http://shinylib.com the shiny librarian Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:10:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Although I didn't get to attend, I've been told materials from the UW workshop on assessment are available. Links to online materials via delicious http://delicious.com/assessment4librarians UW Information Literacy blog http://uwinfolit.blogspot.com/ http://shinylib.com/2008/08/27/putting-assessment-into-practice/ Since Anne-Marie and Rachel introduced me to the idea of alternate reality games (ARGs) back at OnlineNW, I have been thinking about fun, marketing and outreach pretty much nonstop. The problem is really that I don't know how to take these awesome ideas and bring them down to PCC scale. ... http://shinylib.com/2008/08/13/unmarketing/ Summer is a weird time for a 9 or 10 month academic librarian. I am only working Wednesday afternoons this summer as everyone advised me to take some time off after year one. I'm glad for the time to spend on various pleasures involving geekery and bike riding, but there ... http://shinylib.com/2008/08/13/summer/ I was really looking forward to this session for a number of reasons. I wanted to see Joe Murphy speak (we met in Anaheim at one another's poster sessions) and I'm resolutely convinced that txt reference could really fly at PCC. By this point in the conference I was really ... http://shinylib.com/2008/08/06/connecting-to-users-with-chat-texting/ The plenary panel, for me, was the highlight of the entire conference. Granted, I have always been overly excited by the theory behind our profession, but I think it is so important to consider the big picture now and again. My notes are probably fairly jumbled, as I was so ... http://shinylib.com/2008/08/06/plenary-panel-theory-meets-practice/ I was hoping that the first presentation, on providing library services at Multicultural student services centers would help me figure out the next steps to take with a virtual outreach project I am trying to coordinate via the library website, involving student services providers at PCC. It did not, but ... http://shinylib.com/2008/08/06/outreach-e-learning-resource-guides/ Lots of talk of that QuestionPoint qwidget going on at this conference. I didn't realize how many folks were into this vendor-chat thing. Overall I think I'm more interested in bringing IM to our virtual reference offerings. We participate in L-net and I firmly believe in the importance of the ... http://shinylib.com/2008/08/06/opportunistic-reference/ Another session which really illustrates the differences between chat reference and IM reference. Interesting that M. Kathleen Kern reports patrons choose IM over vendor-chat 7 to 1. I understand the limitations of most of the existing IM services, but I'm not sure I see why they developed their own client. ... http://shinylib.com/2008/08/06/organizing-people-software-options-for-maximum-service/ I suppose I hadn't really grokked the difference between "chat" and IM reference before this conference. Chat reference is used to refer to using some software suite such as QuestionPoint that offers services such as archives/transcripts which can be emailed to the user, some statistics on usage, co-browsing, etc. IM ... http://shinylib.com/2008/08/06/vr-varieties-specialized-blended-academic/ This group of presentations was the first of the sessions I attended. On the whole I didn't find anything that I can really apply to my environment. I was pleased to see an example of how another library has used video teleconferencing to provide reference service. This has come up ... http://shinylib.com/2008/08/06/innovative-approaches-shaking-sharing-spanning/