My tweets from the Provost Lunch #provostlunch

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Here are my tweets from the Provost Lunch by Susan Schulten on "The Meaning of Maps in American History." They are in reverse chronological order.

• Can maps be used for ill? #provostlunch walker was head of census and Indian affairs at same time at age of 27! View Tweet
• Some countries and people are not very spacially oriented. #provostlunch ?not sure how to answer. View Tweet
• Cholera map the blank map was an invitation for more new info. #provostlunch View Tweet
• Brothers among nations book. #provostlunch View Tweet
• The yellow fever maps didn't work. #provostlunch View Tweet
• Who have helped her incl @dupenrose faculty and staff. #provostlunch View Tweet
• Betty Meagher is cataloging lots of the digital maps #provostlunch rich and varied cartograhic history. Thanks all of the people ... View Tweet
• Allow the nation to coallesce in a certain way. #provostlunch very complicated, detailed and beautiful. Alex has helped to digitize them. View Tweet
• Early form of gis. Not 1960s but 1800s. #provostlunch forign parentage map translate info into knowledge. View Tweet
• Walker census data map. Colored, density, wealth, poverty, disease and ethnicity. #provostlunch convince congress to fund various things. View Tweet
• Map of ratio of slave pop to non slave pop. "Went viral" back then. #provostlunch became import to Lincoln. Map in a painting. View Tweet
• Map of slave pop in VA done by the Coast survey? #provostlunch Shows big diff between west Virginia and VA. View Tweet
• Map productivity of cotton production and slaves together on same map in blue red and yellow colors. #provostlunch View Tweet
• Mid 1800 maps became tools to map social and human data. #provostlunch census map of cotton kingdom Olmsted View Tweet
• amyewest: RT @jokrausdu: "the map made the difference" even though the data was publicly avail. #provostlunch #data #visualization View Tweet
• Blodget isothermal map of whole us. Seasonal, too. #provostlunch based on several decades and 100K+ data points. View Tweet
• Military asks soldiers to collect weather. This data turned into weather maps, temperature. #provostlunch and usno and smithsonian. View Tweet
• Science of weather meteorology, climate plays a crucial role. #provostlunch Barton did the New Orleans map. Race to map the weather. View Tweet
• Map as a tool of investigation of yellow fever, not just for showing places. #provostlunch Analytical instrument. View Tweet
• Sanitary map of New Orleans. #provostlunch Era before knowledge of microbiology. Salubrity is a new word for me. View Tweet

• I think we just got a book on van humboldt.... #provostlunch View Tweet
• "the map made the difference" even though the data was publicly avail. #provostlunch View Tweet
• Goes over prop 8 maps #provostlunch Mashup at google maps. View Tweet
• Read the nytimes article, http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/how-the-west-was-won/ #provostlunch View Tweet
• #provostlunch intro to Susan Schulten Dissert at UPenn Book Geographical Imagination View Tweet

Open Attribute, what it does...

It took me a while to figure out what adding the Open Attribute browser add-on actually did. I thought it would add a popup or something like that to pages that were CC licensed. It adds a little CC license image to the browser bar, and it is clickable. See the image below.

When you click on the CC in the circle, it will tell you more about the license for that content.

Renovation Plan Demonstration at #scio11

Here is what I presented at the Science Online Unconference, Sunday at 11:30am-12:30pm.

Scio11 demonstration

View more presentations from Joseph Kraus.

Some of the feedback that I received was:

• Students still need to have lots of physical books available to them on-site.
• The library should scan as many books as possible to make ebooks.
• Need to advertise just how many ebooks we already have available.
• Advertise all of our electronic resources, not just ebooks.
• Loan out Kindles (or other ebook devices).
  
• Let people know that our document delivery services are free to them.
• Spread the librarians throughout campus to create a more decentralized library. This will force faculty to think more outside the box.
• Create more embedded librarian positions.
• Better advertise that the library (and hence the university) pays for access to all of these journals, databases and ebooks, and that the information is not free.
• Let the patrons know that we keep track of download data. Let them know some of that usage data. [That may or may not be allowable by the vendors.]
  
• Should consider doing a before and after survey, so that we can see how much electronic use increases after the renovation has begun. This would be a good article opportunity.
• Brand the golf cart as the "Library on the Go" cart.
• Display the blue prints. Need to let them know what the place is going to look like and get them excited about the new facility.
• This is an opportunity for the library to foster stronger connections to the students and faculty who already use the library, and an opportunity to create new connections with people who don't use the library as much now.
  

Some of my videos at the #scio11 Conference

Here are some videos.

We got to see some of the internal sections of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.



There are about 11 other videos of "Behind the scenes" at:

http://friendfeed.com/jokrausdu/583d84e8/made-videos-of-behinds-scenes-at-north-carolina

Prezi session at #scio11

Here are my quick notes of Prezi... I'm giving it a try right now. If you are an educator, make sure you sign up for the educational account.

• Overlap elements when you give a prezi
• Don’t spin too much – don’t make your audience sea sick.
• No way to embed a prezi within another prezi.
• They have a good “learn” system and tips.
• Prezi meeting can hold up to 10 people who can work on the same presentation.
• For a good prezi, one should think in frames with multiple objects, not linear slides.
• Instead of having to go forwards or go backwards to a specific slide, you just pull back, and then you can go wherever you want.
• Think of prezi more like a concept map or a mind map – not just linear thinking.
• Make the details small.
• It has circle, square, and rectangle frames. Frames within frames, use as many frames as you need.
• Take a look at some of her examples. Here is a group made one.
  
• Make your CV as a prezi. Huh, that sounds like a good idea
• Easier to get small than to get bigger. Start big, then scale down when you need to.
• Use PDFs.
  
• Use higher image quality in the upload. Zooming in will be granulated otherwise.
• OverLAP, Shift DRAG, SURPRISE your audience.
• It doesn't seem like prezis can be embedded into a blog, though.
  

Top 10 reasons why...

I don't like top 10 lists.

1. They are usually meaningless
2. They often have items that could have been left out to make a top 7 list.
3. They remind me of gender specific magazines that list the top this or that.
4. Some of them leave out a couple of items, so it should actually be a top 12 or a top 16 list.
5. They always show up at the end of the year or the beginning of the year, why not March or October?
6. They remind me of David Letterman, which is not necessarily a bad thing.
7. They remind me of my dear departed next-door neighbor's dog -- don't ask.
   

My twitter wordle

This is a twitter wordle from the last couple of years for me. I've seen some other people have their year of Facebook status updates put into a list, and I thought it would be interesting to see what my twitter feed would look like as a Wordle. Even though this covers two years worth of tweets, I bet a wordle of just 2010 would be very similar.

First, I went to tweetstats, clicked on the tweetcloud tab, then I clicked on "Don't like the TweetCloud? Well then, go make a Wordle!"

Draft of the 2010 Science-Technology Division of SLA Strategic Plan

SLA Science - Technology Division
Strategic Plan December 2010

DRAFT

MISSION

To equip science and technology information professionals with the skills and knowledge they need to grow and excel in a changing information landscape. The Division functions as a community that supports the professional development of its members through communication, networking, education and research.

VISION

To be the professional affiliation of choice for librarians and other information professionals who serve communities in science and technology.

GOALS & OBJECTIVES

1. Goal - Membership – increase membership and engagement of existing members
1.1 Maintain active members and recruit new ones
1.2 Encourage participation of current and potential members
1.3 Provide opportunities for participation outside of the annual conference
1.4 Increase interaction with library school students and new professionals

2. Goal - Create a greater sense of community within the Division
2.1 Consider community enhancement when planning any programs, committee work and other activities
2.2 Provide opportunities for people to interact with other members of the Division, inspiring a greater sense of connection, including at the annual conference
2.3 Provide information by and about members through various Division communication channels

3. Goal - Enhance the value of the Division and members through professional development and virtual learning opportunities
3.1 Strengthen and enhance our mentoring program, including mentoring of recent graduates, of mid-career librarians in technological areas, and of librarians new to the Sci-Tech field
3.2 Provide résumé development workshop(s) in multiple formats
3.3 Provide programming outside the annual conference
3.4 Provide negotiation skills training
3.5 Provide activities and opportunities for participation and involvement for people who can not attend the annual conference
3.6 Help members prove their worth to their employers within a Sci-Tech context
3.7 Cooperate with other SLA Divisions where the interests of the members overlap
3.8 Offer leadership in scientific and technical librarianship, including programming both at the annual conference and virtually on emerging and continuing themes in the scientific and technical disciplines


RECOMMENDED ACTIVITIES

• Conduct short surveys of the membership to elicit information about members’ needs – including thoughts on improving member engagement, benefits of joining the Division, and community engagement
• Develop marketing materials for membership recruitment and retention
• Solicit more participation in Division communications, including more writers for Sci-Tech News, blogs, and other communication modes
• Provide more information about members and their achievements: brief announcements of members’ activities within Sci-Tech News and/or our website or discussion list
• Showcase our members with more in-depth treatments such as quarterly articles within Sci-Tech News and/or our website or discussion list
• Cover topics of professional interest in Sci-Tech News, blogs, and other communication vehicles
• Encourage use of social media within the Division
• Provide programs of various types such as webinars or regional meetings
• Address the issue of flux in the STEM publishing industry
• Support Sci-Tech librarians/info professionals as they negotiate content contracts and agreements
• Support Sci-Tech librarians/info professionals as they seek professional job opportunities or professional recognition

Please let us know what you think?

Review of DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the etc., etc., etc.

Here is the whole title of the book.

DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education

Some of the book can also be found on Google Books.

If the higher education system changes as much as the author thinks it will, then it will have many implications for academic libraries. Lots of people and organizations are trying to predict the future of academic libraries.

The basic premise of the book is that the internet and alternative educational institutions are providing new and different ways for people to learn.

She (the author, Anya Kamenetz) noted that one of the problems with the higher ed system is that students are treated differently once they transition from high school to college. If high school students are having difficulty passing classes, the teacher or the school is held responsible. If one of those students is having difficulty passing college classes, then the student is blamed. In short, some/many colleges and higher ed institutions do not take [as] much responsibility for helping their students finish their studies. There is not as much accountability for high ed institutions. She also describes a system where colleges are incentivized to increase costs and services to students. If a college costs more money, then it must be a better institution.

Here is the part where I start talking about libraries.

I found the word library mentioned just once in the book, and it was about the Europeana project. The word library isn't even in the index. The free Internet is OK for learning some things, but it takes an institution to provide a well stocked library of resources so students don't have to shell out money (to buy or travel to find) books and journal articles and newspaper archives and conference materials and government documents and microfilms and lots of other stuff. She also doesn't seem to get there is a much bigger and deeper web of Internet materials that are not freely available to students, unless institutions subscribe of course. It also takes an institution to provide laboratory space for students in the sciences. Doing a chemistry experiment on the computer just isn't the same thing as dealing with real chemicals in the lab. It takes an institution to provide places for students to gather for clubs and other interest groups.

David Wiley of BYU (and Flat World Knowledge) shows up on page 83 and notes that "if universities can't find the will to innovate and adapt to changes in the world around them, universities will be irrelevant by 2020." (He is also a leader of the open-education movement.) People are thinking the same thing about libraries. They think we need to either innovate or we will be dead. Ummm, I don't think so. People have been saying for the last 15 years that the Internet is going to make libraries obsolete, but here we are. If anything, we are working harder than ever to help our students navigate the complex and evolving information sphere.

The book covers a lot of open education and open access resources. For example, they mention DOAJ on page 85. Libraries are certainly behind initiatives like this.

I did find some of her writing confusing. For example, she seemed to confuse credits with classes in some spots. This article at Inside Higher Ed does a great job of evaluating much of her logic and false assumptions.

On page 88, she provided the wrong title for this article, "Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0." The PDF is here. Instead of reading the book, this article provides a good overview of the open education movement.

I did learn about a lot of new and interesting initiatives that are going on.

• Open Learning Initiative at CMU
• I knew about MIT and their OpenCourseWare Project, but this is part of the OpenCourseWare Consortium
• I've known about the term "personal learning network" for a year or two. Here are some resources to get more information on that topic.
• The School of Everything
• "AcaWiki is like a 'Wikipedia for academic research' designed to increase the impact of scholars, students, and bloggers by enabling them to share summaries and discuss academic papers online."
• "Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is an online community of open study groups for short university-level courses."
• "University of the People (UoPeople) is the world’s first tuition-free online university."
• Hacking Education event in NYC.

Overall, it was an interesting book. However, she seemed to miss the point that a lot of the education one receives at an institution is not just from taking course and reading the readings, it is from the socialization process. This is very important for younger undergraduate students, but graduate students also learn about their field by socializing with other graduate students, and from learning how their faculty mentors do research. The institution provides the "personal learning network" all in one place for the students, and they get an official certification (degree, or whatever you want to call it) of their learning. For edupunks, they might be able to build great personal learning networks and be able to learn about the topics they desire, but they may not have the same kind of certification. This may not matter as much in some fields of inquiry, but it matters quite a bit in other fields. I'd rather not go to a dentist who learned about dentistry on the open web. I'd rather not hire a lawyer who didn't have a law degree. I wouldn't trust a research article in biology, if the author didn't have a biology degree.

Next Generation Science Librarianship

Yesterday, I went to the "Next Generation Science Librarianship Panel Presentation." It was at the NCAR facility up in Boulder. Unfortunately, I could only stay for the first hour, but was able to hear from all three speakers:

• Dr. Jian Qin, Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
• Jamaica Jones, Special Projects Librarian, NCAR Library
• Jack M. Maness, Assistant Professor and Director of the Engineering and Math-Physics Libraries, University of Colorado at Boulder

Some of the documents, reports and websites they mentioned were:

• http://eslib.ischool.syr.edu/(Syracuse University eScience Fellows Program)
• http://sdl.syr.edu/(Science Data Literacy (SDL) project)
• e-Science and its implications for the library community by Tony Hey, Jessie Hey
• Global Interdisciplinary Research by Daniel Atkins
• E-Science and Data Support Services: A Study of ARL Member Institutions, Aug. 2010 [PDF] by Catherine Soehner, Catherine Steeves, and Jennifer Ward
• Developing a Vital Research Library Workforce by Mark A. Puente, Director of Diversity Programs, ARL
• Using Personas to Understand the Needs and Goals of Institutional Repository Users, by Jack Maness, Tomasz Miaskiewicz, and Tamara Sumner

Happy reading!