2009 Oregon Virtual Reference Summit Program
The 2009 Oregon Virtual Reference Summit is happening mostly in the Gymnasium, except where noted.
| 9:00 | Welcome | |
| 9:15 | Keynote with Eva Miller | |
| 10:15 | Break | |
| 10:30 | Lightning talks | |
| 11:00 | The Other Side of the Screen | Face to Space: Creating Buy-in for New Reference Mediums (Parsons Room) |
| 12:15 | Lunch | |
| 1:30 | Lightning Talks | |
| 2:00 | Connecting with Library Users through Technology: Emerging Tools and Concepts | |
| 3:30 | Break | |
| 3:45 | Discussion | |
| 4:15 | Wrap-up | |
Keynote with Eva Miller
Eva Miller has over fifteen years of experience in information technology environments, including software companies, graphic design firms, libraries, Web publishers, and a brief stop at that giant Intel place. She also holds a Master's degree in information science from the University of Michigan School of Information and was one of Library Journal's "Movers and Shakers" for 2004. Eva is a skilled user experience designer and strategist who enjoys creating solutions that meet the needs of the client, the customer, and the brand.
Eva is not so impressed by mountains and oceans because she grew up on the Great Plains (perfectly named). She cannot keep plants alive or put away clean laundry in a timely fashion, and she mimes cigarette smoking to relieve stress.
Panel discussions
The Other Side of the Screen
About 75% of L-net questions come from kids. How is technology changing the relationships between students, teachers, and librarians?
Lee Catalano, Multnomah County Library
Sara Ryan, Multnomah County Library
Susan Stone, Portland Public Schools
Stephanie Thomas, Parkrose High School
Video of The Other Side of the Screen
Student podcasts:
Joseph (download mp3)
Cassie (download mp3)
Face to Space: Creating Buy-in for New Reference Mediums
How do we convince library management to put scarce resources into providing virtual reference services? What concerns and reservations do our colleagues have about providing virtual reference, and how do we assuage them? Panel discussion.
Ahniwa Ferrari, Washington State Library slides handout
Allie Flanary, Portland Community College slides handout
Carrie Ottow, Corvallis-Benton County Public Library
Connecting with Library Users through Technology: Emerging Tools and Concepts
Panelists will demonstrate successful strategies for doing virtual reference by meeting users where they search, using special techniques to quickly field questions and fostering cyber-relationships to meet the needs of our patrons. See what’s happening at the Reference Desk in Second Life. Learn how to videoconference and screencast in order to instantly relate information in an audiovisual format. Make yourself available to patrons by using the social networking tools they use. Theorize about spime and how URL-identified objects will affect reference. Stick around to discuss what we can do to exceed our patrons’ expectations in this changing landscape.
Robin Ashford, George Fox University
Second Life video slide show
Anna Johnson, Mt. Hood Community College Library
Screencasting video slides handout
Karen Munro, University of Oregon
Video conferencing video slides
Nicholas Schiller, Washington State University
Social Networking video slides notes links
Aaron Schmidt, District of Columbia Public Library
The Internet of Things video slides
Lightning Talks
We know you are professional. We know you are passionate. We know you know stuff. Come and share it, for 5 minutes, with a lightning talk.
Talk about your favorite source, technique, tool or transcript. Talk about anything related to virtual reference, libraries or technology.
Michael Baird - iPhone applications video slides
Kimberly Willson-St. Clair - Oregon Authors bibliography/website video
Theresa Yancey - Firefox add-ons video slides
Lee Catalano - Multnomah County Library Homework Center video
Emily-Jane Dawson and Steve Roskoski - Being friendly in chat video
Gretchen Leslie - Marketing L-net to the small business community video slides
Emily Ford - Oregon Health Go Local video
Clark Kent - Using AskMetafilter to answer reference questions video
Lorie Vik - Google Alerts, etc. video
Liz Paulus - Using Delicious bookmarks to share links with patrons video slides
Caleb Tucker-Raymond - My favorite transcript
Discussion
We've built in time at the end of the day to build on the energy we've created and talk about with our speakers and panelists, as well as with each other.
Comments
Is there a problem with the registration page? I've tried twice to submit my registration, and both times it's tried to load for about 10 minutes, without success.
Robin S.
Robin, someone else had trouble with the web site earlier, but all seems to be well now. Can you give it another try?
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