[Baynet] Infopeople's webcast "Perceptions and Realities: Confronting the New Library Environment"

[Linda Rodenspiel]

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Title:  Perceptions and Realities: Confronting the New Library Environment

Date and time:  August 11, 2006, 10:00 am - noon PDT

This webcast will last approximately two hours. There is no charge for 
Infopeople webcasts.  Pre-registration is not required.

For more information and to participate in the August 11 webcast, go to
http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/08-11-06/

Back by popular demand! This lively presentation on the implications of the 
new OCLC report, 
<http://www.oclc.org/reports/2005perceptions.htm>Perceptions of Libraries 
and Information Resources, was originally delivered by George Needham and 
Joan Frye Williams at the Public Library Directors' Forum in San Diego. It 
received such a positive response from directors who wished that their 
staff had been able to participate, that Infopeople has asked George and 
Joan to repeat it as a webcast.
In this special, two-hour webcast, George Needham of OCLC and library 
consultant Joan Frye Williams will present key findings and implications of 
the landmark study Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources.
    * Part One of the webcast, Reality, will outline how "civilians" 
described the ways they actually use information and library resources today.
    * Part Two, Perceptions, will deal with how these people feel about the 
library, especially as compared to the other online resources available to 
them.
    * And Part Three, Brand, will look at how people understand what the 
library has to offer.
Each of the survey findings will be accompanied with specific, practical 
suggestions about how libraries can adjust their services to respond to 
this new information. Don't miss this thought-provoking presentation - it 
may well change the way you see your users and your work!

Speakers:  George Needham and Joan Frye Williams

George Needham.  Before joining OCLC in 1999, George was State Librarian of 
Michigan. From 1993 to 1996, he was Executive Director of the Public 
Library Association, a division of the American Library Association. From 
1990 to 1993, he was Director of Member Services of the Ohio Library 
Association. From 1984 to 1989, he served as Library Director of Fairfield 
County District Library in Lancaster, Ohio. From 1977 to 1984, he held 
various posts at the Charleston County Library in Charleston, South 
Carolina. George received a bachelor's degree in English and a master's 
degree in library science from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Joan Frye Williams.  For more than 25 years Joan has been a successful 
librarian, consultant, vendor, planner, trainer, evaluator and user of 
library services, with a special emphasis on innovation, technology and 
emerging library trends. She is the president of her own library and 
information technology consulting firm. She received an MLS from the 
University of California at Berkeley (1975) and in addition to her 
consulting practice she has worked in both public and academic libraries, 
for library automation vendors, as well as at the California State Library. 
Her many clients include large and small public libraries, library 
consortia, state library agencies, professional library associations, 
library boards, library vendors and architects.


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California library community.  If you are outside California, please do not 
register for the live event.  However, you are welcome to see the archived 
version the day following the webcast.  Check our archive listing at:
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Webcast:  Perceptions and Realities: Confronting the New Library Environment
Date:  August 11, 2006
Time: 10:00 am - noon PDT
Speakers: George Needham and Joan Frye Williams