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GPS: Great Productive Staff — Librarians Map out Today’s Technologies

(Technology LEUs available upon request)

Do you feel like you could use a GPS to guide you through the maze of today’s competing technologies that are meant to make our lives easier? Have you ever wondered how you can become more productive? Join us at the 2011 IOLUG Spring Conference on May 6th! Our conference will include presentations and breakout sessions from successful technology users to help you discover more about the tools you may already be using — or need to adopt.

Registration:

(9:00-9:30)

Business Meeting:

(9:30-10:00)

“How to fail at social media (and how to get it right)?” (Morning Keynote)

(10:00-11:00)
Laura Solomon, Library Services Manager for the Ohio Public Library Information

Lots of experts will tell you how to succeed at social media, but very few will lay out a clear path for failure. Learn what the most common points of failure are for libraries, and why libraries often aren’t getting what they want out of this new medium. Laura Solomon is the author of the newly released Doing Social Media So It Matters: A Librarian’s Guide, and she has seen many libraries enter the social media waters with no idea of how to navigate. Find out if your library is on its way to a social shipwreck and how you might be able to change course.

Laura Solomon, MCIW, MLS is the Library Services Manager for the Ohio Public Library Information Network and the former Web Applications Manager for the Cleveland Public Library. She has been doing web development and design for over twelve years, in both public libraries and as an independent consultant. She also authored a statewide web site usability study in 2004 that evaluated the site of every public library in Ohio. She specializes in developing with Drupal, as well as in web code and accessibility standards. She is a 2010 Library Journal Mover & Shaker. Her book Doing Social Media So It Matters: A Librarian’s Guide was published in late 2010. As a former children’s librarian, she enjoys bringing the “fun of technology” to audiences and in giving libraries the tools they need to better serve the virtual customer.

Break

(11:00-11:10)

Breakout Sessions

(11:10-12:30) - (See list of breakout sessions below)

Lunch

12:30-1:30

“Implementing and Mitigating Change with All of this Newfangled Technology”

(1:30-2:15)
Mark Dehmlow, Head of the Library Web Department at the University of Notre Dame

At the University of Notre Dame, we recently implemented a new website in concert with rolling out a “next generation” OPAC into production for our campus. While much of the pre-launch feedback was positive, once we implemented the new systems, we started receiving a small number of intense criticisms and a small wave of problem reports. This presentation covers how to plan for big technology changes, prepare your organizations, effectively manage the barrage of post implementation technical problems, and mitigate customer concerns and criticisms. Participants are encouraged to bring brief war stories, anecdotes, and suggestions for managing technology implementations.”

Mark Dehmlow is the Head of the Library Web Department at the University of Notre Dame. Mark received his MS in LIS from he University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne and has 10 years technology experience in libraries, planning for, developing, and implementing technology solutions for research, teaching, and library business processes. In addition to being a key member on teams that have implemented Notre Dame’s next generation catalog, link resolver, andother commercial products, Mark also built Notre Dame’ electronic reserves system and spends a lot of his time developing integrative strategies to bring disparate systems together, and developing specialized services to address service gaps in existing systems.

Break

(2:15-2:25)

Breakout Sessions

(2:25-3:45)

Breakout - Room 1

Prezi(licious) - Take a tour of this zippy cloud based presentation tool - Noah Brubaker, Library Technology Systems Manager, University of Indianapolis

Prezi is a web-based presentation application and storytelling tool that uses a single canvas instead of traditional slides. Text, images, videos and other presentation objects are placed on the infinite canvas and grouped together in frames. The canvas allows users to create non-linear presentations, where users can zoom in and out of a visual map.[1] A path through different objects and frames can be defined, representing the order of the information to be presented. The presentation can be developed in a browser window, then downloaded so that an Internet connection is not needed when showing the presentation.

Google Cloud Print, Organizing with OneNote + Voki bonus - Sherri Parker, Coordinator of Library Technology and Misti Shaw, Music & Performing Arts Librarian, and Coordinator of Music Library, DePauw University

Google Cloud Print was released in January 2011, and provides some with the ability to print remotely using a mobile phone.  This brief presentation will describe what’s required, and the steps necessary to implement.
Project management has become especially important to today’s 21st century librarian.  Software tools, such as OneNote or Evernote, can be very helpful in keeping yourself and your projects organized both at home and at work.  We will demonstrate how these tools differ from Microsoft Word or Google Docs.

Want to learn how to create a dynamic talking character for your webpage, library guide, or blog?   Better yet, what about posting your speaking avatar on to Facebook?  Voki for Education can be used to do just that.  Learn how educators are using this software to enhance communication.

Breakout - Room 2

Phones, Pads, and Players: What Can Libraries Put on Them? - Laura Brack, Webmaster and Information Services Assistant at Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library.

Program will explore some of the most popular devices for electronic books and audio content, the variety of content available for them through public libraries, and some of the problems and pitfalls we have encountered.

Etexts and the Future of Textbooks - Michael Gough, Instructional Technologist and Coordinator of Student Technology Support, DePauw University.

The eTextbook market has exploded in within the past year with several vendors, features, and licensing terms.  In this presentation and discussion, we will examine the eTextbook landscape including how they compare to paper textbooks, their appeal to students and educators, the devices used for access, and the horizon for these technologies.  We will conclude with a discussion of how eBooks are transforming libraries and classrooms at our own institutions and how we can leverage their affordances while upholding core library and academic values.

Breakout - Room 3

Going Mobile with Boopsie: A Case Study — Tanya Prokrym, University of Notre Dame

The proliferation of mobile technologies has changed the way in which users view library resources.  Industry analysts are forecasting that the mobile application market will grow to over $15 billion by 2013.  This presentation describes one library’s journey to implementing a library mobile application.  Each phase of the project will be discussed — evaluation, product selection, design, implementation, and support.  The Boopsie environment will be demonstrated.

File Sharing on the Cloud: DropBox, SugarSync, Crate, YouSendIt, ZumoDrive & SkyDrive — Megan McKinney New Media Communications Major - 2011, Indiana University Kokomo

File-sharing has gone from mounds of paper faxes, to unorganized email attachments, to thumb-drives that seem to disappear at the most crucial times. If only there was a solution that kept files organized, allowed collaboration with others to share documents, and provided access to those files from anywhere. The solution is found on this mysterious “cloud” everyone is talking about, and comes in a variety of options so all organizations can easily take advantage of this file-sharing technology.