RUSA Preconferences and Special Events

RUSA offers four preconferences at ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. You can add a preconference to your existing conference registration or register for just the preconference:

6/27/2008, Friday: 

Business Librarianship 101: Core Competencies for Business Librarians

BRASS

8:30 am–5:00 pm 

Business librarians have expert knowledge of business reference and research that affords them the ability to work for corporations, libraries and nonprofit institutions. At this preconference, attendees will learn about various business reference and research resources available and how to build a business reference collection.

This full-day interactive, educational workshop is designed for beginning business librarians, generalists who have assumed responsibility as business librarians or any academic, public or special librarians interested in the field of business reference.

Speakers: Mark Andersen, Division Chief, Business, Science & Technology Division, Chicago Public Library; Bobray Bordelon, Pliny Fisk Librarian of Economics and Finance, Princeton University. 

Registration code: RU1 

Registration:                            Advance                      Onsite

ALA Member                        95.00                           135.00
Division/RT Member              95.00                           135.00
Non-Member                        140.00                          170.00
Student/Retired Member        57.00                            97.00

Genealogy Boot Camp

HS

8:30 am–04:30 pm 

Learn the basics of ancestry research and genealogy reference skills during the Genealogy Boot Camp. Whether you are a new librarian or one interested in refreshing your skills, this full-day educational workshop provides the tools you need for giving successful genealogy reference help. 

This event is being held at the Muzeo (www.muzeo.org), which has the historic Carnegie Library (built in 1908), a museum and cultural arts center, and is located in Anaheim. Attendees will receive a tour of the collections and a catered lunch sponsored by ProQuest. 

Registration code: RU2

Registration:                            Advance                      Onsite

ALA Member                         99.00                           135.00
Division/RT Member               99.00                           135.00
Non-Member                         140.00                         180.00
Student/Retired Member         57.00                           97.00 

Reinvented Reference 4: Emerging Technologies for Reference Service

MARS/RSS

9:00 am–5:00 pm 

How can you best use online reference services, instant messaging, texting and other available technologies to provide virtual reference? How can social networking be used to enhance and extend reference services? How do you address privacy issues, administration and staff buy-in, skill set development, and marketing as you work to implement these changing technologies?  

Come join your colleagues to hear from nationally-recognized experts on these topics. Sponsored by OCLC QuestionPoint, Paratext, and RefWorks, a division of ProQuest, this exciting and informative preconference. Morning and afternoon refreshments, as well as, lunch are included in the registration fee.
Speakers: Keynote Speaker is Cathy De Rosa, Vice President for the Americas and Global Vice President of Marketing for OCLC, who leads the market research team at OCLC, producer of the report Sharing, Privacy and Trust in our Networked World (http://www.oclc.org/reports/sharing/default.htm). Michelle Jacobs, Emerging Technologies Librarian and Web Coordinator at the UCLA College Library, will talk about texting and Caleb Tucker-Raymond, Oregon Statewide Digital Reference Service Coordinator for the Multnomah County Library, will provide further insight into virtual reference. David Lankes, Director of the Information Institute of Syracuse (IIS), the first ALA Office for Information Technology Policy Fellow and noted speaker on participatory librarianship, will delve further into the area of social networking as a reference tool. 

Registration code: RU3 

Registration:                           

ALA Member                                    $240
Division/RT Member                          $190
Non-Member                                    $315
Student/Retired Member                    $105   

Throw off your policies and expose your resources; rethinking resource sharing

STARS

8:30 am–4 pm 

The preconference will provide information to help library administrators, front-line librarians and resource sharing staff that set policies discover new and innovative ways to provide resources and service to people.  

Resource sharing is changing in exciting ways, and participants will develop creative ideas for rethinking local, regional, national and international approaches to information resource sharing. The Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative seeks to simplify library resource sharing and provide people with options about how to get information when they need it, in the format they choose.           

The sponsors of this event are Emerald Group Publishing Limited, OCLC, RapidILL, Relais International and SirsiDynix. 

Speakers: Stephen Abram, Vice President, Innovation, and Chief Strategist for the SirsiDynix Institute; John Bodfish, Fulfillment Protocols Product Manager, OCLC; Jim Meyers, Head of Circulation, Orange County Public Library; Gina Persichini, Networking Consultant, Idaho State Library 

Registration code: RU4 

Registration:                            Advance                      Onsite

ALA Member                         $185                           $210
Division/RT Member               $135                           $160
Non-Member                          $250                          $275
Student/Retired Member          $99                            $125 

To register for a workshop, visit: http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2008a/registration.htm