Professional Development - Free web conference

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From: Lynn Dix (lynn@marininstitute.org)
Date: Tue Jul 12 2005 - 10:21:36 PDT 

Subject: Professional Development - Free web conference
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 10:21:36 -0700
Message-ID: <CD5ED93F06302F43BAF4EA74546123145EDB05@sanrafael.marininstitute.org>
From: "Lynn Dix" <lynn@marininstitute.org>

This from the Chemistry Division-

I am pleased to announce an upcoming free web conference offered by several
SLA divisions. This event is a follow-up to a poster session held in
Toronto. In addition the very useful content, we thought that other units
would be interested in learning more about our use of this web conference
format. See more details below.

Thanks, Ted
(Ted Baldwin -- Chair, Chemistry Division)

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Web Conference: "Better Understanding Your Users"
Site: http://forum.lib.lsu.edu/slachem/ <http://forum.lib.lsu.edu/slachem/>

Presentations and Schedule:
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/sci/chem/vbulletin_real/schedule_July2005_unlinked.ht

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Dates: July 18 - 31, 2005
Sponsors: Chemistry, Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics, and Sci-Tech divisions
of SLA
Registration: free
Format: asynchronous discussion

Please join the Chemistry, Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics, and Sci-Tech
divisions of SLA for a web conference entitled, "Better Understanding Your
Users," to be held July 18 - 31, 2005 at http://forum.lib.lsu.edu/slachem
<http://forum.lib.lsu.edu/slachem> .
The conference will feature 19 posters, 18 of which were originally
presented at the SLA Annual Meeting, June 2005, in Toronto. Each poster
presentation will have its own discussion forum moderated by the
author/presenter.

Discussion for the first week's presentations will begin on Monday, July
18, when the forums will first appear. The content for all presentations
will be available by this date and linked to from the forum itself. The
conference site will be open 24 hours a day and, as discussions are
asynchronous, you are welcome to participate at times most convenient to
you. The first week's forums will be closed for discussion, however, at the

end of the first week, Sunday, July 24, at which time the final set of
posters will be made available for the start of the second week, Monday,
July 25. So if you wish to participate in the discussions taking place
during a given week, please don't put it off too long.
Presenters/moderators will be happy to respond to any questions or comments

you may have regarding their presentations.

Full participation in the event will require registration, but this is free

and painless. The site is open for registration now. For those of you who
have already registered for a previous conference, your ID and Password are

still valid. If, however, you have forgotten what they are, just click on
the login button without filling in anything, and you'll be provided a link

which will enable you to have your username emailed to you and to reset
your password. When you fill in your registered email address in the box
provided, you will be sent instructions on how to reset your password.

If you have any questions at all about the conference, how to participate,
or problems with registration, please email or call Bill Armstrong through
the contact information provided below.

The complete schedule of the presentations is as follows:
Week 1: July 18 - 24
1) Dana Roth. Better understanding users in a research setting.
2) Marion Peters and Audrey Jackson. Tracking the Elusive "E-resource."
3) Tamika Barnes McCollough. Needs of the Virtual Engineering Community
4) Kenn Harper. Papers Happen - What undergraduates do when they write
research papers.
5) Hilary M. Davis and Eleanor M. Smith. Exploring relationships between
publicly funded research and public consumption of research.
6) Michiko Tanaka. Proposed Meta-Level Ontology for Nanoscience.
7) F. Bartow Culp and Jeremy Garritano. Chemical information instruction,
1984-2004: Who is leading the charge?
8) Robin Jourdan and Alicia Biggers. Creating a seamless information
delivery experience at Ford Motor
9) Sarah Endres and Jill Lagerstrom. Creating the How to Get it Guide at
NASA's GSFC Library.
10) Jay Bhatt, Peggy Dominy, and Andrew Wheeler. Use Subject Specific Blogs

and RSS Feeds to Keep Up-To-Date.

Week 2: July 25 - 31
11) Dan Subramanian. Users: How do they seek information?
12) Pamela Enrici. Showing Them Their Way - or Why VARK Matters.
13) Susan Fingerman and Christina Pikas. The Information Power Tour - When
the Library comes to You.
14) Kristin Hoffmann, Katy Nelson, Ophelia Ma, and Rebecca Raworth. Library

Book Use by Science and Engineering Undergraduates.
15) Laurel Kristick. If I Could Hear What You See: Electronic Resources and

the Visually Impaired Patron.
16) Diane Cass and Katie Clark. Establishing a Science Browsing Collection
for Undergraduates: A Success Story.
17) David Stern. Web Log Analysis and Resulting Improvements.
18) Elizabeth Brown. Instruction: a Key to Understanding Scientists' User
Behavior.
19) Pat Viele. Understanding the Research and Teaching Needs of Physics
Faculty.

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Ted Baldwin
College of Applied Science Library
University of Cincinnati
2220 Victory Pkwy
Cincinnati, OH 45203-2839
513-556-4211
ted.baldwin@uc.edu <mailto:ted.baldwin@uc.edu <mailto:ted.baldwin@uc.edu> >

Lynn Tsumoto Dix
Resource Center Manager
The Marin Institute
24 Belvedere Street
San Rafael, CA 94901
Phone: 415-257-2487
Fax: 415-456-0491

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