Video of Library Leaders' Perspectives on Professional Development - UC Berkeley - June 4, 2012

Video of Library Leaders' Perspectives on Professional Development
LAUC-B presentation @
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life <http://www.magnes.org/>,
2121 Allston Way in downtown Berkeley.

A video of the June 4 LAUC-B Committee on Professional Development program is now available on YouTube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlTa3BS0ah8 (43:16)

Library Leaders' Perspectives on Professional Development
Tom Leonard, UCB University Librarian
Laine Farley, CDL Executive Director
Clifford Lynch, UCB i-School Adjunct Faculty

A link to the video has been added to the committee's web page at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/LAUC/cpd/index.html.

Nick Robinson
LAUC-B Chair, 2011/12

Breakout Session – Lightning Teams

Lightning Teams

Summary from LAUC Assembly - May 10, 2012  (Afternoon Breakout Session)

Small focused group, quick fix

Single issue – depth of vision

Scalable

Composition:  Diversity of opinion

Balance size and speed with broad representation

Planning tool: Campus expertise

Three People per “pod” – single issue

Time schedule – report back to campus? LAUC?   SOPAG?

Which issues are appropriate?

Who to report back to

LAUC systemwide

e.g. training

implementing subject specialists

hiring

·         Project Management

·         Can we train ourselves or do we hire someone else?

·         Structure for training – gain expertise: Send person for specific training

·         e.g. UCSB copyright

Lightning Team

Train in specific area

Re-train colleagues

Being together – engaging with each other

Training the trainer

Benefit to our users

Subject knowledge or copyright

Collaboration:  Evaluating resources, technology for user needs.

e.g. Chat Service

Lightning Team

For e.g. after HOPS and committee deliberation

Six week study & implement

Narrow charge:

Simple charge; well-defined

Separate lightning teams on pieces of problem

Someone in charge of storm

Group decides what lightning is –

Then a couple go to different campuses and give show on how to implement

Most effective at grass-roots, lowest in-the-trenches level.

What are most important do-able problems –

Which would lend themselves

People committed –

Turn-around time

Results –

What lends itself to lightning?

e.g.  gap in Distance Education

·         Identify it

·         Identify practices

·         Implement

Free up time for people to do this – 100% focus

ROI

Breakout Session – Skills and Training

Skills and Training

Summary from LAUC Assembly - May 10, 2012  (Afternoon Breakout Session)

Market Library to users as “user friendly” and relevant

-          I.D. opportunities to make a difference

-          Fulfill a demand users didn’t know they needs (proactively)

Fluency with outreach through new communication mechanisms

[Social media/marketing principles]

Skill at crafting “elevator” speeches

-          Demonstrate effectiveness and benefits of Library research

Training

Formal/Informal/Ad Hoc [on our own]

-          Basic competency & expert level

-           

Training Skill Sets

New Grads                              Experienced

*  Collections                          *  Data

*  Data Curation                      *  Project Management

*  Project Management             *  Copyright

*  Copyright                            *  Public Speaking

Advocacy

Awareness of Library Services and Strengths

Play role in programs and systems used on campus/research

Broader Skills

·         Entrepreneurial Skills

Ex:  Matching a need with something library can or should provide

·         Collaborative

·         Data Analysis

·         Flexible and proactive

-          Increase presence in departments

-          Embedded in curriculum

-          Awareness of trends

·         Marketing Services

·         Communicate Value

Breakout Session - Communications

Communications

Summary from LAUC Assembly - May 10, 2012  (Afternoon Breakout Session)

Outreach to:

• Campus online education groups
• Office of Research
• Alumni

New education initiatives – awareness

Librarian representation

• Faculty senate
• Academic Federation

Write self into grant proposals

Embedded with researchers

LAUC Facebook :)

Seminars on data management -

Informs researchers

Frame workshops in same vocabulary as audience

            e.g. where should I publish?  (no “open access”)

Food!

Have events for student chapters of IEEE

Share with each other 

• Videos
• Clearinghouse to share info about Librarian “tasks” among LAUC members
• Skillsets
• Info for new hires
• Succession planning
• Share local practices, etc.

Breakout Session - Shared Service Models

Shared Service Models

Summary from LAUC Assembly - May 10, 2012  (Afternoon Breakout Session)

How to Keep Pace with User Expectations

Given Decreasing $

-          What of standard for digital reference?

-          Where will subject librarians (et expertise) go when subject libraries close?

User Expectations – subscriptions to everything online (suggested by WorldCat and Google)

-          Cross-campus access to e-books

• -          Immediate gratification 9though not necessarily through library)
• -          Immediate ILL borrowing
• -          Local assistance

Solutions?  Library services modeled after UC path

• -          Consortial e-books
• -          Systemwide proxy access?  Shibboleth?  (Problem w/non-Tier 1 resources though)

-          Re-focus on ‘One Library’ concept (e.g. ‘UC Undergraduate Library’)

-          Systemwide subject guides w/ tab for local-only resources

-          Shared bibliographers (for languages, at least)

o   for cross-campus (and institution) instruction?

-          Problem: Funding for shipped shared resources

o   (ILL, preservation of rare items)

Distance Education will require local proctors (most look toward libraries for such services)

Presentations - Morning Session and Afternoon Session

Presentations - Morning Session and Afternoon Session

 

Next-Generation UC Libraries; Next-Generation UC Librarians
Welcome Address from Ginny Steel, University Librarian, UC Santa Cruz

• PowerPoint (300 Kb) | PDF (1.0 Mb)

Systemwide Library Planning – Joanne Miller, Systemwide Library Planning, UCOP (11:10)  Flash video

• PowerPoint (2.9  Mb) | PDF (2.0 Mb)

Collaboration in the Cloud – Laine Farley, Executive Director, California Digital Library (17:15)  Flash video

• PowerPoint (1.5 Mb) | PDF (2.1 Mb)

Digital Libraries and Copyright: Paths Forward for UC Libraries
David Hansen, Digital Library Fellow, UC Berkeley School of Law Library (41:29)  Flash video


Next-Generation Technical Services – Martha Hruska, UC San Diego, NGTS Steering Group Chair, and Emily Lin, UC Merced, NGTS Communications Manager (1:14:50)  Flash video

• PowerPoint (6.0 Mb) | PDF (898 Kb) 

Evaluation for LAUC Assembly 2012 at UCSC Extension - May 10, 2012

Thank you for logging into the LAUC Assembly through ReadyTalk on May 10, 2012.  Please feel free to share the link to the evaluation form with campus colleagues who joined you in participating in the morning or afternoon conference programs.

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The presentation speaker videos, PowerPoint presentations, and Breakout session summaries are being added to the LAUC Assembly Blog (http://laucassembly.blogspot.com/).  You can scan the 2012 Assembly topics (http://laucassembly.blogspot.com/search/label/assembly2012).  LAUC members can comment on sessions through the blog or share with your campus CPG representatives.
 
Online Evaluation
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The survey will close on June 1, 2012.
 
With best regards,
 
Mitchell Brown
LAUC President 2011/2012

Notes from LAUC-LA Remote Breakout Sessions

LAUC-LA Breakout Sessions:
Next Steps for Planning for Future Librarianship

Thursday, May 10, 2012

YRL Presentation Room, UCLA

There were ten UCLA Librarians in attendance, including some new(er) UCLA librarians. Those in attendance did not feel we had sufficient numbers to break out into meaningful discussion groups, so we decided to discuss the four topics among the entire group. This minor adjustment provided a successful format for stimulating conversation and brainstorming ideas. Lynda Tolly, the LAUC-LA Representative to LAUC Committee on Professional Governance, performed the role of facilitator, and two volunteer note takers recorded the main points of our discussions. Following is a summary of our discussions and suggestions.

Shared Service Models

·         Need more communication:

o   More communication regarding shared cataloging

o   Long term plans, who will be responsible?

·         Establish a campus liaison who will keep informed of activities related to shared services (someone to monitor POT blog and NGTS updates, etc.) and provide summary updates to local LAUC members

o   One way of updating members would be to hold a regular program or brown bag to bring local members up to date on developments and plans

·         There needs to be more opportunities for front-line librarians and other front-line library staff (library assistants, etc.) to provide input

·         Some challenges and concerns of shared collections on campuses with the quarter system

o   More information about ILL policies with more emphasis on quick turn-around

Lighting Teams – The New Working Model?

·         Find “good” project management tools (e.g. Basecamp)

·         Find ways to eliminate (or work around) bureaucracy

·         Management needs to encourage experimentation and create a safe environment for experimentation

·         Willingness to make mistakes

o   Use mistakes as a learning mechanism

o   Success vs. lessons learned

·         Can’t have single model, report back and reiterate

o   Try several things

o   Can have lots of different projects going on

·         Communication about project processes (learning from each other)

o   Intra and Inter Library communication across UC

o   Ad Hoc LAUC task force to share info and provide informal updates system-wide

Communications Models

·         We are at the forefront of building communication initiatives that librarians could be a part of (such as “open access”, etc.)

·         Communication with partners

o   Such as HATHI Trust, etc.

·         How else can we align ourselves with peers?

o   ARL, what other groups?

·         Look at JISC model

·         Role of State Library (some states have state-wide licenses out of State Library for all colleges, university, community colleges, etc.)

·         Communication to Inter-disciplinary Research Centers

·         Communicating our value to general public

Training and New Skills

·         Mentorship program/committee

·         Summer Institutes

o   Similar to Harvard Leadership Institute

o   Create opportunities for cross-training

o   Examples of summer institutes that might be of value to UC Librarians: management training, project management training

o   Learn from colleagues

o   Expand networks

o   Partner/co-sponsor

o   LAUC grant? Other grants?

o   UCHRI residential programs

o   Tie into new online education initiatives

·         Technology training:

o   Lynda.com

·         Is LHR and HR providing the training that librarians need?

o   Librarians should have more input on training that is needed (our needs haven’t been surveyed)

o   Strong need for innovation and project management training