Schedule from 2022
Table of Contents
Monday, August 8th 2022
Welcome
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Description
Introductions, overview of the plan for the week, and instructions regarding office hours and asynchronous content.Managing and Organizing Data - with Alisa Rod and Mireille Nappert
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Description
This workshop will provide attendees with an overview of the best practices for efficiently managing data during the research process. This workshop will provide attendees with practical tips and examples on how to organize data across files and folders, set up folders according to a logical schema, create README documentation to map out folder hierarchies, and implement a file naming convention.Presenter Bios
Alisa Beth Rod, Ph.D. is the Research Data Management Specialist at the McGill University Library. Alisa holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a B.A. in Bioethics from the American Jewish University. She is currently pursuing a Master of Information Studies degree at McGill. Prior to joining McGill, Alisa was the Survey Methodologist at Ithaka S+R and then the Associate Director of the Empirical Reasoning Center at Barnard College of Columbia University.Mireille Nappert (she/her) is the digital archivist in the Institutional Information and Archives Management Service at HEC Montréal. She is active with the RDM working group of the Library Subcommittee from the Bureau de coopération interuniversitaire; as well as with the Preservation Expert Group, part of the RDM network of experts of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. She holds an MLIS from McGill University.
Git and GitHub - with Scott Goldstein and Kristen Howard
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM & 4:15 - 5:15 PM
Description
**Begin** to understand and use Git/GitHub. This session is not intended to produce expertise by the end of the class. Attendees will probably not even feel very comfortable using Git. This is okay. We want to make a start but, as with any skill, using Git takes practice.Presenter Bios
Scott Goldstein is the Coordinator, Web Services & Library Technology at McGill University Library.Kristen Howard is the Liaison Librarian for History, Classical Studies, Government Information, and Indigenous Studies at McGill. She attended North Carolina State University's Jumpstart Program in August 2021, which led to her interest in becoming involved with a similar program here in Montreal. She holds a Master of Information Studies from McGill University and a PhD in History from the University of Arizona.
Office Hours (optional)
5:30 - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, August 9th 2022
Daily Check-In
12:00 - 12:30 PM
Career Paths in Library Technology, Panel - with Christine Smith, Jessica Lange, Mireille Nappert and Robin Desmeules, moderated by Sandy Hervieux
12:45 - 1:45 PM
Description
Guest speakers will discuss their career paths from library school to their current jobs. The panelists will provide details on the key required technological skills for their current position, and whether they would have done anything differently to be prepared for their current roles.Presenter Bios
Christine F. Smith, MLIS is the Head, Acquisitions & Serials at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Smith holds diverse experience across the library and information sector and has sat on committees, working groups and boards of directors of provincial, national, and international library associations.Jessica Lange is the Scholarly Communications Librarian at McGill. In this role, she provides services to the campus community in the areas of open access, publishing, author rights, and open educational resources (OERs). She also manages the McGill’s institutional repository and its scholarly publishing program. Her research interests include scholarly publishing and open access.
Mireille Nappert (she/her) is the digital archivist in the Institutional Information and Archives Management Service at HEC Montréal. She is active with the RDM working group of the Library Subcommittee from the Bureau de coopération interuniversitaire; as well as with the Preservation Expert Group, part of the RDM network of experts of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. She holds an MLIS from McGill University.
Robin Desmeules has been a Cataloguing Librarian at McGill University since 2015, specializing in rare and special collections and linked data. Her work focuses on critical approaches to knowledge organization, experimenting and implementing linked data for special collections, and community generated naming systems.
Excel: Clean Up Messy Data - with Carolyn Pecoskie
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Description
The goal of today’s workshop is to introduce you to useful tips, tricks, and tools in Excel, to begin to guide your work with Excel as an information professional. This session will be by no means comprehensive, in terms of covering everything that you may ever need to use in Excel, but the hope is that by the end of the session you will:- Be aware of a range of tools and functions that (in the experience of the presenter) are very useful for library work
- Be aware of some helpful tips and tricks to save time and make the most of what Excel can do for you
- Feel more confident in your ability to navigate within Excel, and to look to Google, the Microsoft Excel help site, and other sources whenever you need to find a new tool or function or troubleshoot an error
Presenter Bio
Carolyn Pecoskie has been working as the Metadata & Electronic Resources Librarian at McGill University since February 2020. Prior to joining McGill, Carolyn worked as a medical librarian at the Trillium Health Partners hospital system in Mississauga, Ontario. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto Master of Information program. Carolyn enjoys looking for new and creative ways to apply technology to maintain McGill's electronic resources collections and while working on metadata clean up and migration projects. Her professional interests incldue automation and programmatic solutions for electronic resources management; exploring the environmental impacts of libraries and library collections; and mentorship opportunities within libarianship.Open Refine: Clean Up Messy Data - with Robin Desmeules
4:15 - 5:15 PM
Presenter Bio
Robin Desmeules has been a Cataloguing Librarian at McGill University since 2015, specializing in rare and special collections and linked data. Her work focuses on critical approaches to knowledge organization, experimenting and implementing linked data for special collections, and community generated naming systems.Office Hours (optional)
5:30 - 6:00 PM
Wednesday, August 10th 2022
Daily Check-In
12:00 - 12:30 PM
What I Didn’t Know When I Started, Panel - with Aline Credeville, Anna Dysert, Ève Paquette-Bigras and Sarah Lake, moderated by Sandy Hervieux
12:45 - 1:45 PM
Description
Panelists will present reflections on what they wish they knew when they first started working in technological library roles. Each panelist will share one moment when they felt at a loss and what they did to overcome that situation or what they learned through that experience.Presenter Bios
Aline Crédeville, systems librarian at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR). I also act as systems librarian support for all 9 UQ. In the past three years, I have worked locally, as well as for the Bureau de coopération interuniversitaire (BCI) to test and configure the instances of WMS for circulation within the system's libraries. Among many other related things.Anna Dysert is an associate librarian at the McGill University Library, where she specializes in special collections and archival metadata. She holds an MA from the Centre for Medieval Studies and Book History & Print Culture Program at the University of Toronto and an MLIS in Archives from McGill’s School of Information Studies.
Ève Paquette-Bigras is a research data management librarian at Bibliothèques de l’Université de Montréal since 2018. She previously held a liaison librarian position for the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Bibliothèque de l’Université Laval. She has been involved with Portage Network, now part of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, for several years. She holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and software engineering (UQAM, 2007) and a master's degree in information science (Université de Montréal, 2013), and is now a PhD candidate in information science at Université de Montréal. She is a student member of the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie.
Sarah Lake is the Digital Preservation Librarian at Concordia University, where she oversees the Library’s digital preservation infrastructure and projects. She also offers regular workshops on web archiving and she recently joined the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition Coordinating Committee. She holds a Master of Information Studies from McGill University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University.
Q&A(optional)
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Office Hours (optional)
5:30 - 6:00 PM
Thursday, August 11th 2022
Daily Check-In
12:00 - 12:30 PM
Applying To Your First Library Technology Job - with Andrew Senior and Christine Smith, moderated by Amanda Wheatley
12:45 - 1:45 PM
Description
A candid discussion about what the speakers look for when hiring, including tips on writing a successful CV and cover letter, interviewing, networking, and where (and how) to look for jobs.Presenter Bios
Andrew Senior is Associate Librarian and Coordinator for E-Resources and Serials with Collection Services, McGill University Library. Prior to 2013 he worked as audio-visual cataloguer at the Marvin Duchow Music Library. His research interests include linked data and modelling for continuing resources, electronic collections usage, mobile technologies, and e-resources workflows. He currently sits on CRKN’s Knowledge Base Entitlements Sub-Committee and NISO’s KBART Standing Committee.Christine F. Smith, MLIS is the Head, Acquisitions & Serials at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Smith holds diverse experience across the library and information sector and has sat on committees, working groups and boards of directors of provincial, national, and international library associations.
Python - with Clara Turp
3:00 - 4:00 PM & 4:15 - 5:15 PM
Link to the GitHub Documentation for this workshop
Description
This workshop is an introduction to Python. You will write Python code, using a practical code-along methodology. This workshop will use the content developed by Carpentries and aims to give learners foundational knowledge to tackle projects.Presenter Bio
Clara Turp is the Discovery Systems Librarian at McGill University Library. She started at McGill in 2018 as Metadata Analyst Librarian and transitioned to her current position at the end of 2018. She manages the library catalogue and its integration with peripheral systems. She started a Montreal chapter for Code4Lib, she is part of the RDM network of experts of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, and is involved with Bureau de coopération interuniversitatire. Her research interests include how system changes affect users and the ethical implications of using artificial intelligence in Discovery Systems.Office Hours (optional)
5:30 - 6:00 PM
Friday, August 12th 2022
Daily Check-In
12:00 - 12:30 PM
Technology Showcase - with Alisa Rod, Andrew Senior and Carolyn Pecoskie, Jessica Lange, and Scott Goldstein, moderated by Anton Boudreau Ninkov
12:45 - 1:45 PM
Description
A show and tell session where the speakers will present the most useful technology for their job or the in-house technology they work with. The technologies include Borealis Dataverse, EZproxy, Samvera, and SpringShare LibApps.Presenter Bios
Alisa Beth Rod, Ph.D. is the Research Data Management Specialist at the McGill University Library. Alisa holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a B.A. in Bioethics from the American Jewish University. She is currently pursuing a Master of Information Studies degree at McGill. Prior to joining McGill, Alisa was the Survey Methodologist at Ithaka S+R and then the Associate Director of the Empirical Reasoning Center at Barnard College of Columbia University.Andrew Senior is Associate Librarian and Coordinator for E-Resources and Serials with Collection Services, McGill University Library. Prior to 2013 he worked as audio-visual cataloguer at the Marvin Duchow Music Library. His research interests include linked data and modelling for continuing resources, electronic collections usage, mobile technologies, and e-resources workflows. He currently sits on CRKN’s Knowledge Base Entitlements Sub-Committee and NISO’s KBART Standing Committee.
Carolyn Pecoskie has been working as the Metadata & Electronic Resources Librarian at McGill University since February 2020. Prior to joining McGill, Carolyn worked as a medical librarian at the Trillium Health Partners hospital system in Mississauga, Ontario. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto Master of Information program. Carolyn enjoys looking for new and creative ways to apply technology to maintain McGill's electronic resources collections and while working on metadata clean up and migration projects. Her professional interests incldue automation and programmatic solutions for electronic resources management; exploring the environmental impacts of libraries and library collections; and mentorship opportunities within libarianship.
Jessica Lange is the Scholarly Communications Librarian at McGill. In this role, she provides services to the campus community in the areas of open access, publishing, author rights, and open educational resources (OERs). She also manages the McGill’s institutional repository and its scholarly publishing program. Her research interests include scholarly publishing and open access.
Scott Goldstein is the Coordinator, Web Services & Library Technology at McGill University Library.
Web Archiving - with Sarah Lake and Adria Seccareccia
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Description
This workshop will introduce participants to web archiving by comparing two tools commonly used by archivists, Archive-It and Conifer. The workshop will cover some basic terminology and concepts in web archiving, features and use cases for each tool, and challenges that the presenters have faced in creating web collections.Presenter Bios
Sarah Lake is the Digital Preservation Librarian at Concordia University, where she oversees the Library’s digital preservation infrastructure and projects. She also offers regular workshops on web archiving and she recently joined the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition Coordinating Committee. She holds a Master of Information Studies from McGill University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University.Adria Seccareccia is an Archivist for the McGill University Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections. She was previously the Archivist at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and worked as an archivist at the Ohio History Center in Columbus and the Society of the Sacred Heart, Canadian Province in Montreal. Her current work includes reference services, teaching, and archival processing.