Presentations

from Boston SLA meeting at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, April 13, 2006

from Computers in Libraries 2006, Washington DC, March 24, 2006

  • Supporting the World with Digital Gadgets

from SLA Annual Conference 2005 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

NELINET 2003 conference: Great Expectations for IT: Emerging Technologies for Administrators, Technologists and Staff.

Gave keynote presentation, “Change and Technology: Morphing the Information Professions” September 12, 2003, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA.

SLA South Atlantic Regional Conference September 2002, Asheville, North Carolina. Gave presentation on the Role of the Information Professional in the E-World.

Keynote presenter for Internet Librarian November 2001, Pasadena, California. As SLA President developed Brainshark module with audio of this presentation, Who Needs Internet Librarians, Anyway?.

Member of Organizing/Review Committee for Internet Librarian ’00, Monterey, California, November 2000. Walt Howe and I have put together programming for the Virtual Communities track on Wednesday, Nov. 8th. I gave the Virtual Community Building Using Internet Tools presentation in that track.

from SLA Annual Conference 2000 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

  • Moderator of Dead Technologies program
  • CUBL program on Babson’s Intranet and Internet as Teaching Tools

Member of Organizing/Review Committee for Computers in Libraries 2000, Washington, DC, March 2000. Walt Howe and I put together programming for Beyond Traditional Search Engines track on Thursday, March 16th, and Web Tools track on Friday, March 17th.

Member of Organizing/Review Committee for Internet Librarian ’99, San Diego, California, November 1999. Walt Howe and I have put together programming for Web Tools track on Tuesday, Nov. 9th, and Search Engines on Wednesday, Nov. 10th.

from SLA Annual Conference ’99 in Minneapolis, Minnesota:

  • Year 2000: Are You Ready?

from Internet Librarian ’98

  • Old Wine in New Bottles: Using the Internet to Access the Content You Need

from SLA Annual Conference ’98 in Indianapolis, Indiana:

  • Telecommunications Resources

from Computers in Libraries in Crystal City, in March 1998:

  • Using Internet to Access the Information You Need: New Gems and Old Favorites with Walt Howe
  • Internet Tips and Tricks ’98 with Walt Howe
  • Academic Intellectual Property Issues

from Internet Librarian in Monterey, California, in November 1997:

  • Web Graphic Design for Librarians with Walt Howe
  • Internet Tips and Tricks ’97 with Walt Howe
  • Evaluating the Evaluators
  • Running an E-mail Discussion List

Evaluating  Quality on the Net

Presentation to Boston Women in Publishing at the Harvard Club, May 14, 1997 looking at  how technology is changing the relationship among libraries, publishers, and library customers.

Member of Organizing/Review Committee for Computers 97 in Libraries. Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia. March 10-12, 1997. Walt Howe and I have put together programming for Internet and World Wide Web  track on Monday, March 10, and the Filtering the Internet and World Wide Web track  on Wednesday, March 12. Specific programs:

  • Web Graphic Design for Librarians with Walt Howe
  • Searching the Net with Popular Internet Search Engines with Walt Howe
  • Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet

What’s Hot at Fall Internet World 96? co-authored  by Jane Dysart, Pete Stair, and Hope Tillman. Internet  World, New York, New York. December 12, 1996. an exhibit hall tour guide, suggesting exhibit booths to visit  during the conference

What Librarians Really Need to Learn About HTML. Seminar prepared for Rutgers School of Communication, Information,
and Library Studies
New Brunswick, New Jersey, October 22, 1996

The Internal Internet. Seminar prepared for Rutgers School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies
New Brunswick, New Jersey, October 22, 1996

Serving Empowered  Users: Juggling, Managing, and Mediating.
Keynote presentation  prepared for the Nelinet Reference Technology Advisory Committee program on Empowered Users  Emerging Implications for Reference Services at College of Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, on June 21, 1996.

Advertising and Marketing Resources on the Internet. Presentation prepared for the Advertising and Marketing  Division program held at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference in  Boston, Massachusetts, on June 10, 1996.

New  Technologies: New Products. Internet  World, San Jose, California. April 30, 1996. With Jane Dysart, an exhibit hall tour guide, suggesting exhibit booths to visit  during the conference from April 30 to May 2, 1996.

Member of Organizing/Review Committee for Computers 96 in Libraries. Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia. February 26-March 1, 1996. Walt Howe and I have put together programming for Internet and World Wide Web  tracks on Tuesday, February 27, and Wednesday, February 28.