Chilly Philly!

Central Train station

Philadelphia Convention Centre

Enormous!

http://www.learningtimes.net/acrl/2011/

Exhibition Hall

Roundtable discussions

• 8.30 – 9.30 am and lunchtime – held on Friday• 50 tables each session – range of topics

Cyber-Zed Shed

• Micro-presentations focusing on technology related innovations

• 8.00 – 8.20 am and in 20 minute slots here & there.

Cyber Zed Shed• Change is Possible: Migration to Koha, an open source library

catalog• Don’t Settle for Normal When There’s XtraNormal!• Gimlet: Mixing the Perfect Public Services Assessment Cocktail• Lightning Fast Interlibrary Loan• Putting the free back in library subject guides: Assessing open sourc

e alternatives to LibGuides• Reserve It with Google• Mobilize your Library: Making a Mobile Enhanced Website• QR Codes: Looking for the Tipping Point• LibAnswers: We Bought It- Now What?• Experimental iPhone and Android Apps at the University of Illinoishttp://www.learningtimes.net/acrl/2011/slidecasts/cyber-zed-shed-presentations-slidecasts/

To the Cloud

Screencast http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTbhmgpPdH0

IdeaPower Unconference• Library Orientations Using Location Based Mobile Apps • Therapy Dogs - Stress free fun for everyone • Video Game Collections in Academic Libraries: It's not all fun and

Games! • Collaboration with Teaching Faculty: The Five-Step Program • Using music to explain the importance of citing your resources. • Reaching for the Treetops: Digital Projects That Go Beyond the Stacks • Feeding your Subject Guide • Sharing the Wealth: Providing Library Data for Campus Mobile and Web

initiatives • The Zombie's Guide to Information Literacy: Pop Culture Hooks for

Reaching College Students

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/ideapower

Keynote speakers

Not a Librarian amongst them!• Tiffany Shlain – Filmmaker, artist, internet pioneer and activist

(watch her paper) http://www.learningtimes.net/acrl/2011/opening-session/

• Raj Patel – author, academic and activist (watch his paper) http://www.learningtimes.net/acrl/2011/keynote-with-raj-patel/

• Jaron Lanier – computer scientist, composer, visual artist and composer (author of ‘You are not a gadget’)

• Clinton Kelly – Fashion expert, author, co-host of ‘What not to wear’

Find out more about the speakers at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/national/2011/program/keynotes.cfm

Papers

• Are All Reference Interactions Created Equal? : How Gender Might Matter to Our Patrons by Beth Strickland and Jennifer Bonnet, The University of Michigan library

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/national/2011/papers/are_all_reference.pdf

Papers

Delivering a WOW User Experience: do academic Librarians Measure Up? By Steven Bell, Temple University

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/national/2011/papers/delivering_wow.pdf

Papers

Helping the Hand that Feeds You: Supporting the Research Needs of Campus Executive Officers by Karen E. Downing, Shevon Desai, and Pamela MacKintosh, University of Michigan.

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/national/2011/papers/helping_hand.pdf

Papers

When Interdependence Becomes Codependence: Knowing When and How to Let Go of Legacy Services by Mary Evangeliste and Katherine Furlong, Lafayette College http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/national/2011/papers/when_interdependence.pdf

Poster Sessions

http://www.acrl.mobi/thu#a618

Vote on the best poster

Civility@Our libraries – Pennsylvania State Libraries

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Reference on the Move: Using an iPad to Market Library Services

and Conduct Outreach for Students and Faculty Joanna Gadsby and Shu Qian

Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Roving Reference

Roving Reference Unit

iPad 32GWi-Fi + 3G Laptop Stand Roving

Sign

Allow us to take the library reference services to other busy locations on campus

The Roving Locations

Open Space Outside of the Library, The Commons, University Center, Math & Psychology Building, Public Policy Building, Academic IV Building

We are sponsored byGraduate Student AssociationOffice of Undergraduate EducationDepartment of Off-Campus Student ServicesUMBC Women’s Center Events We Attended

Undergraduate Research EventGood Morning, Commuters New Students OrientationFaculty Meetings

Statistics & Log

Marketing

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Spotlights Events

Poster

Bits &Pieces• Open source versus vendor products - chat, virtual help desk,

communicator, equipment bookings • Open source - use of networks, technical support to find solutions• Abandonment of virtual desk in favour of chat, SMS • Libguides - divided opinions. Not flexible enough. Many libraries using open

source - eg Word Press • Many libraries reducing face-to-face help desks or phrasing out altogether

in favour of combined inquiry desk• Enhanced subject guides – video, Web 2.0, embedded chat, animation, etc.• Innovation - great examples of using web 2.0, developing apps, mobile

services • Recognition to question sacred cows and legacy services• Equal parts of uncertainty and excitement about the future of our

profession