Submission to 11/21/2014 Drake Calls

I attended the NYLA Conference 11/5-11/8 in Saratoga Springs. Most interesting presentations: Little known collections of the NYS Library (the antiquarian librarian stood up there with his cane and presented using 12x14 title cards), Using Infographics to share data (during which the power went out for an hour), and Digital Badging (which I thought had died, but apparently not). Some interesting vendors, Boopsie (mobile library app – it integrates with BB! http://www.boopsie.com/), and someone who does mini-golf events (sometimes within the stacks) for libraries as fund raisers.

On 11/13, Charlie, Debby, Greg, Susan P, and I did a well-received webinar for the Digital Commons community on Creative IR Staffing. We had about 200 people signed up for it, and more than 125 log-ins which makes it my biggest audience ever.

Finally, I watched the webinar on World Cat Discovery Services yesterday. It is a reference solution which expands what we currently get with First Search, for no additional cost. It will totally replace First Search on 12/31/2015, but is available now (in fact has been on the library webpage for some time). It allows users to find our collection at the point of need, either through the native interface, the 3^rd party API, or on the web. There are additional features available for a price, which include using it as a full featured discovery service (databases, etc.) and being able to show real time availability and item location, course reserves, and custom reporting via Adobe Analytics.

Thoughts on The Spectrum

The last issue of The Spectrum was published in 2012, we really need to do something to reinvigorate this seminal publication of Digital Commons @Brockport.

1. Put out a call for participation in the Daily Eagle
2. Personally invite the original Editorial Board
3. Ask interested library staff
4. Sponsor a working lunch
5. Look for a student editor/intern to help with the work
6. Publish a combined 2013/2014 issue
7. Present at Scholars Day 
8. Develop some marketing materials to send with the Scholars Day packets

Met with Pam 11/20 - she is planning to have this issue out by the end of January. We may try to do a table at Scholars Day with some marketing material.

Halloween

I sent a congratulatory email to Betsy Balzano today. She received a $177K grant for professional development for Rochester area teachers. I offered the services of Digital Commons.

ISSNs

I sent the ISSN application in today for Dissenting Voices; earlier this week I sent in one for Literary Onomastic Studies.
http://www.loc.gov/issn/

I'm going to give Pat a copy of the application, in case she wants to show the class what it is.

Literary Onomastics Studies

Update: Received the ISSN for this on 11/19/2014
I sent the ISSN application off today for Literary Onomastics Studies (or LOS as we prefer to call it). We now have 14/16 volumes up, with the last 2 on Elizabeth's desk for Monday. It was quite a process that included digitizing about 3200 pages from 16 volumes, breaking the package down into articles, OCRing, and uploading them. We added introductory text, both at the journal and volume level, broke the contents into Front Matter (cover, preface, TOC), Conference Papers, News Items and Back Matter (back cover containing conference photo and list of attendees). About mid-way through the upload process, I brought Elizabeth onboard. She split pdfs into articles, and I later showed her how to upload them to the system. She even went as far a re-typing (correctly formatted) an article that was totally illegible in its original form. The finally step was to assign each manuscript to an issue, arrange them and close the issue.
Once the volume was online, Greg started working on adding keywords and assigning disciplines. Next week, we'll bring Jules onboard to help out with this.

Over the summer, Greg, Ken and I worked on creating a design that would relate to the later journal (Journal of Literary Onomastics), but be informed by the design of the print edition of LOS.

The banner for Literary Onomastics Studies

As you can see we took the Peter Maxx type graphic, and added it to a banner that uses a similar font style and key pattern as the original, and the color scheme from JLO.