2006-07 Weekly Activities

Starr Hoffman

Personal Essay

regular duties

• created web stat reports and narrative reports about CyberCemetery and CRS for local and national media (WBAP, KERA, NPR, LISnews.org, Washington Post)
• Liaison to Philosophy Dept.
• Identified and captured new CyberCemetery content
• Developed CyberCemetery site-level metadata schema and created metadata (created input rules and guide)
• regularly identify, capture, classify, and upload CRS reports
• reviewed/charted CRS workflow
• charted other dept. workflows in which I am involved (for dept. review)
• ran test searches on CRS site to determine metadata and search function problems
• created documents for CRS Metadata Entry Standards and CRS Name Authority, based on edits/reconciliation made using the Metadata Analysis Tool (in order to keep the entry of names standard)
• Manage the A-Z Digitization project
• Documented the process of A-Z Digitization
• oversaw GovDocs end of new digital projects: FCC Record, Texas Reports, A-Z Digitization
• determined what ACIR metadata to capture (created input rules and guide)
• regularly read professional articles and blog posts related to librarianship, government documents, digitization, and emerging technologies
• subscribed to GovDoc-L, Maps-L, TX-FED, FLDP-Listserv
• create icons, thumbnails, and descriptions for GovDoc items and collections in UNT's Digital Library System
• investigated IM reference service
• commented (with rest of dept.) on MMDL web architecture redesign process
• created library blog overview document for Emering Technologies Group

took on in January

• Interim Liaison to Political Science Dept.
• Regularly held dept. meetings
• Signed dept. staff timesheets
• Arranged/scheduled staff training (LibQUAL, FCC scanning)
• Receive GIC comment emails and answer/delegate
• Researched/implemented "CAPTCHA" addition to GIC comment form (significantly lower spam as a result)
• Manage Serial Set Inventory website/accounts

other professional duties

• NDIIPP Web-at-Risk collection curator
• helped create and edit Collection Plan for CC as part of NDIIPP project
• tested Web-at-Risk's WAS
• tested the Web Curator Tool
• heading the new Friday Frags
• list-serv manager for TX-FED
• Graphics Team lead for Denton Reads
• Webmaster for Denton Reads
• designed and administer Denton Reads blog
• set-up and administer a Denton Reads list-serv
• UNT-L Publications Committee
• UNT-L Metadata Group
• UNT-L Library Assembly representative
• attend/p all UNT-L ETG meetings (as guest)
• joined Digital Preservation Network
• helped create a draft of the liaisons' digitization workflow
• discussed options for Gammel's interface

library service/participation

• Library Assembly
  • representative
  • LA Bylaws Revision Committee
• Publications Committee
• Emerging Technologies Workgroup (guest; attend all meetings)
• Metadata Group

training/education

• completed 5-week course in Supervisory Skills (UNT HR)
• took "Emotional Intelligence" training course (UNT HR)
• participated in various online training sessions (OPALs, etc.)
• attended UNT BI workshops
• continuing education through SLIS
• applying to UNT's PhD program in Higher Education (Fall 2007)

professional activity

• presented session on wikis for Meredith Farkas's "Five Weeks to a Social Library" course (live webcast)
• upcoming (in press): two articles for Facts on File's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction
• upcoming: book review for the Journal of Web Librarianship: "The Human Side of Reference and Information Services in Academic Libraries: Adding Value in the Digital World"
• member of: ALA (LITA, GODORT), TLA (CULD, GODORT)
• attended (2006): Fall FDLP Conference, Fall NORDOCS meeting
• will attend (in 2007): TLA Annual Conference, Spring FDLP Council meeting, ALA Annual, Fall FDLP Conference, NORDOCS meeting(s)
• regularly post to my professional blog