March 17, 2008
BCR Spring Conference Activities: People, Action, Noise!
BCR staff will be traveling far and wide and often during the month of April, participating in 10 conferences/meetings in our member states, including Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Washington/Oregon and Utah. Look for BCR's fresh new logo and exhibit at the following venues this spring. Learn more about the services, products and technologies available through BCR to help your library create its own noise in your community.
Colleague Connection, April 2, University of Denver — BCR's Chris Cook, product support specialist, will be available to talk about resources designed to provide you with the ability to embrace new technologies and channels to reach your patrons and students.
CLiC Spring Workshops, April 3-4, Greeley (Colorado) — Join Shelly Drumm, BCR's emergent technology trainer, for a lively and informative session that sold out at the February CLiC workshop in Grand Junction. "Library 2.... Oh! Now I get it: Practical Applications of 2.0 Tools" is a two-and-one-half-hour workshop that will teach you how to take advantage of the power of the many 2.0 tools to present content from blogs, news sites, library databases and more. Can't make it to Greeley? This workshop also is being offered at the CLiC meeting in Pueblo, April 24-25.
Kansas Library Association Annual Conference, April 9-11, Wichita — Don't miss the opportunity to attend Gillian Harrison's program, "Remember the User: Keeping Up With Technology," set for April 10, 3-3:50 p.m. Harrison, BCR's Marketing & Support manager, will look at how librarians can keep up with technological advances, stay within their budget and still reach their patrons. Take some time to visit Harrison and Chris Cook at the BCR exhibit booth (#800) — see what has changed and how you can take advantage of the many products and services to which your BCR membership gives you access.
Montana Library Association Annual Conference, April 9-12, Great Falls — Set aside some time during the day to visit BCR's Jay Ford, library services associate, at the BCR exhibit booth. He is looking forward to chatting with Montanan librarians about ways to help them provide the best services and products to their patrons and users. Learn how you can purchase quality products through your BCR membership and stay within your budget.
Midwest Interlibrary Loan Conference, April 11, Dubuque (Iowa) — BCR's expert on interlibrary loan and resource sharing, Heather Clark, is presenting a short program titled, "Who Owns the Bytes? The Effects of Mass Digitization Efforts on Resource Sharing and Copyright," April 11, from 9:25-10:15 a.m. This brief overview will address how digital initiatives such as Google Book Search and Open Content Alliance affect the work of resource sharing in the broader library community and how issues of copyright are being resolved.
Oregon Library Association/Washington Library Association Joint Conference, April 17-18, Vancouver (Washington) — Gillian Harrison, BCR's manager, Marketing & Support, is scheduled to present a program on Friday, April 18, from 2:15-4:30 p.m. "Plugging into the Numbers: Using Data to Make Some Noise About Library Services," addresses how to transform statistics into useful information that can be used to "tell a story" about your library to your staff, director, patrons or community. Harrison and BCR's Jay Ford will be staffing the BCR exhibit booth throughout the conference, so be sure to stop by for a few minutes.
American Association of Museums Conference, April 27-May 1, Denver — 2008 will be the first time that BCR staff have exhibited at the AAM conference, and Leigh Grinstead, BCR's CDP program coordinator, and Gillian Harrison, BCR's manager, Marketing & Support, are looking forward to meeting members of the cultural heritage community. Visit the BCR exhibit booth (#1121) and ask about BCR's Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP), as well as all the other services and products offered to BCR's member institutions.
Utah Library Association/Mountain Plains Library Association Joint Conference, April 29-May 2, Salt Lake City — Shelly Drumm, BCR's emergent technology trainer, is presenting "Website in a Box: A Simple Solution to a Tough Problem," a workshop she took on the road to many of Utah's small libraries in 2007 to help them get a website up and running. Scheduled for May 2, from 10-11:00 a.m., Drumm will give an overview of the project, discuss some solutions and give you a chance to look at websites that were created. Jay Ford, library services associate, will be helping staff the BCR exhibit booth (#113), so make sure you set aside some time to stop by and share your thoughts on BCR's new image.
