SJSU iSchool Audio/Video Podcast

SJSU iSchool Audio/Video Podcast

This is an RSS 2.0 formatted XML feed produced by the San José State University School of Information iSchool. The purpose of this podcast is to provide a forum for faculty, alumni, and students to present their works/projects and to exchange research ideas. The media of this podcast is available as both video and audio. Captioned versions of this media are available on the SLIS Website.

Episodes

ALASC Luminary Lecture: Patty Wong (AUDIO)

September 26, 2007 • 57 mins
It All Begins with Good Will and Respect: Community Outreach as a Key Ingredient to a Library's Success
Community Outreach can and should be as natural to libraries as collections or staff or programs and services. Creating collaborations with community leaders and agencies is an incredibly powerful way to develop one's community, extend and enhance the Library's work, build employee capacity and leadership, and generate advoca...
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Lili Luo: Identification of Essential Chat Reference Competencies and Effective Training Techniques (AUDIO)

October 8, 2007 • 42 mins
Toward Sustaining Professional Development: Identification of Essential Chat Reference Competencies and Effective Training Techniques
Chat reference is a reference conduit completely based on real-time electronic interaction. The fundamental principle stays the same across all reference services – assisting users in fulfilling their information needs. But when it comes to the process of how reference services a...
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April Gage: Demystifying the Thesis Option (AUDIO)

October 8, 2007 • 29 mins
Free Your Mind and Your 299 Will Follow: Demystifying the Thesis Option
You've made good progress at SLIS—that is, until you realize that you are heading toward the inevitable fork in the road: the e-portfolio or the thesis. As you approach the fork, a bespectacled person wearing tweeds cautions "WRONG WAY! TURN BACK!" and waves you toward the e-portfolio. What should you do? Take the e-portfolio path of least resis...
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Beth Gallaway: Gaming by the Numbers (AUDIO)

October 12, 2007 • 47 mins
Gaming by the Numbers
What is the average age of the gamer? How much money did the video game industry rake in during 2005? What percent of the population is playing games? How many libraries consider themselves to be supporters of video gamers? Why should librarians pay attention to video games, anyway? The numbers — and answers — may surprise you! Discover why video games matter to your library in terms...
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Joe Matthews: Determining and Communicating the Value of Your Library (AUDIO)

October 30, 2007 • 40 mins
Determining and Communicating the Value of Your Library
This presentation will identify ways in which libraries can determine the value of the services that they provide and then communicate their value to the important stakeholders. Techniques that have been used by public, academic, school and special libraries will be reviewed and discussed.
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Jane Light: The Changing State of Public Libraries (AUDIO)

November 1, 2007 • 24 mins
Libraries face competitive pressures not primarily from other libraries but from online information resources, bookstores, and myriad other opportunities and demands for how people choose to spend their disposable time. Library customers have changing expectations about library service. Role of the public librarian is changing as the number of reference questions marked decreases. Although the mission of a public library is still v...
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ALASC Luminary Lecture: Jeremy Kemp (AUDIO)

November 2, 2007 • 54 mins
Second Life: 20 Lessons
Jeremy Kemp, SLIS Assistant Director for Second Life Campus, talks about Second Life and how it applies to library students, as well as how it can be used for outreach to Library communities.

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Helen Partridge: Evidence based library and information practice? (AUDIO)

November 6, 2007 • 38 mins
Evidence Based Practice (EBP) has recently emerged as a topic of discussion amongst professionals within the library and information industry. Simply stated, EBP is the process of using formal research skills and methods to assist in decision making and establishing best practice. Are library and information professionals ready for EBP? This presentation will consider the role of EBP in the library profession including the bar...
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Cathi Dunn MacRae: An Interview hosted by Dr. Anthony Bernier (AUDIO)

November 14, 2007 • 56 mins
Cathi Dunn MacRae: An Interview hosted by Dr. Anthony Bernier
In her first public appearance since leaving the journal after serving ten years as Editor–in–Chief of VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates), the only independent professional journal for Young Adult Specialist librarians, Cathi Dunn MacRae is interviewed by SLIS faculty Dr. Anthony Bernier. MacRae comments on the state of YA Librarianship, her own c...
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Dan Fuller: Can Statewide Digital Libraries be Sustainable in K–12 Environments? (AUDIO)

November 27, 2007 • 53 mins
Can Statewide Digital Libraries be Sustainable in K–12 Environments?
This presentation will review the results of the fifth annual K-12 Statewide Digital libraries survey. This has been an ongoing measurement of the offerings and changes since 2002. Specifically, Dr. Fuller will examine and discuss the sustainability of these statewide digital libraries and will assess their move from projects to accepted progr...
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A Conversation with Stacey Aldrich, Deputy State Librarian, California State Library (AUDIO)

December 6, 2007 • 41 mins
Question and Answer format with Stacey Aldrich and SLIS Director, Dr. Ken Haycock. This presentation was recorded on Wednesday, 28 November, 2007 on the San José State University Campus.

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2007 Lazerow Lecture: Jane Dysart on Internet Librarians: Trends and Forward Focus (AUDIO)

December 12, 2007 • 44 mins
Internet Librarians: Trends & Forward Focus
Jane Dysart monitors trends across North America from her office in Toronto. She plans the annual Internet Librarian, Computers in Libraries and KMWorld conferences on both coasts, staying just ahead of the curve with the help of numerous mentors and colleagues. Ms. Dysart was manager of Information Resources for the Royal Bank before forming Dysart and Jones, a consulting firm fo...
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Fall 2007 Director's Forum (AUDIO)

December 14, 2007 • 62 mins
The SLIS Director's Forum is biannual event in which Ken Haycock, the School's Director, gives a summary about the current state of the SLIS Program.

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ALASC Luminary Lecture: Susan Hanks (AUDIO)

December 18, 2007 • 56 mins
Susan Hanks, SJSU SLIS graduate and President-Elect of the American Indian Library Association, discusses services for California's tribal libraries and communities.

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Job Search Blast Off (AUDIO)

January 30, 2008 • 32 mins
To conclude the SJSU Career Center Job Search Blast Off, Laurie Morgan, SJSU Career Center Consultant, presented a live webcast for SLIS students and alumni.
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Doug McDavid: Virtual Libraries - Real People (AUDIO)

February 13, 2008 • 57 mins
Doug McDavid is the Executive Consultant with IBM’s Global Business Services and Almaden Research Lab. This presentation describes the business and learning to be done in virtual worlds, based on McDavid’s compelling interpersonal interactions including a serious approach to Second Life and its applications for global working collaborations. The presentation includes concepts such as the "presentation of self in everyda...
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Ken Haycock: How to Think Like a Librarian (AUDIO)

February 27, 2008 • 29 mins
Is there such a thing? Are there habits of mind uniquely applied by professional librarians? Are these intuitive or taught? How do they make a difference to the decisions we make, the actions we take, and the organizations we represent? Dr. Ken Haycock and Dr. Brooke Sheldon have just completed a book on the foundations of library and information science, beginning with "how to think like a librarian". Based on our research we perh...
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John Dove: What could search engine designers learn from the reference interview? (AUDIO)

March 11, 2008 • 39 mins
Query specifications by typical users are notoriously imprecise. And for many searches it is impossible to expect the user to fully and accurately specify what they are interested in. Because they do not know what is available for the asking, users cannot be expected to specify exactly what they want. Reference librarians have been developing a craft that, among other things, deals with this incomplete specification of desired resu...
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David Loertscher and Robin Williams: How can librarians get back in the information game? (AUDIO)

March 19, 2008 • 49 mins
The learning commons has been defined as a learning laboratory where books don't get in the way. In the face of digitalization and the dominance of Google, the question is, "How can librarians get back in the information game?" The idea of a learning commons is now being tried in a number of academic libraries and the idea is being discussed for school libraries. This lecture will go on the offensive to push the library into the ce...
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Mengxiong Liu: My Fulbright Experience in Uruguay (AUDIO)

March 26, 2008 • 36 mins
In 2007, Mengxiong Liu received the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program award and completed her Fulbright trip to Montevideo, Uruguay in November, where she evaluated the library systems and information literacy programs at the British Schools.

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