Special Projects
2010-2011 College of DuPage Programs
NEFLIN Members Register here or click on the link for each program below.
Not a NEFLIN Member? Contact your regional MLC or Dan Lhotka at the State Library.
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Libraries and the Mobile Technology Landscape
Friday, September 24, 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Joe Murphy will provide an overview of the emerging landscape of information engagement through mobile technology. He will introduce the major mobile technologies and outline their usage as well as the cultural shifts that accompany their introduction into information society. Joe will lead us through an exploration of the opportunities for libraries to implement mobile technologies to enhance or supplement traditional services and collections, and will explain how libraries can most strategically engage these tools as well as the mobile culture. We will discuss the real world changes this means for libraries and the new skills we may have to learn in this evolution. At the conclusion of this session we will all be familiar with how to best meet this shift towards mobile technologies in our libraries.
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Redesigning Public Services: Focus on Reference
Friday, November 12, 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Marie L. Radford, just back from Reference Renaissance 2010 in Denver, Colorado, and co-editor of Reference Renaissance: Current and Future Trends will talk with you about re-designing library public services, focusing on reference and its interaction with other library public services.
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Free Content for Library Collections
Friday, February 4, 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Presenter: Michael Galloway
Learn about free books and other materials that are readily available on the Internet and how you can add these materials to the collections you already provide access to at your library.
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Cataloging: New Perspectives
Friday, April 8, 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
What's going on with Cataloging??? Over ten years after the publication of FRBR and two years after the final draft of RDA, we come to a decision point. The questions that are posed are not just about the adoption of new cataloging rules, but of possible new directions for library data. The report on the Future of Bibliographic Control advised us to increase sharing -- between libraries and with non-library communities -- and to move our data from silo'd databases to an open web platform. We will review steps that are being taken to at least experiment with those recommendations: the definition of library terms in a format compatible with the Semantic Web; national and international efforts to create linkable library data for web services; and results from two significant efforts: the World Wide Web Consortium's Incubator Group on Linked Library Data and the U.S. National Libraries test of RDA. Presenter: Karen Coyle
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Previous College of DuPage programs
Replays from many previous College of DuPage Programs are available to view on your desktop via streaming video, including these recent programs. Click on the link to access the replay.
Information Literacy Information: A National Overview 3/12/10
Cataloging: Where Are We Now? Where Are We Going? 2/19/10
Making the Best of a Shrinking Budget: Creative Practices in a New Economy 1/29/10
Millennials in the Library 11/13/09
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A list of links to College of DuPage programs from 2006 - 2010 can be found here.
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Most of the previous College of DuPage programs are available on DVD and/or VHS to borrow from the NEFLIN Lending Library. Permission is given to copy the DuPage DVD or VHS and keep the copy.