Date: November 15, 2006
Location: The American College
Time: 9:30am to 4:00pm
Topic: Topics to be discussed include funding for library technology, breaking myths, user expectations and strategies to staying current. A panel discussion will follow offering descriptions of specific implementations and challenges as well as responses to the "Taiga Forum Provocative Statements", March 10, 2006.
Presentations
- Steven Bell: Are You Feeling The Pressure? The Ratcheting Up of Academic Library Technology Powerpoint | Handout
- Roy Tennant: The Academic Library in an Internet World
About the Speakers
Roy Tennant is an award winning, internationally recognized pioneer in digital library development and Internet training. He is manager of eScholarship Web & Services Design for the California Digital Library. He created and manages the eScholarship web site at http://escholarship.cdlib.org/. Prior to that he was the digital library project manager for the library at the University of California, Berkeley. He developed and managed UC Berkeley's Digital Library SunSITE (Software, Information and Technology Exchange), sponsored by Sun Microsystems. The SunSITE is a showcase and repository of information about how to plan, create and maintain digital libraries. It provides access to many of the digital libraries on the World Wide Web.
Steven J. Bell is Director of the Paul J. Gutman Library at Philadelphia University. Prior to that he was the Assistant Director of the Lippincott Library of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He obtained his Doctorate in Education in 1997 from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Master of Science in Library Science from Drexel University in 1977. He writes and speaks frequently on topics such as information retrieval, library and learning technologies, and academic librarianship. An Adjunct Professor at the Drexel University College of Information Science and Technology, he teaches courses in online searching and academic librarianship. He maintains a Web site and Weblog, "Steven Bell's Keeping Up Web Site" and "The Kept Up Academic Librarian", that promote current awareness skills and resources. He is also a member of the ACRLog blogging team. Steven is a co-founder of the Blended Librarian's Online Learning Community on the Learning Times Network and has participated in numerous virtual presentations. For additional information about the author or to find links to the various Web sites he publishes and maintains, point your browser to http://staff.philau.edu/bells.