Wikis & Zoho Creator

Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Emily Belanger & Sarah Feldman
Presentation will be posted on NELA website.
 
WIKIS
A wiki is a collection of web pages that be edited by anyone with administrative permission. They promote collaboration and communication and are most popular and successful  when used for project communication and documentation. There is a trend toward replacing static web [...]

Help! The Teen Librarian Has Left the Building

YA Librarians Abby Reidy from the Morse Institute Library in Natick, MA and Christi Showman Farrar from Woburn Mass. Public Library. All handouts will be available online.
YA Reader Advisory by Christi Showman Farrar: Talk to the teen-not their parent. Direct questions and eye contact. Be honest. If you have not read a book-say so. If [...]

Government Documents Online

Sunday, October 19th, 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. Presenters: Julie Schwartz, CT State Library jschwartz@cslib.org & Alix Quan, Ass’t Director Head of Reference, Massachusetts State Library alix.quan@state.ma.us

Julie’s Schwartz’s Presentation
jschwartz@cslib.org Another contact: Steven Slovasky sslovasky@cslib.org
The Connecticut State Library initiated the Connecticut Digital Archive Project because so many state documents and [...]

What is a NERTCL?

Why do we go to conferences? To collect ideas, meet new and old friends, recharge and rejuvenate our work in our libraries…
NERTCL, The New England Roundtable of Teen and Children’s Librarians, held a session to provide an opportunity to do just that. The meet and greet provided a casual forum for youth service librarians to [...]

NELA ITS Spring Program – technology self-sufficiency!

The New England Library Association Information Technology Section proudly presents our 2008 Spring Workshop, “Library-Wide IT Proficiencies.”
The workshop is focused on teaching technology self-sufficiency, so library staff in every department can feel comfortable handling common technology issues. Using a “train the trainer” format, the presenters will emphasize sharing the practical knowledge and skills IT [...]

Create a Successful Staff Retreat

Denise van Zanten of Manchester City Library, Dianne Hathaway of Goffstown Public Library, Amy Lapointe of Amherst Town Library and Marilyn Borgendale of GMILCS, Inc. led this presentation about a successful staff retreat that GMILCS libraries had in February. GMILCS is a consortium of 12 public and academic libraries in New Hampshire.
Shared documents on the [...]

Discussion Group: Library Lifelines

This discussion group was led by Diana Comer (dean) and Louise Motta (librarian) from the Dorothy Salter Library at Salter College.
Louise describes herself as a non-traditional librarian (3rd or 4th career) serving mostly non-traditional students in a non-traditional library.
She described this project as a “Field of Dreams.” They started the library with a vision [...]

Get a (Second) Life!

For those of you who skedaddled early and missed this session, here are my own notes from the presentation by myself, Megan Fox, and Candy Schwartz.
“Second Life is a 3-D online digital world imagined, created and owned by its residents.”
Second Life Stats:

Total Registered Residents: 9,566,36 (compare to 4,878,127 in March 2007)
Logged In Last 60 [...]

Pimp my Firefox

http://www.librarian.net/talks/nelafox

State of the States

Funding is an issue in ALL New England States, but grant funds are responsible for the success of projects ranging from getting a toilet put into a small library in VT to hooking up with WebJunction for professional development needs. Representatives from all six New England States were on hand to detail some of their [...]