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Program Description:
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, and Marshall Breeding will explore libraries' technology future.
Presenters:
Eric Lease Morgan, Head of the Digital Access and Information Architecture Department, University Libraries of Notre Dame
Marshall Breeding, Director for Innovative Technologies and Research for the Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University and Executive Director of the Vanderbilt Television News Archive
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Video tapes or DVDs of past programs are available for checkout by calling Nancy Litz at 801-581-8052. If available, there is a link to the webcast.
MLA's Electronic Health Record Webcast will:
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Goal:
The goal of this webcast is to familiarize information professionals with current and emerging mobile technologies, innovative initiatives using mobile devices, useful mobile software applications, and funding options for projects using mobile devices.
Objectives:
Presenters:
Max Anderson, Technology Coordinator, NN/LM Greater Midwest Region
Emily Hurst, Instructional Services Librarian, University of Texas Health Science Center
David Rothman, Cocreator of LibWorm.com and Coauthor of "Internet Cool Tools for Physicians"
Video-Taped Presenters:
Renée Bougard, Outreach Librarian, National Network of Libraries of Medicine National Network Office
Brian Briggman, System Architect, National Library of Medicine
Paul Fontelo, Staff Scientist Research Physician, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communication
Loren Frant, Head of the Health Information Products Unit, National Library of Medicine
Phillip Garcia, Reference Services Coordinator, Grunigen Medical Library
Eric Schnell, Associate Professor and Emerging Technology and Services Specialist, Prior Health Sciences Library
Megan von Isenburg, Associate Director of Information Services, Duke University Medical Center Library
For more information visit the MLA Distance Learning Website .

Program Description:
Rising health care costs, economic instability, and the proactive nature of today's society are contributing to more
and more individuals seeking out health information online and in print. Are you and your library ready to meet the
diverse needs of these health information seekers? Are you effectively marketing your health-related services and
resources?
This program emphasizes quality print and electronic resources as well as the roles and responsibilities of patients, library information professionals and health care professionals in the information seeking process. Join the speaker in exploring various aspects of the health reference experience including the need to respect patient privacy, how to accommodate the cultural diversity of our clientele, matching the right types of resources to specific clients, and ways to successfully navigate tricky health reference situations. The program will also look at ways to promote the health resources and services that you have to offer.
Speaker:
Debra J. Kakuk Smith, earned a M.A. in English from the University of Minnesota, and her M.L.I.S.
degree from Wayne State University. Employed by the College of DuPage Library since 2003, she is an Associate
Professor and supports the Health Sciences Division. A skilled medical and consumer health information
professional and a proactive patient advocate, she specializes in supporting the information needs of health
professionals, students and consumers. Debra has worked at the Mayo Clinic and taught consumer health classes
across the United States. She has served as a Column Editor for Haworth Press's Journal of Consumer Health on
the Internet (JCHI).
Prior to her Library career, Debra taught developmental reading and academic writing at several universities. Her English background serves her well in her work with Adult Education and English as a Second Language (ESL) faculty and students. Until Fall of 2008, she supported the College of DuPage ESL, ABE (Adult Basic Education) and GED programs. Her work experience, gained while working as a public, special and academic librarian, led her to community college librarianship because, "it combines the best of each field."
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Goal: This webcast will investigate and discuss the following questions:
Speakers include:
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Goal:
Any library, whether it is school, public, academic, or special, is many things to the community it serves. A
library offers the information patrons need to improve their quality of life. A library provides open access to
technology and the world of online information, as well as guidance on navigating that world. A library also
gives their community something that is less tangible, yet just as essential to improving its patrons' lives:
nourishment not just for the mind, but the spirit as well.
How do libraries do that? Through the programming opportunities they create.
In this program we will look at some of the innovative programming libraries today are creating to meet the evolving needs of their patrons. We will also provide a basic primer for anyone who has always wanted to plan a program, but didn't know where or how to begin.
Speakers include:
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Goal:
This webcast brings together three librarians from three very different institutions and backgrounds to explore
how school librarians, public librarians, and academic librarians can collaborate to create comprehensive
information literacy programs that span a user's lifetime. You will get the foundation for starting a local
dialogue based on national principles.
Presenters include:
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Goal:
... to provide a basic understanding of disaster planning and service continuity, assess the effect of disaster on
health sciences library services, and provide a basic template for disaster planning.
Objectives:
Presenters include:
Video-taped presenters include:
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Overview:
Without doubt dramatic changes over the past several years in scientific, technical, and medical publishing have
opened a Pandora's box of questions, confusion, and complexity for library patrons, researchers, and librarians and
have become the subject of much discussion. The Medical Library Association (MLA) continues its engagement in the
conversation and speaks to the issues in this webcast.
Objectives:
Presenters include:
Video-taped presenters include:
For more information visit the MLA website .

Overview:
The digital age has been with us long enough to make some practical predictions of how traditional roles of
libraries will change in information selection, acquisition, synthesis, navigation, dissemination, interpretation
and archiving. New responsibilities in information aggregation, publishing education, research and development and
policy advocacy will be explored. This webcast promises to offer a lively and provocative discussion.
Speakers include:
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Overview:
This broadcast draws from presentations made during the Seattle American Library Associaton meeting in January 2007,
and focuses on issues facing Library and Information Science programs and their impact on practitioners.
The program examines ideas that ensure that library education programs remain vibrant and are responsive to the needs of practitioners. Hosted by Richard Dougherty, guests include
The Seattle forum was co-sponsored by ALISE and COE and moderated by Dan O'Connor. Brief presentations were made by Michael Gorman, immediate past president of ALA; Leslie Burger, current ALA president; Loriene Roy, president-elect; Tom Leonhradt, chair of Council on Accreditation (COA); and John Budd, ALISE president.
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Overview:
Love it or hate it, the Internet is often a librarian's best friend - assisting us in serving our patrons and many
times helping us do our jobs better. However, as the World Wide Web continues to grow at an exponential rate (blogs
and wikis and RSS feeds - oh my!), many of us feel overwhelmed. Have you ever wished that everything could be simpler?
Do you sometimes long for a list of websites that would get you through the most challenging of workdays? If you
answered yes to either of these questions, then The Best From the Web is for you. Kelly Watson and a panel of experts
have compiled a toolkit of the best the Web has to offer library workers. Learn about Web resources that will assist
you in your everyday job, whether you work at a public desk or behind the scenes in tech services. Leave this session
with your "best of the Web" toolkit and make your job of providing the best information for your patrons easier.
Panelists:
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Overview:
Richard M. Dougherty of Dougherty and Associates welcomes Leslie Burger,
Director of the Princeton Public Library in Princeton, New Jersey. As President of ALA, she is well-versed in
library issues in an era of change. They will be joined by noted librarians to discuss library transformation,
not as an abstraction or buzz word, but as something real with hard, practical things necessary to make it happen.
They will spell out what needs to happen in facilities, budgets staffing management and leadership to make
transformation a reality.
Panelists:
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Goals:
The goals of this Medical Library Association webcast are to enhance knowledge and encourage participation of
information professionals in helping secure a firm position for libraries in their organizations through assessment
and promotion
Objectives:
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Overview:
Today's multigenerational library workforce faces a number of both internal and external challenges. To meet
these challenges, we need to learn how to work together effectively, keep connected and current, and draw on
individuals' unique strengths. In a graying profession, we also need to pay attention to succession planning,
passing on institutional wisdom, and recruiting, retaining, and mentoring the next generation.
Speaker:
Rachel Singer Gordon is Consulting Editor,
Information Today, Inc., Book Publishing Division, and webmaster,
LISjobs.com. She publishes the electronic newsletter
Info Career Trends, blogs at The Liminal Librarian
(http://www.lisjobs.com/liminal/), and co-authors Beyond the Job,
a professional development weblog for librarians.
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