PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS: 2003/2004

Last updated  February 10, 2004.

March 23, 2004 --  Dr. John Unsworth, Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champagne,  will be visiting campus.  Click here for more information.

February 10, 2004 -- The Library Professional Development Committee and Library Faculty/Staff Training and Development Committee will co-sponsor a presentation by Rich Wiggins, Senior Information Technologist at Michigan State University.  Richard's discussion will include the Accidental Thesaurus, which is a unique way of upgrading the process of keyword searching within Intranet databases.  His involvment in the MSU Keyword Project has allowed Richard to be one of the earliest pioneers at incorporating keyword searching on a university portal which increases the likelihood of finding correct results.  Find link to this Power Point presentation here. 

January 22, 2004 -- Brown bag lunch at Cafe de Grasta to share some of the insights and information from ALA Midwinter meeting.

December 2, 2003 --  Catholic Preservation Grants Roundtable.
Charlotte Ames and Alan Krieger will discuss the proposal they are submitting to the Knights of Columbus to digitize twenty five Catholic periodicals. They are working with the Catholic Library Association and the American Theological Library Association to create Roman Catholic Periodicals Online, a product which will link the bibliographic citations created in The Catholic Periodical and Literature Index to online full-text versions of selected Roman Catholic periodicals from 1981 to the present.

Liz Dube, Dave Jenkins, and Alan Krieger will provide an overview of the investigative and planning process which resulted in "Preservation of Catholic Tradition Collections: Phase One", a grant proposal submitted to the NEH's Division of Preservation and Access this July. The grant proposal requests $700K in support of a two-year project to preserve and increase access to a 6,500-volume collection of 19th and early 20th century significant and endangered monographs documenting the Catholic tradition.

November 17, 2003 -- Tom Teper, Head of Preservation at the University of Illinois - Urbana Champagne, will present "Preservation, Education, and the role of Preservation in Digital Technology," a lively lecture on the state of preservation in research libraries. Tom will discuss the complex preservation challenges posed by the proliferation of digital information, while also describing the continued importance of balanced comprehensive preservation programs for research collections.  Find link to this Power Point presentation here.

October 31, 2003 -- Bill Mischo, Engineering Librarian from the University of Illinois - Urbana Champagne, will be presenting a lecture on the application of the Open Archives Initiative Harvesting Project at Urbana Champagne. CANCELLED.

October 27, 2003 -- Cameron Tuai will present a lecture/discussion on process analysis. Find link to this Power Point presentation here.