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Perspectives from New Transportation
Library Professionals
B.A. in Englishfrom Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale IL, 1995
- 6 years at SIU-C's Morris Library, Carbondale IL
- M.S. in Library and Information Science from the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2007
- Head Librarian (solo) at the Illinois Department of Transportation, Oct. 2007 -present
Slide 2
Began during
Cold War-1973
Ongoing
in1987, two FBI agents came to
Columbia University’s Math and
Science Library and requested
details about library activities
of specific foreign patrons; Ms.
Kaufman "explained that we were
not prepared to cooperate with
them"…"and they were not
welcome"at her library
Through
the course of this "program"over
100 librarians were investigated
by the FBI to determine "whether
they were acting at the behest
of the Soviet government"
- Related library interest
–discovering methods for
government and corporate
librarians to cultivate positive
attitudes toward public access
to information and protection of
civil liberties while balancing
image of parent agency
- Other interests associated
with current position at IDOT
include: knowledge and record
management; establishment of
archival policy collection;
electronic public dissemination
of IDOT informationthrough the
Illinois State Library Document
Deposit Program
- Personal interest:
Children’s and Young Adult
literature and library services
Slide 3
The UIUC LIS master's degree program requires 40 hours of
graduate study, including two core courses:
LIS 501: Information Organization and Access
LIS 502: Libraries, Information, and Society
Courses I took in addition to two core courses:
-
Reference
and
Information
Services
(
Favorite)
Cataloging
and
Classification
I (Most
Useful)
Legal
Issues
in LIS (Saves
me from
lawsuit)
Administration
and
Mgmt. of
Libraries
Intro to
Network
Systems
Searching
Online
Information
Systems
(Useful)
Storytelling
(Fun)
Literature
and
Resources
Children
(Fun)
Literature
and
Resources
Young
Adult (Fun)
Link to current course list:
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/oc/courses/catalog/co urse-list.html
Slide 4
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(4): 225-230.
Brown, John Seely and Paul
Duguid. (1996). "The Social life of Documents". First Monday 1 (1).
Wilson, T.D.(2000). "Human
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Choo, Chun Wei. (1999). "The Art
of Scanning the Environment". Bulletin of the American Society for
Information Science 25 (3): 21-24
Kuhlthau, Carol Collier. (1999)
"Accommodating the User’s Information Search Process: Challenges for
Information Retrieval System Designers". Bulletin of the American
Society for Information Science 25 (3): 12-16
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Users of Electronic Library Resources: An Overview and Analysis of
Recent Research Studies". Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and
Information
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Pleasure-reading as a Source of Information". Exploring the Contexts of
Information Behavior, edited by Thomas D. Wilson and David K. Allen.
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Seaman, David. (2003). "Deep
Sharing: A Case for the Federated Digital Library". EDUCASUE Review,
July/August, 10-11
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"Why Metadata? Why Me? Why Now?"Cataloging and Classification Quarterly
36 (1/2): 19-29
Greenberg, Jane. (2002)
"Metadata and the World Wide Web". In Allen Kent and Carolyn M. Hall
(Eds.), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. New York:
Marcel Dekker, 244-261.
Tonta, Yasar. (1992). "Analysis
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Public-Access Computer Systems Review 3 (1): 4-53.
Hutchins, W.J. (1997) "The
Concept of ‘Aboutness’in Subject Indexing". In K. Sparck-Jones and P.
Willet, Readings in Information Retrieval, Morgan Kaufmann.
Koch, Traugott, et al. (1997).
"The Role of Classification Schemes in Internet Resource Description and
Discovery". Work Package 2 of Telematics for Research project DESIRE.
UKOLN Metadata Group. Last updated 1999.
Fidel, Raya. (1994).
"User-centered Indexing". Journal of the American Society of Information
Science 45 (8): 572-576.
Mai, Jens-Erik. (2003). "The
Future of General Classification". Cataloging and Classification
Quarterly 37 (1/2): 3-12.
Smith, Abby. (1999). "The Future
of the Past: Preservation in American Research Libraries". Washington
DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 1999.
Kaufman, Paula. (2001). "Whose
Good Old Days are These? A Dozen Predictions for the Digital Age".
Co-published simultaneously in Journal of Library Administration 35 (3):
5-19; and Impact of Digital Technology on Library Collections and
Resource Sharing (ed: Sul H. Lee_ 2001, 5-19
Slide 5
Abbott, Andrew. (Winter 1998). "Professionalism and
the Future of Librarianship". Library Trends. 46 (3): 430-443
Asheim, Lester. (Sept 1953).
"Not Censorship but Selection". Wilson Library Bulletin 28: 63-67.
Buschman, John E. (1983).
Dismantling the Public Sphere. Libraries Unlimited, Westport, CT.
Clanchy, M.T. (1982).
"Looking Back from the Invention of Printing". Quarterly Journal of
the Library of Congress. 39 (3): 169-183.
Estabrook, Leigh. (Summer
1986). "Librarianship and Information Resources Management: Some
Questions and Contradictions". Journal of Education for Library and
Information Science. 27 (1): 3-11.
Foerstel, Herbert N. (2004).
Refuge of a Scoundral: the Patriot Act in Libraries. Libraries
Unlimited, Westport, CT.
Frazier, Kenneth. (Jan.
2001). "The Librarian’s Dilemma: Contemplating the Costs of the ‘Big
Deal’: Online Journal Aggregators". Presented at an EBSCO executive
seminar, Washington D.C. Available online: D-Lib Magazine7(3): Mar
2001
Fuller, Wayne E. (1972). The
American Mail: Enlarger of the Common Life. University of Chicago
Press.
Heins, Marjorie. (Oct.18,
2002). The Next Frontier: "Intellectual Property"and Intellectual
Freedom. Julie M.Boucher Memorial Lecture, Colorado Association of
Libraries.
Lessig, Lawrence. (Nov./Dec.
2001) "The Internet Under Siege". Foreign Policy. 56-65
Mill, John Stuart. (original
1869). On the Liberty of Thought and Discussion. Ch. 2.
Murray, Laura. (Oct. 2004).
"Protecting Ourselves to Death: Canada, Copyright and the Internet".
First Monday. 9 (10).
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Economics and Usage of Digital Collections.
Okerson, A. (Spring 2000).
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Schwarzkopf, Leroy C. (1978)
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Waters, Don. (April 2004).
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(11)
Slide 6
I assumed listservs would be in place at the
bare minimum
I knew of one other
local transportation library (Hanson’s Prof. Services)
I hoped other state
DOT’s would have professional degreed librarians along with some
support staff
I assumed I’d have to
start with the one local transportation library I knew and then
spend years building up contacts on a more or less random basis
Not only were excellent listservs in place through MTKN and SLA-Trans. Div. (Translib); I also encountered well-established consortiums, knowledge networks, and OCLC transportation communities
Within the first week on the job I had received welcome phone calls or emails from no less than ten other transportation librarians and the communications kept coming for the first several months
I was a bit disappointed with the staffing levels at other state DOT libraries; but this is a challenge for the future
Slide 7
Visit the Secrecy Report Card 2008: Indicators of Secrecy in the
Federal Government to learn more about the lack of transparency in government
http://www.openthegovernment.org/otg /SecrecyReportCard08.pdf
(created by librarians, journalists, government officials, etc. – not a group
of paranoid wingnuts)
Slide 8
"Government Should Be Transpar:
Transparency promotes accountability and provides information for citizens about
what their Government is doing. Information maintained by the Federal Government
is a national asset. My Administration will take appropriate action, consistent
with law and policy, to disclose information rapidly in forms that the public
can readily find and use. Executive departments and agencies should harness new
technologies to put information about their operations and decisions online and
readily available to the public. Executive departments and agencies should also
solicit public feedback to identify information of greatest use to the public."ent
Barack Obama, MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
Feb. 10, 2009
"The Government should not keep information confidential merely because
public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure, because errors and failures
might be revealed, or because of speculative or abstract fears. Nondisclosure
should never be based on an effort to protect the personal interests of
Government officials at the expense of those they are supposed to serve. "
Barack Obama, MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES Jan.21, 2009
Slide 9
Networking and Resource Sharing: Keep up the good
work without complacency; both areas currently seem to be handled
well but there is always roomfor improvement
Marketing and Publicity: We
can not sit back and focus solely on research and collection
development --library services should weave themselves into the
fabric of needs of the entire organization; i.e. transportation
organizations are not just engineers, what other functions can we
support? Records, forms, and policy mgmt.? Administrative and
clerical support? IT support? Legal staff? Copyright info?
Professional membership center? First anticipate needs through
communication with employees, then provide materials and services to
support those needs, then advertise somaterials and services
utilized fully. Don’t wait for them to come to you.
Providing Access and Keeping
Stats: Libraries need to engage in shameless self-promotion more
often –provide access to resources in the quickest and easiest ways
possible and then tell everyone (electronic routing of table
ofcontents; online tutorial for searching the library collection via
the online catalog; interlibrary loan services). Now that you have
provided access to all these resources, keep track of every single
transaction no matter how small –keeping stats is absolutely vital
in the current era of budgetary shortfalls –libraries are often
undervalued or completely mystifying to administration, stats are a
great asset in this battle
Innovate: Less staff means
more stress, how can we devise ways to streamline processes and then
share breakthroughs and good tips with rest of transportation
library community
Slide 10
This guide from ALA's Government Documents Round Table
(GODORT) provides the necessary resources librarians can use to connect
patrons to specific information via government sites and electronic
documents. Managing and providing access to the ever-expanding wealth of
electronic government information now available presents a significant
challenge for librarians, even those who are government documents
specialists
In part one, the contributing
authors discuss historical contexts and contemporary issues of
electronic government collections.
In part two, they give practical
guidance for implementing and improving services.
Navigates the local, state,
federal, and international e-government landscape; provides in-depth
description and examples for cataloging electronic government documents;
suggests outreach methods for sharing resources internally and
externally; and recommends practical tips for keeping up with electronic
government information.
Slide 10
Local library systems and consortiums; State
Libraries
- Online Information and Retrieval Communities (Google and Amazon)
- Transportation Library Connectivity Pooled Fund
- Knowledge and Record Management Communities (ARMA)
- Electronic and Digital Archival Communities (Museums and Library
of Congress -National Digital Information Infrastructure and
Preservation Program)
- Also SLA and TKN and Library Schools
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Library Advisory Committee within your organization
Public Policy Communities; including the current Presidential Administration
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TKN (Transportation Knowledge Networks) (MTKN, ETKN, WTKN)
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SLA –Transportation Division and Solo Librarians Division
- Library Schools
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