There are so many amazing sessions which took place at the recent ALA conference in Chicago, it is hard to know where to start with suggesting session to look at.
Beyond Genre: exploring the perception, uses,and misuses of genre by readers, writers, and librarians has a very useful reading list about genre discussions. It includes books and website.
You can find out about maker spaces, you can find out about fleeing the reference desk (for the right reasons) and there are useful links about roving reference
You can explore more sessions via this link, searching for the terms which interest you. Many of the session have links to presentations or handouts.
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Best practices in Virtual Reference
If you're suffering a sense of deja-vu it's simply that I also just posted this to the RISG New Technologies blog ......
At the recent ALA Midwinter conference there were two innovative presentations exploring approaches to improving reference service for our users: building a better search engine using the knowledge of reference librarians, and building a multilingual, multinational reference service, followed by a Q&A session.
Take a look, the streaming video can be a bit a hesitant in places but the ideas being explored here are exciting, innovative, and possible.
At the recent ALA Midwinter conference there were two innovative presentations exploring approaches to improving reference service for our users: building a better search engine using the knowledge of reference librarians, and building a multilingual, multinational reference service, followed by a Q&A session.
Take a look, the streaming video can be a bit a hesitant in places but the ideas being explored here are exciting, innovative, and possible.
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