ORIENTATION SCHEDULE FOR
GREGORY EOW
Kaplanoff Librarian for American History and
American Studies
(JULY - AUGUST 2007)
Created Monday,
Last revised: Wednesday,
Week 1 (July 3-6)
Week 2 (July 9-13)
Week 3 (July 16-20)
Week 4 (July 23-27)
Week 5 (July 29 - August 3)
Week 6 (August 6-August 10)
Week 7 (August 13-17)
Week 8 (August 20-24)
Meet
at the orienteer's desk in SML 226 unless otherwise noted (list of orienteers
and their initials)
Tuesday,
July 3
8:30-9:00am
Begin with Library Human Resources (SML 151)
Enter
Then meet Alan Solomon in the Library
Administrative Office (SML 151)
9:00-9:30am
Get keys, accounts, tour the department, meet
department members (AS)
9:30-10:30am
Where is ... ? (mailboxes,
supplies, campus/library mail, photocopier, copier/printer paper, desk
schedule, bathrooms, fire emergency procedure, the Spoon, LBO, Voyager
account)(LH)
10:30-11:00am
BREAK
11:00-12:00pm
Set up desk, workstation, email (Eudora) (BT)
12:00-1:00pm
LUNCH
1:00-2:00pm
Orbis acquisitions module
(TN)
(orders, line items, use of Excel, fund
management tool, NOTIS acquisition archive)
Collection analysis tool (TN)
2:30-4:30pm
Websites to peruse
·
Sterling Memorial Library
website
·
Sterling Memorial Library
virtual tour
4:30-5:00pm
Questions/problems with AS (in his office:
223 SML)
Wednesday, July 4
Independence
Day (University holiday)
Library
is closed
Thursday,
July 5
8:30-10:00am
An introduction to general databases (TN):
·
Dissertations
and Theses - Full Text
10:00-12:00pm
Collection development overview (SFR)
(book selection at Yale, Greg's funds, use of
shared tools, how to place orders)
12:00-1:00pm
LUNCH
1:00-2:30pm
MeetingMaker (BT)
2:30-4:30pm
OPEN
4:30-5:00pm
Questions/problems with AS
Friday, July 6
9:30-11:00
RSC Department Meeting
Meet at the conference table in 226
11:00-12:30pm
Orbis OPAC (EJH)
(searching, saving/printing/e-mailing,
exporting to RefWorks, Place Requests, Bookbag, My Library Account)
12:30-1:30pm
LUNCH
1:30-2:30pm
Collection development: approval plans (SFR)
2:30-4:30pm
Orbis circulation module
(BT)
(to find a volume In Transit or charged to a
cataloging team or Preparations)
4:30-5:00pm
Questions/problems with AS
Monday,
July 9
8:30-3:30pm
University
orientation
Tuesday
July 10
8:30-9:30
OPEN
9:30-11:00am
Research Services and
Collections department meeting
Meet at the
conference table in 226
The Library Front
Door (EJH)
12:00-1:00pm
LUNCH
1:00-3:00pm
CoDGER and preview of collection
development: Review Plaza (SFR)
3:00-3:30pm
OPEN
3:30-4:00pm
Meet with Diane
Turner,
4:30-5:00pm
Questions/problems
with AS
Wednesday, July 11
8:30-9:00
OPEN
9:00-9:30am
Department Wednesday morning meeting
Meet at the conference table in 226
9:30-10:30am
MetaLib (AS)
10:30-11:00am
BREAK
11:00-12:00pm
Collection development:
12:00-1:00
LUNCH
1:00-2:00pm
Collection development: selectors'
preservation shelves (SFR)
2:00-4:00
OPEN
4:00-4:30
Meet with Danuta Nitecki,
4:30-5:00
Wrap-up with AS
Thursday, July 12
8:30-10:00am
Reference Desk (bt)
10:00-12:00pm
Newspaper and Microform
Reading Rooms (JKL and Kevin Pacelli, Library
Service Assistant)
And an introduction to selected newspaper
databases (JKL):
·
ProQuest Historical Newspaper Databases
·
Historical
Newspapers Online
12:00-1:00pm
LUNCH
1:00-2:00pm
OPEN
2:00-3:00
Orientation to the Electronic Classroom and
to the Research Education Program in RSC (EJH)
3:30-4:30pm
OPEN
4:30-5:00pm
OPEN
Friday, July 13
9:30-11:00
RSC Department Meeting
Meet at the conference table in 226
11:00-11:30am
OPEN
The Periodical Reading Room (JKL)
12:30-1:00pm
LUNCH
1:00-2:00pm
The Map Collection and GIS tour (AP)
Meet in the Map Collection, SML 706-710
2:00-3:00pm
OPEN
3:00-4:00pm
OPEN
4:30-5:00pm
OPEN
Monday,
July 16
8:30-9:30am
OPEN
9:30-11:00am
OPEN
11:00-1:00pm
OPEN
1:30-2:30pm
Slavic and East
European Collection (Tanja Lorkovic,
Curator)
Meet in the
Collection (SML 406)
Slavic and East
European Collection website
3:00-4:30pm
Tour of SML (EJH)
4:30-5:00pm
OPEN
Tuesday, July 17
8:30-9:30am
OPEN
9:30-12:30pm
Collection development in Western European
literature (JKL)
10:30-12:00pm
12:00-1:00pm
LUNCH
1:00-2:00pm
OPEN
2:00-3:00pm
Basic introduction to managing your Web
sites: DreamWeaver, SSH, the library server,
permissions (BT)
Web
Advisory Group policies
3:00-4:30pm
OPEN
4:30-5:00pm
OPEN
Wednesday, July 18
8:30-9:00am
OPEN
9:00-9:30am
Department Wednesday morning meeting
Meet at the conference table in 226
9:30-10:00am
OPEN
OPEN
12:00-1:00pm
LUNCH Ann Okerson,
1:00-2:00pm
OPEN
2:00-3:30
OPEN
3:30-4:30
OPEN
4:30-5:00pm
OPEN
Thursday, July 19
8:30-9:00am
OPEN
9:00-11:30
Preservation Department (Roberta Pilette, Preservation Librarian)
Meet at the reference desk
Preservation Department website
12:30-1:30pm
LUNCH
1:30-2:00pm
OPEN
2:00-3:00pm
Discuss collection development overlapping
subjects (EJH: Religious Studies and Philosophy)
3:00-4:30pm
OPEN
4:30-5:00pm
OPEN
Friday, July 20
8:30-9:30
OPEN
9:30-11:00
RSC Department Meeting
Meet at the conference table in 226
12:00-1:00pm
LUNCH
1:00-2:00pm
An introduction to general databases (EJH):
·
JSTOR
(Journal Storage Project)
·
Lexis
Nexis Academic Universe (and Statistical and
Congressional)
3:-00-5:00pm
OPEN
Monday,
July 23
8:30-9:30am
OPEN
9:30-11:00am
OPEN
12:00-1:00pm
LUNCH with Julie
Linden
1:00-3:00pm
OPEN
3:00-4:30pm
OPEN
4:30-5:00pm
OPEN
Tuesday, July 24
8:30-9:30pm
OPEN
9:30-12:00pm
OPEN
12:00-1:00pm
LUNCH
1:00-3:00pm
OKAY
Access Services and Privileges (Susan Crockford-Peters, Head) AND/OR Christopher Killheffer, Access Services supervisor
Meet in the Privileges Office
3:30-4:30pm
OPEN
Wednesday, July 25
8:30-9:00am
OPEN
9:00-9:30am
Department Wednesday morning meeting
Meet at the conference table in 226
9:30-11:00pm
An introduction to specialized databases in
American history (AS):
·
Early
American Imprints, series I (Evans)
·
Early
American Imprints, series II (Shaw-Shoemaker)
·
Eighteenth
Century Collections Online
11:00-12:00pm
OPEN
12:00-1:00pm
OPEN
1:00-2:00pm
OPEN
2:00-3:30pm
Acquisitions Department (Marcia Romanansky, Chief Acquisitions Librarian)
Meet in her office in Technical Services
Check here
for your schedule with Acquisitions staff
3:30-5:00pm
Electronic Collections (Daniel Dollar,
Interim Head)
Meet in his office (SML 228)
Electronic Collections
website
Thursday, July 26
8:30-10:00am
OKAY
Manuscripts and Archives (Diane Kaplan, Head
of Public Services)
Meet in the
(Stay for coffee with other Mss &
Archives staff, 10:30-11:00)
Manuscripts
and Archives Web site
10:30-12:00pm
OPEN
12:00-2:30:00pm
OPEN
2:30-4:00pm
4:30-5:00pm
OPEN
Friday, July 27
9:30-11:00
RSC Department Meeting
Meet
at the conference table in 226
11:00-1:00-
An introduction to specialized databases in
literature and classics (JKL):
·
AIDA
1:00-2:00pm
LUNCH
2:00-3:00pm
African Collection (Dorothy Woodson, Curator)
Meet in the Curator's Office (SML 318)
3:00-4:30
Integrated Library Technology Services
Meet in SML ?
Audrey Novak, Manager, Integrated Systems and
Programming and Karen Kupiec, Manager, Web,
Workstation, and Digital Consulting Services
Integrated
Library Technology Services website
4:30-5:00pm
OPEN
Monday,
July 30
8:30-9:30am
OPEN
9:30-11:00am
RSC Department
meeting
Meet at the
conference table in 226
11:00-12:00pm
OPEN
12:00-1:30pm
LUNCH then Ref desk
until 1:30
1:30-2:30pm
Borrow Direct,
Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery (Carol Jones, Head of Document
Delivery)
Document Delivery Department (room B80) in the SML
basement.
DIRECTIONS: Just past the entrance to the PRR, take
the down the staircase on your left. Directly ahead at the bottom of the
staircase is the patron entrance to Document Delivery. A valid Yale ID
must be swiped to enter the office.
2:00-4:30pm
OPEN
4:30-5:00pm
OPEN
Tuesday, July 31
8:30-11:00am
OPEN
11:00-12:00
Arabic and Islamic Curator (Simon Samoeil)
Meet in the Curator's Office in Technical
Services (SML 116)
The Near East Collection website
12:00-1:00pm
LUNCH
1:00-5:00pm
OPEN
Wednesday, August 1
8:30-9:00am
OPEN
9:00-9:30am
Department Wednesday morning meeting
Meet at the conference table in 226
9:30-10:30am
Introduction to the reference desk (SKL)
Meet at the reference desk
An introduction to specialized databases in
English literature (TSG)
Meet at Greg's desk in 226
·
Wing
Short Title Catalog (STC)
·
English
Short Title Catalog (ESTC)
·
Early
English Books Online (EEBO)
·
Eighteenth
Century Collections Online
12:00-1:00pm
LUNCH
1:00-2:00pm
Introduction to reference services (SKL)
2:00-5:00pm
LUNCH Kelly Barrick
Discuss collection development overlapping
subjects (Kelly Barrick, Librarian for Gay and
Lesbian Studies and Women's Studies and Coordinator of Instruction, Social
Sciences Library and Information Services (SSLIS))
Meet at SML reference desk
Thursday, August 2
8:30-10:00am
OPEN
Latin American Collection (Cesar Rodriguez,
Curator)
Meet in the Curator's Office (SML 316)
Latin American Collection Web
site
12:00-1:00pm
LUNCH
1:00-2:00pm
OPEN
2:00-3:00pm
OPEN
3:00-5:00pm
OPEN
Friday, August 3
8:30-9:30am
OPEN
9:30-11:00
RSC Department Meeting
Meet
at the conference table in 226
10:30-12:00am
OPEN
12:00-1:00pm
LUNCH with Joan Swanekamp
and other Catalog Department staff
Meet at the reference desk
1:00-3:00pm
Catalog Department (Joan Swanecamp,
Chief Catalog Librarian)
3:00-3:30pm
BREAK
3:30-5:00pm
East Asian Collection (Ellen Hammond,
Curator, East Asian Collection)
She will meet you at your desk
Monday
August 6
8:30-10:30am
OPEN
10:30- 1:30 OKAY
Divinity Library
(Paul Stuehrenberg, Divinity Librarian)
Meet in his office in
the Divinity Library
Directions to the Divinity
Library
Map of the Prospect Hill
area
Daytime
shuttle bus schedule
(use the College/ Wall stop)
Lunch with Divinity
Staff members
1:30-4:30pm
OPEN
4:30-5:00pm
Wrap-up with AS
Tuesday, August 7
8:30-9:30am
OPEN
10:00-12:00pm
Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library (Steve Jones, Interim Head of Public Services)
Meet at the Beinecke
Public Services Desk (lower level of the Beinecke)
11:00 – 12:00 Meet with Beinecke
curators
Map of central
campus
12:00-1:00pm
LUNCH
1:00-3:00
OPEN
3:00-4:00
pm
Discuss library Web development policies,
procedures, usability and the role of the Public Interfaces Committee (PIC)
(Katie Bauer, Usability and Assessment Librarian)
Meet at her office
Wednesday, August 8
8:30-9:00am
OPEN
9:00-10:00am
OPEN
10:0-11:00
Introduction to the reference collections
(print) (SKL)
Meet at the reference desk
11:00-12:00pm
OK
Music Library (Irving S. Gilmore Music
Library)
Kendall Crilly,
Librarian
Meet at the reference desk in the Music
Library
12:00-1:30pm
LUNCH with Ken and Suzanne Eggleston Lovejoy
(Assistant Music Librarian for Public Services)
OK
1:30-3:30pm
Introduction to the reference collection
(digital)(SKL):
·
Gale's
Ready Reference Shelf
·
Oxford
Reference Online(ORO): Premium Collection
·
xrefer
·
Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)
·
Oxford Digital Reference
Shelf
·
ABC-CLIO History Reference Online
4:00-5:00pm
Thursday, August 9
9:00-12:00pm
Julie Linden
12 noon – 1:00pm
John Nann , Associate Librarian for Public Services (Meet at the
reference desk in the Law Library)
1:00-2:00pm
Law Library (Lillian Goldman Law Library)
John Nann ,
Associate Librarian for Public Services
Directions to
the library
Map of central
campus
Map for Reading
Room (L3) location in the
2:00-3:00pm
OPEN
3:00-5:00pm
Scheduled as an observer on the Reference
Desk
Friday, August 10
8:30-9:30am
OPEN
9:30-11:00am
RSC Department meeting
Meet at the conference table in 226
11:00-12:00pm
OPEN
12:00-1:00pm
LUNCH
1:00-3:00pm
Scheduled as an observer on the Reference
Desk
3:00-5:00pm
Discuss collection development overlapping
subjects (TN: film studies, theater studies, popular culture, journalism, etc.)
Monday, August 13
8:30-10:30am
OPEN
10:30-12:00pm
OKAY
Arts Library (Hannah Bennett, Interim
Assistant Director)
Meet at the reference desk in the Arts
Library
In two-year temporary housing at
Map of the central
arts area
12:00-1:00pm
LUNCH
1:00-3:00pm
An introduction to film and media databases
(TN)
·
FIAF
(International FilmArchive Database
·
Film
Literature Index 1976-2001
·
Communication
and Mass Media Complete
·
International
Index to the Performing Arts
3:00-5:00pm
Scheduled as an observer on the Reference
Desk
Tuesday, August 14
8:30-9:30am
OPEN
10:30-12:00pm
Ask!live training (Suzanne
Eggleston Lovejoy, Public Services Librarian, Music Library))
Meet at her office in the Music Library
12:00-1:00pm
LUNCH Suzanne Eggleston Lovejoy
1:00-2:00pm
Scheduled as an observer on the Reference Desk
2:00
-
OPEN
3:00-4:00pm
3:00 - 4:00: SSL/Mudd-orientation
(Julie Linden)
Social Science Library and Information Services and the
Government Documents and
Meet at the Reference Desk in the Social
Sciences Library
Map of the Hillhouse area
Social
Science Library and Information Services website
Government Documents and
Information Center website
Wednesday, August 15
8:30-9:00am
OPEN
9:00-9:30am
Department Wednesday morning meeting
Meet at the conference table in 226
9:30
–
The
Instruction
OPEN
1:00-3:00pm
Scheduled as an observer at the Reference
Desk
3:00-5:00pm
OPEN
Thursday, August 16
8:30
– 9:00
OPEN
(including lunch)
Medical Library (Harvey Cushing/ John Hay
Whitney Medical Library)
Charles Greenberg, Coordinator, Curriculum
and Research Support
Meet at the information desk in the Medical
Library
Map of the medical area
Daytime
shuttle bus schedule (use the College/ Wall stop)
2:00-3:00
Judaica Collection (Nanette Stahl, curator)
Meet in the Curator’s office (SML 335A) OK
3:00-5:00pm
Scheduled as an observer on the Reference
Desk
Friday, August 17
8:30-9:30am
OPEN
9:30-11:00am
RSC Department meeting
Meet at the conference table in 226
11:00-1:00pm
South and
Meet in the Curator's office (SML 3 )
Southeast Asia
Collection website
1:00-3:00pm
Scheduled as an observer on the Reference
Desk
3:00-5:00pm
OPEN (meet with Alan?)
Monday, August 20
8:30-3:00pm
OPEN
10:00
-
OPEN
1:00-3:00pm
Scheduled on the Reference Desk
3:00-5:00pm
OPEN
Tuesday, August 21
11:00-1:30
pm (including lunch)
The Science Libraries (David Stern, director)
Meet at the circulation desk in the Kline
Science Library (lower level of the
3:00-5:00pm
Scheduled on the Reference Desk
Wednesday, August 22
8:30-9:00
OPEN
9:00-9:30am
Department Wednesday morning meeting
Meet at the conference table in 226
OPEN
1:00-3:00pm
Scheduled on the Reference Desk
3:00-5:00pm
OPEN
Thursday, August 23
Scheduled on the Reference Desk from 1 - 3
Friday, August 24
9:30-11:00
RSC Department Meeting
Meet
at the conference table in 226
Friday, Sept 7?
Meet with SSLIS
staff meeting and new director