[Publib] "Bringing Web 2.0 into Academic Libraries" -Free Webinar Tomorrow

[Porter,Michael]

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"Bringing Web 2.0 into Academic Libraries"

We just finished our practice session for the next free WebJunction
webinar, (which is happening tomorrow), and I am excited! The session
will have lots of real life stories and examples that academic libraries
along with all other kinds of professional can use. Seriously useful and
practical stuff here. Come for free if you are interested!

Register here before the event starts tomorrow (Tuesday, June 30th):
http://tinyurl.com/nnzlcj 

More event info:
When the goal is to be "where they are, when they need us," what does
that require at a university library in 2009? As students, staff and
faculty move their lives online, university libraries must choose
whether to move with them or get left behind. But where is the value in
a university library when Google is the new ready reference desk and the
libraries' resources are increasingly digitized? How does a library
remain relevant in a socially networked academic world? From their
perspective as, respectively, virtual reference and e-learning
librarians, Amanda Clay Powers (Mississippi State Univ. Libraries) and
Ellen Hampton (Baylor Univ. Libraries) will discuss how libraries can
readjust and move their most important resources online-their people. By
using social networks and other web-based technologies, libraries can
become a value-added member of their community- both online and in
person. By using these new tools, librarians can once again hover by
their reference stacks with an offer to help that's just a click away.
(Starts at 2:00pm EASTERN, 11:00am PACIFIC)

Hope to see you there,

Michael

Michael Porter
Communications Manager
WebJunction.org