[Libs-Or] Reference Refresher workshop

Tue Apr 6 10:08:34 PDT 2010

A Reference Refresher 

Friday, May 14, 9:15 a.m.- 4:45 p.m. 
(Morning only 9:15 a.m. to noon; 
Afternoon only 1:00 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.) 
PCC Rock Creek Library, Room 213
17705 NW Springville Rd. 
Portland, OR 97229
For directions and parking information, see
http://www.pcc.edu/about/locations/rock-creek//
<http://www.pcc.edu/about/locations/rock-creek/> . 

Workshop Description: 
Do you ever feel like you need to be an expert on everything when you staff
the reference desk or virtual reference service? Providing good reference
service requires up-to-date information on all sorts of ever-changing
topics. Come to this workshop for a refresher on these seven important
reference areas: search engines; science reference; medical reference;
government documents; business reference; legal reference; and copyright
law. 

In this hands-on training, expert librarians will review a few essential
resources in their field of expertise, and then provide an update about what
is new and important in that field. We've asked our experts to both cover
some basics and discuss new developments and resources in their subject
area, and maybe share a treasure or two the rest of us might not know about.

Schedule
Morning (9: 15 a.m. - noon) :

*	Search engines (Getting the most out of Google, and going beyond it
- from Andrew Hamilton, OHSU Library)
*	Science reference (Earth Portal, Cascadia Scoreboard, Encyclopedia
of Life, and more - from Carol McCulley, Linfield College Library)
*	Medical reference (Consumer health, Terminology, Medical statistics,
Drug & Disease information sites, and free resources from the NLM - from
Andrew Hamilton, OHSU Library)

Afternoon (1:00 - 4:45 p.m.) 

*	Government documents ("Born digital" documents, depository changes
in Oregon, and more - from Dena Hutto, Reed College Library)
*	Business reference (new Gale business databases and more - from
Heidi Senior, University of Portland Library)
*	Legal Reference (Wexis, Legal Zoom, and beyond - from Laura Orr,
Washington County Law Library)
*	Copyright law (Creative Commons, finding copyright-free media,
Google books, and more - from Rachel Bridgewater, Reed College Library)

Sign up for one session or the whole day. A boxed lunch is available for an
extra $10 (sandwiches or wraps - choices will be provided for those who take
this option.) 

Cost:
Morning session only: $40
Afternoon session only: $45 
All day: $75
All day plus a box lunch: $85

Registration: 
Register at www.portals.org 

Presenters:
Rachel Bridgewater is the Electronic Resources Librarian at Reed  
College. Prior to joining the staff at Reed she was Reference  
Coordinator at Washington State University in Vancouver. Rachel serves  
as national faculty for Emporia State University's School of Library  
and Information Management where she teaches web development and  
information design. Rachel speaks frequently about technology and  
information policy topics at local, regional, and national conferences.

Andrew Hamilton is a Senior Reference & Instruction Librarian at the Oregon
Health & Science University Library. Prior to joining the OHSU Library staff
in 2002, he was an Online Analyst for six years with the National Training
Center & Clearinghouse (NTCC) at the Middle Atlantic Regional Medical
Library, where his primary duty was to travel the U.S. and teach PubMed. He
has also spent three years as a Clinical Medicine Information Specialist in
the Reference Department of the New York Academy of Medicine Library. Andrew
has earned two BS degrees in Microbiology and Biology/Genetics from Oregon
State University and earned his MLS degree as part of a Drug Information
Specialist Double Master's Program, graduating from St. John's University
with a dual MS - Pharmaceutical Sciences/MLS degree.

Dena Hutto is the Director of Reference & Instruction at Reed College.  
She has worked with government information since 1993, the year 
government information first went online with the text-based Federal 
Register.   She was documents librarian and cataloger at Penn State 
before coming to Oregon and Reed College in 1996 Dena is a former member 
of the Depository Library Council to the U.S. Public Printer, and she 
has taught the government information course for the Emporia State 
University Oregon program.

Carol McCulley has been the Reference and Distance Learning Librarian and
liaison to the Science Division at Linfield College since 2000.  Prior to
becoming a librarian, she worked in the Microbiology Department at Temple
University Medical School and in the Biochemistry Department at the Medical
University of South Carolina.  She has an MS in Microbiology, as well as an
MLS.  Carol recently published an article on accessing Information literacy
in the Focus on Assessment issue of Communications in Information Literacy.

Laura Orr, the Washington County Law Librarian since 2002, has her J.D. from
Temple Law School in Philadelphia and her B.S. and M.L.S. from Indiana
University, Bloomington. She has worked for the Free Library of
Philadelphia, Multnomah County Library, University of Maryland Law School
library, two academic law libraries in Bristol, England, Willamette Law
School library in Salem, Oregon, and the Yale Law Library in New Haven,
Connecticut. She has published articles and taught classes on American and
English legal research and served as coordinator and panelist on various
lawyer and librarian programs.

Heidi Senior, like many reference librarians,  has an educational background
in the humanities and social sciences. While in library school at the
University of Washington, she received a crash course in business reference
by working for nearly two years in the business library. At the University
of Portland, where she has worked since 1998, she is the library's liaison
to the Robert B. Pamplin School of Business. Heidi is active in the Business
Reference and Services Section of ALA/RUSA and recently co-published an
article in the Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship..

Roberta Richards, MLS

Library CE Outreach, Reference Librarian
SY LIB 202, Portland Community College
PO Box 19000
Portland, OR 97280-0990
rrichard at pcc.edu
phone: 503-977-4571

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