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Keynote Session
It’s Not Easy Being Green, the Politics and Issues of Establishing a Green Environment
Mike Crumpton, Sarah B. Dorsey, & Beth Filar WilliamsMany green initiatives are related directly to new construction or major remodels, as these events provide the opportunity for energy efficient changes or problem solutions. “Going Green” in these circumstances typically falls to an institution’s physical plant or facilities department with an emphasis on the building itself and/or basic recycling. So what about the rest of the sustainable activities that can make a difference in our everyday lives and of course our future? Building or remodeling buildings alone will not achieve long term goals for a sustainable future. Actions need to be in the hands of the building’s occupants and users.
This panel will discuss and share their experiences in promoting and advocating for green and sustainable practices in the library and the larger organization. This includes finding ways to implement “green actions” in a cost effective environment without the larger investment needed for facility change or upgrades.
Sometimes politics get in the way of developing a sustainable and eco friendly environment in which to work, play or study. This panel discussion will discuss the politics of “going green”, from these librarians who have each been proactive advocates in their libraries for looking beyond basic activities or relying on a facilities project to get them green. Discussion will provide plenty of ideas for conference attendees to take home and put into action. They will each share unique experiences, ideas, programs and results that they each made happen, in order to change personal behaviors, address problem spots and personalize “Going Green”, in a library environment.
Other Library Sessions
Back to Basics: International Librarianship on a Shoestring
Nara NewcomerThink your library budget has taken a hit? How about starting with a budget barely above zero? This presentation will use the author’s experiences as a volunteer professional consultant for Oasis International School (preschool-12) in Ankara, Turkey, to explore creative methods for collection development and general library management on a shoestring budget, plus other challenges facing very small libraries. Similar libraries in the U.S. are often associated with small private schools or community groups. The session will also explore unique aspects of international librarianship and give tips for other interested in such an experience.
The Basics of Swing Dance
Mike Guzzo and Corena BristowThe original swing dance. We will work through the basics of the Charleston, including footwork from the 20's and 30's, fun styling, and turns. We will cap it all off by teaching the Charleston Line Dance.
Copyright 101
William GeeIf you are you confused by copyright as it applies to libraries, you are not alone. Come to this session to learn about copyright basics and discuss your questions. Helpful handouts will be provided for your future reference.
Creating an Annual Event Series: Lessons Learned from Eastern North Carolina Literary Homecoming Blythe Tennent
Participants will explore how to plan, design and fund arts and literary events. Discussion will center on how to build and attract an audience, how to find and obtain funding and how to gain support of important stakeholders. Participants will be given the opportunity to develop a project design during the workshop.
Customer Service
Christopher Turner(ECU/HR Sponsored) This session provides initial public contact personnel, managers, supervisors & administrators with powerful tools to providing dynamic customer service as they operate through daily business functions. The course content is power packed with more than just Email, Telephone, and One on One contact and is purposefully intended to blend both Front line employees, Managers, Supervisors & Administrators who seek “service buy-in” from every level of the organization. Bonus tools provided in session will demonstrative to participants the techniques and tools on how to effectively handle aggressive/difficult customers.
Diversity in Libraries: Perspective and Best Practices
Maliha Farhadi & Catherine AdamsThe impact of racial and ethnic diversity on libraries grows as the world becomes increasingly connected. More accessible transportation, global communication systems and international diplomacy foster a global community. The strength of libraries has always been the diversity of their collections and commitment to serving all people. Libraries of all types – public, school and academic- provide a forum for diverse ideas and points of view that can help us learn about and better understand ourselves and each other. This session will provide a unique personal perspective on diversity, while presenting practice models and lively discussion.
Everyday Atmospherics for Presenting the Best of Your Library
Mike CrumptonAtmospherics is the conscious designing of space to create effect and physiological reaction(s) from people who encounter the library as a place. This includes a wide variety of possible actions related to the senses including, sights, sounds, feeling of comfort and more. Maintaining good atmospherics can create positive images and impressions of the facility upon workers and patrons, and improve behaviors and morale of those individuals utilizing the building both long and short term.
This presentation will discuss and demonstrate how each individual can influence positive atmospheric actions in order to have an impact and make a difference in the presentation of the library. Discussion will focus on the use of displays and exhibits, emphasizing visual elements that are important, as well as unique opportunities that can be utilized to alter or enhance the environment. And all of this is addressed in everyday, low cost options that don’t need a budget to be engaged. Presentation includes PPT slideshow with visual examples.
Exploring Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Alan BaileyBased on the New York Times #1 international bestseller, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, this session is designed to help individuals become more effective in their personal and professional lives. Living the 7 Habits allows people to build stronger personal and professional relationships and broaden their way of thinking which leads to greater opportunities and effective problem solving. The 2-hour overview serves as an introduction to participants unfamiliar with the 7 Habits and a “renewal” for those who have read the book or listened to Dr. Covey’s book on CD.
Food Choices, Your Health, and the Environment
Tara Smith
This presentation will help participants understand the impact that food choices have on the environment. You’ll learn tips about how to eat “green” to not only save the environment, but also save your health.Getting Organized with Microsoft OneNote 2007
Susan ThorntonNeed to get organized? Want to see how OneNote could help? This presentation will introduce the basics of creating, organizing, filing, and sharing notes using the latest addition to the Microsoft Office family. This tool will help you take all those pieces of paper and put them all together in one organized place on your computer.
Greening Your Library: Lessons from Joyner Library’s Green Task Force
Christine Andresen, Amy Gustavson, David Hisle, & Matt ReynoldsIn Summer 2008, staff at Joyner Library formed the Green Task Force. The group’s mission is to research, propose, implement, and promote green education and sustainable environmental practices in the university library environment. This session will focus on organizing the group, developing a mission and goals, developing obtainable strategies, green projects, tools for communication, lessons learned, and suggestions for the future.
Handmade Tools to Go!
Gloria BradshawWe will be making: covered bricks to use as weights, BB bags to use as flexible weights, waxed dowel rods to use for reinforcing hinges, corner squares to consolidate frayed corners, awls to punch holes for sewing, and sanding blocks to smooth boards and to recess areas of boards when replacing the spine. Each participant will keep the items they make!
How to Save a Million Dollars
Kim S. RogersHow you can accrue $1 million in savings in your lifetime. This seminar discusses key savings strategies, easy ways to start saving now, how to save toward a financial goal and why interest compounding is the "most powerful force in the universe.”
How to Start a Sustainability Film Series at Your Library – and How to Sustain it!
Sarah B. DorseyThis workshop will start with the story of how the UNCG Sustainability Film and Discussion Series started over two years ago in response to the creation of the UNCG Sustainability Committee. Two library staff members (one library faculty and one paraprofessional) decided to learn the hard way (i.e. with no funding or experience).
After telling this story (with a happy ending - the series is still going strong!), we will address the challenges and opportunities any film and discussion series creates. There are issues of funding, performance rights, venues, discussion leaders, community involvement, sponsorship and more. And what counts as fair use anyway? If you have thought about this, but have hesitated, come with your questions and we’ll find solutions together.
I Didn’t Know ECU Had a Music Library!
Jeff TuthillIn this session you’ll receive a tour of one of the gems in eastern North Carolina’s musical crown—the ECU Music Library. This special collection, located in ECU’s Fletcher Music Center, is a department of Joyner Library, and its only branch. This distinction has helped to make it one of ECU’s best kept secrets.
Identity Theft
Kim S. RogersLearn how to protect your good name and credit and what to do if you become a victim of identity theft.
Image Theory and the Library
Jacquelyn ErdmanIn this session you will receive practical information about image and graphic design. Topics covered include the difference between creating print images and digital images, tips on how to create graphics using different programs, color theory, and general advice for the design deficient.
A Little Green Can Go a Long Way: Creating a More Eco-Friendly Library
Beth Filar WilliamsMost green library presentations discuss large scale projects that are out of reach to the average library worker, yet every one of us has the ability to make a difference. By starting small, analyzing processes, noticing habits, and thinking green, we can make change. This session will provide simple green ideas - some of which could even save money - and offer quality online resources and networks to get started and guide you along the way. Attendees will also leave the sessions with an action plan to take home and implement in their own libraries.
Goals:
• Understand the importance of environmentally friendly practices in the library setting.
• Gather tips and ideas to apply in your own library and share with other staff.
• Gain access to green resources to use after the workshop.
• Take home an action plan to implement at least one idea in your own library.Marketing Training
Debbie HathawayThis session will provide information about the market research necessary to complete a marketing plan. Specifically we will discuss Target Markets, Demographics, Psychographics, Buying Criteria, and Advertising Strategies.
Music in Instructional Settings
Barbara MemoryMusic is a powerful resource for all of us in our daily lives, as well as for people in troubled situations. This session will cover music therapy as one of the Allied Health and Creative Arts Therapies, and provide suggestions for integrating music into our work and home environments. A brief bibliography will be included.
Outreach 101: Reach Out and Touch Somebody’s Hand!
Linda Teel and Hazel WalkerThis session will focus on ways to build effective outreach services with K-12 schools including the tools and resources to implement a successful program.
Researching and Writing the Story of Mrs. Joe Person: A How-To Guide for the Aspiring Author
David HurshMr. Hursh will retrace his steps in the process of researching and writing his biography of nineteenth-century patent medicine entrepreneur and folk musician, Alice Morgan Person. By doing so, he will provide attendees with a step-by-step guide to researching and writing a biography—a guide sprinkled with insights gained from his experience, and seasoned with informational tidbits on the colorful Alice
Rethinking Interlibrary Loan
William GeeThe emerging rethinking resource sharing initiative aims to transform interlibrary library loan and related library services. This initiative and other interlibrary loan trends will be discussed. Time will be allotted for discussion of best practices and your questions.
Showing Up As a Leader from Your Place in the Castle: Presentation WOW Workshop
Laura Mixon, PhDThis workshop shows you that your presentation starts long before you open your mouth and how you’re already presenting every day, all day. Adapt the right mindset to show up as a leader wherever you work. Design a blueprint to become the kind of presenter you really want to be.
Leverage your unique talent to get your message out there where it’s needed. Enjoy more support for your projects faster and with less effort because of changes in the way you think.
Convert your presentation stress and anxiety into positive and powerful energy. Use this know-how for better results in all your communication.Time Management
Christopher Turner(ECU/HR Sponsored) This session identifies methods, practices and tool sets that can be easily implemented within one's work environment to facilitate more efficient and effective work tasks. Through identification of how we learn, how we work, and other typology tools the time management course demonstrates the implementation of these skills into tangible work place practice using a variety of available technologies, tools and systems.
Turning Discarded Book Jackets into Unique Craft Bags
Suzanne Metcalf (assisted by Jenna Nadler)Crafting gift bags out of discarded book jackets is another great way to recycle! This fun hands-on project requires no prior training. Participants will learn how to assemble the bag with scraps of craft materials rounding out the project. Create bags large or small, plain or decorative, for a variety of uses. Supplies will be provided.
Veteran Employees - Staying Fresh & Motivated
Eleanor Cook
Learn to stay fresh and motivated as you work toward, or defer, retirement. The session will help you develop skills and techniques to demonstrate your current proficiencies gained through your knowledge and experience.Visiting the Virtual Archives: Let Your Digits Do the Scouting
Mark CusterThere are materials in our Special Collections and Archives departments that could interest just about anyone, from the staunchest of genealogists to the most impatient of “digital natives.” One large barrier to making this connection, however, is that these materials are often hidden from and generally unfamiliar to our potential patrons.
This session will address how these collections are beginning to make the transition online, where access is much more equitable than before. Highlights of such endeavors will include Flickr Commons, Collections Online at the Archives of American Art, and local North Carolina collections such as ECU’s Digital Repository.
Finally, though not required, please feel free to visit the following website before the conference: http://virtualarchives.pbwiki.com/Once there, just click on “request access” in the right-hand column and I’ll give you permissions to log in and edit some pages. Since the time for discussion will be short, and the topic very vast, it’s my hope that we can use this online space to start the conversation before the conference begins and continue it afterwards as well. And, in the interest of the “green” theme, I’ll also use the website to host digital “handouts.”
Web 2.0 Tools: What They are and What to Do with Them or
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Beth WinsteadWeb 2.0 tools is a phrase that has been around for several years but what are they really? Do you want or need Facebook, Twitter, del.icio.us, RSS feeds, wikis and blogs in your personal or professional life? This workshop will be a basic introduction to these tools and how best to apply them in libraries.
“What are Your True Colors? Understanding the Color Keys to your Personality”
Cynthia JonesTrue Colors uses four colors to identify four distinctive perspectives and personalities. Most of us have a dominant color shaded by the other three colors, thus creating our True Colors Spectrum. Discovering your True Colors is fun and exciting! Once you recognize the True Colors in yourself and in others, you will be able to respond more appropriately and concisely in varied communication settings. Another benefit of True Colors is a better understanding of your reactions in certain situations and with certain people. Come join us for a fun experience as you discover your True Colors!
WordPress Blogging Coupled with RSS Feeds and Twitter – All Open Source
Brian HallReady to start using blogs? This workshop will show you how to quickly and easily create a WordPress blog and modify your blog’s appearance, add widgets, create static pages, moderate comments, and add multiple authors. I will also demonstrate how to add images and videos to your blog posts, and we’ll briefly cover how to enrich the content of your blog by adding in Twitter and RSS feeds.
