CALL for PRESENTERS: ALA Preconference: Digital Reference @ Your Library

[Roy Tennant]

Forwarded on behalf of Chester Bunnell <bunnellcs at SLU.EDU>, please do 
not reply to me. Thanks,
Roy

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> From: Chester Bunnell <bunnellcs at SLU.EDU>
> Date: Wed Feb 27, 2002  03:25:22 PM US/Pacific
>
> (Please excuse cross-posting to several lists)
>
> ALA Preconference: Digital Reference @ Your Library
> Atlanta, Friday, June 14, 8:00a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
> Call for presenters -- due March 15
>
> The full-day preconference will feature presentations and discussions
> with
> "front-line" librarians from a variety of environments: academic,
> public,
> school, special, and government. We want attendees to leave with the
> tools
> and blueprint needed to investigate, implement, and assess such a
> service in
> their own libraries. Panel discussions, poster sessions and product
> demos
> will follow the presentations. We welcome diverse perspectives and are
> particularly interested in identifying presenters who can address the
> broader issues and implications. We also welcome "how we did it at my
> library" accounts in poster session format.
>
> If you have experience in this area, please consider submitting a
> proposal
> for a presentation or poster session. Topic ideas could include, but are
> not
> limited to:
> * Integrating services into the organization
> * Functional requirements for services
> * Service models, e.g. software/hosted service selection, planning
> process
> * Technical support and other technology issues
> * Policy development and implementation issues
> * Content integration vs. maintaining separate websites for reference
> websites, BI, e-ref, etc.; relationship to portals
> * Digital reference service development (local and/or collaborative)
> * Patron expectations and behavior; how this fits with research on use
> of
> the Internet overall
> * Staffing, staff training, publicity, and maintenance issues
> * Changes in service resulting from the experience of offering digital
> reference (e.g. re-design of library's Web site, change in hours for
> face-to-face desk reference, etc.)
> * International aspects
> * Assessment
>
> Use the web submission form at
> http://www.libraries.psu.edu/crsweb/itech/rusa/proposal.htm. Further
> details
> on the Preconference website at
> <http://www.ala.org/rusa/mars/preconf.html>.
> To attend the Preconference, register by May 10.
>
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>