Sample Topics

Access Services
Copyright and fair use
E-reserve
Interlibrary loan and serving distance students/faculty
Managing student employees

Administration
Assessment of resources or services
Collaborative relationships between library and other university units
Human resource issues
Ergonomics
Evolving roles of paraprofessionals and/or librarians
Serving patrons with disabilities

Collection Management
Consortial collection development
Digital collections and digital object repositories
Electronic resource licensing & management

Technical Services
Accessing digital collections or items from the library catalog
Cataloging electronic serials
Innovation among shared catalogs
Role of the paraprofessional in technical services
Technical services workflow
WorldCat Local
Standards

Instruction
Active learning and information literacy
Collaboration with faculty
Course management systems
Instructional games or tutorials
Google searchers

Reference
Changes in Federated Searching
Reasons for maintaining a physical reference desk
Remote reference
Wikis, RSS, and other social software

Technology
Digitizing archival material
OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language)
Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) from an applied perspective
Second Life
Library 2.0
iGoogle
Open source products
Digital Object Identifier System (DOI)
Application programming interface (API)
Content management systems for library webpages

We also encourage other topics that address serving both on-ground and on-line students/faculty.

 

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