Sunday, April, 06 (Pre-conference)

09:00 AM

Academic Library 2.0
Amanda Etches-Johnson, McMaster University; Chad Boeninger, Ohio University Libraries; Jason Griffey, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; Meredith Farkas, Norwich University; Jenica Rogers-Urbanek, College Libraries, SUNY Potsdam
What do the terms Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 mean for academic libraries and librarians? Join our panel of 2.0 practitioners and experts for a day of exploration and discovery as we navigate the 2.0 landscape, exploring what 2.0 tools and technologies can do for academic library users. Through a combination of presentations, discussion, and hands-on activities, our dynamic speakers introduce you to technologies such as blogs, wikis, RSS, mashups, social bookmarking, and online social networks. This interactive session provides practical examples of academic libraries that are using these tools and technologies, arms you with the expertise and techniques to introduce these technologies in your own library, and share strategies for getting buy-in from staff, administration, and patrons. A worthwhile day for those interested in implementing changes to keep up within the Web 2.0 world.

09:00 AM

Web Managers Academy: Redesign 2.0
Darlene Fichter, University of Saskatchewan Library; Frank Cervone, Chicago State University; Jeff Wisniewski, University of Pittsburgh; Marshall Breeding, Vanderbilt University
Does your library website need to move to the next level? Does it need a visual makeover, social media tools, or new embedded services? Where do you start? One place to begin is by analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of your current site using analytic tools. Pick up new usability methods that can help you test proposed revisions early so that the new design doesnt just "look" better, but also works better for the users. See how other libraries are using content management systems, user-generated content, database-driven content, federated search, and OpenURL resolvers to provide customized and personalized user content. Explore how social software applications including blogs, wikis, tagging, and RSS, fit in the mix. Pack your toolbox and take home tips, tools, checklists, and new design techniques that you can immediately put to use. Learn about common pitfalls and success factors for library redesigns. Topics and exercises include: Redesign process; Practical project management; Web content management systems; Usability and ethnographic methods: affinity mapping, photo reports, and map diaries.

09:00 AM

Podcasting & Videocasting Boot Camp
David Lee King, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library; David Free, C&RL News, & Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
Podcasting is one of todays hottest social computing applications. But what can this emerging technology do for libraries? What is a videoblog and why use one on your librarys website? This in-depth workshop, featuring two experts in the field of library podcasting and videocasting, answers these questions and more. Come explore and discuss how libraries are using podcasts and videocasts for outreach and learning through a variety of case studies, including tips on what types of content work best for different types of libraries. Detailed information on what to consider when planning for and implementing pod/videocasting at your library are provided along with an up-close and personal look at a variety of creation tools. Gain some hands-on experience in making podcasts and videocasts by producing content live during the session!

09:00 AM

Searchers Academy
Gary Price, Ask.com & Publisher, ResourceShelf.com; Greg Notess, Montana State University; Mary Ellen Bates, Bates Information Services Inc.; Marcy Phelps, Phelps Research
Want to sharpen your skills? Learn from the experts? Join search veterans, speakers, authors, and columnists from Searcher, ONLINE, and EContent magazines and the Super Searcher series of books to learn the latest strategies and techniques for searching online. This fast-paced, 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 of web research. Theres always something new to be learned from these leading-edge panelists. Participants should have basic experience with web searching, but even searchers with extensive internet background will find tips to polish and advance their skills and will certainly come away with new resources and tools. Academy topics will include:Search Engine Review: Look at key features of general-purpose and highly specialized search engines, specialized directories, and guides.Searching the NEW Web: Learn about whats new in searching podcasts, tracking memes, social graphing, and other portions of the new web.Tips for Using the Top Search Engines: Get an in-depth review of the hidden and undocumented features of Google, Yahoo!, and Ask.com.Going Local: Learning to use local search tools for in-depth research.Cool Tools & Techniques: Learn about new resources and tools for searching more effectively.

09:00 AM

Project Management For Libraries
Mary Auckland, Independent Consultant
This half-day workshop explores the elements of successful project management and how projects might best be planned, implemented, and monitored. Aimed at anyone responsible for managing a project within their library or information organization, this interactive workshop encourages participants to share their own experiences and knowledge. It discusses key factors related to successful project management, methodologies and tools, proven techniques and tips for managing projects, and examples and case studies.

09:00 AM

Wikis: Basics, Tools, & Strategies
Meredith Farkas, Norwich University
Wikis allow for unprecedented collaboration and knowledge-sharing and have the potential to fill many needs within the library and information professions. This half-day workshop by an expert wiki creator discusses the basics of wikiswhat they are, how they can be used, and how to successfully implement one at your library. It covers wiki concepts and uses many real-world applications to illustrate the power and ease-of-use of wikis. Learn about the many ways wikis can be used in libraries and the information industry. Gather lots of ideas and links to free resources for creating your own wikis as well as tips for making them successful in your environment.

09:00 AM

Training Adults: Getting & Keeping Attention
Rebecca Jones, Dysart & Jones Associates
This morning workshop offers you a toolbox of techniques to help your clients, staff, and even students learn what they need to learn. By understanding and recognizing adult learning motivations and styles/preferences, training can be designed to help adults connect to the curriculum and be more learning ready. This workshop first emphasizes the importance of the learner and making learning relevant and then walks you through the basics of building courses, lesson plans, and learning outcomes; applying techniques/strategies for the classroom; and teaching tips for handling issues and problems that come up in class. It uses humor to focus on tips, strategies, shortcuts, tricks, and useful approaches that are based on sound principles. Come to discuss adult learning principles, styles and preferences, and how to create effective learning environments that accommodate these with humor and panache! This workshop sets the tone for the afternoon workshop, Technology Training for Library Staff: Creativity Works!

09:00 AM

Monitoring & Current Awareness: Mining Blogs & RSS for Research
Sabrina Pacifici, LLRX.com and beSpacific.com
This workshop focuses on identifying and leveraging the best of free and low-fee web sites as well as web-related services to support your research enterprise, be it solo or collaborative. It includes best of the web for CI (competitive intelligence), legislation, news, government documents, academic and industry sponsored data. Filled with tips, tricks and resources, a not to be missed workshop for researchers!

01:30 PM

Reaching & Hearing Stakeholders
Barbie Keiser, Barbie E. Keiser, Inc.; Ulla de Stricker, de Stricker Associates
Are your stakeholders hearing the message you intended to send? This workshop, led by experienced consultants, takes attendees through a set of integrated activities that allow a library/information center to engage its clients in a systematic process of gathering valuable insights from communication vehicles such as websites, intranets, extranets, enewletters, etc. Such an audit utilizes a mix of techniques, including comprehensive surveys of users to assess how they use the librarys communications vehicles in terms of content present, needed information that is absent, timing of delivery, and navigation; facilitating focus group discussions to delve more deeply into existing challenges and to uncover potential solutions from staff and users; interviews with selected individuals, verifying findings through actual on-site observation. The results of these efforts to understand the usability of each library communication vehicle should reshape not only the vehicles but also the processes used to create, update, and deliver them. Case studies are used to illustrate the techniques.

01:30 PM

Technology Training for Library Staff: Creativity Works!!
Maurice Coleman, Harford County (MD) Public Library; Annette Gaskins, Harford County Public Library--Abingdon Branch; Sarah Houghton-Jan, San Jose Public Library
A perfect follow-up workshop to the morning workshop Training Adults, this afternoon workshop focuses on how libraries are putting adult learning principles into practice with creative ways of training library staff on using new technologies. Coleman and Gaskins share how Harford County Public Library created a Technology Petting Zoo to expose library staff to cutting-edge technologies and provide them with the opportunity to experiment in a comfortable environment. Participants will learn how to create a half-day workshop to expose library staff to the technology tools patrons are using every day; how to use a teamwork approach to planning the workshop, involving staff with expertise from all parts of the library; plus how to develop partnerships with knowledge experts in the corporate world. Houghton-Jan discusses her experiences developing and implementing technology training programs for staff in two libraries and a state library association. Successful case studies, tools, tricks, and tips will be discussed to give attendees what they need to implement a combined program at their libraries.

01:30 PM

From Avatars to Advocacy: Innovation Through Un-Marketing
Helene Blowers, Columbus Metropolitan Library; Michael Porter, WebJunction.org
Theres no denying that the rise of social networking and Web 2.0 tools has created many new avenues for libraries to market themselves. But these marketing streams go much deeper than merely exploring new channels. They allow libraries to shift their focus and truly engage with their customers in remarkably effective online and in-person word-of-mouth marketing efforts. Come explore this shift in an innovative preconference lab that will demonstrate and then walk participants through the creation of viral marketing ideas that enable customers to use the library brand to celebrate themselves. Participants are encouraged (but not required) to bring their own recording devices (digital video, still and audio, including upload cables) and laptops for creativity exercises.

01:30 PM

Digitization 101
Jill Hurst-Wahl, Hurst Associates, Ltd.
Digitization is much more than converting a physical or analog object into its digital equivalent: It is about efficiently repurposing crucial information resources to improve how they are used by staff, colleagues, and end users. For libraries, it can open the collection to a much larger userbase, whether that userbase is comprised of researchers, students, or businesspeople. Yet most digitization programs are doomed from the start because the focus is on the conversion process instead of other, critical pre-scanning issues such as selection criteria, preservation of original materials (documents, photos, audio, etc.), metadata creation, software and hardware concerns, integration into existing systems, and legal issues. The agenda includes a look at what digitization is, the five major steps in the digitization process, how project managers create a successful digitization program, copyright and other intellectual property issues, how to market a digitization program and get it funded, trends, and more.

01:30 PM

Games, Gaming & Libraries
Jenny Levine, Suburban Library System; Aaron Schmidt, walkingpaper.org
If you dont know MMORPGs from DDR, this workshop is for you. It addresses two related aspects of gaming in libraries: hosting gaming events and gamings impact on learning. Learn how gaming can make your library more fun and how you can use gaming to participate in this developing form of literacy. Workshop attendees have the opportunity to play some games, increasing their understanding of gamings appeal and possible applications in their environment.

05:30 PM

Gaming Gadgets Petting Zoo
Jenny Levine, Suburban Library System; Aaron Schmidt, walkingpaper.org
Join our gamers and gadget lovers for an evening of fun and playing. Bring your latest games and gadgets and try out each others. See if you are a guitar hero, winning Wii bowler/golfer, or rank as a dancing DDR expert. Led by gamer/gadget gurus Jenny Levine and Aaron Schmidt, this evening is filled with fun, networking, and of course, learning and laughing. Refreshments included.

Monday, April, 07

09:00 AM

Opening Keynote Libraries Solve Problems!
Lee Rainie, Pew Internet & American Life Project
Rainie discusses the findings of a major national survey that examined how Americans use the internet and libraries when they face significant issues or milestones in their lives. The survey looks at the pathways people use to get to the information they want and the kinds of information they use when facing issues such as health problems, furthering their education, and exploring government benefits. The Projects work pays particular attention to those who have limited access to the internet and the ways in which libraries might serve them.

10:30 AM

Learning From Newspaper Publishing
Brian Kroski, Observer Media Group
The recent redesign of the New York Observer website (www.observer.com) transformed the paper into a daily social news source and a revolutionary experience for its readers. By incorporating blogging, alternate content views, user commenting, tag clouds, and social bookmarking, the New York Observer has set the bar for the future of online news delivery.

10:30 AM

Going Local in the Library: Web 2.0, Library 2.0, Local 2.0
Charles Lyons, University at Buffalo
The internet has been quite effective at making information globally accessible, but local community informationinformation about the neighborhoods, towns and cities where we live, work and playhas been slower to move online. The internet has been localizing with maps and map mashups, local search engines, place blogs, locally focused online communities, and local online news sources (closely tied with citizens journalism). Hear how Web 2.0 technologies are enhancing online access to local information, Local 2.0, and building community. This session is filled with examples of how libraries can and are using technology to get more deeply involved with the flow of local information within their communities and creating their own locally focused resources to increase their importance within their communities.

10:30 AM

Hi Tech & Hi Touch
Jenny Levine, Suburban Library System
This session highlights front-of-the-pack online initiatives and innovations in all types of information enterprises that emphasize how libraries and information services provide high touch with high technology!

10:30 AM

Web 2.0 Services for Smaller, Underfunded Libraries
Sarah Houghton-Jan, San Jose Public Library
This session is for libraries struggling to provide innovative web services with little resources to devote to staff, software, or hardware. Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 sound great in concept but are seemingly impossible to implement in smaller, poorer, and/or under-technology-staffed libraries. But we too can offer excellent online services to our users! There are dozens of quick and free services that any library can add to its website. This session covers 20 easy steps that libraries can take to improve their websites with ease. If your library hasnt yet implemented new technologies on its web-site but wants to, this is the session for you.

10:30 AM

Super Searcher Shares 30 Search Tips
Mary Ellen Bates, Bates Information Services Inc.
Want to turbocharge your web research? This popular session by a confirmed super searcher is updated to the minute and jam-packed with valuable tips about how to search the web more effectively. You dont need to be an expert to use these techniques, but even long-time researchers will learn from them.

11:30 AM

Mobile Search
Megan Fox, Simmons College Library; Gary Price, Ask.com & Publisher, ResourceShelf.com
This session from two experts looks at the latest mobile search providers and potential applications for librarians and information seekers. Users on the go dont want to wade through long lists of web results, extensive scrolling, and clicking. Hear what the latest search providers deliver through SMS (texting) and web interfaces, how mobile search differs from regular web search, and see some of the more unusual and specialized mobile search services now available.

11:30 AM

Digital Convergence & People Apps
Beth Gallaway, Information Goddess Consulting
Discover ways to bring Web 2.0 tools together in new ways to bring people together or provide them with better services. Hear about blogging or twittering from Second Life and using widgets to embed information into existing webpages. This session provides an overview of applications and is filled with best practices examples.

11:30 AM

Fast & Easy Site Tune-Ups
Jeff Wisniewski, University of Pittsburgh
Looking for ways to speed up, clean up, and optimize your site with minimal effort? These 35 1-minute upgrades show you how to fine-tune your sites code, design, and structure to make your site faster, more flexible, and more standards-compliant. Do one, do 10, or do them all to maximize your sites performance in minimal time.

11:30 AM

Collaborating With Customers
Jo Ann Remshard, National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST); Mylene Ouimette, National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST)
Increasingly, research organizations are evaluating the impact of their products and results as a means of demonstrating return on investment (ROI) and proving value. NISTs Library Liaison program is collaborating with customers in innovative ways to perform these types of analyses, including creating high-visibility publishing strategies, assessing the level of investment in specific research areas, and contributing to forecasting studies. The liaisons use a variety of technology tools ranging from internal databases to commercial resources to create data sets and package results. As the liaisons collaborate with customers to demonstrate NISTs impact and effectiveness, value is demonstrated to the organization.

11:30 AM

Learning From Politics
Justine Lam, Ron Paul 2008 Presidential Campaign Committee
Ron Pauls campaign (www.ronpaul2008.com) illustrates how new web technologies are effecting democracy in America today. His campaign videos are on YouTube, his supporters on Meetup, his campaign gear sold on CafePress, his photos on Flickr, his schedule on Eventful, his social networking on MySpace and Facebook, and his news on digg.

01:30 PM

Library Web Presence: Engaging the Audience
Derik Badman, Temple University Libraries; Kristina DeVoe, Temple University Libraries; Ellysa Stern Cahoy, Penn State University; Emily Rimland, Penn State University; Binky Lush, Penn State University
From widgets to interactive subject guides, libraries are exploring ways to improve library web services. Penn State staff show how library widgets (small, portable versions of library tools) can remove barriers and enable users to add widgets to Facebook, iGoogle, or any place they want them. DeVoe and Badman describe how Temple University tackled a subject guide makeover. Using a product called LibGuides, a subject guide management system, they incorporated dynamic content such as RSS feeds, widgets, audio, video, search forms, and user comments. Learn how LibGuides encourages librarians to experiment and provides library patrons with an engaging experience. Take away new ideas, strategies for development and implementation and lessons learned rolling out these new services.

01:30 PM

Whats New With Federated Search
Frank Cervone, Chicago State University; Jeff Wisniewski, University of Pittsburgh
The federated search landscape market is bursting with vendors offering a multitude of systems with different feature sets. From basic search and retrieval to clustering and visualization, this describes the array of products available and helps you get a handle on the dynamic federated search marketplace and what steps you need to take for your environment.

01:30 PM

Mobile Trends: Hi Tech & Touch
Megan Fox, Simmons College Library
This popular, fast-paced overview of trends in mobile tools and applications for libraries looks at the current hardware available and how new technologies are making hand-held computers essential for on-the-go users. Fox highlights the latest developments in applications for mobile and hand-held tools and how these can and are being utilized by libraries and information seekers of all kinds. Come hear whats happening with traditional information vendors and mobile interfaces, the mobile optimized web, point-of-need answers, reference texting, and multimedia (such as podcasting and location-free TV) for your mobile device.

01:30 PM

The Global Librarian: Online Social Networks
Hannah Rempel, Oregon State University; Rikhei Harris, Grand Valley State University Libraries; Kate Gronemyer, Oregon State University Libraries; Laurie Bridges, Oregon State University; Joshua Neff, Johnson County Library; Steve Lawson, Colorado College
The first speakers share their experience with the free-form Library Society of the Worldan informal group of librarians who keep in touch via a wiki and Meebo chat roomand discuss the benefits and other examples of the latest ways librarians are building professional networks with blogs, wikis, IM, and more. The second group of speakers pools their resources and use a group-authored blog, infodoodads, to review and discuss new and existing tools, services, and technology for finding information on the internet. Hear how they manage the blog and their current favorite tools.

01:30 PM

Learning From Non-Profits
Sarosh Syed, Save Darfur
The Save Darfur web initiative (www.savedarfur.org) utilizes new technology to expand awareness for its cause through its main website and campaign microsites such as Eyes on Darfur. Website visitors can read about and view images of the cause, participate and become involved by signing petitions, spreading the word through emails to friends, and sending correspondence to officials all through the website. The Save Darfur site also provides RSS feeds and blogs, personalization tools such as user profiles and friends lists, as well as social networking features such as groups, events, and user blogs.

03:15 PM

High Touch With Customer Care
Amy Blaine, Inova Fairfax Hospital Health Sciences Library; Maureen Ambrosino, Central Massachusetts Regional Library System; Rob Cullin, E*vanced Solutions
Panelists illustrate high tech with high touch through their services: Catch the Beat at Your Library statewide summer reading program for children, teens, and parents; and Patient Education Matters!, which involves educating patients and their families, no matter their ethnic, linguistic, or literacy background, with web-based resources and staff blog. Learn about the successes, challenges, and rewards of integrating high tech with high touch!

03:15 PM

Widgets, Tools, & Doodads for Library Webmasters
Darlene Fichter, University of Saskatchewan Library; Frank Cervone, Chicago State University
Hop on board and look at some great tools that can help make your life easier and delight your visitors. Our experts and popular speakers are back with a whole new roster of free or inexpensive tools covering the gamut of Web 2.0 gadgets and widgets, hosted applications, server side scripts, and desktop tools. They highlight tools for people who are just starting out as well as some advanced applications for webmasters who like to dig their teeth into a bit of code.

03:15 PM

Text Mining Open Sources
Patrice Slert, Johns Hopkins Univ Applied Physics Laboratory
Librarians can use visualization software to prepare information for their customers. This session reviews some of the research discovery software packages available, gives examples of research using one of them, VantagePoint, and shares lessons learned.

03:15 PM

Learning From Real Estate
Sean Lindstone, The Real Estate Board of New York
The Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) has created a brand-new ultimate website that serves as a one-stop shopping tool for home buyers in NYC. Powered by the Trulia search technology, Residentialnyc.com strives to be one of the most consumer-friendly real estate interfaces by providing users with a wealth of information and cutting-edge tools such as heat maps, saved searches, email listings, and RSS feeds.

03:15 PM

Learning Commons: The In in CIL
Tom Ipri, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Despite the perception that patrons are abandoning libraries and conducting all their research online, library as place remains important for many users. For example, at UNLV, approximately 90% of students are commuters and Lied Library is a primary gathering place. In what ways can technology enhance patrons library experience? Many libraries have embraced the idea of a "Learning Commons" to keep pace with students technology expectations. This session reviews what innovative libraries are doing with gathering spaces to make the library experience more enlightening and fun, while also using technology to make the library a place of destination.

04:15 PM

Industry Learnings & Libraries
Ellyssa Kroski, Columbia University; Steven Cohen, Law Library Management, Incorporated
Track moderators lead an interactive discussion of highlights from the days industry speakers, what tools and techniques might be used in our libraries, and spark some innovating thinking for the future.

04:15 PM

Information Discovery With an SE Partner
JB Hill, Indiana University Bloomington; Jennifer Laherty, Indiana University Bloomington; Polly Boruff-Jones, IUPUI University Library
Indiana University and ChaCha, a search engine company, entered into "a strategic alliance for research, development, and services for the next generation of internet search tools and practices. One of the initial outcomes of the alliance has been the development of an online IU community, using ChaChas search engine architecture and guide software to enable IU librarians and information technology staff to assist IU faculty, staff, and students in finding information. The libraries have expanded their digital reference service to include technology staff to answer technology questions and extended the librarians expertise beyond the libraries web site.

04:15 PM

What Do Users Really Do in Their Native Habitat?
John Law, ProQuest; Pascal Lupien, University of Guelph; Randy Oldham, University of Guelph
Many libraries are interested in millennial customers and ways to serve them. The University of Guelph Library team, immersed in emerging services development, asked 2,700 students a number of questions to learn about their use of technology, their preferences, and online behaviors in their day-to-day lives as well as preferences with respect to online courses, searching for information, and seeking help. Hear the research findings, which challenge some of the assumptions made by librarians, and provide good information for developing new services. Law discusses ProQuests exploration of how student researchers search in their native habitat, sharing insights and audio and video excerpts from the study. Understanding the research habits of college students provides information for strategic initiatives to make libraries even more relevant to this process and for removing the chief inhibitors to using library resources successfully.

04:15 PM

Library Staff Training: High Tech & High Touch
Rebecca Ranallo Kahl, Cuyahoga County Public Library; Rebecca Ranallo Kahl, Cuyahoga County Public Library
Even in an age of Second Life, Facebook and IMing, many people still prefer to learn new things in First Life, i.e., the real world. Staff training is something every decision maker wants to offer, but when the budget rubber meets the time-crunched road, are libraries able to make it a priority? This session looks at the optionsin-house training programs, elearning, outsourcingand how the high tech Web 2.0 world can merge effectively with the high-touch needs of most learners. It relates this issue to recent research performed on behalf of WebJunction, which provides a snapshot of the state of staff training in U.S. public libraries, including dollars spent, perceived RIO, and formats offered. Gain insights and facts related to training in libraries and look at the challenges and opportunities offered by new technologies.

04:15 PM

User-Generated Content
Roy Tennant, OCLC
In addition to traditional published data (books, databases, etc.), new content streams from blogs, wikis, network-based forums (MySpace, Facebook), multimedia sites (Flickr, YouTube), etc. are everywhere. How do we integrate the new social media tools, learn from these content streams, and deliver platforms that incorporate user-generated content? Our seasoned practitioner considers the next generation of tools which may handle the increasing volume of content and looks at new opportunities for user-generated platforms.

05:00 PM

Meet The Authors Reception
Jane Dysart, Dysart & Jones Assoc.; Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission; Marylaine Block; Rachel Gordon; Randolph Hock
Meet authors Rachel Singer Gordon (What's the Alternative? Career Options for Librarians and Info Pros and The NextGen Librarian's Survival Guide), Marylaine Block (The Thriving Library: Successful Strategies for Challenging Times), Randolph (Ran) Hock, (The Traveler's Web; The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook, Second Edition; and Yahoo! to the Max), Michael P. Sauers (Blogging and RSS: A Librarian's Guide), and Jane Dysart (Intranets for Info Pros) at the Information Today, Inc. booth. Stop by to meet the authors and get your signed copy!

Tuesday, April, 08

09:00 AM

Keynote Hi Tech With Hi Touch Libraries: Innovative & Inspiring
Erik Boekesteijn, Delft Public Library; Jaap van de Geer, Delft Public Library
Feel the excitement of the Shanachietour 2007, the librarians road movie highlighting best practices in libraries across the US. Hear about the experiences. See the movie. Be inspired.

10:30 AM

Wikis: Managing, Marketing, & Making Them Work
Chad Boeninger, Ohio University Libraries
Wikis are incredibly useful tools that can be used for a variety of purposes: facilitating communication, promoting library resources, and fostering group collaboration. Wikis are fairly easy to set up, so the challenge is getting others to use a wiki and not let it become yet another stale, stagnant webpage. This session offers best practices for creating a wiki, getting others to use and contribute to the wiki, marketing the wiki, and keeping your wiki growing. It shares in-depth, firsthand experiences with three applications of wikis: a research guide (The Biz Wiki), one for internal communication (The Ref Wiki), and one for campus collaboration (The Second Life Learning Community Wiki).

10:30 AM

Laptop Labs: Face-to-Face Social Networking
Ryan Deschamps, Halifax Public Libraries
A combination of wireless internet access, laptops, and 2.0-minded staff can greatly enhance both the experience and involvement of library patrons. The effective use of a laptop lab in a library can engage both teens and older adults, support literacy and ESL programs, increase equity of access to technology among patrons, and open space for other library activities. This presentation demonstrates the benefits, costs and opportunities, and tried-and-true uses afforded by using laptops for learning instead of creating computer labs.

10:30 AM

Mashups for the Nontechies
Jody Condit Fagan, James Madison University
This session showcases Yahoo! Pipes, a web site that allows users to create customized mashups of RSS feeds and other XML-formatted information without having to write one word of code! Yahoo! Pipes visual editor allows drag-and-drop construction of data sources, filters and transformations, and customizable output. This workshop-style presentation is perfect for the librarian who wants to experiment with XML, RSS, and syndication tools but doesnt want to learn programming.

10:30 AM

Innovation Starts with I
Helene Blowers, Columbus Metropolitan Library; Tony Tallent, PLCMC
Innovation has become such a bandied word these days that in some organizations its now an expectation for library staff to be innovative from the ground up. So, where does innovation really come from? How do we kickstart something that is, by its very nature, connected to ever elusive waves of creativity? The answer: Innovation starts with I. This session will explore how I, YOU, WE are involved in responding to the needs and desires to innovate and change. Well delve into emerging library management practices, philosophies and staff programs that have allowed libraries to blossom through innovative practices. Well also provide tips and insights for front line and supervisory staff to help YOU lead the way.

10:30 AM

Next-Generation Library Interfaces
Marshall Breeding, Vanderbilt University
Following a period of widespread dissatisfaction with library OPACs, a number of projects and products have emerged to provide library interfaces more capable of satisfying the needs of web-savvy library users. New models of what constitutes a library catalog are forming, and products are now beginning to embody aspects of this new vision. Breeding provides an overview of the library catalogs and interfaces now available or in development, including both commercial and open source alternatives.

11:30 AM

"Barn Raising" One ILS at a Time
Albert Flores, Auto-Graphics, Inc; Jeff Hixon, State Library of Kansas; Patti Butcher, State Library of Kansas
This session highlights two statewide initiatives: creating consortial automated library groups using a single solution and migrating from a 40 year old union catalog to a virtual hybrid catalog that connects Z target library catalogs. It focuses on three different regional consortial solutions in place, one using Auto-Graphics Verso, one using Sirsi Unicorn, and one using Koha Zoom open source. Speakers discuss creating a virtual hybrid state union catalog overlaid with a new federated search engine. The result is a Google-like search of statewide, library-owned resources; vendor-supplied databases; digitized state documents; and the state librarys website. Implementation of Quova (geolocation software) to authenticate Kansas users automatically is addressed.

11:30 AM

Libraries A-Twitter & Using del.icio.us
Aysegul Kapucu, University of Central Florida Libraries; Athena Hoeppner, University of Central Florida Libraries; Christa Burns, NEBASE; Doug Dunlop, University of Central Florida Libraries; Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
In early 2007, librarians discovered the latest in microblogging: Twitter. The point of Twitter is to answer the question What are you doing now? in 140 characters or less via the web, client software, IM, or SMS. The first presentation shares the ups and downs of Twitter along with results of several librarian- and library-based Twitter experiments. The second presentation discusses the use of social bookmarking for library instruction, research consultations, and collaborative resource guides using del.icio.us. These presenters share experiences, address technical issues, barriers to participation, training requirements, and satisfaction.

11:30 AM

Drupal & Libraries
Ellyssa Kroski, Columbia University
Drupal, a free, open source content management system, can be utilized to create substantial social networking websites. It offers a flexible modular configuration that allows website community creators to pick and choose functionality ranging from blogs, social bookmarking tools, private messaging, tagging, chat, groups, and events calendars. This session discusses how libraries and librarians are utilizing this increasingly popular new technology to create community-based websites.

11:30 AM

Transparency, Planning, & Change: See-Through Libraries
Michael Casey, Gwinnett County Public Library; Michael Stephens, Dominican University GSLIS
Integrating technology, change management and planning, this session focuses on making the right choices for social software, staff training, and the creation of a user-driven environment. Our two leading librarians explore what makes a library transparent; offer a to-do list of strategies to make your library transparent, open, and hyperlinked; and offer a list of best practices for Web 2.0 tools, implementation, and evaluation.

11:30 AM

Mashups, Mobile Knowledge Networks, Creative Media: Models for Future Youth Services
Bonnie Peirce, Dover Town Library
Does your library youth services model effectively reach and serve digital natives? Are you global, mobile, and building participatory apps? Are you adapting your physical collection and layout, your services, your programming, your catalog, and your online presence? If you are, come and share your stuff. If you arent, come prepared to change . . . today.

01:30 PM

The Library Sandbox: Testing Innovative Ideas
Barbara Tierney, University of North Carolina - Charlotte
This session examines the Information Commons as an arena for testing innovative ideas in technology, staffing, and scope of service delivery. It traces the evolution of the Information Commons as it has been driven by changes in user needs, pedagogical theory, technology, and society (from computer lab, to Information Commons, to Learning Commons, to Teaching/ Research Commons). It discusses the vision of the Information Commons as the preferred learning environment for the digital age and looks at lessons learned from selected academic libraries as they steer their respective commons into their second Iterations.

01:30 PM

When Web Calling, Video, & Libraries Collide
Char Booth, Ohio University Libraries
Inexpensive and integrated webcams combined with higher bandwidth capacity have vastly increased the popularity of video and voice over IP services such as Skype, GTalk, and Windows Live Messenger. New advances in internet telephony and video communication present accessible, inexpensive opportunities to interact virtually and visually with patrons. From stationary video kiosks to face-to-face calling with distance users, various library applications of the technology are possible. Using the Ohio University Libraries Skype reference pilot as a case study, this session explores the trials, tribulations, and technical issues involved in enhancing electronic library services using video and voice over IP, including a discussion of scalability, video reference interactions, and the user experience.

01:30 PM

From Woepac to Wowpac Part 1
Cindi Trainor, Eastern Kentucky University Libraries; John Blyberg, Darien Public Library; Karen Schneider, College Center for Library Automation; Kate Sheehan, Darien Library; Roy Tennant, OCLC
Come hear about systems and services for the next-generation library catalog from the librarians who are making it happen. Sheehan, at the first library to go live with LibraryThing for Libraries, talks about how her library used this new service to blend librarian-driven readers advisory with the intelligence of social networking. Childress discusses the successes and surprises of WorldCat Local, OCLCs project that uses WorldCat to replace the librarys OPAC. Trainor surveys the road map of major OPAC enhancement innovations and discusses roadblocks, successes, and predictions for the future. Blyberg focuses on data architecture required for next-generation services and systems and why we need to take a holistic approach to information and knowledge brokering.

01:30 PM

Facebook Apps & Libraries Friendly Future
Cliff Landis, Valdosta State University; Laurie Bridges, Oregon State University
Since Facebook (FB) opened its platform for worldwide development, applications have skyrocketed making FB the top online social networking site. Bridges discusses the most popular applications, as well as library applications including LibGuides, Librarian, and individual library catalogs. Landis illustrates how MySpace and Facebook have changed the way that library users are interacting with each other and their libraries and highlights how the social network of the web is changing as libraries are friending their users and sharing knowledge.

01:30 PM

Creative Commons (CC): Copyright Alternative?
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
With the debate over copyright raging, with some calling for the end of the all rights reserved regime, and libraries feeling like theyre caught in the middle, just what are the alternatives? CC is the most respected alternative available today with its idea of some rights reserved as set by the content creators themselves. Sauers talks about the principles of Creative Commons, shows how you can easily apply it to your intellectual property today, and how you can use CC to find material that you can legally reuse in the creation of new content.

02:30 PM

From Woepac to Wowpac Part 2
Cindi Trainor, Eastern Kentucky University Libraries; John Blyberg, Darien Public Library; Karen Schneider, College Center for Library Automation; Kate Sheehan, Darien Library; Roy Tennant, OCLC
Come hear about systems and services for the next-generation library catalog from the librarians who are making it happen. Sheehan, at the first library to go live with LibraryThing for Libraries, talks about how her library used this new service to blend librarian-driven readers advisory with the intelligence of social networking. Childress discusses the successes and surprises of WorldCat Local, OCLCs project that uses WorldCat to replace the librarys OPAC. Trainor surveys the road map of major OPAC enhancement innovations and discusses roadblocks, successes, and predictions for the future. Blyberg focuses on data architecture required for next-generation services and systems and why we need to take a holistic approach to information and knowledge brokering.

02:30 PM

Virtual Reference: Endless Possibilites
Dan Sich, University of Western Ontario; Derik Badman, Temple University Libraries
Despite the hundreds of titles available in many e-reference packages, this wealth of information is often hidden to most usersincluding librarians. Sich talks about the use of Meebo and Skype for providing online reference service at an academic library, along with challenges, issues, use statistics, other options and future possibilities. Badman describes how Temple established a new journal room virtually using RSS, Yahoo!s Pipes mashup service, email, OPML, and other web services to bring tables of contents from journals to the user in a variety of formats (rss, email, web, widgets). A follow-up endeavor created a service to track journals for the librarians to foster continuing educational activities and disciplinary dialogue. He demonstrates how the services work and what others can do to offer similar personalized services for their patrons.

02:30 PM

Harnessing New Data Visualization Tools
Darlene Fichter, University of Saskatchewan Library
Mountains of data are piling up in libraries and corporate intranets, but how do we say it visually and make data more useful? Fichter looks at new online tools that enable sharing, analysis, and data visualization to show trends, associations and new insights on your library website that quickly engage, inform, and empower your customers to create their own visualizations. Tools such as Many Eyes go beyond the data visualization and tap into the social dimension encouraging sharing, collaboration, and reuse. Fichter talks about what happens when data goes social. From visual dictionaries, textual analysis of works of fiction, to star size and nutritional components of Big Macs, hop on board for this fast-paced look at an amazing set of tools that are at your fingertips.

02:30 PM

Demystifying & Integrating Web 2.0 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Deborah Vincelli, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Jennie Pu, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This session focuses on successful strategies for experimenting with, trusting, and integrating Web 2.0 tools in an organizations daily work. It covers marketing strange new tools to an idiosyncratic group of library users with extremely specific needs and whose discipline, art history, has typically relied on more traditional resources. Speakers demonstrate how the library staff quickly adopted Web 2.0 tools, created winning presentations for all museum staff dealing with the relevancy of these tools to scholarly research, the concern with authority and security.

02:30 PM

Libraries as Laboratories for Innovation
Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library; Matt Gullett, Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
This session features libraries that are creating virtual and physical spaces to test, play, work, create, develop, and innovate with the assistance and involvement of their publics. In an age of participative media and software our publics have an increasing desire to take part in creating the library experience for themselves and others, and this provides a great opportunity to work with other community, organizational, and corporate partners in innovating services and programs and creating new experiences. Gullett discusses his librarys game, learning and media lab initiatives that are creating physical and virtual lab spaces for several core experiences, and Schwartz talks about his innovation lab that has created a virtual interactive space that is shared with the librarys public in an effort to test new ideas, software, and services.

04:00 PM

2.0 Pecha KuchaConversation Face-Off!
Amanda Etches-Johnson, McMaster University; David Free, C&RL News, & Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL); Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library; Greg Notess, Montana State University; Aaron Schmidt, walkingpaper.org; Meredith Farkas, Norwich University
Pecha Kucha is Japanese for the sound of conversation and represents a fast-paced series of presentations. Each of our panelists has 6 minutes and 40 seconds along with 20 images to express their opinion about 2.0 technologies. Each takes a viewIM, podcasts, wikis, videocasts, Facebook, and, of course, the skeptic. See if they can do it and then join in the conversation about 2.0 technology tools and tricks.

04:00 PM

Leading Technology in Libraries: Making Time for Web 2.0
David Lee King, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library; Gina Millsap, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library
Millsap explores the digital divide between administration and staff and looks at how leadership is the key and technology the tool. She shares strategies for leading with technology, not in spite of it. King focuses on why libraries need to make time for Web 2.0; why they need to learn about and experiment with new tools; allowing staff the time needed to play with these tools; making time for Web 2.0; and facing change.

04:00 PM

IM Service: Making It Successful
Alex Hodges, American University; Jonathan Silberman, American University Library; Monecia Samuel, Purchase College Library, SUNY; Patricia West, American University Library
Establishing an IM or email reference service in an academic library sounds like a no-brainer, doesnt it? Many libraries have already done it, students are using IM, and much of the software is free and easy to usewhat could be so hard? Come hear the nuts and bolts of deciding whether to use email or chat, setting the service up, winning staff over to chat monitoring, marketing the service, and evaluating it, both the successes and challenges.

04:00 PM

Catalog Effectiveness: Google Analytics & OPAC 2.0
Jia Mi, The College of New Jersey; Rebekah Kilzer, The Ohio State University Libraries; Cathy Weng, The College of New Jersey
Kilzer provides an overview of the impact Google Analytics has on uncovering the mysteries of how users search the proprietary OPAC, as well as details on how to interpret the data and draw conclusions to aid design and policy decisions. With internet search engines (SEs) the preferred tool for finding information, Mi and Weng report on studies into the interface and searching capabilities of current OPACs and the OPAC bibliographic display. Bringing usage patterns to the forefront can provide information that helps libraries create resource discovery tools that offer users the choices and help they need, ones that rival online SEs.

04:00 PM

Video, YouTube, & Libraries
Karen McBride, Des Plaines Public Library; Nick Baker, Williams College Libraries
In a YouTube world, library patrons expect to see video content on your web site. Creating fun and interesting videos does not require expensive video equipment or outsourcing. McBride discusses how a simple video camera, a basic laptop with good video editing software, and a healthy dose of creativity and curiosity are all you need to make your library a video star. Baker, an award-winning YouTube producer, shares his secrets and inspires you to create your own videos.

07:30 PM

The Second InfoTubey Awards: YouTube Productions & CIL 2008
Bill Spence, Information Today, Inc. (conference organizer); Marshall Breeding, Vanderbilt University; Darlene Fichter, University of Saskatchewan Library; Rebecca Jones, Dysart & Jones Associates; Aaron Schmidt, walkingpaper.org
These awards are presented to those organizations or individuals for outstanding YouTube productions. Presented on the red carpet at the Computers in Libraries conference, these awards recognize those creating YouTube library-related productions. Awards are presented to the top five productions that demonstrate creativity and innovation in marketing a library or library services or enhancing the library's value. The winning productions will be shown at CIL 2008 on Tuesday evening, 7:30 p.m. 9:00 p.m. For a look at what happened last year, check out http://www.infotoday.com/CIL2007/InfoTubies.shtml .

Wednesday, April, 09

09:00 AM

Keynote Gaming, Learning, & the Information World
Elizabeth Lane Lawley, RIT/Information Technology or Microsoft
Information professionals have always been balanced at the center between knowledge, technology, and people. In our fast-paced world we need to find ways to integrate our activities into our clients and communities work flows and lives and we have to make it fun and easy! Lawley looks ahead at the opportunities and challenges associated with the new social technologies and practices, discusses recent research and trends, and provides thought-provoking insights for us as we plan for the future.

10:30 AM

Tech Tools for Effectively Managing Information
Barbara Fullerton, 10-K Wizard; Roger Skalbeck, Georgetown Law Library
This will be a fast-paced program to show 30 software programs or web-based services useful for managing and interacting with information on computers. There is a wealth of free and low-cost services and programs available, many of which are underutilized. Software and services presented include file download managers, research collection tools, web-based messaging clients, browser add-ons for troubleshooting websites, free tools for creating internet web browser toolbars, and several web-based services. Services likely to be covered include Firebug, Web Developer Toolbar, Conduit. com, Meebo, Kuler, Zotero, AddThis.com, and more.

10:30 AM

Learning from Video Games
Chad Boeninger, Ohio University Libraries
Many librarians and educators recognize the importance of video games and learning, but do not have the time or the resources to build game-based library training tools. Boeninger uses actual scenarios from popular games to demonstrate how video games attract players, retain their attention, and make them learn. The presentation offers suggestions about how librarians Many librarians and educators recognize the importance of video games and learning, but do not have the time or the resources to build game-based library training tools. Boeninger uses actual scenarios from popular games to demonstrate how video games attract players, retain their attention, and make them learn. The presentation offers suggestions about how librarians can incorporate many gaming learning principles into existing library services, resources, and instruction and also discusses the future of incorporating gaming in libraries.

10:30 AM

Speed Searching: Tips & Tricks for Speeding Up the Search
Greg Notess, Montana State University
Despite the incredible speed of information access that the web enables, it can still take some time to track down the best search strategy, search engine, or commercial data source to answer some questions. This session offers a variety of techniques, from the simple to the technologically complex, to speed up the process of searching multiple databases including search switching, bookmarklets, and some discussion of search strategies.

10:30 AM

The Open Source Landscape
Marshall Breeding, Vanderbilt University
Interest in open source software has shifted into high gear with the emergence of multiple viable options, even reaching into the ILS realm. Breeding provides an overview of the recent developments in the open source movement in the library automation arena, describes some of the current products and projects underway, and gives some perspective on this alternative versus the commercial, closed source products. He discusses some of the issues that libraries should keep in mind if they are considering implementing an open source automation system and shares his view on how the open source movement will impact the commercial library automation industry.

10:30 AM

Collaborating With YouTubers to Enhance Library Instruction
Susan Ariew, University of South Florida
Undergraduates can make significant contributions as members of multimedia production teams for academic libraries. At USF Tampa Library, an undergraduate YouTube video blogger worked with library faculty and graduate students to create an information literacy video, Databases! The video was used as part of the USF instruction program during the 200607 school year. In addition to an information literacy video, the video team also created a humorous rap video called The Chronicles of Libraria that included an anti-plagiarism theme that highlighted USF library services, which is now on YouTube.com. Ariew shares how the videos were created; the extent to which student ideas, technology skills, and creativity made it work; how the videos were used as part of the instructional program; and the undergraduate student reactions.

11:30 AM

Staff Tech Training
Maurice Coleman, Harford County (MD) Public Library; Annette Gaskins, Harford County Public Library--Abingdon Branch; Sarah Houghton-Jan, San Jose Public Library
Houghton-Jan discusses various practical approaches to developing technology training programs for staff thats relevant to both your tech novices and in-house experts all at once. Successful case studies, tools, tricks, and tips will be discussed to give attendees what they need to implement a combined program at their libraries. Then Coleman and Gaskin describe how Harford created a half-day workshop to expose library staff to the technology tools patrons are using every day in a safe learn by playing environmentthe technology petting zoo.

11:30 AM

One Click Ahead: Best of Resource Shelf
Gary Price, Ask.com & Publisher, ResourceShelf.com
Keeping up with all the changes in our industry and staying one step ahead of our clients require solid strategies to deal with this challenge. Our expert shares his top tips and techniques from the search and search engine world to ensure you stay in step with the fast changing 2.0 online information world.

11:30 AM

Gaming & Learning
Richard Glass, Nassau Community College; Marsha Spiegelman, Nassau Community College
Social networking and gaming define the millennial student. This session highlights an innovative collaboration between a reference/instruction librarian and mathematics/computer science instructor that utilized course blogs and gaming scenarios to incorporate information literacy as an integral and assessable component of math/computer science courses. Games provided the interest and incentive students needed to improve their information literacy skills, and blogs extended interaction and enhanced student/librarian relationships. Speakers discuss their partnership on information literacy game design and adaptation, research assignments, and share their lessons learned so others can try this approach.

11:30 AM

Open Source Applications
Glen Horton, SWON Libraries; Julian Clark, Georgetown University Law Library
This session investigates recent library developments that have been made with open source software. Horton provides a number of examples and discusses how libraries are giving back to the open source community, promoting the idea that information should be freely available to everyone. Clark focuses on how the open source desktop is a realistic option for libraries; reasons that may inspire a transition to open source; the assessment of user and institutional needs and resources to determine readiness for full desktop implementation on both public and staff workstations; the open source operating systems and distributions that work best in the library environment; options for technical support; examples of successful open source desktop implementations; and how and when it may be appropriate to sell the concept of the open source desktop to library administration, staff, and users. The session hopes to inspire attendees to further consider open source options for library systems, whether on a full or partial scale.

11:30 AM

Innovative Marketing Using 2.0 Tools
Helene Blowers, Columbus Metropolitan Library; Michael Porter, WebJunction.org
The rise of social networking and web 2.0 tools has created many new avenues for libraries to market themselves. Libraries can use these tools to connect with their customers in both online and in person with cool word of mouth marketing efforts. Get some strategies for viral marketing, ideas for sparking your marketing efforts, and best practices from leading edge libraries.

01:45 PM

Google Tracking: Whats New at Google & Its Competitors
Greg Notess, Montana State University
A year can be a long time on the web. Since last year's Computers in Libraries, Google has launched new interfaces and databases. Other search engines have changed their display of results as well. Come hear about the past year's worth of changes, updates, and news about Google and other search engines.

01:45 PM

Open Source Library Automation
Joshua Ferraro, LibLime; Kyrille Goldbeck, Virginia Tech
This session looks at two popular library tools. Goldbeck and Back highlight library uses of LibX, a powerful, open source tool available for Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers that connects users to their librarys resources from anywhere on the web. Ferraro gives an overview of the Koha projects latest release, Koha 3.0, and discusses why open source software will continue to change the face of library technology and empower libraries. For librarians who fear their institution wont be able to take advantage of the benefits of open source, Ferraro discusses the perceived barriers to implementation and shows how libraries are now enjoying the advantages of open sourcewith or without an IT staff.

01:45 PM

Gaming for Adults
Mark Engelbrecht, Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County; Martin House, Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
Speakers report on research into how gaming attracts adults to the public library and how it may increase their future usage of libraries. They look at trends such as the information gap and social/technological access gap and discuss how their data shows that gamers are avid users of reference services. Come and get a new perspective on adults and libraries.

01:45 PM

Giving Your Marketing and Advocacy a Second Life
Nancy Dowd, New Jersey State Library; Paula Vitakis, New Jersey State Library
Youre using Flickr and blogs. Youve created social networks on MySpace and Facebook. Youre IMing, texting, and twittering all day long. Youve even gained some notoriety on YouTube. Before your avatar drops from exhaustion, isnt it time you asked what all this 2.0 technology is really doing for your library? Learn the tricks to turn your mad Web 2.0 skills into effective marketing and advocacy results to increase exposure, funding, and support for your library. This presentation will take librarians to the next level by showing them how to incorporate Web 2.0 technologies with traditional marketing and advocacy tools to produce effective results.

01:45 PM

Elearning: IL Instruction & Out-of-the-Box Software
Robert Monge, University of South Dakota; Steve Borrelli, Washington State University; Julie Cavender, Jones Knowledge e-Global Library
As information literacy providers, librarians are in a unique position to collaborate with teaching faculty to address the educational needs of their students. Borrelli discusses the Information Literacy Education (ILE) project at WSU. Mapped to the six learning goals of the baccalaureate, university strategic plan, and a 2000 Washington State legislature mandate, the ILE project provides an opportunity to collaborate with course instructors in assignment design to incorporate IL instruction through an online learning environment. Monge & Cavender analyze what options librarians have in creating elearning tutorials from out-of-the-box software. They include an evaluation of how well these software programs incorporate the principals of cognitive-psychology learning theory, how easy the programs are to use, how tutorials can be incorporated into existing library webpages, and what services are offered to librarians within the different pricing or freeware structures.

02:45 PM

Open Source Solutions to Offer Superior Service Part 1
Eric Atkinson, Orange County Library System; George Bowman, Smithsonian Institution; Amy De Groff, Howard County Library; Kimberly Babcock Mashek, Wartburg College: Vogel Library; Ching-hsien Wang, Smithsonian Institution
Open source software is gaining more and more acceptance. From blogs to hotspots to public PCs, this session showcases open source projects that are being used in all areas of the library. De Groff talks about the many open source and open system solutions in use at Howard County Library, including but not limited to Open Office Firefox, Opera DeskNow, Joomla, and Koha. She discusses the project planning, training, outreach, and ongoing support involved in each deployment. Wang discusses the Smithsonians Research Information System design considerations, open source software and technology issues, and faceted metadata format and data mapping processes for 1.7 million objects. Atkinson discusses using the open source application Kete to build a community digital collection to which patrons can upload their own images, audio, video, web links, and documents and share their information under the terms of the Creative Commons license. Mashek discusses the OS makeover for a website, containing recommendations by academic discipline that are handpicked as scholarly or valuable internet resources by librarians and faculty members. OS software makes the site searchable and easily updated and maintained using a Windows server, Linux operating system, Microsoft Excel Worksheets, and a PHP database run by Apache. Speakers share their experience designing, implementing, promoting, and monitoring their projects.

02:45 PM

Convincing Administrators of the Validity of Virtual Worlds
Barbara Galik, Bradkey University; Kitty Pope, Alliance Library System
Virtual worlds are rapidly increasing in use by all ages and many of them are not game-oriented. How do you convince your administrator that your library needs to participate and why it is important to allow you staff time to work in a virtual world library? Speakers and library administrators share tips and strategies to help you win over your administrator.

02:45 PM

Customizing Blackboard
Robert Cagna, University of Pennsylvania Biomedical Library; Richard Cox, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Barbara Kountouzi, University of Pennsylvania Biomedical Library; Lynda Kellam, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Cox and Kellam begin by describing the planning, development and implementation pushing library content into the Blackboard course management system. Developed by the Electronic Resources and Information Technology Department (ERIT) at the University Libraries, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), this tool is built around a number of technologies and methodologies, including SOAP web services, ASP.NET, Java, Ajax, and Adobe Flex, enabling the library to provide current, customized links to databases and ejournals at the course level. This application may be the first to integrate library content dynamically into Blackboard at this level and scale. Kountouzi and Cagna then look at the ways, means, pros and cons of how University of Pennsylvania Libraries have developed a Blackboard course for storing library training documents for student workers and new library staff, combined with Google Spreadsheets to allow for a collaborative scheduling environment.

02:45 PM

Online Outreach Libraries: Successful Digital Marketing
Sarah Houghton-Jan, San Jose Public Library
In the Web 2.0 environment, library managers need to think about outreach in a very different way. Our users may still frequent brick-and-mortar community establishments, but they spend more and more time online, in both solitary and social endeavors. How do their libraries reach out to these users to help them find information? Houghton-Jan discusses ways for all libraries to find potential users online and shares tips such as community websites, local blog and forum monitoring, search engine placement, live assistance options, and more. She provides a lengthy checklist of ideas to take back to your library to successfully create an ongoing online marketing plan.

02:45 PM

Whats Hot in RSS & Social Software
Steven Cohen, Law Library Management, Incorporated
Social software is rapidly changing the way we provide information to our consumers, work together in an organizational structure, and communicate. Going beyond SEs, this session highlights cutting-edge tools and techniques for libraries, hot new trends, resources, and advice. Jam-packed with Cohens AZ listing of the hot social software and RSS tools on the market today, there will also be time for the audience to highlight favorite social software tools.

03:45 PM

Open Source Solutions to Offer Superior Service Part 2
Eric Atkinson, Orange County Library System; George Bowman, Smithsonian Institution; Amy De Groff, Howard County Library; Kimberly Babcock Mashek, Wartburg College: Vogel Library; Ching-hsien Wang, Smithsonian Institution
Open source software is gaining more and more acceptance. From blogs to hotspots to public PCs, this session showcases open source projects that are being used in all areas of the library. De Groff talks about the many open source and open system solutions in use at Howard County Library, including but not limited to Open Office Firefox, Opera DeskNow, Joomla, and Koha. She discusses the project planning, training, outreach, and ongoing support involved in each deployment. Wang discusses the Smithsonians Research Information System design considerations, open source software and technology issues, and faceted metadata format and data mapping processes for 1.7 million objects. Atkinson discusses using the open source application Kete to build a community digital collection to which patrons can upload their own images, audio, video, web links, and documents and share their information under the terms of the Creative Commons license. Mashek discusses the OS makeover for a website, containing recommendations by academic discipline that are handpicked as scholarly or valuable internet resources by librarians and faculty members. OS software makes the site searchable and easily updated and maintained using a Windows server, Linux operating system, Microsoft Excel Worksheets, and a PHP database run by Apache. Speakers share their experience designing, implementing, promoting, and monitoring their projects.

03:45 PM

Integrating Second Life (SL): Courses & Collections
Krista Godfrey, McMaster University; Troy Swanson, Moraine Valley Community College; Craig Anderson, Kean University; Laurence Sloma, Moraine Valley Community College
Many business and educational institutions have been opening up shop in cyberspace with the SL online virtual reality platform. Anderson and Godfrey explain how academic libraries are using SL to reach elusive patrons and offer services such as virtual reference. Swanson and Sloma talk about a collaborative project that brought together student content, cultural events, and virtual worlds. A class of honors students worked with the library to create the core content and supporting research for a virtual exhibit about Malcolm X. Geographic material and supporting timelines was presented in a website that utilized Google Maps and a three dimensional exhibit in SL. Speakers discuss how the virtual environment impacted the presentation of content and services and changed interactions between content and user, and provide tips, tricks, and strategies for instituting a virtual branch of your own academic library and enhancing digital collections.

03:45 PM

Findability: Information not Location
Mike Creech, University of Michigan University Library; Ken Varnum, University of Michigan University Library
Learn how to foster user-friendly digital information flows by eliminating silos, highlighting context and improving findability to create a unified web presence. Hear how the University of Michigan Libraries' (MLibrary) are reinventing the libraries' web sites to emphasize information over the path users previously took to access it. By elevating information over its location, users are not forced to know which library is the "right" starting place. The talk includes tips for your library web redesign process and user-centric design process.

03:45 PM

Vidcasting: Screencasts for Mobile Video-Enabled Devices
Susan Slaga, Central CT State University; Debbie Herman, Central CT State University
The Burritt Library at CCSU has produced over a dozen short screencasts using Adobe Captivate on topics ranging from using digital course reserves to searching article databases and the library catalog. These screencasts, available on the Burritt Library website, have been used extensively by faculty and students. As part of a larger podcasting initiative in 2007, the library extended access to these for viewing on a video iPod and other video-enabled mobile devices. The presentation covers the technical aspects of optimizing library screencasts for the iPod, including the software used, costs involved, options for making vidcasts available to students, promotion, and evaluation of the usage and effectiveness as a learning tool.

03:45 PM

Talking 2.0 to Faculty
Sarah Faye Cohen, Champlain College
Librarians and students may be embracing technology, but what about our faculty? Have you ever seen their glazed-over look when you mention IM, wikis, RSS, blogs? Have you noticed the puzzled expressions as you talk about Second Life or Facebook? This session discusses welcoming faculty to 2.0 and presenting constructive ways for faculty to bring technology into their lives and into their classrooms.

Thursday, April, 10 (Post-conference)

09:00 AM

Public Library Conversations: Insights & Innovation
David Lee King, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library; Helene Blowers, Columbus Metropolitan Library; John Blyberg, Darien Public Library; Aaron Schmidt, walkingpaper.org; Sarah Houghton-Jan, San Jose Public Library
Join this interactive forum and discuss with your colleagues the small and large topics most important to you, your library, and your community. Bring ideas from the conference and share conversations with your colleagues. Gain insights and inspiration from industry leaders. Jump-start your plans for new and exciting programs for your community. Brainstorm, bounce ideas, and bring your success stories.

09:00 AM

Screencasting 101: Creating Online Tutorials in Less Than 30 Minutes
Greg Notess, Montana State University
Online tutorials used to be extremely time intensive to create. With the increase in reference and instruction to distant users in all types of libraries and the need for just-in-time learning in many organizations, we need quicker ways to create tutorials to transfer information and demonstrate online library resources. New tools make it quick and easy to create online demonstrations and tutorials with a minimum of effort, to record screen actions, and to add a voice commentary. Explore using software such as Camtasia, Captivate, and Wink to quickly create online tutorials for your distance users.

09:00 AM

Ajax for Libraries
Jason Clark, Montana State University Libraries; Karen Coombs, University of Houston Libraries
Learn all about the alternative approach to building web applications as seen in popular Web 2.0 sites such as Google Maps, Flickr, and Netvibes. Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) is changing the way that users are able to interact with web applications. These changing user expectations can and will have implications for the next generation of library applications. This workshop introduces the concepts behind the Ajax method, provides examples of library applications of Ajax, and walks through the code that makes it all happen. Walk away with an understanding of Ajax, working examples of Ajax in action, and the confidence to start creating your own Ajax apps.

09:00 AM

130 Web Tips, Tricks, Tools, and Resources in 160 Minutes
Steven Cohen, Law Library Management, Incorporated
Get your coffee ready because youll need to be wide awake for 3 hours of Steven Cohens favorite online tips, tricks, tools, and resources. Cohen reveals which tools assist in making users, colleagues, and family members happy. From Firefox plug-ins to Web 2.0 startups to mashups to RSS tricks, attendees of this workshop will leave with an arsenal of information and applications to bring back to their organizations. Knowledge is power, and this workshop assists librarians of all specialties in becoming current and up-to-date with the new and most exciting web tools available.