Solving the Puzzle of Library Technology ... Piece by Piece: a five-part series of workshops presented by Tri-state College Library Cooperative (TCLC) First session - November 15, 2006 -- 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM -- The American College, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 Registration is $30.00 -- Lunch on site is included This workshop series has been partially funded with Federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds administered by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries Roy Tennant, User Services Architect for the California Digital Library, presents "The Academic Library in an Internet World" Breakthrough Internet-based businesses like Google and Amazon have both raised user expectations of information services as well as demonstrated new possibilities. What is the appropriate position of an academic library in this new environment? What are we best positioned to do, and what should we leave to others to do? How should academic libraries change to better serve the needs of their academic clientele? These and related questions will be explored in a talk in which there are no sacred cows. Roy Tennant, User Services Architect for the California Digital Library is the owner of the Web4Lib and XML4Lib electronic discussions, and the creator and editor of Current Cites, a current awareness newsletter published every month since 1990. His books include Managing the Digital Library (2004), XML in Libraries (2002), Practical HTML (1996), and Crossing the Internet Threshold: An Instructional Handbook (1993). Roy has written a monthly column on digital libraries for Library Journal since 1997 and has written numerous articles in other professional journals. In 2003, he received the American Library Association's LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Excellence in Communication for Continuing Education. Steven J. Bell, Director, Paul J. Gutman Library, Philadelphia University, presents "Are You Feeling The Pressure? The Ratcheting Up of Academic Library Technology" Are you feeling more pressure in your library to not only keep up with the latest technologies, but to implement them now because everyone else is too? This presentation addresses the challenge of the technology ratchet, and how to keep it from tightening its grip around your staff and patrons. Steven Bell will share ideas and techniques for regaining control over library technology with an exploration of how we might better identify and adopt the technologies that are right for our libraries, how we can more effectively offer staff development for using those technologies, and how each staff member can develop a personal professional development strategy for staying ahead of the technology curve. Steven J. Bell is Director of the Paul J. Gutman Library at Philadelphia University. Prior to that he was the Assistant Director of the Lippincott Library of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He obtained his Doctorate in Education in 1997 from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Master of Science in Library Science from Drexel University in 1977. He writes and speaks frequently on topics such as information retrieval, library and learning technologies, and academic librarianship. An Adjunct Professor at the Drexel University College of Information Science and Technology, he teaches courses in online searching and academic librarianship. He maintains a Web site and Weblog, "Steven Bell's Keeping Up Web Site" and "The Kept-Up Academic Librarian", that promote current awareness skills and resources. He is also a member of the ACRLog blogging team. Steven is a co-founder of the Blended Librarian's Online Learning Community on the Learning Times Network and has participated in numerous virtual presentations. For additional information about the author or to find links to the various Web sites he publishes and maintains, point your browser to http://staff.philau.edu/bells. Panel discussion will follow offering descriptions of specific implementations and challenges as well as responses to the "Taiga Forum Provocative Statements", March 10, 2006 (http://www.taigaforum.org/docs/ProvocativeStatements.pdf ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------ Register for this session by November 1, 2006 by completing this form and forwarding it with payment of $30.00 to Tri-state College Library Cooperative, c/o Rosemont College Library, 1400 Montgomery Avenue, Rosemont, PA 19010 phone: (610) 525-0796 fax: (610) 525-1939 email: tclc@hslc.org Name ________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________ Institution ______________________________________________________________ Phone _________________________________________ Address ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________ Email ___________________________________________ Special Needs ________________________________________________________ Registration form also available at www.tclclibs.org Series Second Session - December 12, 2006 West Chester University Graduate Business Center "Social Software and Libraries (IM, RSS, Blogs, Wikis, Folksonomies, Social Bookmarking and more): what pieces of the puzzle do we need to know and how do they fit into the big picture" with Edward Corrado and Jim Robertson. Registration to follow. Coming soon in 2007 ... Series Third session -- February 2007 - Hands-on workshop partnering librarians and faculty to begin a project that promotes library integration into academic coursework. Series Fourth session - April 2007 - Using PDAs, handhelds and mobile technologies in libraries. Series Fifth session - June 2007 - A long look at visual catalogs. Does the OPAC fit into the puzzle? Registration to follow. Connect to www.tclclibs.org Marguerite ________________________________ Marguerite Buck, M.S.L.S Serials Librarian Gabriele Library P.O. Box 705 Immaculata University Immaculata, PA 19345 610-647-4400, EX. 3833 mbuck@immaculata.edu
