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CNI Conversations

Presenter: CNI Teleconference

September 15, 1:00-2:00pm, Library West Room 429

October 6, 2009, 1:00-2:00pm, Library West Room 429November 18, 2009 1:00-2:00pm, Library West Room 429

December 17, 2009 1:00-200pm, Library West Room 429

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. Some 200 institutions representing higher education, publishing, network and telecommunications, information technology, and libraries and library organizations make up CNI's members. 

CNI is experimenting with new ways to reach out to member institutions.  This first event will use real time traditional telephony with an audio archive on the web.  The session, lead by Clifford Lynch, will give us an opportunity to discuss recent events, provide updates ontopics related to CNI's program, and answer questions.The first CNI Conversations will feature late-breaking news and topics of interest to our community, and it will include a few comments on digital books.  Most of the hour will be devoted to your questions.

For more information, please visit the CNI website at http://www.cni.org/organization.html.

 Registration: Smathers employees register through the Instruction and Training Database.

All other parties please register via email here.

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Effort Reporting at Smathers

Presenter: Kristy Mills

November 10, 2009,  2:30-3:00pm, Library West Room 419

Faculty Assignment Reports and Semester Effort Reports are a University of Florida requirement.  The UF Cost Analysis Office requires all staff, faculty and OPS employees to complete one or both of these reports.  This training will discuss the importance of the reporting process and teach key procedures and practices to correctly input and certify data. 

All employees are encouraged to attend!

 Registration: Smathers employees register through the Instruction and Training Database.

All other parties please register via email here.

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Mass Digitization Collaborative Information Sessions

Presenter: Lyrasis

October 8, 2009,  10:00-11:00am, Library West Room 419

October 15, 2009, 2:00-3:00pm, Library West Room 419

November 10, 2009, 10:00-11:00am, Library West Room 419

November 19, 2009, 10:00-11:00am, Library West Room 419December 18, 2009, 10:00-11:00am, Library West Room 419

January 15, 2010, 10:00-11:00am, Library West Room 419

January 28, 2010, 2:00-3:00pm, Library West Room 419

The Mass Digitization Collaborative offers LYRASIS members the capability to contribute important historical and archival materials for digitization as part of our regional digital collection. Participation in the Collaborative makes digitization affordable and easy for LYRASIS members.

Learn about the new LYRASIS Mass Digitization Collaborative! If you are thinking about participating in the collaborative, pleaseattend this session. This one hour interactive session will provide an overview of the project, including partners, roles and procedures. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions about participation

 Registration: Smathers employees register through the Instruction and Training Database.

All other parties please register via email here.

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Learn the Supervisor’s Balancing Act– How You Can Bring Out the Best in Your Top People Without Micromanagement

Presenters: LLAMA

November 3, 2009,  3:00-4:30pm, Library West 419

This class is for library chairs, directors, deans and top managers.

The Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) recently announced a series of interactive webinars designed to meet the needs of experienced leaders and managers at the dean, director, department head and branch manager level. Each of the 60-90 minute programs will feature library consultant PatWagner of Pattern Research.

Class description: 

Library leaders might hesitate, with justification, to interfere with the work of top managers. After all, didn’t you promote, hire, or retain people with the experience and breadth of vision to run departments and buildings without micromanagement? However, even top managers have issues. Are they coordinating their efforts with their administrative team members? Are they consistently working within the parameters and priorities of the strategic plan? Are they modeling the best behaviors of civility and customer services? Are they growing their skills and changing along with the people they supervise? It is not that top managers don’t need supervision; it that the scope and direction is different.

Topics include:

A visual model for communicating goals and constraints, Evaluating top managers, Promoting based on technical versus “people” skills

Participants will learn:

How to ensure that top managers have the same requirements in terms of consistency, accountability and success as the rest of  the library organization, How to ensure that top managers are held to higher standards regarding behavior and success.      

 Registration: Smathers employees register through the Instruction and Training Database.

All other parties please register via email here.

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Make Your Library Dreams Come True –How to Use Project Management Techniques to Write a Strategic Plan - Cancelled

Presenters: LLAMA

November 16, 2009,  3:00-4:30pm, Library West 419

This class is for library chairs, directors, deans and top managers.

The Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) recently announced a series of interactive webinars designed to meet the needs of experienced leaders and managers at the dean, director, department head and branch manager level. Each of the 60-90 minute programs will feature library consultant Pat Wagner of Pattern Research.

Class description:

Why does a library’s strategic plan often fail? Because your overarching and ambitious abstract vision might not translate well into goals and priorities that make sense to the people who will be doing the day-to-day work. The secret is to use project management principles while creating the plan, including accountability and what is often called management overhead. Building in time and resources for operations–communication and trouble-shooting–at the beginning can ensure that the work gets done on time, under budget, at an agreed upon level of quality, and with everyone still speaking to each other.

Topics include:

Knowing who is in charge: the project management job descriptions, Time-outs: Have you scheduled for mistakes, disagreements and misunderstandings?, The ultimate test: Can a frontline library employee make the right choice from the strategic plan’s priorities?

Participants will be able to:

Improve implementation of strategic plans, Provide better quality, specific information for library managers, supervisors, and staff members, both degreed  and paraprofessional, Achieve your goals without micromanaging or burdening your staff with unnecessary paperwork

 Registration: Smathers employees register through the Instruction and Training Database.

All other parties please register via email here.

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IMLS National Leadership Grants- Winning Strategies for Applicants

Presenter: Bess de Farber

November 18, 2009,  8:30-10:30am, Library West Room 212 - Cancelled

November 24, 2009, 10:00am - 12:00pm, MSL 107

The Institute of Museum & Library Services sponsors an annual application deadline for National Leadership Grants which is coming up on February 1, 2010. There are categories for project activities or planning that fund 1) Advancing Digital Resources; 2) Research; 3) Demonstration; or 4) Library-Museum Collaboration.  What makes these opportunities unique is the focus on projects and planning related to libraries.

Even if you don’t have a specific idea, join us and learn about these funding opportunities, past projects and what makes them successful, and how to submit a strong application.  This knowledge may be useful in future years, if not now.

 Registration: Smathers employees register through the Instruction and Training Database.

All other parties please register via email here.