Announcement: OCLC Institute Presents New Seminars

[Lytle,Amy]

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The OCLC Institute is pleased to present two new seminars - Knowledge
Management:  Methods and Systems and Creating a New Reference Librarianship.
Both are offered this spring in Dublin, Ohio.  NOTE:  We are extending the
Early-Bird registration deadline for both events to the final registration
deadline.  Please see below for seminar details.  

Knowledge Management
Dates:  March 20-22, 2000;  Registration Deadline March 10.
Description:
Is knowledge management the new librarianship?  The OCLC Institute announces
"Knowledge Management: Methods and Systems," a new 2.5-day seminar designed
to explore the background, motivations, and definitions of knowledge
management, and the intersection of this increasingly popular management
trend with the Web revolution and digital knowledge resources.  The focus
will be on threats and opportunities for libraries.  Topics include
components and characteristics of knowledge management, system fundamentals,
functional requirements, and system performance.  Instructional methods
include lecture, group discussion, guided laboratory exercises, case
analyses, and small group presentations.

Appropriate for managers, planners, and decision makers at all levels
throughout the library including directors, associate directors, unit heads,
supervisors, and professionals such as systems librarians,
cataloging/metadata librarians, Web librarians, digital resources
librarians, and knowledge management librarians.  

For further details, including seminar agenda, visit
http://www.oclc.org/institute/courses/kam_methods.htm

Creating a New Reference Librarianship
Dates:  April 3-5, 2000; Registration Deadline March 13, 2000.

Designed especially for reference and public services librarians at all
levels, this all new OCLC Institute seminar will help you take a more active
role in creating a new reference librarianship...in your own career, work
unit, library, or larger spheres of influence and concern.  Over an
intensive 2.5 days that includes provocative lectures, facilitated group
discussions, and hands-on laboratory sessions, you will be challenged to ask
the difficult questions, gain hands-on experience with new technology
applications, and create an action plan for change.

*	How are reference services to be defined in a world of networked
knowledge?
*	How might innovative metadata systems affect the provision of
reference services and the daily work of a reference librarian?
*	Can libraries improve upon systems such as AskJeeves?  If not, why
not?
*	Can the cooperative cataloging model extend to reference
librarianship?  What would "cooperative reference" look like?  How do
cooperative cataloging and cooperative reference interrelate?
*	Can we create a compelling vision of a preferred future state for
reference librarianship and develop specific, achievable near-term actions
that begin to bring that vision to pass?

Intended audience: 

Heads of reference/public services, reference and public service librarians,
corporate librarians, solo librarians, and anyone interested in creating
change in reference services.

For further details, including seminar agenda, visit
http://www.oclc.org/institute/courses/kamref.htm

If you have questions please contact Amy Lytle, Event Coordinator, at (800)
848-5878 x 5212 or via e-mail at mailto:lytlea at oclc.org

Thank you.