University of Washington, 3 April 2008

What a day! Barely 15 minutes to myself between 8:30 and 16:30. It's a culture of commitees and meetings and I attended 3 such gatherings today.

The Research & Instructional Services Group (RISG) is made up of the heads of the areas in the libraries who are involved in offering research and instructional services. During the meeting the recent ACRL Springboard Event, featuring Henry Jenkins, Co-Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities at MIT was mentioned. The paper on which the webcast was based is available online - Confronting the challenges of participatory culture media education for the 21st century. The webcast will apparently be available on the ACRL website from 16 April.

I then attended an ERMIT meeting (Electronic Resources Management Implementation Team). It's been a slow and steady implementation of the Millenium ERM module. Generally staff are satisfied with the product. They are able to do wonderful things such as taking SUSHI feeds for automatic import of usage statistics. The ERM can automatically calculate cost per use for the electronic resources.

After lunch it was the Preservation Forum meeting with the topic of preserving sound materials. We watched a movie produced by the History Channel - Save our sounds. Other items shown during the meeting were a YouTube video on Wax recording breakage, and the news, Sound Recording Predates Edison Phonograph .

My last meeting of the day was with the [Libraries'] Organization Development & Training department. UW libraries offers library staff a wide variety of workshops and training events.