2014 Program Overview
NOTE: Presentation materials have been submitted and uploaded for those titles with live web links. More will be added immediately after the conference.
DAY #1: Wednesday, March 19, 2014
7:30am - 9:00am
Registration / Continental Breakfast
in the Leonard Center Atrium / Fieldhouse
8:00am - 8:45am
Early Bird Demo Sessions
in the DeWitt Wallace Library
- OCLC WorldShare Management Services and What it Offers Library Staff and Their Patrons (OCLC)
- Repositories, from Flophouse to 5-Star Resort: The Model Matters (bepress)
9:00am - 10:15am
Opening Plenary Session / Keynote
in the Leonard Center FieldhouseKeynote Speaker: Mita Williams
10:30am - 11:30am
Concurrent Sessions
- Big Data, Big Libraries, Big Problems?: The 2014 Lib-Tech Anti-Talk
- Digital Public Library of America: One Year Report
- Engaging Older Adults with Technology
- Islandora: An Open Source Institutional Repository Solution
- Making It Up as We Go Along: How We Built Our Digital Collections Platform
- Marketing Library Services: From Posters to Platforms
- Teaching Information Literacy with Games and Gadgets
- Tech Speak and Librarian-ese: Justifiable Jargon, or Junk?
11:30am - 1:00pm
Lunch and Sponsors' Dessert Reception
in the Leonard Center Fieldhouse
1:15pm - 2:15pm
Concurrent Sessions
- Aggregating and Accessing the 'Daybooks of History' with the Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub
- Giving Your Exhibits Virtual Life: Implementation of Gaming Technology in Exhibition Development
- Holistic Tech: Harness Your Library's Data Fetish to Solve the Right Problems
- Krueger Library Boot Camp: Get your App in Gear!
- Reigniting your Relationship with Social Media: Policies, Plans, and Peccadilloes
- Structuring Library Data on the Web with Schema.org: We're On It!
- The Challenges of Making Digital Research Data Accessible
- We Are All Disabled: Making Your Part of the Web Accessible
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Concurrent Sessions
- Applying ʺMore Product, Less Processʺ to Digital Collections
- Defence Against the Digital Dark Arts (Grade One)
- iPad Labs: Ultimate Substitute or Colossal Headache?
- Knowing Catalog Users Through Their Digital Footprints
- Mobile First: Ensuring Your Library is Future Ready
- Storytime with an iPad
- Toward Bibliographic Web Services
- User Experience - The Good, Bad, and Confusing
3:45pm - 4:45pm
Concurrent Sessions
- Agile Project Management and ITIL for Libraries
- Appification of Information Literacy: Low Stakes, Big Rewards
- Digital Projects Made Easy: It’s all about Partnerships
- How to Be a Library Video Star
- The Flexibility of Google Tools (Sites, Docs, YouTube) for Teaching Data Information Literacy Concepts – From Online Instruction to the Flipped Classroom
- The Learning Curve: College Students, Social Media, and Metaliteracy
- Web Usability Before And After Resource Discovery
- When Text Isn’t Enough: An Exploration into the World of Multimodal Scholarship in the Digital Arts, Sciences and Humanities
DAY #2: Thursday, March 20, 2014
7:30am - 9:00am
Registration / Continental Breakfast
in the Leonard Center Atrium / Fieldhouse
8:00am - 8:45am
Early Bird Demo Session
in the Leonard Center Field House
- NO HAND-HOLDING NEEDED: When Technology Meets Patrons (Crowley)
9:00am - 10:15am
Thursday Morning Plenary Session / Keynote
in the Leonard Center FieldhouseKeynote Speaker: Barbara Fister
10:30am - 11:30am
Concurrent Sessions
- Creating Anoka County Library on the Go
- Forging information literacy skills with ANVIL: an innovative game-based approach to teaching information literacy
- Protecting Library Patron Privacy Online
- SESSION CANCELLED: From ILS to DLS, the Trend of Library System Developments
- Uglifying in Public: Website Design for Speed, Accessibility, and Staff Delight
- Universal access: Engaging the complexity of web accessibility through Collaboration
- Your Stuff, My Stuff, Their Stuff, Our Stuff – Consensus Gathering While Building a Digital Asset Management Solution
- Creating User-centered Web Sites Through User Feedback
11:30am - 12:45pm
Lunch
12:00pm - 12:45pm
Show & Tell Session:
A Closer Look at some of the "Next Big Things"1:00pm - 2:00pm
Concurrent Sessions
- Connecting the Clicks
- Finding a Place for Video Games on your Campus
- Just the Spark You Needed: A Standards Showcase
- Let's Get Digital: Reinventing Course Material Delivery
- Life after Usability Testing: Finding the Path from Problem to Process Improvement
- Perfection is Overrated: Google Apps as the UMN Libraries Intranet
- Practical Linked Data: Learning How to Create and Use Linked Data in the Real World
- When Every Student has an iPad: Impact on the Library
2:15pm - 3:45pm
Hands-on, Panel Discussions, and Workshop Sessions
(attendance may be limited for some sessions)
- Flipping the Classroom: Applying Flipped Teaching Methods to Library Instruction
- Geocaching History Challenge: Using High-Tech Toys to Learn History
- Getting Library Data to Where It's Needed
- Infographic DIY: Online Tools for Teaching and Library Advocacy
- Library Web Site Triage
- Lightning Presentations
- Lightning Presentation: Avoiding ʺAlma-geddonʺ: Strategies for Access Services
- Lightning Presentation: eKids: Birth to Tech @ HCL
- Lightning Presentation: Flex Those Pipes: Create a Current Awareness Service Using Yahoo! Pipes and LibGuides
- Lightning Presentation: How Discovery Tools Changed Instruction and Reference
- Lightning Presentation: If It’s Canceled, Do They Find It? Library Users’ Responses to Canceled Interlibrary Loan Requests
- Lightning Presentation: Next Gen Information Literacy Tutorials:Guide on the Side
- Lightning Presentation: Why Openness Matters: Creating Slides and Notes Using Non-Proprietary Software
- Redesign on a Dime: Building a Clean, User-friendly Library Web Site Using Home-grown and Free Tools
- Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Adapting Best Practices for Data Management
- Social Media in Libraries & Archives: It’s More Than Marketing
- The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA): Know Your Role
- Using Freely Available Tools to Protect Your Digital Content
4:00 - 5:30pm
"Lib Tech Get Together" Closing Reception in the Leonard Center Atrium
Minnesota-themed wine, beer, root beer, and appetizers
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