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March 09 Newsletter Reference NOTES A Program of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities March 2009 Minitex (not MINITEX) and MnKnows Bill DeJohn, Minitex Director Inside This Issue Over the next few months, you will be watching our migration to a new name, Minitex (upper and lower case on Minitex), and a new name for a new portal Minitex (not MINITEX) and MnKnows 1 site, MnKnows, (or, read it, Minnesota Knows, if you prefer). MnKnows will provide single-site access to Ada Comstock – Educator the MnLINK Gateway, ELM, Minnesota Reflections, and Transformer 1 AskMN, and the Research Project Calculator – the Minitex services used most by the general public. For more information about these changes, see the article Library Technology Conference “And, What’s in a Name: MINITEX to Minitex and a new one, MnKnows” in Re-cap Information Commons 2 Minitex E-NEWS #93: http://minitex.umn.edu/publications/enews/2009/093.pdf The Keynote Speech of Eric Lease Morgan 2 Ada Comstock – Educator and Transformer Library 2.0 and Google Apps 3 Carla Pfahl E-Resource Management 4 March is Women’s History Month, and we thought it What Everything Has to Do would be a good idea to highlight a Minnesotan who with Everything 4 played a part in history by reshaping the higher education system for women. Ada Comstock was born in 1876 and Library Technology Programs for raised in Moorhead, MN. After excelling in the various Baby Boomers and Beyond 4 schools Ada attended, she graduated from high school The Opposite of Linear: early and began her undergraduate career at the age of 16 Learning at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in 1892. After for Digital Natives 4 two years, she transferred to Smith College in Northampton, MA, and found the focus on a woman’s Happy Birthday, AskMN! 5 education more fitting to her needs. By 1899 she had From Our Colleagues! 6 Ada Comstock received a master’s degree in English, history, and educa- tion from Columbia University in New York. And from our Minitex family… 8 Upon her return, Ada took a fellowship position with the University of Minnesota in 1900 and quickly moved up to an assistant professor position within four years. By 2.0 Tools in 2.0 Minutes 9 1907, she was appointed dean of women, and by 1909, she was promoted to the ALA and Woman’s Day 9 rank of professor. The Moorhead Daily News editor wrote of her “talent for dress- ing change in the garb of traditional values.” As dean she worked to improve the Small Towns with Big Library quality of all aspects of university life for women. One of her main concerns was to Programs 10 give women a place of their own within campus life. She was successful in raising funds for an all-women’s hall, Shevlin Hall, which provided meeting rooms, resting Minnesota Librarians among parlors, and eating facilities. Ada believed “intellectual attainment was inseparable Library Journal “Movers & Shakers” 10 from physical well-being and that the university was responsible for both.” In 1912, she accepted the position of dean of Smith College. Teleconferences 10 Continued on Page 2 The MINITEX Library Information Network is a publicly supported network of academic, public, state agency, and special libraries working cooperatively to provide and improve library service to patrons in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Following similar interests from her career at the The information commons is a student-centered University of Minnesota, Ada focused on the living learning base that includes three important features: conditions and well-being of Smith students, urging that physical well-being played a significant role in 1) A collaborative space that is social, warm, welcom- promoting intellectual attainment. Her accomplish- ing, and comfortable that facilitates student work. ments at Smith were great and well noted, but by 1923, it was time for her to move on to new chal- 2) A computer lab type space that is well lenges, and she accepted the esteemed position of equipped with technology and support including president of Radcliffe College. friendly, well trained librarians and IT staff. She was given the highest of praises from the presi- 3) A space where student influence is visible, i.e., dents of Smith and Harvard during her inaugural cer- relaxed food policy, vending machines. emony. Even with such praises, there was a lot of work to be done at Radcliffe with large looming Why would you want an information commons in problems such as no resident faculty and an under- your library? According to Stacey, it will bring stu- developed campus. Her time at Radcliffe see the dents into your library, encourage active learning and strengthening of both areas by creating a four mil- group projects, and expand the technology currently lion dollar endowment to the college even through available to patrons. Some services that can be the Depression and merging its courses with Harvard offered through an information commons include faculty. It was a long and tenuous process, and it library help, IT help, AV services (the Hub checks out was commented that she enjoyed every part of it. laptops to students), a student computing lab, and a However, by 1943, she felt her work at Radcliffe was MAC lab with student “experts.” The Hub also offers complete, and she retired. a “Power Bar” which is a place for students to check out iPhone and iPod adapters. In retirement, she remained as involved with higher education as ever, serving on the board of trustees To create an information commons, Stacey encour- for Smith College, receiving honorary degrees from ages working with campus experts. She worked both Harvard and Oxford, and working on various with student computing services, the teaching and educational committees. She also married Wallace academic support center, library public service and Notestein, Sterling professor emeritus of history at IT, and an architect and interior designer. Forming Yale University, shortly after her retirement. They had partnerships is key to creating an information com- known each other since their days as faculty mem- mons. Along with help from experts, Stacey also bers at the University of Minnesota. Throughout her depended on student focus groups for feedback. For career, she focused on a holistic approach to educa- more information on Stacey Greenwell and her tion and keenly understood the need of women to keynote presentation, please visit Stacey’s blog, The be integrated into campus life. Uncommon Commons at http://staceygreenwell.blogspot.com/. (Smith, Susan Margot. Ada Comstock Notestein: Educator. Women of Minnesota: Selected Biographical Essays. Edited by Barbara Stuhler and Gretchen The Keynote Speech of Kreuter. Minnesota Historical Society Press; 1977.) Eric Lease Morgan Matt Lee Library Technology Conference Re-cap On the afternoon of the first day of the Library Information Commons Technology Conference, Eric Lease Morgan of the Beth Staats University Libraries of Notre Dame took the stage for his presentation “Technology Trends & Libraries: So Stacey Greenwell, Head of the Many Opportunities.” He began with the mechanics Information Commons (the of identifying a tech trend, which is to take a specific Hub) at the University of technology and abstract it out one level. So the trend Kentucky William T. Young isn’t the iPhone so much as it is mobile computing. Library, was a keynote speaker It’s not the Prius so much as it is green technology. at the 2nd Annual Library The major trends that he sees in relation to libraries Technology Conference held on are smaller pieces of data, forming connections the campus of Macalester College. She spoke about between pieces of data, searching over organizing, her experience creating an information commons at and going beyond finding a piece of information to her institution in her presentation, Applying the help a searcher use that piece of information. Information Commons Concept in Your Library. Continued on Page 3 Page 2 Specifically, Mr. Morgan sees the need for a book- Using cartoon strips as reports may sound somewhat sized piece of information as more and more non- non-academic; however, students are still required to existent. Instead, people want to find direct answers study the same course material. It is the presentation to their questions, quickly. They don’t want to wade style that has changed. through text; they want just the relevant pieces of that text displayed for them. Wolfe uses various “free” tools available on the web to give her students many different venues for pre- Once that specific piece of data is found, the trend is senting work. Some sites require a login before use, toward having computers place that data in context. and others may have a special “Educators section” Mr. Morgan spoke in notable detail at this point with free tools not accessible by the general public. about the semantic web. In short, the semantic web They use cartoon generators, avatars, movie genera- is created by computers finding relationships tors, podcasting, and wikis. Some of the cartoon between pieces of information. If a computer generators they use are stripgenerator.com, toon- scanned Thoreau’s Walden, it would find repeated doo.com, and readwritethink.org/materials/comics. mention of Emerson, civil disobedience, and Wolfe noted that individual and group project work Concord, MA, among others. Small pieces of data has changed with the use of wikis. Now, all work is about these topics would be automatically related to available and viewable by all classmates, and com- Thoreau’s book by the semantic web. So the seman- ments are encouraged. Student now have a sense of tic web is more about connections than about con- accountability for the value of their work as well as crete data (see OCLC Symposium – From Linking to the value of their comments and teamwork.
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