Tag: conferences

  • Discussing a National Virtual Reference Service

    I really wish I was going to ALA Midwinter this week just so I could participate in the discussion hosted by OCLC on what a national virtual reference service might look like. Here is the description of the event on the registration page for it: Sunday, January 9 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, San Diego…

  • My Presentation at ALA on Reference Tools

    Last Friday, I was one of four presenters at a day-long preconference workshop sponsored by RUSA at ALA Annual. When I got the invitation, I was more than a bit nervous to be sharing the podium with others whose writings I’d not only been reading but urging others to read. The workshop was titled, “Reference…

  • Another digital reference blog

    How could I have missed another blog with a name just ever so slightly different from mine? The MINITEX Digital Reference blog has archived posts going back to July 2006. I wish I had been subscribing to the blog from its inception, as there’s been a lot of good content published in the past year.…

  • Tune in to Steven Bell live tomorrow

    I’ll be at the LACUNY Institute tomorrow, which is about the easiest conference in the world for me to attend, as it is held every May four floors above me in the library building here at Baruch College. For those of you like me who find it hard to get to conferences out of town,…

  • Library Camp NYC

    Just a quick note to “save the date” for Tuesday, August 14, 2007, which will be when the William and Anita Newman Library at Baruch College is hosting Library Camp NYC. There will be no charge for attendees. Details can be found on the Library Camp NYC wiki.

  • 2007 Collaborative Virtual Reference Symposium

    Registration is now open for the 2007 Collaborative Reference Symposium, which will be held in Denver on July 31 and August 1 this year. I hope it gets blogged well by attendees, as I’ll be unable to attend.