Remember to Register! - Anaheim, CA - RUSA Preconference: Reinvented Reference 4 - Emergin

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RUSA MARS/RSS Preconference Announcement:
*
REINVENTED REFERENCE 4: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR REFERENCE
SERVICES
**ALA Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA
***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 at the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA.

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 
preconference
registration) can be found at:
http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaeven
ts/rusaannual/preconferencesa/precon.cfm

Hope to see you there,

Jami Haskell
Pre-conference Planning Committee
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