http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=942759

At the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California July 11-13, 2011 (Monday-Wednesday), co-sponsored by MERLOT and the Sloan Consortium.

Bryan Alexander, a Senior Fellow at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education, will give the keynote address, on Monday afternoon 4:15 to 5:15 pm.  His current research interests include emerging pedagogical forms enabled by mobile technologies, learning processes and outcomes associated with immersive environments (as in gaming, augmented reality, and virtual worlds), the digital humanities, and futurist methodologies.

ALCTS webinar: Accidents Happen: Protecting & Saving Family Treasures

Date: April 26, 2011 All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 2pm Eastern, 1pm Central, noon Mountain, and 11am Pacific Time.

Description: Accidents and disasters happen. When it does are you prepared? Are your family treasures stored safely in your home or elsewhere? How do you save your photos when they’ve been submerged in flood water? What do you do if your books smell mildewy? What if your basement floods or worse? Attend this session to learn answers to these questions and more.

Kraft will provide tips and tools for checking out possible hazards around the house, dealing with mold and salvaging keepsakes, documenting damage for insurance purposes, and keeping your family safe.

Learning Outcomes:

- Steps to take in preparing for and responding to a disaster
- Basic understanding of dealing with mold
- Simple techniques for salvaging keepsakes
- Awareness of available disaster assistance

Audience: Anyone interested in learning about disaster preparation and response. Strategies discussed during the presentation can be applied to home, library, or business.

Presenter: Nancy E Kraft, Head of Preservation at the University of Iowa Libraries, is responsible for directing the preservation and conservation of the library collections at the University of Iowa. In 2009 she received the Midwest Archives Conference Presidents’ Award for her extraordinary work following the historic levels of flooding that struck Iowa in the summer of 2008. Kraft has assisted in many disaster recoveries, large and small, including the Iowa Floods of 1993 and 2008, the University of Iowa Old Capitol fire, the water soaked State Historical Society of Iowa building, and a mold outbreak in the Law Library’s rare book room. Her passion is assisting the individual to preserve his/her keepsakes.

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Free. This is a complimentary webinar presented as part of the Preservation Week events. Watch for further announcements on additional complimentary webinars during Preservation Week.

To register, visit the GoToWebinar site:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/168682080

For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or jreese@ala.org.

SCRLC is delighted to announce that registration is now open for Emerging Library Technologies II: Innovation – an online conference on Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 11:00 am-4:30 pm EDT. Sessions include how to make innovation work at your library, geo-based Internet services, gaming, and actual implementation experiences with innovative services at a middle-sized public library. Conference speakers will include Stephen Abram (Gale Cengage), Scott Nicholson (Syracuse University), Meredith Farkas (Portland State University), and Sarah Glogowski (Tompkins County Public Library). Please see the flyer below for further details and registration information. The keynote session, This is Your Brain on Technology, will explore how the Internet and associated technologies affect your brain. Our keynote presenter will be Professor Deborah Gagnon, PhD, Wells College, who specializes in cognitive psychology.

Please help us to spread the word about this event to colleagues and co-workers who may be interested. Information about all SCRLC workshops and events is available on our website at  http://www.scrlc.org

Nora Fitzgerald Hardy
South Central Regional Library Council
Ithaca, NY
607/273-9106

Emerging Library Technologies II: Innovation
Plan! Innovate! Transform! Workshop Series

Date & Time: Tuesday, May 3, 2011.  11:00am – 4:30pm EDT
Location: Online webinar
Registration: Individuals: $30; Groups: $60
http://scrlc.org/data/SCRLCRegistrationForm1.pdf

Support: This training is funded in part by Federal Library Service and Technology (LSTA) funds, awarded b to the New York State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

11:00a.m. – 11:50a.m.     Welcome & Keynote

This Is Your Brain on Technology: The Technology Exposure Effect (TEE)-Deborah Gagnon, Ph.D., Wells College

Is that GPS on your dashboard shrinking your hippocampus? Or is it really the Holy Grail that the spatially challenged among us have been searching for our whole lives? The media offer a bewildering array of doomsday (as well as more benign) prognoses of the effect that excessive exposure to technologies – Twitter, Facebook, GPS, Second Life, etc. – present to our cognitive and neural functioning. This talk will examine questions like these and reveal how technology may be changing users’ (and your) perception, attention, memory, reasoning, decision making, and problem solving processes.

12:00p.m. – 12:50p.m.     Avoiding the Social Media Graveyard-Meredith Farkas, Portland State University

There has been a lot of buzz about social software over the past few years, and many libraries have devoted significant staff time toward implementing 2.0 technologies. To successfully implement 2.0 technologies, which libraries must adopt rapid user-centered change, experimentation, and a pragmatic view of technologies. One look at the number of abandoned library blogs, wikis and Twitter feeds tells us that successful implementation of social technologies requires more than simply installing software. Farkas include practical tips, illustrated with examples from libraries already on the road to 2.0 through innovative practices.

1:30p.m. – 2:20p.m.         GEO on the Web: Implications for Library Strategies – Stephen Abram, Gale Cengage

Is geography important to your library?  It is so important that many libraries have rich and detailed branch strategies.  How does this translate to the web?  Can you tune your services when you know where your user is located?  How do geotagging and geocoding influence the search results you see in Google, et al?  Is this trend tied to mobile and other devices?  Just think about Foursquare, Gowalla, the newly added geotagging in Facebook, Twitter and all of your cell phone pictures.  What does it all mean and what are the implications for your library?  Think about it. Check out this webinar session from wherever you are and get the fast take on the basics of geo and the new world of location-based services for search and the web.

2:30p.m. – 3:20p.m.         Community Centered Library Innovations – Sarah Glogowski, Tompkins County Public Library

The way in which libraries provide information services is changing rapidly. Once quiet places of study and reflection, libraries today are often the center of community life.  Learn how to make your library the essential place to go for both young and old through innovative services and technology.  From a Books at Birth project, to online teen book reviews, and from a popular town-gown Community Read to technology petting zoos, see what innovative services the staff of the Tompkins County Public Library are providing. Cooperative relationships between TCPL, TC3, Cornell, and many area agencies will be highlighted to show how innovation is a community collaboration.

3:30p.m. – 4:20p.m.         Gaming in Libraries – Scott Nicholson, Syracuse University

Over the last few years, a growing number of libraries of all types have discovered the power of gaming programs. These programs, which center around bringing patrons together to engage with each other through both digital and tabletop games. During this talk, Dr. Nicholson will present a brief history of how libraries have used games, will discuss data from studies about different ways that libraries use games, and will help guide libraries through the process of developing and running a gaming program.

CHICAGO — Public librarians, academic librarians and library support staff are encouraged to sign up for the next offerings of Business Reference 101 and The Reference Interview, two popular online classes offered by Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), the home for reference within the American Library Association.

The next offerings include:

Business Reference 101, May 9 – June 3, 2011

Appropriate for librarians and library staff of all types who wish to acquire business reference expertise, Business Reference 101 will demystify such topics as SIC, NAICS codes, ROI and 10ks. Students will also have access to such proprietary business reference databases as Standard & Poor’s Net Advantage and Thomson/Gale’s Business &Company Resource Center. This consistently sold-out course will be taught by Celia Ross, past chair of RUSA’s Brass section and an experienced facilitator and practitioner in the business reference field.

The Reference Interview, May 2 – June 10, 2011

This comprehensive course covers such reference interview topics as cultivating an approachable reference environment, successful questioning and listening techniques and appropriate follow-up methods. Staff of all levels at all types of libraries will find this content, presented in a multi-media format, helpful in their day-to-day engagement with library patrons. Instructor David Tyckoson, associate dean at the Henry Madden Library, Cal State—Fresno and immediate past-president of RUSA, has an extensive resume in the field and was awarded the 2005 Isadore Gilbert Mudge Award for distinguished contribution to reference librarianship.

All courses will be administered using Moodle, an online course management tool. Online learning offers flexibility for busy professional schedules and facilitates interaction between instructors and students with weekly assignments, discussion boards and chat sessions.

Online registration is now open for all of these opportunities, with significant cost savings for RUSA members. VisitRUSA’s professional development information page for detailed course information, or go straight to the online registration page for these courses. Information about group registration discounts for those libraries or library systems with two or more employees participating is available from Liz Markel, RUSA marketing specialist, atlmarkel@ala.org

The Reference and User Services Association, a division of the American Library Association, represents librarians and library staff in the fields of reference, specialized reference, collection development, readers’ advisory and resource sharing. RUSA is the foremost organization of reference and information professionals who make the connections between people and the information sources, services, and collection materials they need.  For more information, visit www.ala.org/rusa. Not a RUSA member, but  interested in discounted registration rates on conference, RUSA preconferences and other RUSA events? Join, renew or add RUSA to your ALA membership atwww.ala.org/membership.

*Simmons GSLIS Continuing Education*
*Online (asynchronous) Workshops*

$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)

PDPs: 15

May 1-31, 2011
– Taxonomies and Controlled Vocabularies
– Drug Information Rx: Sources and Strategies
– Starting and Growing a Research Business
– Strategic Information Arrangement

May 3 – June 13, 2011
– Periodical/Database Indexing ($275 – alumni price $225)

June 1-30, 2011
– Writing for Publication
– MARC Basics for New Catalogers
– Please Take This Survey! An Introduction to Survey Design
– Author-Librarians: Using Your Work Experience to Inform Your Creative Writing

June 1 – July 12, 2011
– Apps4Librarians: Becoming an Expert in Mobile Apps for iPhones, iPad, and Other iOS devices ($275 – alumni price $225)

July 1-31, 2011
– Taxonomies and Controlled Vocabularies
– Technology Grants for Librarians
– Managing and Growing Youth Services Collections in the Digital Age
– Instructional Design
– Zotero: Using and Supporting the Research Power Tool
– Graphic Novels 101 for Young Readers and Schools
– Building a School Media Center Web Site

August 1-31, 2011
– Genealogy Information Services
– Assessment and Information Literacy
– Business Research 102: Business Ethics
– Extending Mobile Library Services with QR Codes
– School Media Center 2.0

September 1-30, 2011
– Taxonomies and Controlled Vocabularies

October 1-31, 2011
– U.S. Private Company Research: More Sources Than You Think!

November 1-30, 2011
– Taxonomies and Controlled Vocabularies

For more information about online workshops see
http://alanis.simmons.edu/ceweb/faq.php#online

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Building a Website with WordPress (GSLIS West — Mount Holyoke campus)
$160 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni Price $125)
April 10, 2011, 1:30pm – 5:00pm – PDPs: 3.5

Video Tutorials: When, Why, and How to Use Them (GSLIS – Simmons campus)
$220 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni Price $175)
April 30, 2011, 9:00am – 5:00pm – PDPs: 7

Metrics for Special Collections (GSLIS – Simmons Campus)
$80 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni Price $62)
June 25, 2011, 9:00am – 12:30pm – PDPs: 3.5

Mother Goose on the Loose
$195 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni Price $155)
July 23, 2011, 9:00am – 3:30pm – PDPs: 5

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Book Arts and Artists Books: A Workshop Series (GSLIS – Simmons Campus)

Bookmaking for the Beginner 1 – April 2, 2011
Bookmaking for the Beginner 2 – May 7, 2011
Pop-Up Books – June 11 & 12, 2011
Looking at Print Methods for the Collector and Conservator – July 14, 2011
Practical Origami – August 6, 2011

http://alanis.simmons.edu/ceweb/bookarts.php

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For additional information on all workshops or to register see
http://alanis.simmons.edu/ceweb or contact gslisce@simmons.edu

Kris Liberman ’87LS
Program Manager
Simmons GSLIS CE
T - 617-521-2803
F - 617-521-3192
gslisce@simmons.edu
http://gslis.simmons.edu/ce

LYRASIS has two series of upcoming events that may be of interest to you and your members. See below for details/links to registration. Please feel free to forward.

Make the move from server serfdom to the cooperative cloud

To help you get the knowledge you need, OCLC and LYRASIS have partnered to present a series of FREE, regionally based member discussions, Moving Library Cooperation to Web Scale. We invite you to come discover how Web scale is revitalizing traditional services through shared workflows, activities and data. At these events, you will build a community of support as you tackle various scenarios alongside colleagues and experts, while planning your library’s first steps toward Web scale.

Through your participation in our Moving Library Cooperation to Web Scale series, you and your staff will:

·         Hear from library representatives who are en route to Web Scale, tech gurus and Web-scale advocates.

·         Take a virtual tour of a live OCLC Web-scale Management Services site and consider viable (plus pie-in-the-sky) options for your library.

·         Discover new possibilities and discuss strategies for overcoming obstacles.

·         Identify what you still need to find out—as part of your journey to the cloud.

To learn more about the series, please click here.

Upcoming Events:
April 13, 2011: Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, IN
April 20, 2011: Florida International University, North Miami, FL
May 10, 2011: Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA
May 18, 2011: Denver Public Library, Denver , CO
June 23, 2011: The Historic New Orleans Collection,Williams Research Center, New Orleans, LA

For more information, or to register:
http://www.oclc.org/us/en/partnerships/moving_library_cooperation_to_webscale.htm

Ideas and Insights Series

The LYRASIS Ideas and Insights Series offers opportunities for members to actively participate with library peers and experts in key initiatives in library collections, cataloging, technology and resource sharing.
This in-person interactive series of member-focused events, also gives participants the chance to network, share best practices and innovative solutions with other LYRASIS Members and the larger library community.

Upcoming Ideas and Insights Series Events:
May 26, 2011:Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT; Ideas and Insights Series: Resource Sharing
May 18, 2011: Villanova University: Villanova, PA: Ideas and Insights Series: Resource Sharing
June 16, 2011: State Library of Indiana: Indianapolis, IN: Ideas and Insights Series: Resource Sharing

For more information or to register:
http://www.lyrasis.org/Classes%20and%20Events/Ideas%20and%20Insights%20Series/Ideas%20and%20Insights%20Series%20Resource%20Sharing%20Indianapolis%20IN.aspx

Patron-Driven Acquisitions: Where do I start and how do I know when I’ve arrived?

April 12-13, 2011

Hosted by Angela M. Carreño and Nancy Gibbs

Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It’s free and open to everyone!
Registration information is at the end of the message.

Each day, sessions begin and end at:

Pacific: 6am – 2pm
Mountain: 7am – 3pm
Central: 8am – 4pm
Eastern: 9am – 5pm

Description

The convergence of ebook availability, patron interest in e-books, new business models and the economic crisis has accelerated library adoption of Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA). This change has been facilitated by customized patron-driven acquisitions programs from some major library book distributors and aggregators. The adoption of PDA has also been facilitated by a shift in collection management philosophy away from “just-in-case” collecting to a “just-in-time” strategy for providing access to collections. How should libraries balance patron driven acquisitions with more strategic decisions to prepare their collection for the future?

Topics to be covered include:

*       Budgets and how to budget
*       Campus sharing of costs (specifically between separately administered libraries on a campus)
*       Profiles – are they different for different disciplines? Are certain LC classes totally excluded (art, music)? What happens to your approval plans?
*       Foreign or domestic plans
*       ILL PDA – in print or in e format
*       E Reserve PDA – will this meet the needs on a short term basis?
*       Reference Collection PDA – is this a possibility? Could it be a browsable, ever changing collection? If so what are the associated costs for collections budget and for staff time?
*       Dual formats and Bundled pricing – could there be deep discounted pricing for print accompanying e formats?
*       Vendors/providers – who is doing what? Do you go through vendors or direct to publishers, or both?
*       Implications for collections – does this mechanism skew the collection?
*       Marketing and promotion – if you promote it will you run through your budget even faster than thought? What happens if you don’t promote it?
*       Consortia applications – if you have rich consortia obligations for shared borrowing what happens when your collection is all electronic?
*       Mechanics – marc records, link resolvers, monitoring, statistics, pricing models, duplications, weeding; levels of use (single user, multiple user), purchase versus subscription

Nancy Gibbs is head of Acquisitions at Duke University Libraries, She has held previous positions at Penn State University Libraries, Auburn University, and at North Carolina State University Libraries. She is the past chair of the Acquisitions Section of ALCTS and the 2007 recipient of the ALCTS Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award. In 2008, she taught an Acquisitions Practices course to students in the United Arab Emirates at Al-Ain University and continues to speak about acquisitions practices, electronic books, and electronic resources at local, national and international conferences. She serves on advisory boards for a number of library vendors and is a consultant in the field of acquisitions, publishing and vendor relationships.

Angela M. Carreño is the Head of Collection Development for the Division of Libraries at New York University. Angela has led, coordinated and supported the expansive growth of licensed electronic resources at NYU since 2000. She is the primary licensing officer for the Division of Libraries and assumes primary responsibility for consortial collection development commitments. She represents the Libraries on collaborative projects with other campus units and other libraries. Since 2007 she has intensified work on the NYU electronic book collection in close collaboration with NYU’s branch campus library in Abu Dhabi, a library with an e-preferred collection policy. Angela is a member of the Springer Library Advisory Board; the Oxford Library Advisory Group and the Brill Library Advisory Group.

*What is an e-forum?*

An ALCTS e-forum provides an opportunity for librarians to discuss matters of interest, led by a moderator, through the e-forum discussion list. The e-forum discussion list works like an email listserv: register your email address with the list, and then you will receive messages and communicate with other participants through an email discussion. Most e-forums last two to three days. Registration is necessary to participate, but it’s free. See a list of upcoming e-forums at: http://bit.ly/upcomingeforum.

*To register:*

Instructions for registration are available at: http://bit.ly/eforuminfo. Once you have registered for one e-forum, you do not need to register again, unless you choose to leave the email list. Participation is free and open to anyone.

ALCTS webinar: Repository Metadata: Challenges of Interoperability

Date: April 13, 2011

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 2pm Eastern, 1pm Central, noon Mountain, and 11am Pacific Time.

Description: This session will give an overview of some of the specific challenges in repository metadata including working with both user submitted data and automated processes. The presentation will discuss how repository data may be searched and repurposed and the fields that are needed for interoperability to work most effectively. Some relevant metadata schemes will be discussed. The speaker will offer suggestions for ways to look at data from a variety of perspectives to ensure that it meets the organization’s most critical needs.

Audience: Anyone with an interest in institutional repositories and the significance of metadata will find this webinar of interest

Presenter: Wendy Robertson, Digital Resources Librarian, is responsible for helping to expand support of electronic scholarship and e-publishing, including supporting locally published e-journals and managing the institutional repository. Robertson performs data analysis on digital collections related to batch loading, migrating from one system to another, and aggregating with other information resources.

Wendy received a B.A. in History from Grinnell College in 1988, and an M.L.I.S. from The University of Iowa in 1992. She has worked at The University of Iowa Libraries since 1988. Her previous work positions include Electronic Resources Systems Librarian in Enterprise Applications, Electronic Resources Management Unit Head, Serials Cataloger and Supervisor in Technical Services.

This is the second in a series of four webinars about institutional repositories to be offered between January and June 2011. The webinars included in the IR series are:

January 26, 2011 – Copyright and Contracts: Moving Beyond Text in IRs
April 13, 2011 – Repository Metadata: Challenges of Interoperability
May 11, 2011 – Engaging Your Campus in Utilizing Institutional Repositories, with Marianne Buehler
June 1, 2011 – Re-engineering the Institutional Repository to Engage Users, with Suzanne Bell and Nathan Sarr

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To Register, complete the online registration form at
http://www.ala.org/ala/onlinelearning/reg/webinar.cfm
for the session you would like to attend.

Fees for individual sessions:

Group Rates – ALCTS Members & Non-Members: $99

Individuals – ALCTS Members: $39; Non-Members: $49

Participants outside the United States may register at the ALCTS member rate.

Pricing for IR Series: (All 4 webinars)
Group Rates – ALCTS Members & Non-Members: $346 (save $50)
Individuals – ALCTS Members: $120 (save $36); Non-Members: $160 (save $36)
Participants outside the United States may register at the ALCTS member rate.

ALCTS webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording shortly following the live event.

For questions about registration, contact Tom Ferren, ALA Senior Registration Coordinator at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4293 or tferren@ala.org.

For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or jreese@ala.org.

LYRASIS Professional Development invites you to join us in our virtual librarian’s lounge every 2nd Friday scheduled from 12:30 – 2:00 pm (EST). During each session, you will be given the opportunity to connect with your peers, discuss the hottest topics, and share best practices

Member Cost: $25
Non-Member Cost: $35

We kick off this series Friday, April 8th with RDA in a Nutshell. For more information or to register please see: http://www.lyrasis.org/Classes-and-Events/2nd-Friday-Series.aspx

April 8, 2011: RDA in a Nutshell from FRBR to RDA

There has been quite a bit discussion about Resource Description and Access (RDA). This session will provide an overview of the essentials of RDA and FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records), as well as the highlight some of the differences in cataloging practice RDA would introduce.