ACRL-OR at OLA 2008 Annual Conference
Tutorials 2.0 Pre-Conference | 9 am-4 pm Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Sponsors: TRIP, ACRL-OR
Presenters: Anne-Marie Deitering, Rachel Bridgewater, Karen Munro
About: Teaching librarians and technology trainers have long used the Internet to create flexible, shareable learning objects and to augment their classroom instruction. Emerging web technologies now allow library instruction to become ambient, user-centered, agile, and responsive.
2008 OLA/WLA Joint Conference Survey Results
Library Environment | Percentage |
---|---|
Tech Services | 26% |
Public Services | 42% |
Administrative | 24% |
Systems | 13% |
Other | 5% |
Topics | Interest (1 = Very Interesting, 5 = Not Interesting) |
---|---|
Management of small academic libraries | 1.2 |
Making user-friendly catalogs | 1.7 |
Collection development & open access | 2.0 |
Culture shock in the library: Keeping up with change | 2.2 |
Competitors of libraries: What they do better | 2.2 |
Library assessment | 2.2 |
How to conduct usability tests | 2.2 |
Collection development of electronic resources | 2.2 |
Networking with students online | 2.3 |
Doing big things with very little | 2.3 |
Collection development & assessment | 2.3 |
Library liaison outreach | 2.4 |
Preservation of intellectual freedom & alternative perspectives | 2.4 |
Federated searching | 2.4 |
Current issues of copyrights & licensing | 2.5 |
Privacy & technologies in libraries | 2.5 |
Growing leaders within the library | 2.6 |
Cataloging electronic documents | 2.7 |
Information literacy | 2.7 |
Grant writing basics | 2.9 |
Records management | 3.1 |
Management of libraries apart of larger organization | 3.1 |
Cataloging serials | 3.2 |
Cataloging audie & video/DVDs | 3.2 |
Archives & museums | 3.3 |
Evaluating disaster plans | 3.4 |
Additional topics suggested included the future of cataloging, management of small academic libraries, database construction for serials, and creating an assessment plan for a library.