LTS Advances Lehigh
Sherri Yerk-Zwickl,
Team Leader for Instructional Technology, co-presented at
the SunGard Summit Conference in Philadelphia in March. With
colleagues from the University of San Diego and Florida Key
Community College, she discussed “Enrollment Management (EM)
Adventures.” Sherri also served as program committee chair
for the EM track at the conference.
LTS staff members
presented at the ACM SIGUCCS (Association for Computing
Machinery Special Interest Group on University and College
Computing Services ) Spring Management Symposium in
Nashville in late March. Team Leader Sara Rogers moderated a
panel on "Orchestrating an Identity and Access Management
Implementation ".
The panel included LTS
Vice Provost Bruce Taggart, Director for Client Services Tim
Foley, and a representative of APTEC, LLC. Tim Foley also
gave a talk entitled "Lincoln’s Leadership Principles
applied to IT". Team Leader Gale Fritsche addressed “Securing
and Managing Data on the Desktop: Issues Faced by Higher
Education.”
Lehigh was also well
represented in the Pennsylvania Banner Users Group meeting (PABUG)
program in November 2008 in Grantville. Jerry Lennon Senior
Project Specialist co-led a Data Standards session with Bob
VanBlargan, Manager of Advancement Information Systems at
Lafayette College, as well as delivering a presentation
entitled "Lehigh's Banner and CounterMarch Event Management
Systems."
Senior Project
Analyst Trish Wilson teamed up with Lennon and an APTEC,
LLC representative to discuss "Campus Identity Management in
a Banner World" at the same meeting. Trish and Team Leader
Debbie Feldman presented the session "One Good Tab Deserves
Another" at the SunGard Summit conference in Philadelphia in
March. At the same meeting ESI Senior Database Analyst Mary Louise
Powers gave a presentation titled "Enrollment Management
Implementation - the DBA's (database administrator’s) View".
Curator Lois Black has
been nominated for Chair/Chair Elect of the Rare
Books and Manuscripts Division of the American Library
Association. Digital Library Coordinator Julia Maserjian
presented at the National Council on Public History annual
conference in Providence RI in early April as part of the
Digital Project Showcase: Digital Experiments,
Collaboration, and Interactivity. Team Leader Lizanne Hurst,
who serves as President of the Intecom Users Group
Association will make a presentation on legislative and
regulatory issues at the upcoming May meeting.
In February Team
Leader for Library Technology Tim McGeary made three
presentations. One was "Open Source Software in Libraries:
What Does ‘Open’ Mean and How It Can Improve Our Opac" as a
guest speaker for the Penn State University Library
Forensic, a PSU series at State College also broadcast to
the PSU campuses. The second was at UCLA as a panelist for
the Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference Open Source
ILS session.
"The OLE Project: A
New Frontier" was the subject of his talk at the Code4Lib
Conference in Providence, RI. In March, he spoke about the
OLE Project as the featured guest on the “Library 2.0 Gang”
March 2009 Podcast, a monthly round-table podcast produced
by the software applications company Talis.
--Susan A. Cady
LTS Director for Administrative and Planning Services
Article posted April 14,
2009
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