2010 Oregon Virtual Reference Summit

Keynote Speaker: Vanessa Fox vanessa fox

Vanessa Fox, called a “cyberspace visionary” by Seattle Business Monthly, is an expert in understanding customer acquisition from organic search. More...

When and where

Friday May 7, 2010
at McMenamin's Edgefield, 2126 S.W. Halsey Street in Troutdale, Oregon

 


Twitter: lnetoregon

 

Registration

Registration is open until May 1. The fee is $25 for L-net affiliates and $50 for everyone else. This fee covers lunch and more.

We admit a regional focus, but welcome visitors. Everyone interested in discussing reference, service and technology is encouraged to attend.

Program

9:00 Welcome
9:15 Lightning Talks, round one
10:00 Keynote with Vanessa Fox
11:00 Break
 11:15 Workshop - working with teens online
12:30 Lunch
1:45 Concurrent sessions
2:35 Break
2:45 Concurrent sessions
3:35 Break
3:45 Lightning Talks, round two and wrap up
4:30 Goodbye

Lightning Talks are 5-minute presentations on anything you want. Talk about your favorite source, tips and tricks, or anything at all related to reference, service, and technology.

Concurrent sessions will feature two choices in each period. Descriptions coming soon.

Intentional Reference – What do you want to try or learn during your chat sessions?

:) R Us: Being there in VR

Gems of Oregon – uncover unique resources in our midst

In/appropriate question - what make a question a reference question?

 

 

Hotel

We've reserved a number of rooms at Edgefield for attendees to stay in on both Thursday and Friday nights. McMenamins will hold our rooms until April 7th, so book early.

Call them at (503) 669-8610 or (800) 669-8610 to make your reservation and tell them you are attending the Oregon Virtual Reference Summit.

Just for your information, most rooms at Edgefield do not have a private bathroom. There are several options outside of the rooms we have booked, so don't be afraid to ask the agent what is available.

 

Getting There

By car: McMenamin's Edgefield posts directions by car from several directions.

By bus: Tri-met bus #77 stops just a little east of Edgefield in the 2100 block of SW Halsey street. Use Tri-Met's trip planner and tell it you want to go to "edgefield".

By boat: Land at Lewis and Clark State Park and catch the 77 bus, as above.

 

Concurrent sessions

:) R Us: Being There in VR

Bob Schroeder, Portland State University

We all have an image that we project at the reference desk – professional yet approachable, knowledgeable yet warm. How can we transfer this persona online, and why is it even important that we do? Come to this interactive session to find out how others manifest their good librarian selves online, and leave with some great tips you can apply in your VR session tomorrow.

 

In/appropriate Questions

Karen Munro, Univeristy of Oregon
Caleb Tucker-Raymond, Multnomah County Library

Make makes a question a reference question?

 

Intentional Reference

Dale Vidmar, Southern Oregon University

What do you want to try or learn during your chat sessions?

 

Gems of Oregon

Uncover unique resources in our midst

 

Speaker biographies

Keynote Speaker

vanessa fox
Vanessa Fox, called a “cyberspace visionary” by Seattle Business Monthly, is an expert in understanding customer acquisition from organic search. She shares her perspective on how this impacts marketing and user experience at ninebyblue.com and provides authoritative search-friendly design patterns for developers at janeandrobot.com. She’s also an entrepreneur-in-residence with Ignition Partners, Contributing Editor at Search Engine Land, and host of the weekly podcast Office Hours. She previously created Google’s Webmaster Central, which provides both tools and community to help website owners improve their sites to gain more customers from search and was instrumental in the sitemaps.org alliance of Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Live Search. She was recently named one of Seattle’s 2008 top 25 innovators and entrepreneurs. Look for her book Marketing in the Age of Google in early 2010.