This poster session will describe the collaboration between the University Libraries and Post Secondary Teaching and Learning (PSTL) to support student produced media projects this fall, in their First Year Inquiry seminar courses. From this experience, this poster will also examine issues related to developing a media outreach program, use of library media resources, and the benefits of curriculum integrated media projects on student learning.

In this poster session presentation, a reference librarian and a web developer from the University of Minnesota, Duluth will share information about a series of widgets designed for use primarily by faculty. These widgets provide a way of interacting with library resources from remote pages. Users can customize the widgets and get the code to insert into web pages and Moodle sites. The widgets include a search of the library catalog, a search of the E-Journal Locator, a gadget that lets the user create a drop-down menu of links to library resources, and an entry into the library's "Assignment Calculator." These widgets can be viewed in action and taken for a spin at http://www.d.umn.edu/lib/widgets/. The poster will include screenshots, code samples, explanations, and contact information (we will share the code).

Tired of making hash marks on paper to track reference interactions? Concerned about the reliability of the data you currently collect? Would you like to know more about the nature of these transactions? Would you like to make better use of your reference statistics? A variety of online tools can improve collection and reporting of detailed data regarding library reference transactions. In this poster, we will compare three types of online tools for collecting data about reference transactions: licensed, open source and online forms builders. The poster will reflect the experiences of three libraries who have or are in the process of implementing systems for tracking reference statistics online: the Bio-Medical Library, University of Minnesota Libraries; the University of Minnesota Libraries (entire system); and, the Metropolitan State University Library.

How can staff best collaborate to support a collection development program encompassing books and serials in a variety of formats, especially when those formats are evolving continuously? In order to explore the intersection of changing technologies and existing job responsibilities, librarians at Gustavus Adolphus College facilitated parallel workflow analyses of collection development and electronic resources management tasks. These efforts emphasize responding proactively to changing technologies and forging new collaborative relationships. This poster session tracks the project and presents new tools to inform collection development decisions. The session also highlights opportunities for collaboration among collection management and electronic resources staff.

Winsted Public Library in rural Minnesota has a very basic website that offers little to its community. Three library science graduate students with no prior knowledge about Drupal were given a fresh Drupal install and a month to give the site a complete overhaul. Could they pull it off? Yes they could! This poster session will present how they did it and what they learned.

See the project at http://dev.tametheweb.com,

Find more information about AskMN at http://www.askmn.org/.