Minitex Webinar: Access vs. Privacy: Understanding the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

Take advantage of the many free and low-cost continuing education opportunities organized and delivered by Minitex and other professional organizations in the area. These  workshops, webinars, and conferences are good ways to build on what you're learning in class, keep your kills fresh, and make new contacts that will help you find your next job.

Access vs. Privacy: Understanding the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
Thursday, September 26, 2013
10:00 AM–11:00 AM (Central Time)

Join the University of Minnesota Libraries' Government Information Librarian, Amy Springer, and Hennepin County Library's Government Documents Coordinator, Helen Burke, as they provide resources to start learning FOIA basics. FOIA entitles citizens to unseal some records and simultaneously allows the government to seal others. What better way to spend Banned Books Week than figuring out how to file a FOIA request? How may patrons file their own FOIA requests? How to distinguish requests for personal records from requests for data that ought to be public? What can patrons do for themselves? When is legal counsel recommended? What exemptions apply and when can they be overcome?

Presenters:
—Amy Springer, Government Information Librarian, University of Minnesota Libraries
—Helen Burke, Government Documents Coordinator, Hennepin County Library

Minitex Reference Webinars

Minitex Reference Outreach & Instruction is pleased to announce the following upcoming webinars.

Please register today before sessions become full!

Go to the following links to

get more information http://www.minitex.umn.edu/Training/Webinars.aspx

or to register http://www.minitex.umn.edu/Training/

Student Resources In Context

Locating Videos in ELM

Points of View Reference Center

Locating Videos in ELM

Date	Time
Tues., May 10, 2011	9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (Central Time)	REGISTER

Where can you find authoritative, accurate, and educational videos? In the ELM databases, of course. Join Minitex Reference staff as they show you where and how to locate videos in the ELM database and in some cases, how you can download them into PowerPoint and use them in class.

Student Resources In Context

Date	Time
Wed., May 25, 2011	10:00 AM - 10:45 AM (Central Time)	REGISTER

Gale has just replaced select Gale Resource Centers, with the new In Context family of products. This learning environment provides a revolutionary user experience that’s supported by media-rich content, customizable options, and user tools. Join Minitex reference librarians as they focus this webinar on ELM's Student Resources In Context (previously known as Student Resource Center Gold).

Points of View Reference Center

Date	Time
Wed., May 18, 2011	3:30 PM - 4:15 PM (Central Time)	REGISTER

A detailed overview of an online tool to assist researchers in understanding the full scope of a wide range of controversial subjects and evaluate the issues of today and tomorrow. This session will include reviewing key essays (Overview, Point, Counterpoint and Guide to Critical Analysis) on a variety of topics. Advanced searching techniques using lexiles, limiters and source types will also be covered.

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The Institute of Museum and Library Services, a Federal agency that fosters innovation, leadership, and a lifetime of learning, and State Library Services, the Minnesota state library agency, supports Minitex Reference Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA).

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20th Annual Minitex ILL Conference

20th Annual Minitex ILL Conference

Date & Location

Tuesday, May 10, 2011
8:30 AM – 3:15 PM

Continuing Education & Conference Center
University of Minnesota—St. Paul Campus
1890 Buford Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108
(formerly known as the Earle Brown Center)

Registration

Registration Fee
$45.00 for first person, $35.00 for each additional person registering from the same library. When completing the registration form, please list only one participant per form. Please send all registrations in together to qualify for multiple participant discount.

· Register now!

Keynote Presentation – "Why the Future Needs Libraries"

Patricia Martin
CEO and Founder, LitLamp Communications

Patricia Martin, author of the popular book, RenGen: Renaissance Generation, shares her most current research on what we can expect from the coming cycle of re-birth. A sought after strategist who understands how to use the culture as a medium to reach communities of users, Martin has worked with clients such as Discovery Channel, Microsoft, and Target. She reveals what lies at the beating heart of the social movements forming the next wave of opportunity. Martin understands the challenges ahead for libraries and provides solid ideas for how to respond so they are reborn, not left behind.

Patricia Martin is CEO and founder of LitLamp Communications, a marketing and communications boutique acclaimed for using culture as a medium to connect brands with communities of consumers. Martin tunes in to social tremors before they become trends to help clients win hearts and change minds. She conjured a strategy for the Asian tour of the New York Philharmonic, spearheaded a viral Information Privacy initiative funded by George Soros, launched Animal Planet, introduced Dannon products into school lunch rooms nationwide, and re-focused Sun Microsystems' higher education strategy.

Before founding her firm in 1995, Martin created the first-of-its-kind sponsorship marketing division for the American Library Association. While there, she partnered with some of the world's most recognized brands, including Microsoft, where she built the blueprint for what is now the Gates Library Foundation, an initiative Mr. Gates believes "History will get right," as his most important legacy. (New York Times, Nov. 6, 2002).

Martin has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, NPR, the Wall Street Reporter, Market Watch, Harvard Business Review, and Advertising Age.

Morning Presentation – "Resource Sharing: Perspectives on the Future"

Bill DeJohn
Director, Minitex

DeJohn will share his views on changes in resource sharing and impacts that he foresees in the coming years. This includes copyright, e-books, licensing, delivery, HathiTrust, and other issues. He will discuss how these issues will affect the Minitex participating libraries and ultimately, our end users. And, he'll talk about what we can do to prepare for this future.

Afternoon Presentation – "Perceptions of Libraries"

George Needham
Vice President for Global and Regional Councils, OCLC

George Needham is Vice President for Global and Regional Councils at OCLC in Dublin, Ohio. His primary responsibilities include OCLC's Global and Regional Councils, being part of OCLC's Speakers Bureau, and the OCLC Library. He's an occasional contributor to The OCLC Cooperative blog, and, with his consulting partner Joan Frye Williams, to Viral Optimism. Since July 2010, he has also had a private consulting business practice, focusing on library sustainability strategy.

A librarian for nearly 30 years, George has worked in a variety of settings: at three public libraries, as state librarian of Michigan, and in several library-related nonprofit organizations. He holds MLS and BA degrees from the University at Buffalo, New York, and has taken additional courses at Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University. His sole brush with non-library fame was as a two-time champion on the television show Jeopardy in 1994.

Learn More

For registration, the full agenda, and more information about the 20th Annual Minitex ILL Conference, visit the conference website.

Minitex Digital Images Workshop

Minitex Bibliographic and Technical Services is pleased to sponsor a new workshop, Understanding Digital Images: Basic to Intermediate Concepts, presented by Wayne Torborg, The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, Saint John's University. We have scheduled one full-day session in the Twin Cities. If you are interested in hosting this workshop at your institution in North Dakota or South Dakota, please contact Sara Ring (ring0089@umn.edu), Minitex. Understanding Digital Images: Basic to Intermediate Concepts Confused by the technical jargon of digital imaging? Frustrated by training seminars that assume too much prior knowledge on the part of the student? This day-long series of presentations guides the participant from the very basics of digital images to intermediate-level concepts, giving them the essential knowledge to embark on further exploration. Sessions cover the basics of digital image files, the mechanics of digitization, intermediate concepts such as colorspace and profiles, and suggestions for setting up computers for imaging work. Friday, May 27, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (Central Time) Andersen Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Register for "Understanding Digital Images: Basic to Intermediate Concepts" More Details Topics covered will include: Image File Basics Bits and bytes: how computers store information Pixels: the building blocks of digital pictures Image file formats The RGB colorspace Unraveling the "image size," "dots per inch," and "pixels per inch" confusion Decoding the "megapixel" marketing hype Resizing digital images Compressed file formats, lossy vs. lossless compression Mechanics of Digitization Basics of creating digital images using light-sensitive electronic sensors The essentials of how scanners work compared to digital cameras Pros and cons of various types of systems What a "raw" file is and why it's important in digital photography Image Files: Learning More RGB vs. CMYK colorspaces Concepts of color profiles and why they matter Why PCs and Macs don't always see "eye to eye," and how to fix it Decoding the tech-talk of "gamut" "gamma" and "white point" Setting Up Computers for Imaging Work Useful guidelines for setting up a computer for imaging work How computer monitors work and how to set them up properly Essential concepts for reproducing image color and tone Using test targets to get your monitor "close enough" for imaging work Options for further exploration in this area Who Should Attend? This seminar would be useful to anyone learning the basics of digital photography, working with scanners, or preparing images for use on the Internet or in print. Presenter Information Wayne Torborg has been a professional photographer for nearly 30 years. After receiving a degree in mass communications from St. Cloud State University in 1984, he operated a commercial photography business. In 1997, he was recruited by ColorMax, a digital media services company, to produce digital photography for advertising clients. In 2004, he became director of digital collections and imaging for the Hill Museum & Manuscript Manuscript Library at Saint John's University in Collegeville. In his work at HMML, Torborg supervises the work of 12 overseas manuscript digitization projects, manages HMML's websites and databases, and produces the digital images of the Saint John's Bible.

More Training Opportunities See the full list of upcoming Minitex training sessions Contact the Bibliographic and Technical Services Unit Phone: 800-462-5348 or 612-624-4002 Fax: 612-624-4508 Email: mino@umn.edu Twitter: http://twitter.com/minitexbats/ Blog: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/minitex/bats/

Minitex RDA Workshops

Those of you who have taken LIBT/INFS 2200 Introduction to Cataloging in the past, you might want to sign up for one or more of these workshops. Note these are face-to-face workshops, not webinars.

The Minitex Bibliographic and Technical Services unit has scheduled the following workshops on RDA cataloging topics for February through May 2011. Due to demand, one additional workshop for print monographs and one for audiovisual works have been added. RDA training sessions on other formats will be announced soon.

Please note: The workshops listed below are being presented in person at Wilson Library (room S30C), Minneapolis Campus, University of Minnesota. For those outside the Twin Cities region, webinar sessions covering the same material will be posted for registration in the next few days.

New Sessions

RDA for Copy Catalogers: A How-To for Music Materials

This workshop introduces the experienced copy cataloger of music materials to Resource Description and Access (RDA). Descriptive cataloging of music scores and sound recordings will be our focus, along with its application in MARC bibliographic records. Hands-on exercises will also be offered.

Friday, April 8, 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, May 10, 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Registration: http://www.minitex.umn.edu/Training/Details.aspx?SessionID=326

Other Sessions

RDA for Copy Catalogers: A How-To for Print Monographs

This workshop introduces the experienced copy cataloger to Resource Description and Access (RDA). The descriptive cataloging of print monographs and its application in MARC bibliographic records will be highlighted through lecture and hands-on exercises.

Thursday, March 17, 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Registration: http://www.minitex.umn.edu/Training/Details.aspx?SessionID=321

RDA for Copy Catalogers: A How-To for Audiovisual Materials

This workshop introduces the experienced copy cataloger of audiovisual materials to Resource Description and Access (RDA). The scope of this training session focuses on the descriptive cataloging of A/V materials and its application in MARC bibliographic records through lecture and hands-on exercises.

Tuesday, Feb. 15, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 24, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Friday, March 11, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Registration: http://www.minitex.umn.edu/Training/Details.aspx?SessionID=322

RDA for Original Catalogers

This workshop provides further instruction on Resource Description and Access (RDA) for original catalogers, concentrating on the authority work and advanced aspects of descriptive cataloging that see changes with the new cataloging guidelines.

Friday, Feb. 11, 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, Mar. 29, 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Registration: http://www.minitex.umn.edu/Training/Details.aspx?SessionID=323

All of these workshops are being held in Wilson Library on the Minneapolis campus (West Bank) of the University of Minnesota. Here is some helpful information on getting to the workshop:

• Floorplan to Wilson Library (PDF format): http://wilson.lib.umn.edu/floorplans.pdf (the workshop takes place in the sub-basement)
• A map of Wilson Library, the West Bank, and nearby parking: http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/maps/OMWL/
• Directions to the West Bank: http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/maps/directions-mpls.php
• Parking information: http://www1.umn.edu/pts/iama/visitor.html

Minitex NISO webinar

Those of you who took Intro to Indexing and/or are in Intro to Cataloging this semester, take note: consider attending this on-side webinar if your schedule allows.

Don’t forget to register for the upcoming on-site NISO webinar.

Back From the Endangered List:
Using Authority Data to Enhance the Semantic Web

Wednesday, February 9, 2011
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. (Central Time)

Minitex Conference Room

15 Andersen Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

To register for this on-site webinar, go to http://www.minitex.umn.edu/Events/Niso/#endangered.

Librarian use of authority files dates back to Callimachus and the Great Library of Alexandria around 300 BC. With the evolution of powerful computerized searching and retrieval systems, authority data appears to some to have outlived its usefulness. However, the Semantic Web provides an opportunity to use authority data to enable computers to search, aggregate, and combine information on the Web. Join this webinar to learn about the amazing services that can result when the rich data included in name authority files, and other standardized vocabularies are linked via the Semantic Web.

Presentations include:

• Linking Things and the Virtual International Authority File – Jeff Young, Software Architect, OCLC Research
  Is "NISO" a "controlled access point" or an "organization"? Because different authority agencies disagree on the literal form of the “controlled access point”, the basis for associating them in VIAF must be through a more intuitive concept like “organization”, “person”, “place”, etc. Linked Data encourages us to assign HTTP URIs to these conceptualized resources and to describe them with existing ontologies (e.g. FOAF, SKOS, OWL) to further enhance their reuse outside the library community. With these Linked Data tools, VIAF and its contributors illustrate the potential interplay between centralized and decentralized interoperability of authority information.

• Authorities as Linked Data Hubs – Richard Wallis, Technology Evangelist, Talis
  As the Web of Data appears, hubs of information are naturally forming. The Linked Data approach to publishing information is one of reuse and linking to others. It is no surprise therefore that DBpedia [Linked Data derived from Wikipedia] has become one of the most linked to hubs --- not because of the authority of Wikipedia data, but because of the reusable identifiers used to link it. In the same way governments are becoming hubs for identifying schools, locations, departments, laws, etc., the library community has the opportunity to become the respected source for identifiers in this world. What we collectively refer to as authorities have the potential [if published openly, simply, and soon] to become hubs for the linking of library and non-library information across the Web of Data. However, just encoding what we have in RDF and pushing it out there may not be enough. Applying Linked Data principles and approaching it from the data consumers' point of view will help the continuation of the centuries old library mission into a Semantic Web future.

• The Getty Vocabularies: 'Non-Authoritarian' Authority Files for Art, Architecture, and Material Culture – Murtha Baca, Head, Digital Art History Access
  For more than two decades, the Getty Vocabulary Program, a unit of the Getty Research Institute (GRI), has been building electronic thesauri containing structured terminology for art, architecture, decorative arts and other material culture, archival materials, visual surrogates, and bibliographic materials. Compliant with international standards, the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT®), Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN®), and Union List of Artist Names (ULAN®) provide authoritative information for catalogers and researchers, and can be used to enhance search and retrieval in databases and Web sites. The Getty Vocabularies grow through contributions from their constituent communities. The Getty Vocabulary Program is a participant in VIAF. The newest Getty vocabulary, currently in development, is CONA™ (Cultural Objects Name Authority), a structured vocabulary containing authority records for cultural works, including architecture and movable works such as paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, manuscripts, photographs, textiles, ceramics, furniture, other visual media such as frescoes and architectural sculpture, performance art, archaeological artifacts, and various functional objects that are from the realm of material culture and of the type collected by museums.