On Wednesday, May 16 , chapter members and guests met at Rider University to hear Robert Lackie’s informative presentation “Protecting Your Digital Footprint at Work, Home and on the Job.” We also presented the Rosemary Allen Little Award to Vidya Subramanian, a Rutgers University SCI student.  Joanne Roukens attended the meeting as representative from  LibraryLink NJ, our sponsor for the evening.

The executive board met in April and we decided to go forward with the decision to consider a chapter name change.  We solicited suggestions from our membership and then emailed a link to a short survey for chapter members to vote on their three preferences. We plan to leave this survey open for voting for awhile to allow time for everyone to express their opinion before we tally the votes.  If you have not yet voted,  please complete the 4 question survey soon!

I attended the Library Associates meeting at Rutgers University on May 8 and reported on chapter activities. The library school is engaged in a new student evaluation pilot program and looks forward to working with the new university president. Later that day, I  attended  New Jersey SLA Chapter’s Alice Rankin Lecture given by Joanne Lustig from Mathematica, entitled “Info Pros in 2012: Eyes Wide Open.”

Louise Deis, our Program Chair will be attending the SLA Annual Conference in Chicago from July 15-18, and will be sending email to announce a date for the planning meeting we hold every summer to discuss ideas for programs for next year.  We encourage anyone interested to attend this important session.

We hope to hold a kick-off meeting soon to plan a special event for our 45th anniversary and we anticipate holding a dinner sometime later in the year to celebrate this milestone.  If you are interested in helping us, contact Louise at lfdeis@princeton.edu

Our joint meeting with the New Jersey SLA Chapter will be held on the Rutgers University New Brunswick campus on Thursday, September 20. The speaker will be Brian Kernighan from Princeton University’s Computer Science Department.

Enjoy the summer weather and have safe and pleasant vacations! I hope to see many of you at our planning meetings and future chapter programs in the fall.

Sincerely,

Zana Etter, 2012 P-T SLA President

Social networking sites, general purpose search engines, and your own home, work, and public-use computers provide considerable information on you – your digital footprint. Even though identity fraud and theft are on the rise, many people do not take necessary steps to protect their privacy, identification, and good name. Find out if you are at risk, the forms of ID theft, and sources of free, quality help.

• Analyze ID safety issues at work, home, and on the road
• Apply safeguards and remove unwanted information
• Connect to and retrieve additional tools and resources

A special thanks for the generous support of LibraryLinkNJ

5:00 – 5:45 pm Networking
5:45 – 6:45 pm Dinner
6:45 – 7:00 pm Rosemary Allen Little Award
7:00 – 8:00 pm Presentation

“Venetian buffet” dinner to include: Caesar salad, fresh garlic bread, Pasta Penne Salsa Rosa with or without meatballs, Mediterranean Chicken, garlic bread, assorted cookies, beverages.

To pay via PayPal or credit card, use the drop-down menu to select SLA member, student/retiree, or non-member. Please fill in the boxes asking for your work/school affiliation and preferred email and phone number.

Membership status

SLA Member $20.00 USD Student/Retiree/Between jobs $15.00 USD Non-SLA Member $25.00 USD

Work/school affiliation

Preferred email and phone

Or, return the P-T SLA May 2012 meeting flyer with your check (made payable to P-T SLA) no later than Thursday, May 10th.

Directions to Rider University Lawrenceville CampusBy Car

From the NJ Turnpike: Take the New Jersey Turnpike South to exit 7A (I-195 West). Follow I-195 West to Exit 60-B for I-295 North toward Princeton. I-295 will become I-95 South. Take Exit 7-A off of I-95 to US Route 206 South (Trenton). Rider is a quarter mile on the right.

From Route 1 South: Take the exit for Interstate 95 South (sign says “To Pennsylvania”). Bear right at junction, following signs for I-95 South (Pennsylvania). Take Exit 7A off of I-95 to US Route 206 South (Trenton). Rider is a quarter mile on the right.

From South Jersey: From the Garden State Parkway: take Exit 98 (I-195 West). Follow I-195 West to Exit 60-B for I-295 North toward Princeton. I-295 will become I-95 South. Take Exit 7A off of I-95 to US Route 206 South (Trenton). Rider is a quarter mile on the right.

From I-295 North: I-295 North, straight over the Delaware River into New Jersey. Take Exit 7-A off of I-95 to US Route 206 South (Trenton). Rider is a quarter mile on the right.

From the Pennsylvania Turnpike: Take the Pennsylvania Turnpike East to the main Philadelphia Exit 351 and follow the signs to I-95 North. Continue on I-95 North, straight over the Delaware River into New Jersey. Take Exit 7-A off of I-95 to US Route 206 South (Trenton). Rider is a quarter mile on the right.

By Train or Bus

Amtrak trains for Trenton and Princeton Junction leave Penn Station in New York City and 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. New Jersey Transit provides rail service to Princeton Junction, Hamilton and Trenton from New York City and the surrounding area, and SEPTA provides service to Trenton and West Trenton from Philadelphia and the surrounding area. New Jersey Transit schedules may be consulted for bus service from Hamilton and Trenton train stations.

Links

• Amtrak
• New Jersey Transit
• Northeast Corridor Train Schedule (PDF)
• Bus Service (No. 606) from Hamilton & Trenton Stations (PDF)
• SEPTA

Dear Members,
Last Monday some of us enjoyed hearing John LeMasney discuss the new social media tool “Pinterest” at Princeton University. For those of you who missed the meeting, our Web Master Nicole Engard has kindly posted her notes and links to the presentation.
Our next meeting will be held at Rider University in Lawrenceville on Wednesday, May 16 when Robert Lackie will provide information on Internet Security. Please try to join us!
In January, Louise Deis, our Program Chair and I enjoyed attending the SLA Leadership Summit in Atlanta, Georgia, where we met other chapter officers and discussed many interesting ideas for chapter activities. My brief article about the summit will be published soon in Library Hi-Tech News by Emerald Publishing (volume 29, issue 2) and I will post the link once it is available.
Our chapter will celebrate our 45th anniversary this year and I would like to organize an event to mark the occasion. We still need to formulate a small committee to work on details, so send me any ideas on theme, speakers or venues (email me at zanaett77@yahoo.com) If you would like to help, let me know. We are hoping to hold a dinner sometime in either June or October.
The executive board will meet on April 11 for our first board meeting. Please send me any concerns, ideas or suggestions before that date so that we can add them to the agenda.
We still have several unfilled chair positions. If anyone is interested in volunteering to be chair of Employment, Archives, Continuing education, Public Relations or Sponsorship, contact me.
Don’t forget to register for the SLA Annual Conference which will be held in Chicago July 15-18 if you plan to attend.
The NJLA Conference will be held June 4-6 at the new Revel Hotel in Atlantic City, and they will extend member rates to our chapter members.
Enjoy the spring weather and beautiful flowers. I will report on the board meeting discussions in my next message, and I hope to see many of you at the meeting in May!
Sincerely,
Zana Etter, 2012 P-T SLA Chapter President

Last night I and my fellow SLA PT members attended a talk on Pinterest given by John LeMasney. Pinterest does one thing and does that one thing very well – it’s an image sharing/bookmarking tool.

Social Visual Bookmarking Precedents

John started by showing us sites that came before Pinterest that had/have a similar purpose :

• Delicious
  The idea of social bookmarking became popular with Delicious, but has lost a lot of users because of Yahoo!’s poor management of the news that they were no longer going to support it.
• Diigo
  Diigo sort of picked up the pieces when it looked like Delicious was going away. They took the model of Delicious and then built more features on to it.
• FFFFOUND
  This tool allows a limited set of users who were found to be digital content curators to share their images with others. The limit to users means that you probably can’t get an account, but it also means that you’re going to find many amazing images. This site is geared more toward the visual designer versus the average user.
• We♥It
  Another visual sharing site, but is much less exclusive than FFFFOUND is.
• Vi.sualize.us
  Another visual sharing site.
• Piccsy
  Yet another visual sharing site.

Pinning, repinning, following and liking

Which brings us to Pinterest. John gave us a brief tour of the features of Pinterest including: Searching, Pinning, and Pinboards

Pinning is how you share images on Pinterest. Like on Delicious where you would ‘bookmark’ a page, on Pinterest you ‘pin’ it. You then organize your ‘pins’ by putting them on Pinboards. You can also create group managed Pinboards like my ‘Picture for Presentations‘ board. What you can’t do yet is create a private board – all boards that you create a public at this time (this is one of the suggestions John has on his Pinterest Suggestions board).

We’re going to come back to this, but if, when you pin something, you take the time to enter a citation in the description box, you will avoid some of the potential trouble with Pinterest’s terms of service.

Another thing we found while asking questions and poking around was that people can add you to groups without your approval, you can remove yourself from groups. If you’re seeing things on your Pinterest list of ‘Pinners you follow’ from people you don’t know it might be that you were added to a group, so click on the image and see if you can track down why you’re seeing it and remove yourself from the group if you’re not really interested in that topic.

Lots of people are using Pinterest to try and sell things – but we’re not trying to sell – we’re just trying to get people in the library. Free is so much easier than selling, we just have to be in people’s faces and right now those faces are in front of Pinterest.

You can also ‘Repin’ items. This is when you find an image that someone else shared and you re-share it. One example is if you have a cooking program. You can find the board owned by the chef showing pics of his/her recipes and repin them to the library board to promote the event.

Branding best practices

Some obvious best practicees – participate! So many people and organizations sign up and then don’t use the tool. This looks very bad for you and for your brand. I have found several companies on Pinterest that have never shared a thing! Don’t do this. And along with that participation is to do something regularly.

Obviously you want to respect copyright and ownership. Add citations to descriptions and educate others how to do this.

Include links! You want to add a link to the description or by editing the image you have posted and adding in a link. You want to make sure you link back to your library site or ILS or whatever page at your library you’re posting content from.

Make sure you remember your brand! If you’re sharing content on your library site on Pinterest you want to make sure you stick to your brand. Make sure you use language that you’d use in a press release or on your website in your descriptions. That said, don’t only pin your own stuff. Make sure you share things from other boards that have to do with your events, your philosophy, your mission, etc. This makes you a member of the community on Pinterest.

Use group boards. Collaborate with colleagues and patrons so that you can benefit from their participation and extend your community even more. A group you could share with your patrons is to say ‘What I Like About Libraries’ and have your patrons share things they like about libraries – it gives you ideas and promotes libraries in general. Always remember to add keywords and hashtags to add metadata to a system where there is no other great method for metadata (yet).

More tips: http://bloggingwithamy.com/pinterest-tips.

Copyright and fair use

What do Facebook, Pinterest and a scholarly article all have in common?

It could be peer review, it could be respecting copyright, it could be proper citations – you just have to make it that way!

Why does Pinterest say they own all of your pins?

Because they’re trying to cover their behinds. In Pinterest’s terms of service they say that they own everything you post on Pinterest. In reality what they’re trying to say is that they’re not responsible if someone illegally shares your work on their site. They don’t want to be sued because they provided a platform for copyright infringement.

Copyright is not given – so in the end Pinterest cannot say that they “own” your content, they’re just trying to protect themselves.

Filtering and search

Basically you can search for images, boards and people. Nothing much else to say here.

Settings

Going to your settings in Pinterest will allow you to turn off sharing on Facebook and other social networks. So if you use Pinterest for personal reasons and Facebook for professional or vice versa you might not want to share content from Pinterest on Facebook automatically. You can also limit emails that you receive and other general settings.

Suggested improvements

• Improved searching. It would be great to search by color, camera, etc etc etc.
• Metadata. Adding tags and tag clouds would help you find information and see what type of things certain people are pinning.
• Tagging people and places. It would nice to geotag and tag faces like you can in Facebook and Flickr.
• Android App. There is only an iPhone app right now.
• Licensing options. I should be able to say that this is not mine, or is mine, or put a creative commons license on it – again this is something that Flickr does already.
• Threaded discussion. There is no way to reply to a specific comment – it’s a flat discussion format.
• See John’s Pinterest Suggestions

Presentation

John recorded his session for us all and it can be watched here:

He also has a post on his site about the talk.

Pinterest is an exciting new social networking service that uses visual media to promote ideas. John LeMasney will give a broad overview of Pinterest and explain how to use it to promote your personal and organizational brand. With Pinterest, you can follow others, and others can follow you; pin visual items, like photos and videos, to categorical boards and repin others’ pins that you find interesting. You can collaborate with others to make collective boards. You can like things that you enjoy but that are fleeting or less categorizable; pin things that you find online, or things that you upload yourself. Pinterest takes the best parts of Diigo, Twitter, Facebook, and other networks and gives them a very pretty, unified face. It is a quickly growing network, with phenomenal adoption rates, and users who often say they are addicted to pinning.

The PT chapter thanks Jane Holmquist and Susan Moss for planning this meeting. If you have any questions, please contact (Susan Moss, susanmossmls@yahoo.com 609-777-0658)

To pay via PayPal or credit card, use the drop-down menu to select SLA member, student/retiree, or non-member. Please fill in the boxes asking for your work/school affiliation and preferred email and phone number.

Membership status

SLA Member $20.00 USD Student/Retiree/Between jobs $15.00 USD Non-SLA Member $25.00 USD

Work/school affiliation

Preferred email and phone

Or, return the March 2012 SLA Meeting Flyer with your check (made payable to P-T SLA) no later than Thursday, March 15th.

Directions to Campus Club
Link to Google Map: Princeton University’s Campus Club
Princeton University’s Campus Club is located at 5 Prospect Ave., Princeton, New Jersey 08540-5299, at the corner of Prospect Ave. and Washington Road, across from The Woodrow Wilson School.

From Rte. 1, go west on Washington Road (County Road 526), into Princeton. You will pass a stop light at Faculty Road. The second stop light is at Ivy Lane, which goes off only to the right. The third stop light is Prospect Avenue, which also goes off only to the right.

From Nassau St. in Princeton, turn east, onto Washington Road. Pass Williams Street, which goes off only to the left. Prospect Avenue is the next street, which also goes off only to the left.

You can park for free in University parking lots after 5:00 p.m. University lots are located on Ivy Lane and Williams Street. Metered parking is also available on Prospect Avenue.

Description: Handheld devices. Tablet computers. Reading on the web. Dedicated eReaders. Digital bookstores. Americans are reading in more ways than ever before, and eReading expands the options that readers have to entertain themselves and absorb information. Libraries are continuing to evolve the services they offer to customers based upon how people prefer to read. David Lisa, Adult Services & Urban Libraries Specialist in the Library Development Bureau at the New Jersey State Library, will talk about the current state of eReading, how different generations look at this and what the future might hold.

5:30 Networking
6:00 Dinner (Because of building security, please make every effort to arrive by 6:00)
6:45 Presentation by David Lisa

The P-T chapter gratefully acknowledges EBSCO Publishing for sponsoring this meeting.

The PT chapter thanks Joy Whitney, Ellen Specht, and Karen McQuillen for planning this meeting. If you have any questions, please contact (Karen McQuillen, kmcquillen@ets.org, 609-734-5664)

To pay via PayPal or credit card, use the drop-down menu to select SLA member, student/retiree, or non-member. Please fill in the boxes asking for your work/school affiliation and preferred email and phone number.

Membership status

SLA Member $20.00 USD Student/Retiree/Between jobs $15.00 USD Non-SLA Member $25.00 USD

Work/school affiliation

Preferred email and phone

Or, return the February 15, 2012 SLA meeting Flyer with your check (made payable to P-T SLA) no later than Monday, February 13th

Directions to Edison Ventures

Link to Google Map

Edison Ventures is located at 1009 Lenox Drive, Building 4, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648. Lenox Drive is at the intersection of I-295 and Princeton Pike.
Please park on the side of the building that is parallel to I-295 and come in the East entrance. Take the elevator to the 2nd Floor. The office is across from the elevator.

Dear Members,

I wanted to remind everyone that 2012 is our 45th anniversary! If we want to celebrate this milestone with a dinner event, we need a few people to form a committee so that we can begin to plan. Please let me know (zanaett77@yahoo.com) or contact Louise Deis, our Program Chair if you are interested.

We also have several empty “Chair” positions (only 1 year!) that we would like to fill,  so please consider supporting your chapter by volunteering for:

Employment Chair;  Continuing Education Chair; Archives Chair

Contact me for more information on these and other chapter activity opportunities! Louise and I will be attending the SLA Leadership Summit next week and we hope to learn a lot and bring back many good ideas for our chapter.   Soon you will receive information on our upcoming February meeting.

Sincerely,

Zana Etter, 2012 P-T SLA Chapter President

What are the current trends in open access? Many librarians consider open access to be one of the most important topics in scholarly communication and want to learn more about scholarly publishing, development of repositories, research impact, and global benefits. Laura Bowering Mullen will update us and lead a discussion on current issues and challenges that librarians face in the realization of an open access agenda. Mullen is the author of the 2009 book Open Access and its Practical Impact on the Work of Academic Librarians: Collection Development, Public Services, and the Library and Information Science Literature and has a special interest in practical realizations of open access in the everyday work of librarians.

5:30 Dinner at Valentino’s Pizza (pay on your own; coffee, tea, and cookies will be provided at RWJF)
6:45 Tour of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Library, led by Librarian, MaryBeth Kren
7:00 Presentation on Open Access

If attendees do not wish to join us for dinner, they are more than welcome to just attend the presentation. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will be opening their doors to us at 6:30 pm.

To pay via PayPal or credit card, use the drop-down menu to select SLA member, student/retiree, or non-member. Please fill in the boxes asking for your work/school affiliation and preferred email and phone number.

Membership status

SLA Member $5.00 USD Student/Retiree/Between jobs $5.00 USD Non-SLA Member $5.00 USD

Work/school affiliation

Preferred email and phone

Or, return the December 14,2011 SLA meeting Flyer with your check (made payable to P-T SLA) no later than Monday, December 12th

Directions to Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The address of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is Route 1 and College Road East.

Traveling north on Route 1, exit at College Road East and, at the first traffic light, turn right into our driveway. There is a large blue sign that says Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Make the first left into visitors’ parking and proceed to the front door.

Traveling south on Route 1, exit at College Road East and follow the exit ramp around to the 2nd traffic light and turn right into our driveway. There is a large blue sign that says Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Make the first left into visitors parking and proceed to the front door.

Landmarks – We are across Route 1 from Forrestal Village, Ruth’s Chris Steak House, Salt Creek Grill, and The Westin Hotel.

Directions to Valentino’s Pizza, 110 Rockingham Row, Princeton, NJ 08540, 609-520-1191
Located in the food court of Princeton Forrestal Village

Exit on College Road West toward Forrestal Road Center W/Forrestal Village
Turn left onto Village Blvd.
Turn right to stay on Village Blvd.
Take the second right to stay on Village Blvd.
Arrive at 110 Rockingham Row

Parking is available on the street, in parking garages, and on surface lots in Forrestal Village.

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In honor of a former chapter member, Rosemary Allen Little,  the Princeton-Trenton SLA Chapter each year provides a monetary scholarship to one library school student who applies.  Students can submit essays and are judged by a committee of chapter members,  and the best essay is chosen.  This year, the Rosemary Allen Little Award was given to Katie Maricic. Katie completed an internship at the Rutgers Art Library in New Brunswick, and hopes to someday work as a librarian in a museum or library devoted to the Arts.

I was fortunate to be asked to represent our chapter by attending the Scholarship Donor Recognition Reception which was held at the Livingston Student Center at Livingston Hall on September 22, 2011.

I enjoyed meeting Katie’s family and seeing her receive the award. I also heard several guest speakers, including our chapter member Claire McInerney, Chair of the Department of Library and Information Science at Rutgers University, and Jorge Reina Schement, Dean of the School of Communication and Information. It was very gratifying to witness the generosity of so many donors and to see many talented young scholars receive these well-deserved awards. They have much to offer our profession and are destined for success in their future careers.

I was especially touched by listening to the donor of the Pamela Richards Memorial Fellowship, Guy Richards Smit. He spoke about his mother, Pamela Richards, a former library school professor I remember, who unfortunately passed away too soon but is honored each year by this fellowship.

We wish Katie Maricic much success in her new job at the Brookdale Community College Library and look forward to next year’s contestants for the award.

Zana Etter, 2011 Program Chair/President Elect

Thank you all for attending today’s webinar on WordPress. I have posted a recording of the session on Blip.tv and embedded it here. You can also download my slides here.