Friday, 02 May 2008 Session Descriptions
6:30 a.m.
Rise and Shine City Creek Walk/Run
HEART members will lead you on an invigorating outing to beautiful City Creek Canyon, one mile from the Hilton. Runners and walkers are welcome, and participants may go anywhere from two to five miles. Come and get your glow on!
8:30 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
Closing Breakfast with David Lee King (Grnd Bllrm)
David Lee King is the Digital Branch & Services Manager at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, where he plans, implements, and experiments with emerging technology trends. He has spoken in the U.S. and Canada about emerging trends, website usability and management, digital experience planning, and managing techie staff, and has been published in many library-related journals. David writes the Internet Spotlight column in Public Libraries Magazine with Michael Porter. David maintains a blog at http://www.davidleeking.com
Join David for breakfast and a discussion of technology in libraries. Register using the online conference registration form.
10:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
Board Meeting (this session lasts until 2:00 p.m.) (Grnt Brdrm)
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Crossing Paths to Connect Educators and Learners with Online Resources (Grnt Cnf Ctr)
Utah State University and the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) are collaborating to provide access to online educational resources through the NSDL and other collections found on the internet. School library media specialists, teachers, and technology coordinators have access to a free tool called the Instructional Architect (IA). IA allows educators to package these online resources into web pages for use in classroom settings. The Utah State University DL Connect research group provides free professional development workshops that teach how to use the IA and the NSDL. This presentation will provide an introduction to high-quality online learning resources and an introduction to the Instructional Architect, showing sample projects from school librarians on topics like media literacy, internet safety, and copyright. We'll explain our latest research related to professional development workshops with the Instructional Architect and its use by classroom teachers. We'll also report our efforts to investigate the design of teacher-created instructional activities according to a framework from Brown and Edelson, characterizing teacher designs as offloads, adaptations, or improvisations.
Website in a Box: A Simple Solution to a Tough Problem (LL Salon 1)
Small libraries frequently face quite a challenge when it comes to getting their library represented on the Web. Lack of technical skills (and the time to develop them!), lack of funds, and lack of certainty of how to begin are common barriers for many librarians trying to create a web presence for their libraries and their community. In 2007, the Utah State Library teamed up with BCR in an attempt to find a sustainable solution to this problem for the state’s many small libraries. Join us to discuss our approach to this common dilemma, to take a peek at some of the websites that came out of the project, and to hear from some of the librarians involved.
Along a Greener Path: Utah Libraries Taking Action (LL Salon 2)
The goal of this program is to raise the environmental consciousness of attendees and to promote the idea that it is feasible to incorporate greening and sustainable practices into libraries by rethinking our processes, reducing and recycling waste, and reusing or purchasing recycled materials.
Managing the Research Process with Zotero (LL Salon 3)
This session will examine how Zotero integrates with the research process and the advantages of using it. Zotero is an add-on software product for Firefox and Netscape web browsers. It is a bibliographic management system like RefWorks, EndNote or Reference Manager that interfaces with many commercial databases. It is a note taking system that allows you to even place notes on screen captures like Microsoft Notes. Best of all, it is free.
Busman's Holiday (Cnyn I/A)
Are you considering constructing or remodeling your library? Join us as we look at the lessons learned from visits to over 25 different public libraries in 2007. Examples of new trends in library design will be explored in photos and general lessons derived.
Susan Guevara: Illustrator & Winner of the Pura Belpre Award (Cnyn 2/B)
Susan Guevara is the illustrator of Chato and the Party Animals and Chato's Kitchen, both winners of the Pura Belpre Award. These richly illustrated children's books illuminate the Hispanic/Latino experience. Ms. Guevara shares her insights into illustration and working with all people to open the door to cultural discussion.
Libraries in the Metaverse (Cnyn 3/C)
Focusing on Second Life, this program will explore the "physical" presence of libraries in the virtual world and discuss the potential benefit of Second Life to libraries in terms of hosting library programs and social networking among librarians and library communities. This program will be presented by David Alexander, Digital Access ID Weeks Library, The University of South Dakota.
Off the Beaten Path: the American Literary Underground Comes to Utah (Trd Smnr Thtr)
Utah State University, in Logan, Utah, has one of the nation’s largest collections of literature from the Beat Generation and related literary and artistic movements, from the San Francisco Renaissance to the New York School and the Black Mountain School. The collections include fine-press chapbooks, artists’ books, little magazines, broadsides, and audio and visual materials. Surprisingly, the collections contain a number of regional items primarily from Idaho and Utah. Fifty years after the heyday of the Beat movement, we invite you to come and learn about these collections and their cultural and academic importance. Special materials cataloger Denis Brunke will discuss how the materials were acquired by Utah State University and how the collections have been organized and described. Brad Cole, director of Special Collections and Archives, will discuss the use of the collection and our vision for its future growth. Finally, Utah bookseller Ken Sanders will discuss local and regional connections to these broader underground poetry and literature scenes and why these materials are important to collect. A sample of books, little magazines, and broadsides will be on display at the presentation, plus a larger exhibit of USU material will be on exhibit at Ken Sanders Rare Books in Salt Lake City during the conference.
Library 2.0 (Topaz)
Many libraries are using 2.0 tools and developing a library 2.0 model. I wonder, in the end, what it would look like when it would be considered implemented. Granted, any movement for change is one, in which, there isn't a destination, but a constant movement towards some sort of "Nirvana" if you will. A goal in which all of what is desired is implemented and working as it should.
If we look at the issue in a macro term, we stop thinking about a library and we begin to think about service. We then begin to think about what type of service is best for a community. The 2.0 part is how that service is communicated and implemented. How much control is relinquished so that the individuals in that community decide the best library services?
This program is intended to clarify 2.0 concepts. Participants will learn how to identify their library's place in the scale and how to move their library into the future.
11:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.
LibGuides: Library 2.0 Solutions to Course and Subject Guides (Grnt Cnf Ctr)
Utah State University librarians will describe experience with the web tool, LibGuides, which makes it easy to create pathfinders or class-related web pages. We will demonstrate using LibGuides to create a page and point out specific features that distinguish this from other web authoring software. Individual subject librarians will briefly describe their use of LibGuides for varied needs in teaching and research in several disciplines. We will discuss statistics we have gathered that provide evidence of use at the levels of LibGuide pages and links within pages.
PBwiki @ SLCOLIB in a Virtual Space (LL Salon 1)
Do you want a Wiki? Come and learn how to set up and start a wiki for your own library system. This session will have a live demonstration on how we adapt this web 2.0 tool and turn it into a collaborative and dynamic knowledge base of our services. We will also share some tips, cool web 2.0 tools, applications, widgets, and social networking tools to help you start your wiki like a breeze.
Funding Digital Collections: Perspectives from seekers and providers (LL Salon 2)
Successful grant recipients describe funding experiences and give advice for funding digital collections while representatives from funding agencies tell what they are looking for in grant applications. David Hales, Randy Olsen, Susan Salem, Jamie Weeks and others.
The Jigsaw Classroom (LL Salon 3)
The Jigsaw Classroom has been an effective teaching method used to promote active learning in the classroom and counter the passive lecture approach. The Jigsaw method divides an instruction into separate parts or jigsaw puzzle pieces. Each student learns a different piece of the puzzle. Students with different pieces of the puzzle are then grouped together to teach each other what they have learned.
Interactive tutorials are a form of E-Learning used to provide information and build specific task oriented skills using receptive, directive, and guided discovery techniques.
While the jigsaw puzzle method of instruction has a proven track record as a successful collaborative learning technique, it is sometimes difficult to employ in a time sensitive 50-minute one-shot library instruction.
In the past, special programming skills were required to create interactive tutorials. Now, there is a wealth of E-Learning out-of-the-box software that makes it simple to create interactive tutorials without having to have any programming experience
This session will discuss how to transform a 50 minute one-shot library instruction into a Jigsaw Classroom environment using interactive tutorials. The session will include a discussion on how to design pedagogically sound interactive tutorials. It will also include a working example and class outline.
Needs Analysis and Planning; Resources and Preparation (Cnyn 1/A)
Today’s Public Libraries grow in many different ways to meet the needs of community, technology, circulation, and programming. As the definition of “Library” is constantly changing in today’s progressive world libraries are becoming information hubs with the technology offered today planning for the future can be an overwhelming task. This course will cover three objectives, first to educate about resources available, second how to use those resources in an effective way, and third setting up steps to implement your plan into action. You will learn how to more effectively implement resources from the State of Utah Division of Libraries, University Research on Public Libraries, and Needs Analysis Examples.
MPLA Business Meeting (Cnyn 2/B)
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Teen Programs that Work (Cnyn 3/C)
Join Salt Lake City and County Librarians as they discuss successful Teen Programs. Covered will be Starting a Teen Galley Project, Teen Advisory Boards, Reaching Tech Savvy Teens, Gaming, Battle of the Bands, and Teen Summer Reading Club ideas.
New Habits to Manage the Work+Life Balance (Trd Smnr Thtr)
Spring is an ideal time to plant new habits. This program will help you harness the fresh energy of the season in order to set simple, attainable goals to nourish positive habits. Isabel Clark is an enthusiastic, encouraging, and empathetic health counselor, who will assist you in sifting through the discordant information and hype to find the right lifestyle choices to support your health and life goals. Her holistic approach will touch on many aspects of life, including career, diet, physical activity, sleep, relationships, spirituality, laughter, joy, self-expression, and creativity. About Isabel Clark: Isabel H. Clark is a holistic nutritionist and wellness counselor focusing on food and lifestyle coaching. Her personalized wellness programs and fun, lively classes make natural, wholesome, healthful, home-prepared foods and supportive, positive lifestyle choices accessible to busy Washington D.C.–area professionals, homemakers, and students.
Employee Management (Topaz)
The purpose of this program is to provide tips and techniques on how to manage employees. Employees are the most important asset to an organization and one bad apple can spoil the bunch. How can you identify when you have a problem? How do I handle conflicts between staff members? What do I do if it comes down to termination?
Content will include research about workplace behavior, how workplace behavior can become toxic, and provide practices so that your employees work better as a team and can quash negative behaviors themselves.
The objective of this program is to provide new supervisors and managers tools to handle employees and understand the difference between somone who may need simple correction, or someone who needs serious attention.