A. "Library 2.0.1: It's All About the User"

Cliff Landis, Valdosta State University

My Space, Facebook and other social networking resources are setting the tone for a new Web 2.0 culture of participation. Happily, Libraries are also natural experts at empowering users by teaching them to create and interact via profiles. Now is the perfect time to begin "friending" our users.

The last several years have seen an explosion of things "2.0" – from "Fashion 2.0" to "Culture 2.0." Although you may be tempted to dismiss it all as "Hype 2.0," this session will explain why you shouldn't act so fast. This fast-paced introduction to the "2.0" concept will cover the origins of Web 2.0 and help you understand the core concepts that have made these tools and philosophies so popular. Come learn where Library 2.0 came from, where it's going, and why It's All About the User.

• Slide Show (PDF)
• The Machine is Us/ing Us, You Tube Video
  

B. "Library 2.0.2: It's All About the Policies and the Politics"

Joe Forsee, Northwest Georgia Regional Library
David Singleton, Georgia Public Library Service

How does the use of Web 2.0 applications affect statewide legislation and local library policies? How do we protect the rights of our users – and educate lawmakers about social networking software -- while still moving forward to meet user demands?

Come hear two library leaders talk about how the Georgia Council of Public Libraries and the Georgia Public Library Service interact with legislators and the legal/political challenges we face with new Library 2.0 services. Learn about the steps libraries should take to formulate new services based upon these emerging technologies.

• Slide Show (PDF)

C. "Library 2.0.3: It's All About the Interaction"

Kate Stirk, N. Metro Technical College
Don Auensen, Chattahoochee Tech. College
Sarah Steiner, Georgia State University
Barbara Moore, Chattahoochee Tech. College

Dilemma #1: Patrons in cyberspace – be they students or citizens in the surrounding community -- may never enter your library. Dilemma #2: You need Web tools to reach them, and you don't have the time or money for expensive software and lengthy technical training.

Remote users and distance learners want to "feel the love" of socially rich virtual library spaces. Creative use of Web 2.0 tools -- including low cost and free software – will help you earn their respect, admiration and continued patronage. Let our panel teach you about instant messaging, screencasts, social bookmarking, YouTube, and MySpace.

• Slide Show, Auenson (PDF)
• Slide Show, Moore (PDF)
• Moore Handout (PDF)
• Slide Show, Steiner (PDF)
• Slide Show, Stirk (PDF)
• Slide Show, Stirk2 (PDF)

D. "Library 2.0.4.ENTRYNOTE4U – It's All About the Training, 2"

EBSCO, Geni O’Barr (Room K)
LexisNexis Academic, Beth P. Bigman (Room L)

Designed from a trainer's approach this session highlights the strategic features, benefits and trends of selected GALILEO databases. Come join these discussions with expert staff from either EBSCO or LexisNexis Academic.

• Slide Show, Ebsco (PDF)
• Slide Show, LexisNexis (PDF)

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E. "Library 2.0.5: It's All About the Input"

Jasmine de Gaia, OCLC
Mike Rylander, PINES/Evergreen/Equinox Software
Debbie Holmes, Georgia Highlands College

Direct-user input, from tagging to book reviews, enhances the core of an innovative collection and allows individuals to bond with communities. Representatives from OCLC, PINES/Evergreen, and GALILEO/DLG will share concept implementations that enable users to seek, discover, access and use information in their own personal ways.

Traditional collaboration can easily blur the divisions between information resources, but our panelists' real-world experience with Library 2.0 and social networking innovations is sure to help you clarify the use of today's participative information gateways.

• Slide Show (PDF)

F. "Library 2.0.6: It's All About the Resource Sharing"

Russell Palmer, SOLINET

Citation tracking becomes skilled detective work when ILL requests are obscure and hard to find. Learn a variety of search techniques and collaborative strategies that will enable you to navigate archival collections, scientific and government information, historical newspapers and the "Deep Web" with ease -- and with precision.

Resource Sharing in libraries can be the ultimate in collaboration. As skilled professionals we track shared holdings and citations across the globe through WorldCat Resource Sharing (WCRS). The needs of our users, however, cannot always be met through traditional ILL.

That's when public, technical and systems staff team-up with their ILL counterparts to form a resource-sharing detective agency. This session will explore a variety of resources, ideas and strategies for hunting, identifying and borrowing sources. Let us show you how to navigate unfamiliar territories (e.g. the "Deep Web") for those elusive government documents, archival resources, historical newspapers and more.

• Slide Show (PDF)
  

G. "Library 2.0.7: It's All About the Experience"

Toby Graham, Digital Library of Georgia
Edward Johnson, GALILEO, University System of Georgia

Georgia History and Culture Online: A thematic update on the Digital Library of Georgia, Georgia HomePLACE, and the New Georgia Encyclopedia.

Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) Director Toby Graham will update the GALILEO community about newly added original historical resources within this popular – and growing -- online gateway to Georgia's history and culture. Dr. Graham will describe the innovative approaches that DLG employed for the Civil Rights Digital Library initiative that connect learners to valuable moving image collections. He'll also describe how a visit to the New Georgia Encyclopedia can enhance that Web experience.

HomePLACE Director Ed Johnson will create a whirlwind of interest in a new DLG collaborative digitization project about the 1936 tornado that devastated Gainesville.

• Slide Show, Graham (PDF)
• Slide Show, Johnson (PDF)

H. "Library 2.0.7.ADAPTIVENOTE4U – It's All About the Training, 2"

OCLC, Kathy Kie (Room K)
ProQuest, Linda Bush (Room L)

Designed from a trainer's approach this session highlights the strategic features, benefits and trends of selected GALILEO databases. Come join these discussions with expert staff from either OCLC or ProQuest.

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I. "Library 2.0.8: It's All About the Community"

Brad Baxter, GALILEO, University of Georgia
Lauren Fancher, GALILEO, Univ System of Georgia
Katie Gohn, GALILEO, Univ System of Georgia
Leigh Hall, Chattahoochee Technical College
Tim Peacock, GALILEO, University of Georgia

GALILEO has a history of collaboration with the libraries that it serves, including committees, focus groups, surveys, and review processes. In Phase II of a three year project to upgrade GALILEO, three Community Customization Working Groups met weekly online to discuss issues and requirements for new interfaces for each community – K12, public library, and academic.

Join GALILEO staff and representatives from the Community Customization Working Groups as they show and tell about GALILEO's new and transformed user interfaces, developed in user-centered partnerships with the academic, public library, and K12 communities. You'll learn how Interactive polling, demonstrations, talking, and text-based chatting engaged all 44 participants from their desktops -- without the need to drive across the state to meet. You'll also learn about such online tools as a web-based project discussion forum and listservs.

These collaborative processes led GALILEO to introduce five new interfaces this year, each customized for key users: Scholar, Library, High School, Teen, and Kids. GALILEO staff and Working Group representatives will demonstrate the new interfaces and inform you about usability testing methods and the community collaboration process.

• Slide Show (PDF)

J. "Library 2.0.9: It's All About the Access"

Diane Bronson, Live Oak Public Libraries
Debra Skinner, Georgia Southern University

Timely access to materials and information is the heart of library services and Lib 2.0 users are informed consumers who hear about new books, media, and other resources every day. Their choices seem endless, but our resources aren't. Can universal borrowing, collaborative collection management, and specialized virtual libraries become reality?

Find out how two progressive Georgia libraries are enhancing users' access to materials, promoting and marketing the library's collections, and satisfying the seemingly bottomless pit of patron demand. The answers aren't as daunting or as expensive as you may think!

• Slide Show (PDF)

K. "Library 2.1: It's All About the Future!"

Cliff Landis, Valdosta State University

Emerging Technologies can be tantalizing, but this session will help you know what technologies and applications are easily adaptable now -- and how to fast forward to the Web 3.0 and 4.0 technologies of tomorrow.

Librarians have always been at the forefront of technology, whether it deals with punchcards, microfilm or digital collections. Technology is changing more quickly than ever, and it shows no sign of slowing down. Come discover emerging tools for transforming library services, and take a glimpse at the current trajectories of Web 3.0 and 4.0. Brainstorm with your presenter and fellow attendees to discover new ways of offering more and better library services in our ever-changing world!

• Slide Show (PDF)
  

L. "Library 2.1.FUTURENOTE4U – It's All About the Training, 2"

SIRS, Wendell Butler (Room K)
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, Hilit Kravitz (EBO) (Room L)

Designed from a trainer's approach this session highlights the strategic features, benefits and trends of selected GALILEO databases. Come join these discussions with expert staff from either SIRS or EBO.

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