Library Projects

Bringing together diverse work groups from IT and libraries to develop a new service can be challenging. This session will describe how the University of Tennessee applied many of the techniques used to build and manage teams to successfully meld these campus units to create an information commons.

This 8 minute podcast features an interview from the EDUCAUSE 2007 Southeast Regional Conference with three members of the University of Tennessee Faculty. They presented a session at the conference entitled, "Navigating the Tennessee River: The Commons Steering Committee Charts a Course". Present for this interview are:

In this 34-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Victoria Matthew in a session entitled The Embedded Librarian Program: Librarians and Faculty Partnering to Serve Online Students. Matthew will share how faculty members at the Community College of Vermont are partnering with librarians to provide personalized, meaningful library assistance to online classes.

Embrace your inner librarian, build and share (or not) a personal catalog. Link up with like minded readers, Amazon and the Library of Congress. It's addictive, and it's found at LibraryThing.com.

Talis has a library mashup competition going. As does OCLC, The OCLC Research Software Contest.

This 51 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Building an Online Learning Community for "Blended" Librarians.

This 50 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled The DPubS Development Project: Building an Open Source Electronic Publishing System.