SJSU SLIS Audio/Video Podcast

New technologies and data modeling methods are providing exciting new means for managing data in our organizations. Companies large and small, arts and cultural heritage organizations, academic institutions and governments are all embarking on projects to improve the transmission, clarity and often transparency of the data they curate. What are these technologies? Where can these methods be learned? What new career opportunities are there for info pros? Join us as we explore the possibilities.

The co-author of the DoD 5015.2 Records Management Specification will give us a view into upcoming changes in technology, standards, and best practices that will impact your records and information management programs. The following topics will be addressed: -NARA’s big-bucket vs. little buckets directive -Records Management Services standards development -Records Management Maturity Model development -E-Discovery requirement -RMA interoperability requirements The discussion will conceptualize how changes in technology, practices, and standards can be used to streamline and improve your records management program.

reserving electronic records is always a difficult proposition. Hardware, software programs and formats are constantly in flux. So what do you do to allow you to hit this moving target? There are some basic guiding principles and actions that you can follow that help maintain and preserve electronic records. By discussing what to do to with specific file formats: including still-images, video and audio files, text documents, relational databases, spreadsheets, websites and email, maintaining electronic records for future researchers, archivists and scholars can be possible.

Beth Gallaway, chair of the YALSA Advocacy Task Force, discusses how young adult librarians can work for change within their systems, evaluates professional resources and support networks in place to ensure success, and dishes about her own experiences and lessons learned in working with a variety of organizations and associations.

Richard Geiger, retired Library and Research Director at The San Francisco Chronicle, SLA Fellow, and winner of the SLA John Cotton Dana Award, will regale you with tales of his three decades as a newspaper librarian at The San Francisco Chronicle and the San Jose Mercury–News. And yes, many of the old–time journalists did keep a fifth of booze in their bottom drawer. Geiger has seen newsroom technology move from typewriters and Linotype machines to personal computers, websites, blogs, databases and video. He supervised the transition of newspaper libraries from clipping files, print photographs and negatives to online text and digital image archives. Geiger will discuss the current state of the news media and its impact on news libraries.

Computer games, simulations and virtual worlds are making increasing inroads into academic education and corporate training. This is often fuelled by a desire to improve engagement, or to immerse learning in realistic simulated settings, but often limited by economics and resources. Open Education initiatives hint at solutions, but there are some particular challenges in opening access to virtual world, game and simulation educational resources, and in integrating learning and assessment from these into existing systems and practices.

Advocacy is not public relations. It is not “getting the message out”. It is not “leg days”. According to Ken Haycock, advocacy is a planned, deliberate, sustained effort to develop understanding and support incrementally over time. Learn from the research on influence and dozens of interviews with politicians, aides and effective library advocates.

This wide-ranging interview with one of the nation’s top youth studies scholars includes a review of Dr. Males’ large body of research, his views on youth, culture and public policy, as well as implications for our own library institutions.

Joe Matthews will discuss the origin and evolution of the "Balanced Scorecard," how the Library Balanced Scorecard can be useful in communicating the value of the library to various stakeholders, and assist the library in identifying and tracking performance measures to help lead managers and staff in achieving library goals.

The Library of Congress has archived Web content for the last five elections and has a significant body of work comprising more than 30 Terabytes of election content. Although tools and processes have improved significantly since the efforts to capture Election 2000 Web materials, the challenges of Web 2.0 and the ever evolving nature of the Web presents new challenges every election. Ms. Jones provide an historical overview of the elections collections from selection to cataloging and Web archiving challenges in creating quality Web archives.

Dr. Joni Bodart interviews Amy Cheney about her award winning Alameda County Juvenile Detention Center program and its "culture of reading." The interview will also include history of the program, what Cheney is doing currently, and what she would like to see in the future. The Write to Read program brings in authors who speak to the residents about their own lives and how reading and writing has influenced them and changed their lives.

Institutions and job seekers in California have mutual concerns about the market for jobs in the state. Further they want to know what the impact of the economic recession has had on the jobs market. Based on a two year study of job postings from California and surrounding states, the preliminary data indicates the current market is trending down in the recession after two stable years. The data offers insight into the current state of the jobs market and what job seekers are facing in the immediate future.

Establishing an effective new records program or overhauling an existing one so that the resulting program is truly effective requires a clear vision, careful planning, and judicious consideration of numerous choices. Some components of a records management program are essential while others are elective, but even the key components require decisions regarding methods and philosophy. Those decisions should be based upon the organizational environment and reflect a results oriented approach.

This presentation will describe the proposal from a City Council Member to filter library Internet access and the response of the Library. Topics will include the Library’s testing of filters and other research, the community outreach process, and how the issue has evolved over an eighteen month period.

Recruiting and retaining library school students from underrepresented groups has been a challenge for the profession for decades. ALA's Spectrum Scholar Program, the Knowledge River Program and recent initiatives sponsored by the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program have successfully brought new students from underrepresented groups to enhance the depth, breadth and diversity of librarianship in response to changing demographics. This program highlights recent diversity and professional recruitment studies with an overview of SJSU's Librarians for Tomorrow Program. Students in the Librarians for Tomorrow program will be present to share their experiences at SJSU.