May 16, 2012
5:00 pm	to	8:00 pm

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

Protect your own digital footprint!
Speaker: Robert J. Lackie
Professor-Librarian, Rider University
Date: May 16, 2012
Location: Rider University
Bart Luedeke Center (Building #40 on the map)
Fireside Lounge, Room 245
2083 Lawrenceville Road
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
http://www.rider.edu/about-rider/maps

Also, presentation of the Rosemary Allen Little Award

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.

Please RSVP by Thursday, May 10th

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

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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.

March 19, 2012
5:30 pm	to	8:00 pm

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.

Speaker: John LeMasney
Manager of Educational Technology Training and Outreach at Princeton University
John LeMasney is the Manager of Educational Technology Training and Outreach at Princeton University. He is a father, artist, designer, technologist, consultant, and open source evangelist living and working in New Jersey.
Date: Monday, March 19, 2012
Location: Princeton University’s Campus Club (Click for a Google Map to get directions to the site)
5 Prospect Ave., Princeton, NJ 08540-5299 (directions to building follow)

5:30 Networking
6:15 Buffet Dinner (with vegetarian option)
7:00 Presentation

The P-T chapter gratefully acknowledges Information Express for sponsoring this meeting.

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.

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

 

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.

Download the poster presented by Kadri Kallikorm-Rhodes at SLA Annual Meeting, Idea Showcase June 6, 2007.

Dear PT/SLAers,

• The following is a President’s message/meeting wrap-up, briefly highlighting Mr. Abram’s talk with links to some resources as well as one more round of thank you’s.
• For photographs of the event, special thanks to Donna Savino. See: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ptsla/
• Thank you to all PT/SLA members attending the 40th Anniversary Gala event [last night] at the beautiful Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton. Your attendance made the meeting a huge success, we had nearly 100 members and sponsors. It was a thrill to see so many retired colleagues too!

A. Our speaker Stephen Abram spoke about “A Tech Forecast: Library 2.0 in the Real World.” Mr. Abram was amazing; entertaining and insightful. He also gave generously of his time and met with the PT/SLA Board for an hour prior to the meeting and provided insights into recruitment and retention issues for special librarians. Mr. Abram met with SCILS students and professors May 11.

His main messages the audience last night was that librarians’ priorities have changed. If our decision makers think our library ‘business’ is books, we need to re-educate them. Our roles is about ANSWERS, and managing the quality of the questions and the user experience with them. — We are the learning link between information and knowledge for each and every patron. Web 2.0 and the Library 2.0 are here. He gave us 10 key strategies and tips for use in this bold new world.. and challenged us to go where the patrons are– in Second Life, Ning, MySpace to name a few.

Stephen tells us that SLA is planning tools to help us communicate and influence those we serve with these new priorities in mind. He mentioned psychographic behaviors of our users a lot, and I can’t pretend to have absorbed it all… but I do know Stephen and SLA are working towards that end, and helping us, on the front lines. For a starting point on psychographics, see: http://www.answers.com/topic/psychographics or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychographics

I thought you would also be interested to know:

Mr. Abram’s Presentations): Many of you asked about access to his PowerPoints from last night. See his Web page: http://www.sirsi.com/Resources/abram_articles.html Our slides would hopefully be added soon!

Stephen’s Abram’s latest book, “Out Front with Stephen Abram: A Guide for Information Leaders.” has been published by ALA Editions. The book is a collection of Abram’s writings compiled by Judith A. Siess and Jonathan Lorig with a foreword by Jane Dysart.

Stephen’s Lighthouse: If you have not visited Abram’s blog– don’t miss the latest: http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/archives/2007/05/latest_onesourc_4.html Jackson, Bart. “Information Sharks,” U.S. 1. pp; 11-13. Fabulous article about Stephen Abram, his talk and our meeting.

B. A special thank you to our long-standing members of PT/SLA for 25 or more years. Many came to the meeting and are recognized here:Maxine Goldsmith, Janet Weiss, Valerie Tucci, Kathy Anderegg, Nelly Silva, Margaret Bennett, Helen Lee, Yvonne Smith, Joyce Russell, June Bente. Apologies if we forgot anyone, dumpster-diving into the SLA database is not an exact science.

C. Once more, many thanks to our sponsors of the 40th Anniversary:

• EBSCO Information Services for Admissions for Grounds for Sculpture Sponsor. Dan Loeper
• Information Express for Flowers & Decorations Sponsor. Ben Beit-Zuri, Development
• Elsevier for the Champagne Toast Sponsor. Brie Betz, Account Development Manager, Academic & Government Libraries, Mary Vasica, Account Development Manager, Corporate Libraries, Kelchi Okere, Account Manager (CT, NJ, PA), Holly Klinger, Account Development Manager, Corporate Libraries.
• Pro Libra Associates, Inc., for the Sixteen String Quartet Sponsor. Margaret Bennett, President and Angela Dzikowski, Vice President.
• John Wiley & Sons for Cocktails & hors d’Oeuvres Sponsor. Pat Ryan and Carol Coffey. 

The three Dinner Sponsors:

• Dow Jones & Co., Brian DiMarchi and Gregg Rempkowski
• Spacesaver Systems, Tim Powers, President and Scotti Powers.
• Swets, John Buckley.

D. 40th Anniversary Committee Chair: Susan Moss!!

A special thank you to Susan Moss, Chair of the 40th Anniversary Committee. Susan is the amazing librarian who pulled this all together with effortlessness, doing yeoman’s work and with much grace. Thank you Susan for leading this event.

E. 40th Anniversary Committee:

Thank you to committee members. It was through your efforts it all got done and together we coordinated and communicated more than 500 e-mail (no exaggeration), planned printed and mailed invitations, collected registration, made lists, paid bills, created lovely special badges, selected and carted centerpieces to the Grounds, researched and found the string quartet, solicited and worked with vendors, printed posters, programs, archival displays, obtained PR in newspapers, coordinated caterers, menus and photographs. Whew!

• Melissa Brown, Bristol Meyers Squibb
• Louise Deis, Princeton University
• Maxine Goldsmith, DesiqnWrite Inc
• Donna Savino, Educational Testing Service
• Karen McQuillen, Educational Testing Service
• Jan Watterworth, Mathematica Policy Research
• Janet Weiss, Daiichi Sankyo Pharma Development
• Donna Wolfe, Princeton University

F. Thanks also to:

Thanks also to Claire McInerney, for arranging for a visit to SCILS by Mr. Abram, May 11, to Kadri Kallikorm-Rhodes for photographing the event, Kim Wobik for Web mastering and to Connie Paul for securing the Grounds for Sculpture venue – way in advance!

G. Congratulations to Rebecca A. Dean, recipient of the 2007 Rosemary Allen Little Award! It was presented to Rebecca by Clair R. McInerney, Director, Information Technology and Informatics Program, SCILS, Rutgers. Our special guest John Little, Rosemary’s husband attended. It was an honor to have Mr. Little at our gala and especially to be with us as we presented this award in honor of his wife and our beloved colleague.

PT/SLA wishes Rebecca much success in special librarianship.

H. A toast to PT/SLA with words from Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens or librarians can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Please raise your glass with me for toast to PT/SLA for making a difference in special librarianship for everyone in our Chapter for 40 years.

Michelle M. Volesko Brewer
Dir. Lib. & Corp. Info. Svcs.
New Jersey Hospital Association
Voice: 609-275-4230; Fax: 609-275-4107
Email: Work mbrewer@njha.com