JANUARY
Monday, January 9, 2012
Open Discussion for Special Collections Community
9:00–11:00 am
Aldrich, Room 211
Harvard Business School
Please join Affinity Group 5 representatives, Group Head nominees Megan Sniffin-Marinoff and Bill Stoneman, and your special collections colleagues in a discussion of the issues and concerns important to library staff working with rare books, manuscripts, archives, and related materials. Discussion will center around three broad topics:
- What are the affinities among the members of Affinity Group 5? What do we all have in common?
- What are the attendees' expectations of Affinity Group 5 going forward? What do you expect the AG5 Head and all AG5 members to accomplish?
- What are the attendees' aspirations for Affinity Group 5? What would you hope the group is able to accomplish?
We look forward to a dynamic discussion of special collections at Harvard University and hope that you will be able to join us.
Monday, January 9, 2012
History in Objects Tour: Widener Open House
12:00–2:00 pm
Visitors are welcome to come at any time during the two hours. Please begin in the Widener First Floor Lobby. Talks about the Widener Memorial Room and Gutenberg Bible at noon and 1:00. Talks about documents related to Circulation, Access, and Research Services, as well as visits to the Stack, ongoing.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
History in Objects Tour: Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library
9:00–11:00 am
Hunnewell Building, Third Floor
125 Arborway
Jamaica Plain
Directions
RSVP to Jennifer Ward, jennifer_ward@harvard.edu
Objects:
- a filing cabinet full of mounted photos
- a letter from C.S. Sargent to E.H. Wilson
- a glass plate negative
- a passport
- a transport box
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
History in Objects Tour: Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library
9:00–10:00 am
125 Arborway
Jamaica Plain
Visitors are welcome to come at any time during the two hours. Please begin in the Widener First Floor Lobby. Talks about the Widener Memorial Room and Gutenberg Bible at noon and 1:00. Talks about documents related to Circulation, Access, and Research Services, as well as visits to the Stack, ongoing.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
NISO Webinar: Identify This! Identify That! New Identifiers and New Uses
1:00–2:30 pm
Lamont Library, Room B-30
Just about everyone is familiar with the ISBN for books and the ISSN for serials. But new identifiers and new identifier standards have been developed for resources—such as the International Standard Text Code (ISTC)—and for people and organizations—such as the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI). NISO's January 2012 webinar will discuss several new identifiers as well as new uses for older identifiers. Group participation is open to all Harvard Library staff. This viewing is sponsored by the Harvard Library. The event is free but registration is required.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
History in Objects Tour: Harvard Map Collection
2:00–3:00 pm
Pusey Library
Objects:
- 1797 map (a copper engraving on 12 sheets) espousing Greek independence from Ottoman rule—one of the first maps acquired by the Harvard Map Collection and the only known copy in the US
- 1830 map of Amherst, Massachusetts (a lithograph derived from the manuscript plan submitted to the state)—published in an era when town maps first became widely available in the US
- Google Earth movie of historic world's fair and exposition maps digitized by the Harvard Map Collection (original maps of New York, Chicago, Saint Louis, San Francisco, Philadelphia fairs also available)
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Thirsty Thursday
5:00 pm
John Harvard's Brew House
Welcome in the New Year with friends and colleagues at the next Thirsty Thursday. Drinks on your own; we usually share appetizers. Look for Nancy Pearl on the table—or just follow the sounds of merriment. All are welcome!
Friday, January 13, 2012
Preservation in the Harvard Library: An Unconference
9:00 am–12:00 pm
Batten Hall (Harvard Innovation Lab), Second Floor
125 Western Avenue
Allston
Preservation in the Harvard Library: An Unconference is a creative, informal and interactive discussion workshop for the broad preservation community to explore the future of preservation, conservation and digital imaging in the new Harvard Library. Come to discuss whatever is on your minds in relation to preservation, to learn from each other about our challenges, to explore common directions, and to have some fun imagining our future! The workshop will be held in the flexible and collaborative spaces of the new Harvard Business School Hives. The program will include a thought-provoking introduction, small break-out groups, arts and crafts, participant voting, and a tasty coffee break. Sponsored by Harvard Library Strategic Communications. Security at the Hives requires a guest list, so RSVP to be able to access the building.
Friday, January 13, 2012
Cataloging Discussion Group Meeting
11:00 am–12:30 pm
Lamont Library Forum Room
Cataloging in Connexion and Aleph: Please join us on auspicious Friday the 13th to discuss how/why/when Harvard catalogers perform their work in Aleph vs. OCLC Connexion.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Preservation Primer: Loaning Special Collections for Exhibition (Part 1)
9:00 am–12:30 pm
Lamont Library Forum Room
RSVP to Kim Dunne, 5-8596 or kim_dunne@harvard.edu
Safely loaning special collections materials to repositories either inside or outside Harvard can be complicated and time-consuming. Come to a two-part workshop on January 17 and January 24 that will explain the procedures and best practices that can protect precious materials and the University from loss. Day One will cover processing a loan request, deal breakers, facilities reports, insurance, valuation, and loan forms. Day Two will cover conservation reviews, couriering, preparation, packing and transit, and condition checking. Speakers include: Carie Mcginnis, Preservation Librarian, Houghton Library; Victor Greene, Associate Director of Insurance, Harvard University Insurance Department; Leslie Morris, Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts, Houghton Library; Brenda Bernier, Senior Photograph Conservator, Weissman Preservation Center; and John Bailey, Fine Arts Enterprises. Hot beverages and pastries will be provided.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Harvard Library Town Hall Meetings
9:00–10:00 am: Science Center, Hall A
12:00–1:00 pm: Amphitheater D, Armenise Building, Longwood Medical Campus
4:00–5:00 pm: Science Center, Hall A
Jennifer Ward, jennifer_ward@harvard.edu
As the Harvard Library completes the Transition Design Phase and shifts to the Implementation Phase, Town Hall Meetings with Mary Lee Kennedy and Helen Shenton will be held to provide an update on the current status of the work, present next steps and share information that will assist Library staff with the change. A Q&A session will follow.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Preservation Primer: Loaning Special Collections for Exhibition (Part 2)
9:00 am–12:30 pm
Lamont Library Forum Room
RSVP to Kim Dunne, 5-8596 or kim_dunne@harvard.edu
Safely loaning special collections materials to repositories either inside or outside Harvard can be complicated and time-consuming. Come to a two-part workshop on January 17 and January 24 that will explain the procedures and best practices that can protect precious materials and the University from loss. Day One will cover processing a loan request, deal breakers, facilities reports, insurance, valuation, and loan forms. Day Two will cover conservation reviews, couriering, preparation, packing and transit, and condition checking. Speakers include: Carie Mcginnis, Preservation Librarian, Houghton Library; Victor Greene, Associate Director of Insurance, Harvard University Insurance Department; Leslie Morris, Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts, Houghton Library; Brenda Bernier, Senior Photograph Conservator, Weissman Preservation Center; and John Bailey, Fine Arts Enterprises. Hot beverages and pastries will be provided.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Too Big to Know: David Weinberger
6:00 pm
Austin North Classroom
Harvard Law School
RSVP
We used to know how to know. Get some experts, maybe a methodology, add some criteria and credentials, publish the results, and you get knowledge we can all rely on. But as knowledge is absorbed by our new digital medium, it's becoming clear that the fundamentals of knowledge are not properties of knowledge but of its old paper medium. Indeed, the basic strategies of knowledge that emerged in the West addressed a basic problem: skulls don't scale. But the Net does. Now networked knowledge is taking on the properties of its new medium: never being settled, including disagreement within itself, and becoming not a set of stopping points but a web of temptations. Networked knowledge, for all its strengths, has its own set of problems. But, in knowledge's new nature there is perhaps a hint about why the Net has such surprising transformative power.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Virtual Reference Group Meeting
12:00 pm
Widener, Room G-55
This month we’d like to expand our topic toward more of a general reference community discussion. Please bring your lunch and join the conversation. Suggested topics include: How can reference staff collaborate to best serve patron needs in a changing environment? What are the roles of face-to-face and virtual reference? What can we do to interject vitality into the practice of reference at Harvard?
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Circulation Affinity Group Meeting
3:15–4:30 pm
Lamont Library Forum Room
Our primary topic for discussion will be preservation issues involving the renewal/charging out of items from other Harvard libraries. Please bring your thoughts and questions regarding if and in what case should a Harvard library not renew an item from a different Harvard library. There should be time in the meeting to discuss other circulation or access-related topics, including the e-reader pilot project, so if you have some to suggest, please feel free to do so. Any and all circulation staff and interested library staff are welcome to attend.
FEBRUARY
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library: In the Name of Love (2003)
6:00 pm
Schlesinger Library
Radcliffe Yard
Melissa Dollman, 617-495-8647 or melissa_dollman@radcliffe.edu
In the Name of Love (2003), by Shannon O'Rourke. What's motivating the thousands of Russian women who sign up with agencies to meet and marry American men? Five Russian women, four of them single mothers, struggle for dignity as they endure male chauvinism, poverty, and culture shock, all while searching for love. Guest speaker: Keridwen Luis, PhD, Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
OLIVIA Staff Training Workshop: Basic Record Creation, The OLIVIA/VIA Relationship
9:30 am–12:30 pm
90 Mt. Auburn Street, Room 020
Visual Materials Catalogers have scheduled OLIVIA staff training workshops in February. OLIVIA is a centrally supported cataloging system for visual materials, designed to supply data to the VIA union catalog. The workshops are free, but space is limited. Seating preference will be given to staff who use OLIVIA. To register, please use the OLIVIA training registration form.
Friday, February 3, 2012
OLIVIA Staff Training Workshop: Advanced Record Creation, Sets, Searching
9:30 am–12:30 pm
90 Mt. Auburn Street, Room 020
Visual Materials Catalogers have scheduled OLIVIA staff training workshops in February. OLIVIA is a centrally supported cataloging system for visual materials, designed to supply data to the VIA union catalog. The workshops are free, but space is limited. Seating preference will be given to staff who use OLIVIA. To register, please use the OLIVIA training registration form.
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