Common Hour Follow-up

Thanks to everyone that attended the library-hosted Common Hour last Friday, 4/13/2012.  Those who attended had the chance to check out the Writing Center's new digs in the lower level of Gage, while listening to the library staff speak on topics covered at the 2012 Library Technology Conference and how those issues impact Coe.  There are a few points that we wanted to follow up on, for those whom are interested.  We spoke a great deal on institutional repositories and digital commons, and Macalester, the conference's host, has a great one.  Many of the presentations from the conference have made their data available online, at Digital Commons @ Macalester.  Jill Jack, the library's director, attended a presentation that showed a correlation between library usage and student success and retention, that she spoke on last Friday; those interested in viewing that presentation's data can check it out here. There are some interesting things coming up on the horizon for libraries and institutions in higher education, and we thank all of the members of the Coe community that came out last Friday to hear about some of the thoughts that we have on those issues.

-Katelyn, Head of Reference

Library Technology Conference 2012

If you noticed that the library seemed a bit empty last week, and the blog a bit barren, it was.  The reason why?  Several members of the staff had the chance to attend the Library Technology Conference at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.  The conference was great, and the library will be speaking on some of our experiences there at the next library-hosted Common Hour on April 13th.  In the meanwhile, a great deal of the material presented there was really informative, and conveniently enough, available online!  If you want to check out some of the presentation materials, head to the Digital Commons at Macalester. The general conference website can be found at this link, or just click on the banner above. We hope to see you in a few weeks when we talk about what we learned!