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Archive of Previous OPAL Events About
Library and Information Science Topics and Trends
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"Let's Get Social: Social Bookmarking" presented by Anthony Molaro and Dianna Wiggins on July 20, 2010.
Sponsored by the DuPage Library System
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"Universal Accessibility Meeting" held at the Accessibility Services Division of the DC Public Library on June 28, 2010.
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"Let's Get Social: Twitter" presented by Jane Plass, Dianna Wiggins, Ann McDonald,
and Carol Waller on March 24, 2010.
Sponsored by the DuPage Library System
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Filbert, a monthly informal roundtable discussion of the future of libraries, books, and reading,
conducted on February 16, 2010
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A Conversation with Ned Himmel and Sam McBane Mulford, co-authors of the book,
How Green is My Library?,
conducted on February 11, 2010
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Filbert, an monthly informal roundtable discussion of the future of libraries, books, and reading,
conducted on January 26, 2010
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"Let's Get Social: Photo and Video Sharing" presented by Renee Anderson and Lynn
Dennis on January 21, 2010. Sponsored by the
DuPage Library System
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ALSC Student Session: "Easy User Experience Strategies" Presented by
Lindsay Klick and Jennie Chen on January 6, 2010
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Filbert, an monthly informal roundtable discussion of the future of libraries, books, and reading,
conducted on December 16, 2009
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ALSC Student Session: "Connecting Kids with Great Websites" Presented by
Meagan Albright & Sharon Haupt on December 8, 2009
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"Facilitating a Virtual Meeting on OPAL"
facilitated on December 2, 2009 by Carolyn Caywood and Nicole McGee from the
Virginia Beach Public Library
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Filbert, an monthly informal roundtable discussion of the future of libraries, books, and reading,
conducted on November 17, 2009
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ALSC Student Session: "Marketing Your Library on the Web" Presented by
Jill Bickford and Marcella Whitelam from the West Brookfield Library on November 10, 2009
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ALSC Student Session: "Hosting a Mock Newbery @ your libraryŽ" Presented by
Kiera Parrott & Anna McKay, Darien Library on October 14, 2009
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"Picturing America at the Public Library" presented by Nancy Davenport on October 2, 2009
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"Web Services for Underfunded and Understaffed Libraries" presented by Bohyun Kim on September 17, 2009
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ALA Connections Salon: The Future, with Special Guests Joe Janes
from the University of Washington and his summer session graduate students from
the University of Toronto,
held on June 19, 2009.
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ALA Connections Salon: Education and Recruitment, with Special Guests Connie Paul
from the Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative, and Julie Brewer from the University
of Delaware Library,
held on May 15, 2009.
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"Audio Description Illinois Workshop," facilitated by Tom Peters on April 30, 2009.
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ALA Connections Salon: Advocacy, with Special Guest
Marci Merola, Director of the ALA Office for Library Advocacy,
held on April 17, 2009.
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"Cruise to Success: Marketing for Libraries," presented by librarian and author Loreen Phillips,
on March 6, 2009.
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ALA Connections Salon: The Next Generation Catalog, with special Marshall Breeding,
held on March 5, 2009.
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"Lobby for Results: Tips and Techniques for Working with Legislators and Other Stakeholders," with Michael J. Borges,
held on March 4, 2009 and sponsored by the South Central Regional Library Council in Ithaca, New York.
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ALA Connections Salon: The American Library Association, with special guests John Chrastka and Kristin Murphy,
held on February 20, 2009.
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ALSC Student Session: "Feeling the Crunch: Library Programming on a Budget",
held on February 19, 2009.
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"Audio Description Illinois Workshop," facilitated by Tom Peters on February 11, 2009.
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"IDA: The Illinois Digital Archives," a presentation by Alyce Scott on February 6, 2009.
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"The Kurzweil 1000 Sofware and Other Adaptive Technologies," a discussion led by Melesse Demissay, held at the
DC Public Library on January 17, 2009.
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ALA Connections Salon: Gaming, with special guest Scott Nicholson,
held on December 19, 2008.
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"MySpace? Yes!" by Lisa Sarm
from the Lincoln Library, the public library of Springfield, Illinois, presented on
December 11, 2008
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"LIS Eductors in Virtual Worlds" Organizational Meeting
facilitated by Marianne Steadley from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, held on
December 10, 2008. Note: Most of the conversation was conducted via text chat.
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A Casual Conversation with John Budd
Professor at the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the
University of Missouri - Columbia,
held on December 5, 2008.
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ALA Connections Salon: Politics, with special guests Emily Sheketoff,
Director of the ALA Washington Office, and Vic Klatt,
held on November 21, 2008.
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Challenging the Assumptions of Legacy Librarianship
presented by Joan Frye Williams and George Needham on November 19, 2008.
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Using the Picturing America Program in Public Libraries
presented by Nancy Davenport from the DC Public Library on November 7, 2008.
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ALA Connections Salon: Kids, with special guest Pat Scales,
President of the Association for Library Services to Children,
held on October 17, 2008.
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ALA Connections Salon: Making Connections, with special guest Jim Rettig,
President of the American Library Association,
held on September 26, 2008.
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Web 2.0: Is Facebook for Your Library, presented by
Joe Hardenbrook,
Educational Technology Coordinator, Research/Instruction Librarian, and Assistant Professor
at Staley Library at Millikin University. Sponsored by the
Rolling Prairie Library System. Recorded on September 17, 2008.
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A Casual Conversation with Greg Schwartz
from the Louisville Public Library,
held on July 11, 2008.
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Audio Description: Emerging Good Practices,
Presented by Tom Peters on June 25, 2008. Hosted by the
Alliance Library System.
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A Casual Conversation with Stephen Abram, recorded on May 16, 2008.
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"Online Marketing for Libraries" Presented by Sarah Houghton-Jan, recorded on May 8, 2008.
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A Casual Conversation with Lori Bell,
Director of Innovation at the
Alliance Library System, recorded on February 8, 2008.
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The Mark of Zotero: Two-Clicks to Citation Management,
a presentation made by Chris Strauber, Reference and Web Services Librarian at
Wofford College,
on January 23, 2008.
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Accessible Online Books, presented by representatives from
InfoEyes on September 20, 2007.
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Library of Congress Online: Orientation & Research Strategies,
conducted on September 12, 2007.
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"Creating a Safe Library Workplace" presented by Pat Wagner on May 24, 2007.
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"Communication Skills for Front Line Library Staff" presented by Pat Wagner on May 24, 2007.
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flickr + libraries
presented on March 6, 2007 by Michael Porter and Steve Lawson as part of the
Five Weeks to a Social Library series of online workshops.
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The Wonderful World of Wikis
presented on March 1, 2007 by Chad Boeninger from Ohio University and Starr Hoffman from the University
of North Texas as part of the
Five Weeks to a Social Library series of online workshops.
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Make Your Library del.icio.us: Social Bookmarking in the Stacks
presented on February 22, 2007 by Jason Griffey from the University of Tennessee
at Chattanooga as part of the
Five Weeks to a Social Library series of online workshops.
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Getting Up to Speed with RSS Feeds
presented on February 20, 2007 by Michele Mizejewski as part of the
Five Weeks to a Social Library series of online workshops.
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Blogging Beyond the Basics
presented on February 15, 2007 by Nanette Donohue as part of the
Five Weeks to a Social Library series of online workshops.
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A 21st Century Printing Press: Blogs as a Publishing Mechanism
presented February 13, 2007 by Rebecca Hedreen as part of the
Five Weeks to a Social Library series of online workshops.
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The Internet: Fact or Fiction: Web Site Evaluation Strategies
presented by librarians from the Library of Congress
on November 8, 2006.
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Virtual Worlds and Alternate Realities, a conference
held Oct. 12 and 13, 2006 in Second Life, in OPAL, and at the Alliance Library System's
offices in East Peoria, Illinois.
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Virtual Worlds and Higher Education, a series of brief presentations by Ed Lamoureux and Barbara Galik from
Bradley University, Tom Peters from TAP Information Services, and Lori Bell from the Alliance Library System.
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Introduction to Virtual Worlds, presented on October 13, 2006 by John Lester
(Pathfinder Linden in Second Life), the Community Education Manager at Second Life.
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How to Get Involved in the Alliance Second Life Library Project and the Nature of Online Communities,
presented on October 13, 2006 by Lori Bell and Mary-Carol Lindbloom from the Alliance Library System.
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The Teen Second Life Library Project,
presented on October 13, 2006 by Kelly Czarnecki and Matt Gullett from the ImaginON Project of
the Public Library of charlotte and Mecklenburg County.
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A Millennial Perspective on Libraries in Virtual Worlds,
presented on October 13, 2006 by Jami Schwarzwalder.
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Six Month Checkup: Libraries in Virtual Worlds,
presented on October 13, 2006 by Tom Peters of TAP Information Services.
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Cartoons and Political Opinion from Herb Block (HERBLOCK),
presented on October 11, 2006 by Sara Duke, the Curator of Popular and Applied Graphic Art
at the Library of Congress.
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Meet the Millennials: Risk Takers and Rule Makers,
presented by Jami Schwarzwalder on October 6, 2006.
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Sustaining the Rural Library,
presented by Bernard Vavrek on October 4, 2006. Sponsored by the State Library of Kansas.
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Bill Moyers on America: Citizens Classes,
held on September 28, 2006. Sponsored by Texas Forums.
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A Conversation with Tim Spalding from LibraryThing.com,
held on September 22, 2006.
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"Ready - Set - READ! Children's Literature Resources at the Library of Congress",
presented by Judy Graves and Patricia Steelman on September 20, 2006.
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"Opportunities for Worthwhile Collaboration Among Academic Libraries in Second Life",
a discussion held on September 19, 2006, facilitated by Lori Bell and Tom Peters.
Sponsored by the Alliance Library System.
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"Libraries Building Community Through Citizen Dialogue"
presented on September 15, 2006 by Taylor Willingham, Donna Lauffer, and Therese Bigelow.
Sponsored by the Johnson County Library.
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"Censorship: How It Affects Libraries and Library Patrons in a Democracy" presented on September 7, 2006
by Melora Norman, the Outreach/Special Services Coordinator for the
Maine State Library.
Sponsored by the Johnson County Library.
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Panel discussion held on July 28, 2006 about
The September Project, which encourages libraries to host free civic events about
freedom, democracy, and citizenship in remembrance of September 11th.
Panelists included David Silver, Sarah Washburn, Michael Baldwin, Taylor Willingham,
and Nancy Kranich.
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Alliance Library System Online Innovation Institute Library 2.0
Extravaganza!, conducted by Michael Stephens on June 15 and 16, 2006
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INSTANT MESSAGING: DO YOU IM?
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SOCIAL SOFTWARE: A SURVEY OF WEB 2.0
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CREATING STAFF BUY IN FOR NEW TECHNOLOGIES:
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Conference Blogging presented by Andrea Mercado on June 9, 2006.
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Libraries Build Community Through Deliberative Forums presented by Taylor
Willingham, Donna Lauffer, and Melinda Ludwiczak on June 7, 2006.
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Second Life Library 2.0 Overview presented by Lori Bell, Greg Schwartz, Jami Lynn Schwarzwalder,
and others on May 31, 2006.
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Project Planning Using Logic Models presented by Whitney Davison-Turley on May 19, 2006.
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Ten Top Technologies for Librarians 2006 presented by Michael Stephens from
the Tame the Web Blog on April 6, 2006.
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KLAS Users Top 10 Issues Discussion held on March 7, 2006 and facilitated by Will Reed
and Diana Brawley Sussman. Version 7.0 of KLAS (Keystone Library Automation System) was the focus
of this discussion.
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Day of the Digital Audio Book held on February 16, 2006
Schedule for the Day
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Session One: Introduction to and Overview of Digital Audio Books, presented by Lori Bell and Tom Peters
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Session Two: Considerations for Libraries Thinking About Offering a Digital Audio Book Service,
presented by Lori Bell and Tom Peters
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Session Three: So You Have Decided to Offer Digital Audio Books in Your Library,
presented by Lori Bell and Tom Peters
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Follow-Up Discussion, held on February 28, 2006, facilitated
by Lori Bell and Tom Peters
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Wiki World presentation by Meredith Farkas
held on Thursday, January 12, 2006
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Text chat entries
made by the online attendees of the Wiki World presentation by Meredith Farkas.
Please note: Procedural messages, such as those announcing that someone had entered or left
the online room, have been edited out.
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The Library Services for Older Adults presentation by Allan Kleiman
held on November 17, 2005
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WMA audiorecording
about library services for older adults
(14.6 MB file; playback time of 98 minutes)
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