Sample Topics

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

Administration
Promotional ideas
Labor management
Personnel self-assessment
Interpersonal skills assessment
Practical assessment for improvement
Training strategies

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

Collection Management
Interrelationship with ILL and/or eResources
Liaison programs for subject specialists
Collection analysis
Acquisition on demand
Researching new options from vendors

Instruction
Orientation for new students
Campus partnerships
Active learning ideas and practices
Techniques for basic skill development
Developing games for teaching resource evaluation
Instructional design/development

Reference
How to deal with information overload
Marketing services
Developing program ideas
Staffing multidimensional reference services

Technology
Free software applications
Mobile trends and practices
ILS tweaks
Library discovery tools
In house solutions
Google Apps

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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