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help, i need somebody! help, not just anybody!

Published July 8, 2011 outreach Leave a Comment
Tags: government information, government resources section, help!, ncla

[update!]: Here is the recording and the slides of the resources for reserve soldiers session.

Help, you know I need someone!

They probably could have used a government docs specialist.

Our newest installment of Help! is next week. After that comes Resources for Reserve Soldiers. And Sunday comes after…wards.

So, these will be our last two for the rest of the summer. UNCG is switching to a new version of Elluminate and I need to probably learn it before providing tech support. We will gear up again in late August and early September. I will do a evaluation post at the end of July, if you are interested to know how the webinars have done by the numbers.

Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian presents … Resources for Guard and Reserve Soldiers and their Families

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.

Unlike Regular Army soldiers, members of the North Carolina National Guard and Army Reserve often live dozens or even hundreds of miles from their home stations, thus making it more difficult for those soldiers and their families to access the resources they might need. Federal depository libraries can play an important role in filling this gap and providing them information about such benefits. In this session on July 27, learn about how you can help the Guard and Reserve soldiers in your community obtain the assistance they and their families are entitled to. Topics covered include education benefits, debt relief, VA benefits and health care, military medical insurance (Tricare), and resources for spouses and children of deploying service members.

David Durant is Federal Documents & Social Sciences Librarian at J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University. He holds a library science degree from the University of Michigan. He served in the North Carolina National Guard from 2005-2010, deploying to Iraq from April 2009-January 2010 as part of the 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team.

We will meet together for Session #5, online on July 27 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (ET). Please RSVP for the Session by July 26 at 5:00 pm using this link: http://tinyurl.com/grs-session6

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).

Do patents scare the bejesus out of you? Well, this might be your cure…

Published June 29, 2011 outreach , teaching Leave a Comment
Tags: government resources section, help!, ncla, patents

Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian presents … Beyond Google: Effective Patent Searching in Every LibraryThe 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.

Whether you’re using them as a rich source of technical information or to determine if your invention is new and novel, patents are a valuable, complicated, and often underutilized public resource. On July 13, our fifth session will discuss patent searching tools, both those freely available over the Internet and those accessible only through Patent & Trademark Depository Libraries. We will also be discussing how to do a patent search, what you should and shouldn’t do when you’re helping patrons with patent questions, and the pros and cons of using Google Patents.

David Zwicky is currently the Engineering Services Librarian at North Carolina State University Libraries. He received an MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and an MA in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Hyun-Duck Chung is currently the Librarian for Management and Entrepreneurship at NCSU Libraries. She received her MISt degree in the Library stream, from the University of Toronto.We will meet together for Session #5, online on July 13 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (ET). Please RSVP for the Session by July 12 at 5:00 pm using this link: http://tinyurl.com/grs-session5

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).

Help! is off da hizzle! Up next the Economic Census

Published May 23, 2011 the profession Leave a Comment
Tags: government resources section, help!, webinar

GRS has schedule another free webinar for June 14. Don’t forget to sign up for the American Community Survey session on June 9, but mark your calendars now for an introduction to the Economic Census. fo shizzle!

Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian presents… the Economic Census – Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

In this fourth session we will be looking at the Economic Census. Libraries support regional economic development by providing specialized services and resources to entrepreneurs and small business owners; locating industry-related data which supports the development of strategy business plans is among these. The Economic Census is a rich source of free, reliable data for business planning which includes: industry size and growth rate; change in number of industry participants; staffing levels and wage rates; and much more. In this webinar, we’ll demonstrate how to use the Economic Census to find these and other data that business patrons will find useful.

Mary Scanlon is the Research and Instruction Librarian for Business and Economics at Wake Forest University where she has served for nearly seven years. Before earning her MLIS from Kent State in 2004, she held a number of corporate marketing positions; it was in the capacity as senior market research analyst that she began using the Economic Census, a discovery she made in the Government Documents room at her public library. She has been a fan and frequent user of the census for several decades and enjoys sharing her appreciation of this resource with others.

We will meet together for Session #4, online on Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (EDT). Please RSVP for the Session by June 13 at 5:00 pm using this link: http://tinyurl.com/grs-session4

Technical requirements for Webinars: 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.

These sessions will be recorded and made available after the live sessions, linked from the NCLA GRS web page.

The Help! Series. Up next DATA!!!!!!

Published May 11, 2011 outreach 1 Comment
Tags: government resources section, help!, ncla

We just finished our second webinar in the Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian presents series. The slides are below. Up next we have …

Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian presents… American FactFinder and Census 2010

In this third session we will be getting to know the new American FactFinder. The U.S. Census Bureau recently debuted a new interface for American FactFinder, its online database for distributing all data from its surveys. While the “legacy” interface is still available, it will be retired in September and the new interface will be the only option. Because the new interface is significantly different from the legacy one, users will want to begin familiarizing themselves with how it works. Enhancements will be made throughout the summer, so participants should expect a report on how it works right now and quirks to watch out for.

Michele Hayslett is the Data Services Librarian at the University Library of UNC at Chapel Hill. Previously, she was the Librarian for Data Services and Government Information at the NCSU Libraries from 2005 to 2008, and the Demographics Specialist at the State Library of North Carolina from 2000 to 2005. Census data has been a significant focus of her work throughout this time. At UNC, she is also one of the co-chairs of the Data Management Committee, which is working with campus partners to benchmark data management practices on campus and to assist researchers in formulating their data management plans for grant proposals. M.S.L.S., 1999, UNC at Chapel Hill; B.A. with honors, 1990, Earlham College.

We will meet together for Session #3, online on Thursday, June 9, 2011 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (EDT). Please RSVP for the Session by June 8 at 5:00 pm using this link: http://tinyurl.com/grs-session3

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).

Session 2 of Accidental Gov Info Librarian coming your way!

Published April 19, 2011 conferences , outreach Leave a Comment
Tags: genealogy, government information, government resources section, tutorial

The NCLA Government Resources Section’s webinar series is up and running. We had a hugely successful kick-off webinar covering the basics of government information. At least 50 people participated with many logging on from a classroom with multiple attendees. We even had attendees from outside of NC. Remarkable turnout!

Up next we will be doing a subject I know absolutely nothing about, so I’m really excited. More information is below and I hope you can join us. I will post the calendar of events soon, but we have two sessions in the works for June–one on the Economic Census and other on the Census 2010. We are also planning sessions on patents and another on military history and documents.

Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian Presents…Genealogy Using Government Information!

Our second session, “Genealogy Using Government Information,” will explore the different government resources you will use when researching family history. The most frequently used and obvious documents are from the U. S. Census Bureau. We will also cover online products from other sources, such as databases, libraries, state and local government offices, maps and photographs.

Leader for the second session will be Jane Johnson. Jane is a librarian in the special collections area of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. The Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room houses genealogical materials, state and local government documents, maps, and images. She began her library employment in 1996 and received her MLIS from the University of South Carolina in 1998.

We will meet together for Session #2: “Genealogy Using Government Information”, online on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (EDT).

Please RSVP for the Session #2 by May 10 at 5:00 pm using this link: http://tinyurl.com/grs-session2

Accidental GovInfo Librarian series kicks off and kicks butt!

Published April 15, 2011 outreach , teaching 1 Comment
Tags: anarchy, godort, government information, government resources section, tutorial

The North Carolina Library Association’s Government Resources Section kicked off its Accidental Gov Info Librarian webinar series! If you missed it, the slides and the session recording are below. Join us for the next webinar on Genealogy and Government Information on Wednesday, May 11 at 12:00-1:00 pm (EDT). You can sign up for this second session using our handy form. Deadline for RSVP is May 10 at 5:00 pm. More information coming soon!

It was so exciting to have a number of participants from outside of North Carolina join the session! I tweeted about the event during the Depository Library Council and it went a bit viral. The interest in this session demonstrates a desire for virtual training sessions, and getting this organized wasn’t difficult. Mostly it was a matter of finding someone who was willing and had the knowledge to present in the first session. Luckily our GRS Chair knew someone, Bryna Coonin from East Carolina University, who could present on this topic and do a good job.

Ultimately the technical part isn’t a huge hurdle. A bigger hurdle is dealing with the demands (or expectations) of perfection. It just isn’t going to be an absolutely perfect situation (or even remotely analogous to the in-person presentation), but thems the breaks kid. Technology just requires that we be adaptable.

And, here’s where adaptability matters. The recording is less than ideal, but it works. We learned an important thing about our Elluminate room yesterday. The DE librarian had another session before ours and for some reason the recordings of both merged into one. Here is the awesome, super special, two for the price of one recording. The other session is on our not quite ready for prime-time Instructional Tech Toolkit. To get to the gov info session you can fast forward the video to the 2 hour mark using the controls at the very bottom of the screen. At first I was annoyed with the glitch, but in reality the session went well, we had few tech problems during the session, and ultimately the recording WORKS! If anything these glitches encourage us to practice my fave (and new) philosophy of librarianship: “Adapt and move on!”

Hope you enjoy! And please join us for the next webinar!

Help! I’ve got govdocs dust in my eye!

Published March 24, 2011 outreach , work Leave a Comment
Tags: anarchy, government information, government resources section, ncla, webinar

I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian…

My apologies to anyone who has used this title before, but well, you know, creativity and all that. Anyway, the NCLA’s Government Resources Section is trying out a webinar series starting in April and (fingers-crossed) having one once a month through the summer. Upcoming topics will include law, Economic Census, and lots more (maybe even military history??). I’ve opened this up to anyone hoping that our Elluminate software can manage it. Hope you can join us! It is a great prof dev opportunity to put on the pesky annual report.

Feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions (or concerns). We can commiserate over a froyo.

Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian…

For many reference staff, even those with years of reference experience, integrating government information into our ‘reference toolkit’ can be a daunting prospect. The proliferation of electronic government information means that reference staff will be expected to have knowledge of government information that was previously largely the purview of government documents staff.

Our first session, “The Basics,” provides a general, basic overview of government information as it pertains to reference work. What types of information flow from the three branches of government that are important to your patrons? What major portals are most useful for finding U.S. Government information? What types of government statistics are available and how can they be found? What basic knowledge do I need to effectively locate government information?

The introductory session will be followed over the next few months by more specialized government information sessions on congressional materials, legal materials, government information for business, statistical resources, historical/genealogical resources, science, state-level information, and more.

Leader for the first session, “The Basics,” will be Bryna Coonin, M.L.I.S, M.B.A. Bryna served as a graduate student at UNC Libraries in the mid-1980’s for the late Ridley Kessler. She has worked as a reference librarian at the University of Georgia, NC State University, and is currently at Joyner Library, East Carolina University (ECU). Bryna taught basic reference for the School of Information & Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill and basic reference and government documents courses for the graduate library school program at ECU. A longtime member of NCLA, she has chaired both the Reference & Adult Services Section (RASS) and the Government Resources Section (GRS).

We will meet together for Session #1: The Basics, online on Thursday, April 14, 2011 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Please RSVP for the Session #1 by April 13: http://tinyurl.com/grs-session1

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

hello NCLA executive board and farewell #libday6

Published January 29, 2011 the profession Leave a Comment
Tags: government resources section, librarydayinthelife, lilly, meetings, ncla, rass

This is the last day of my fourth go at Library Day in the Life and I’m the Data Services & Government Information Librarian at the University of NC at Greensboro.

I spent the entire day at the North Carolina Library Association Executive Board meeting. The chair of the Government Resources Section asked me to attend because I’m the incoming chair. I also ended up representing Reference and Adult Services Section because the section’s chairs had other commitments. It was an interesting experience. I am on governing committees at the university, so I am accustomed to Robert’s Rules of Orders, but it is always fun to compare different groups that use the orders. Some are very strict about following procedure and others make a passable attempt. I definitely prefer meetings that have some kind of order or control. It doesn’t need to be Robert’s Rules, but an outline or agenda that is followed is a definitely must. It keeps meetings from devolving into venting sessions. Beth Filar Williams at UNCG has a great outline that provides a topic, the discussant, and a time estimate, and generally it keeps us on time and focused so the meetings always seem productive.

The overarching theme of the meeting was NCLA’s financial troubles because of declining membership. If you are an NC librarian and not a member, I strongly encourage you to take a look at the association. The sections within it are small enough that you can become quickly involved in the leadership (I was the Secretary-Treasurer of the Government Resources Section after five months as a professional librarian and on the board of the Reference and Adult Services Section after a year). The sections put on good programming–GRS held a SimplyMap training in conjunction with Business Librarianship in NC this past fall, for example. I’ve been trying to do more data programming with the GRS, but we also hope to have virtual workshops on supporting government information that will be open to anyone. Come join us. While yes, joining costs money, it provides a quick and easy way to get involved and make your name in this state. If you joined in the past and didn’t get much out of it, try again. The sections have new blood and are looking to be responsive to the needs of the membership. So, that’s my pitch. Get out; get involved.

And that may be it for library day in the life. I don’t think I’ve ever kept up for an entire round before! It is an interesting exercise to document your days so closely. It isn’t my favorite approach to blogging as I prefer the reflective posts, but I think it serves its purpose as a snapshot of our librarian days.

So, what’s on board for next week? Oh, lots! I’m attending an American FactFinder training for its new interface, teaching our interns about congressional research, and then at the end of the week, presenting at the Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching! It is a fun conference with a nice combination of faculty, librarians, and course development staff. Friday morning I’ll be presenting with Jenny Dale and Amy Harris on classroom interactivity. We are all doing some research to beef up this presentation, which we did a version of at the Metrolina Information Literacy Conference, and I was assigned Practical Pedagogy for Library Instructors. Lots to do! More info about all of this and posts from Lilly Conference are on tap for next week.

Digital Initiatives at the State Library of North Carolina

Published October 20, 2009 conferences Leave a Comment
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These are notes from the session called “Digital Government Resources from the State Library” from the NCLA conference. These notes are rough and I will add the PowerPoint as soon as possible.

Jennifer Davison, Head of the Government Documents branch, highlighted a variety of digital projects from the NC State Publications Collection to NC Mosaic to the Historical NC Census Data.

state library and state archives work together, but are different; trying to work more together; jennifer works with govt & heritage library; overlap with state archives in some things they collect (public records)
Digital information management program: created to deal with born digital, especially preservation
NC Mosaic: launched in May; finding government info collections of content at other institutions; mostly county, state, and academic collections
NC historical census data: full text searchable and hand colored maps
state publications collection: NC state agency produced publications; started adding content year ago or so; covers a wide range of material; want to start adding mp3 files; this collection will increase because of the Ensuring Democracy project & NC ECHO digitization project; doing large serial runs; about 200 titles; some non-state docs but most state pubs; UNC is scanning
NC state government web site archives: state library has been doing this for 4 years; can look at NC state agencies back to 1996; working to harvest current web sites; will expand state agency social media sites too!!; including user comments, updates, etc.
future: create educational website on preservations geared for government agencies; more partnerships with academic and within state government; develop a digital preservation plan
NC digital repository: primary focus is state agency info; with mosaic adding county info
NC mosaic has tremendous potential for helping with tough questions about collections

Exploring NC Economic Development Intelligence System

Published October 18, 2009 conferences Leave a Comment
Tags: blinc, data, government resources section, ncla

These are notes from the NC EDIS session at NCLA. This session was co-sponsored by the Government Resources Section and BLINC. These notes are rough, but hopefully interesting.

Tammy Lester presented on the NC Economic Development Intelligence System on Thursday, October 8 (Day 2 of NCLA).

NCEDIS was developed in conjunction with sas, esri, zencos
can give detailed data to state employees, local employees, and development specialists; state libraries may be able to get some data
summary statistics are the primary focus
seamless integration with GIS; use for reporting
data sources are census, consumer expen, commuting data, crime, weather, education, spatial data, retail potential, some trend analysis, buildings and sites
goal is to provide good data to public and companies to help them make good decisions about economic choices
new website will have data type buttons: demographic, business, mapping buttons
buildings & sites: spatial accuracy will increase; will be able to look at the building using google maps; ready about december 31
business listings are only for economic developers; can email tammy to get more lists
focus most on manufacturing (about 12,000 data points)
in county & state reports: can compare counties using the county profiles; come out as pdfs–> focuses more on the most used data
county custom allows you to extract data; can choose any variables –> much more detailed data
crime and weather data are purchased
also can do by regions and specific counties in regions; regions are economic development regions
mapping: google map like; can choose data for a point and then create a radius around it; can go 150 miles for radius
more focused on economic development and more current data than LINC; linc good for one data point and getting detailed info on generation of the data; ncedis more about the info as a package

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Do patents scare the bejesus out of you? Well, this might be your cure…

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The Help! Series. Up next DATA!!!!!!

Session 2 of Accidental Gov Info Librarian coming your way!

Accidental GovInfo Librarian series kicks off and kicks butt!

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hello NCLA executive board and farewell #libday6

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