NOVEMBER
3, 2010
ALCTS
offers two exciting Midwinter symposia for San Diego
Chicago
– Dynamite topics and great speakers come together in San Diego for two
outstanding symposia from the Association for Library Collections &
Technical Services. On Thursday, you’ll hear about RDA, its impact
on libraries and how it might affect the future catalog. Friday brings
together building architects and digital architects to talk about the impact of
the digital on libraries. Join your colleagues for these two exciting and
timely symposia from ALCTS on Thursday, Jan. 6, and Friday, Jan. 7, 2011 just
before the ALA Midwinter Meeting in San Diego.
Beams & Bytes: Constructing the
Future Library -- Architectural and Digital Considerations
Friday, January 7, 2011 in San
Diego, CA
8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Changing user expectations and
the relentless shift to the digital medium are rapidly influencing library
structures and services. Libraries are evolving to create and deliver new
services, modifying their collecting patterns, and striving to meet new user
demands. This day-long symposium will focus on the physical and
digital infrastructure of libraries, conceiving and creating services to meet
user needs and expectations, transforming collections and access, and how all
of this will affect the people who work in libraries. Symposium attendees
will have the opportunity to participate in collaborative activities during the
event.
Speakers
and Topics are:
Library
Space: Dimensions of the Imagination. Michael Miller, Dean of Library
Services, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
Architectural
Considerations for the 21st Century Library. Jeffrey M.
Hoover, Architect, Tappe Associates and Denelle C. Wrightson, Director of
Library Architecture, PSA-Dewberry.
User
Experience Design for the New Library. John Blyberg, Assistant Director for
Innovation and User Services, Darien Public Library, Darien, CT
From
Academic Library to Academic Commons at Occidental College. Robert Kieft,
College Librarian, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
Digital
Stewardship in the 21st-Century Library: The Penn State Experience. Michael Giarlo,
Digital Architect and Patricia Hswe, Digital Collections Curator, Penn State
University Libraries, State College, PA.
Parallel
Library Universes: A Case for Feverish Pink Paint and Virtual Vortexes. Lizabeth (Betsy)
Wilson, Dean of University Libraries, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
******ALCTS thanks Oracle for their
support of Beams & Bytes******
The
Administrator, RDA and the Future Catalog: Issues, Viewpoints, Alternatives
Thursday,
January 6, 2011
8:30am-5:00pm
RDA
is on the horizon. How will you implement it? What are the issues you need to
pay attention to? Staffing? Budget? The catalog itself? Will RDA influence the
future catalog? What might the future catalog be? This one day symposium
examines the issues surrounding implementation of RDA and the future catalog.
If you’re a director, assistant director or department head or anyone
interested in the impact of RDA, you don’t want to miss this discussion.
Speakers
include Tim Strawn, Director, Information Resources & Archives, California
Polytechnic State University -San Luis Obispo; Olivia Madison, Dean of
the Library, Iowa State University; Linda Barnhart, Head of Metadata Services,
University of California – San Diego;
Molly Tamarkin, Associate University
Librarian for Information Technology, Duke University;
Tim
Bucknall, Assistant Dean for Electronic Resources and Information Technology,
University of North Carolina – Greensboro; and Chris Cole, Associate
Director for Technical Services, National Agricultural Library
To attend the symposia,
registration for each is $219 for ALCTS members, $269 for ALA members, $319 for
non-members, and $99 for students and retired members. Registration
information for the ALCTS Midwinter symposia can be found on the ALA Midwinter
Meeting page.
http://www.ala.org/ala/conferencesevents/upcoming/midwinter/registration/index.cfm#how
Please note that you do not have
to register for ALA Midwinter in order to attend the symposia.
For more information consult the
events page on the ALCTS web site at www.ala.org/alcts or contact Julie Reese,
ALCTS Events Manager, at jreese@ala.org.
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on behalf of: Association for Library Collections & Technical
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