Home About Hours Libraries For Schools For Libraries Help
Home ›

Oregon Virtual Reference Summit 2008

When and where

The 2008 Oregon Virtual Reference Summit will be held Friday, May 9, 2008 at Chemeketa Eola Northwest Viticulture Center in Salem from 9:30am-4:30pm.

Eola Northwest Viticulture Center
215 Doaks Ferry Road NW
Salem, Oregon

directions

Why

The goals of the Oregon Virtual Reference Summit are:

  • To bring great speakers on topics related to libraries and virtual reference to Oregon, because we all can't always go and hear them anywhere else
  • To discuss virtual reference in Oregon and anything that's related
  • For Oregon librarians staffing our statewide virtual reference service, L-net, to meet one another

Register

$15 for staff at L-net partner libraries and L-net advisory board members
$25 for everyone else

Lunch is included in the registration fee.

Registration is closed.

Keynote speaker

R. David Lankes
R. David Lankes is director of the Information Institute of Syracuse, and an associate professor in Syracuse University's School of Information Studies. Lankes has always been interested in combining theory and practice to create active research projects that make a difference. Past projects include the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology, the Gateway to Education Materials, AskERIC and the Virtual Reference Desk. Lankes' more recent work involves how participatory concepts can reshape libraries and credibility. This work expands his ongoing work to understand the integration of human expertise in information systems.

In 2007, Lankes was named the first Fellow at the American Library Association's Office for Information Technology Policy.

Audio and slides from Lankes talk, "The Innovation Imperative" are posted on his blog.

Directions, Parking and Carpooling

Directions provided by the Eola center are better than what you'll get from an online map provider.

Parking at the Eola Center is free and plentiful.

If you would like to carpool to the Summit, please send a message to the L-net e-mail discussion list, l-net@listsmart.osl.state.or.us. You must be a member of the list to send a message, so if you need to join, follow the instructions at http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/l-net.