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25 webinars in 2 years?! YES YOU CAN!

Published March 28, 2013 outreach 2 Comments
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I am pretty happy to announce this. The NCLA Government Resources Section has hit its 25th webinar in 2 years! Our first webinar presenter, Bryna Coonin, return to talk about the history of the US Census. It is hard to believe that we hit two years and 25 sessions, but yay! Help us celebrate by joining us! If you are interested in our previous webinars (or membership), you can find more information here: http://www.nclaonline.org/government-resources

Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian presents … “Come to Your Census: the development of the U.S. Census from its inception to the present”

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.

A census is a count of a country’s population as of a fixed date, to assess whether its population is growing, stable, or declining, and what the population looks like in terms of characteristics. Censuses have been taken since ancient times, but few censuses can rival the United States Census in richness and value for us as government information professionals. Mandated in 1787 as a mechanism for determining political representation for each state in the House of Representatives, the census has been taken decennially since 1790. Join us for a look at how this remarkable ongoing collation has developed and changed over the years, and how it provides researchers with vital information about changes in American society over time.
Bryna Coonin, M.L.I.S, M.B.A., is a member of the Research & Instructional Services Department at Joyner Library, East Carolina University (ECU) in Greenville, N.C. Bryna served as a graduate student at UNC Libraries in the mid-1980’s for the legendary regional documents librarian Ridley Kessler. She has worked as a reference librarian at the University of Georgia, and NC State University. In each of her reference assignments Bryna has remained intentionally and actively involved with state and federal government documents. 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 #25, online on April 22 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (Eastern). Please RSVP for the Session by April 21 at 5:00 pm using this link: http://tinyurl.com/grs-session25

Technical requirements: We will be using collaborative software called Blackboard Collaborate. 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).

New Help! Webinar Series on Economic Indicators

Published March 12, 2013 outreach Leave a Comment
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Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian presents… All you ever wanted to know about Economic Indicators!
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.
Economic indicators are metrics that document the condition and direction of the economy and its sub-sets.  The data, which is gathered and reported by various Executive Branch agencies, is used by investors, legislators, policy-makers, labor leaders, economists, and many others.
 
In this webinar, you’ll learn:
  • What are economic indicators
  • Examples of indicators covering a range of economic activities, such as: size and growth rate of the economy, inflation rates, employment and unemployment, wages and hours worked, personal indebtedness, consumer confidence, and others 
  • What the individual indicators reveal about the economy
  • Where to find them
Mary G. Scanlon is the Research and Instruction Librarian for Business and Economics at Wake Forest University.  She earned her MBA from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University and her MLIS from Kent State University.  Her publications include “Reconceiving Entrepreneurship for Libraries: Collaboration and the Anatomy of a Conference” and “The Entrepreneurial Librarian: Essays on the infusion of Private-Business Dynamism into Professional Service.”  She is currently serving as the Chair of Business Librarianship in North Carolina, a section of NCLA, and teaches LIB230: Business & Accounting Research Sources and Strategies.  She can be reached at scanlomg @ wfu.edu . 
We will meet together for Session #24, online on March 27 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m (Eastern). Please RSVP for the Session by March 26 at 5:00 pm using this link:  http://tinyurl.com/grs-session24
Technical requirements: We will be using collaborative software called Blackboard Collaborate. 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).

New Help! webinar coming your way just in time for the Holidays!

Published November 27, 2012 outreach Leave a Comment
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It’s a big Christmas gift wrapped up in virtual continuing education goodness! Yummy.

Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian presents … British and Commonwealth legal materials, December 13 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (Eastern)

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.

Working with legal materials can be daunting for undergraduate students. Working with legal materials from a foreign jurisdiction adds an additional level of complexity and unfamiliarity. However, interdisciplinary approaches within advanced undergraduate classes may require students to find and evaluate sources of law from outside of U.S. jurisdictions.

This webinar considers two such examples drawn from upperclass level classes recently taught at Valdosta State University: a history class requiring the use of historical English capital statutes, and a communications class focusing upon comparative media law. The webinar will discuss sources of law for the purposes of these classes, in addition to strategies for effective information literacy instruction that were attempted.

Presenter Howard S. Carrier, graduated with an M.S.L.S. degree from UNC Chapel Hill in May 2009. He is currently employed as a Reference Librarian and Assistant Professor in the Odum Library at Valdosta State University. Prior to becoming a librarian, Howard completed a law degree and a subsequent Master’s degree in Human Rights Law at the University of Leicester (United Kingdom), thereafter working as a Research Associate in the Centre for Risk and Insurance Studies at the University of Nottingham, and as a Lecturer in Law at the University of Sunderland.

We will meet together for Session #21, online on December 13 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (Eastern). Please RSVP for the Session by December 12 at 5:00 pm using this link:  http://tinyurl.com/grs-session21

day at the ICPSR data fair! mmm … fried data.

Published September 30, 2012 outreach Leave a Comment
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Tomorrow kicks off ICPSR’s Virtual Data Fair.  They started the event I believe in 2010 as a way to connect ICPSR members during conference off-years. While the Data Fair is mostly geared to ICPSR members, anyone can join. If you are interested in ICPSR membership or just want to learn more about data use in the classroom, you should attend!

In 2010 I gave a presentation on the top government data sites called “America’s Most Wanted.”  This year I’m on a panel with Libbie Stephenson from UCLA, Katharin Peter from the University of SoCal, and Paula Lackie from Carleton College. We are talking about promoting ICPSR on our campuses. Because I have so many duties, I don’t have a lot of time to promote only ICPSR. My methods have been small-scale like blogging and training the reference desk workers to recognize an ICPSR-esque question.

The data fair is sure to be a good time. Join us!

Getting to know the House Un-American Activities Committee

Published August 22, 2012 outreach , tutorials Leave a Comment
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We have a fab new Help! webinar coming up in September. Come learn about research HUAC!

Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian presents… Researching the House Un-American Activities Committee
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.
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was one of the most controversial government organizations in American history. Founded in 1938, it would spend nearly four decades seeking out real and alleged subversives before its disbandment in 1975. HUAC’s most famous witnesses would include former communists such as Whitaker Chambers, Hollywood film stars and screenwriters, and  even athletes such as Jackie Robinson. The committee’s publications offer an invaluable source of primary materials on such topics as American political culture during the Cold War, the history of American Communism, and civil liberties during a period of external threat. In this webinar out how to trace the history of HUAC through its most famous documents, as well as historical background on the committee and its activities and other relevant federal documents resources.

David Durant is Federal Documents & Social Sciences Librarian at J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University.

We will meet together for Session #19, online on September 19 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (EDT). Please RSVP for the Session by May 10 at 5:00 pm using this link:  http://tinyurl.com/grs-session19

Technical requirements: We will be using collaborative software called Blackboard Collaborate. 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).

Help! webinar series is one year old and still kicking!

Published April 18, 2012 outreach Leave a Comment
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The “Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian” series marks its one year anniversary and is still in full swing. Yesterday Jim Church gave an awesome presentation on International Organizations and their documents. You can see the slides on the NCLA GRS page. The recording will be up soon.

We have hosted 15 sessions in one year with 20-50 attendees in each session. I’d say it has been pretty successful. In the coming year we will feature sessions on fugitive documents, the ASERL centers of excellence project, and much more. If you have an idea for a session, get in touch with me. And join us for webinar #16 on the American Community Survey. Woohoo govinfo!

Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian presents…The American Community Survey on May 4

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.

The release of more 2010 decennial census data has more users inquiring about “decennial long form” data.  In 2010, there was no long form.  Instead the American Community Survey is collecting those kinds of variables.  But the ACS has a very different methodology than the decennial census and data are not comparable between the two.  This presentation will focus on the differences between the two surveys and will provide tips for users.  Expected audience is anyone new to using the American Community Survey or anyone who wants to know more about how the ACS differs from decennial long form data.

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 16, online on May 4 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (EDT). Please RSVP for the Session by May 3 at 5:00 pm using this link:  http://tinyurl.com/grs-session16

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).

new Help! webinar

Published January 11, 2012 outreach Leave a Comment
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The newest Help! webinar has been announced. It is a bit off-topic from pure government information, but what isn’t these days. Join us!

Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian presents … the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project (WVHP), February 2, 2012

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.
In this session Beth Ann Koelsch, the curator of the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project (WVHP) at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, will discuss the history of the WVHP, describe the collection development policy for the Project, and how the collections’ materials are made accessible to researchers. She will also examine some of the intersections between “govdocs” and the WVHP archives.

The Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project (WVHP), established at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1998, documents the contributions of women in the military and related service organizations since World War I. The collection offers a wide range of source material, including photographs, letters, diaries, scrapbooks, oral histories, military patches and insignia, uniforms, and posters, as well as published works.

Beth Ann Koelsch has been the curator of the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project (WVHP) at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro since 2008. The WVHP has over 500 collections and has conducted over 325 oral history interviews with women veterans from WWII to the present conflicts in the Mideast. The Project has a strong digital component and puts the oral history transcriptions and other digitized materials online.  Koelsch previously worked as a project archivist at the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke University, Durham, NC.  She received her MLS from the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007.
We will meet together for Session #13, online on February 2 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (EDT). Please RSVP for the Session by February 1 at 5:00 pm using this link: http://tinyurl.com/grs-session13

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).

Your New Year’s Resolution…

Published December 13, 2011 outreach , the profession Leave a Comment
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… is to learn more, right? Then join us for the next Help! webinar in January on the Creative Commons (not just for govdocers).

Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian presents … What You Need to Know About the Creative Commons

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.

In this session we will be exploring a non-government information source of importance to all librarians. The Creative Commons, formed in 2001, is devoted to expanding the creative output and intellectual property available for others to build upon and share.  The concept has grown in popularity over the last decade and is now flourishing among content creators across digital media from text, to photography to video. This webinar will look at the basics of Creative Commons, the various CC licenses and what they mean and will show participants how to locate CC licensed content for use in their own projects and how to assign CC licenses to their own intellectual property.

Rosalind Tedford is the Director for Research and Instruction at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University. She earned her BA in English and Psychology as well as her MA in English from Wake Forest and an MLIS from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In addition to managing the research and instruction programs at Wake Forest she teaches for-credit information literacy courses and is the liaison to both the Political Science and Communication departments. She has presented at LOEX, ACRL, ALA and regional conferences on issues ranging from copyright to technology trends to information literacy. In what little free time she has, she can be found hanging out with her two kids, watching ACC basketball and reading (but not at the same time).  She can be reached at tedforrl@wfu.edu

We will meet together for Session #12, online on Thursday, January 5 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (EST). Please RSVP for the Session by January 4 at 5:00 pm using this link: http://tinyurl.com/grs-session12

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).

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).

Save the date: Upcoming Help! webinars in November

Published September 30, 2011 outreach Leave a Comment
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Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian presents …Beginner’s Guide to Legislative History (Rebecca Hyman, Reference and Outreach Librarian, and Steve Case, Access Services Librarian, State Library of North Carolina)

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.

On November 9, we will be exploring legislative history (mostly from a North Carolina perspective, but all are welcome). Legislative history attempts to answer 2 questions: (1) *What* does the law say (or, more often, what did it say in the past), and (2) *Why* does the law say what it says.  Being able to track legislation from inception to General Statute is vital to answering these questions.   This session will explain more fully what legislative history is (and is not), look at the print and online resources available, show what roadblocks may prevent patrons from finding complete answers, and provide suggestions for alternative sources of information.  Familiarity with the NC General Statutes and NC Session Laws is helpful but not required.

Rebecca Hyman is the Reference and Outreach Librarian and Steve Case is the Access Services Librarian, both at the Government & Heritage Library. Before working at the Government and Heritage Library Steve worked at the UNC Law Library for 12 years.

We will meet together for Session #9, online on November 9 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (ET). Please RSVP for the Session by November 8 at 5:00 pm using this link: http://tinyurl.com/grs-session9

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).

ALSO, save the date for the next webinar on November 16 at 12pm with Marcy Bidney, Head of the Donald W. Hamer Maps Library at Penn State University. More information coming soon!

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