Event Listing Archives
2007
BayNet Board Meeting
Date: Thursday, November 8, 2007 (open to all BayNet members)
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: SFPL Main Library, Latino Room A on the lower level
Date: October 29-31
Location: Monterey, CA
Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Time: 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Location: California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco
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BayNet 25th Anniversary Program (PDF) (12 pages, 346 KB)
Date: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 (open to all BayNet members)
Time: 9:00 am to 11:00 am
Location: SFPL Main Library, Latino Room A on the lower level
Date: Wednesday, May 2, 2007, 9:00 am - 11:30 am (open to all BayNet members)
Topic: Building a Resilient Career
Speaker: Kim Dority
Location: SFPL Main Library, Koret Auditorium
Date: Monday, April 9, 2007, 5 pm - 7 pm (open to all BayNet members)
This free event includes a tour of this exciting new public library and a reception with refreshments. Please meet in the library entry area for a tour given by Library Director Ben Ocon.
Date: Monday, March 5, 2007 (open to all BayNet members)
Time: 9:30am - 11:30 am OR 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Menlo College, Atherton
Date: Monday, Jan. 8, 2007 (open to all BayNet members)
Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Holy Names University, Oakland
2006
BayNet Board Meeting
Date: Thursday, Nov. 9, 2006 (open to all BayNet members)
Time: 9:30 am - 11:30 am
Location: Mechanics Institute Library, San Francisco
Date: Thursday Oct. 19, 2006
Time: 1pm-4pm
Location: Santa Clara City's Central Park Library
RFID: Resources and Case Studies
Executive Summary of the RFID Survey (PDF) (3 pages, 51 KB)
Date: May 2, 2006, 8:30am - 12pm (open to all BayNet members)
Topic: Copyright in the Digital Age
Speaker: Carrie Russell
Location: World Affairs Council, 312 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA
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Topic: Teaching Old Media Some New Media Tricks: How Newspapers Are Adapting to the Digital Age
Date: February 7, 2006
Time: 5:30 - 7:30pm
Location: The San Francisco Chronicle Building, 100 5th Street (at Mission), San Francisco, CA
Topic: Demonstrating the Value of Libraries
Date: February 24, 2006 2:00pm - 4:00pm (public free event)
Location: Koret Auditorium
San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch
100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA
Date: January 25, 2006 9:30am - 11:30am (open to all BayNet members)
Location: Room 133 Giannini Hall
University of California
2005
BayNet Board Meeting
Date: November 8, 2:30pm - 4:30pm (open to all BayNet members).
Location: Room 133 Giannini Hall
University of California, Berkeley.
"Beyond Google: Web Search Tricks and Treats" with Gary Price
Date: October 31, 2005, 8:30am-12 noon
Date: October 20,2005, 5:30 - 8:30 pm (free event).
Date: September 14, 9:30am - 11:30am (free event).
Date: May 10, 2005, 9-11 AM (free event).
Nancy Kranich, former ALA president, spoke about her recent work with the Intellectual Commons. Much of her current work centers around challenges to information access in the digital age. Follow this link to read the Free Expression Policy Project's Policy Report The Information Commons by Nancy Kranich discussed at the meeting: http://www.fepproject.org/ policyreports/policyreports.html
Date: March 23, 2005, 5:30 PM
A valuable resource for genealogy research, NARA's San Bruno facility maintains retired records from Federal agencies and courts in Northern California, Hawaii, Nevada (except Clark County), the Pacific Trust Territories, and American Samoa.
Date: February 23, 2005 (Deadline for reservations: February 18)
Authors Rhys Bowen and Cara Black will discuss how they research material, characters, and setting for their award winning books.
2004
Internet Librarian 2004
Date: November 15-17, 2004
Date: November 12, 2004
Join Mary Ellen Bates for a lively half-day workshop designed to hone your web research skills, open your eyes to new search techniques and tools, and get you thinking about new ways to approach online and web research.
Date: November 4, 2004
Librarian Anne Malley described the move of the California Academy of Sciences from Golden Gate Park to its new temporary home at 875 Howard Street in San Francisco, gave an overview of the fascinating collections in the Naturalist Center, and demonstrated the Manzanita image resources. This was followed by a tour of the Academy archives and rare book collection, including an original double elephant folio of Audubon's "Birds of America."
Date: October 6, 2004
Dr. Patricia Senn Breivik, the Dean of the Library, spoke about lifelong learning, its relationship to both the information literacy movement and the creation of the award winning King Library.
Featuring internet guru Gary Price, co-author of The Invisible Web and the compiler/editor of the Resourceshelf. Price will speak at our annual meeting on three main topics, with Q&A sessions in between.
Paul Matzner, founder of the Nature Sounds Society, presented an after-hours demonstration and tour highlighting the largest publicly accessible nature sounds library west of the Mississippi.
R.J. Pittman of Groxis spoke about the search engine Grokker2, and a presentation by the Califa Group covered their peer-to-peer membership network of California libraries.
2003
A BayNet and SLA San Francisco Bay Region event: The Art of Communication and Negotiation
This joint event featured Dr. Pat Fitzgerald of Pacific Gateway Associates and 2002-2003 SLA President Dr. Bill Fisher of San Jose State University.
Now Available: Presentation slides from Lee Tien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Please note that this is a PowerPoint file, requiring MS Powerpoint, Open Office, or other presentation software to view.
Download the slideshow here.
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