CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Friday,Ý
3:15 - 4:15 p.m.
Reference Desk Live: Successes and Failures
at the Reference Desk (2 hours)
Despite all of the technological and environmental changes
taking place in today's academic libraries, the core of reference service
remains the interaction between the librarian and the patron. Effective
reference interviewing skills are essential to the success of the reference
transaction.Ý Join your reference
colleagues as we play out some sample reference transactions in a mythical
college library.Ý This program is both
humorous and instructive and should help you refine your reference interview
skills.
Presenter: David Tyckoson, Head, Reference Department,
California State University Fresno
This session takes an insightful look at the critical role
of support staff, with an emphasis on new responsibilities in administration,
project development and other areas previously considered "librarian's
work." We will examine the transition from library assistant to librarian,
and efforts to diversify the profession.
Presenters: Kathleen Messer, Document Delivery Services, San
Francisco State University; Clara M. Chu, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Information Studies, University of California Los Angeles; Ed
Martinez, Public Access Librarian, El Camino College; Charlie Fox, Editor,
Library Mosaics
An enlightening panel discussion on the challenges of
managing electronic journals, including those in aggregator databases.Ý Panelists will discuss: (1) impact on
acquisitions (print vs. electronic) and collection development (selection and
archiving, subscription vs. aggregator); (2) perspectives from publishers and
vendors; (3) access solutions (OPAC or web page); (4) implications for reference
librarians and patrons.
Presenters: Jina Wakimoto, Librarian, California State
University Northridge; Kathryn Kjaer, Acting Department Head, Science Library,
University of California Irvine; Kittie Henderson, AcademicÝ Representative, EBSCO Information
Services.Ý Coordinated by the Southern
California Technical Processes Group.
Friday,Ý
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
With the touch of a button, classroom control systems allow
an instructor to control everything from screen displays to lights and window
coverings.Ý We will explore the
implications of using such systems in a hands-on bibliographic instruction
classroom. Do these systems improve the quality of instruction for students and
the instructor? In what ways do they impact the librarian's role and image as
teacher?
Presenters: Gale Burrow, Kimberly Franklin, Carrie Marsh,
Amy Wallace, The Claremont Colleges
Although the situation is changing, librarians still suffer
from the image problem of a profession comprised of individuals who only
catalog and check out books, work at reference desks, and reboot computers, all
within the safe confines of the library. To expand these narrowly perceived
images we need to follow different paths to expand our horizons. For example,
by participating as instructors in institutional programs other than
traditional library instruction programs, librarians can not only increase
their visibility within their campus communities, but can also enhance their
working relationships with colleagues and students, fostering mutual respect
and appreciation. The satisfaction comes from knowing we are making a
difference and are part of something larger than the library. The presenters,
both key players in on-campus instructional programs administered outside their
respective institution's libraries, will discuss their experiences on the
"road less traveled" and how they were able to transfer their core
professional knowledge and skills to programs outside the library. Expanding
our images depends on expanding our horizons and the paths we follow, even if
some lead to detours or dead ends. What to bring? A healthy dose of enthusiasm,
energy, and endurance is strongly recommended.
Presenters: Bruce Harley, Associate Librarian, San Diego
State University and Sarah Blakeslee, Information Literacy/Instruction
Librarian, California State University Chico
Saturday,Ý
10:45 - 12:00 p.m.
It is said that academic libraries are undergoing a profound
soul searching for goals and visions because of the effects of technology and
the changing nature of disciplinary research.Ý
The organizers of this breakout session would like to pose to the
participants a more fundamental problem - that of libraries' ambiguous position
within our culture.Ý This discussion
with the audience will center around the concepts of "High" and
"Low" culture, borrowed from debates in art history. Libraries are
either satirized as vessels of minutely classified information with troglodytes
servicing the "god of classification", or are seen as elite (and
elitist) institutions, too intellectual to be of broad cultural interest, and
yet somehow imperceptibly important.
Presenters: Ruth Wallach, Head, Architecture and Fine Arts
Library and Sarah McDaniel, Instructional Services Coordinator, University of
Southern California
New opportunities creating new images abound in this era of
change. Librarians need to actively seek these opportunities, appreciate how
their current skill sets apply, and be bold in borrowing or acquiring
additional expertise.Ý Two librarians
will discuss their experiences discovering and developing some of these new
opportunities in the expanding boundaries of the profession.
Presenters: Sally McCoy, Owner, Libraries in Touch and Sheri
D. Irvin, Archivist, California State University Fullerton
Sally McCoy has held a variety of library positions Orange
and Riverside Counties. She has worked in circulation, acquisitions and systems
and has managed grants in training and technology. In 1999 she started her own
business, Libraries In Touch, which brings professional development training to
the local library community. Sally's career objectives are to assist in
providing the continuing education necessary to help librarians and library
staff prepare for ongoing changes in information technologies, thereby allowing
them to give the highest quality service to their students, patrons or clients.
Sally received her MLS from San Jose State University, School of Library and
Information Science, Southern California Program.
Sheri D. Irvin currently works as archivist in the Oral
History Department, California State University Fullerton, and is an
Information Literacy Consultant for the Anaheim City School District.Ý Throughout the last 23 years she has worked
in a variety of libraries and information settings including academic
(Claremont Colleges, CSU Fullerton, and Glendale Community College), public
(Riverside Public Libraryís Eastside Cybrary), school (Anaheim City School
District), and part time faculty for the M.L.I.S program San Jose State
University teaching a course titled ìThe Internet and Libraries.îÝ She has served on CLAís task force ìThe
Future of the Library Professionî and is Chair of the Library History Round
Table. She is also co-author of two articlesóthe most recent titled ìAt the
Pleasure of the board: Women Librarians and the Los Angeles Public Library,
1880-1905,î in Libraries & Culture 34:4, Fall 1999. She has an
undergraduate degree in English Literature from the University of California,
Santa Barbara, and an M.L.I.S from San Jose State University.
Everything You've Always Wanted To Know
About Non-Print Media But Were Afraid To Ask
Ellen Broidy will speak to collection development in a
particularly dynamic/fluid moment for film studies programs. As programs evolve
from traditional concentration on close reading of film or strict analysis of
auteur, etc. and embrace the far broader and more interdisciplinary fields of
visual studies or cultural studies, and with it a greater reliance on theory
(psychoanalytic, marxist, feminist, postcolonial), bibliographers have needed
to adjust both their understanding(s) of the discipline/interdiscipline and
their ideas about building collections to support it/them.
Older AV/Media Formats: Maintain, Convert, Abandon? Many
libraries today find themselves with older AV/Media formats.Ý What should be done with them?Ý Maintain them (but keep all the expenses
that entails)? Convert them to newer formats (brush up on your copyright rules
first!)?Ý Or, how about abandon them
altogether? John Hickok will discuss the challenges, feasibility, and proís
& con's of all three of these options.
Presenters: John Hickok, Audiovisual & Curriculum
Materials Center Librarian,California State University Fullerton and Ellen
Broidy, History, Film Studies, Classics and African American Studies Librarian,
University of California Irvine