8:30 – 9:00

General Session

• Welcome and introductions—Philip J. Tramdack
• KLN Reports—Mary Lou Sowden
• SSHELCO issues everybody wants to know about

SIG - Reference (Loring Prest, California)
Information commons, reference desk coverage

SIG - Curriculum/Instructional Media (Karen Wanamaker, Kutztown)
Reaching out to the College of Education

Collaborative Collection Development Project Discussion (Barb Rotz, Shipensburg)

Discovering Lost Voices: Primary Sources as Opportunities for Engagement (Marilyn Mckinley Parrish, Joyce Anderson, Carla Rineer, Theresa Russell-Loretz, and Diane Zimmerman Umble, Millersville)
Millersville faculty from a variety of disciplines will discuss how they are using primary source materials to engage students and their learning; how the use of these materials shapes their own teaching, learning, and research; and how they have benefited from a shared conversation about primary sources.

Using Personal Response Systems (Classroom Clickers) to Enhance Interactivity in Information Literacy Instruction (William Jefferson, Krista Prock, and Sylvia Pham, Kutztown)
In this workshop we will describe how we have piloted clickers in information literacy instruction at Kutztown University. You will have a hands-on opportunity to participate in a mock IL clicker session and we will show how easy it is to integrate this technology into your IL instruction.

LHU Wrestling Goes Online: Putting a Half Nelson on Your First Digitization Project (Brian Ardan, Bernadette Heiney, Joby Topper, and Cathy Weglarz, Lock Haven)
LHU Digitization Team examines steps taken to complete a project highlighting Lock Haven's wrestling program. This includes initial assessment; bringing the right people onboard; writing an AccessPA grant for the CONTENTdm statewide license; getting the right training; scanning; and more. This presentation is ideal for those considering their first digitization project.

Poster Sessions

• Fishing! for Customers, Colleagues, and Others (Sandra L. Janicki, Indiana)
• The Kindle (Rick Lilla and Carl DiNardo, Lock Haven)
• Information Literacy Rubric (Elsa Winch, Lock Haven)
• Bringing Mining Information to Your Desktop (Theresa McDevitt, Indiana)
• VRS-Voyager Reporting System (Julia McGinnis, California)
• OCLC Collection Analysis Product (Julia McGinnis, California)
• Fish where the fish are: using 360 Linker and Open WorldCat to direct students from Google back to the library (Christine Troutman and Barry Gray, Edinboro)

Buffet Lunch

SIG - Acquisitions/Collection Development (Barb Rotz, Shippensburg)
Licensing agreements for electronic resources, Voyager 7.0 and acquisitions

SIG - Circulation/Reserve (Krista Higham, Millersville)
Lending laptops, policies & procedures, reserve systems

Open Access Serials—An overview (Sandy Chen, Clarion)
Open Access Serials, which this session will define and describe their relevancy, serve a common good as an access model that libraries should not ignore despite short-term costs and initial management challenges.

Library Outreach Services: Open Discussion (Sylvia L. Pham, Karen Wanamaker, Kutztown)
What does Outreach mean to your library? The subject brings more questions than answers. How has it been done? Is it providing reference services outside of the library building? Is it a public relations campaign? Is it something else entirely? Who is in charge of it -- one person or a committee or everyone? This open discussion will look at the variety of ways libraries can serve their patrons through outreach initiatives. Bring your ideas, experiences, and questions to share!

Games for learning (Greg Szczyrbak and Dr. William Archibald , Millersville)
Seeking an enjoyable method for students to learn about the research process, we set out to create a learning game that combines the practice of research and writing. This visual description of the first game segment highlights our detailed planning process and future plans for our narrative mystery computer game.

Building a Feature Film Collection for the University Library – Justification, Collection Development, & Promotion (Rick Lilla, Lock Haven)
This presentation will address the issue of building a feature film collection for the college library.  It will attempt to justify such a collection in the face of limited library funding and competing curricular needs.  It will also cover the issue of what sorts of feature films to purchase given the competing interests of video rental stores and public libraries.  Finally, it will discuss the use of feature films for classroom use and present ways of promoting such applications.

Security and Preservation of Rare Materials:  Planning an Environmental Building Project (Caryn J. Carr, State Library, Neal Rusnov, DGS Architect and Project Architect; Representative from Millersville University to discuss the chemistry collaboration for IMLS)
This program will discuss standards for three different integrated storage environments, i.e. security, lighting, air quality, microbial filtration, fire suppression, temperature and humidity.  This state-of-the-art approach is now being studied via a research grant awarded by IMLS and supported by the national Archives.

Acquiring in Quantity without sacrificing Quality (Loralyn Whitney, Edinboro)
This session will provide tips for acquisitions librarians and library liaisons/subject specialists on how to spend funds very quickly. By using common bibliographic tools already at your disposal, you can identify current and retrospective subject lists of highly recommended titles to facilitate collection development. If you have ever been faced with extra funding of the "use it fast or lose it" variety, you will appreciate these tips that will let you "work smart, not hard."

E-books: sliced bread or burned toast? (Bill Meloy and Julia McGinnis, California)
After adding over 50,000 e-books in a 2-year period to our holdings, we discovered they were not catching on with students and faculty. Although students almost categorically refuse to use print journals, the transition to e-books has been slow. This session will explore our attempts to identify the misconceptions and challenges that prevent the effective use of these resources.

From Forbidden Fruit to Basic Entitlement: Justin Winsor and the Mixed Legacy of Liberal Access Services (Joby Topper, Lock Haven)
In the early days of American higher education, the college library was generally off-limits to undergraduates. This restrictive policy was based on the widely-held belief that undergraduates were not yet prepared to manage the complex, unorthodox information they might stumble upon if left to their own devices in the library stacks. As an undergraduate at Harvard, Justin Winsor (co-founder and first president of the ALA) was allowed by a kind librarian to now and then pluck the forbidden fruits from the library’s shelves. When Winsor became Harvard’s Librarian in 1877, he relaxed the library’s age-old restrictions on undergraduate access. Students eagerly accepted Winsor's invitation. Fast-forward to the 21st century. To the average undergraduate, pulling a book from the shelf or receiving a book through interlibrary loan hardly qualifies as picking forbidden fruit. It is now a basic entitlement. So, is this a problem? Assuming that our resources and services have forever lost the powerful allure of forbidden fruit, is there anything we can do to enhance their value in the eyes of our users?

The Importance of Investing in Professional Development: Managing in the Middle – Regardless of Your Title. ( Scott R. DiMarco, Mansfield)
This presentation attempts to view Professional Development as an investment. It can provide innovative and practical ideas and options about critical management challenges facing those that work in the ever changing world of libraries regardless of their title. The program encourages you to think beyond the confines of your own position and area of responsibility. Everyone can become better leaders of their unit, department, or University. Spend less time “putting out fires” and more time providing forward-thinking leadership. Topics we will explore: Leadership; Innovation and Change; Planning; Professional Renewal.

SIG - Serials (Christina McCawley, West Chester)
Print to online migration

SIG - Interlibrary Loan (William Yurvati, East Stroudsburg)
Current duplication services in PASSHE libraries

 SIG - Archives (Karen Daniel, Shippensburg)
New archives and special collections projects within the system

Where’s the Library?: Establishing Our Presence in the Course Management System (Jane Hutton, West Chester, Sheila Kasperek, Mansfield, and David Magolis & Linda Neyer, Bloomsburg)
What are academic libraries doing to ensure a presence within course management systems such as Blackboard? Join us to learn about the varied SSHELCO library implementations, recommendations from the literature, and ideas for overcoming challenges.
Handout :: PowerPoint Presentation

Evolving role of Acquisitions (Jesse Holden, Millersville)
Acquisitions functions at a complex locus of service, content, access, and business. Recent developments in publishing and scholarship has made library Acquisitions more complex than ever .

’Wii’ Want You in the Library: Gaming at the Manderino Library (Ryan Sittler, California)
Presentation on how the Manderino library used gaming as a marketing technique to bring more students into the library… presentation will include an opportunity for attendees to try out some of the games.”

Dinner on your own
(List of restaurants provided)

SIG - Cataloging (Mike Weber, Kutztown)
Report of the LC Work Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, current challenges and projects (authority control, NACO, tag tables, Voyager upgrade, and ELUNA membership)

SIG - Information Literacy (Krista Prock, Kutztown)
Librarian/faculty partnerships

SIG - Systems (Carol Otto, California)
Hub update, open source software, Voyager upgrade, LDAP, ContentDM

Student Workers and Customer Services (Phil Tramdack, Slippery Rock)
Slippery Rock University personnel will conduct a discussion of issues raised by employing students in customer service positions. The discussion will follow an introductory presentation of approximately 15 to 20 minutes covering: --Introduction: We depend on student employees at Bailey Library. --Student employee orientation and training. --Concerns that might prompt an in-house discussion of student public service attitudes—the challenging student employee types we have all met: Drowsy, Snarky, Chatty, Clueless, Invisible, Studious, Social, Tardy, Meanie. --Some ideas about how to help students be more successful customer service-oriented employees. In the discussion period participants will be encouraged to share experiences and solutions. One outcome of the discussion will be recommendations for innovative ways to help students understand and engage a positive public service attitude.

Including Free Electronic Resources in the Library's Web Site: A Discussion of Principles and Practices (Loring Prest, California)
This roundtable session will look at the collection principles used in selecting free electronic resources for the library's Web site, and how they are integrated into the site.  It will include both:  1) a presentation of the principles and practices used at California, and 2) a group discussion of these issues.  Is this a valuable library service to our patrons?  Are we trying to duplicate Yahoo, LII, etc.?  Should we limit ourselves to only subscription resources?  How do we decide which resources--from the myriads available--to include?  Where do we put these resources in our sites?  Come and join in the discussion!

SIG - Federated Searching (Aaron Dobbs, Shippensburg)
General impressions and usage of Webfeat

SIG - Instructional Technology (Ryan Sittler, California)
What's new and exciting?  Should the PASSHE libraries try a system-wide IT project?

Finding Oz: MARC has entered the archive, but can he catalog it?  (Barry Gray and Dave Obringer, Edinboro)
This presentation will explore the successes and frustrations encountered at Edinboro University in its effort to make archival materials accessible in the catalogue.
PowerPoint Presentation

Extreme Makeover: Reference Edition. (Mame Purce, Pat Newland, Jane Hutton, Walter Campell, West Chester)
What started as a Reference Department enterprise quickly morphed into a major project which significantly impacted workflow in Technical Services. We will describe extensive Reference area changes, explain the effects of these modifications on Technical Services, and discuss how these changes have made resources more accessible. Participants will be invited to share local practices and solutions.
PowerPoint Presentation

What Do Students Want?: a Focus Group Study of Students (Bob Flatley & Mike Weber, Kutztown)
This presentation will present the findings of a series of student focus groups conducted at Kutztown University’s Rohrbach Library.  The purpose of the study was to determine how students use library resources and services, and to discover their thoughts on the future of the library and the role it plays on campus.  Presenters will cover what they learned in terms of student use of information resources (both inside and outside library), student use of technology, which library services students use, the role of the library in the Internet age, and student suggestions for services and improvements.
Handout :: PowerPoint Presentation

Tours (sign up required)

• Wert Binding Plant Tour
• National Civil War Museum - NOTE: There is a minimum number of people needed for this to run and an entrance fee at the museum (under $10). We will let those who sign up know if we have enough people before the conference.

Rooms have been reserved at the Holiday Inn in Grantville. Reservations must be made by March 12, 2008. The room rate is $92.00 single or double. Please contact the hotel directly at (717) 469-0661 and mention "SSHELCO Conference". Late arrivals (after 4:00 P.M.) can be guaranteed with a personal credit card. State vouchers are also accepted.

Maps: Holiday Inn