Trends in Social Media and Usability That Work to Your Advantage (ORLSA Annual Banquet)

Date, Location

Sat, 10/10/2009 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm

Elephant's Deli Garden Room
115 NW 22nd
Portland, OR

About the Event

Trends in Social Media and Usability that work to your Advantage

Aaron Schmidt.  As the Digital Initiatives Librarian for the District of Columbia Public Library, Aaron insights will provide you with tools you can begin applying immediately.

Web 2.0: Can you really learn too much about it? Aaron's interactive talk will introduce trends in social media and usability that work to your advantage. 

Career agility and collaboration. Not only will you learn from Aaron's insights, you'll also have the opportunity to share best practices with other attendees. Come collaborate and engage with your community of practitioners.

Students are always welcome. There are many career paths outside of public and academic libraries. Come learn about exciting opportunities in special librarianship. Financial support for students is available--contact Cindy Romaine at cindy.romaine@romainiacs.com.

Meet leaders. Get introduced to the people who are working to make ORSLA an organization benefiting all information professionals. We'll be introducing the 2010 ORSLA board members. Use this opportunity to let them know your thoughts and concerns.

Networking. This will be an excellent opportunity to meet new people and catch up with colleagues. Remember to bring those business cards!

 

Presented by: Aaron Schmidt

Aaron Schmidt is the Digital Initiatives Librarian for the District of Columbia Public Library.  He helps plan forward thinking, fun projects for the library, helping them connect to the community and teach them about the Read/Write Web.  He also assists with website visioning, conducts usability testing, leads the library's Library 2.0 Interest Group and helps coordinate and generate ideas for the library's digital research and development project called DC Library Labs.

He has published articles on social media and libraries in publications such as Library Journal and Online has presented on the topic of library technology and usability throughout the United States, and in Canada, the UK, the Netherlands and Spain.  In 2005 Schmidt was named a Library Journal "Mover & Shaker."  You can find him online at his library technology and usability weblog www.walkingpaper.org.

 

Cost: $30 students, $35 members, $40 non-members

To Register:

To RSVP, follow this link and answer a few questions about your Web 2.0 use (responses will be kept anonymous):