Library Rebooted! MLC Special Program Series kicks off on October 6

Your patrons are evolving. Are you?

Your patrons are evolving. Are you? Technology is renovating the library world.  Is your library struggling to keep up?

“Library Rebooted!,” MLC's Special Program Series for 2006-2007, addresses questions about our changing users and environment. What kinds of innovations should we consider in the services we offer? How do we meet our patrons where they are? What is the role of the library as a place and as an online meeting spot?

October 6, 2006: “Perceptions of Users,” the first Special Program in the five-part series, will focus on users’ perceptions of libraries, how they're using (or not using) libraries, and what response librarians need to make. Keynote speakers, Carol Tenopir and George Needham, will provide quantitative analysis from formal studies of users' perceptions of libraries. Following lunch, two Michigan library directors will address the questions raised in the keynotes from different perspectives.

November 15, 2006: “New Technology: Blogs, Wikis, IM, and more,” the second Special Program in the series, will focus on the impact of new technology and implications for libraries. Our speakers – Darlene Fichter, Aaron Schmidt, Meredith Farkas, and Jessamyn West – will address the overall picture of technology's effect on libraries and how some innovative libraries are using IM, wikis, and blogs to reach users and to communicate with others in the library field.

March 2, 2007: “Discovery & Access: The OPAC and beyond,” the third Special Program in the series, will focus on the present and future of the library OPAC. In this third Special Program, our speakers will address the overall picture of technology's effect on how libraries provide access to their information.

April 6, 2007: “Library as Place: Building for the Future,” the fourth Special Program, will focus on the library as a place. Our speakers will address the issues involved in constructing a new library building and how to make an older building work for today's technologies.

June 2007 (TBA): “MLC Spring Conference and OCLC Users Day” will be the last Special Program in the series.  Watch our workshop website for updates:
https://members.mlcnet.org/workshops/

[08 Aug 2006]