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November 13th |
Workshop 1 - Cancelled
Facilitating:
Getting a Group to Where They Need to Be
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Rebecca Jones, Dysart &
Jones Associates
Have you been asked to get a group of people
together for a project, planning, or to sort through
a problem? Have you ever led a meeting that didn’t
quite go the way you had envisioned and wondered
what went wrong? The term “facilitating”
is used in many ways these days, but meeting facilitation
truly is a learned skill—critical for groups
to work together effectively, whether they are problem-solving,
decision making, planning, or simply information
gathering. This interactive workshop provides the
basic facilitation principals and techniques to
help you with your next group meeting and planning
process. |
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Workshop 2
Next-Generation
Library Web Sites
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Darlene Fichter, Data
Library Coordinator, University of Saskatchewan,
& Northern Lights Internet Solutions, &
Frank Cervone, Assistant University
Librarian, Northwestern University
You’ve done usability testing, you’ve
done some redesign, but you still need to make your
site more responsive to your customer’s needs.
Come and learn about the latest trends and techniques
to create more “customer/patron-friendly”
Web sites. Leave with a clear understanding of what
federated searching and OpenURL resolvers are and
how both can improve your Web site; how to enable
publishing of customized and personalized content;
and the latest in good design and usability research
and practice. |
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Workshop 3
Practical
XML & XSLT
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Roy Tennant, Web and Services
Design Manager, eScholarship Initiative, California
Digital Library
This workshop turns up the heat on XML for those
who are beyond an introduction and ready to learn
how to do useful work with XML. Learn the basics
about XSLT, the XML transformation engine, and how
you can use it today to serve up XML-encoded information
to standard Web clients in XHTML and CSS. You will
learn about the free software available to do these
transformations, see demos of live applications,
and come away with an understanding of the power
and utility of XML and XSLT. This instructive half-day
workshop illustrates the tools and techniques necessary
to take advantage of XML in the library world. |
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Workshop 4
Finding
Business Information Online: Super Searcher Strategies
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Mary Ellen Bates, Bates Information
Services
This half-day workshop tackles how to find reliable,
high-quality information on business and financial
topics on the Web. Bates, the author of six online
research books, including Super Searchers Cover
the World and Mining for Gold on the Internet,
looks at issues related to conducting business research
online efficiently and cost-effectively, validating
sources, using Web-only information resources, and
staying current on new business and finance information.
The workshop provides practical, innovative ways
to mine the Web—both the open Web and the
Invisible Web. The focus is on the resources found
exclusively on the Web, but it also covers unusual
or unique resources from the traditional online
services. Learn improved business research skills,
ideas on new ways to drill for information, and
take home a collection of links to the best business
resources on the Web. |
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Workshop 5
CMS
Basics
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
May Chang, Web Development Librarian,
North Carolina State University Libraries
As Web sites grow and content proliferates, many
libraries are looking at Content Management Systems
(CMS) to better manage their Web site and deliver
Web content. This workshop provides a broad view
of the CMS field, including features, benefits,
and pitfalls, as well as implementation options
and strategies. Related issues such as content inventory,
information architecture, and content modeling and
reuse will also be discussed. Includes an online
demonstration of a selection of CMS products and
visits to various CMS-backed sites. This workshop
is for librarians who are new to this field as well
as those considering implementing a CMS.
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Workshop 6
Hold
the Presses! News Research Revisited
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Randolph Hock, Principal, Online
Strategies
Though the quantity of news and news sources has
increased dramatically in recent years, finding
the exact news that one needs has actually gotten
significantly more complicated. Along with the more
traditional newspapers, news network sites, news
wires, and radio and television stations, the searcher
is also confronted with a wide variety of new news
aggregation sites, RSS feeds, blogs, and various
hybrids. Hock discusses the options for finding
past and current news, addresses news browsing and
searching options, examines the range of extremely
valuable, yet free alerting services, and shares
a variety of techniques and tips. |
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Workshop 7
Current
Awareness Delivery Options
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Gary Price, Co-Author, The
Invisible Web, Creator of Resourceshelf.com
and News Editor, Search Engine Watch
Genie Tyburski, Web Manager, The
Virtual Chase, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll,
LLP
Electronic current awareness services are critical
for users of all types of libraries and information
services. This practical half-day workshop provides
an overview of the many options for delivering specialized
current information. Nationally known experts Price
& Tyburski examine current awareness needs and
choices from start to finish, look at strategies,
tools, and resources for gathering new information,
and investigate delivery technologies. Learn about
the pros and cons of initiating such services via
e-mail and Web-based newsletters, Weblogs, k-logs,
and RSS/XML newsfeeds. Get up-to-speed on the latest
techniques and thinking on this crucial topic.
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Workshop 8 - Cancelled
Multimedia
on the Internet—Starring Info Pros
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Gregory Mitchell, Assistant Director,
&
Rick Peralez, Computer Services
Specialist, University of Texas Pan American Library
This is a hands-on learning opportunity for those
interested in multimedia—the wave of the future.
With today’s hardware and software, it is
possible to incorporate full video and audio into
Web pages, slide presentations and other electronic
documents, as well as into standalone video productions.
This introductory-level workshop explores the concepts
behind multimedia production; discusses relevant
hardware, software and delivery methods; and applies
production techniques in a structured exercise.
Participants leave the workshop with their first
multimedia project completed and mounted on a Web
site. |
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Preconference
Workshops
Sunday, November 14th |
Workshop 9
Searchers
Academy
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
MODERATOR: Donna Scheeder, Law
Library of Congress
FACULTY: Gary Price, Co-Author,
The Invisible Web, Publisher, ResourceShelf.com,
and News Editor, Search Engine Watch
Chris Sherman, Co-Author, The
Invisible Web, & Associate Editor, Search
Engine Watch
Greg Notess,
Publisher, Search Engine Showdown
Marydee Ojala, Editor, ONLINE
Magazine
Want to sharpen your skills? Learn from the experts?
Join search veterans, authors, and columnists from
Searcher and ONLINE magazines
to learn the latest strategies and techniques for
searching online. This day-long event introduces
you to the experts, who share their searching secrets
and expertise as they focus on the most current
practices in the field. Participants should have
basic experience with Web searching, but even searchers
with extensive Internet background will find tips
to polish and advance their skills. Academy topics
include:
Search Engine Mechanics:
Pop the hood and look into the mechanics of all
types of search engines with our search engine grease
monkey.
Searching the Invisible Web:
Find out how to find the hidden troves of deep information
on the Web and what formerly invisible information
has now become searchable.
Cool Search
Tools: Identify the best of the best Web
resources.
Choosing the Right Search
Engine: Learn when to use which engine
and when to use the invisible Web, plus the value
of advanced search features.
Ask an
Expert: Hear an interactive discussion
including favorite tips, target Web sources, and
advanced techniques from the faculty and have a
chance to follow up with questions to the faculty. |
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Workshop 10
Web
Managers Academy
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
MODERATOR: Darlene Fichter, Data
Library Coordinator, University of Saskatchewan,
& President, Northern Lights Internet Solutions
FACULTY: Frank Cervone,
Assistant University Librarian for Information Technology,
Northwestern University
Marshall Breeding, Library Technology
Officer, Vanderbilt University
Jeff Wisniewski, Web Services
Librarian, University of Pittsburgh
Web development is challenging. A
range of technical and management skills are required
to develop a great Web site. No matter what type
of library or information service you manage and
support, this full-day workshop provides a good
foundation in these areas:
• Developing
or redesigning a site
• Key checkpoints
in a Web project life cycle
• Developing
a solid and sustainable site architecture
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Demystifying Web site standards and jargon
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Solid tips for creating usable Web designs
This information-packed full-day seminar hits the
high points of strategic and practical milestones
in the planning process for Web development. Learn
about new and popular tools and technologies and
examine Web standards, design considerations, and
usability. Look at the mechanics common to all Web
sites, plus user testing, visual design, and cool
new tools. Taught by experienced experts, this workshop
is a good, 1-day crash course for Web development
managers at all levels. |
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Workshop 11
Weblogs/RSS
101
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Jenny Levine, Internet Development
Specialist, Suburban Library System
Steven M. Cohen, Assistant Librarian,
Rivkin Radler, LLP
Weblogs have exceeded all expectations for use in
the library world, and RSS is sure to do the same.
In this hands-on session, users not only learn the
ins and outs of using Weblog software (i.e., Blogger,
Radio, and Movable Type) and how to read RSS feeds
via a news aggregator (i.e., Radio, Newzcrawler,
and Syndirella), but have the opportunity to actually
work with the products discussed!! The instructors
discuss how to set up a blog, review the positive
and negative aspects of each blogging tool, and
show how to set up and use news aggregators in the
easiest way possible. |
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Workshop 12
Harvesting
Metadata Using OAI-PMH
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Roy Tennant, Web and Services
Design Manager, eScholarship Initiative, California
Digital Library
Over 3 million digital objects (research papers,
historical photographs, digital maps, etc.) are
available for anyone to use from open access repositories.
Many of these repositories comply with the Open
Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
(OAI-PMH). This workshop shows you how to use free
software to create your own searchable collection
of these useful online resources. Also covered are
practical tips and cautions about harvesting metadata,
as well as future trends. |
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Workshop 13
Understanding
Your Learners’ Needs
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Rita Vine, President, Workingfaster.com
This workshop is all about getting closer to your
learners—understanding their motivation for
attending a library workshop, keeping their attention,
and meeting their real needs and wants. It introduces
you to simple and easy-to-implement methods for
getting inside your learner’s head and quickly
sizing up their real goals before you plan your
content and activities. It covers the basics of
adult learning styles and how they affect classroom
behavior; tips and tricks to reach out more effectively
to your learners during actual class time; and practiced
techniques for more effectively understanding the
learning group. This workshop is complementary to
workshop 19, “Making Learning Stick,”
which covers content and activity planning.
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Workshop 14 - Cancelled
Raising
Money
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Steve Coffman, author of Saving
Ourselves
Rebecca Jones, Dysart & Jones
Associates
Nothing happens without money, even
in libraries. The problem is, traditional funding
sources for libraries have begun to dry up in recent
years. There have been significant cuts in tax funding
for public libraries, academic libraries are getting
a decreasing share of the university budget, and
corporate librarians have to fight harder than ever
for every dollar they wrest from management. This
half-day workshop, taught by some of the top names
in the new funding strategies movement, teaches
you how to start looking for nontraditional funding
sources, including sponsorship, earned income, membership
and philanthropy, long-used by public broadcasting,
museums, and others to help fund that special project
you want to get started, or to improve the funding
for your library as a whole. So whether you are
a librarian with a new project or idea to try out,
or a library director looking for ways to increase
your funding, you owe it to yourself to check out
“Raising Money” because without money,
it’s just an idea. |
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Workshop 15
Federated
Searching
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Mary Beth Minick, Associate Librarian,
&
Kathleen Hanna,
Assistant Librarian, IUPUI University Library
This workshop explores the implementation
of a federated search engine project in a medium-sized
academic library. Presenters, one liaising with
library staff as well as evaluating customization
of the front end interface, and the other engaged
on the technical side, discuss the process from
selection of a federated search product through
initial launch, including:
• What to consider
when evaluating federated search products
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Identifying and incorporating stakeholders’
needs
• Pitfalls and challenges to expect
in implementation
• Uses for federated
search products beyond searching |
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Workshop 16 - Cancelled
Tools
for Taming the Wild, Wild Web
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Jayne Hitchcock, President of
W.H.O.A. (Working to Halt Online Abuse), & author,
Net Crimes & Misdemeanors
This workshop covers the difference between spam
and online harassment, scams, or fraud and how to
help a patron, student, co-worker, or others if
they are being harassed online or are the victim
of an online scam or fraud. It shares sample cases,
as well as safety tips and tools. It describes how
to set up online usage policies, sign in/sign out
procedures, discusses privacy risks using RFIDs
in books, and much more. |
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Workshop 17
Weblogs/RSS
201
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Jenny Levine, Internet Development
Specialist, Suburban Library System
Steven M. Cohen, Assistant Librarian,
Rivkin Radler, LLP
This workshop focuses on the more advanced features
of Weblogs and RSS. Topics include how to get the
most out of Weblogs and RSS (marketing, creating
a user community), resources for a more customized
approach to RSS, and ways in which both can be implemented
into the library environment. It provides opportunities
for peer discussions as well as working with the
advanced features of tools discussed.
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Workshop 18
Managing for Success: Web
Sites, Portals, or Internets
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Tom Reamy, KAPS
Group
This workshop focuses on the key principles
and actions required to ensure the ongoing success
of your Web-based products and services. A lot of
thought and hard work went into getting the site,
portal, or intranet launched. How will you make
sure the target audiences are getting what they
need, the team is able to maintain the quality,
and your work will be funded next year? This half-day
workshop provides participants with a framework
and tools to assist them in establishing a governance
structure, a realistic team structure, a communication
plan, and a measurement plan. |
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Workshop 19
Make
Learning Stick: Creating 5-Star, User-Centered Training
& Instruction
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Michael Stephens, Technology Training
and Web Development, St. Joseph County Public Library
D. Scott Brandt, Professor &
Technology Training Librarian, Purdue University,
& Columnist for Computers in Libraries
Once you have assessed and identified user needs,
you’re ready to build a lesson plan or course
module to guide the learning. This update of the
popular workshop, “Teaching the Internet in
60 Minutes,” is taught by a dynamic duo representing
both academic and public library backgrounds. It
uses a building-block approach to create effective,
user-centered learning that focuses on measurable
outcomes. You will learn how to:
• Categorize
learning objectives into five categories of performance.
• Ensure learner outcomes can be demonstrated
and measured.
• Focus learning into performance
steps that are complete and achievable.
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Select teaching strategies that match objectives
for fun and interesting learning.
• Apply
two methods to demonstrate and reinforce learning.
Illustrating with many examples from successful
Internet-related modules taught in both academic
and public library settings, speakers show modules
on browser and e-mail management, searching, and
digital reference. With theory made practical, in-class
practice using these techniques, and demonstrations
of real-world training/instruction, this workshop
is fast-paced and highly interactive! (Can be combined
with workshop 13, “Understanding Your Learners
Needs,” for a complete immersion in training
and instruction theories and techniques.)
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Workshop 20
Where
the Funds Are: Going from Ideas to a Competitive
Grant
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Elaina Norlin, Senior Program
Officer, Institute for Museum and Library Services
(IMLS)
IMLS awards over $200 million in grants per year,
funding continuing education, recruitment, digital
projects, preservation, research, museum-library
collaborations, and much more. With dismal budgets,
limited resources, and staff, writing a grant appears
to be a sensible and smart solution. But how can
one get started? What is actually involved in going
from a “great idea” to producing a fundable
library national model? This interactive, hands-on
workshop helps participants flush out their grant
ideas and create a template to take back to their
libraries. |
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Workshop 21
Power
Browser Tips & Tools
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Greg Notess, Reference Librarian,
Montana State University & Publisher, Search
Engine Showdown
Speed up searching and Web browsing by becoming
a power browser user. This workshop covers the hidden
tricks and shortcuts available when using Internet
Explorer and/or Netscape. Learn tricks and techniques,
including bookmarklets, entering addresses shortcuts,
preferences and settings, keyboard shortcuts, and
toolbars, and discover how to make the most of your
browser. |
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Workshop 22 - Cancelled
Internet Access: Policy
Issues for Librarians
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Michael Sauers,
Internet Trainer, BCR
If your library offers Internet access to clients,
you know that a wide range of problems can arise.
This workshop is designed to discuss the latest
issues that need to be addressed and to offer
assistance in drafting or revising your library’s
Internet policy to keep up with the changing times
and technologies. Participants will:
- Review existing Internet policies.
- Assess what policy items should be considered
for differenttypes of libraries.
- Relate policy items to current Internet-related
issues that may include filtering, copyright,
intellectual property, and hacking.
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Sunday Evening
- Communities of Interest
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Third Floor Meeting Rooms, Portola Plaza |
Meet your colleagues following a day of workshops
for debriefing or connecting with others in your
interest group before conference sessions begin.
Grab a drink or soda and head for some great networking,
stimulating discussions, and a chance to interact
with some outstanding conference speakers and moderators.
A cash bar will be available. Open to all conference
attendees. |
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