This year’s conference will showcase practical applications of new tools – and innovative uses of tried-and-true tools – that support learning, outreach, or reference.
Date: Friday, October 15, 2010
Location: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Registration fee: $80 (includes Continental Breakfast and Lunch)
Please register early to avoid disappointment; attendance is capped at 120.
To register or for more information, please visit the conference web site at <http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/services.htmld/OctCon2010/>.
If you have a question about registration, please call Erin Branch at (603) 650-1661 or email her at erin.branch@dartmouth.edu .
PROGRAM:
8:00 – 9:00 Registration and continental breakfast
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome
9:15 – 10:00 “The Mayor of Everywhere: Using Social Tools to Be More Places at Once”
- Jessamyn West, Library Technologist, Randolph Technical Career Center, Randolph, VT, Author of librarian.net blog
10:00 – 10:30 “Blending the Old with the New: Methods for Modernizing a Credit-Based Research Skills Class”
- Laurie Sabol, Library Instruction Coordinator, Tisch Library, Tufts University
- Regina Raboin, Science Librarian, Tisch Library, Tufts University
10:30 – 11:00 “Beyond the “That’s Cool” with Web 2.0 in the Virtual and Face-to-Face Classroom”
- Anne de la Chapelle, Visiting Assistant Librarian, Feinberg Library, State University of New York – Plattsburgh
- Karen Volkman , Associate Librarian, Feinberg Library, State University of New York – Plattsburgh
11:00 – 11:15 Break
11:15 – 11:45 “Library Instruction Webinars: Objectives, Trials, and Faculty Collaboration”
- Rosanna Kowalewski, Instruction & Outreach Librarian for Education, Psychology & Sociology, University of Massachusetts Lowell Libraries
- Donna Mullin, Instruction & Outreach Librarian for Management & Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell Libraries
11:45 – 12:00 “No Chad Left Behind! Increasing Student Participation with PollEverywhere”
- Jennifer Ditkoff, Collection Development Librarian, Mason Library, Keene State College
- Kara Young, Systems Librarian, Mason Library, Keene State College
12:00 – 12:30 “Cool at Rauner: Blogging Special Collections”
- Jay Satterfield, Special Collections Librarian, Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College Library
- Joshua Shaw, Technology Coordinator, Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College Library
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 2:00 “Opening Doors with Open Source”
- Emily Alling, Library Director, Rice-Aron Library, Marlboro College
- Amber Johnson, Reference & Technology Librarian, Rice-Aron Library, Marlboro College
2:00 – 2:20 “Flypaper for Questions: Using Twitter to Find Questions and Reach Non-Users”
- Andy Burkhardt, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Champlain College
2:20 – 2:40 “Doubling Up: Leveraging Existing Technology to Provide More Library Instruction with the Same Staff”
- Jennifer Ferguson, Reference Librarian, Regina Library, Rivier College
2:40 – 3:00 “Wrap-up”
- Bill Garrity, Director of Biomedical Libraries, Dartmouth College/Dartmouth Medical School and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center