3rd Reflection

The most exciting week was this week, we visited the Oak Street Library, and a tour was made by Jenny Maddox Abbot:

• The Oak Library receives all undesired collections from other libraries (university library, public, and school) about 4 million items such as serials, maps, films, monographs, and archived boxes that can be taken by vendors.

• They shelve all items by size, huge shelves located in a suitable space as a cold climate to keep them out of humidity and heat.

• We had a session with Mr Milind Basole again about E-Text, the academic writings on a webpage.

• Mrs Sara Rachel Benson presented a ppt session about “Open Textbook Network”, which can afford textbooks to students.

• A session was presented by Myung-Ja (MJ) Han about Rethinking Technical Services. Many changes have been done to the services:

Card Catalogs to MARC

AACR to RDA

MARC21 to MARCXML

Semantic Web and Linked Data

We visited Chicago Cultural Centre; Mrs Liz Aviles presented a ppt about Upshot Marketing:

She works in branding and design, Advertising & Content, and Retail & Activations.

They make advertisements for many brands through the internet and other social media. Such brands are: google, Corona, Modelo, BIOSTEEL, Tylenol, and other brands.

We visited Harold Washington Branch Chicago Public Library.

We also visited The University of Chicago; a tour of the library and the Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDS).

We visited Pritzker Military Museum and Library, which included pictures and works related to World Wide War I, World Wide War II, and the War of Vietnam:

Veterans Information Centre includes collections from the 1530s to the present day.

We travelled to Ohio State by bus, we visited the OCLC Campus and had a tour of the Archive and the Museum presented:

• All collections & services are accessible for free to the public.

• WorldCat database is included as a service there.

• Dublin Data Centre is available in the OCLC, as well as the museum.

We had a tour at The Ohio State University Thompson Library:

• The library includes the Seminar rooms, Music & Dance, Research Commons, and study rooms.

• Brain Storming room is located in OSU.

We had a tour at Westerville Public Library; a discussion and overview have been made:

• A real garage is available for cars for delivery service.

• Innovation Lab is available.

Westerville History Museum presented participants from many countries; a special one from Kuwait: The Al Haggans of Kuwait City participated in this museum as “ONE WEEK’S FOOD IN APRIL”.