Activities2006-07
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