Pre-conference Program

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Featuring Lauren Pressley

Instructional Design Librarian at Wake Forest University and author of So You Want To Be a Librarian and Wikis for Libraries.

(1:00pm – 2:00pm, Nov. 3, 2011)

Change & Opportunities for Today’s Academic Libraries

Lauren Pressley is a librarian, educator, and technologist. She is actively involved in the American Library Association and the Library and Information Technology Association. In 2008 she was recognized as an ALA Emerging Leader and in 2009 she was named a Mover and Shaker by Library Journal. She lives with her husband, John Borwick, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

11:00am – 12:00pm           Check-in & networking for registrants of Pre-conference

12:00 – 1:00pm                  Lunch

1:00 – 2:30pm                    Keynote presentation by Lauren Pressley

2:45 – 4:15pm                    Panel discussion on ACRL’s The Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report

Panel discussion on ACRL’s The Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report.

The complete report is available for free online: http://www.acrl.ala.org/value/

Moderator:

John Burke, Director, Gardner-Harvey Library, Miami University Middletown.

Panellists:

Sara Bushong, Dean of Libraries, Bowling Green State University.

Susan Scott, Director of the Library, Ohio State University – Newark Campus.

Kathleen Webb, Dean of University Libraries, University of Dayton.

Al Zavar, Director, West Campus Library, Cuyahoga Community College.


Posted on August 18, 2011.