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Reference Conference,NYC-New Roles for Librarians
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nancy Steele)
Wed Apr 2 20:49:08 1997
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 15:49:08 -0600 (CST)
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THE SUNY/OCLC NETWORK PRESENTS
CURRENT ISSUES IN REFERENCE SERVICES:
A SERIES OF CONFERENCES
EVOLUTION OR REVOLUTION?
LIBRARIANS LOOK AT NEW
ROLES AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
June 13, 1997
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
CUNY Graduate Center
42nd Street & 5th Avenue
New York, New York
SUNY/OCLC Network
State University of New York
State University Plaza
Albany, NY 12246
(800) 342-3353
(518) 443-5444
FAX (518) 432-4346
STEELEN@SLSCVA.SYSADM.SUNY.EDU
EVOLUTION OR REVOLUTION?
LIBRARIES LOOK AT NEW ROLES AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
The Millennium draws to a close, a good time for information
professionals to refect upon their roles in using and
implementing the new technologies that promise to generate
exciting and challenging changes in their professional lives.
What new roles are librarians filling? How are new technologies
changing what they do and how they do it? How will the structure
of jobs be altered? What will develop in new and different
working relationships? How can changes in the buildings we work
in change our work and present new opportunities?
For insights into these and other questions, join us for a
daylong look into the future as well as the present. Our four
speakers will share their experience and expertise to help
navigate the uncertain waters of change.
Nancy L. Eaton
Dean of Library Services
Iowa State University
Reference and Collections Services in a Networked Learning
Environment
This presentation will focus on the "learning environment"
as the emerging pedalogical model in higher education and how
libraries can facilitate that model by networked delivery of
reference and collections services.
Marsha L. Fulton
ASKnetwork Director
Arthur Andersen
St.Louis, MO
Working With a Virtual Team
With groupware, the Internet, and intranets, we can now work
anywhere, anytime. At Arthur Andersen, we have formed a virtual
term of Knowledge Consultants who provide research and analysis
to help our clients improve their business performance. While
this team is centralized, the group is geographically located
throughout the world.
Have you worked with a virtual team, a committee of a
professional association, or a similar group? What are the
challenges of working with virtual teams? What are the
opportunities? How does working as a virtual team sometimes
affect how quickly we see the bigger picture? We'll address these
issues and more through the presentation.
Charlene Grass
Information Services Senior Manager
Oregon State University
Librarians: Fire and Dangerous Things
What is our mental model for "librarian? How is it
never-changing, how is it ever-changing? It's not too difficult
to define the basic role of librarians: guiding users through the
realms of information; throwing a searchlight on the information
landscape highlighting the best sites along the way for the
information tourist; and building roads (access systems) to
information.
Computer-related technologies and new practices in organizational
design are some of the new tools being used by librarians. Such
new subspecies as: database librarian, sponsor of the monographs
cataloging team, web designer, user support specialist, expert
content specialist, electronic resources cataloger and others
have all emerged. Will the umbrella concept of librarian still
cover all these new variations?
Jennifer Krueger
Assistant Director for Electronic
Resources
Science, Industry and Business
Library (SIBL)
New York Public Library
New Building, New Roles: the Impact of the Physical and
Technological Structure on Librarians' Roles
A new library building offers an opportunity to reexamine and
redefine staff roles. As we planned our facility, we realized it
was not going to be possible to blindly duplicate our old
physical setting, our old services, and our old jobs. Working
with models borrowed from the corporate world and a grant from
the Kellogg Foundation, SIBL staff and managers used TQM, team
based projects and a focus on the "Learning Organization" to
recreate ourselves. In this presentation, Ms. Krueger will take
you on a virtual tour of SIBL, looking at how the architecture,
technology and services help structure and mold the changing
staff roles.
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THE SUNY/OCLC NETWORK PRESENTS
CURRENT ISSUES IN REFERENCE SERVICES
REGISTRATION FORM
EVOLUTION OR REVOLUTION:
LIBRARIANS LOOK AT NEW ROLES AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
JUNE 13, 1997 *
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
CUNY Graduate Center
42nd Street & 5th Avenue
New York, New York
Name_____________________________________________________________
Address__________________________________________________________
Phone #________________________ OCLC Symbol (If applicable) ____
Institution______________________________________________________
FAX # __________________________
Full member-SUNY/OCLC Network___________$50.00 per person
All other institutions_______________________$65.00 per person
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Registration forms must be received by June 6, 1997. To receive
a refund, you must contact the Network by Monday, June 9, 1997.
Please duplicate this form as necessary. Use one registration
form for each registrant.
Send To:
Nancy Steele
The SUNY/OCLC Network
State University Plaza
Albany, NY 12246
(518) 443-5444 or (800) 342-3353
FAX - (518) 432-4346
STEELEN@SLSCVA.SYSADM.SUNY.EDU
