Crossing the Border: Changing Times for Librarians and Genealogists

Sunday, 3:30 – 4:30
Description
Every library has the basic tools needed by patrons who are searching for their roots, but librarians may not realize the extent of their online and print resources. Cynthia O’Neil, Certified Genealogist, Board for Certification of Genealogists and genealogy expert at the Manchester (NH) City Library, leads you through the process of [...]

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 [...]

Tip Top Tech Training

Laura Blake (NETSL) introduced Dodie Gaudet.
Experience as supervisors, dept. head, contract cataloger, aerobics instructor- lots of training experience (rec’d and giving).
Trainging is an integral part of lib’s job (our REAL job).
Emphasis on preparation.
PREPARATION:
wHAT DO YOU want to accompl. with traingin?
demo?
train?
train the trainer?
know situation, audience, environment:
who are listeners?
why are they here?
training staff to use the [...]

Up and Coming Technology:Forget about Google: Some Technology Trends that will Change our World

3:45 -   5:00 Sunday
Susan Hassler, Editor-in-Chief
IEEE Spectrum Magazine
s.hassler@ieee.org
IEEE Spectrum Magazine/ Fellows Institute for the Future (IFTF):
Identifying technologies that will have a significant impact over next 10-20 years 

Extending biology

Augmenting our own biology-though chemistry, such as Prozac, steroids, etc in order to increase people’s attributes, [...]

Discussion Group: Wireless

Description:
Wireless technology now has many faces. Join ITS members to discuss the various issues that we face with all the wireless devices and platforms. Non-wireless users and “thinking about it” persons are welcome too. The ITS business meeting is included.

Introduction to NELA-ITS, and what they do – work with and talk about [...]

OS Follies

Review of Vista, Linux, and MAC OS.
Barbara Andrews, Andrews Consulting – Vista

Very easy to connect to peripheral devices. Connected to projector with no problem.

With printers, “I’m able to connect to any printer pretty much seamlessly.
Coming [...]

Up & Coming Technology with Susan Hassler

Susan Hassler, editor for IEEE Spectrum, gave us a look at the possibilities for technology in the next 10 to 20 years in her talk on Up & Coming Technology. The subject of her talk came from the results of a survey of 700 members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, known as [...]

Do it yourself Technology

Speaker- Deanna Gouzie youth services librarian at Baxter Memorial Library in Me.
MySpace for your library
A librarian may encounter resistance in setting up MySpace for their libraries

As librarians we need to model positive use of MySpace
Children have ways to circumvent filters to get to these social networking pages
Teens will look at library MySpace as opposed to [...]