This Week in IUL News

• Collection Development Committee Events: James Simon

• Digital Library Brown Bag: February 27

• The Julieann V. Nilson $1000 SLIS scholarship

• March 5 Metadata Discussion Group Meeting

• Spring IOLUG Program: Call for Proposals

• Indiana Library Federation Districts 5/7 Annual Conference: Call for Programs

• Upcoming Application Deadline for the InULA Research Incentive Fund

• Underneath the Lintel and InULA

• Staff News

Library News and Events

Collection Development Committee Events: James Simon

The Collection Development Committee (CDC) would like to remind the library community of the upcoming visit by James Simon, Director of International Resources at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). 

James Simon will be speaking about future directions in CRL's international and area studies programs.  This one-hour talk has been scheduled for Monday, February 25, at 10:00am in room E174 of the Wells Library.  A leading consortium of North American research libraries, the CRL acquires and preserves resources for research and teaching and makes them available to member institutions through interlibrary loan.

James Simon will also be speaking at "Human Rights, the Right to Memory, and the Truth Commission in Brazil: A Symposium," an event sponsored by the Brazilian Studies Program.  His presentation focuses on a new collaboration between the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), LAMP (formerly known as the Latin American Microform Project), and the Federal Prosecutor's Office in Brazil to digitize the microform collection Brasil: Nunca Mais.  These records document the cases of over 7,000 persons arrested, convicted, and/or executed by Brazilian authorities between 1964 and 1979.  Copied in secrecy, the official records expose human rights violations by the military regime that ruled in Brazil during this period.  LAMP received the collection in 1987 from the Brasil: Nunca Mais project director Rev. Jaime Wright, who was seeking a location to deposit the microfilm copy of the records for safekeeping and use.  In 2011, Brazilian authorities expressed interest to digitize the 543-reel microfilm set for public access.  With the support of LAMP and CRL, copies of the film are being sent to Brazil for digitization, after which the collection will be openly accessible via a public database.  More information on the collaborative digitization project is available at http://www.crl.edu/focus/winter-2012.  Through membership in LAMP and CRL, the IU Libraries support this significant initiative.

James Simon's symposium presentation, "Brasil: Nunca Mais and the Library's Role in Preserving Human Rights Evidence" will take place on Tuesday, February 26, from 10:00am - 11:30am, in the Slocum Room at the Lilly Library.

All members of the IU Libraries community are invited to attend the symposium "Human Rights, the Right to Memory, and the Truth Commission in Brazil."  For programming information, please visit the symposium website: http://www.indiana.edu/~liblatam/symposium_2013/index.html.

Submitted by: Luis A. Gonzalez, Librarian for Latin American Studies, IUB; Chair, Collection Development Committee; Coordinator, Brazilian Studies Program

This presentation showcases the explorations of Indiana University Bloomington Libraries in using CSS media queries to offer mobile-ready access to online digital collections, from TEI-encoded e-texts like Indiana Authors and Their Books (http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/inauthors) to online exhibits like the War of 1812 (http://collections.libraries.iub.edu/warof1812/) in the Collections of the Lilly Library.  Included are the process to decide which features to offer, the media query technique, and testing methods for various mobile devices.

Presentation slides and audio will be available via the Connect Meeting Service (formerly known as "Breeze"). Go to http://breeze.iu.edu/diglib to view and listen to the presentation. If you are not a registered user for Connect Meeting/Breeze, select the "Enter as a Guest" option.

The Digital Library Brown Bag series is held most Wednesdays this spring semester. All presentations are in the Herman B Wells Library, room E174, from 12:00pm -1:00pm unless otherwise noted. The complete schedule, including abstracts, is available on: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/education/brownbags/.

To receive a reminder and an abstract for each presentation, send an email to iulist@iulist.indiana.edu with the message body:
sub dl-brownbag-l Your Full Name

Spring IOLUG Program: Call for Proposals

The Indiana Online Users Group (IOLUG) invites you to submit a proposal to present at the Spring 2013 IOLUG program on May 3, 2013 at Indiana Wesleyan University North in Indianapolis, IN.  The deadline for submitting a proposal is Friday, March 8.  Proposals can be submitted using the online form or at the IOLUG website.

The committee is particularly interested in proposals that address:

• Digital Literacy.
• Selecting new technologies (devices, applications, and programs) for the library, e.g. How do I choose which programs to support? i.e. Kindle, Nook, Microsoft Office, Google products, Windows 8.
• Lessons learned from failed projects or projects that did not go as planned; what can go wrong; what went well.
• Maker Spaces: spaces in the library that allow patrons to create or "make" physical objects or online videos including bicycle repair, or using 3D printers to create models.  For more information visit: http:makerspace.com/ or
  http://www.alatechsource.org/blog/2012/12/what-
  is-a- makerspace-creativity-in-the-library.html.
• Programs/methods for teaching/instructing patrons to use new technologies such as e-readers, Dropbox, Google Docs, etc.
• New ideas for collecting or using data.
• Big Data and libraries.
• Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)/Learning Management Systems (LMS)/e-learning initiatives.
• Discovery systems for managing digital assets.
• Outreach activities: How are you partnering with members of your local community or campus to teach digital literacy to your library users?  Digital literacy may include instruction on how to use social media, e-readers, and tablets, as well as educating on online privacy concerns, Internet searching methods, and website evaluation methods.
• Free or low cost online tools used for communication or in your daily work.
• Mobile applications: What free or inexpensive apps and tools are you using in your library?  How are you sharing/promoting these tools to your users (e.g. inclusion in standard build on circulating mobile devices)?
• HTML5 and CSS3:  Using HTML5 and CSS3 to quickly and easily build a website, mobile, or standard.
• E-books: What is your collection development strategy regarding e-books?  Have you increased you e-book purchases?  Have you adopted new e-book acquisition strategies, such as PDA (Patron Driven Acquisition) or DDA (Demand Driven Acquisition)?  What are the challenges with implementing e-books (e.g. ILS integration, device selection, etc.?

Other topics relating to the program's theme of "The Many Faces of Library Technology" are encouraged, as well.  Proposals can be submitted at the IOLUG website or using the online form. 

Submitted by: Chanitra Bishop, Instruction and Emerging Technologies Librarian, IUB