The Middlebury Blog Network » Kellam Ayres http://sites.middlebury.edu/middblogs Selected Posts from the Midd Blogosphere Thu, 02 Jul 2015 19:28:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 Library & ITS Summer Picnic on Thurs 8/28 from 3:30-5:30pm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/Wi2i1pNOdiA/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/Wi2i1pNOdiA/#comments Tue, 19 Aug 2014 19:50:20 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=34283 Continue reading ]]> We hope that everyone in Library and ITS (and their families/partners) can join us for a Summer Picnic on Thursday 8/28 from 3:30-5:30pm at the Hadley Barn on campus. The Hadley Barn is located just past the Kirk Alumni Center on Golf Course Rd.

We’ll provide the grills — please indicate on the sign-up sheet what you would like to bring or help with. Dogs and buns? Salad or brownies? Assorted mayonnaise-based side dishes? We could also use drinks and paper products, and help with set-up and clean-up. Please sign up for whatever suits you best.

Please be in touch with Kellam or Terry with questions. We’re looking forward to seeing you soon and celebrating the end of a great summer!

 

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LIS Holiday Party on Tues 12/17 from 4:00-6:00pm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/yMs2MmnuELU/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/yMs2MmnuELU/#comments Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:51:16 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=33211 Continue reading Continue reading ]]> Please join us for the annual LIS Holiday Party on Tues 12/17 from 4:00-6:00pm at American Flatbread in the Marbleworks. Light refreshments will be provided with a cash bar. Families and partners are welcome to attend. An Outlook invitation will be sent to everyone shortly.

Please note that both libraries will close at 3:30pm that day. We hope to see you soon to celebrate the holidays and the end of a great semester!

-The R&R Crew

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LIS Employee Awards for November http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/sDsijayjs1Q/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/sDsijayjs1Q/#comments Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:04:35 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=33160 Continue reading Continue reading ]]>

The LIS Recognition & Recreation Crew is pleased to announce the LIS employee awards for November:

Employee of the Month – Howie McCausland

Crew of the Month — Helpdesk Call Center: Joe Durante, Linda Knutson, Marty New, and Gary Weiss

Student Employee of the Month – Anis Mebarki (Helpdesk)

Congratulations to all! And a reminder about our FABULOUS prize packages: Employee of the Month winners receive a generous Amazon gift card; Crew and Student of the Month winners receive a coffee card good for 11 free cups of coffee.

The R&R Crew needs award nominations! Nominate LIS staff, student employees, and crews at go/nominate! Please be sure to include details about why the nominee deserves recognition.

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LIS Employee Awards for October http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/J-3KNKEA43M/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/J-3KNKEA43M/#comments Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:25:54 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=32962 Continue reading Continue reading ]]>

The LIS Recognition & Recreation Crew is pleased to announce the LIS employee awards for October:

Employee of the Month – Carrie Macfarlane

Student Employee of the Month – Samantha Moog (Digital Media Tutor)

Congratulations to all! And a reminder about our FABULOUS prize packages: Employee of the Month winners receive a generous Amazon gift card; Crew and Student of the Month winners receive a coffee card good for 11 free cups of coffee.

The R&R Crew needs award nominations! Nominate LIS staff, student employees, and crews at go/nominate! Please be sure to include details about why the nominee deserves recognition.

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LIS Employee Awards for September http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/k4nqM0Hgus0/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/k4nqM0Hgus0/#comments Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:11:19 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=32697 Continue reading Continue reading ]]>

The LIS Recognition & Recreation Crew is pleased to announce the LIS employee awards for September:

Crew of the Month – The AS400 Group: Dave Condon, John Connors, Rick James, Cindy Peet, Travis Stafford, and Julie Tumminia-Tomsuden

Employee of the Month – Petar Mitrevski

Student Employees of the Month – Himi Kanaumi and Tiffany Park (Circulation Services)

Congratulations to all!

The R&R Crew needs award nominations! Nominate LIS staff, student employees, and crews at go/nominate! Please be sure to include details about why the nominee deserves recognition.

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Reminder: sign-up sheet for LIS picnic http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/XpTyYFQPW54/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/XpTyYFQPW54/#comments Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:59:54 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=32442 Continue reading Continue reading ]]>

This is a reminder to please use the sign-up sheet to let us know which food stuffs you’ll be bringing to the LIS Summer Picnic on Tuesday 8/27 from 4:00-6:00pm at the Hadley Barn on campus. We still need pretty much everything — dogs/burgers/buns, condiments, side dishes, desserts — so please sign up for whatever suits you best.

Please be in touch with the R&R Crew with any questions. We’re looking forward to seeing you soon and celebrating the end of a great summer!

-Terry Simpkins and Kellam Ayres

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LIS Summer Picnic on Tues 8/27 from 4:00-6:00pm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/8kBvkcH8flw/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/8kBvkcH8flw/#comments Wed, 07 Aug 2013 17:38:52 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=32365 Continue reading Continue reading ]]> We hope that everyone in LIS (and their families/partners) can join us for the LIS Summer Picnic on Tuesday 8/27 from 4:00-6:00pm at the Hadley Barn on campus. The Hadley Barn is located just past the Kirk Alumni Center on Golf Course Rd.

We’ll provide the grills — please indicate on the sign-up sheet what you would like to bring or help with. Dogs and buns? Salad or brownies? Assorted mayonnaise-based side dishes? We could also use drinks and paper products, and help with set-up and clean-up. Please sign up for whatever suits you best. We can also accept cash donations and do the shopping for you.

Please be in touch with the R&R Crew with questions. We’re looking forward to seeing you soon and celebrating the end of a great summer!

-Terry Simpkins and Kellam Ayres

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LIS Summer Picnic Wed 8/22 from 3:00-5:00pm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/9ZhNJHGb1nk/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/9ZhNJHGb1nk/#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:41:29 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=29825 Continue reading Continue reading ]]> We hope that everyone in LIS (and their families/partners) can join us for the LIS Summer Picnic on Wednesday 8/22 from 3:00-5:00pm at the Hadley Barn on campus. The Hadley Barn is located just past the Kirk Alumni Center on Golf Course Rd.

We’ll provide the grills – please indicate on the sign-up sheet what you would like to bring or help with. Dogs and buns? Salad or brownies? Assorted mayonnaise-based side dishes? We could also use drinks and paper products, and help with set-up and clean-up. Please sign up for whatever suits you best. We can also accept cash donations and do the shopping for you.

Please be in touch with any member of the R&R Crew with questions. We’re looking forward to seeing you soon and celebrating the end of a great summer!

-David L., Doreen, Janine, Joe A., Kellam, and Lisa T.

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Conference report: “Adventures in Copyright: Navigating Your Way Through Intellectual Property” http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/-eVyMeuKtLA/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/-eVyMeuKtLA/#comments Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:46:48 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=29533 Continue reading Continue reading ]]> I recently traveled to Baltimore to spend three days among “my people” at the Center for Intellectual Property symposium. My people, of course, are those who spend a lot of their professional lives thinking about copyright. Just a few weeks before the conference began, the long-awaited Georgia State e-reserves opinion was handed down. Perfect timing for this crowd. It was the talk of the conference, as was the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, which was released earlier this year. I’d previously taken several online courses through the CIP and was thrilled to see these engaging teachers, thinkers, and defenders of Fair Use in person. Plus my hotel room had a view of Camden Yard and I got to enjoy the National Aquarium on my way out of town. And I might have had a few crab cakes. Many of the talks were recorded and video is available online. My brief summaries of the talks are below.

“The Obligation of Scholars”
Lawrence Lessig, Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University

Lawrence’s talk focused on the fact that scholarly research is not available to the vast majority of people. It’s hidden behind paywalls, accessible only to the “knowledge elite” who are affiliated with certain privileged schools with enough purchasing power. He believes that scholars should be outraged by this fact. He’s one of the founders of the Creative Commons and a very engaging speaker.

“The Elephant in the Room”
Peggy Hoon, Scholarly Communications Librarian University of North Carolina at Charlotte and CIP’s Virtual Intellectual Property Scholar

Peggy spoke about nonprofit mass digitization projects and her primary example was the (fantastic and groundbreaking) Grateful Dead Archive at UC Santa Cruz. Technological capabilities are rushing ahead while copyright law is static and lagging. The reality is that we can’t wait for the law to catch up with the technology – we need to make on-the-ground guidelines for ourselves if we are to proceed with preserving scholarly materials and making them available to users. The Grateful Dead archive contains a variety of materials – text, recordings, artwork, t-shirts – and became extremely labor intensive to digitize due to a lack of consensus of best practices. Peggy hopes that other schools embarking on mass digitization projects will post their guidelines and best practices publicly so these things aren’t behind closed doors.

“A Code of Best Practices in Fair Use”
Brandon Butler, Director of Public Policy Initiatives, Association of Research Libraries
Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor, American University School of Communication

Brandon and Patricia are two of the co-facilitators of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries and I admire their work greatly. I was already quite familiar with the Code but was interested to hear them speak a little more about what constitutes transformative use, ways to manage risk, and the importance of documenting the principles and practices of an individual community. They also spoke about the GSU opinion and countered some common arguments by publishers regarding Fair Use.

“JeopARTy: Teaching Ethics and Law of Artistic Appropriation”
Paul Dobbs, Library Director, Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Paul gave us a taste of how the MassArt librarians teach their students about Fair Use.  An interactive session where we discussed what is fair vs. ethical vs. legal, what is parody or homage, what is plagiarism. A recent example of this issue was the artist Shepard Fairey’s use of an AP photo to create his Obama “HOPE” poster. Several other similar (although not as high profile) examples followed and it was fascinating to see how everyone in the room felt about certain appropriations of another artist’s work.

“The Shifting Legislative/Policy Landscape: An Update”
Joan Cheverie, Policy Specialist, EDUCASE

The Georgia State decision was touched on of course, and a host of acronyms you’ve probably heard of – DMCA, PIPA, SOPA, TPP – were discussed as well. This session was less successful than the others because the subject matter was so varied and complex and there just wasn’t much time to delve into any one topic. We could have spent the entire hour on SOPA alone.

“Emerging Issues in Copyright Law”
Karyn Temple Claggett, Senior Counsel for Policy and International Affairs, United States Copyright Office

Everyone was very excited to have a representative from the Copyright Office at the conference, and attendees came prepared with their tough questions. Karyn spoke about addressing online piracy in a way that still protects free speech and expression. She hopes that orphan works legislation will be helpful. She’s currently working on a way for people to deal with small claims of copyright violation without spending six figures on legal fees. Her team is also revamping the Copyright Office website to create better tools for the public.

“Panel of Professionals”: from Purdue University, Baltimore City Public Schools, and ARTstor

A general panel discussion on Fair Use that tackled a wide range of topics. Panelists shared favorite books and blogs, commiserated about struggles, and urged everyone to read, participate, and understand all sides so we can help and guide our constituents.

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Spring Term Reserves http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2011/01/24/spring-term-reserves/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2011/01/24/spring-term-reserves/#comments Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:19:43 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=24800 Continue reading Continue reading ]]> With Spring Term around the corner, Library Reserves is processing print, media, and electronic materials for course work. We’re happy to generate a list of previously used reserve materials from past semesters, and we can also easily restore old EReserves pages — please let us know if these options will be helpful. Email the Reserves Department with requests and questions: libres@middlebury.edu. This is the best way to ensure a timely response to all Reserve needs. Please don’t hesitate to be in touch!

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