Here is a link to a nice writeup in the most recent issue of the NASIG Newsletter about the presentation I made at this year’s NASIG conference with colleague Sarah Morris.
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NASIG presentation work
I am so thankful to have friend Sarah Morris as a partner in our upcoming NASIG presentation. She is always on top of things, always upbeat, always prepared. She has done the lion’s share of moving this whole project forward. Sarah was a 2006 NASIG Student Grant winner and like me is an alum of UIUC GSLIS. She currently works as library systems coordinator (and overseer of all things technical services-related, it seems) at a major international law firm in Chicago.
The theme for this year’s conference in Phoenix, AZ is “Taking the sting out of serials” and our presentation consciously tries to tie into that theme. We’ll be presenting on the topic of “E-Resource Management in the For-Profit World: Soothing the Sting.” There hasn’t been much in the way of past presentations that deal with serials and electronic resources management in special libraries that I can recall so I’m glad our proposal was accepted this year. As always, the coordination offered by the all volunteer efforts of NASIG members of the Conference and Program Planning Committees has been outstanding.
One aspect of our preparation that I wanted to highlight is the fact that Sarah and I have used Google Docs to work out what we want to present in terms of presentation slides, handouts, and outline. This has been the first time I’ve used Google Docs in a shared manner and it really has been easy and useful. What I would have given for such a collaboration tool when working on past presentations! We have definitely come a very long way.
Preparing for the next several weeks
I’m not sure why this is true but every year around this time life speeds up to hyperspeed and I wonder how on earth I will ever make it through. That’s the main reason why I haven’t posted much lately; I am rather overwhelmed.
One thing I’ve spent time on this weekend is preparing for my upcoming class for the LEEP program at UIUC GSLIS. I love teaching the course but it is a lot of work to prepare for it and to figure out how to make it fresh and new each time. And there is always room for improvement.
Then there is the online course I agreed last Fall to create for NASIG. That is due sometime in July. But even before that I need to complete preparations for my presentation at the upcoming NASIG conference in the second week of June. I’ll actually be co-presenting with friend Sarah Morris and we’ll be talking about managing electronic resources in special library settings.
All work-related projects seems to implode upon themselves at this time as well, and I am scrambling to keep up with lots of stuff there, too. One of my staff members left for greener pastures in March and he is strongly missed!
Sometime soon we will be going on a mini-vacation to do some fishing and enjoy the outdoors so that is something I’m really looking forward to. In addition, Keegan will be out of school soon.
This morning we went to church and I’m glad (as always) that we did, because we received refreshment and encouragement there. This afternoon we went to a few stores and mostly drove a bit in the countryside just north of us over the border into Wisconsin.
The next several weeks will be quite hectic but I know that our Heavenly Father will meet all our needs. Along that same vein, would you please pray for some people in my extended family and friends? My sister-in-law’s brother and his youngest son (age 11) suffered severe injuries and burns in an accident a week ago or so. They and their family need all the support and care they can get. Also, someone I wrote about some time ago, John Fawcett, who has battled a recurrence of cancer for several months, has decided to not continue any treatment. I imagine this means that he could die at any time and I know his wife and young children also desperately need prayer at this time.
This year’s crop of award winners from NASIG
I was pleased to get an email today announcing the winners of various annual awards from NASIG. NASIG generously gives out several different awards, but the highlight for me has always been the award for current Master’s level library and information science students. NASIG gives out several of these each year, and I was fortunate enough to be selected for one of them way back in 1991. Another highlight for me is the Mexico Student Grant Award, which I helped establish. This year’s crop of award winners includes a woman in the LEEP curriculum at my alma mater, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Congratulations to all the winners!
NASIG Conference Student Grant Award
Gregory Schmidt – University of Alabama
Sarah Morris – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lisa Harrington – Simmons College
Laura Baker – Simmons College
Mexico Student Grant
Martha Alejandra Alatorre Betancourt – Universidad Autonoma De San Luis Potosi Escuela De Bibliotecologia E Informacion
Fritz Schwartz Serials Education Scholarship
Claire Rasmussen – University of Wisconsin at Madison
Horizon Award
Jennifer Arnold – Central Piedmont Community College
Serials Specialist Award Winner
Wendy Lichte – Arizona State University