What’s happening at your library?
- Valley City State – Beginning this month Tuya Dutton has started as the director at Valley City State University. The library is fully staffed. They have October programming planned and it is going very well.
- Minot State – Received gift of books from a semi-retired professor. A selection of Franklin Library books and a bunch of books on Dante. They acquired an antique bookcase with an engraved plaque to keep them in.
- University of North Dakota – Shelby retired at the beginning of the month. They have started a demand driven ebooks program for JSTOR. If they can get that working correctly it will be useful.
- Bismarck State- Cataloging is normal. Lisa has also been working in the archives upgrading the records in ContentDM, and reviewing the files. • North Dakota State University – recently posted the Scholarly Communications and Institutional Repository and Health Sciences Library positions. They also have an opening for a Data and Digital Initiative Librarian. They have also started a combined service desk this semester and got rid of the reference desk. It is going all right so far. Beginning stages of a facelift to the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection.
- Mayville State – Kelly has gotten back to cataloging; she and Shannon do everything in the library. When the Traill County Tribune went out of business the libraries received their back issues. The library had students inventory the issues and remove duplicates. They used Chat GPT to assist- for example, list every Thursday in 1918 and put it in an Excel sheet. Kelly is the point person for the HLC visit in March, and she is also teaching a course on digital literacy required by NDUS. Students enjoyed talking about AI in class.
- ODIN- They installed the latest release on the premium sandboxes. It is a feature release so folks may want to look at it.
New Topics:
- Analytics reports for catalog maintenance – in Analytics navigate the catalog to Community > Reports > Consortia > ODIN > Shared Reports. Copy the folder “Looking for trouble (from U Ky)” to your own folder. These reports were created by Kathryn Lybarger at the University of Kentucky and shared during an ELUNA Learns session.
- Our next meeting is rescheduled to December 16.