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Library Minute: Interlibrary Loan

Have you ever found the perfect book or article for your research paper only to discover the ASU Libraries do not have it? Fear not! Anali Perry will explain how Interlibrary Loan can get that article or book for you from libraries all over the world

For more information visit ASU Libraries Interlibrary Loan.

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A Librarian Exchange: A Conversation with William Dansoh (Podcast)

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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

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Ann Ewbank: Mover and Shaker (Podcast)

Ann EwbankHost Fred McIlvain welcomes special guest Dr. Ann Dutton Ewbank, Education Liason Librarian, to talk about being named one of fifty Library Journal ”Movers and Shakers.”  She is joined by Jennifer Duvernay, ASU Libraries Marketing and Outreach Officer, also named a Mover and Shaker in 2005, who reflects on the significance of this honor.

Ann talks about her continued work to promote and educate the public, especially lawmakers, on the value of teacher-librarians in K-12 schools. Ann is a founding member of Fund Our Future Arizona which was originally organized in response to the proposal by Mesa Public School District to eliminate all certified teacher-librarian positions in the district, replacing them with lower qualified resource center specialists who would manage the library space and collections. Their well publicized initiative ultimately failed as the Mesa Public School District chose to continue with their planned budget reduction, but group’s goal to “to create strong school libraries for every child in the state” continues.

 

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For more information please see:

ASU librarian earns national recognition (ASU News)
Librarian introduces students to facility’s resources (Arizona Republic)
Librarian Earns “Movers and Shakers” Award (State Press)
Library Channel News article
Ann Dutton Ewbank-Activists-2009 Movers & Shakers (March 15, 2009 Library Journal)

Host:
Fred McIlvain

Guests:
Ann Dutton Ewbank
Jennifer Duvernay

Episode 93
Running Time: 23:15

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You can also listen to Library Channel Episode 40 featuring Life Sciences Librarian Katherine O’Clair, after being named a Mover and Shaker in 2007.

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FORO 2007 – Librarians of the 21st Century: Six Library Challenges for the New Century with Alberto Rios

Part 3 of The Library Channel’s special three-part video series from FORO 2007: The Transborder Library Forum held at Arizona State University.

Episode 44 Alberto Ríos FORO
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On February 23, 2007 Alberto Ríos, Regents’ Professor of English, Arizona State University, gave the closing keynote to FORO 2007. He asks, “In the next century, so hungry for answers and so fearful of ideas, how do we move forward? And more than that, how do we move forward together?”

Along with self-reflective anecdotes, Alberto sends out six hopeful challenges to librarians as caring and thinking people:

  1. Diversity: It is not a goal but a means by which we will arrive at something greater than we currently understand.
  2. Invisible Populations: We need solutions not laws
  3. Economics: We must move from a money economy to an idea economy.
  4. Dialogue: We need to move back to true conversation. Half of language is listening. Are libraries listening and do they know how to listen?
  5. Languages: With many languages come many answers. Languages are a richness and a solution, not a problem. Words are ideas, and ideas lead to vital and evolving solutions.
  6. Education: It never fails us. An educated person learns how to solve problems. We will pay for education, but it always pays us back.

“Every pencil is filled with a book. It’s my job to know that, to believe it, and to act on it.” – Alberto Ríos

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Alberto Ríos is the author of eight books and chapbooks of poetry, three collections of short stories, and a memoir. His memoir about growing up on the border, called Capirotada, was published by University of New Mexico Press in 1999. Ríos is the recipient of the Arizona Governor’s Arts Award, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Walt Whitman Award, the Western States Book Award for Fiction, five Pushcart Prizes in both poetry and fiction, and inclusion in The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, as well as over 150 other national and international literary anthologies. His work is regularly taught and translated, and has been adapted to dance and both classical and popular music. Ríos is presently Regents’ Professor of English at Arizona State University.

For more information about the Transborder Library Forum please visit FORO 2007.

Introduction:
Fred McIlvain
Opening Statements:
University Librarian Sherrie Schmidt
Speaker:
Alberto Ríos
Regents’ Professor of English
Alberto Rios

Episode 44

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Spotlight on ASU Librarian Ann Ewbank

In this podcast Ann Ewbank discusses her role as AzLA President and highlights some of the organization’s upcoming events, including the 2007 AzLA Annual Conference and Library Legislative Day. In addition, she briefly defines her role as the Education Liaison Librarian at Fletcher Library at the West campus.

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Ann Ewbank

Ann Dutton Ewbank, Ph.D., is the Education Liaison Librarian at Fletcher Library. She is a former teacher-librarian and classroom teacher and is the 2007 President of the Arizona Library Association. Ann is a member-at-large of the American Library Association Council and the Chair of the AASL Task Force on Instructional Classification.

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Episode 41

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Mover and Shaker: A Conversation with Katherine O’Clair

Katherine O’Clair, Life Sciences Librarian, has been named one of Library Journal’s Movers and Shakers for 2007. She joins us to talk about herself and making a difference in library research services.

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Katherine O'Clair 2007

Her profile,Living the Life Scienceswas published in conjunction with the March 15, 2007 issue of Library Journal and is now available online. The article highlights Katherine’s significant accomplishments as liaison to the School of Life Sciences (SOLS), including co-teaching a first year seminar with SOLS Director Dr. Robert Page. Also noted are her enthusiastic contributions to the library profession, including her successful efforts in rejuvenating the College and University Libraries Division of the Arizona Library Association.

Movers and Shakers is an annual Library Journal supplement “devoted to highlighting 50 up-and-coming individuals from across the United States and Canada who are innovative, creative, and making a difference. From librarians to vendors to others who work in the library field, Movers & Shakers 2007 … celebrate(s) the new professionals who are moving our libraries ahead.”

O’Clair joined the ASU Libraries in July 2004. She has a Masters of Science in Library and Information Studies from Florida State University and a Bachelors of Science in Environmental Studies from Nazareth College of Rochester.

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Episode 40

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Janice R. Lachance on Technology and the Internet in a Global Library Network (FORO 2007 Video)

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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.”

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Library Channel Episode 36

© 2007 Arizona Board of Regents

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Matching Innovations to Environment Part 3

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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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Matching Innovations to Environment Part 2

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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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Matching Innovations to Environment Part 1

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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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