Academic Library Association of Ohio
27th Annual Conference October 26, 2001
John C. Myers Convocation Center
Ashland University

Article Express Service: Electronic Document Delivery. Susan J. Logan and Constance J. Britton, The Ohio State University

The faculty, staff, and students of The Ohio State University's College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences are served by three separate libraries located 90 miles apart, each with a unique mission, a specific clientele, and a separate administration. In addition, the Extension faculty and staff of the College are located in the 88 counties of Ohio and are served by all libraries. For many years, the libraries have faxed copies of articles between the libraries in order to increase access to resources. Although customers of OSU libraries have enjoyed the ability to place requests and receive delivery of books to their offices via campus mail, delivery of articles had been mediated by the libraries. With the implementation of Article Express, the Agriculture Library, located on the Columbus campus, began electronic delivery of journal articles owned by the Library directly to faculty, staff and graduate students affiliated with the College. This poster session will describe our transition to a web-based express service that uses client and server freeware called Prospero, developed and supported by OSU's Prior Health Sciences Library.

Assessment in Tutorial Development. Cynthia H. Comer, Oberlin College, Julia Chance Gustafson, College of Wooster, Susan D. Scott, Denison University, and Jasmine Vaughan, Kenyon College

Librarians at the Five Colleges of Ohio (Denison, Kenyon, Oberlin, Ohio Wesleyan, Wooster) collaborated over a two-year period in developing an information literacy web tutorial supported by an AT&T Teaching and Technology Grant. The poster will focus primarily on the variety of assessment methods used in creating the tutorial. It will contain some initial background information on the purpose, scope, and goals of the tutorial project. It will describe the usability testing of the tutorial and outline our ongoing development agenda for the tutorial based on data gathered during the various types of assessments we conducted. URLs for locating copies of our assessment instruments and the tutorial itself will be provided to poster session attendees.

The Changing Faces of Librarianship. Heather Smith, Maria Paz G. Esguerra, and Alita Peirson, Oberlin College

This poster session is about us: who we are, where we come from, and why we are here. We are the library diversity interns from Oberlin College who are changing the faces of librarianship. In 2000 the Oberlin College Library received an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant to actively recruit students for a library diversity internship. The IMLS Diversity Fellowship program focuses on the recruitment of diverse undergraduate students to the field of librarianship. Through this poster, we will describe our experiences during this year and tell you what we have learned.

A Children's Library in Ghana: An International Partnership. Jacky Johnson and Margaret Bullock, Miami University

Seventeen students, faculty, and staff of Miami University spent six weeks building a childrens' library for the dual villages of Abrafo-Odumasi, Ghana, West Africa. This session will serve to illustrate how a successful international partnership was forged between the university libraries, academic departments, and community organizations to increase literacy, serve educational needs, and enhance the quality of life. It will show the library's progression from the underdeveloped site, through various phases of construction, to its final completion. We will also demonstrate how the needs of these villages were taken into account in determining access to information, quality and quantity of the collection, collected format, and circulation policies and procedures.

Ideas and Tools for Building a Compact Disc Collection. Melody Layton McMahon, John Carroll University

This poster will demonstrate methods to focus a CD collection that includes both recreational and curricular uses. It will show the use of discographies, guides, and lists (both online and print) to expand standard repertoires, describe how to organize a plan for ongoing collection development and demonstrate how to include eclectic choices for both recreational and curricular uses to broaden the collection.

MonsterConfusion.com: Career Information for Students. Cynthia Jasper-Parisey and Susan Hurst, Miami University

Once upon a time, only graduating seniors were concerned about jobs or graduate school. Now we are seeing freshmen worrying about their future careers. How does the academic library fit into this? What (and how) should a library collect? How do we work with the campus career office? What electronic sources are the most useful? How can we help the students get the career information they need? These questions (and more!) will be addressed in this poster session.

Monitoring and Evaluating Staff Performance and Workload. Carol Ficken, The University of Akron

This poster demonstrates the process of monitoring staff performance goals and departmental workload, documenting staff achievements on an ongoing basis, and providing feedback to staff and supervisors in the Bierce Library Acquisitions Department at the University of Akron. This process helps to avoid overload for department members, insures that assigned work is completed, gives supervisor and staff members monthly feedback on how they are doing, and ensures there are no surprises at evaluation time. While this process was first developed in a non-merit based situation, it will become increasingly more important as we move into all merit salary considerations for civil service employees. This session will describe rationale for this process and its results (what works and what does not). Handouts and sample forms will be available.

Teams and Tasks: Using Active Instruction with Visiting High School Students Sharon Huge and Bob Houdek, Ohio University

"What's black and white and read all over? Bar Codes, of course!" And so began one of the high schools students from the summer Women in Engineering program during her group presentation. This session describes how three instruction librarians developed and implemented active learning instruction modules for men and women high school students enrolled in a summer engineering workshop at Ohio University.

Work and Life: How Support Staff Juggle it All. Michael Ludle, Methodist Theological School in Ohio, Martha Kluth, The University of Akron, and Mary Ayres, Southern State Community College

What would be more chaotic than trying to juggle a job, a family, community activities, and trying to take classes? These are the conditions some of our Library Support Staff workers face. With increasing demands for "professional" training to do our jobs, many people are trying to find ways to juggle it all. In this poster session we will display some of the opportunities, both online and on campus, that library support staff and others can look at to further their careers and manage their private lives successfully.