October Conference: Call for Presenters

[Karen V. Odato]

FIRST CALL FOR PRESENTERS!! (And save the date!)

Cross posted. Please excuse the duplication.

Please consider presenting at Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries' sixth annual October Conference for New England Librarians! The topic this year is "The Web: Super Searching, Super Teaching."  Scheduled for Thursday, October 31, 2002, this day-long event will be held at Dartmouth College in lovely Hanover, New Hampshire (an easy two-hour drive from Boston, Springfield, and many other New England locations).

Mary Ellen Bates will be the featured speaker.  Mary Ellen is the principal of Bates Information Services, Inc. (www.BatesInfo.com), and the author of five books about online research, including "Super Searchers Cover the World", "Mining for Gold on the Internet", and "Researching Online for Dummies." A lively speaker and writer, she has been online since the 1970s.  Mary Ellen will focus on advanced Web searching in the morning's session.  She'll speak for an hour after lunch about teaching Web searching.

We are seeking additional speakers to discuss how they teach Web searching to their users. Have you developed  any successful techniques for conveying Web searching techniques to groups in limited time frames?  Hands-on, demonstration sessions, online tutorials?  Would you like to give an informal, brief presentation (30 minutes including question/discussion time)? If so, please contact me (by telephone or email) by June 14 - the sooner the better. (You don't have to have your presentation finished by then; you just need to be able to describe your presentation to us.)

We have had between 70 and 120 participants at each of our five previous conferences (please see
<http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/services.htmld/#conferences>); we expect similar attendance this year.

We hope to hear from you soon.

Karen Odato
karen.odato at dartmouth.edu
603-650-8562