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Teleconferences

Fall 2009 – Summer 2010 Schedule

Library Learning Network – Library Futures: Staying Ahead of the Curve 2010

Registration & Cancellations

Although there are no fees for these events, registration is required as seating capacity is limited. If you are unable to attend, please notify Dana Kocienda (kocie002@umn.edu, 800-462-5348, or 612-625-5014) as soon as possible so we can open your reserved spot to someone else.

Locations

University of Minnesota Campus

S30B Wilson Library, West Bank Area, Minneapolis Campus, University of Minnesota—Twin Cities.

Desktop Streaming

Participants can stream teleconferences directly to their computers. Register online, but do not complete the billing information section on the form.

Regional Downlink Sites

Several downlink sites in the Minitex region (Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota).

Directions, Parking & Maps

Teleconference Details

Millennials in the Library

Date Location Time Register
Friday, November 13, 2009 S30B Wilson Library
West Bank Area
Minneapolis Campus
University of Minnesota—Twin Cities 		11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
(Central Time) 		Register
Presented by the College of DuPage

The Millennial Generation, Generation Y, Echo Boomers, Digital Natives, and the Trophy Generation are all terms used to describe people born in the United States between the early 1980s and the early 1990s. They have been shaped by a heady mix of culture, politics, and technology. "Millennials" have had an unprecedented exposure to mass media, pop culture, instant communication, and cultural freedom woven together by a complex technological net. It is daunting to try to classify a group of over 70 million people easily. Our teleconference will seek to add nuance to these classifications to help us understand them more fully and answer the questions: Who are Millennials? How can our libraries better serve them as patrons, students, and staff?

Speaker

Jennifer Kushell
At 35, Jennifer Kushell has lead a movement inspiring young people to pursue their professional dreams for more than a decade. As the president and co-founder of YSN.com ("Your Success Network"), she spearheaded development of the first professionally focused network dedicated to supporting emerging adults (Gen X and Millennials) as they transition from home and school into the real world. In working with young people from over 100 countries, YSN's mission is to ensure that no young person lacks access to opportunity to realize their full potential. YSN enables the next generation workforce in exploring their passions, building their professional identities, and pursuing opportunities across the globe.

Fee
  • No charge; registration is required.
Desktop Streaming

This College of DuPage Library Learning Network event is also available via desktop streaming. If you prefer to participate via your own desktop, please register online through the College of DuPage Web site. Do not complete billing information section on the form. Windows Media Player is required to view the webcasts.

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Making the Best of a Shrinking Budget: Creative Practices in a New Economy

Date Location Time Register
Friday, January 29, 2010 S30B Wilson Library
West Bank Area
Minneapolis Campus
University of Minnesota—Twin Cities 		11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
(Central Time) 		Register
Presented by the College of DuPage

Costs rise while budgets and our buying power shrink. And if we want to innovate, the incorporation of new formats and technologies taxes our budgets even further. Librarians, traditionally used to budgets with modest or no growth, now face steep cuts.

In the face of insufficient funding, libraries reduce hours, cut subscriptions, step up their resource sharing efforts, engage in consortial buys, outsource where possible, use staff more creatively, deal more aggressively with vendors, boost fundraising efforts, mount advocacy campaigns, seek open source solutions, seek input from focus groups to prioritize services, and even merge with other libraries...

Join Leslie Burger, Director of the Princeton (NJ) Public Library and founder of Library Development Solutions, and Alice Calabrese-Berry, Executive Director of Metropolitan (Chicago) Library System for a discussion of best ways to deal with these difficult budget trends. What principles should guide librarians in saving money? How can we sustain our core services? Our panelists will share their knowledge and experience and explore creative library practices in this new economy.

Fee
  • No charge; registration is required.
Desktop Streaming

This College of DuPage Library Learning Network event is also available via desktop streaming. If you prefer to participate via your own desktop, please register online through the College of DuPage Web site. Do not complete billing information section on the form. Windows Media Player is required to view the webcasts.

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Cataloging: Where are we now? Where are we going?

Date Location Time Register
Friday, February 19, 2010 S30B Wilson Library
West Bank Area
Minneapolis Campus
University of Minnesota—Twin Cities 		11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
(Central Time) 		Register
Presented by the College of DuPage

Librarians are justly proud of their accomplishments in organizing the world's published information through the use of standard subject headings and the ubiquitous, demanding MARC record. But, with the explosion of more information stored electronically, are our old standards still relevant today? Has keyword trumped the subject heading? Librarians also see their roles changing as more information description and metadata production are handled by other professionals. Will online tagging or vendor descriptions diminish the need for librarians? Questions are rife on what exactly are the thrust of RDA and the new AACR2?

Renee Register, Senior Product Manager at OCLC, and Karen Coyle, noted consultant and leader in the area of digital libraries, will review current cataloging practices and discuss the future of metadata, the MARC record, the Resource Description and Access standard, and the librarian's place in online information organization and access.

Fee
  • No charge; registration is required.
Desktop Streaming

This College of DuPage Library Learning Network event is also available via desktop streaming. If you prefer to participate via your own desktop, please register online through the College of DuPage Web site. Do not complete billing information section on the form. Windows Media Player is required to view the webcasts.

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Information Literacy Education: A National Overview

Date Location Time Register
Friday, March 12, 2010 S30B Wilson Library
West Bank Area
Minneapolis Campus
University of Minnesota—Twin Cities 		11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
(Central Time) 		Register
Presented by the College of DuPage

When President Barack Obama declared October 2009 as National Information Literacy Awareness Month, Information Literacy received national attention. The declaration stated: "In addition to the basic skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic, it is equally important that our students are given the tools required to take advantage of the information available to them." He asked "people of the United States to recognize the important role that information plays in our daily lives, and appreciate the need for a greater understanding of its impact."

In this context, Lisa Stock, Dean of Learning Resources at College of DuPage, and Jean Donham, College Librarian, Cornell College (Iowa), will give a background briefing on the working standards and assessments for national literacy and open a dialog on what librarians can do to strengthen efforts to encourage and build information literacy efforts not only in your own library, but in concert with your colleagues around the country.

Fee
  • No charge; registration is required.
Desktop Streaming

This College of DuPage Library Learning Network event is also available via desktop streaming. If you prefer to participate via your own desktop, please register online through the College of DuPage Web site. Do not complete billing information section on the form. Windows Media Player is required to view the webcasts.

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Date Location Time Register
Friday, April 9, 2010 S30B Wilson Library
West Bank Area
Minneapolis Campus
University of Minnesota—Twin Cities 		11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
(Central Time) 		Register
Presented by the College of DuPage

Librarians know that the target of keeping technologically current is always moving, and budgets are static at best. Each year, College of DuPage teleconferences dedicates one program that takes a look at future technology trends and gives librarians an important basis for their planning efforts. Libraries are both adopters and innovators, and are increasingly looking beyond the library environment for technological innovations and solutions.

This teleconference will address the current status of technology in the library and explore future technological trends as more information sources—and people—migrate to online environments. Eric Lease Morgan, Head of the Digital Access and Information Architecture Department, University Libraries of Notre Dame, and others will explore libraries' technology future.

Fee
  • No charge; registration is required.
Desktop Streaming

This College of DuPage Library Learning Network event is also available via desktop streaming. If you prefer to participate via your own desktop, please register online through the College of DuPage Web site. Do not complete billing information section on the form. Windows Media Player is required to view the webcasts.

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More Teleconferences

Can't make it to the Twin Cities for a teleconference? Try one of the other regional downlink sites.

You may now borrow past teleconferences from Minitex!

Some teleconferences are now also available in a streaming video format.