Alexandra Chappell (Reference and Instruction Librarian, Learning & Outreach Programs & Services), Candace Lebel (Integrated Library Systems Manager, Libraries IT), and Jezmynne Westcott (Science Librarian) presented at Tag You’re It: A Dialog Between Social Tagging and Traditional Classification, a one-day workshop organized by LACASIS, held on February 22, 2008. Their presentation, “The Claremont Colleges Libraries’ Implementation of LibraryThing for Libraries,” described the implementation of LibraryThing for Libraries in Blais, the Libraries online catalog. The three were also interviewed for ACRLog on this same topic.
Sheree Fu (Data Services Librarian) was on a NITLE data fluency panel in March 2008. In April, she and Warren Roberts (GIS Specialist) presented “GIS and Libraries: Librarians, Learning, and Teaching” at the California Academic & Research Libraries (CARL) Conference in Irvine, CA.
Holly Gardinier (Music Librarian) participated in the Music Library Association national meeting held in Newport, RI, February 20–24, 2008. Holly is also the lead author of the 9,200 word article “Music Librarianship,” to be published in 2009 by Routledge (Taylor and Frances Group) in the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science.
Sheri Irvin is retiring from her position as the Denison Reference Librarian and the Art and Women/Gender Studies subject specialist on May 16, 2008.
John McDonald (Assistant Director for User Services & Technology Innovation) presented “Usage Statistics and Information Behaviors” at the NISO Forum in Dallas, TX, in November 2007, and he presented “Copyright 2.0: How Do We Manage Content When Our Users Are in Control?” at the Charleston Conference, an annual conference in Charleston, SC, focusing on book and serial acquisition. In January 2008, John was appointed to the Executive Committee of counter, an international library usage statistics standards organization.
Warren Roberts (GIS Specialist) has been supporting the geospatial component of ecological research and education at Firestone Reserve in Costa Rica, managed by Pitzer College. He is also co-teaching (with Jill Grigsby, Sociology, Pomona College) the course Mapping Inequality (Sociology 162).
Lucas Schulte (Circulation Student Coordinator; Ph.D. Student in Hebrew Bible, School of Religion, CGU; Adjunct Professor, CST) presented a paper entitled “The Textual Evolution of a Verse: The Eunuchs’ Assassination Plot in the Books of Esther” at the Western Commission for the Study of Religion (WECSOR) conference on March 31, 2008, within the regional meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) the world’s largest organization of academic scholars of the Bible. Lucas also participated in CGU’s second annual Religions in Conversation Conference, of which he is a co-founder. The conference, held on April 13 this year, is an attempt to have constructive inter-religious dialogue among scholars, the general public, and members of religious communities, all within the relative safety and neutrality of an academic setting.
Pat Vince (Digital Initiatives Librarian, CCDL) presented “CCDL as Platform for Digital Library, Institutional Repository and Scholarly Publishing” at an OCLC live webinar event on November 13, 2007, attended by 226 national institutions and 28 international institutions. Using information from the webinar and an interview with Pat, OCLC developed a brochure, “Success Story: The Claremont Colleges” (PDF). At the American Library Association Mid-Winter 2008 Conference in Philadelphia, Pat presented “Building the CCDL” on January 13. Highlights of the presentation included background on CUC and The Colleges, driving forces for creating the CCDL, the process of selecting a digital asset management system, the development of two collaboration models for participating in the CCDL, information on managing projects, and a discussion of user centered services and global discovery.
Jezmynne Westcott (Science Librarian) presented “Integrating Library Resources into Sakai” (PDF) at the 8th Sakai Conference, held in Newport Beach, CA, on December 5, 2007. She presented on the same topic for a NITLE virtual conference on March 25, 2008 and at a day long, NITLE-sponsored workshop at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA, on April 25, 2008. In addition to these presentations and the LACASIS presentation on LibraryThing, Jez presented “Do You Really Get What You Pay For? A Comparison of Open Source and For Purchase Next Generation Catalogs” (PDF) at the SCELC Colloquium on March 5, 2008, and she was a guest lecturer on Science Librarianship for a class at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign on February 12, 2008.
