Beyond 2.0: User-Focused Tools & Practices
Web 2.0 tools and practices, web services, social media, and new platforms of social computing are enabling libraries and information professionals to interact with their clients and communities in new and exciting ways. New tools and processes have ignited creative integrated content mashups, specialized and personalized services for community segments, and exciting new techniques for dealing with voluminous information flows, including user-generated content. Our conference theme, Beyond 2.0: User-Focused Tools & Practices, captures leading edge online initiatives and innovations in all types of information enterprises, tools and techniques for enhancing user-friendly digital information flows, radical new ideas for roles and values of information professionals, information discovery and visualization methods for dealing with today’s information overload, building new communities and supporting online connections in engaging ways, and more. Join us at the most comprehensive conference for library and information professionals interested in technology to discover the insights, strategies and practices that will allow us to tame the net, manage libraries and digital information, and enhance the information and learning experience of people in our communities. Internet Librarian 2008 provides attendees with many chances to meet and hear from leading edge information professionals in all types of environments – leaders in the information industry who are integrating content and delighting their clients, organizing and managing digital content in creative ways, setting the context for excellence in information utilization in their organizations, revolutionizing the roles of info pros, building strong collaborative communities among their customers and colleagues, and using new technologies in creative and exciting ways.
Information Today Inc., a key provider of technology conferences for over twenty five years, is pleased to announce the 12th annual Internet Librarian – the ONLY conference for information professionals who are using, developing, and embracing Internet, Intranet, and Web-based strategies in their roles as information architects and navigators, webmasters and web managers, content evaluators, developers and integrators, taxonomists, searchers, community builders, information providers, trainers, guides, and more. This comprehensive conference and exhibition offers a wide-ranging program designed to meet the needs of librarians, information managers, systems professionals, researchers, content managers and information specialists.
Internet Librarian 2008 caters to all interests and all levels of knowledge with four simultaneous tracks plus many workshop and networking opportunities. This year’s tracks encompass such topics as: Information Discovery & Search, Leading Edge Technologies, Managing Digital and Knowledge Assets, Web Tools, Intranets & Portals, eLearning & Training, Case Studies of Internet and Intranet Librarians, Web Development & Management, Enterprise Trends, Virtual Worlds, e-Resources & Digital Libraries, Blogging, Wikis & Social Computing, Distance Learning & Instruction, Gaming, Streaming Media, Search Engines, Content Management, Integration & Mashups, Planning for the Future, and more. Speakers are knowledgeable, authoritative and focus on practical applications, new tools and techniques, case studies as well as technical and managerial issues. Please consider sending us a proposal to speak. Following is a list of some topics we hope to cover, but don’t let this list limit your imagination! We look forward to hearing from you.
Possible Topics (suggestions only — the more creative the topic, the better!)
- Leading edge technologies & libraries
- Library Apps for YouTube, Squidoo, etc.
- Integrating Content for Creative Products
- Streamlining user online experiences
- User generated content & services
- 2.0 Roles for Info Pros
- Wireless campuses & communities
- Identifying & Working with Information Partners
- Usability & Web Site Functionality
- Cool tools for navigating & searching content
- Search Engine Nuts & Bolts
- Web 2.0 & Library 2.0 strategies & services
- Semantic web strategies and applications
- Social Computing Tools for Libraries
- Managing digitally & Building digital collections
- Internet librarians & Careers in Search
- Next generation ebook strategies & policies
- Designing for Web devices & appliances
- ADA compliance strategies & experiences
- Taxonomies & auto-categorization tools
- Knowledge Management Strategies for Internet Librarians
- Desktop strategies for information access
- Streaming media: tools, strategies & case studies
- Digital collections: building & managing
- Streamlining intranet management
- Identifying quality Internet resources
- Navigating strategies & techniques
- Integrating K-12 Curriculum & Net Technology
- Web development tools & techniques
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- PDAs & content streaming
- Second Life & Libraries
- Latest Library Mash-ups
- Federated searching
- Tips for Web design
- Innovation & creating new ideas
- New & Converging technologies
- Integrating maps & feeds
- Podcasting & Videocasting
- Shifting roles & strategies
- Hot trends for Internet librarians
- Intranet politics & web teams
- Latest search engine tips
- Internet competencies
- Blogs & Wikis
- XML & libraries
- Negotiating for E-resources
- Visual interfaces
- Successful web strategies
- Virtual library services
- Elearning tips & tools
- Collaboration & Communities
- Developing Internet skills
- Negotiating for content
- Distance learning technologies
- Digital rights management
- Usability strategies
- Digital archiving
- Building customer relationships
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If you would like to participate in Internet Librarian 2008 as a
speaker or workshop leader, please complete the submission form
or contact
the Program Chair at the email address listed below as soon
as possible (March 26, 2008 at the very latest). Include the following
brief details of your proposed presentation: title, abstract, a
few sentences of biographical information that relate to the topic,
and full contact information (title, address, e-mail, phone & fax) for
you and any co-presenters. All abstracts will be reviewed by the
Organizing/Review Committee and notification regarding acceptance
will be made by the summer.
Jane I. Dysart, Program
Chair
Dysart & Jones Associates
Phone: 416/484-6129
E-mail: jane@dysartjones.com
Organizing/Review Committee
Stephen Abram, SirsiDynix
Darlene Fichter, University of Saskatchewan
Megan Fox , Simmons College
Richard Geiger, San Francisco Chronicle
Jenny Levine, ALA & The Shifted Librarian
Marydee Ojala, Editor, ONLINE Magazine
Barbara Quint, Editor-in-Chief,
Searcher
Donna Scheeder, Law Library of Congress
Aaron Schmidt,
North Plains Public Library
Michael Stephens,
Dominican University
To receive registration information and the program brochure
in the fall, or exhibit information please check
this Web site, or contact:
Information Today Inc.
143 Old Marlton Pike, Medford, NJ 08055
Phone: 609/654-6266
Fax: 609/654-4309
E-mail: custserv@infotoday.com
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