[Libs-Or] ACRL E-learning Workshop: Text Messaging Reference

[Robin A. Paynter]

FYI-Robin
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  Text Messaging Reference: Enhancing Reference Services with SMS

*Live Webcast
February 23, 2010
11 a.m Pacific | 12:00 p.m. Mountain | 1:00 p.m. Central | 2:00 p.m. 
Eastern*

*1.5 hours*

*Registration is now open!*

*Presenter:*
Joe Murphy, Yale University Science Libraries.  /Libraryfuture /on Twitter

*Webcast Description:*
Text messaging (also known as SMS) is now one of the most popular ways 
people connect with friends, family, and information. Our 21st century 
patrons can get information on the go by SMS from answer services and 
search engines. Some libraries are also providing reference services via 
this important mode of communication by offering Text Messaging 
Reference. Joe Murphy of the Yale Science Libraries explores why it is 
so important for libraries to include text messaging in their suite of 
reference services and how SMS can easily integrate into and enhance 
existing traditional and 2.0 library services. This session introduces 
and covers the emerging field of SMS reference, shares practical tips 
and best practices, and the management, technology, and assessment 
considerations for this cutting edge service. Attendees will learn how 
to choose the best technology for SMS reference at their institution, 
what the advanced managerial considerations are, and what is on the 
horizon for mobile reference services utilizing SMS.

*Learning Outcomes: 
*Participants will: 

    * Fully understand text messaging, its nature and popularity, its
      role in the world of information, scholarly communication, higher
      education, and libraries. 
    * Become familiar with the basic and advanced uses of text messaging
      in order to design successful applications of it for extending and
      enhancing reference services in their libraries.     
    * Learn the full suite of skills for designing and implementing text
      messaging reference services, and will gain the skills for
      providing reference via text messaging with a variety of
      technologies. 
    * Be familiar with the basic and advanced management and
      technological considerations in order to implement carefully
      planned services with text messages at their libraries.    


*About the Presenter:*
Joe Murphy is Science Librarian, Coordinator of Instruction & Technology 
at the Yale University Science Libraries. Joe was selected as an ALA 
Emerging Leader in 2007, and was recently recognized by Library Journal 
through its prestigious Movers & Shakers award in 2009 for his 
innovations in text messaging (SMS) reference. Joe blazed the trail in 
SMS reference by implementing the first service of its kind and speaking 
nationally on the topic.

*Registration fees:*
ACRL member: $50
ALA member: $75
CACUL member: Can$90 (charges will be made in U.S. dollars)
Nonmember: $90
Student: $40
Group*: $295

* Webcasts take place in an interactive, online classroom environment 
with one user/one login. If you select the group rate, one person must 
register, login, and keyboard during the event. A group registration 
allows an institution to project the Webcast to participants in the same 
location.

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*Registration is now open!*

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adjust your fee (please fax a copy of your completed registration form 
to ACRL at 312-280-2520).

Payment may be made by credit card or purchase order (PO) only.
If paying by PO, the PO number is required at the time of registration.

Class size is limited to 60 participants. Full refunds will be granted 
up to 14 days prior to the start of the seminar.








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Portland State University logo

*Robin Paynter*
Social Sciences Librarian
220D Library
Portland State University

503.725.4501
503.725.4524
paynter at pdx.edu
http://www.pdx.edu/library/paynter.html

"The fragmentation of rational knowledge in the postmodern world has 
produced a focus on information that is unaware of its history." -- 
Marcus Breen (1997)

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