Visiting Subject Librarian William Dansoh from the University of Kwazulu-Natal, Edgwood Library in South Africa sits down with Fred to talk about his time at ASU. William visited Arizona as a participant in a librarian exchange program that is part of the Carnegie Corporation sponsored Research Libraries Consortium project.  The purpose of this project is to obtain insights into research libraries within the United States, especially focusing on how academic librarians collaborate with and support research faculty and post-graduate students.  William also expressed an interest in seeing how technology supports research in the libraries.

During the discussion we will learn how William was selected for the internship, what he hoped to learn, his internship experiences, and a comparison between research libraries in the United States and South Africa.

 
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Host:
Fred McIlvain

Guest:
William Dansoh

Episode 97
Running Time: 12:19

In order to create and refine library services and resources to support the faculty of the New American University, it is imperative that we in the libraries have a clear understanding of their research process.

In part two Dr. Keith Kintigh the associate director of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change show the evolution and history intellectual threads and activities of his work that have gotten including archaeological fieldwork, southwest biocomplexity, the development of quantitative and formal methods, his involvement with the Society for American Archaeology, and tDAR – The Digital Archaeological Record. Keith will also talk about needs for broad-based information infrastructure and his collaboration with the library and how this relationship forms new analogies.

The program concludes with questions from the audience and closing remarks by Associate University Librarian Dr. John Howard. Dr. Howard discusses what this exciting research at ASU means to the library in capturing dynamic scholarly research, maintaining them over time and making research available to diverse communities.

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Dr. Keith Kintigh is the associate director of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change. Dr. Kintigh’s career-long commitment to understanding political organization in middle-range societies has focused on the Cíbola area along the Arizona-New Mexico border near Zuni Pueblo. Kintigh’s other major research focus has been on the development and application of quantitative methods in archaeology. Part 1 features Dr. Jane Maienschein discussing The Embryo Project and its partnership with the ASU Knowledge Network. Speaker: Keith Kintigh Introduction: Vicki Coleman Closing Comments: John Howard

Episode 74
Running Time 44:30

In order to create and refine library services and resources to support the faculty of the New American University, it is imperative that we in the libraries have a clear understanding of their research process.

In part one Dr. Jane Maienschein discusses The Embryo Project and its partnership with the ASU Knowledge Network.

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Dr. Jane Maienschein, Regents’ Professor, President’s Professor, and Parents Association Professor, serves as the director of the Center for Biology and Society in the School of Life Sciences. Dr. Maienschein specializes in the history and philosophy of biology and the way that biology, bioethics, and biopolicy play out in society.

Next time: Part 2 features Dr. Keith Kintigh the associate director of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change with closing remarks from Associate University Librarian Dr. John Howard.

Speaker:
Jane Maienschein

Introduction:
Vicki Coleman

Episode 73
Running Time 40:51

Cathy Norton wraps up her discussion digitizing biodiversity and Phil Konomos, Head, Informatics and Cyberinfrastructure Services follows with remarks on the expanding role of the ASU Libraries in building digital repositories through the ASU Knowledge Network.

Concluding from Part One, Cathy discusses Biodiversity Informatics, Web 2.0 components of the Encyclopedia of Life, challenges for contemporary digital libraries, the uBio Name Bank, and new innovative ways of applying data.

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About the Program: While much of the biodiversity of the world lies in remote areas and developing nations, vast storehouses of biodiversity information are contained within the major libraries and museums of the developed world. The Biodiversity Heritage Library is providing access to the rich literature of science for people across the globe by taking these materials off the shelves and onto the Internet. Founded by 10 museums and libraries, the BHL is undertaking a vast digitizing effort to scan biodiversity materials and make them freely available, anywhere, anytime. Cathy Norton,director of the Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library, will discuss the BHL project and its role in the Encyclopedia of Life project. Ms. Norton will also highlight taxonomic intelligence algorithms included in the BHL that allow researchers to search information based upon historical scientific and common names of organisms.

This program is also available as a standard MP3 at The Internet Archive.

Speakers:

Cathy Norton
Philip Konomos

Episode 72
Running Time: 42:51

While much of the biodiversity of the world lies in remote areas and developing nations, vast storehouses of biodiversity information are contained within the major libraries and museums of the developed world. The Biodiversity Heritage Library is providing access to the rich literature of science for people across the globe by taking these materials off the shelves and onto the Internet. Founded by 10 museums and libraries, the BHL is undertaking a vast digitizing effort to scan biodiversity materials and make them freely available, anywhere, anytime. Cathy Norton,director of the Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library, will discuss the BHL project and its role in the Encyclopedia of Life project. Ms. Norton will also highlight taxonomic intelligence algorithms included in the BHL that allow researchers to search information based upon historical scientific and common names of organisms.

Vicki Coleman, Associate University Librarian at the ASU Libraries, provides a brief introduction.
 
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Biodiversity Heritage Library
Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library
Encyclopedia of Life project

Speaker:
Cathy Norton

Introduction by:
Vicki Coleman

Episode: 70
Running Time: 50:16

Next Time: On March 27, 2008 we will present Part 2 of Digitizing Biodiversity Literature for the World where Cathy Norton wraps up her discussion, Phil Konomos, Head, Informatics and Cyberinfrastructure Services follows with remarks on the expanding role of the ASU Libraries in building digital repositories through the ASU Knowledge Network.

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For the next few weeks The Library Channel presents a special three-part video series from FORO 2007: The Transborder Library Forum held this year at Arizona State University.

Part 1: Janice R. Lachance, Special Libraries Association CEO, a member of the US delegation to the World Summit on the Information Society 2005 and the UN Internet Governance Forum 2006, discusses her role with the SLA and the role technology and the Internet play in a global library network.

FORO began in 1989 at a local Arizona library conference where librarians from United States and Mexico discussed the need to create a network where they could meet and discuss issues of common interest while exchanging information and resources across borders.

The theme for this years conference is, “Bridging the Digital Divide-Crossing All Borders.” Each episode includes one of the three keynote speeches which address how libraries can facilitate access and exchange of information, resources, and culture through technology, “… crossing all borders.”

For more information please visit:

• The Official FORO 2007 Home Page
• The Library Channel Interview with Jeanette Mueller-Alexander and Rosa Gonzalez
• Library News Article about FORO
• The Special Libraries Association (SLA)

Library Channel Episode 36

© 2007 Arizona Board of Regents

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Joan Frye Williams continues her May 16th presentation to the Arizona Library Association explaining how librarians can improve their chances of success by implementing the innovations that best match their particular type of library environment. In this segment Joan concludes her discussion by providing helpful hints on implementing new plans and then takes questions from the audience.

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Joan Frye Williams continues her May 16th presentation to the Arizona Library Association explaining how librarians can improve their chances of success by implementing the innovations that best match their particular type of library environment. She demonstrates why innovation is seldom easy, and even best practices aren’t “one size fits all.”

In part 2 Joan discusses:

• Who owns the experience of your service
• Accounting Environments
• Risk – Averse Environments
• Customer – Centered Environments
• Rethinking your relationship with your customers

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News: Arizona State University Libraries offers a new webpage “Scholarly Commication” as a resource to our academic community for staying abreast of emerging trends that directly impact those involved in research, publication, and teaching. Go to http://www.asu.edu/lib/scholcomm for more information.

Program: “Matching Innovations to Environment Part 1″

Joan Frye Williams continues her May 16th presentation to the Arizona Library Association explaining how librarians can improve their chances of success by implementing the innovations that best match their particular type of library environment. She demonstrates why innovation is seldom easy, and even best practices aren’t “one size fits all.”

In part 1 Joan demonstrates:

• How choosing the right Innovations can help you
• Being a Library Innovator is easier than you think
• Why many library projects fail
• Knowing your library environment (Know what works for you)

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On Tuesday, May 16, 2006 the Arizona Library Association brought library IT consultant Joan Frye Williams to the ASU Tempe campus to explain how libraries can be fast, convenient, and suited to the modern, multi-tasking lives of today’s students and faculty without marginalizing the librarian.

In this segment Joan Frye Williams discusses:

• Recommender Systems and Collaborative Filtering
• Continuous Partial Attention
• User-Driven Priorities
• Library Branding
• Libraries Compared to Search Engines
• Alternatives to traditional reference services
• Questions from the Audience