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Join us for a series of Tech Workshops Buck, Marguerite 29 Sep 2006 18:25 UTC

Solving the Puzzle of Library Technology ... Piece by Piece:

a five-part series of workshops presented by Tri-state College Library
Cooperative (TCLC)

First session - November 15, 2006 -- 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM  --  The American
College, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

Registration is $30.00  --  Lunch on site is included

This workshop series has been partially funded with Federal Library
Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds administered by the Office of
Commonwealth Libraries

Roy Tennant, User Services Architect for the California Digital Library,
presents "The Academic Library in an Internet World"  Breakthrough
Internet-based businesses like Google and Amazon have both raised user
expectations of information services as well as demonstrated new
possibilities.  What is the appropriate position of an academic library
in this new environment? What are we best positioned to do, and what
should we leave to others to do? How should academic libraries change to
better serve the needs of their academic clientele? These and related
questions will be explored in a talk in which there are no sacred cows.

Roy Tennant,  User Services Architect for the California Digital Library
is the owner of the Web4Lib and XML4Lib electronic discussions, and the
creator and editor of Current Cites, a current awareness newsletter
published every month since 1990. His books include Managing the Digital
Library (2004), XML in Libraries (2002), Practical HTML (1996), and
Crossing the Internet Threshold: An Instructional Handbook (1993). Roy
has written a monthly column on digital libraries for Library Journal
since 1997 and has written numerous articles in other professional
journals.  In 2003, he received the American Library Association's
LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Excellence in Communication for
Continuing Education.

Steven J. Bell, Director, Paul J. Gutman Library, Philadelphia
University, presents "Are You Feeling The Pressure? The Ratcheting Up of
Academic Library Technology"  Are you feeling more pressure in your
library to not only keep up with the latest technologies, but to
implement them now because everyone else is too? This presentation
addresses the challenge of the technology ratchet, and how to keep it
from tightening its grip around your staff and patrons. Steven Bell will
share ideas and techniques for regaining control over library technology
with an exploration of how we might better identify and adopt the
technologies that are right for our libraries, how we can more
effectively offer staff development for using those technologies, and
how each staff member can develop a personal professional development
strategy for staying ahead of the technology curve.

Steven J. Bell is Director of the Paul J. Gutman Library at Philadelphia
University. Prior to that he was the Assistant Director of the
Lippincott Library of the Wharton School at the University of
Pennsylvania. He obtained his Doctorate in Education in 1997 from the
University of Pennsylvania, and his Master of Science in Library Science
from Drexel University in 1977. He writes and speaks frequently on
topics such as information retrieval, library and learning technologies,
and academic librarianship. An Adjunct Professor at the Drexel
University College of Information Science and Technology, he teaches
courses in online searching and academic librarianship. He maintains a
Web site and Weblog, "Steven Bell's Keeping Up Web Site" and "The
Kept-Up Academic Librarian", that promote current awareness skills and
resources. He is also a member of the ACRLog blogging team. Steven is a
co-founder of the Blended Librarian's Online Learning Community on the
Learning Times Network and has participated in numerous virtual
presentations. For additional information about the author or to find
links to the various Web sites he publishes and maintains, point your
browser to http://staff.philau.edu/bells.

Panel discussion will follow offering descriptions of specific
implementations and challenges as well as responses to the "Taiga Forum
Provocative Statements", March 10, 2006
(http://www.taigaforum.org/docs/ProvocativeStatements.pdf )

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Register for this session by November 1, 2006 by completing this form
and forwarding it with payment of $30.00 to

Tri-state College Library Cooperative, c/o Rosemont College Library,
1400 Montgomery Avenue, Rosemont, PA 19010

phone: (610) 525-0796    fax: (610) 525-1939    email: tclc@hslc.org

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Registration form also available at www.tclclibs.org

Series Second Session - December 12, 2006  West Chester University
Graduate Business Center

"Social Software and Libraries (IM, RSS, Blogs, Wikis, Folksonomies,
Social Bookmarking and more): what pieces of the puzzle do we need to
know and how do they fit into the big picture" with Edward Corrado and
Jim Robertson.  Registration to follow.

Coming soon in 2007 ...

Series Third session --  February 2007 - Hands-on workshop partnering
librarians and faculty to begin a project that promotes library
integration into academic coursework.

Series Fourth session -  April 2007 - Using PDAs, handhelds and mobile
technologies in libraries.

Series Fifth session - June 2007 - A long look at visual catalogs.  Does
the OPAC fit into the puzzle?

Registration to follow.  Connect to www.tclclibs.org

Marguerite

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Marguerite Buck, M.S.L.S

Serials Librarian

Gabriele Library

P.O. Box 705

Immaculata University

Immaculata, PA 19345

610-647-4400, EX. 3833

mbuck@immaculata.edu