Sample Topics

We also encourage any other topics providing they address serving the needs of both on-ground and on-line students/faculty. This list isn't exclusive.

Access Services
Best practices in Interlibrary Loan
Student employee potential and utilization
Customer service
Reserve services

Administration
Change management
Evaluation of programs and services
Assessment tools for personnel improvement
Training strategies

Cataloging
RDA and FRBR updates
Metadata
Next generation catalogs
Cataloging free web resources

Collection Management
Collaboration with academic departments
Electronic reference and ebooks - how to select, market, value
Collection analysis of web subscriptions
Researching options from vendors

Instruction
Campus partnerships for student learning and support
Active learning ideas and research instruction for college students
Developing games for teaching resource evaluation
Innovative teaching methods in discipline specific research session

Reference
Marketing programs and services
Time management/workload issues
Staffing multidimensional reference services
Reference service in course management systems

Technology
Mobile trends and practices
Web scale discovery systems
In house solutions
Google Apps