[Baynet] Reminder of Infopeople's webcast on March 9

[Linda Rodenspiel]

A reminder of the next Infopeople webcast.  Please let your friends 
and colleagues know about this event!

Title:  The Catalog of the Future: Learning, Teaching, and Research

Date and time: March 9, 2007, 12pm - 1pm

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

For more information and to participate in the March 9 webcast, go to
http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/173/index.html

The web has made sweeping changes in where and how information 
seekers discover and obtain what they need to learn, work, teach, do 
research, and create new knowledge. Today, many users routinely 
bypass library catalogs in favor of other discovery tools, especially 
popular search engines such as Google. How might library catalogs-and 
the collections they describe-recapture the role they have played in 
learning, teaching, and research?

This lively presentation is based on the oft-discussed "Calhoun 
Report." Prepared for the Library of Congress, this study examined 
factors affecting the future of library online catalogs and options 
for revitalizing them. Karen Calhoun, the report's author and Senior 
Associate University Librarian at Cornell University, will engage you 
with examples of information seekers' preferences and challenge you 
to consider new strategic roles for library catalogs, collections, 
and librarians.

If you have ever wondered what to do to make your online catalog more 
appealing and useful for today's web-savvy users-and thereby make 
your library's collections more visible and helpful to your 
community-this webcast is sure to provide you with many ideas for 
next steps. Don't miss this thought-provoking exploration of 
possibilities for reinventing the online catalog and its role in the 
progress of knowledge.


Speaker:  Karen Calhoun.
Karen Calhoun is Senior Associate University Librarian for 
Information Technology and Technical Services at Cornell University 
Library. She speaks frequently on next-generation library information 
systems and technical services in the digital library. Recently 
taught workshops include sessions on organizational change, 
technology-based innovation, workflow redesign, and project 
management. Her current research or operational interests are 
integrating access to electronic, digital, and print collections; the 
future of the catalog; managing organizational transitions; and 
evolving roles for the university research library.


Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webcasts to anyone in 
the 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:
http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived

Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list.

Webcast:  The Catalog of the Future: Learning, Teaching, and Research
Date: March 9, 2007
Time:  12pm - 1pm
Speaker: Karen Calhoun