ORIENTATION SCHEDULE FOR GREGORY EOW
Kaplanoff Librarian for American History and American Studies
(JULY - AUGUST 2007)
Created Monday, April 09, 2007
Last revised: Wednesday, April 11, 2007

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)

WEEK 1 (July 3-6)

Tuesday, July 3

8:30-9:00am

Begin with Library Human Resources (SML 151)

Enter Sterling through the Wall Street door

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):

·         Academic Search

·         WilsonWeb

·         Web of Science

·         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)

Orbis Help file

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

 

WEEK 2 (July 9-13)

 

Monday, July 9

 8:30-3:30pm

University orientation

221 Whitney Avenue

New Employee 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

11:00am-12:00pm

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, Associate University Librarian for Human Resources, Staff Training, and Security

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: Review Plaza (SFR)

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, Associate University Librarian for Public Services

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

·         Early American Newspapers

·         Accessible Archives

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

11:30am-12:00pm

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

The Map Collection

GIS at Yale

 

2:00-3:00pm

OPEN

3:00-4:00pm

OPEN

4:30-5:00pm

OPEN

 

WEEK 3 (July 16-20)

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

10:00am -NOON

            OPEN

12:00-1:00pm

LUNCH Ann Okerson, Associate University Librarian for Collections and International Programs, SML 224

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):

·         Periodicals Index Online

·         JSTOR (Journal Storage Project)

·         Lexis Nexis Academic Universe (and Statistical and Congressional)

3:-00-5:00pm

OPEN

 

WEEK 4 (July 23-27)

 

Monday, July 23

8:30-9:30am

OPEN

9:30-11:00am

 

11:00am-12:00pm

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

Privileges Office website

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)

·         Early American Newspapers

·         American Periodical Series

·         Eighteenth Century Collections Online

·         America: History and Life

·         Archives USA

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 Cowles Reference Center, Manuscripts and Archives (SML 150)

(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):

·         MLA Bibliography

·         AIDA

·         l'Anne Philologique

   

1:00-2:00pm

LUNCH

2:00-3:00pm

African Collection (Dorothy Woodson, Curator)

Meet in the Curator's Office (SML 318)

African Collection website

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

 

WEEK 5 (July 30-August 3)

 

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.

Interlibrary Loan website

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

10:30am-12:00pm  OKAY

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

·         Nineteenth Century Index

·         Gale Literary Databases

·         Literature 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

9:00am-11:00am OKAY

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)

Catalog Department Web site

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

East Asian Collection website

WEEK 6 (August 6-10)

 

Monday August 6

8:30-10:30am

OPEN

10:30- 1:30  OKAY

Divinity Library (Paul Stuehrenberg, Divinity Librarian)

409 Prospect Street

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)

Divinity Library website 

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

Beinecke Library website

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

Music Library website

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

·         NetLibrary

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)

127 Wall Street

John Nann , Associate Librarian for Public Services

Directions to the library

Map of central campus

Map for Reading Room (L3) location in the Sterling Law School building

Law Library website

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.)

WEEK 7 (August 13-17)

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 270 Crown Street

Map of the central arts area

Arts Library website

12:00-1:00pm

LUNCH

1:00-3:00pm

An introduction to film and media databases (TN)

·         FIAF (International FilmArchive Database

·         Film Indexes Online

·         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 - 3:00pm:

OPEN

3:00-4:00pm

3:00 - 4:00: SSL/Mudd-orientation (Julie Linden)
Social Science Library and Information Services and the Government Documents Center (???)

140 Prospect Street

Government Documents and Information Center (Julie Linden, Government Information Librarian)

38 Mansfield Street (in the Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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 – 10am

            The CD-ROM Reference Center, CDs that circulate from the reference desk, and the circulation of media in SML (TN)

 

10:00am- 11:00pm

            Instruction EMS travel reimbursement tool, SML 409 (to be re-scheduled when LBO offers the class or at first use)

11:00am-1:00

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

9:00am-2:00pm

 (including lunch)

Medical Library (Harvey Cushing/ John Hay Whitney Medical Library)

333 Cedar Street (Sterling Hall of Medicine)

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)

Medical Library website

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 Southeast Asia Collection (Rich Richie, Curator)

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?)

WEEK 8 (August 20-24)

Monday, August 20

8:30-3:00pm

OPEN

10:00 - 11:30am:

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 Kline Biology Tower)

Map of Science hill

Kline website

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