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

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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/