Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
Tomorrow I wake up bright and early to attend the annual Public Library Association’s annual conference in Portland! I’m looking forward to attending this year! Some sessions of interest:
- Top Ten Tech Trends
- The Impact and Benefits of Learning 2.0 Programs in Public Libraries
- Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data
- Green Acres and Milk & Cookies: Understanding Your Community Through Market Segmentation
- Civic Connections: Using TEchnology to Build Bridges in Your Community
- Cents and Sensibility: Will Your Technology Pay Off?
- Improve Employee Wellness: Why It’s Essential in Having a Successful Library
- Defining the Best Customer Experience
- Marketing the Library Using Social Software
- Marketing as Conversation: How to Interact with Your Community Through Your Website
- Multicultural Programming: Sharing Similarities and Celebrating Differences
- Nonfiction Readers’ Advisory: Titles, Tips and Techniques
If you want to follow the back channel on twitter, the hashtag for the conference is #PLA10.
Handouts from the sessions can be found on the PLA Conference website.
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Monday, February 15th, 2010
I participated in the Online Northwest conference this year. It was a nice opportunity for professional development and it took place right on the OSU campus. I attended several sessions, but the one I enjoyed most was Jen Klaudinyi’s presentation on the Cooperative Library Instruction Project (CLIP): Collaboration and Curriculum Integration: Presenting shared information literacy tutorials at the point of need.
From the CLIP wiki:
CLIP is a partnership between Western Oregon University, Oregon State University, Willamette University, and Chemeketa Community College whose mission is to design and develop sharable, web-based tutorials to assist in library instruction and information literacy… CLIP is creating tutorials that specifically address the larger ideas of information literacy. The collection might look something like an interactive, online information literacy “text book” from which librarians or instructors anywhere can select and use pieces as they choose.
CLIP is striving to serve librarians and instructors with different needs and resources. Our tutorials are free, already hosted on the web and ready to be used as they are. Simply copy the URL provided with each tutorial and distribute via websites, email, etc. We also provide source files for those who wish to download, customize and/or locally host the tutorials.
CLIP has several information literacy tutorials available at the moment:
CLIP plans to continue adding tutorials to the site. Anyone can download these and customize them to their department, library, or school (as long as the source is attributed). Text files are available of each presentation. Why continue to remake the wheel, if great tutorials already exist? CLIP provides that opportunity.
What about the rest of the conference?
All presentations can be accessed at the Online NW website. Previous conference posts can be found there as well.
On a side note:
I do have one suggestion for Online NW: please consider having a student rate. $130 is pretty spendy for a one-day conference, especially for those that may be poor graduate students or unemployed. (See: Public Library Association’s national conference in Portland this year — the student rate for the 4 day conference is only $90).
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