ALA 2006 New Orleans, LA

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Being a Student and Working at the Library Helps

• Local biennial conference sponsored by UA Library
• Laura Bender planning
  committee help
• Discount for SIRLS
  students in exchange for
  helping introduce and
  presenting gifts to speakers

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Sessions Attended

• Making Library Assessment
  Work The Role of
  Organization Cultures
  (Martha Kyrillidou, ARL)
• Disruptive Innovation and the Academic Library
  (David Lewis, Dean of Library, Indiana University
  Purdue University)
• Meeting the University Mission (UA Fine Arts
  Library)

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• The Information Business, Where Next? The
  Vendors Perspective (Ebrary, Ebsco, UA)
• Integrating Measurable Outcomes into the Work of
  Teams (Purdue)
• Two Libraries, One Plan Combining and Refining
  Technical Services Across Two Campuses (Kenyon
  College, Denison University)
• Closing Speaker John Perry Barlow (www.eff.org)

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Networking Publishing!

• Lunch with keynote speaker
• Published Living the Future 6 Wow, Where Next?
  Student Reflections on a Professional
  Conference with
  Coni Weatherford
  and Michael Schor, College and
  Research Libraries News (September 2006)
• Contact with the planning committee speakers

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ALA 2006New Orleans, LA
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Librarians Take the Lead

• A historic event that tested the city
• The largest conference held in New Orleans since
  Katrina with approx. 17,000 participants
• Support and appreciation of community
• Volunteer opportunities
• Value of seeing the city
• Video here

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Internet Culture What do we know about user
behavior?

• Summarized research in the area of internet
• behavior.  Cathy De Rosa reviewed OCLCs 2003
  
• environmental scan, which included user
  trends towards
• self-service and seamlessness, as well as
  library
• responsibilities towards digital rights
  management and
• preservation. 

• John Horrigan spoke about the internets growing
  role in the lives of individuals

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Librarians Internet Index

• Best internet sites (websites you can trust) as
  reviewed and indexed by librarians in California
  and Washington State.
• Funded mostly by IMLS now over 17,000 sites
  indexed
• User-friendly default is keyword search
• Includes descriptions of websites (similar to
  abstracts)
• Faceted navigation can narrow by topic,
  publisher, subject, etc. (similar to Ebay)
• Can comment on the websites and their
  descriptions

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WorldCat.org

• Open access online database
• Makes visible all resources in member library
  collectionsthe complete WorldCat databasenot
  just the smaller data subsets utilized by Open
  WorldCat partner sites

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Advice for conference goers

• Take advantage of opportunities! Attend
  receptions, lunches, dinners
• Collaborate with people you know
• Dont limit yourself, and go to the sessions that
  youre interested in
• Begin to plan early (esp. the locations of the
  sessions) and set an agenda, but dont feel
  obligated to stick with it
• Take notes, collect business cards, and follow up
  with people you meet
• Come early and leave late - see the city!

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See you in 2011, New Orleans!