Program Overview / Sessions

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DAY #1: Wednesday - March 14, 2012

7:30am – 9:00am
Registration / Continental Breakfast

8:00am – 8:45am
Early Bird Demo Sessions

• OCLC WorldShare: a vision for supporting the community through collaboration
• Innovative Interfaces -- From ILS to OSP: Changing what ILS Means to a Library
• Agati Furniture Along With T1VISIONS Presents the inTouch Interactive Table
• Minitex

9:00am - 10:15am
Opening Plenary Session / Keynote

Keynote Speaker:
Andrew McLaughlin, Vice President at Tumblr and a fellow at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society  [ video ]

10:30am - 11:30am
Concurrent Sessions -

• Assessing and Building Digital Literacy Skills for Low-skilled Adults: A Practical Approach
• Blogging for fun and profit - or at least access and potential profit
• Collaborating in New Learning Spaces to Support Students' Research and Technology Training Needs
• Digital Branch Libraries: Serving Patrons Online Beyond the Library Website
• From traditional to cutting-edge: Globe University makes the leap to OCLC’s Worldshare Management Service
• How Do I Learn All of This Stuff?!: Keeping Up with Patrons' Demands
• Information 2.0: Can Collaborative Information Be Authoritative?
• Library Data and Student Success
• Optimizing the iPad - Apps that help you work smarter, and some just to have fun!
• Phoning It In: Increasing Student Engagement Using Mobile Phone Polling
• Point, Shoot and Educate: Using QR Codes To Inform Your Patrons
• Teaching with Google Books: Research, Copyright, and Data Mining

11:30am - 1:00pm
Lunch and Sponsor’s Dessert Reception


1:15pm - 2:30pm
Wednesday Afternoon Plenary Session / Keynote


Keynote Speaker:
Chad Mairn, Information Services Librarian/adjunct professor at St. Petersburg College and CTO, Novare Library Services  [ video ]



2:45pm - 3:45pm
Concurrent Sessions -

• Bringing Makers into the Library: Digital Humanities, Hackerspaces, and the new DIY
• Highlighting the Research Experience with Digital Commons
• Library in an app: Testing the usability of Boopsie as a mobile library application
• Orientation Impossibilities: 780 students in One Day!
• Plan, Execute, Evaluate, Repeat: Social Media for Libraries and Non-Profit Organizations
• We Can Figure This Out: Creating Online Tutorials/Assessment Tools With the Tools at Hand, In the Time We Have

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Concurrent Sessions -

• Art of Redirection: Putting Mobile Devices Where You Want Them
• From F2F to VLE: Converting Your Live Presentation for an Online Audience
• The Mother of all LibGuides: Reduce Maintenance and Enhance Uniformity Through Strategic Planning
• Prezi beyond its intended use: exploiting the potential
• Privacy, Libraries, and the Internet: Have the Rules Changed?
• Cheap and Easy Project Management

2:45pm - 5:00pm
Hands-on and Workshop Sessions -
(attendance limited)

• An Introduction to jQuery Mobile: Creating Simple Mobile Webpages
• Get this House in Order: personal workflows for productivity and collaboration
• Improving Library Services by Design: Service Design as a tool for Creating User-friendly, Competitive, and Relevant Library Services
• Introduction to New American Factfinder
• Sampling from the buffet of free concept mapping software
• Short Attention-Span Code: Leveraging Google Apps to Build Custom Solutions
• Usability Testing in the Academic Library: A LibGuides Case Study
• Using Video of Your Computer to Teach
• Web 2.0 Tools for Productivity
• What the Heck is HTML5 & CSS3? An Introductory Workshop

DAY #2: Thursday - March 15, 2012

7:30am - 9:00am
Registration / Continental Breakfast

8:00am - 8:45am
Early Bird Demo Sessions

• EBSCONET Usage Consolidation and EBSCOHost eBooks
• bepress: Repositories are fundamental, Yes you can!
• Ingram / Coutts

9:00am - 10:15am
Thursday Morning Plenary Session / Keynote

Keynote Speaker:
Larry Johnson, CEO of the New Media Consortium and the founder and visionary leader of the NMC's Horizon Project [ video]

10:30am - 11:30am
Concurrent Sessions -

• Black Hats, Farms, and Bubbles: How Emerging Marketing and Content Production Models are Making Research More Difficult (And What You And Your Students Can Do About It)
• Building a Digital Archive at a Special Library
• Click or Poll Your Way to an Interactive Library Instruction
• Helping Libraries Decide If and What Open Source Software is Right for Them
• Exhibits: Merging the Physical with Digital
• Gaming as a Means for Collaboration
• Hennepin County Library’s eBooks team: the advantages of a cross-functional team in launching a new collection/service
• Libraries in the Cloud
• Media Literacy for Libraries 101: What it is, the University of Minnesota Model, and the Criticality of Library Support
• Prove it! Me Report Pretty One Day
• Solo Tech: How to manage a library's tech alone
• Things in a Flash: An iPad App Buffet



11:30am - 12:45pm
Lunch / Tech Petting Zoo


12:00pm - 12:45pm
Poster Sessions
• Think you know your patrons? Using Google Analytics to Discover Patron Behaviors on the James C. Kirkpatrick Library Website
• Universal Design, the Library, and Assistive Adaptive Technologies
• Bringing Patrons in and Giving Them Somewhere to Go—Designing an Effective Library Website
• Using LibAnalytics to Gather & Evaluate Reference Statistics


12:45pm- 1:45pm
Concurrent Sessions -
• APIs & You
• Archiving research data for access, preservation, and sharing? We can do that
• Books on the floor: teaching information literacy
• Breaking Down the Silos: Technology, Socialization, and Culture Change
• Bringing Historic Maps to Life: Adventures in ArcGIS Server and Spatial Scholarship
• Cataloging Emerging Technologies
• Critical Thinking in Action: Integrating Classroom Response Systems into Your Instructional Design Toolkit
• Get Your Head in the Cloud: How Wikis in the Classroom (and Librarians in Classroom Wikis) Facilitate Group Work and Prepare Students for an Increasingly Online, Increasingly Collaborative World
• Implementing BookLens at the Saint Paul Public Library
• Supporting users in their pursuit and use of our e-books: Perspectives from one large academic library
• Surfing the Tide: eBook Best Practices
• Using Social Media to promote the library
• Where in the Library is the QR Code?

2:00 - 3:00 pm
Concurrent Sessions - 

• Approaches to Database Management: Did Our Comprehensive Review Work?
• Enterprise Content Management and Digital Libraries: Cultural Clash and Collaboration Opportunity
• Evolving Workflows at the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Digital Library
• Online Smart, Online Safe: A Program for Developing Digital Citizens
• Through JTacq-Colored Glasses: Streamlining the Acquisitions Process
• YouTube for Hosting Video Tutorials: The Hows, Whys and Why Nots

3:15 - 4:15 pm
Concurrent Sessions - 

• Adding Flair to Faculty Pages
• Homegrown Usability Testing-- Will It Provide Results?
• Imagining Emergent Metadata, Realizing the Emergent Web
• It's Not Paranoia if Your Tech Really Is Out To Get You: Critical thinking about new technologies
• What is Islandora? Could it meet your digital repository needs?
• Your Library Website Stinks and it's Your Fault

2:00 - 4:15 pm
Hands-on and Workshop Sessions -
(attendance limited)

• Engaging Adults Learners with Technology
• Google+ Goes to School: Using Google+ in a University Environment
• Improving Library Resource Discovery: Exploring the Possibilities of VuFind and Web Scale Discovery in a Consortial Environment
• Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop
• Library Newsletters: Monkeying Around with MailChimp
• The Minnesota Library Futures Initiative
• Quick and dirty usability testing for libraries with no budget, no technical expertise, and very little time
• Sticky Teaching: Six Principles for Developing Memorable Curriculum
• Using Trillian to handle electronic reference inquiries, including chat and text
4:15 - 5:30pm
Closing / Wine and Cheese Reception