The Magic of Creative Collaboration: Using LibGuides to Deliver ETD Information

Learning Objectives for a Shared Interest Audience: Identify one or more benefits to a partnership between the Graduate School and the University Libraries to market and deliver ETD processes and procedures online. Recognize how LibGuides can be used to effectively deliver information about writing and submitting electronic theses and dissertations to graduate students. Abstract When the University of Dayton implemented electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) in 2008, the Graduate School and University Libraries already had a long history of collaboration on format checking and commercial binding of theses and dissertations. The furthering of this partnership was instrumental to the successful implementation of ETDs at UD. As a founding member of the Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK), the Libraries were well-positioned to lead the university’s participation in the OhioLINK ETD Center, a statewide online repository of electronic theses and dissertations. Coincidentally, the University Libraries had recently implemented LibGuides, a hosted Web 2.0 content management and publishing system with pages that were easy to create, customize, update, and access. The Theses and Dissertations Guide was developed incorporating the information a student would need to write and submit a manuscript, including graduation deadlines, graduation checklist, writing guidelines, sample pages, copyright considerations, submission guidelines, FAQs, Graduate School contact information, and links to the OhioLINK ETD Center. The Guide was marketed to the university community as a “one-stop shop” for information about theses and dissertations and quickly became one of the most frequently accessed LibGuides at the University of Dayton. The Graduate School and the Libraries continue to collaborate to educate students, faculty and staff about the ETD process. The Guide is updated frequently based on feedback from the university community

Music

Music reference sources continue to evolve, in part because of technological developments and a broadening interest in nonclassical genres, including world music. A few classic works were removed from the list because they are no longer widely available. Others have been subsumed by new print or electronic works. General sources are listed first, followed by sources specific to one or two genres of music. Major categories include blues and jazz, classical, country and gospel, rock and popular, and world music. Works encompassing more than two genres of music are included in the General Sources section. Several select online databases are included, and web links to related sources have been inserted into the narrative, as appropriate

Designing Effective Teams for Technical Services: The Role of Leadership, Followership, and Group Emotional Intelligence

Emily Hicks, Director of Information Acquisition & Organization / Associate Professor, University of Dayton Libraries Teams make better decisions, develop more creative solutions, and achieve a higher level of productivity when the group has a high level of trust, a sense of group identity, and a sense of group efficacy. This presentation will discuss the role of leadership, followership, and group emotional intelligence in teams and the implications for library technical services. Good followership is vital in today’s highly collaborative, team-oriented libraries because the line between leaders and those they lead is often blurred. The key to defining followership, as in leadership, lies with the relationship between leaders and followers. Effective followers possess skills that allow them to effect change without causing harm to the organization. This takes a high degree of emotional intelligence. Both individual and group emotional intelligence involve the personal competence of being aware of and regulating one’s own emotions and the social competence of being aware of and regulating the emotions of others. Group emotional intelligence also includes being aware of the emotions of the group’s members, the emotions of the group as a whole, and the emotions of key groups and individuals outside of the group

How Healthy is Your Library? Diagnosing Culture and Curing the Patient

Every library has a distinctive organizational culture with norms, values, rules, beliefs, and basic assumptions that have developed over time and are shared by the people who make up the organization. This culture shapes the perceptions and assumptions of the library’s personnel. A healthy culture can evoke a passion for the work, a loyalty and commitment to the organization’s mission, and a deep-seated belief in the organization’s value. Libraries with a healthy culture are resilient, responsive, and inclusive. The health of an organization is the responsibility of every member, not just the formal leadership. Using a combination of graphics and text, this poster presentation informs the viewer, no matter where he or she is in the organization, how to spot the signs of an unhealthy organizational culture and what steps the library can take to move its culture toward good health

Revolutionizing ETD Operations With Effective Workflows

Learning Objectives: 1. Identify factors to consider when altering existing workflows or setting up new workflows for ETDs. 2. Recognize the value of collaboration between the Graduate School and the Libraries to facilitate efficient workflows for processing, approving, and cataloging ETDs. Summary: This poster will illustrate the evolution of workflows for theses and dissertations at the University of Dayton. When the University of Dayton implemented electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) in 2008, the Graduate School and the University Libraries already had a long history of collaboration on print format checking and commercial binding of theses and dissertations. The furthering of this partnership was instrumental to the successful implementation of ETDs at UD. The adaptation of existing workflows and the development of new workflows in the Graduate School and the Libraries were required. Mandatory electronic submission was not instituted at the University of Dayton until the Fall of 2011; therefore, the print workflows had to be retained as the electronic workflows were developed. With the advent of electronic submissions, metadata harvested from the OhioLINK ETD Center, a statewide online repository of electronic theses and dissertations, was used as the basis for MARC catalog records. Prior to ETDs, the cataloging of print theses and dissertations was a manual process triggered by the arrival of the Libraries’ commercially-bound copies. Original bibliographic records and name authority records were subsequently contributed to OCLC Worldcat and added to the online catalog. Now system-generated email notifications trigger the online approval process and subsequently, the cataloging process. Other factors influencing workflow include changes in cataloging personnel and metadata processes, changes in the on-campus name verification process, and the development of ETD workflow tracking mechanisms