Granting Collaboration: Information Literacy for Faculty

The initiative to form a working partnership with faculty began when the librarians in O\u27Kelly Library became acutely aware that our students\u27 were not able to effectively access, evaluate and use information. After devoting years to marketing library services, teaching classes and acquiring new resources, there was little response from the faculty or students. We asked the question, What has to happen for us to be able to infuse information literacy into the curriculum and make it important and meaningful? This presentation is intended to show C. G. O\u27Kelly Library\u27s efforts to embed information literacy into the curriculum by educating faculty to its relevance through the O\u27K Fellows Information Literacy Institute. We will explain why we decided to take the course of reaching out to collaborate with faculty, how we went about planning the program elements, what our experiences have been conducting the sessions, the outcomes so far, and what we expect the future holds. The emphasis of the presentation will be on the actual program and the outcomes so interested participants will come away with an understanding of the program\u27s success and ideas that are replicable for their own libraries. We will include a website with handouts that can be downloaded including program agendas, assignment templates, lists of faculty readings, presentations by librarians on topics such as plagiarism and creating effective library assignments, and faculty surveys

An Evolving Model for Consortial Print and E-Book Collections: Triangle Research Libraries Network, Oxford University Press, YBP Library Services Pilot

The Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) and Oxford University Press (OUP) are continuing their pilot to create a financially sustainable model for consortial acquisition of e-books coupled with needed shared print copies in cooperation with YBP Library Services (YBP). The project expands acquisitions of e-books in tandem with reductions in print, so as to move both the consortium and the university presses to a decidedly electronic environment for books that will enhance support for instruction and research across the disciplinary spectrum within an environment that is acceptable to users. This paper reports on the challenges and lessons learned in Year 1, librarian and patron reactions to this format shift, and the resulting philosophical and practical evolutions in TRLN’s approaches to monographic acquisitions generally and understandings of what constitutes cooperative success specifically. The paper also discusses how this knowledge has changed understandings about vending and acquiring e-books and their relationship to print, and what have been the implications of these experiences for making changes in Year 2 and envisioning how the pilot would become a permanent venture

Fruit maturity and post-harvest environmental conditions influence the pre-penetration stages of Monilinia infections in peaches

Brown rot caused by the fungi Monilinia laxa (Aderhold and Ruhland) Honey, M. fructicola (Winter) Honey, or M. fructigena (Aderhold and Ruhland) is a serious fungal disease of peaches. The fungal infection process begins when fungal conidia germinate on the fruit surface to produce germtubes and/or appressoria, and the incidence of brown rot increases as fruit approaches maturity. The interaction between the fungal infection process, peach maturity, and the environmental conditions is not well understood. Accordingly, the objectives of this investigation were to investigate germ tube and appressorial formation by M. laxa and M. fructicola when they were exposed to peach skin from mature and immature fruit at various temperatures and relative humidities (RHs). The greatest number of germ tubes was found when M. laxa or M. fructicola was incubated in culture medium which contained a skin extract of mature peaches. In contrast, the greatest number of appressoria was found when M. laxa or M. fructicola was incubated in culture medium which contained a skin extract of immature peaches. Although M. fructicola produced the same number of germ tubes and appressoria at 4 °C, M. fructicola produced more germ tubes than appressoria at temperatures higher than 10 °C. M. laxa produced more germ tubes than appressoria at any temperature, except when it was incubated for 48 h on culture medium which contained a skin extract of immature peaches at 10 °C at 80% or 100% RH, or at 25 °C at 60% RH. M. laxa conidia germinated better than M. fructicola conidia at low temperatures. Germ tube and appressorial formation by Monilinia spp. were influenced by fruit postharvest handling. The number of germ tubes that were formed by M. laxa conidia was significantly greater than that for M. fructicola when the conidia were incubated at 100% RH, and this number increased after 3 days of refrigeration. The number of appressoria that were formed by both Monilinia spp. also increased after 3 consecutive days of refrigeration. Negligible or no germination of M. fructicola and M. laxa conidia occurred when the RH was 60%. We concluded that the dissimilar abilities of M. laxa and M. fructicola to germinate and form appressoria at low temperatures conferred a competitive advantage to M. laxa to survive during fruit postharvest refrigeration and cold storage at 4 °C