Welcome to the
Spring Reception!
1. The Year in Review – Cynthia Archer
2. MINES Update
3. The Eye-Opener - Library Information Systems
Acquisitions!
Archives
in
Action
Bibliographic Services
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MESH (Medical) Subject Headings
Ongoing work on RDA
Electronic theses and dissertations
New online journals:
– Historical Studies in Education, Litte Realite, Paul
Claudel Papers
• To Date:
– E-Books: 351,037
– E-Video: 3239
– E-Audio: 6912
Bronfman
• Created short online
modules on popular
research topics
• QR codes direct students
to the group study room
booking page
• Library orientation given
to first cohort of India
MBA students
Facilities
• Working with contractors to have
construction done on time for Learning
Commons
• Pitching in, making
sure each
Library event
is a success
Frost
• Taught IL classes to 2,400 – equal to the
entire student population at Glendon
• Switched print periodicals from alpha to
call numbers
• Completed a
shelf read of the
entire collection
Library Accessibility Services
Library Information Systems
• Mobile Version of VuFind
• MULER
• Mariposa 50th Anniversary digitization
project: Omeka
Map Library
• A year of ...
Microcomputer Support
• Active Directory
implementation
• LCD and PC
deployment for
Learning Commons
renovations: before
and after
Resource Sharing
• Racer upgrade in
December
• “Print from the Web”
pilot
• Removing photocopy
charges
• Joining CRL effective
May 1
Scott Circulation
Scott Reference
• Learning Commons
• Video Project
• Congratulations to Janet Cheng – Voice of
York Nominee
SMIL
• New acquisitions:
– 400 boxes from the Arpin collection of ragtime
sheet music
– 5000 educational online video titles
– 250 16mm films from the Toronto Reference
Library
Steacie Science Library
Pan-Library Achievements
• Education Resource Centre Migration
• Subject Guides and MULER Best bets
Grand opening and
dedication of
Lorna R. Marsden Salon
more than
a physical space
YUL and LC Partners:
• collaborate on
successful $196,000
AIF grant for Virtual
Learning Commons
• Deliver joint workshop
with CST on students’
challenges and
services available to
faculty (assignment
design, etc.)
Undergraduate mini-conference
Graduate Open House
at Steacie Library
Scholarly Communication
at York University October 18th - 24th, 2010
Movie Screening
Webinars
OA Presentation to Senate March 24, 2011
Andrea Kosavic and Lisa Philipps
Research
SSHRC grant collaboration:
Andrea Kosavic with Leslie Sanders (chief investigator)
The ORION-Shaw pilot
project is available
exclusively to schools that
are connected to Ontario’s
ORION research and
education network.
Lisa Sloniowski with Bobby Noble (chief investigator)
Research Chair in E-Librarianship
The IAINBAXTER&raisonnE is an innovative electronic collection, virtual exhibition
and research environment devoted to the life’s work of internationally-active
Canadian conceptual artist IAIN BAXTER&. The raisonnE seeks to expand and
transform the catalogue raisonné format into a collaborative scholarly
communications and learning zone.
excerpt:
Information Literacy
• IL Plan
• Assessment
– teaching assessment tools
– demonstrating impact on student success
• Experiential Education Leadership
– EE workshop for Librarians
– membership on Faculty of Health’s EE
working group
Staff Development
• Project Management Workshop
• TRY conference (attendees and
presenters)
• OLA
Conference
• LibQual Forum
New Faces
Initial Results
Overview
• Measuring the Impact of Networked
Electronic Services (MINES): an online,
transaction-based survey that collects data
on the purpose of use of electronic resources
and on the demographics of users.
• Short, 5 question web survey that is delivered
at the point of use, every 250 times an ejournal, or ebook is accessed from Scholars
Portal.
• Survey included all OCUL schools except U
of T, Algoma, and OCAD and ran Feb 2010 Feb2011
MINES for Libraries
A short web-based survey that intercepts a user as they
attempt to access an electronic resource.
Patron status:
Affiliation:
Location:
campus
Purpose of use:
Why they chose:
list
faculty, grad, undergrad
department
in library, on campus, off
funded/non-funded research,
teaching, coursework
important resource,
recommended, reading
Why OCUL Turned to MINES
• To capture in-library and remote web usage of the
OCUL Libraries eresources
• To identify the demographic differences between
in-house library users as compared to remote
users
• To identify users’ purposes for accessing OCUL’s
electronic services
• To develop an evaluation infrastructure to make
studies of patron usage of networked electronic
resources routine, robust, and integrated into the
decision-making process.
OCUL MINES 2004 vs 2010
OCUL I : 2004
• Randomly selected 2 hour periods each
month for a year
• Mandatory
OCUL II: 2010
• SFX as delivery mechanism
• Systematic sampling (every nth)
• Mandatory and optional versions
• Additional question: contact pool
RESPONSE RATE
RESPONSES BY department
Responses by status
RESPONSE BY LOCATION
LibQual Update
• The LibQual team is drafting an action
plan
• To be presented at Library Forum
• Look for further updates in the Fall!
Thank you everyone
for your hard work this year!
Enjoy the luncheon!
(See you again in August at the All-Staff Kickoff!)