As tech-savvy library folk, ebooks are naturally of direct professional relevance to us, and it can’t hurt to undertand a little more about how they are produced I’ve been making eBooks for a few years and would be happy to share what I’ve learned about the tools and workflow involved in making an eBook and …
Category Archive: Session Proposals
Posts from participants proposing a session.
Feb 23
Session Proposal: Talk about the new White House policy on open access
Yesterday, as some of you doubtless know, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a new open access policy that may have a drastic effect on scholarly publishing (unless, of course, it changes nothing). Discussion on Twitter with the hashtags #publicaccess and #openaccess was lively, and I thought we could spend some …
Feb 23
Session Proposal: Collaboration Across Professions
As distributed technology projects call for our collaboration with a more and more diverse group of people, what are some simple, day-to-day methods for working with folks from very different professions? This is partially a project management question, I think, so I’d be interested in learning from others’ experiences in large, diverse working groups. When …
Feb 22
Session proposal: emerging technologies for futurists
I propose a blue-sky dreaming session wherein we collaboratively imagine the best possible future for libraries, 2, 10, and 20 years from now. What kinds of cool innovations in tech and shifts in library philosophy will get us to where we dream of being? What secret projects do you (want to) work on that, given …
Feb 22
Session Proposal: How best to support faculty-driven digital initiatives
Taking part in new faculty-driven digital initiatives is an exciting opportunity for librarians in academic/research institutions. What specific skills and competencies can or should a librarian bring to this kind of collaboration? I’m involved in such a digital project right now, one that is developing an interactive framework for collaborative commentary on Dante’s Divine Comedy. …
Feb 14
Session Proposal: GLAM Workshops with Impact
Like it or not, the typical “outreach session” for any GLAM institution is a single, one-shot, sixty minute workshop. I’ll set aside our desires to be better integrated into the semester curriculum, or museum summer series, or after school high school programs, and have more time. Instead, I’d like to focus on how to make …
Feb 14
Session Proposal:Teaching Media, Digital, Computer and Information Literacies
The more I teach infolit courses, the more I realize I have to teach little tricks of computer use, like ctl-F for find, or where the address bar is, or that you don’t have to go to Google, you can just type in the web address. When students use their own laptops or tablets, we …
Feb 12
Alternate proposal–Smarter screencasting
In case my first proposal is too much like what is already being offered, I’ll put forth an alternate proposal: With many screencasting programs the basics are easy to learn, but most of us did not attend film school. The hours spent creating a screencast make updating it a chore. If we could screencast more …
Feb 12
Session Proposal: Gaming the Library
“Gaming” as a subject crosses many disciplinary boundaries: literature, music, art, math, computer science, physics, education, media studies, and business — not to mention the application of game theory to still more areas. How do we best support and encourage game studies, gaming research, game development in the library? What technology, materials, platforms, media, spaces, …
Feb 12
Session Proposal-Supporting DH Pedagogy for Undergraduates
I’d like to have a conversation with like-minded folks who support classroom pedagogy about the library/ed tech role in teaching DH to undergraduates. I suspect there are more of us at smaller liberal arts colleges than at larger institutions, but I welcome and hope for surprise. Some initial question: How are DH competencies taught to …
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