Service & Technology Training Round Table (START)

Visual Literacy in Action

Posted Fri, 12/28/2012 - 1:13pm by Admin

 

In this session, attendees will learn how academic libraries can model the transformation of the ACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education into inspiring promotional materials, instruction sessions, and library services. In addition to exploring real-world examples, attendees will innovate new visual literacy projects tailored to their own patrons, budgets, and skills in order to begin incorporating this vital skill into their daily work and personal lives.

Presenters:
Anne Morrow, University of Utah
Donna Ziegenfuss, University of Utah
Greg Hatch, University of Utah

 

Date: 
Fri, 05/03/2013 - 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: 
Cascade D

Stewart Library 2.0:Video games in an Academic Library

Posted Tue, 01/10/2012 - 12:02pm by pfrade

Many issues that were formally reserved for public libraries are now being faced by Academic libraries. We will focus on the debate on offering access to video games which have been added to many academic libraries’ collections throughout the country.     In 2009, Weber State University faced this issue when their computer science department developed a video game design program which introduced video games to the collection. This session with provide an overview of the issues surrounding video games in academic libraries, Weber State’s video game lab and program, and finally interesting current uses and future goals for the equipment.

Presenters:

Jason Francis

Dale Monobe

Misty Allen

Date: 
Fri, 04/27/2012 - 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: 
250 B

Just digitize it! : The J. Willard Marriott Library's endeavor to bring geological scholarship to the world

Posted Tue, 01/03/2012 - 5:09pm by pfrade

The need to organize, preserve, and share the geoscience materials available at the University of Utah motivated the J. Willard Marriott Library’s GeoSpatial Information Committee (GSI) to begin a project of digitizing the University of Utah’s geological theses and their associated maps. This presentation describes the process and results of one library’s efforts to share its geologic scholarship with the world.  As a pilot project, the GSI Committee compiled a list of the geology theses created by University of Utah students during the years 1950-1975, digitized the theses and maps, uploading them to USpace, the Univeristy of Utah’s institutional repository. The library’s GeoSpatial Information Specialist, in collaboration with the Utah Geological Survey, georeferenced the map images for viewing using Google earth and GIS software.   What began as a project of the J.

Date: 
Thu, 04/26/2012 - 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: 
250 C

Digital Scholarship: Projects that tell stories

Posted Tue, 01/03/2012 - 1:35pm by pfrade

Highlights three projects of the Marriott Library Digital Scholarship Lab that demonstrate a content creation role for academic libraries made possible by new technologies.  Each project starts with the concept of digital storytelling and takes a different approach that highlights particular library collections that in turn could lead to new research and discovery.  By identifying and digitizing locally important collections that represent the specialized interests of local scholars, Academic Libraries expand the unique content available to all scholars. The projects are: 1) Story Center 2) Historical Geographical Information Systems 3) ARPANet online display and digital library.

Presenters:

Amy Brunvand

Alison Regan

 

Date: 
Thu, 04/26/2012 - 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: 
250 B

Using QR Codes in Libraries

Posted Wed, 12/15/2010 - 4:30pm by Admin

QR (Quick Response) Codes are two-dimensional, or matrix, codes with an embedded URL. QR Code readers employ the camera of a mobile device or Smartphone in order to decode a QR code and launch the device’s web browser which opens to URL-specified code. Marriott Library and Eccles Health Sciences Library at the University of Utah have embarked on implementations of QR codes to enhance access to information, provide directional assistance, and create immersive learning experiences.

Presenters:

Anne Morrow, University of Utah Marriott Library
Nancy Lombardo, Eccles Health Sciences Library

Date: 
Fri, 05/13/2011 - 2:30pm - 3:30pm

“Free” on the Web

Posted Wed, 12/15/2010 - 11:04am by pfrade

“Free” databases and websites have supplemented fee-based library resources for many years, but in the age of dwindling budgets and high inflation costs many libraries must cut fee-based subscriptions. By examining databases by title comparisons libraries can find credible and valuable resources, from institutional repositories, NGO’s, and university and government projects. Interlibrary Loan and copyright restrictions will also be discussed.

Presenters:

Barbaraella Frazier, Brigham Young University

Date: 
Fri, 05/13/2011 - 8:30am - 9:30am

How the Academic Library Can Support New Forms of Scholarship

Posted Tue, 12/14/2010 - 11:17am by pfrade

The Digital Scholarship Lab at the Marriott Library was formed in 2009 to support and advance the work of University of Utah scholars exploring new forms of digital scholarship. This program will describe how we planned and marketed our initial services, programs that we are supporting, and our effort at
assessing those projects.

Presenters:

Amy Brunvard - University of Utah
Robert Nelson - University of Utah
Tony Sams - University of Utah

Date: 
Thu, 05/12/2011 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
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