicly announced, but filled through word-of-mouth or networking — known as the “hidden job market.” The likelihood of a job opening not being advertised at all increases with the level of the job. Yet, even with this knowledge, most job seekers fail to fully utilize networking for all it’s worth.

 

Networking means developing a broad list of contacts — people you’ve met through various social and business functions — and using them to your advantage when you look for a job. People in your network may be able to give you job leads, offer you advice and information about a particular company or industry, and introduce you to other so that you can expand your network.

 

The best place to start developing your network is with your family, friends, and neighbors — and with their family, friends, and neighbors, but don’t stop there. Talk to co-workers, colleagues in your industry, and those you meet at industry gatherings, such as trade shows and conferences. Talk with former co-workers, bosses, and teachers….

 

Find this excellent article at:  Quintessential Careers (TM) at:  http://www.quintcareers.com/networking_guide.html