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summertime = watermelon, birthdays, and ala #ala2012

Published June 16, 2012 conferences Leave a Comment
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I’ve been posting like crazy but that always happens in June. This month is full of three things I love: watermelon with salt, my birthday, and conferences! The watermelon has started getting tasty this week.

yum

The birthday is still a couple of weeks away. But, the trifecta of IASSIST, Metrolina, and ALA kicked off and we are getting into the home stretch.

I’m following the trend of posting where I will be headed (in general) at ALA. I’m not presenting, but will be writing for Against the Grain again this year. If you have a great story to share, stop me and say hi! I have some committee duties, but I will try to get around as much as possible. Maybe I will see you there!

If you wonder why people write these posts, try it. You’ll have a much better understanding of the realities of your schedule than you can get just slapping events on the calendar.

Friday, June 22:

  • 10: Going to a session on the Proquest Congressional migration both for ATG and for my own work. LexisNexis had a great product in Congressional so I’m a wee bit wary of this.
  • 1: ACRL Leadership Council session for both the Data Interest Group and for the Law and Political Science Section
  • 3: Emerging Leaders poster session (ELs REPRESENT!)
  • 5:30: The Government Documents Round Table happy hour
  • 7:30: LPSS Executive Board meeting
  • 8:30: Splitting time between the ALA emerging leaders veteran/newbie meet-up and the LPSS reception
  • 10: D.A.N.C.E. party

Saturday, June 23:

Sunday, June 24:

  • 8:30: LITA’s dataone program
  • 10:30: The International Relations Committee Near East & South Asia Subcommittee program on the Arab Spring
  • 1:30: The CQ award ceremony
  • 3:30: Meetings for ATG
  • That night there are a few overlapping receptions (GODORT, NMRT, LITA, LIS). I will see where the flow takes me!

Monday, June 25:

  • 8: Proquest awards ceremony. I’m very excited about this one. ASERL is winning the award for their Collaborative Federal Depository Program.
  • 12: Work at the ACRL booth
  • 1:30: GODORT general members meeting
  • 2:45: Librarian wardrobe panel discussion
  • 5:30: Battledecks!

What are you up to at ALA?

The librarian just gets it!: Metrolina Information Literacy Conference

Published June 15, 2012 conferences , teaching 1 Comment
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Metrolina, the Charlotte area library association, has been organizing an excellent conference each year on information literacy. As promised here are my notes. The powerpoints should be up on their site soon.

Fostering a community of collaboration: scaffolding the student research process presented by Amy Burns, Jaime Pollard-Smith (CPCC)

I have a huge library crush on Amy Burns and the folks at Central Piedmont Community College, so I was excited to see her session. This year she presented with an English instructor at CPCC with whom she has worked closely. They ran the session like a mock class to explain how they scaffolded the research process. Basically the professor prepared the students to come to the library session with three activities:

  1. A loop quickwrite: The student writes down a topic they think they would want to research and then they free-write for a set amount of time about the topic. The professor then asks them to pick something from their free-write that is most interesting and circle or star it. They then free-write for one minute about the circled thing. They circle something from that and free-write for thirty seconds. The professor then asks the students: “What happened as you were writing?” and “Why are we doing this before the library class?”   These questions get them talking about narrowing down the research topic.
  2. 20 questions: The day before library session she asks them to get up and go around classroom asking classmates for questions about their topic. Each classmate is supposed to give the student one question. (I really like this activity and will definitely use it in my PSC class. May also use in library instruction.)
  3. Ticket to the library session: Before students may enter the library session room, they must have on a sheet of paper answers to the following questions: What is my topic? Why am I interested in my topic? What do I hope to learn from my research? They also must give their research question and do a short prewrite exercise answering the question “what do I already know about my topic?”  (This is fabulous as it forces the students to do the kind of thinking we wish they would do pre-session!)
@ the Library session Amy does several activities. These are just a few she mentioned:
  • Shows Eli Pariser Ted talk on filter bubbles
  • Talks about how Google tailors content and ads for your personal information
  • Talks about evaluating information: who created it? Why was it created? When was it created? Will it work for this assignment? 
  • Asks them to compare the sites (http://martinlutherking.org/ and http://www.thekingcenter.org/)
  • Then they go to the library website and she gives them time for individual research

They talked about their high level of trust and collaboration, which allows them to have a strong research experience for their students. Jaime also mentioned that she includes Amy’s information and name in the syllabus and refers to her by name (rather than saying “Go to the library!”). This creates a personal relationship (and an embedded experience) for the students! Just shows you don’t need a formal personal librarian program to create a personal relationship!

The Feedback Loop: Student Reflection on Research, Writing, and Information Literacy presented by Jennifer Arnold (CPCC)

Jennifer is the Director of the CPCC libraries and teaches English composition classes. She had a lot of great references in her presentation, but I couldn’t catch them all. Plus she just had a lot of great information. Below are some highlights. Here is the prezi for the full picture.

Her big idea was reflection as part of the research process. She had students complete a reflection assignment at end of their writing workshop (1 week before paper due). It asked them 6 questions around these topics: comfort using lib and why or why not; what have learned; how writing process improved; what learn about thesis writing, citing, plagiarism.
She also mentioned in her session that knowing the librarian as a person and knowing that the librarian is familiar with the assignment lessens student anxiety. It means that they don’t have to explain the assignment to the librarian. The librarian just gets it. (Another point for embeddedness!)
Another interesting insight from her session is that a student mentioned that she wasn’t sure how dominant the research should be in the paper. In other words should it be more her own views or the research that presents itself? Our students can so rarely articulate this point, but it is definitely something I see them struggling with so often. How do you explain this to a student? Do you have ideas for activities we could do to help students with this skill?
The value of evaluation; faculty and librarians teaming up to advance Information Literacy presented by Brian Mooney, Joe Eshleman (JWU)
They discussed a collaborative project to help students with ACRL IL standard 3 on evaluation of resources in a science class. Joe discussed the main criteria for evaluation and then talked about their project. They give an assignment in which the students must provide a good website and a bad website based on evaluation criteria presented in the library session. They have 48 hours to send their assignment to Joe, the librarian, who then grades and sends them to the professor.  The professor mentioned that they took the assignment seriously because it was tied to their class grade. This is a pretty good model for creating a collaborative assignment. My favorite part of the session was when he described his model for their collaboration as a “three legged stool” and that students, librarians, faculty working together is the platform for learning. I guess learning sits on top of us? :)
Again, Metrolina was a great conference. My absolute favorite moment is below. Seeing a current intern, Heather Helms, present her poster to a successful former intern, Kathy Shields from High Point University, brought a smile to my face! They grow up so fast… ;)

Heather, Kathy, and Amy at poster session

My second favorite moment was seeing JESSAMYN WEST!!!!!! Squeeeee! Ahem, I mean Jessamyn West gave a lovely and funny talk on the Myths and Facts about the Digital Divide. Her materials are all linked and excellent and I was so in awe that my notes are pretty much useless. Go see what she has. The top takeaway point for me was that the digital divide isn’t just a device divide, but also and more importantly a cultural divide. Those who are the have not’s typically do not have a culture of connectedness that the have’s do. When you think about the argument that way it really hits home why this problem is a) still a problem, b) not easily surmountable, and c) typically discussed  in terms that obscure its complexity. Thank you Metrolina for bringing a library goddess to be your keynote speaker. You made this librarian’s summer.

Beyond the Basics presentation @Metrolina #mlail2012

Published June 15, 2012 conferences , outreach , teaching Leave a Comment
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Yesterday was the 7th Annual Metrolina Information Literacy Conference, always a fun and informative conference. The sessions were fabulous and we heard from Jessamyn West! I will post my notes later, but here are the materials from my presentation with Jenny Dale on teaching upper-level students. We developed the presentation because there is a tendency at information literacy discussions/conferences to assume the target audience is first-year students. Those of us teaching upper-level students don’t get quite the same amount of attention. It can be difficult to adapt materials designed for entry-level students to classes with students who have some background in research and their discipline.

We are going to try to do some workshops on this topic, so if you attended and have suggestions or ideas, please let us know!

Here is the information from our handout, if you are interested or didn’t get one. We only made 20 and we ended up with around 40 attendees! Thank you to everyone who attended! It was a great group.

oh this is fun … vintage data pecha kucha

Published June 13, 2012 conferences 3 Comments
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Walter from York University just sent me a recording of my pecha kucha from IASSIST 2011. Good lord I was nervous, but man was that fun!

IASSIST needs to start recording more of its events and presentations! Maybe that is a job for membership.

IASSIST sings! @iassistdata #iassist2012

Published June 12, 2012 conferences 2 Comments
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This is a test of my ability to work my fancy iPhone.  I will transfer this file to IASSIST once I figure how to do so.

In the meantime here is a true IASSIST tradition (meaning something we have done more than one time): The Conference Song. Way to go Walter!

(Sorry for the shakiness and my snort at one point. I was asked to do this 5 seconds before it began)

Government Information is HOT

Published June 1, 2012 conferences Leave a Comment
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Did that get your attention? Well, good. Because government information is hot. Especially now that the ASERL Collaborative Federal Depository Program has won the GODORT Documents to the People Award for being hot. And, well, for their strong vision of a collaborative future for the depository program. And their commitment to the preservation of our government’s heritage. Plus we are going to have a big party for them at ALA. All of that’s hot.

I’ll stop with the hotness in a second, but you know what else is hot? The Census. The 1940 Census was so hot that news shows ran feature stories on its release. I even saw one feature that mentioned that you could get help at the library! The library in the news? In a good way?! The Census is damn hot.

Why all the hotness? Today the North Carolina Library Association’s Government Resources Section had its annual workshop and business meeting. Our group is not big but we have a huge impact. From our webinar series to our active participation in ASERL’s CFDP we are hot. Below are notes. If you weren’t there, you missed out. Big time.

FDLP Update (Beth Rowe, UNC-Chapel Hill)

Beth talked mostly about the FDLP Forecast Study to develop a strategic plan for the overall program. The individual surveys are due June 30, but we also need to develop statewide survey answers and an action plan. She also talked about the ASERL program briefly.

  • individual forecast – use forecast answers to answer 2013 biennial
  • state forecast – Beth will schedule conference calls with interested people
  • state action plan – five most important initiatives for state; last state plan was 1980 (!)
  • UNC will be a Center of Excellence for Y4 hearings (also univ of florida)
  • ASERL only viable program dealing with future of fdlp in a realistic way (HOT)
  • She also mentioned this CRS Report on the Issues facing the Federal Depository Library Program

State Documents Update (Jennifer Davison, State Library of North Carolina)

Come to Your Census: An Overview of the U.S. Census from its Inception to the Present Day (Bryna Coonin)

Bryna gave a great presentation on the highlights of the Census through the years. Below are the main ones I caught.

  • 1820 – start to include agriculture, manufacturing, commerce questions within the regular census
  • 1830 – enumerators were given actual forms for first time
  • 1840 – “insane and idiot” added; was correlated with race and then tried to correlate to geographic location (northern blacks were more insane than southern) and later shown to be an error (!)
  • 1850 – first time names of every person listed; slave schedules but no names
  • 1870 – literacy broken into reading and writing; first time free blacks are included
  • 1880 – relationship with household; administration of census changed; supplemental schedule on “delinquent classes”
  • 1890 – began using mulatto, etc; name schedules for most states burned; Kellee Blake’s “First in the Path of the Fireman” discusses what really happened; fire destroyed on 25% of census and government ineptitude destroyed rest; have been efforts to rebuild from other local admin records
  • 1900 – asked questions about year of immigration to US, number of years married, date of birth
  • 1910 – Department of Commerce was in charge and was able to plan early for census
  • 1920 – Charlie Chaplin in LA (HOTNESS!); first time majority of Americans live in urban places
  • 1930 – addition of Guam, Virgin Islands, etc; in January 1931 did additional census of unemployment; Asked questions on homemaker status and tv sets
  • 1940 – begin sampling
  • 1950 – 48 states and dc; intro standard metropolitan statistical area
  • 1960 – 100% and sample questions on separate forms;
  • 1970 – mailed forms; summary files begin
  • 1980 – mandate for block data; significant increase in proportion of children living with only one parent
  • 1990 – TIGER files and cd-roms emerge; carpooling questions
  • 2000 – multiple race option
  • 2010 – 308 million people; afraid public not cooperate with electronic submission

The ASERL Collaborative Federal Depository Program: An Overview/Becoming a Center of Excellence: One Selective’s Experience (John Burger, ASERL/David Durant, East Carolina University)

John Burger gave an overview of the program about which you can learn more on their website.

  • ASERL is 40 research libraries; all volunteer organization until 1990; John is executive director and has a part-time staff person
  • Difficulty with documents is they suffer from the free like beer or free like puppy problem
  • The ASERL CFDP  affirms collections are an asset to the southeast
  • Start with proof of concept with University of Florida, University of Kentucky, South Carolina
  • Goal is two comprehensive collections throughout the southeast region through Centers of Excellence (can be a COE based on an agency, topic, or format)
  • 30 libraries are participating; 187 sudocs adopted; 5 stems have 2 COEs already

David Durant talked about East Carolina University’s ASERL Center of Excellence for the House Un-American Activities Committee and its successor. They chose HUAC because of their J. Edgar Hoover collection. David’s big goal is to fill in gaps for the pre-1950 materials (ECU became a depository in 1951). David will do a “Help!” webinar on HUAC content in July (HOT!)

And finally, thanks to Elon University’s Belk Library for hosting us.

The days are just packed … with data

Published May 30, 2012 conferences Leave a Comment
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IASSIST, the data professionals conference, is coming! It will be a packed week including two days of pre-conference administrative meetings. :)

And here are the sessions I have on my schedule. I’ll add notes/links to presentations as the become available, if you are interested.

Day 1, June 6

Plenary: Creating new types of data from documents and administrative records: a use case from science policy, Julia I. Lane, Senior Managing Economist, American Institutes for Research (AIR)

Session 1: Research Data Management: assessments and planning

  • DataONE: A Glimpse into the Practices of Data Managers, Eleanor J Read, University of Tennessee
  • DMVitals: A Data Management Assessment Recommendations Tool, Sherry Lake, University of Virginia Library
  • Data Management Planning for Secure Services (DMP-SS), Fortunato D Castillo, UCL Institute of Child Health
  • Data in Common(s): Collaborative Models for Robust Data Support, Samantha Guss, New York University

Session 2: Institutional Repositories and Data

Session 3: Pecha Kucha A

Day 2, June 7

Plenary: Managing Federal Research Data, Mike Wash, Chief Information Officer, US National Archive (NARA)

Session 1: Collaboration and Data Support

  • The Power of Collaboration Throughout the Data Life Cycle: Case Studies From OCUL and Beyond, Amber Leahey, Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries
  • Johns Hopkins University Data Management Services: Reviewing Our First Year, David S Fearon, Johns Hopkins University
  • Establishing collaborative networks in supporting data, Carol M Perry, University of Guelph
  • Integrating Numeric, Statistical, and Geospatial Data Services for Graduate Students, Maria A Jankowska, UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library

Session 2: Supporting online access to geospatial, micro-, and qualitative data

  • VizLab: A Tool for the Interactive Exploration of Geospatial Election Data on the Web, Adam Schaal, The Center for Socio-Political Data, Sciences Po University,
  • Open source solutions for open microdata: The IHSN Tools, Matthew Welch, The World Bank
  • Implementation of DDI in the National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico, Eric M Rodriguez, National Institute of Statistics and Geography

Session 3: Data Professionals

  • Archives as a market regulator, or how can archives connect supply and demand?, Laurence Horton, GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
  • Spline and demand: a profession interpolates, Jennifer A Green, University of Michigan Library
  • The State of Education for Data Curation and Librarianship, Susan R Rathbun-Grubb, University of South Carolina, School of Library and Information
  • Data Management Training to Support Faculty Research Needs: Lessons Learned, Ryan Womack, Rutgers University Libraries

Day 3, June 8

Session 1: Data management and curation interest group presents: Managing government data assets

Session 2: Data Stewardship: Increasing the Integrity and Effectiveness of Science and Scholarship

Plenary: Expanding Access to the Agricultural Resource Management Survey: USDA’s Experience with Remote Data Analysis Using the NORC Data Enclave

  • Mary Bohman, Economic Research Service Administrator, USDA Economic Research Service (ERS)
  • Joseph T. Reilly, National Agricultural Statistics Service Acting Administrator, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)
  • Mitch Morehart, Deputy Director for Data and Staff Analysis, USDA Economic Research Service (ERS)

libraryland learning (summer edition)

Published May 13, 2012 conferences , the profession 1 Comment
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I love talking with my students, faculty, and colleagues, but sometimes I need an infusion of fresh ideas and adventures. That’s why I love summertime. Two major conferences take place in May and June (IASSIST and ALA). Plus everyone reserves the summer months for workshops and off-campus meetings. These may seem like frivolous things to an outsider (or my non-libraryland partner), but I am better able to do and more excited about my job after a fresh infusion of networking and learning.

Take for instance our workshop last week. UNCG’s Liaison Task Force has been asked to look at our liaison duties and develop a possible model for the future. The problem right now is that our workloads have increased dramatically, but we haven’t had an increase in staffing. Same as everywhere, right? Well, we’ve been talking about this issue for a while and haven’t decided anything. Luckily the task force was asked to benchmark with other schools. Rather than just calling up Wake Forest and asking them “Hey, how do you do it?” Steve Cramer called together a joint meeting with the key players from Wake Forest and liaisons from UNCG.

UNCG and WFU Liaison Meeting

The session started off with us brainstorming all of the things we do as liaisons onto sticky notes, and then Roz Tedford and I then grouped them into categories like consultations, faculty outreach, teaching, etc. Next we talked about our workloads with most tasks increasing in work time spent on them.

The category “keeping with the subject area”, which means reading key journals and staying abreast of new research, is an area in decline. Very unfortunate considering we are subject specialists too, in my opinion. I wonder if this is the area to examine in the future: a divide between the liaison (someone who does more outreach tasks or maintains gobi aerts) and subject specialists (someone who can teach upper-level classes and do in-depth consultations). This model wouldn’t be a return to the bibliographer approach; neither the liaison nor the subject specialist would be devoted to just collections. Of course you could have one person be both, but that is more difficult for the bigger departments. I guess the real key is having a flexible system rather than just assuming a one-size-fits-all approach to liaison roles.

The meeting wrapped up with a brainstorming session on what we can do about this issue. In my small group were two tech services librarians who are also liaisons. They expressed discomfort with their expanding duties as liaisons because they felt their primary job duties were suffering. This brought up the tension between specialization and generalization. At UNCG we tend to assume our liaisons are generalists who can move easily between collection work and teaching/patron interactions. It assumes someone with no teaching experience can (and should) teach. Likewise someone with no collections experience can and should do collection duties. The problem I have with that assumption is that it seems to denigrate those tasks. I am not the best collections person, I’m a pretty good teacher. I’ve been doing it for a few years now. Plus (and this is key) I’ve trained and reflected and trained more to get better at it. It is something that I see as being integral to my job so I’ve put extra effort into it. I can’t say the same thing about collections. Does that mean I can’t get better at collections? No, I can train and reflect in that area too. But then we get back to the workload/time issue. When do I get better at a skill I use sparingly? And would putting my time into collections even be useful to the library in the long run, especially if it takes time away from public services (what I do best)?

So, that is where the meeting ended. The conversation will continue this summer, but the important outcome is that we are sharing ideas and thinking through our strengths, our weaknesses, and where we have room for improvement. And that is what summertime should be about!

As I mentioned I have a lot on my plate this summer. Below are the upcoming workshops if you are interested. I will try to blog reflections on each.

May 14-16: Office of Undergraduate Research Workshop on integrating research into undergraduate classes

May 17: Business Librarianship in NC workshop

May 18: NCBIG workshop on assessing library instruction sessions

May 21: NC-LITe meeting (Library Instructional Technology group)

June 1: NCLA Government Resources Section meeting on ASERL and the Census

June 6-8: IASSIST in DC!

June 14: Metrolina Library Instruction Conference

June 22-25: American Library Association annual conference in Anaheim

And then in July I will take vacation. I will not check email. I will sit back and unwind. I promise.

hey, hey data peeps! propose this! @iassistdata #iassist

Published January 4, 2012 conferences Leave a Comment
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All my data gods and goddess need to step up! The IASSIST 2012 conference is right around the corner and we need some awesome workshops. The info is below and the deadline is soon (Jan 16). You can also still propose Pecha Kuchas, posters, and round table discussions until Jan 16 on the website. The paper deadline has passed.

Call for Workshops

Data Science for a Connected World: Unlocking and Harnessing the Power of Information

The 38th International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) annual conference will be hosted by NORC at the University of Chicago and will be held at the George Washington University in Washington DC, June 4 – 8, 2012.

The theme of this year’s conferences is Data Science for a Connected World: Unlocking and Harnessing the Power of Information. This theme reflects the growing desire of research communities, government agencies and other organizations to build connections and benefit from the better use of data through practicing good management, dissemination and preservation techniques. Submissions are encouraged that offer improvements for creating, documenting, submitting, describing, disseminating, and preserving scientific research data.

Workshops details:
The conference committee seeks workshops that highlight this year’s theme Data Science for a Connected World: Unlocking and Harnessing the Power of Information.  Below is a sample of possible workshop topics that may be considered:

  • Innovative/disruptive technologies for data management and preservation
  • Infrastructures, tools and resources for data production and research
  • Linked data: opportunities and challenges
  • Metadata standards enhancing the utility of data
  • Challenges and concerns with inter-agency / intra-governmental data sharing
  • Privacy, confidentiality and regulation issues around sensitive data
  • Roles, responsibilities, and relationships in supporting data
  • Facilitating data exchange and sharing across boundaries
  • Data and statistical literacy
  • Data management plans and funding agency requirements
  • Norms and cultures of data in the sciences, social sciences and the humanities
  • Collaboration on research data infrastructure across domains and communities
  • Addressing the digital/statistical divide and the need for trans-national outreach
  • Citation of research data and persistent identifiers
  • The evolving data librarian profession

Successful workshop proposals will blend lecture and active learning techniques.  The conference planning committee will provide the necessary classroom space and computing supplies for all workshops.  For previous examples of IASSIST workshops, please see our 2010 workshops and our 2011 workshops. Workshops can be a half-day or full-day in length.

Procedure: Please submit the proposed title and an abstract of no longer than 200 words to Lynda Kellam (lmkellam@uncg.edu). With your submission please include a preliminary list of requirements including:

  • computer Lab OR classroom
  • software and hardware requirements
  • any additional expected requirements

Deadline for submission:  January 16, 2012
Notification of acceptance: March 2, 2012

Please contact Lynda Kellam, IASSIST workshop Coordinator, if you have any questions regarding workshop submissions at lmkellam@uncg.edu

IASSIST is an international organization of professionals working in and with information technology and data services to support research and teaching in the social sciences.  Typical workplaces include data archives/libraries, statistical agencies, research centers, libraries, academic departments, government departments, and non‐profit organizations.  Visit iassistdata.org  for further information.

IASSIST 2012
June 4 – 8, 2012
Washington DC, USA

-IASSIST 2012 Program Chairs: Jake Carlson, Pascal Heus and Oliver Watteler

PubMed, PubMed Central, Medlineplus. WTF?

Published December 8, 2011 conferences , outreach Leave a Comment
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Hello blog! Haven’t seen you in a while. Yes, it’s been a wild semester. More on that later, but first we have a webinar coming up! Join us!

Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian presents … PubMed, PubMed Central, and Medlineplus – What’s the difference? (Lea Leininger, Health Sciences Librarian at the University of North Carolina Greensboro)

The Government Resources Section of the North Carolina Library Association welcomes you to a series of webinars designed to help us all do better reference work by increasing our familiarity with government information resources, and by discovering the best strategies for navigating them.

Do you support health science students? Are you on the hunt for another non-Google tool for health questions from the general public? Maybe you’ve heard that PubMed, PubMed Central and MedlinePlus are great sources for reliable medical information, but you’re not sure which site is best for your needs.  If so, please attend our webinar on December 9 at 12 pm (EST).  A health sciences librarian will provide an overview of PubMed, PubMed Central, and MedlinePlus with some searches and links to additional information.  This session is designed to be a basic introduction for non-medical librarians, but librarians from all settings are welcome to attend.

Ms. Lea Leininger has been the Health Sciences Librarian at the University of North Carolina Greensboro since 2004. She is the liaison librarian for nursing, biology, public health education, nutrition, communication sciences and disorders, nanoscience, and genetic counseling. She has a BA in French, a BA in Humanities, and an MLIS from the University of Texas at Austin.

We will meet together for Session #11, online on December 9 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (EST). Please RSVP for the Session by December 8 at 5:00 pm using this link: http://tinyurl.com/grs-session11

Technical requirements: We will be using collaborative software called Elluminate. It requires that you be able to download Java onto your computer, but you do not need any special software. After you RSVP, we will send you a link that you can use to test the software. If you have any questions, please contact Lynda Kellam (lmkellam@uncg.edu). You do not need a microphone as a chat system is available in the software, but you do need speakers or headphones.


The session will be recorded and made available after the live session, linked from the NCLA GRS web page (http://www.nclaonline.org/government-resources).

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