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March 2010

 

St. Louis Regional Library Network

 

presents

 

TECHNOLOGY EXPO 5

 

What’s new for libraries in the technology world?  Come see some of the new products and programs.  There will be something for all types of libraries: academic, public, special, medical, and school. Session descriptions and information on speakers follows.  Register early because many sessions are hands-on in computer labs and registration is limited. Registration form follows information.

 

When:                                 Tuesday March 30, 2010

 

Where:                               Ranken Technical College

                                                4431 Finney – St. Louis, MO  63113

 

Parking:                         Fenced guarded lot

                               

Cost:                    $20 member / $30 non-member / $12 for library school students (this includes sessions, lunch)

 

Schedule:          8:45 a.m. – Registration

                                9:00 – 9:50 – Session I

                                10:00 – 10:50 – Session II

                                11:00 – 11:50 – Session III

                                12:00 –2:30– Lunch and Session IV (same session for all)  “Social Networking”

 

Lunch:            Provided by Art of Entertaining -  Sandwich:

 Ham, American and Cheddar cheese on marble rye with lettuce and honey mustard)

Egg Salad (homemade egg salad, lettuce and sliced tomatoes on sourdough bread)

Smoked turkey breast on 9 grain bread with lettuce and Durkee mayo

Roast top round on soft roll with lettuce and creamy horseradish sauce

Grilled Chicken  breast on 9 grain bread with lettuce and tarragon mayo

Chicken Salad with lemon dressing and lettuce on 9 grain bread

All meals include fresh fruit ,  Fudge Brownie dessert and drink

 

Deadline to register March 22th.

 

Sessions

 

Internet Safe Usage

Online Gaming, Social Networking, and Cyberbullying: just some of the things kids are doing online. Learn about current statistics and trends for tweens, teens and twenties in online (mis)behavior.

Presenter: Cindy Schroeder, INOBTR (I Know Better), directs Internet Safety Training programs for Missouri’s Internet Safety Program. Headquartered in St. Louis, MO, INOBTR works in partnership with government and private citizens to promote awareness and educate children, parents and teachers to reduce the chance of children becoming victims of Internet Crime.  

 

Health Resources

Dealing with tough health and science questions? Frustrated with advertising-laden web sites with unclear information and dubious authorship? Learn how to connect your school to credible health information on the web that your students can understand.  Two experienced medical librarians will lead this unique workshop.

       Learn about free resources from the National Library of Medicine and other major agencies

       Discover how to integrate credible health information in subjects beyond science and health

       Create collaborations with key personnel using health resources, such as school nurses

Participants will leave the course with ideas and the confidence to put them into action.  This is a hands-on session.

Presenters:  Will Olmstadt, Judy Hansen  Judy Hansen is the librarian at St. Louis Children’s Hospital Family Resource Center, and is a retired school librarian.  She has 30 years of experience working with parents, teachers and students, both as a language arts teacher and a librarian. Will Olmstadt is public health librarian at Becker Medical Library, Washington University School of Medicine. He has taught extensively in rural and urban environments for the last 10 years.  In addition to being an experienced health sciences librarian, he holds a graduate degree in public health and has worked extensively with community health agencies in Texas and Missouri.

 

Missouri State Library Presents MO.WebJunction!

Welcome aboard Missouri State Library's new sharing tool, Missouri WebJunction.  This Internet site is a location where the Missouri Library community can interact with the State Library staff.  Features that will be demonstrated during this session include:

 -HOME: A look at "Library News" and courses highlighted from the CE Calendar.

-Missouri Central: Links to pages containing specific resources such as Grants, Administration, State Library Services, and Job openings.

-Missouri Courses: Offers links to the CE Calendar and 150 online courses offered to "Affiliated Members" from the Missouri Library community at a discount.

-Interactive features such as contributing and downloading posted documents, beginning discussions and contributing to existing discussion threads, and affiliating with MO.WebJuction.

Presenter: Jean Morrison, Consultant for Technology and Electronic Services, is a Missouri State Library staff who supports technology and resource topics for Public Libraries across Missouri. Jean is located at the Office of the Secretary of State, Missouri State Library, Library

Development in Jefferson City.

 

Copyright in a digital age

"Copyright and Fair Use conversations are changing.  For a long time copyright and Fair Use conversations have centered around what you can and cannot do.  Given the complexity of laws and the ease of distributing, publishing and remixing today, the focus is shifting to locating and using copyright-friendly resources.  We'll review some basic copyright information, share a process for thinking through copyright issues, and show some copyright-friendly sites for images and music."

Presenters:   Roger Bower and Cindy Marston, Academic Technology Facilitators at the Principia School in St. Louis

 

Ebooks

EBooks hold the possibility to transform our libraries but with Kindles, Overdrive, ebrary and more where do you begin?  Take a tour of what’s going on in the world of econtent from suppliers to hardware to trends and more.

Presenter:   Asia Gross is the Electronic Resources Librarian at the Missouri Library Network Corporation (MLNC).  She works with Academic, Public, K12 and Special libraries throughout MO and IL to meet their eResources needs. MLNC is located in St. Louis, MO.

 

Social Networking

What is Social networking?  What is Web 2.0?  What is the impact of all of this on libraries?  How does it translate into library 2.0? How do you use it in your library?  Are you using  various components such as blogs, facebook, twitter,  delicious, dig, twitter, flickr and youtube, etc. 

Learn more about how to  use these tools to communicate better with your users.    Librarians from a variety of libraries will discuss and show examples of how library 2.0 has changed their world and will continue to change it as these technologies multiply and change. 

All of us are interested in what other libraries are doing and as the world gets smaller, each library will be helped by increased knowledge of the others.  There will be time for a question and answer period.

PANEL:  Ellen Eliceiri (Webster University’s Emerson Library)(Introduction);  Gabrielle Corley (Webster Groves School District);  Tom Cooper (Webster Groves Public Library)(Director); Asia Gross (MLNC); Lisa Wolfe (Jefferson College Library)(Director); Chris Durr (Kirkwood Public Library)

 

 

WORKSHOP REGISTRATION

 

March 30, 2010

Name: _________________________________

 

Library:  _______________________________e-mail:__________________

 

FAX #: ________________

 

Home phone # : ______________(in case of bad weather & need to cancel)

 

Lunch choice:  

Sandwich choice: Ham,Turkey, Egg Salad, Chicken Salad, Grilled Chicken, Roast top round 

Drink choice:     Reg. Coke / diet Coke/ Sprite /Iced tea / Water

 

8:45 a.m. – Registration

                                9:00 – 9:50 – Session I

                                10:00 – 10:50 – Session II

                                11:00 – 11:50 – Session III

                                12:00 –2:30– Lunch and Session IV (Session IV – Social Networking is for everyone)

                               

 

Workshop choices:[check sessions (maximum 3 a.m. sessions) you plan to attend :

 

____Internet Safe Usage 

____Health Resources

____Mo. Web Junction

____Copyright in a Digital Age

____Ebooks

 

Confirmation and parking directions will be faxed or e-mailed..

 

Please mail check ($20-from member library/$30 from nonmember library)  to: SLRLN, %Bernyce Christiansen, 9425 Big Bend Blvd., St. Louis, MO  63119.  Questions, call Bernyce,  314-395-1305.

 

Libraries who must wait for a check to be processed sent in registration with a note that check will follow.

 

DEADLINE  MARCH 22, 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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