2010 Sessions
Note: Each session will start at 10am EDT and run 45-75 minutes.
July 21, 2010 – 10am
Providing Services to our Remote Users: Library Mashups
Nicole Engard, Director of Open Source Education, ByWater Solutions
Nicole C. Engard, editor of Library Mashups: Exploring new ways to deliver library data, will explain what mashups are, how they can be used and share examples from libraries around the world. Attendees will learn what tools to use to mash up library data with content from the web to reach our remote patrons. Examples include using maps to enhance library data, using Flickr for digital collections and creating library websites with data from several information sources.
Nicole C. Engard is the Director of Open Source Education at ByWater Solutions. Her primary role at ByWater Solutions is to educate librarians about open source software with a focus on the Koha Integrated Library System. In addition to her daily responsibilities, Nicole has been published in several library journals and keeps the library community up to date on web technologies via her website What I Learned Today…. In 2007, Nicole was named one of Library Journal’s Movers & Shakers and in 2009 she was the editor of Library Mashups, a book published by Information Today, Inc. and in 2010 she published Practical Open Source Software for Libraries with Chandos Inc.
July 28, 2010 – 10am
Virtual Library Management in a Multi-Campus Environment
Joseph M. Dudley, Bryant & Stratton College Cleveland Downtown Campus
This presentation will discuss how the Virtual Library committee of Bryant & Stratton College works to make services such as the library catalog and eBook collection, research databases and virtual reference, and online tutoring available from the top level of the library web site. The presentation will also address how the Web site provides a gateway for cloud computing by allowing users to create and store word processing files, presentation files, and spreadsheet files from a virtual computer lab, and how the site uses design elements to blend smoothly with individual campus library portals.
August 4, 2010 – 10am
Ask Emma! On the Road to Virtual Reference
David Newyear, Mentor Public Library
As State funding shrinks, libraries face an increasing need for a cost effective way to answer directional, policy, and reference questions. This presentation will demonstrate “Emma the MPL Catbot,” our virtual agent. AIML markup language and Pandorabots will be introduced. The major points of this presentation will be:
- The need for virtual agents in libraries.
- AIML – artificial intelligence markup language.
- Pandorabots and SitePal-Adding and editing bot responses.
- What the Emma can and cannot do.
- Public and staff reaction.
- The outlook for self-serve reference.
August 11, 2010 – 10am
To build, or not to build: what M-Learning means for your library’s Information Commons
Erica Clay, Wright State University
Will Davis, Wright State University
Laptops, smartphones, and netbooks are now abundant on our campuses. Libraries are redesigning their websites and database vendors are developing apps to make research tools mobile device friendly. So should we continue to build or expand our Information Commons and other library computing environments that are populated with desktop computers? As Millennials learn to do homework from their Wi-Fi enabled school buses what, expectations will they have about the library as a physical destination? The discussion facilitators will identify mobile learning trends and explore how these are changing reference and instruction, affecting computing centers, and creating the library of the future.
August 18, 2010 – 10am
How to Create a Facebook Application
Laura Solomon, OPLIN
Want to take an existing app and port it to Facebook? Learn what’s involved and what pieces and parts you’re going to need. Get step-by-step directions on how to make your app work for your Facebook fans.
August 25, 2010 – 10am
Providing Services to our Remote Users: Open Source Solutions
Nicole Engard, Director of Open Source Education, ByWater Solutions
What is open source software? Why open source software? Nicole C. Engard, author of Practical Open Source Software for Libraries, will give you the facts and dispel myths about open source. This presentation will not only introduce librarians to what open source is and what it means for libraries, but also provide attendees with links to a toolbox full of freely available open source products that will assist librarians in providing better services to their remote users.