SPRING MEETING 2007
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
8:30am
Registration9:00am Keynote
What We Talk about When We Talk about 2.0: Collaborative Knowledge Building, Emergent Technology, and the Information Literate Student
Rachel Bridgewater, Reference Coordinator, Washington State University-Vancouver
As the term “web 2.0” passes from unfamiliar new concept to tired old buzzword, it’s worth taking a moment to step back and ask what these new tools, technologies, and services mean for librarians and their patrons. Keeping abreast of all the new tools - social bookmarking, citation-sharing, RSS, information visualization tools, social networking and more - can be a challenge for busy librarians. As our users find these tools, though, the challenges increase. More and more, these tools are being used in ways that force librarians to reconsider how we teach our students and patrons to find and evaluate information. How do weblogs fit into the publication cycle? How do social bookmark tags relate to subject headings? It is tempting to focus on the limitations of information published and organized with social, dynamic tools. To simply dismiss these tools as a passing fad would be mistake, however. Our users are finding the information they need in increasingly diverse places and sharing and storing that information in new and surprising ways. We owe it to our patrons to understand these tools and how they fit into the increasingly complex information landscape.
10:30am Break
10:45am First Concurrent Sessions
Through a Glass Darkly: Divining the "Next Generation Catalog"
Presenter: Mark Andrews, Creighton University
Once the crown-jewel of the integrated library system, the online catalog has fallen behind other search tools in scope, functionality and appearance. A key question is "Do we really need online catalogs or not? If so - why? If not - why not?" The scope, functionality and appearance of "next generation" catalogs will be discussed with special attention paid to past predictions about online catalogs, past and present responses to library demands by library automation vendors, and prescriptive and descriptive views of present and future catalogs. Audience participation is welcome, encouraged, and expected.
Criss Library On-Line Information Literacy Assessment for English Composition
Presenters: Nora Hillyer and Marvel Maring, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Two UNO Librarians collaborated with the English Department and five UNO faculty consultants to design a pre and post instruction questionnaire to measure freshmen English students' information literacy skills. Assessment tool design, delivery method via various assessment software products, technical trouble-shooting, student and instructor feedback, questionnaire
results and implications for future library-wide instruction assessment will be discussed.
11:35am Lunch and C&U business meeting
1:00pm Second Concurrent Sessions
Library Friendly Technology: Applications that work@your library™
Presenters: Marcia Dority Baker and Karin Dalziel, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
How can libraries incorporate technology trends and applications into the library workplace? How are portable applications (and web applications) beneficial to staff and customers? What new FREE technology is available and how can you make it work in your library (even if it is under technological lockdown)? A CD of free, open source applications will be made available to registrants and a demonstration given of their uses.
Creating a Climate for Diversity: 11 years as a Learning Organization
Presenters: Joan Giesecke, Nancy Busch, Charlene Maxey-Harris, and Beth McNeil, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Increasing diversity in libraries takes more than recruiting a diverse workforce. Libraries also need to create environments that are welcoming to all staff and patrons to retain and attract a diverse workforce and a diverse patron base. This presentation will describe some of the early failures and recent successes experienced at the UNL Libraries once the Library turned to learning organization theory to create a positive working climate. After five years of working on organizational climate, the Libraries found through a Gallup climate survey that the staff were more open to embracing diversity. The Libraries added a diversity librarian and created a diversity committee to place even more emphasis on improving the climate. Subsequent climate surveys have shown where the effort has been succeeding and where more work is needed
1:50pm Break
2:00pm Third Concurrent Sessions
The Next Generation Depository Library: Addressing Public Access to Government Publications in the Electronic Era
Presenters: James Shaw, University of Nebraska at Omaha, and Beth Goble, Nebraska Library Commission
Physical receipts of depository publications have declined in recent years as both government agencies and depository programs move toward extensive electronic distribution. Depository libraries continue to make government documents easily available but they must find ways to incorporate electronic documents into the full range of resources they provide. Cataloging electronic documents has proven one effective way to link researchers to them, but concerns remain about long-term, archival access. Both the U.S. Government Printing Office and the Nebraska Library Commission have modified their depository programs to address issues surrounding electronic access, and this presentation will review how libraries, both depository and non-depository, can incorporate electronic government publication among their resources.
Library 2.0
Presenter: Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
According to Wikipedia, Library 2.0 is "a loosely defined model for a modernized form of library service that reflects a transition within the library world in the way that services are delivered to users." An overview of Library 2.0 will be presented as well as a discussion about why librarians of all types should be paying attention to this next step in librarianship and library service.
3:00 - 3:30pm TSRT Meeting
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