Day 2 keynote: Rob Lippincott, PBS

“The Role of Media in Engagement & Scholarship”

By Rob Lippincott, PBS Senior Vice President for Education

Librarians are committed to similar ideals of PBS.

“[We must] consider new ways to build a great network of knowledge…”

Lyndon Johnson, when signing the 1967 authorization for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

PBS provides trusted content

• A pipeline of nationally and locally produced high-quality content
• Designed to educate and inspire
• Reaches 99% of the US population through 256 members stations in every state
• Localized innovation: oon the air, online, in the community
• Closing the achievement gap wherever students are learning
• Devoted to children, democracy, and culture: helping all Americans make better lives for themselves and their children
• Discover more, experience more, and be more
• PBS is more trusted than even the courts of law (Opionon Research omnibus survey, Marc 2011)
• People believe that PBS helps students improve their reading and math skills

TV is not just about television anymore — there’s the web

• “TV show is just the executive summary.” (Frontline producer)
• Over 11.84M unique visitors to PBS.org
• #1 kids video site
• over 10.7M unique visitors in Feb. 2011)
• Over 100M video streams
• Adapting to mobile platforms, not just PCs, for classroom learning
• Creating new classroom platforms–interactive whiteboards

The Ready to Learn Case Study

• Raising Readers–every child in america is ready to read
• Online, in person materials, and TV content
• Hands on activities in local communities
• Outscored kids who didn’t receive this content
• Content
• 4 New Award winning TV series and full show websites
• More of 2 long-running TV series with new websites
• 70 online literact games
• 350 library corners nationwide
• PBS Kids Island–aggregates games from across the kids website
• Register & win tickets
• Progress tracker for parents
• Beyond outreach w/ 360 community engagement
• Involvement with state leaders
• Billboards and literacy vans
• Sports partnerships
• Library corners (rugs, books, and banners)
• Grocery game
• Professional development for Early Educators
• Pre-K showroom
• Support group of participants
• Results from 2005-10
• 7.5 more letters learned after 10week pre-school classroom intervention
• 31% gain in tested vocabulary after 2 weeks using Marhta Speaks Dog Party app
• 46% higher standardized test scores after watching episode of SuperWhy! TV show
• 139% gain in word decoding after 1 week summer reading camp
• 1.5 million accounts on PBS Kids Island
• Next 5 years: goal of an educational ecosystem
• Trans-media content
• Immersive world
• Original content
• Outreach
• How to track progress across multiple media
• Partnerships
• Chicago Public Schools / Virtual Pre-K and K Programs
• Boston University School of Ed
• Collaborative for Building After-School Systems
• National Summer Learning Association
• Local Public Stations (often in collaboration with local libraries)
• Focus on 21st century skills
• Initiative and self-direction
• Creativity innovation
• Media literacy

PBS LearningMedia: Next generation digital content platform for Public Service Media

• Goals
• Re-imagine classroom learning
• Transform teaching
• and creatively engage students
• Combine the best of public media connected to common core standards
• All free!
• Website connects to different media that can be used in the classroom, filtered by grade level
• Digital leraning objects
• Researched, designed, and aligned around results
• Not a product: a movement
• We’ve solved the “getting to it problem” but not “the it you want to get to”
• Content from across public media (including , PBS, LoC, and National Archives)
• 72 members (179 stations) in 34 states participating
• Same core collection with “local add-ons”
• Requirements by teachers
• Introduces an reinforces an explicit learning objective or concept
• Connects students with the learning experience
• Invites students to be active learners
• Adapts to deliver optimal technology integration with the classroom
• Differentiates instruction to meet individual student needs
• Evaluates student comprehension

We need to undersand new scholarship

• Pedagogy
• How do children learn to read
• Can we inspire then to read to learn
• Can te teach critical thinking
• How do we help students experience deep inquiry
• Media — what’s an effective digital elarning object and how do we make them smarter

Thanks to libraries for their support and looking forward to collaboration!

Introducing the Best Practices Institute

At this year’s IDS Project Conference, we’re introducing the first iteration of the IDS Project Best Practices Institute. Our renowned volunteer mentors have organized immersive sessions accompanied by an informative workbook that helps you plan to implement many of the best practices available in the Workflow Toolkit. In addition, we help prepare you to adopt future best practices and pay it forward to your colleagues.

Please let us know your feedback–we hope to offer another multi-day institute next summer at SUNY Geneseo devoted entirely to more in-depth learning.

Day 1: opening keynote by Matthew Sheehy, Harvard University

“So Now We Are Digital, Where Do I Stand and What Do I Do with All This Stuff?”

By Matthew Sheehy, Head of Access Services, Harvard University.

When moving from NYPL to Harvard Depository, he began dealing with print archiving — what print really means.

About the depository

Current status of the print repository at Harvard:

• 8.5 million items
• 450,000 new accessions per year
• 220,000 circulations per year or ~2.5%

The depository itself is 122,000 sq. ft. (97,000 for storage, 22,000 for processing, 3,000 mechanical).

• 30 ft. high shelves
• 5 chillers
• 6 boilers
• Particulate and molecular filters in 8 of the 9 main air handlers.
• 2 back-up generators
• Water tank
• A pump house and storage shed

High security:

• Optical smoke detectors
• Leak detectors
• Wet pipe sprinklers with 250,000 gal. heated water tank
• Motion detectors and glass break detectors

Considerations about collections

• What belongs there? How long is paper relevant?
• Is Harvard a library of record or a research library?
• If not, then we must think of the future of scholarship
• Consent faculty engagement
• Are we doing it for usefulness or sentimentality?

Service/User Expectations

• Delivery options
• When does print stop mattering and just store what we have
• Staying true to the University–are we serving the needs of current/future research?

Ideas being considered

• Going green: solar energy and solar thermal
• Heat reclamation of desiccant wheels
• Rain and grey water reclamation
• Shortening service hours
• Out-sourcing records management
• Stricter control over accessions (last copy debate)

More ideas

• Greater investment in building
• Less investment in building
• Automated retrieval
• Auto sorting
• Low-oxygen environment
• Holistic approach

Problem: present solutions that outlive me. Must be “Harvard first” in focus.

• Print is a format that has outlived centuries, but our electronic media: not so much
• Harvard can’t go it alone — must share despite local perceptions of institutional privilege
• To expect the community of libraries to support us, we must support them
• What happens if some of the collection is lost? Who does Harvard turn to?
• What happens to material that goes unused locally and then disintegrates? But someone else could have used it before it was lost.

We must both preserve AND share the cultural heritage. We have to balance print with digital, not replace it.

IDS Project Conference – Day 1

Good morning, ILLers! Today is the first of the 2011 IDS Project Conference in Albany, NY. This promises to be jam-packed with great sessions, not the least of which our very first Best Practices Institute. Incorporating much of what is found in the Workflow Toolkit and the IDS Project’s recommended best practices, this immersive experience aims to help attendees learn not just the how and why of best practices, but also help plan for their implementation. This year’s institute was designed by our fabulous and talented IDS Project Mentors and includes a workbook to help attendees continue their work after the conference.

We’re also working on a similar institute for the Getting It System Toolkit (GIST).

Stay tuned to the IDS Conference website for a live Twitter feed — our hashtag is #idsconf11.

ILLiad 8.1 print templates have arrived!

For those who have upgraded to ILLiad 8.1 but continued to use customized print templates, you’ve undoubtedly run into some problems stemming from some of the new LenderAddress fields. To help you overcome these issues, while also switching to the new (and easier to navigate) print queues (a.k.a. those Excel spreadsheets that connect to your Word documents), I’ve posed updated versions of our classic print templates.

When using these templates, you’ll need to change how ILLiad sorts the records. See the following list:

• BorrowingLoanSlips: Transactions_TransactionDate
• BorrowingReturnSlips: Transactions_TransactionDate
• LendingArticleSlips: Transactions_Location, Transactions_CallNumber, Transactions_PhotoJournalTitle
• LendingLoanLabels: Transactions_Location, Transactions_CallNumber
• DocDelArticleSlips: Transactions_Location, Transactions_CallNumber, Transactions_PhotoJournalTitle
• DocDelLoanLabels: Transactions_Location, Transactions_CallNumber

Before downloading the new templates, be sure that they are saved to your server or workstations using the same file names as your existing templates. It is highly recommended that you keep a backup of your old templates in case you encounter problems.

Download ILLiad 8.1 templates (save to your ILLiad\Print folder)

• BorrowingLoanSlips8.1
• BorrowingReturnSlips8.1
• LendingArticleSlips8.1
• LendingLoanLabels8.1
• DocDelArticleSlips8.1
• DocDelLoanLabels8.1