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 available to BCR 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," May 2, 10-11:00 a.m. The presentation includes a brief overview of 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. Jay Ford, BCR's library services associate, will be helping staff the BCR exhibit booth (#113), so make sure you set aside some time to stop by during the conference.

Colorado Interlibrary Loan Conference, May 1-2, Lakewood — Join BCR Member Services Librarian Heather Clark, for a special presentation, "The State of Loans in the Lone Star State," May 2, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. She will review BCR's recently released report commissioned by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, "Texas Resource Sharing: Examining the Present, Envisioning a Vibrant Future," and discuss themes that surfaced that affect the future of resource sharing.

Art Libraries Society of North America, May 1-5, Denver — The 39th annual Art Libraries Society of North America Conference, being held in Denver this year, gives BCR staff an opportunity to meet librarians from special and cultural heritage institutions (CHIs) in our own backyard. Stop by the BCR exhibit booth (#7) to discover the services, products and technologies available through BCR for this special audience. Meet Gillian Harrison, Marketing & Support manager for BCR, and Leigh Grinstead, BCR’s CDP program coordinator, our resident expert on all things related to CHIs, best practice guidelines, workshops and digitization grant funding.

Iowa OCLC Users Group (IOUG), May 15-16, Cedar Falls — BCR's high-energy emergent technology trainer, Shelly Drumm, is presenting two preconference programs on May 15. "Point & Click Web Publishing: Content Delivery Made Easy with Blogs and Wikis," scheduled for the morning (9 a.m.-12 noon), takes a look at what makes blogs and wikis so revolutionary and explores the strengths of each. The afternoon program (1-4 p.m.), "Forging Links and Building Community: An Introduction to Social Software," will survey several social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Flickr, and discuss what makes them so unique and wildly popular.

Colorado Academic Library Consortium (CALC) Summit, May 23, Lakewood — Join Gillian Harrison, BCR manager, Marketing & Support, for her presentation, "Capturing the Captive Audience," 2-3:15 p.m. Learn how to lure users to the resources your library spends its time and energy procuring and providing, whether through the Web, a printed flyer, a blog, Twitter or a bibliographic instruction course. Harrison will also be available in the BCR exhibit booth to discuss the services, products and technologies designed to help your library reach its academic audience.