Posters

Exploring New Methods of Content Delivery: Three Trial Approaches

Amelia Brunskill, Liaison Librarian for the Sciences, Dickinson College Maureen O’Brien Dermott, Asstistant Director of Access Services, Dickinson College

Over the last year, we started trials of three different approaches for content delivery in response to different needs of our users. (1) FacFlix: Faculty members wanted single use access to videos that we do not own and were not easily obtained through interlibrary loan. To meet their needs, we started a service through which faculty members could order films through a library NetFlix account. (2)“Pay per article” system: The Physics department wanted greater flexibility and immediacy in terms of accessing articles from journals outside of our subscriptions. In exchange for them agreeing to cancel some journals, we started a fund to support their direct purchase of articles from publisher websites or other article purchase services. (3) RapidILL: To aid in speedy access to journal articles though Interlibrary loan, thereby improving service to our patrons, we obtained a grant to implement RapidILL, a document delivery system comprised of over 120 member libraries who have agreed to provide electronic delivery of a journal article within 24 hours . We will discuss the impetus for these three trials, how we went about setting them up and our findings to date. Handouts: Rapid ILL Netflix Pay-Per-Article Trial

Extending a Green Hand: Environmentally Friendly Library Outreach Tips

Erin Dorney, Outreach Librarian, Millersville University

Are you concerned with the environmental footprint of your library? Do you cringe when making hundreds of paper copies of handouts? Learn how to implement “green” outreach methods for your institution. By using web tools (including social 2.0 tools like Facebook), creating virtual handouts, utilizing reusable displays, offering environmentally friendly incentives and more, you can experience amazing results: more value and visibility for your library while simultaneously helping the Earth! Handout: Extending a Green Hand

Impact Theories: Trends in Off-site Shelving Facility Use

Zack Lane, ReCAP Coordinator, Columbia University Libraries Colleen Major, Networked Electronic Resources Librarian, Columbia University Libraries

Libraries increasingly rely on off-site shelving to solve space problems. In 2002, Columbia University Libraries, NYPL and Princeton University opened ReCAP (Research Collections and Preservation), a shared high-density shelving facility. It now serves as Columbia University Libraries largest collection with 3.09 million volumes. Speed and convenience of access to off-site collections are high priorities for Columbia. Physical requests are normally delivered in one business day; patrons may also choose Electronic Document Delivery (EDD), in which staff scan and deliver articles by email. The authors’ research into patron use of ReCAP collections explores the growth and decline of EDD requests. In particular, data reflect a sharp decline in EDD requests from science collections. This poster session presents the authors’ investigation of impact theories about correlation and causality related to EDD request trends. Learning outcomes: Attendees will depart with a better understanding of factors that impact patron use of off-site shelving. Attendees will see an example of data-driven decision making in progress. Attendees will gain knowledge of the structure, use and history of a large academic libraries’ off-site shelving facility.

Pinpointing the answer: Simple faceted classification in Delicious

Emily Molanphy, Web Services Librarian, New York University Health Sciences Libraries Martin S. Nachbar, M.D., Director Emeritus, Division of Educational Informatics, NYU School of Medicine

This poster presentation will show how the authors used tag bundles in Delicious (f.k.a. del.icio.us) to create a pilot faceted browsing interface to share links for instructional multimedia. The poster will show that this kind of classification need not be difficult or formal, but can be done simply and quickly. The Division of Educational Informatics sought the library’s expertise in identifying resources to add to new online curriculum modules. They requested resources with a visual, interactive, or multimedia aspect. The author worked on the subject of Host Defense (i.e. the immune system). Appropriate links were discovered and entered in Delicious, the social bookmarking website. The tags were arranged into bundles: formats, subjects, access rules, and so forth. When the project is finalized, professors will be able to filter the sites by criteria such as images + malaria or quiz + library_resource. The poster will briefly show this project, explain the concept of faceted browsing within and beyond the world of libraries, and suggest that librarians can add faceted tag bundles to their existing collections of bookmarks in Delicious. The presenter will bring a laptop so viewers can try browsing the collection themselves. Poster PDF: Pinpointing the Answer

Using GIS in Libraries to Promote Geographic Information Literacy

Frank Donnelly, Geospatial Librarian, Baruch College Chris Tuthill, Information Services Librarian, Baruch College

This project illustrates how libraries can use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to create engaging online exhibits and study guides for the academic communities they serve. Our poster will showcase an interactive web-based mapping site that the Newman Library created using GIS. The web exhibit used electoral maps to help students learn about the election process and to improve their geographic information literacy. The maps offer a wealth of voting data from the US Census, and allow students to create their own map with different scenarios. Each slide displays a different electoral map to illustrate voting patterns in the states, with the goal of breaking down the simple red/blue dichotomy used in the media. Commentary accompanying each map outlines the electoral process for students and discusses the election. Our poster will reproduce many of the maps we used with additional commentary on what we did in each slide and how we accomplished our goals. To view the site here.