[Libs-Or] Reminder: Free Virtual Reference Teleconference Friday May 2

[Pam Horan]

The final presentation this spring in the College of
DuPage teleconference series on reference services
will take place May 2, 2003. The series is free to Oregon
libraries and is co-sponsored by the State Library and the
Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR).

Virtual Reference: A Leadership View
College of DuPage Presentation
Friday May 2, 2003
9am-11am PT

This presentation will bring you another view of the future
of virtual reference services, the perspective of two
industry leaders, Frank Hermes, Vice President of Cooperative
Discovery Services of OCLC and, Phil Kesten, Chair of the
Department of Physics at Santa Clara University and founder of
Docutek. They will give you their view of the future – and
John Berry, past president of ALA, will lead a panel of
librarians to ask questions to give you the kind of information
you need to plan for the future of reference services at your library.

Panel members and viewers will be able to give them feedback
(by phone, FAX, e-mail). This is your chance to give industry
leadership a professional librarian’s perspective and take away
a better command of the future of reference services tools.
Additional information about the presentation may be found at
<http://www.cod.edu/teleconf/VIRTUAL/conf2.htm>

Since this program is a new title for the teleconference
originally scheduled for May 2 ("The Future of Electronic
Databases and Information Services."), member libraries that
registered through BCR to downlink the original program
continue to be registered to downlink "Virtual Reference - A
Leadership View."

Host sites around the state include:
· Beaverton City Library
· Blue Mountain Community College, in Emigrant 101
(Pendleton)
.Clatsop CC
· Deschutes Public Library System and Central Oregon
    Community College at COCC (Bend)
· Lane Community College Library (Eugene)
· PORTALS at Portland Community College (Sylvania Campus)
      (contact Ann Payne at annpa at portals.org)
. Southwestern Oregon Community College (Coos Bay)
        Tioga first floor telconf. room
· Valley Link at Chemeketa Community College,
       Bldg. 9, Rm 112 (Salem)
· Hamersly Library (Crawford Classroom) at Western
       Oregon University (Monmouth)

The teleconference is free, and there is no registration requirement
to attend the presentation. The teleconference series is funded for
Oregon libraries by LSTA.

Any Oregon library may register to downlink the satellite sessions.
More information on the teleconferences and library registration is
linked from BCR’s Web page at
<http://www.bcr.org/~shoffhin/telecon/>.

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Pam Horan
Technology Planning Consultant
Library Development Services
Oregon State Library
Tel. (503) 378-2112 Ext. 224
Fax (503) 378-6439
pam.horan at state.or.us