2012-2013 Program Schedule of Librarians' Forum Meetings

Wednesday
19 September 2012
8:30-10:30am
Hatcher Gallery

Meeting Minutes (staff only)

Recording (staff only)

Librarians' Forum Meeting

Come hear from some of our colleagues from across campus. We will have a panel with Corey Seeman, Library Director, Kresge Business Administration Library; Barbara Garavaglia, Director, Law Library; and Alex Navarro, Senior Researcher and Project Manager, Center for the History of Medicine. They will give overviews of their organizations so we can learn about what these libraries/centers do, who they serve, their specialized collections and services. There will be time for questions after the presentations.

Wednesday
17 October 2012
8:30-10:30am
Hatcher Gallery

Meeting Minutes (staff only)

Recording (staff only)

Librarians' Forum Meeting

This talk will focus on how aspects of organizational hierarchy can affect communication dynamics, including processes of information sharing, advice taking, advice giving, and sharing ideas for new practices. Professor Tost will present some recent research and talk about the implications of the findings for organizing in ways that maximize the benefits and minimize the problems inherent in hierarchical coordination.

Leigh Plunkett Tost is an Assistant Professor in U-M's Ross School of Business. Her research focuses on the psychological dynamics of power, status, and change within groups, and she examines how these dynamics play out in the contexts of leadership, organizational change, and moral behavior and judgment.

Her research has been accepted for publication in Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personality and Social Psychology Review, Business Ethics Quarterly, Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, Research in Personnel and Human Resource Management, Research on Managing Groups and Teams, and International Journal of Conflict Management.

Prior to joining the Ross faculty, Leigh was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Washington's Center for Leadership and Strategic Thinking. She obtained a PhD in management and organizations from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, a master’s degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.

Wednesday
14 November 2012
8:30-10:30am
Hatcher Gallery

Meeting Minutes (staff only)

Recording (staff only)

Librarians' Forum Meeting

Speaker: Elaine Westbrooks, AUL for Research
Elaine will share her vision for the Research division and its role in the library and the campus.

Wednesday
19 December 2012
8:30 - 10:30am
Hatcher Gallery

Meeting Minutes (staff only)

Recording (staff only)

Librarians' Forum Meeting

Librarians' Forum welcomes Jim and Anne Duderstadt to our December meeting. Anne Duderstadt will talk about the University’s preparations for the bicentennial in 2017 and the website they are developing for it. The intent of the UM2017.org website is to demonstrate the great wealth of material concerning the University's history.

Our guests will also talk about about the history of the University Library because it is such an important part of the research effort. President Duderstadt will add some additional remarks concerning Michigan's role in creating "the Library of the Future".

Wednesday
16 January 2013
8:30-10:30am
Hatcher Gallery

Meeting Minutes (staff only)

Recording (staff only)

Librarians' Forum Meeting

Speaker: Josie Parker
Topic: Ann Arbor District Library - innovations & connections with UM

Wednesday
20 February 2013
8:30-10:30am
Hatcher Gallery

Meeting Minutes (staff only)

Recording (staff only)

Librarians' Forum Meeting

Topic: Conference Presentations

Come and learn from your colleagues as they give short talks sharing what they have presented, will present, or heard at a conference.

1. Natsuko Nicholls and Fe Sferdean: Work Progress Update from CLIR/DLF Data Curation Fellows
2. Megan McGlynn, Emily Campbell, Helen Look, and Judy Smith: Library Assessment Conference
3. Timothy Utter: Solving a Cartographic Collection Mystery: Reconciling the Maps of the Jansson-Hondius Appendices and Theatri in the Vignaud Map Collection
4. Steve Griffes, Megan McGlynn, and Sanam Arab: Presenting "Training for Service" at the Access Services Conference
5. Nicole Scholtz: Data in Common(s): Collaborative Models for Robust Data Support
6. Emily Campbell and Rafael Escobar: Getting to Know Your Electronic Resources Workflows
7. Steven Lonn and Britain Woodman: Educause Learning Initiative Conference Recap: MOOCS, Analytics, Badges, and Learning Spaces
8. Kevin Hawkins (and Jeremy Morse for questions): mPach: Publishing Directly in HathiTrust

Wednesday
20 March 2013
8:30-10:30am
1180 Duderstadt Center

Meeting Minutes (staff only)

Librarians' Forum Meeting

Topic: Hands on at the Digital Media Commons
We'll experience the studios and labs first-hand. Activities will include the opportunity to record a green-screen video; print a 3D object; visualize "big data" on the giant 9-screen display or 3D MiDen, and much more. Signups for specific activities will be announced in March.

Wednesday
17 April 2013
8:30-10:30am
Hatcher Gallery

Meeting Minutes (staff only)

Recording (staff only)

Librarians' Forum Meeting

Topic: The Race Matters Theme Semester

• Amy Harris, Director of the Exhibit Museum and co-chair of the Understanding Race Theme Semester, will talk about the “Race: Are We So Different?” exhibit and offer some of the highlights of the theme semester.
• Darlene Nichols will talk about the library’s “World Cafe” event.
• Amanda Peters will talk about and conduct the “Race Card” project.

Wednesday
15 May 2013
8:30-10:30am
Hatcher Gallery

Librarians' Forum Meeting

Topic: Committee updates and end of the year wrap-up

Wednesday
19 June 2013
8:30-10:30am
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Librarians' Forum Meeting

Are you a librarian eligible for promotion?  Wondering how the process works (or has changed since your last promotion), what's required, and how to go about putting together your dossier?

The Promotion Review Committee is holding a training session for all librarians who are currently eligible to apply for promotion.  All librarians and supervisors of librarians are welcome to attend.