Sample Topics

Access Services
Copyright and fair use
E-reserve
Interlibrary loan and serving distance students/faculty
Managing student employees
ILS systems
Rewarding and retaining 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
How libraries are designing their web pages; who is deciding on what changes
    are made; how (process) and why (assessment)?
Use of cameras and handy cams
Library advocacy

Collection Management
Consortial collection development
Digital collections and digital object repositories
Electronic resource licensing & management
Meeting the needs of the millennial vs. the baby boomers in an academic setting
Faculy liaison/ collaboration

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
Documents Cataloging
How are smaller libraries dealing with paper archives and 3D objects of
    significance to the university?

Instruction
Active learning and information literacy
Collaboration with faculty
Course management systems
Instructional games or tutorials
Google searchers
Community outreach
Application of instructional design principles to library instruction
ACRL standards and assessment
How are smaller libraries (serving 1,000 students or less) operating day by day?

Reference
Changes in federated searching
Reasons for maintaining a physical reference desk
Remote reference
Wikis, RSS, and other social software
Making your website work for your users
Library learning commons
Virtual reference/IM
How has the 1st decade of the 21st Century changed libraries and relationships
    between librarians and patrons?

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
Web Usability Studies
Knowledge management in libraries
iGoogle

We also encourage any other topics providing they address serving the needs of both on-ground and on-line students/faculty.

 

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