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July 25, 2016
Mapping the Landscapes Focus Group Final Report
The “Mapping the Landscapes” Focus Group project, an initiative of the Coalition to Advance Learning in Archives, Libraries, and Museums, collected data from the cultural heritage field on continuing education and professional development (CE/PD) needs between August 2015 and June 2016. The project was funded through a federal grant from the Institute of Museum and … Continue reading Mapping the Landscapes Focus Group Final Report
July 14, 2016
Keynote: From ACT to IMPACT
Exploring a set of lenses with which you might look at the challenges and opportunities university libraries have today. Providing new tools that you’ll take back into your daily work and decision-making processes. What those tools should do is help you to move from a state of action—which all of you are in, continuously, in … Continue reading Keynote: From ACT to IMPACT
July 12, 2016
The ETDplus Project: Supporting Complex ETD Data
Presentation Overview ETD Lifecycle Management Project Series – collaborative background Survey findings Guidance documents and training materials Hydra-Sufia reference implementation tool for complex ETD materials submission/ingestion workflow Brief thoughts going forward
July 7, 2016
Mapping the Landscapes Storyboard Data Visualization Users Guide (TrueBearing)
Data visualization dashboards extend the potential insight for users far beyond that of static graphics. This brief guide identifies the basic toolset with which a user can “drill down,” asking questions and discovering important underlying patterns in the data. Acknowledgements This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
July 7, 2016
Mapping the Landscapes Interactive Survey Data Storyboards (TrueBearing)
Downloadable, interactive results from the Mapping the Landscape survey, filterable by respondent location and sector. Requires the free Tableau Reader program to use offline. Results can also be viewed and interacted with online here. Acknowledgements This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
July 6, 2016
National Agenda for Continuing Education and Professional Development Across Libraries, Archives, and Museums
This National Agenda for Continuing Education and Professional Development across Libraries, Archives, and Museums provides a broad planning and evaluation framework for the systemic strengthening of continuing education and professional development (CE/PD) across the landscape of funders, professional associations, program administrators, and trainers involved. This document synthesizes three years of planning efforts convened by the … Continue reading National Agenda for Continuing Education and Professional Development Across Libraries, Archives, and Museums
June 13, 2016
Library Publishing Curriculum
Quick Access Points For Students: Library Publishing Workshop (asynchronous, virtual course taught by Dr. Katherine Skinner) Overview of the Workshop Unit 1: Introduction Unit 2: What and Why Libraries Publish Unit 3: Publishing Functions Unit 4: Developing Editorial Strategies Unit 5: Content and Access Unit 6: Assessing Impact Unit 7: Policy Unit 8: Sustainability and … Continue reading Library Publishing Curriculum
June 7, 2016
Nexus LAB Information Session
An informational webinar introducing the Nexus Leading Across Boundaries effort and its pilot opportunities for leadership development instructors and trainers around evaluation and curricular resources.
June 5, 2016
Mapping the Landscapes: Continuing Education/Professional Development Needs Assessment Survey
The Mapping the Landscape needs assessment in continuing education and professional development offers a broad and statistically reliable overview of current perceptions, needs, assets and barriers, levels of competency and confidence across and within archives, library, and museum professions in the United States. Based on a comprehensive conceptual model, the Mapping survey data offers three … Continue reading Mapping the Landscapes: Continuing Education/Professional Development Needs Assessment Survey
May 24, 2016
Spanning Our Field Libraries: Mindfully Managing LAM Collaborations
Multiple efforts are bringing academic museum and gallery leaders together with their peers across archives and libraries, to capture and build upon effective (best) practices across the fields. This session shares information about three such efforts, setting the stage for a discussion on how participation in such cross-sector collaborations can benefit museum and gallery leaders. … Continue reading Spanning Our Field Libraries: Mindfully Managing LAM Collaborations
April 25, 2016
Analog and Digital Preservation
This presentation discusses current trends and careers in analog and digital preservation.
April 6, 2016
Report from the Repositories & Preservation Workgroup
Repositories are a vital tool in modern information management and a key component of preservation and long-term availability. They are not well-suited, however, to the current challenges posed by our information-rich society and the multitude of stakeholders involved in the modern scholarly publishing system. Strengthening repositories and standardizing preservation processes are critically important. This challenge … Continue reading Report from the Repositories & Preservation Workgroup
February 4, 2016
Building a Collaborative
Ensuring the collaborative that you build together is a strong one, one that will pursue digital preservation together effectively, efficiently, and with the power of the Gestalt (the sum is greater than the parts).
January 22, 2016
Public libraries share their digitization success stories
From ALA member news CHICAGO— Digitizing your collection is not only a great way to increase access to your materials, it also engages patrons on a whole new level and helps communicate your library’s value. But with staff time and resources already spread thin, it can be a challenge to plan and undertake a digitization … Continue reading Public libraries share their digitization success stories
December 11, 2015
Getting to the Bottom Line: 20 Cost Questions for Digital Preservation
Takeaways The digital preservation and storage services landscape is changing very rapidly. Cost/pricing information can be hard to find (on the Web), collate, and compare. Cloud storage is cheap. Cloud activity may not be. Nobody is doing a very good job of devising an affordable and sustainable DP solution for small/mid-sized, poorly resourced LAMs (and … Continue reading Getting to the Bottom Line: 20 Cost Questions for Digital Preservation
November 16, 2015
IMLS Focus Project Showcase: Nexus LAB
An overview of the Nexus LAB project’s efforts to support leadership development Continuing Education / Professional Development (CE/PD) across libraries, archives, and museums.
November 13, 2015
LAM Education Needs Assessments: Bridging the Gaps
This publication aims to introduce guiding principles and practices for CE/PD needs assessments from beyond the library, archives, and museum (LAM) sphere of reference. A literature review section highlights needs assessment research from other fields (e.g., higher education, nonprofit training, etc.), drawing attention to models that could inform LAM practice. Existing LAM CE/PD needs assessment … Continue reading LAM Education Needs Assessments: Bridging the Gaps