8:30 am – 9:15 am |
Registration, Coffee, Poster Sessions |
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9:15 am – 9:45 am |
President’s Address/Introductions |
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9:45 am – 10:30 am – [listen to audio file] |
Dr. Julie Todaro, ACRL President –
21st Century Libraries : Indentifying, Assessing and Integrating Trends
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Keeping up with “future directions” or “trends” for 21st higher education environments can be a full time, year round job for administrators, managers and front line librarians as “what’s new,” “what’s next” and “what’s appropriate” must be continuously addressed for successful planning and budgeting. Establishing a process for integrating trend elements in libraries includes determining the appropriate trends, risks associated with trends, the value of trend elements, uses of trends and the managment of trends to extinction or integration.
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10:30 am – 10:45 am |
Break and Poster Sessions |
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10:45 am – 11:30 am – [listen to audio file]
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Jennifer Bowen – Envisioning an “eXtensible” Future: Opportunities presented by the eXtensible Catalog (XC) Project |
With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University of Rochester and partner institutions, the University of Rochester River Campus Libraries is developing open-source software to provide libraries with an alternative way to reveal their collections to users. The eXtensible Catalog (XC) will run alongside a library’s current Integrated Library System to provide more intuitive access to resources, a customizable interface to include Web 2.0 functionality, seamless connections to other web applications such as learning management systems, and sophisticated metadata services capabilities. This presentation will explore the effect that software such as XC may have upon the future of library catalogs, library cataloging, and libraries in general.
Presentation:
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11:30 am – 12:15 pm |
Monika Antonelli – The Greening of Libraries |
This session will examine the emergence of green libraries. The presentation will provide an introduction to green building, a review of existing green library buildings, and a look at green programs offered in libraries. The role librarians can play in creating green communities will also be discussed.
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12:15 pm – 1:30 pm |
Lunch/Poster Sessions |
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1:30 pm – 2:15 pm – [listen to audio file] |
Chad Boeninger – Have You Got a Gameplan?: Adapting Our Libraries to the Needs of Gamers |
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. This presentation 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.
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2:15 pm – 3:15 pm |
Panel Discussion & Questions; Marsha Spiegelman, Moderator |
[…] Jennifer Bowen of Rochester University is co-principle investigator on an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded prject to develop “open-source software to provide libraries with an alternative way to reveal their collections to users.” In her presentation, Jennifer described some of the limitations of current library metadata, and talked about ways this XC project could address these limitations. The XC catalog “will run alongside a library’s current Integrated Library System to privde more intuitive access to resources, a customizable interface to include Web 2.0 functionality, seamless connections to other web applications…and sophisticated metadata services capabilities.” (https://acrlnysymp2008.wordpress.com/about/) […]