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 wishes you good luck on your final projects and exams!

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

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

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.

Contact Joel Glogowski for questions or to register.

Contact Joel Glogowski for questions or to register.

The Zotero workshop will be in Classroom 1, first floor of Library North next to Saxby’s, on Thursday March 12 from 10-11 a.m.

For more information about Zotero, see our Zotero guide or the Zotero home page.  To sign up for the workshop, e-mail Jason Puckett at jpuckett@gsu.edu.

Georgia State students–do you have a research paper to write, but you’re not sure where to begin?  Attend one of these basic library resource sessions to save yourself time and frustration. There are two remaining online drop-in sessions scheduled for Spring semester 2009.

You can view this and the first installation on our YouTube channel.

LC Theatre is produced by Douglas Rednour and Matt Munson with assistance from Sarah Steiner. Voice-over talent for Rude Computer was provided by Doug Walker and Kaetrena Davis-Kendrick, and the student actors, in order of appearance, are Jessica Furst, Steven Brown, and Christin Collins.

Library Classroom 1 

This free crash course will teach you everything you need to know to get started using EndNote.

Topics include entering and organizing your citations, connecting directly to online resources, importing citations from article databases, and using EndNote with Word to generate bibliographies. To sign up, please contact Joel Glogowski.

LibX adds a library search bar to your browser, adds library tools to your right-click context menus, and inserts GSU Library links into book sites like Amazon.com and the New York Times Book Reviews.

Best of all, it’s free!  Get it on our LibX guide.

Questions?  Contact Jason Puckett, Instruction Librarian, at jpuckett@gsu.edu.

Georgia State students–do you have a research paper to write, but you’re not sure where to begin?  Attend one of these basic library resource sessions to save yourself time and frustration. There are two remaining online drop-in sessions scheduled for Spring semester 2009.

Hours for this semester:

Mondays, 1:30-4:00
Tuesdays, 12:30-4:00
Wednesdays, CLOSED
Thursdays, 11:30-4:00
Fridays, 1:30-3:00

 The Spring 2009 schedule for the Write Right tutoring service has been finalized:

Monday and Wednesday from 1PM – 6PM

Tuesday and Thursday from 9:30AM – 2:30PM

For more information about the Write Right service, click here. 

From the EndNote website: 

“The update is available to EndNote X2 users and includes highly requested features that allow you to work with increased flexibility.”

Click here for more details.

In each session we’ll cover the basics of the library Website, including tips on perfecting your research topic, finding appropriate books and articles, and getting individualized research help. Both sessions will provide the same content, and will be recorded for later viewing by participants. You will need headphones or speakers to participate.

Session Login link:
http://tinyurl.com/6kblpx  

Session Times and Dates:
Wednesday, November 19: 10 am – 11am
Thursday, November 20: 1 pm -  2 pm

This film (and its successors) are the brainchild of our own Doug Rednour, who worked with Matt Munson and the Learning Commons Librarians. The actors are both Georgia State U students: Steven Brown and Christin Collins. Thanks to them!

Click here to see what’s new in EndNote X2.

Please contact Joel Glogowski if you have any questions.

Date:           November 3, 2008

Location:     Library Classroom 1

Time:           10:30 – 12:00 Building an EndNote Library

                    12:30 – 2:00 Using EndNote in Word

Space is limited. Please email learningcommons@gsu.edu to register for one or both of the sessions. In the text of your message include your name and indicate what session(s) you plan to attend.

Contact Joel Glogowski for more information.

To reserve a room, click here.  Some rooms will be available for drop-in use, that is, not requiring a reservation. These rooms are located on the 2nd floor link – L201, L202, L203, L204, L205, L206 .

Read the full press release.

(originally posted by Bernie Sloan to the COLLIB Listserv)

With PantherMail, students will keep the same student e-mail address they currently use and enjoy a variety of unique features and benefits.

PantherMail, powered by Microsoft’s Live@edu through Microsoft Exchange Labs, offers:

- 10GB of e-mail space, 20MB attachments

- 5GB of online storage space with Windows Live SkyDrive

- Document sharing through Office Live Workspace

- Spaces to create blogs, share photos and more

- Instant Messaging

Giving alumni access to the new e-mail system provided by Microsoft is still under investigation.

When you download EndNote, it comes in a zipped package (endnoteX2win.zip). You will need to exctract the files (right click–>extract all) before running the installation file.

See what’s new in EndNoteX2: http://www.endnote.com/enX2info.asp

Please contact Joel Glogowski if you have any questions.

Wikimedia pegs future on education, not profit
“Analysts have pegged Wikipedia’s value between several hundred million dollars and $7 billion, the latter by Silicon Alley Insider, a technology blog known for its list of the World’s Most Valuable Digital Startups. But its keepers have thus far refused to sell ad space. They are adamant that the encyclopedia’s value is tied up not in potential advertising revenue but in something much loftier – its ability to positively affect the news industry, educational publishing and the nature of open-source knowledge creation and dissemination.”

Academic libraries look for successful marketing strategies to promote positive perceptions among students. To do this, librarians need to find venues and partnerships outside the library. Florida State University Libraries discovered that participating in new student orientation networking sessions creates opportunities to generate lasting first impressions among incoming freshmen and their families. After analyzing three years of successive student and family evaluations, which measured presentation rankings and attendance, the library was able to determine the utility and effectiveness of participating in the orientation program. Related literature and an analysis of the evaluations both indicate that universities and students benefit when libraries participate in new student orientations.

 Access LPP here or here.

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Join your fellow classmates for Freshmen Friday (8/22) in the University Library for games, movies, food, fun and more.  The fun begins at 10 a.m.

Pick up your passport on the 1st floor of Library North. With your passport, you can access the game stations on 2nd floor, t-shirt giveaways, etc.

Sponsored by Access and Media Services, with assistance from the Learning Commons.

Visit this site for more information.

Mondays, 1:30-4:00
Tuesdays, 12:30-4:00
Wednesdays, CLOSED
Thursdays, 11:30-4:00
Fridays, 1:30-4:00 (only one tutor on duty)

Librarians are already attempting to “go where the users are,” so what are the next steps in reaching them and providing reference assistance? More

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 EBSCOhost 2.0 New Features Help Sheet

Grainne Conole of OpenLearn presented a talk titled Technologies or New Pedagogical Possibilities at the Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2008. She focused on the “informational aspects” of Web 2.0 technologies in the classroom, particularly how they might (or might not) change pedagogical models.

The video can be viewed here at iThinkEd.

“The inspiration for the platform was the realization that the current social world is too static, according to Wang.

With Lively she wants users to be able to interact using words, 3D graphics and gestures. The furniture users pick for their room should give visitors an idea of who they are, and it is more poignant to receive an animated hug than seeing the text “[[hug]]” displayed on the screen, according to Wang.”

The full article, Google adds third dimension to online social relationships, can be read here.

However, if the H-Drive doesn’t show up, there is a alternative method to get it to appear. 

If you are scanning a JPEG image use the following commands:

   right click
   open with
   Microsoft Picture Manager
   file (from the menu bar)
   save   I

For a PDF you would:

  file (from the menu bar)
  save a copy
  ok
  select the “drive” of choice

Also, once the desired drive (H-drive or jump drive) appears, if you select the scanned item you want to transfer, a menu on the left side of the screen will appear.  This will allow you to move or copy the item to another location.