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This month, Lyrasis honored Georgia State University Learning Commons Librarian Sarah Steiner with the 2009 NextGen Librarian Award for Outreach. Lyrasis is a library network formed in 2009 after the merger of well-established library groups PALINET and SOLINET. It presents the awards to five NextGen librarians each year. They selected Steiner this year because of her significant publications and presentations, her activity in the Georgia Library Association, and her initiative in developing better virtual research support at Georgia State University.

Steiner reaches out to Georgia State students through a variety of technologies, including Facebook, YouTube, blogging and instant messaging. Under her guidance, the online chat service at the Georgia State University Library has seen a surge in users. Throughout the school year, Steiner also conducts information literacy classes for students online.

Along with her devotion to virtual reference, Steiner is very active in the Georgia Library Association. In 2008, she was the chair of their New Members Round Table. She is also the founder of the Atlanta Emerging Librarians, an organization that provides library, information and media science students the opportunity to network with their future colleagues. Since many of these students are in distance learning programs, this organization helps them develop peer relationships with other emerging librarians. It has been extremely successful, with almost one hundred people attending their meetings at various metro Atlanta libraries.

Finally, Steiner already has significant publications and presentations under her belt. Most significantly, Steiner co-edited a book titled The Desk and Beyond: Next Generation Reference Services. This collection deals with innovative approaches to in-person and remote reference services in academic libraries. She has also co-authored an article on wiki usage in academic libraries, as well as performing several presentations on how wikis and other Web 2.0 applications can affect library services.

Sarah Steiner is truly a rising library leader, with her multiple publications and presentations, together with her activity in the Georgia library community and her improvement of online library services. She well deserves the NextGen Librarian Award, since she is constantly developing new ways to communicate with the next generation of students and librarians.

University Library invites the student body to take a break from studying for finals! On Monday, April 27 from 5p-7p, we’ll host a Study Break in Classroom 1 (1st Floor, Library North). Pizza, brownies, and refreshments will be served, and we’ll also offer door prizes and entertainment. This event is sponsored by the Learning Commons and the Student Government Association.

University Library wishes you good luck on your final projects and exams!

April 15, 2009 marked the First Annual Student Employee of the Year Award. The library’s own, Miranda Rhynes was the campus winner out of 26 nominations. Miranda has been with IS&T Department for almost 4 years in various student positions and now supervises the technical student assistants in the University Library and other computer labs on campus. Nominated by Daniel Bragg with glowing comments from several library employees, Miranda’s professionalism and respect that she shows to others was noted.

Congratulations to Miranda for receiving the First Annual Student Employee of the Year Award.

Going out of town after classes finish?  Need something to listen to on the long flight or drive?

We’ve just posted a guide to finding audiobooks for free, both in the library (we have a small collection on CD) and online.  Before you shell out to Amazon or Audible for listening material, take a look!

Audiobooks Guide

Western Illinois University Libraries is offering its new “Text Me” service, through which students can text reference call numbers to their mobile phones. Would you like to see this here?

Debuting the GSU Library Insider, an audio podcast featuring short episodes highlighting a library tool, service or skill that will make your life easier.*

 

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In the first episode, Jason and Joel discuss EndNote and Zotero, two programs for storing and managing citations and creating bibliographies.  Links to the stuff we mention:

• Download EndNote (log in with your campus ID)
• EndNote guide
• Zotero guide
• Zotero home page

E-mail Jason (jpuckett@gsu.edu) or Joel (jglogowski@gsu.edu) with any questions about using these programs.

What would you like to hear about in future episodes?  Leave a comment here on the blog or e-mail Jason.

*That is, the part of your life that you spend using the GSU Library. We make no promises about the rest of it.

This podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

VHS and DVD items can now be renewed online. Check out period is still 7 days. You must renew before the due date.  If the item is recalled, you will not be able to renew the item.

On April 8th the University Library is offering a free EndNote workshop.  EndNote is bibliographic software that can help you create and format citations and bibliographies for research papers.  The workshop will be held from 3:00-4:00 in the classroom on the first floor of Library North.

Contact Joel Glogowski for questions or to register.

On February 26 the University Library is offering a free EndNote workshop.  EndNote is bibliographic software that can help you create and format citations and bibliographies for research papers.  There is still space available. Please join us if you can. The workshop will be held from 12:30-1:30 in the classroom on the first floor of Library North.

Contact Joel Glogowski for questions or to register.