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Salinas has a unique place in the annals of recent library history. Financial challenges in 2004-2005 brought the city to the brink of closing its libraries. Because Salinas is known as the home of Nobel laureate John Steinbeck, the threatened closure of the city's libraries held significance extending well beyond city limits, and the struggle to save them gained international attention. Libraries...

The faculty advisor to LISSTEN, Dr. Kristen Radsliff Rebmann, will discuss the development of a distributed group devoted to research and writing that is meeting via Elluminate. She will provide background to the LISSTEN-sponsored Research and Writing group and discuss its recent activities and goals for the future.

The faculty advisor to LISSTEN, Dr. Kristen Radsliff Rebmann, will discuss the development of a distributed group devoted to research and writing that is meeting via Elluminate. She will provide background to the LISSTEN-sponsored Research and Writing group and discuss its recent activities and goals for the future.

LIS classes on tweens/teens needs to include information on adolescent development and adolescent culture to help librarians understand the age group with whom they will be working. LIS programs that include information about stages of adolescent development as well as instruction about materials for tweens and teens create effective teen librarians. Librarians who understand the psychological dev...

LIS classes on tweens/teens needs to include information on adolescent development and adolescent culture to help librarians understand the age group with whom they will be working. LIS programs that include information about stages of adolescent development as well as instruction about materials for tweens and teens create effective teen librarians. Librarians who understand the psychological dev...

This session provides an overview of the Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles℠ (GARP℠), and explores practical implications for an organization's information management program. It is only through the information an organization records that it can know what it has done and effectively plan what it will do in the future. In the world of business today, it is critical for businesses to achie...

This session provides an overview of the Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles℠ (GARP℠), and explores practical implications for an organization's information management program. It is only through the information an organization records that it can know what it has done and effectively plan what it will do in the future. In the world of business today, it is critical for businesses to achie...

Information Management is a set of professional concepts and practices that enable organizations to capture, retain, protect, preserve, and deliver information. Such information could be in the form of active computer system data, documents used for reference purposes, or official records that serve as evidence of actions and activities. With today's technology driven workplaces, individuals manag...

Information Management is a set of professional concepts and practices that enable organizations to capture, retain, protect, preserve, and deliver information. Such information could be in the form of active computer system data, documents used for reference purposes, or official records that serve as evidence of actions and activities. With today's technology driven workplaces, individuals manag...

You've only just begun your career - what do you mean "plan for retirement?" A library career is a lifetime; 30 years give or take a few years. Many librarians dream about the trip they will take, the books they will read/write, the big projects they will embark upon when they retire. But retirement planning begins the day you complete your library studies. Do you have a plan? Do you have a "bucke...

You've only just begun your career - what do you mean "plan for retirement?" A library career is a lifetime; 30 years give or take a few years. Many librarians dream about the trip they will take, the books they will read/write, the big projects they will embark upon when they retire. But retirement planning begins the day you complete your library studies. Do you have a plan? Do you have a "bucke...

New technologies and data modeling methods are providing exciting new means for managing data in our organizations. Companies large and small, arts and cultural heritage organizations, academic institutions and governments are all embarking on projects to improve the transmission, clarity and often transparency of the data they curate. What are these technologies? Where can these methods be learne...

The co-author of the DoD 5015.2 Records Management Specification will give us a view into upcoming changes in technology, standards, and best practices that will impact your records and information management programs. The following topics will be addressed: -NARA’s big-bucket vs. little buckets directive -Records Management Services standards development -Records Management Maturity Model develop...

Preserving electronic records is always a difficult proposition. Hardware, software programs and formats are constantly in flux. So what do you do to allow you to hit this moving target? There are some basic guiding principles and actions that you can follow that help maintain and preserve electronic records. By discussing what to do to with specific file formats: including still-images, video and...

Beth Gallaway, chair of the YALSA Advocacy Task Force, discusses how young adult librarians can work for change within their systems, evaluates professional resources and support networks in place to ensure success, and dishes about her own experiences and lessons learned in working with a variety of organizations and associations.

Phoenix Revisited: Musing from a News Librarian Richard Geiger, retired Library and Research Director at The San Francisco Chronicle, SLA Fellow, and winner of the SLA John Cotton Dana Award, will regale you with tales of his three decades as a newspaper librarian at The San Francisco Chronicle and the San Jose Mercury–News. And yes, many of the old–time journalists did keep a fifth of booze in th...

Computer games, simulations and virtual worlds are making increasing inroads into academic education and corporate training. This is often fuelled by a desire to improve engagement, or to immerse learning in realistic simulated settings, but often limited by economics and resources. Open Education initiatives hint at solutions, but there are some particular challenges in opening access to virtual...

Advocacy is not public relations. It is not “getting the message out”. It is not “leg days”. According to Ken Haycock, advocacy is a planned, deliberate, sustained effort to develop understanding and support incrementally over time. Learn from the research on influence and dozens of interviews with politicians, aides and effective library advocates.

This wide-ranging interview with one of the nation’s top youth studies scholars includes a review of Dr. Males’ large body of research, his views on youth, culture and public policy, as well as implications for our own library institutions.

Joe Matthews will discuss the origin and evolution of the "Balanced Scorecard," how the Library Balanced Scorecard can be useful in communicating the value of the library to various stakeholders, and assist the library in identifying and tracking performance measures to help lead managers and staff in achieving library goals.

The Library of Congress has archived Web content for the last five elections and has a significant body of work comprising more than 30 Terabytes of election content. Although tools and processes have improved significantly since the efforts to capture Election 2000 Web materials, the challenges of Web 2.0 and the ever evolving nature of the Web presents new challenges every election. Ms. Jones pr...

Dr. Joni Bodart interviews Amy Cheney about her award winning Alameda County Juvenile Detention Center program and its "culture of reading." The interview will also include history of the program, what Cheney is doing currently, and what she would like to see in the future. The Write to Read program brings in authors who speak to the residents about their own lives and how reading and writing has...

Institutions and job seekers in California have mutual concerns about the market for jobs in the state. Further they want to know what the impact of the economic recession has had on the jobs market. Based on a two year study of job postings from California and surrounding states, the preliminary data indicates the current market is trending down in the recession after two stable years. The data o...

[MARA Guest Lecture] Establishing an effective new records program or overhauling an existing one so that the resulting program is truly effective requires a clear vision, careful planning, and judicious consideration of numerous choices. Some components of a records management program are essential while others are elective, but even the key components require decisions regarding methods and phil...

This presentation will describe the proposal from a City Council Member to filter library Internet access and the response of the Library. Topics will include the Library’s testing of filters and other research, the community outreach process, and how the issue has evolved over an eighteen month period.