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Apologies for cross-pollination. Greetings, Art Librarians! For those of you looking for ways to leverage IT resources to meet user needs, check out this pre-conference at ALA: Strange Bedfellows: IT and Reference Collaborations to Enhance User Experiences Register for this fun and interactive preconference by May 13 to get the Advanced Registration Rate! The RSS-MARS Pre-Conference Planning Committee is pleased to announce the speaker line-up for Strange Bedfellows on June 24, 2011 in NOLA: * Char Booth, Instruction Services Manager & E-Learning Librarian, The Claremont Colleges Library: Keynote on the innovative technology-driven potential of meeting user needs when reference departments work in collaboration with IT. * Dan Suchy, User Services Technology Analyst & Matthew Critchlow, Web Technical Manager, University of California, San Diego: Mobile apps * Joanne Kossuth, Technology Strategy Team Member at Educational and Institutional Cooperative Purchasing: Technology Strategy Team Member at Educational and Institutional Cooperative Purchasing: Sharing resources between institutions * Tom Maier, Senior Director Special Projects & Catherine Murray-Rust, Dean of Libraries, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta: Strategic Planning, Implementation, and Facilities Development across multiple departments within and beyond libraries * William Denton, Web Librarian & Adam Taves, Reference and Instruction Librarian, York University, Toronto: Divisiveness, communication failure, and boundary wars as tragicomedy. A staged reading. The afternoon will include breakout sessions where attendees can work with the speakers to brainstorm on applying the strategies presented to real-world projects that they are currently involved in or would like to see realized. Don't forget that Advanced Registration ends May 13! Visit http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/events/annual/preconferences.cfm to learn more and register. Strange Bedfellows is a joint offering from the Reference Services Section (RSS) and Machine Assisted Reference Services Section (MARS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA). Carolyn Sheffield and Donna Scanlon, Co-Chairs Contact: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Carolyn Sheffield Project Manager Field Book Project Smithsonian Institution 202-633-0902 web: http://mnh.si.edu/rc/fieldbooks/ blog: http://nmnh.typepad.com/fieldbooks/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~