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REINVENTED REFERENCE 4: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR REFERENCE
SERVICES RUSA
MARS/RSS Preconference *
*FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Event Code: RU3*
How can you best use online reference services, instant
messaging, texting
and other available technologies to provide virtual
reference? How can
social networking be used to enhance and extend reference
services? How do
you address privacy issues, administration and staff buy-in,
skill set
development, and marketing as you work to implement these
changing
technologies?
Come join your colleagues during the ALA Annual Conference
to hear from
nationally-recognized experts on these topics:
- Keynote speaker *Cathy De Rosa*, Vice President for the
Americas and
Global Vice President of Marketing for OCLC, leads the
market research team
at OCLC which produced the report *Sharing, Privacy and
Trust in our
Networked World* (http:
//www.oclc.org/reports/sharing/default.htm).
- *Michelle Jacobs*, Emerging Technologies and Web
Coordinator at the
UCLA College Library, will talk about texting for
reference services.
- *Caleb Tucker-Raymond*, Oregon Statewide Digital
Reference Service
Coordinator for the Multnomah County Library, will
provide further insight
into virtual reference.
- *David Lankes*, Director of the Information Institute
of Syracuse
(IIS), the first ALA Office for Information Technology
Policy Fellow as well
as noted speaker on participatory librarianship will
delve further into the
area of social networking as a reference tool.
Sponsored by CSA RefWorks, Paratext, and OCLC QuestionPoint,
this exciting
and informative preconference occurs on Friday, June 27,
from 8:30am to 5:00
pm.
Morning and afternoon refreshments as well as lunch are
included in the
registration fee. (ALA Member $240; Division/RT Member $190;
Student/Retired
Member $105; Non-member $315)
More information about the ALA Annual Conference (including
preconferenceregistration) can be found at:
http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaeven
ts/rusaannual/preconferencesa/precon.cfm
Early bird registration ends March 7!
Hope to see you there,
Jami Haskell
Pre-conference Planning Committee
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