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Making Human Connections in a Digital World
May 6, 2005
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Worcester, MA
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Agenda |
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| 8:30
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9:00am |
Continental Breakfast | |
| 9:00
- 10:30am |
Annual Business Meeting | |
| - Board of Directors’
Report (Brinley Franklin, Chair) - Treasurer’s Report (Stephen Podgajny) - Nominations to Board of Directors (Ruth Kowal, Chair, Nominating Committee) - Executive Director’s Report (Arnold Hirshon) - Dues and Fees (vote) - Bylaws Revision (vote) |
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| 10:30
- 11:15am |
Opening Keynote Address: | |
| "Social
Augmentation" Judith Donath, Professor of Media and Arts, MIT Media Lab |
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| 11:15
- 11:45am |
Break - Vendor exhibits and networking time | |
| 11:45
- 12:30pm |
Breakout Session 1. (Choose one of the following:) | |
| 1a. | The Googlification of Everything and What it
Means for Libraries Jay Schafer, Director of Libraries, University of Massachusetts - Amherst |
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| 1b. | How the Principles Behind Game-based Learning
Will Change Our Approach to Teaching and Learning David Finkel, Professor, Computer Science Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
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1c. | Trends and Portents for Maintaining the Human
Touch in Technological Systems Chris Spearing, Sales Director, Premiere Global Services |
| 12:30
- 1:45pm |
Lunch and Raffle | |
| 1:45
- 2:30pm |
Breakout Session 2. (Choose one of the following:) | |
| 2a. | Building the First Open Collection: A Case Study
by the Open Collections Program Thomas Michalak, Director and Publisher Christine Madsen, Project Manager Megan Hurst, Outreach Coordinator Harvard University Library |
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| 2b. | Course Management Systems, Learning Object Repositories,
and the Changing Role of Libraries Michael Roy, Director of Academic Computing Services Kendall Hobbs, Instructional Librarian Information Technology Services at Wesleyan University |
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2c. | MassAnswers: An Experiment
in Statewide Collaboration Susan Glover Godlewski, Manager of Reference and Information Services, Boston Public Library |
| 2:30
- 3:30pm |
NELINET Award and Distinguished Lecture: | |
| "What's so
funny?" Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author of Empire Falls |
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