Come listen to your fellow Library IT colleagues and partners present tech-related projects from around the Library. We have an intern showcase featuring the Library IT interns.
Save the date and come to the Tech Talks on August 15th!
Come listen to your fellow Library IT colleagues and partners present tech-related projects from around the Library. We have an intern showcase featuring the Library IT interns.
Save the date and come to the Tech Talks on August 15th!
Please join Library IT in bidding farewell to two of our staff as well as congratulating members who have transitioned into new roles.
Listed are opportunities for training sessions available to Yale University Library staff.
Across campus, there are several Communities of Practice (CoP) groups. The CoPs are a helpful way to grow your network with fellow practitioners, develop competencies, share solutions, and create standards. This fall Melissa Wisner, IT Portfolio Manager & Project Librarian, will begin leading the Project Management CoP. The Project Management CoP (PM CoP) has been in existence for several years and originated with Yale ITS. Based on new goals set forth by Yale ITS leadership the CoP is looking to broaden the group’s reach by inviting members from different unit’s practicing project management university-wide.
Continue Reading The Project Management Community of Practice Begins Anew
The Ex Libris Users of North America (ELUNA) hold an annual meeting for the regional user group of Ex Libris in the United States and Canada. Steelsen Smith, Technical Lead for Client Services and IT Operations, attended the conference this past in May and has written about the sessions and news from the conference.
Continue Reading A Retrospective of the 2018 ELUNA Conference
Library Information Technology (Library IT) has undergone significant changes over the past two years. Now under the leadership of Director of IT, Dale Hendrickson, the department looks forward to a time of opportunity and growth. The department has embarked on a reorganization this summer, with current staff assuming new roles and new staff being hired to support the new structure of the department. View the new organizational chart.
Come listen to your fellow Library IT colleagues and partners present tech-related projects from around the Library. We have a variety of Omeka-themed presentations to share with you.
Save the date and come to the Tech Talks on July 18th!
In the feedback provided to Library IT, we heard from clients you would like to know about technology-related initiatives other units are working on. In response to this feedback we are starting a new column in our monthly newsletter — shining the spotlight on the work of our partners and colleagues. The inaugural article is by Joshua Dull, Digital Scholarship Support Specialist, with his solution for aggregating many calendars into one. If you would like to learn more about contributing an article to the Library IT monthly newsletter, please contact Lise Gazzillo at lise.gazzillo@yale.edu.
Building on previous successes, Library IT has teamed up again with New Haven Promise and is bringing in four summer interns to Sterling Memorial Library. We are excited to welcome back Annissa Carter and Bryana Kilpatrick, interns from last year. And welcome two new interns, Eric DeJesus and Arthur Abeshouse.
The last six weeks have been a productive period for many staff members in Library IT — they have been traveling to various conferences to hone their craft and learn new skills.