Tuesday, 29 April 2008 Session Descriptions
8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Library Makeover in Four Easy Steps (Cnyn 2/B)
Is your collection getting lost on the shelves? Do your public, school or academic library users miss the good items in your collection? Weeding and popularizing collections, bringing down the shelving heights, using eye-catching displays and good space planning can transform a library and its services without expensive remodeling. This seminar will show you how.
The seminar elements include the following:
- Visioning the library's service role in the community and/or school
- Focusing the collection on what is most important.
- Determining how and what to weed, re-proportion and develop in the collection to increase circulation
- Using valuable tools to determine realistic collection sizes and appropriate shelving heights.
- Using a variety of methods to plan shelving and library layouts.
Attendees will take back to their libraries procedures and formulas that will guide them in looking objectively at their libraries and making changes that will bring their collections to life.
Government Information in the 21st Century: a toolkit of online resources for all reference librarians (Trd Smnr Thtr)
Online information from the U.S. is a great source for “hot topic” research, costs nothing, and is copyright-free. Covers the basics of online government information, and focuses on selected topics such as demographics, elections and political process, consumer information, etc..
Cancelled--From Snake Oil to Penicillin: Evaluating Consumer Health Information on the Internet (SLC PubLib 2)
This 3-hour hands-on course will introduce participants to issues surrounding the quality of health information resources on the internet. Participants will be provided with a set of recommended criteria to be used to evaluate health information websites. Objectives: • Become familiar with unique issues surrounding health information on the internet. • Understand the nature of web-based resources and why people post information to the internet. • Evaluate health information web sites using a set of criteria provided so that you can determine whether or not the sites are trustworthy sources of health information
Helping Your Patrons Get Across The Ocean (FHL)
Often one of the biggest challenges in genealogical research is helping your patrons get back to their roots across the ocean to the old country. This class will provide an in-depth experience for setting up the research interview, asking the right questions, and using the best available tools to help your patrons (or you!) have success finding their ancestors.
Cancelled--PubMed-Part 1 (UofU Eccles 1)
The PubMed database is one of the most powerful and unique free biomedical databases that exists! Yes, Google Scholar is an effective tool for health information, but PubMed is more current and comprehensive. Any library providing health information services should have a librarian on staff familiar with PubMed. PubMed is not an intuitive database. The most effective way to master this database is to attend an in person class. Instructors will teach how to search effectively, understand the search results, and customize the database. Participants will learn that there are aids so one need not necessarily understand complex or sophisticated medical terminology, or even know the exact spelling of medical terms. Librarians who need to assist others in searching for more technical health information and in greater
8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Interact & Inform: Why's and How's of Blogs, Wiki's and Myspace (preconference lasts until 1:00 p.m.) (SLC PubLib 1)
Join us for a hands on workshop demonstrating the latest in Web 2.0 collaborative applications. You will learn the fundamentals of blogs, wiki's, and social networking websites through hands on creation and implementation of these invaluable tools.
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Extreme Library Makeover (Cnyn 3/C)
Cost: $38.00--member pre-registration
$45.00--non-member and on site.
The library of the future is all about people, not protecting the stacks. Come and learn new things about making your library space welcoming, patron friendly, and more like retail stores. Give your library image and your circulation a boost! This full day workshop includes:
Put Las Vegas Glitz into your Library by Anna Vaillancourt, Las Vegas-Clark County Library District. See how circulation desks have changed and swap stories on dazzling new trends at a circ desk near you! A literature review and lively discussion will generate shiny new ideas to use back home.
Wheelchair Roundup: Interactive Exercises in Access by Jane Hatch, Kansas City KS Public Library. Through a group of interactive exercises participants will experience access challenges that can be alleviated with practical fixes.
Merchandising your Library by Marsha Leclair-Marzolf & Scott Russell, Salt Lake County Library Services. A practical discussion of the importance of merchandising and displays in the library, including display design basics and a slide show of ideas from bookstores and libraries around the country.
Extreme Library Makeover by Anne Marie Luthro of Envirosell. A fascinating look at her firms research on how customers shop, all tailored to libraries. She will include the look of your library from the outside in, shopping behavior, entrances, oases, checkout counters, and what we can do to become more service oriented in our library design. After almost 15 years of watching people shop, Anne Marie still professes a love of her job and of shopping; some call it a sickness.
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
MPLA Board Mtg (Cnyn I/A)
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¿No Comprende? Spanish Health Information Resources for English Speaking Librarians (SLC PubLib 2)
Do you have a growing Latino population in your community? Do you need to find health information in Spanish fast but don’t know where to look? Are the only words in your Spanish vocabulary burrito and gracias? If you answered yes to these questions, then this is the class for you. This 4-hour hands-on class will cover resources for learning basic, library, medical, and Internet Spanish vocabulary. You will also learn to evaluate and identify health websites in Spanish to which you can direct your patrons.
The Latest and Greatest from the Family History Library (FHL)
This session will give an introduction to the latest and most exciting initiatives at the Family History Library. We are partnering with other institutions to offer thousands of digital books online. Additionally, there is a new FamilySearch Wiki that will allow for collaboration and research help from experts never before available. Finally, there will be a demonstration of new software from the Family History Department allowing access to millions of family history records online.
Cancelled--PubMed-Part 2 (UofU Eccles 1)
See above description for Part 1
5:00 p.m.
Exhibits Opening Reception
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Welcome Reception (Grand Ballroom)
Times Vary, approximately 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Dine Arounds – Round 1 (Meet at the Registration Desk)
7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
The MPLA Leadership Institute Reunion Reception (Salt Lake City Public Library, 210 East 400 South, Level 4 Meeting Room)
Alumni from the MPLA Leadership Institute will gather at the Salt Lake City Public Library to enjoy an appetizer buffet with fellow Ghost Ranch attendees. Reservations required and the cost is $20 per person. Checks should be made out to Mary Bushing and sent to her at: 2121 S. Tracy Ave, Bozeman, MT 59715. For questions, contact Mary at: marying@msn.com or 406-539-5201.