Below you will find upcoming UALC professional development opportunities listed in order by date. Don’t miss out on these great opportunities!
Serving the 21st Century Patron – WebJunction Online Conference FREE
DATE: December 1-2, 2010
LOCATION: Web
MORE INFO: http://www.webjunction.org/conferences/-/articles/content/106453434
2011 ACRL Immersion Program $$$$
APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 1, 2010
DATE: July 24-29, 2011
LOCATION: Seattle University
MORE INFO: http://www.acrl.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/issues/infolit/professactivity/iil/immersion/immersion11.cfm
MPLA Professional Development Grant Deadline
APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 15, 2010
MORE INFO: http://www.mpla.us/committees/profdev/grants.html
ACRL-ULS Technology & Libraries Lightning Round-Up FREE
DATE: January 20, 2010
LOCATION: Web
MORE INFO: http://bit.ly/bSjIgL
MPLA/MLA Joint Annual Conference $$$$
DATE: April 6-9, 2011
LOCATION: Billings, Montana
MORE INFO: http://tandteventsite.com/
Developing a Scholarly Communication Program in Your Library FREE
LOCATION: Web
MORE INFO: http://www.arl.org/sc/institute/fair/scprog/index.shtml
These events are selected by the UALC Professional Development Committee and are limited to online classes, grants and opportunities online or in Utah or surrounding states.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
Council Meets at New Snow College Library
Members of the Utah Academic Library Consortium met in the new Karen H. Huntsman Library at Snow College on October 29, 2010. Jon Ostler, Snow College Library Director, gave the higher education library directors a tour of the 72,000-square-foot facility, complete with study rooms, cafe, an outside terrace and two high-tech auditoriums. Dixie State College is the next in line for a new library, which will be part of the new Holland Centennial Commons, also home of other student services, including registration, financial aid, advising and counseling, among other resources.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
One million digital pages of Utah historical newspapers
The Utah Digital Newspapers project celebrated the upload of its one-millionth page on Monday, July 19, 2010, with a brief program at the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah. For the curious, page number 1,000,000 is the sports page (page 9) of the September 19, 1916, issue of the Salt Lake Herald-Republican, at http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/slh13&CISOPTR=428. To search or browse the Utah Digital Newspapers collections, go to http://digitalnewspapers.org.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
UALC's Professional Training Update
Here is the summer 2010 edition of UALC's Professional Training Update. Below you will find upcoming professional development opportunities listed in order by date. Don’t miss out on these great opportunities!
e-Learning from ACRL $$$
DATE: On-going
LOCATION: Web
MORE INFO: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/elearning/index.cfm
UALC Professional Development Retreat: Managing Your Career FREE
DATE: August 13, 2010
LOCATION: Weber State University, Ogden, UT
MORE INFO: http://ualc.net/2010retreat.html
These events are selected by the Professional Development Committee and are limited to online classes, grants and opportunities online or in Utah or surrounding states.
e-Learning from ACRL $$$
DATE: On-going
LOCATION: Web
MORE INFO: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/elearning/index.cfm
UALC Professional Development Retreat: Managing Your Career FREE
DATE: August 13, 2010
LOCATION: Weber State University, Ogden, UT
MORE INFO: http://ualc.net/2010retreat.html
These events are selected by the Professional Development Committee and are limited to online classes, grants and opportunities online or in Utah or surrounding states.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
UALC’s Staff Sharing Program Offers Funding for Hands-On Skill Development
Want to develop more skills for yourself or your employees? UALC’s staff sharing program provides funding for UALC member employees to train and work within other UALC libraries to develop beneficial skills for their jobs and organizations. Any employee, full or part time, that is employed in a member library may request a sharing opportunity with another UALC library. It’s as simple as working with their supervisor, director and host library to determine if the staff sharing opportunity would be beneficial, and completing the application. Individuals may apply for one staff sharing opportunity per year, and each library may apply for more than one sharing activity per year.
More details can be found under "Staff Sharing Program" at http://www.ualc.net
More details can be found under "Staff Sharing Program" at http://www.ualc.net
Professional Development Retreat Announced
"Managing Your Career" is the topic of this year's UALC Professional Development Retreat. The retreat will be held on Friday, August 13, 2010 at Weber State University. Rachel Singer Gordon will be the keynote speaker and will also serve as the facilitator for a session on “How to Get Published.” More details will be available soon.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Statewide Survey Determines Preservation Needs
“Utah’s Connecting to Collections Project: A Statewide Preservation Initiative,” a 2009-2010 project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, includes a statewide web survey on preservation needs, and a series of Town Hall meetings to discuss key findings of the survey and garner feedback from cultural heritage staff at institutions around the state.
The project is being directed by representatives of a diverse group of heritage repositories. Led by Randy Silverman of the University of Utah Libraries, the Project Task Force also includes representation from the highest administrative levels of the Utah State Archives, Utah State Library, Utah State History, Office of Museum Services, Utah Academic Library Consortium, Brigham Young University, and the LDS Church History Department.
Beginning on September 4, 2009, the survey was available for eleven weeks. From a potential respondent universe of approximately 463 collecting institutions, 203 institutions completed surveys. Among the respondents to the survey, there were a large number of state and local government agencies, which are a group often overlooked in preservation planning. Public libraries, academic libraries, and history museums/repositories were the other leading respondent groups, although, all told, 16 different cultural heritage institution types completed at least one of the questionnaires.
Initial findings of the survey project cover many topics of interest in preservation, including planning and funding; training; existing and planned preservation activities; environmental control, security, and disaster preparedness; preservation resource sharing; digital collections; and institutional information including annual operating and preservation budgets. Survey results can be viewed in the final preservation report at http://www.ualc.net/Media/Utah%20C2C%20Survey%20Final%20Report.pdf
The project is being directed by representatives of a diverse group of heritage repositories. Led by Randy Silverman of the University of Utah Libraries, the Project Task Force also includes representation from the highest administrative levels of the Utah State Archives, Utah State Library, Utah State History, Office of Museum Services, Utah Academic Library Consortium, Brigham Young University, and the LDS Church History Department.
Beginning on September 4, 2009, the survey was available for eleven weeks. From a potential respondent universe of approximately 463 collecting institutions, 203 institutions completed surveys. Among the respondents to the survey, there were a large number of state and local government agencies, which are a group often overlooked in preservation planning. Public libraries, academic libraries, and history museums/repositories were the other leading respondent groups, although, all told, 16 different cultural heritage institution types completed at least one of the questionnaires.
Initial findings of the survey project cover many topics of interest in preservation, including planning and funding; training; existing and planned preservation activities; environmental control, security, and disaster preparedness; preservation resource sharing; digital collections; and institutional information including annual operating and preservation budgets. Survey results can be viewed in the final preservation report at http://www.ualc.net/Media/Utah%20C2C%20Survey%20Final%20Report.pdf
USU Library Involved in New Digital Collection
Utah State University and Design Workshop, Inc., a leading international landscape architecture firm, have partnered to create the Design Workshop Landscape Architecture Archive and Digital Collection. The archive is a collaborative effort between Design Workshop, USU’s Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Merrill-Cazier Library’s Special Collections and Archives and the library’s Digital Initiatives Department.
The archive features a collection of projects that highlights the firm’s Legacy Design philosophy, which focuses on an equal balance of four key elements: environment, community, economics and art. Merrill-Cazier Library will add a new landscape architecture digital collection to its Digital Library and partner with LAEP to develop learning objects for students.
Assisting the project is Cheryl Walters, digital initiatives department head at Merrill-Cazier Library. “There really is no archive or digital library in the country that is tackling landscape architectural records in the way we propose,” said Walters. “We feel this is truly new territory, and we are very excited about the project.”
The project will become a new collection in the Utah Academic Library Consortium's Mountain West Digital Library.
The archive features a collection of projects that highlights the firm’s Legacy Design philosophy, which focuses on an equal balance of four key elements: environment, community, economics and art. Merrill-Cazier Library will add a new landscape architecture digital collection to its Digital Library and partner with LAEP to develop learning objects for students.
Assisting the project is Cheryl Walters, digital initiatives department head at Merrill-Cazier Library. “There really is no archive or digital library in the country that is tackling landscape architectural records in the way we propose,” said Walters. “We feel this is truly new territory, and we are very excited about the project.”
The project will become a new collection in the Utah Academic Library Consortium's Mountain West Digital Library.
UALC Participates in Utah's Library Snapshot Day
On Monday April 12, 2010 the Utah Academic Library Consortium (UALC) participated in “Snapshot 2010-One Day in the Life of Utah Libraries," Along with the Utah State Library (USL), Utah Library Association (ULA), the Utah Educational Library Media Association (UELMA, and other organizations, participants attempted to showcase what happens in a single day in libraries across the state.
120 Utah libraries participated and submitted over 300 pictures of students and patrons using the library. In just one day approximately 100,000 people visited these libraries, more than 120,000 items were borrowed, internet computers were used around 20,000 times, library staff fielded over 6,000 reference questions, and more than 11,000 people attended library programs and activities.
U of U Library Director Elected to National Post
Joyce Ogburn, University Librarian and director of the J. Willard Marriott Library, was elected vice-president/president-elect of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). Joyce will serve a one-year term as vice-president beginning July 2010, and in July 2011 she will assume the presidency. ACRL is one of the American Library Association's largest professional organizations, working with its 12,000 members work to promote and support approximately 2,300 academic libraries throughout the U.S.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
UALC's Professional Training Update
Here is the spring 2010 edition of UALC's Professional Training Update. Below you will find upcoming professional development opportunities listed in order by date. Don’t miss out on these great opportunities!
MPLA Professional Development Grants Program
DATES: Next due dates are Feb. 4, Apr. 1 & June 3.
MORE INFO: http://www.mpla.us/committees/profdev/grants.html
Genetics/Genomics and Biomedical Informatics: Two Rivers Merging FREE
DATE: February 11, 2010
LOCATION: Web and Salt Lake City
MORE INFO: http://library.med.utah.edu/or/pmayden/pmayden.php
OnPoint Chats: Conversational openings with faculty about scholarly communication FREE
DATE: March 4, 2010
LOCATION: Web
MORE INFO: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/onpoint/index.cfm
R U REDY? Scenario Planning & Collaboration among Libraries and Archives to Improve Disaster Preparedness for Collections FREE
DATE: March 10, 2010
LOCATION: Web
MORE INFO: Contact Randy Silverman, randy.silverman@utah.edu. To register, visit http://host7.evanced.info/pls/lib/eventcalendar.asp?libnum=4, navigate to March 10th and click on the SLC program.
2010 Oklahoma Library Association & Mountain Plains Library Association Joint Conference $$$
DATE: April 19-21
LOCATION: Oklahoma City, OK
MORE INFO: http://oklibs.org/modx/events/Conferences.htm
ULA Conference $$$
DATE: May 12-14
LOCATION: St. George, UT
MORE INFO: http://ula.org/conference/2010conf/index.php
The Colorado Academic Library Consortium Summit $$$
DATE: May 20-21, 2010
LOCATION: Denver, CO
MORE INFO: Proposals due by Feb. 12, http://www.mpla.us/events/calcpresent.pdf. General info here, http://www.calcweb.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=72&Itemid=130.
These events are selected by the Professional Development Committee and are limited to online classes, grants and opportunities online or in Utah or surrounding states.
MPLA Professional Development Grants Program
DATES: Next due dates are Feb. 4, Apr. 1 & June 3.
MORE INFO: http://www.mpla.us/committees/profdev/grants.html
Genetics/Genomics and Biomedical Informatics: Two Rivers Merging FREE
DATE: February 11, 2010
LOCATION: Web and Salt Lake City
MORE INFO: http://library.med.utah.edu/or/pmayden/pmayden.php
OnPoint Chats: Conversational openings with faculty about scholarly communication FREE
DATE: March 4, 2010
LOCATION: Web
MORE INFO: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/onpoint/index.cfm
R U REDY? Scenario Planning & Collaboration among Libraries and Archives to Improve Disaster Preparedness for Collections FREE
DATE: March 10, 2010
LOCATION: Web
MORE INFO: Contact Randy Silverman, randy.silverman@utah.edu. To register, visit http://host7.evanced.info/pls/lib/eventcalendar.asp?libnum=4, navigate to March 10th and click on the SLC program.
2010 Oklahoma Library Association & Mountain Plains Library Association Joint Conference $$$
DATE: April 19-21
LOCATION: Oklahoma City, OK
MORE INFO: http://oklibs.org/modx/events/Conferences.htm
ULA Conference $$$
DATE: May 12-14
LOCATION: St. George, UT
MORE INFO: http://ula.org/conference/2010conf/index.php
The Colorado Academic Library Consortium Summit $$$
DATE: May 20-21, 2010
LOCATION: Denver, CO
MORE INFO: Proposals due by Feb. 12, http://www.mpla.us/events/calcpresent.pdf. General info here, http://www.calcweb.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=72&Itemid=130.
These events are selected by the Professional Development Committee and are limited to online classes, grants and opportunities online or in Utah or surrounding states.
Monday, January 25, 2010
H. Julene Buter Named New BYU Library Director
Brigham Young University has announced the appointment of H. Julene Butler as university librarian at the Harold B. Lee Library, replacing Randy J. Olsen, who recently accepted the position of director of libraries in the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City.
With Butler’s appointment, two additional changes in the leadership of the Lee Library were announced. Scott Duval, who has been the assistant librarian for L. Tom Perry Special Collections, has been named as associate university librarian. Duval will retain administrative responsibility for Special Collections and will assume additional duties dealing with development. Jeff Belliston has been named assistant university librarian for Scholarly Communication, Assessment and Personnel.
Butler had been serving as associate university librarian at the Lee Library when she was named this fall as the interim university librarian. She has served the Lee Library administratively as chair of the General Reference Department and assistant university librarian for Public Services.
“Julene’s extensive skills and experience have positioned her well to fill this assignment in the Harold B. Lee Library,” said Academic Vice President John S. Tanner. “She will provide continuity for several key initiatives currently underway. We are very fortunate to have Julene be able to step into this important role at the university.”
Butler received her bachelor’s degree in English and her master’s degree in library science from BYU, and her doctoral degree in communication, information and library studies from Rutgers University.
With Butler’s appointment, two additional changes in the leadership of the Lee Library were announced. Scott Duval, who has been the assistant librarian for L. Tom Perry Special Collections, has been named as associate university librarian. Duval will retain administrative responsibility for Special Collections and will assume additional duties dealing with development. Jeff Belliston has been named assistant university librarian for Scholarly Communication, Assessment and Personnel.
Butler had been serving as associate university librarian at the Lee Library when she was named this fall as the interim university librarian. She has served the Lee Library administratively as chair of the General Reference Department and assistant university librarian for Public Services.
“Julene’s extensive skills and experience have positioned her well to fill this assignment in the Harold B. Lee Library,” said Academic Vice President John S. Tanner. “She will provide continuity for several key initiatives currently underway. We are very fortunate to have Julene be able to step into this important role at the university.”
Butler received her bachelor’s degree in English and her master’s degree in library science from BYU, and her doctoral degree in communication, information and library studies from Rutgers University.
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