People Make Libraries:
Digging into Our Past and Polishing Our Present
to Transform Our Future
CARL Conference, April 8-10, 2010
Holiday Inn Capitol Plaza, Sacramento, California (Group Code: UCA)

Everyday there are news stories on libraries. The stories are usually focused on collections, buildings, and emerging technologies, and rarely on the people that make libraries. Libraries have amazing collections because library people select, process, and promote all sorts of materials with an eye to the future. Libraries have award winning buildings because library people help design and renovate them to meet both known and anticipated user needs. Libraries are at the forefront of technology because library people are risk takers and see how technology can transform processes and projects. This conference will highlight people’s research and practice that is transforming our future.

Friday Plenary Speaker: Dr. Peter Hernon
Saturday Plenary Speaker: Melanie Hawks

Engage Sessions

• Libraries as Motion Video: setting up an in-house studio, getting visual & extending skill-sets into new environments
• The service formerly known as reference: A changing paradigm
• Disturbing the Sediment: Dusting off the Information Literacy Competency Standards
• Reference Toolkit Revisited

Listen and Learn Sessions

• The Next Generation Research Guide: You Too Can Move to LibGuides and Plan a Cheap, Fun Marketing Campaign in One Semester or Less
• Digging into Our "Hidden Collections": Maximizing Staff Skills and Technology to Enhance Access to Special Collections
• New Directions in Library Instruction: Keywords, Visual Literacy, and Critical Thinking
• Succession Planning: Predictors for Success
• The Library as a Student Research Site
• Mentees at the Beach! What do mentees want?
• Using Systematic Review for Higher Steps to Research Methods: The Case of Business Instruction
• It's about the plan: how to ensure that your program evaluation gives you the results you need
• Rock the CASBAH (CalArts Student Behaviors and Habits)
• Panning for the future: an exercise in teamwork
• Are They Getting It: Seeking Evidence of Students' Research Behavior Over Time
• Faculty Online Collaborations: One Jewel at a Time

And More To Come...

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