VISION:

Professional Development Week started in 1999 as a forum for CUL staff to share their research with their colleagues.  It is an excellent opportunity to let your peers and co-workers know a bit more about your particular research interests. All library staff are encouraged to participate.  

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WEEK PROGRAM -- May 14-17, 2007

All events will take place in the Kroch Library Lecture Room next to 2B48. Snacks and beverages will be provided

Date, Time & Location	Presenters/Speakers	Title and Description
Monday May 14
2.00 pm-3.30 pm	Wine & Hors d'oeuvres Reception, Lecture and Poster Session Kroch Library 2B48 and Lecture Room	Opening Remarks by Anne Kenney, Interim University Librarian Keynote Speaker: Linda Gasser, Lecturer, ILR School, Department of Organizational Behavior   Poster Session: Leaving a Trail of Breadcrumbs Pat Viele, Physical Sciences Library Using Get It! to Harness the Amazoogle Monster Olivia Nellums, Olin Interlibrary Services Caitlin Finlay, Olin Interlibrary Services
Tuesday, May 15
10:30 am-11:30 am	Sarah How, CRIO Kizer Walker, CRIO	Reflections on Book Fairs Kizer and Sarah will talk about the history of German book fairs and their own experiences attending book fairs in Leipzig, Frankfurt, and Paris, highlighting ways to maximize the book fair experience, cut costs, and network with library colleagues. Discussion will follow. Others who have attended international or regional book fairs are encouraged to attend.
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Academic Assembly Steering Committee	Who we are, what we do, what we could do, and how to get involved! The Academic Assembly Steering Committee will host a panel of representatives from the Steering Committee, the Committee on Professional Development, the Economic Status of Librarians, and the Academic Personnel Policy Committee. We will report on our activities from the past year, describe the committee structure, and answer your questions about committee activities, time commitments, and volunteering. We also hope to solicit ideas for issues that next year's committees might explore. This session will take the place of the traditional Academic Assembly business meeting.
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Zsuzsa Koltay, Special Projects Librarian Michael Cook, Mann Library	Sketching Our Audience: Personas for User Centered Design   Personas, realistic character sketches representing segments of a Web site's targeted audience, have mainly been used in industry as a tool for user centered design. The Web Vision Team is using this approach to better understand and design for the Cornell community and to inform our recommendations on how CUL should present itself and the information landscape to its users. The presentation will describe the goals and process of persona creation and provide a sneak preview of the personas as well as projections on how they will be used for the Web Vision project and beyond. Access the PowerPoint presentation .
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Jim LeBlanc, Database Management Services Martin Kurth, Digital Library and Discovery Services	An Operational Model for Metadata Maintenance   Libraries pay considerable attention to the creation, preservation, and transformation of descriptive metadata hi both MARC and non-MARC formats. However, there is little evidence that they devote as much tune, energy, and financial resources to the ongoing maintenance of non-MARC metadata, especially with regard to updating and editing existing descriptive content, as they do to maintenance of such information hi the MARC-based OP AC. hi our talk we will introduce a model, derived loosely from J.A. Zachman's framework for information systems architecture, with which libraries can identify and inventory components of catalog/metadata maintenance and plan interdepartmental and even interinstitutional workflows. The model draws on the notion that the expertise and skills that have long been the hallmark for the maintenance of libraries' catalog data can and should be parlayed towards metadata maintenance in a broader set of information delivery systems.
Wednesday, May 16
9:30 am - 10:15 am	Fiona Patrick, Digital Media Group, DLIT	CUL Digital Collections participation in Amazon's Print-On-Demand In June 2006 CUL announced plans to make available as print-on-demand more than 10,000 titles from eleven diverse digital collections. This presentation will provide an overview of the file preparation and ingest workflow, analysis of sales activity since January 2007, and preview marketing and communication strategies. We'll review the lessons learned during the first year of this initiative and potential opportunities for growth.
11:00 am - 11:45 am	Andrew Rabkin, Preservation & Conservation	How to Torture a Book: A Primer on Bindings Two talks in one! A brief history of bookbinding styles, followed by advice on how (and how not) to care for books hi your personal or institutional collection so that they will last nearly forever.
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Lance Heidig, CRIO Greg Lawrence, Mann Library Susan Markowitz, Library HR Jill Powell, Engineering Library	Panel Discussion on the Academic Promotion Process Learn more about the CUL academic promotion process: what is the role of the individual, the supervisor, Library Human Resources and the Promotion Review Board? Come prepared with your questions and participate in an informal discussion with a panel that includes the chairs of the 2006 Review Boards for Promotion to Librarian and Associate Librarian.
Thursday, May 17
9:30 am - 11:00 am	Jean Currie, SCRLC Angela Home, Management Library Jacie Spoon, Adelson Library Pat Viele, Physical Sciences Library Martha Walker, Fine Arts Library	Getting Involved in Local/Regional/State Library Committees Five panelists discuss their involvement in committees outside of CUL. They will share their experiences and insights regarding how to get involved, what activities they participated in, what were the time commitments, and the subsequent rewards. This session would be ideal for newer librarians and paraprofessionals interested in gaining experience and networking outside of CUL.
11:00 pm- 12:00 pm	Linda Howell, CIT Human Resources	Managing Your Career: Food for Thought Linda Croll Howell will be speaking about important considerations to achieving career satisfaction including person-environment fit, personal values, motivated skills and personal style. She will also discuss some of the barriers to internal mobility at Cornell and strategies to help individuals overcome these barriers.
1:15 pm - 2:00 pm	Jim LeBlanc, Database Management Services	More, Faster, Cheaper: Pragmatism and Paradox in the Quest for Better Bibliographic Access This is a talk Jim gave at the 2006 RLG Members Forum in Washington, DC, last August. In it, he explores the history of and rationale behind Cornell's effort to eliminate its once monumental cataloging arrearage and to maintain a zero-backlog environment.
3:0 pm - 4:30 pm	John Saylor, Scholarly Communications and Collections David Banush, LTS Adam Chandler, DLIT	Assessing collections and collection development decisions: tools and strategies for selectors John will offer his perspective on issues surrounding the assessment of research collections and some recent historical background on attempts to systematically describe and evaluate collections. Adam will give an overview of tools such as the ERM (Electronic Resources Management) system, and the Scholarly Stats and Journal Use Reports products. David will report on CUL efforts to build a "data mart" to store, package, and disseminate information that can inform Library decision-making ? he is particularly interested in learning more about what kind of data selectors need to have access to. We'll leave plenty of time for discussion.

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