New Library Staff, Librarian promotions, awards, and innovative tools were in abundance at Milne Library over the past summer.
A warn welcome to our new Head of Collection Management, Alana Nuth. Alana comes to Milne Library with an extensive background in collection development, acquisitions, and electronic resources from her work at University of Vermont Libraries, Burlington, VT. Alana also worked in electronic resources management as well as reference and instruction.
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A warm welcome to our new Scholarly Communications Librarian and liaison to Sciences and Mathematics, Jonathan Grunert. Jon’s background includes experience in the sciences and with instruction at Colorado State University–Pueblo and Virginia Tech. Jon is excited about working with faculty and students in exploring publishing opportunities and promoting research.
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Congratulations to Michelle Costello, Education and Community Engagement Librarian; and Brandon West, Head of Research Instruction Services for receiving promotions from Senior Assistant Librarian to Associate Librarian.
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Michelle Costello’s ongoing work with Wadsworth Library in the Village of Geneseo earned Milne Library the Pioneer Library System Outstanding Collaboration Award. The Pioneer Library System is a New York State chartered, cooperative public library system serving the forty-two public libraries in Ontario, Wyoming, Wayne and Livingston counties, including Wadsworth Library. The award will be presented to Michelle on October 10, 2018, at the Pioneer Library System annual meeting. Kudos and congratulations to Michelle Costello for her dedication to collaboration!
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The IDS Project recently won the 2018 Rethinking Resource Sharing Innovation Award. The Milne Library-borne IDS Project was recognized for innovative contributions to resource sharing at the American Library Association 2018 Annual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, in June 2018.
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Milne Library once again helped to prepare AOP's Summer Program students for their academic life by guiding them in a short research project that included a poster session. This year’s AOP Poster Session was held August 1, 2018.
Students created posters with their research findings on a topic related to the theme of civic engagement and the ideas contained in the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. Faculty, Staff, and the community were invited to view the posters and chat with the students about their research.
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On September 4, 2018, Milne Library launched the OER search tool, OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search). OASIS gathers more than 155,000+ records from 52 different sources that have been carefully selected in collaboration with SUNY OER Services. OASIS was developed with the goal of making the discovery of open content easier. Some of the features of OASIS include the ability to limit search results by license, type, subject, source, and reviews available. Users can also suggest new sources to be added to the catalog and/or share items of interest through email. There is also a search widget that can be embedded in any website. Currently, there are already 165 institutions across the country using the search widget.
For questions, comments, and/or feedback on OASIS contact Bill Jones (jonesw@geneseo.edu) and Ben Rawlins (rawlins@geneseo.edu).