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SLA Leadership Summit

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:51:15 +0000

www.sla.org

Atlanta

Jan. 25, - Jan. 28, 2012

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THATCamp MCN (Museum Computer Network)

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:02:11 +0000

<p> The Humanities and Technology Camp - Museum Computer Network</p>

http://mcn2011.thatcamp.org/

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Center for History and New Media, George Mason University

Atlanta, GA

Nov. 19, (All day) 2011

TBA/downtown Atlanta

#THATCamp

THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) is an open meeting where humanists and technologists of all skill levels learn and build together in sessions proposed on the spot. It is an unconference, which means that there are no presentations, and all participants work together to form the program. On Saturday, November 19 in downtown Atlanta, GA, the Museum Computer Network is sponsoring THATCamp MCN, a free unconference for anyone interested in how new technologies and platforms are changing the landscape of museums.

Graduate students in museum studies or related disciplines, museum professionals, and developers are all encouraged to register. Topics for discussion might include everything from managing software projects to uses of social media for museums, and participants are also encouraged to propose coding sessions and co-writing sessions where the emphasis is on doing, not talking. We plan to have a draft program up by September 1, but participants can continue to submit session ideas even as the unconference is taking place. There will also be free workshops at THATCamp MCN on technologies such as the Omeka web exhibit builder, and $500 fellowships are available courtesy of the Kress Foundation to make it possible for early-career museum professionals and students to travel to THATCamp MCN. The fellowship application deadline is August 1.

This unconference is offered in conjunction with the Museum Computer Network conference, but if you are attending the MCN meeting, you must still register separately for THATCamp MCN. You do not need to register for the MCN meeting in order to attend THATCamp MCN.

Contact Amanda French at mcn@thatcamp.org with any and all questions, and follow @THATCampMCN on Twitter for updates.

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Technology Ideas and Insights Series: Positioning your Library in the Mobile Ecosystem: Content and Delivery (Atlanta, GA)

admin — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:37:36 +0000

http://www.lyrasis.org/Classes%20and%20Events/Ideas%20and%20Insights%20Series/Technology%20Ideas%20and%20Insights%20Series%20Atlanta%20GA.aspx

Event Organizer:

Lyrasis

Atlanta, GA

Sep. 12, (All day) 2011

Georgia Tech Conference Center

Technology Ideas and Insights Series: Positioning your Library in the Mobile Ecosystem: Content and Delivery (Atlanta, GA)

Date:
Monday, September 12, 2011

Location:
Georgia Tech Conference Center
800 Spring St. NW
Atlanta, GA 30308

For Driving Directions, please click here

Light breakfast and a boxed lunch are provided!

Technology Ideas and Insights Series!

LYRASIS’s Ideas & Insights series presents Technology Ideas & Insights: POSITIONING YOUR LIBRARY IN THE MOBILE ECOSYSTEM: CONTENT AND DELIVERY

These events will help you and your library find your footing in delivering content and services within the new and changing technological landscape. Presentations will include success stories and best practices from local, real-world librarians, insights from thought leaders in the world of library technology, and dynamic discussion sessions on topics of interest to you.

All this, plus the opportunity to network and trade ideas with your colleagues from around the region.

AGENDA

9:00 AM-9:15 AM

Welcome: Cal Shepard

9:30 AM-10:30 AM

Dominating the mobile flow of content and engagement

Explore the current landscape of mobile content and how to position delivery and interaction in the life flow of contemporary consumers. Find out about the trends that will disrupt publishing and libraries and how to prepare for an increasingly social mobile information landscape.

Joe Murphy, Yale University

10:30 AM-10:45 AM

Break

10:45AM-11:30 PM

Transforming Library Services: Models for Implementing Emerging Technologies

Over the last several years, Georgia State University Library has undergone dramatic physical and virtual transformations to better meet the needs of our diverse and changing student population. We have implemented new research guides, search and discovery tools, social media outreach, online reference, and mobile services, to name a few. In this session, we will share best practices and tips for strategic planning, division of labor, creating buy-in, assessment, and ongoing management of these technologies and others.

Sarah Steiner and Jason Puckett, Georgia State University

11:30 PM-12:30 PM

Lunch

12:30 PM-1:15 PM

Ideas & Insights Exchange—Peter Murray, LYRASIS

1:15 PM-1:30 PM

Break

1:30PM-2:30 PM

Weaving the Fabric of Transliteracy Through Embedded Librarianship

How can today's students negotiate an ever-changing information landscape? Learn how librarians can help students take an inquiry stance on information literacy by constructing their own personalized and portable learning environments with web-based and mobile applications. This session will explore how students can craft a learning toolbox of applications for accessing, evaluating, organizing, and sharing information as well as engaging in collaborative knowledge construction.

Buffy Hamilton, Creekview High School

2:30 PM -3:30 PM

The Library in the Mobile Ecosystem: Trend, Transition, or Transformation?

In a technology driven age of information, is the role of libraries simply being challenged, or is it the beginning of the end of the library as an institution? From either point of view, it is clear that libraries and the physical printed word are facing fiscal challenges, revolutionary technological change, and significant cultural transitions. Can libraries co-exist with Google or have we already been replaced? Are there things that a library can do to become a vibrant player in the emerging information culture that demands connectivity everywhere, for everything, and all the time?

Dr. J. Richard Madaus, College Center for Library Automation, Tallahassee Florida

3:30 PM-4:00 PM

Closing thoughts and comments—Tim Daniels

Speaker Information:

Joe Murphy
Joe Murphy is a Librarian at Yale University and an influential innovator. His professional work focuses on technology trends and assisting information stakeholders in meeting the constantly evolving landscape. Joe makes an impact helping libraries and publishers identify, understand, and adapt to trends in technology and information engagement as a regular professional speaker and through his influential Twitter account @libraryfuture and his blog http://joemurphylibraryfuture.com/

Sarah Steiner
Sarah Steiner is the Social Work and Virtual Services Librarian at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She co-founded the Carterette Webinar Series and is an associate editor for Georgia Library Quarterly. She co-edited the top-selling ACRL volume The Desk and Beyond: Next Generation Reference Services in 2008, and will publish a volume on strategic planning for social media for the second Tech Set series in 2011. She was named a LYRASIS NextGen Librarian in 2009, and a Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2011.

Jason Puckett
Jason Pucket is Communication Librarian at Georgia State University.

He’s the author of the book Zotero: A Guide for Librarians, Researchers and Educators. He's also the co-host and co-producer of the Adventures in Library Instruction podcast, http://adlibinstruction.blogspot.com/. You can follow Jason’s adventures via his blog, Librarian X, http://jasonpuckett.net/. He was named a Library Journal Mover and Shaker for 2010.

Tim Daniels
Tim Daniels is currently the Manager for Lyrasis Technology Services. Previously, he was the Assistant State Librarian for Technology and Infrastructure at the Georgia Public Library Service. Before this, he was Learning Commons Coordinator at Georgia State University. He has held positions at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was the liaison for the College of Computing, and at the Asheville-Buncombe Library System as branch manager. He has worked in Archives and Special Collections and at a Community College library. During much of his library career he has been involved in technology and technology training. Tim has a B.S. in History with a concentration in Public History and minors in Computer Information Systems Management and English from Appalachian State University in North Carolina. His library degree is from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Peter Murray
Peter Murray is the Assistant Director for Technology Services Development at LYRASIS, the nation’s largest regional membership organization serving libraries and information professionals. He received a MLIS from Simmons College and a Bachelor of Science degree in Systems Analysis from Miami University. Peter’s current activities include studying the evolution of library discovery layers and the promotion of open source in libraries. His other interests include the application of JPEG 2000 for long term access and preservation to still and moving image content, distributed identity management systems, and – with the moniker “The Disruptive Library Technology Jester” – the rapid advancement of library services in a “Web 2.0” world.

Buffy Hamilton
Buffy Hamilton is the founding librarian of “The Unquiet Library” at Creekview High School in Canton, Georgia. Hamilton, a nineteen year veteran educator, is passionate about creating learning experiences for her students that will encourage them to be lifelong learners; she collaborates extensively with the teachers and students in her school to cultivate multiple literacy skills in the context of subject area studies to foster students’ information fluency and digital citizenship skills, the cultural capital students need to fully participate in today’s society. She blogs at The Unquiet Librarian as well as ALA Learning.

Buffy is one of Tech and Learning's 30 EdTech Leaders of the Future, Georgia (GLMA and GAIT) School Library Media Specialist of the Year 2010, and one of the National School Boards Association's "20 to Watch" educators for 2010; her media program at Creekview HS was also named one of two exemplary high school programs for the state of Georgia in 2010. Her Media 21 program is also an ALA Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) 2011 Cutting Edge Service Award winner. Buffy is also a 2011 Library Journal Mover and Shaker and recognized for her work as a change agent.

Buffy Hamilton

Dr. Richard Madaus
Dr. Madaus is Chief Executive Officer of the College Center for Library Automation (CCLA) in Tallahassee, Florida. As CEO of CCLA, he has primary responsibility for the statewide automated library system that serves the 28 colleges in Florida with their 81 campuses in 65 cities from Key West to Pensacola. The LINCC (Library Information Network for Cooperative Content) system enables Florida’s nearly one-million community college students to access a union database of statewide community college library holdings and a variety of electronic information resources

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The Atlanta Area Bibliographic Instruction Group (AABIG)

admin — Thu, 26 May 2011 17:09:11 +0000

AIM BIG: Assessment, Instruction, and Management of the classroom

https://sites.google.com/site/atlantaareabig/current

Event Organizer:

Atlanta Area Bibliographic Instruction Group

Atlanta

Jun. 10, (All day) 2011

Robert W Woodruff Library Atlanta University Center

BIG 2011

AIM BIG: Assessment, Instruction, and Management of the classroom

June 10, 2011

Robert W Woodruff Library
Atlanta University Center

The Atlanta Area Bibliographic Instruction Group (AABIG) is hosting its 10th annual conference
June 10, 2011 at the Robert W. Woodruff Library, at the Atlanta University Center. This year's
theme is AIM BIG, focusing on Assessment, Instruction, and Management of the classroom.
AABIG will include 20 and 45 minute sessions that address this theme.

Registration for the event is free. Attendees should expect to spend about $10 on parking
and to provide their own lunch. A list of local restaurants and eateries will be provided. Also,
attendees must have a photo ID to enter the facility.

Registration closes May 27. Register to attend here.

Click here for information about hotel accommodations.

Click here for directions to the Conference.

The 2011 Program is now available!

If you have any further questions, please contact Wesley Stewart (Wesley.Stewart@gpc.edu).

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Atlanta Area Bibliographic Instruction Group (AABIG) BIG2011

admin — Sat, 07 May 2011 10:52:36 +0000

Assessment, Instruction, and Management of the classroom

https://sites.google.com/site/atlantaareabig/current

Event Organizer:

Atlanta Area Bibliographic Instruction Group

Atlanta

Jun. 10, (All day) 2011

Robert W. Woodruff Library, at the Atlanta University Center

BIG 2011

AIM BIG: Assessment, Instruction, and Management of the classroom

June 10, 2011

Robert W Woodruff Library
Atlanta University Center

Registration closes May 27. Register to attend here.

Click here for information about hotel accommodations.

Click here for directions to the Conference.

If you have any further questions, please contact Wesley Stewart (Wesley.Stewart@gpc.edu).

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Reimagine ED Next Chapter Design and the Future of Libraries

admin — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:55:28 +0000

http://nextchapter.reimagine-ed.org/

Atlanta

Sep. 23, - Sep. 25, 2011

The Lovett School, 4075 Paces Ferry Road Northwest, Atlanta, GA

Summit

Apply Right Now!

Note: Invitees will be sent payment / registration information.

Key Details:

Dates: Friday, Sept. 23 – Sun, Sept. 25
Location: The Lovett School, 4075 Paces Ferry Road Northwest, Atlanta, GA 30327-3099
Cost to Attend: $250.00 per person (meals included)
Max Capacity: 200
Tentative Schedule

An Active Process:

Instead of another traditional conference — speakers talking at passive audiences; vaguely connected sessions — you’ll join a dynamic 3-day design event focused on imagination and action.

Becoming Part of a Design Team

“Next Chapter” participants automatically become members of 10-15 person design teams.

This will allow passionate, creative, professionally-diverse attendees to collaborate actively with innovative peers and design facilitators in imagining new futures for the K12 library.

Over the course of the 3 days, teams will work closely with their experienced design facilitators to solve a variety of real world case studies in an effort to create new visions for K12 libraries:

day 1: Listen -> empathize, ask, seek
day 2: Imagine -> ideate, brainstorm, wonder
day 3: Make -> prototype, craft, test

‘Big Idea’ Talks

And to add a touch of inspiration along the way, we’re inviting a range of extraordinary voices to share short 10-15 minute ‘big idea’ talks (in the Spirit of TED talks*) in several 2xSpeaker and 4xSpeaker sessions.

We will also be inviting summit attendees to offer a limited number of short talks — 3 min in length — on big idea topics of their choice related to the summit overall. You’ll notice the chance to share with us an idea you might have on the official summit application.

–> *”TED talks” refer to short, inspired talks as shown at ted.com

Get Involved Early; Stay Involved Long After

We’ve also created an on-going experience that extends far beyond the 3-day summit.

To that end, we’d like to invite you to consider two additional opportunities:

Participate in monthly online design challenges this summer before the summit.
Join the RE:ED / “Next Chapter” online community to share ideas | resources over time. –> Details coming on May 15th re: becoming a ‘member’ to log-in / share content, join conversations, actively participate in monthly online design challenges.

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Access Services Conference 2011

admin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:24:46 +0000

Unlocking the 21st Century Library

http://www.accessservicesconference.org/presenting

Atlanta

Nov. 9, - Nov. 11, 2011

Georgia Tech Global Learning Center Atlanta, Georgia

The Access Services Conference is an opportunity for individuals working in all areas of Access Services in academic Libraries to gather information and communicate with other professionals about Circulation, Reserves, Interlibrary Loan, Student Worker Management, Security, and other topics of interest.

The Access Services Conference is an opportunity for individuals working in all areas of Access Service in libraries to gather information and communicate with other professionals about Circulation, Reserves, Interlibrary Loan, Student Worker Management, Security, Stacks Maintenance, and other topics of interest.

We invite program proposals from March 11 until 5pm, May 13, 2011. Accepted program proposal submissions should be able to fit within a 45 minute segment including time for questions. Proposals might focus on any of the following areas:

Customer Service Circulation
Interlibrary Loan
Consortia Agreements
Leadership
Marketing
Reserves
Security
Space Management
Stacks Maintenance
Student Workers Management
Current technology for access service enhancement

Program Proposal guidelines:
Please submit an abstract, 250 words or less, with the program title and your name. Program proposals will be reviewed by the program committee and those presenters who are selected will be notified by June 6, 2011. Go to http://www.accessservicesconference.org/presenting to submit a proposal.

Please direct any questions to
Catherine Jannik Downey
cdowney@ggc.edu

Vendors or organizations interested in sponsoring the Access Services Conference please contact
Denita Hampton
dahampton@gsu.edu

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2011 Evergreen International Conference

admin — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:03:04 +0000

Growing Home

http://pines.georgialibraries.org/evergreen2011/

Decatur

Apr. 27, - Apr. 30, 2011

Decatur Holiday Inn and Conference Center

Conference Schedule

Wednesday, April 27

Hackfests/Interest Groups -

9:00-4:00	Developer Hackfest
10:00-12:00	Reports Interest Group
10:00-12:00	DIG Interest Group
2:00-4:00	Training Interest Group
2:00-4:00	DIY for Sysadmins Interest Group

Thursday, April 28

8:45-9:00	Welcome: Lamar Veatch, State Librarian, Georgia Public Library Service
9:00-9:30	The State of Evergreen: Bob Molyneux, V. P., Business Development, Equinox Software, Inc.
9:30-10:30	Keynote Address: Mark Leggott
10:30-11:00	Break
11:00-11:45	Admin Track: Evergreen Coast to Coast:Open Source Library Systems: Elizabeth McKinney (GPLS), Amy Terlaga (Biblio), Jim Corridan (IN), Jed Moffitt (KCLS) End User Track: Serials: Learning to Cope When You've Got Issues: Dan Wells (Calvin College), Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley (ESI) Technical Track: Awash in a sea of connections: making Evergreen talk: Galen Charlton (ESI)
12:00-12:45	Admin Track: Growing the Open Source Ecology: Mary McIntyre (eiNetwork), Kathy Lussier (MassLNC) End User Track: A Clockwork Hippo: How holds work in Evergreen: Grace Dunbar (ESI), Mike Rylander (ESI) Technical Track: 10% Wrong, 90% Done: A Practical Approach to Bibliographic De-duplication: Rogan Hamby (SC LENDS), Shasta Brewer (York)
1:00-2:30	Lunch
2:30-3:15	Admin Track: There's More Than One Way to Skin a Catalog//Exploring VuFind: Anoop Atre (PALS) and Eli Neiburger (Ann Arbor) End User Track: Authority records in Evergreen 2.0: Dan Scott (Conifer) Technical Track: Testing... Testing... Is This Thing On?: Installing an Evergreen ILS Test Server: Chris Sharp (GPLS), Ben Shum (Biblio)
3:30-4:15	Admin Track: After the Trainer Leaves: Continuous Learning and the Evergreen ILS: Sally Fortin (ESI) End User Track: Making the Most of Evergreen Reports with Microsoft Excel: Cristina Hernandez Trotter (OCRL), Jessica Venturo (Biblio) Technical Track: Fine Calculations via PL/pgSQL: John Craig (Alpha-G)
4:30-5:30	Vendor Reception

Friday, April 29

9:00-9:45	Admin Track: True Tales of Training: Kate Sheehan (Biblio) End User Track: Introduction to Reports in Evergreen: Steve Callender (ESI), Suzannah Lipscomb (ESI) Technical Track: From Bolted-on to Baked-in: Jeff Godin (TADL)
9:45-10:15	Break
10:15-11:00	Admin Track: Becoming an Open Source Organization: Cheryl Gould (Fully Engaged Libraries), Lori Ayre (Galecia) End User Track: Softly, Softly, Catchee Monkey: Successful Development and Implementation: Grace Dunbar (ESI), Matt Carlson (KCLS) Technical Track: Lib2o Library Appliance: Mark Leggot (UPEI), Gervais DeMontbrun (UPEI), Grant Johnson (UPEI)
11:15-12:00	Admin Track: Becoming Our Own Vendor: Rogan Hamby (SC LENDS), Shasta Brewer (York) End User Track: ILS Migration Project Manager's Jambalaya: Shae Tetterton (ESI), Melissa Lefebvre (Biblio), Jennifer Turner (PALS), Jessica Jacko (Indiana) Technical Track: Xen virtualization and multi-brick enviornment experiences: Michael Peters (IN), Niles Ingalls (IN)
12:00-1:30	Lunch
1:30-2:15	Admin Track: We The People: Governing Our Shared Evergreen System: Evette Atkin (MCLS), Megan Dudek (MCLS) End User Track: Getting Involved in Evergreen Documentation: Robert Soulliere (Mohawk) Technical Track: World Wide Web Home Page: Bill Erickson (ESI), Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley (ESI), Dan Scott (Conifer)
2:30-3:15	Admin Track: Administering Evergreen the PINES Way: Chris Sharp (GPLS) End User Track: Delicious Data: Automated Techniques for Complex Reports: Ben Shum (Biblio), Jeff Godin (TADL) Technical Track: What we learned doing OpenSRF via Java: John Craig (Alpha-G)
3:15-3:45	Break
3:45-4:30	Admin Track: Evergreen Staff Training: Online and Just in Time: Deborah Hensler (HSLC), Martha Payne (HSLC) End User Track: Stuff, stuff, and more stuff - acquisitions with EDI: Galen Charlton (ESI) Technical Track: Testing 1... 2... 3...: Unit Testing In Evergreen: Kevin Beswick (Conifer)

Saturday, April 30

9:00-10:30	Lightning Talks
10:30-11:00	BREAK
11:00-11:45	Update from EG Development Community
11:45-12:30	Update from Foundation Committee
12:30-1:00	Thanks from the conference committee

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