Register for “Spotlight on Your Career:  Capitalize on Change,” February 25, 2012 at DU

Register to attend Spotlight on Your Career:  Capitalize on Change on Saturday, February 25, 2012, from 9 am to 2 pm, at the University of Denver’s new education building, Ruffatto Hall. This joint program, offered by the Colorado Association of Law Libraries (CoALL) and the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Special Libraries Association (RMSLA), will benefit librarians of every type, no matter where you are in your career path. There will also be networking opportunities to meet and talk with  your fellow librarians and information specialists.

Register at: http://tinyurl.com/7gu6gbu  We look forward to seeing you there!

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Spotlight on Your Career:  Capitalize on Change

Join speaker Mary Ellen Bates as she discusses the future of library services, and how we can capitalize on changes in our profession to make ourselves and our libraries more integral and valued parts of our organizations.

This will be followed by an interactive panel discussion of librarians including:

• Jamie LaRue, Director, Douglas County Libraries
• Joan Policastri, Foreign, Comparative & International Law Librarian, DU Law Library
• Matthew Elisha, Manager Library Services, Bryan Cave HRO
• Heidi Longaberger,  Owner, Longaberger InformationWorks

Panel members will discuss what does (and doesn’t) work in making effective and longstanding change.

After attending this program, participants will:

• List 4 ways changes to library services would add value to your organization to help it grow
• Discuss 2 methods of promoting library services to increase patron use
• Plan 3 strategies to make your library and yourself more visible within your organization
• Predict 2 technologies that will change the way you deliver library services in the future and 4 ways you can utilize those technologies in your organization

Program Schedule:

9:00  – 10:00 am         Registration, networking & continental breakfast
10:00 – 11:30 am        Keynote Presentation by Mary Ellen Bates
11:30 am – 12:30 pm     Networking lunch
12:30 – 2:00 pm              Panel discussion

Cost & Registration:

• Registration is $20 per person and includes breakfast and lunch
• Register here:  http://tinyurl.com/7gu6gbu
• Deadline for registration and payment is February 20th to ensure your lunch order.

For questions about Spotlight, please contact Rachel Nelson (RGNelson@hollandhart.com).

SAVE THE DATE!  February 25, 2012

Plan to attend Spotlight on Your Career:  Capitalize on Change on February 25, 2012 at the University of Denver’s new education building, Ruffatto Hall. This joint program, offered by the Colorado Association of Law Libraries (CoALL) and the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Special Libraries Association (RMSLA), will benefit librarians of every type, no matter where you are in your career path. Speaker Mary Ellen Bates will discuss the future of library services and how we can capitalize on changes in our profession to make ourselves and our libraries more integral and valued parts of our organizations. She will also lead an interactive panel discussion of librarians from many types of libraries to discuss what does (and doesn’t) work in making effective and longstanding change.

This program will enable you to do the following:

• List 4 ways changes to library services would add value to your organization to help it grow

• Discuss 2 methods of promoting library services to increase patron use

• Plan 3 strategies to make your library and yourself more visible within your organization

• Predict 2 technologies that will change the way you deliver library services in the future and at least 4 ways you can utilize those technologies to provide integral information and research services to your organization and your patrons

If you have questions regarding this program prior to the dissemination of our registration information in early February, please feel free to contact Kelly Fanning at kfanning@international.edu.

CoALL and RMSLA co-sponsored the 2011 Spotlight on your Career at the CU Law Library on Feb 26.  In addition to amazing speakers, there was a Technology Petting Zoo so attendees could actually handle the good stuff.  Many thanks to RMSLAer & uber-communicator Connie Clem for this report:

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This year’s Spotlight was well attended, interactive, and useful. Megan Kinney (Community College of Aurora) and Matt Hamilton (Anythink Libraries) were the presenters.

In Megan’s block, we talked about what “emerging” means and the key role of info pros in relating to clients/users on their own level to help them understand and use new technologies. Matt talked (among other things) about info pros tending to be in the early adopter demographic; library users increasingly getting into content creation; and a trend toward transliteracy, or being comfortable using all types of media. And we talked about apps.

And the pet-ables were friendly, not fanged. There were multiple iterations of Nooks and Kindles and a 7″ Droid tablet, the Archos, thanks to Matt Hamilton and Sarah Reinhardt for that memory refresher on the actual brand name.

http://www.archos.com/products/imt/archos_7/index.html

My socks were blown by the possibilities inherent in the LiveScribe smartpen – http://www.livescribe.com/en-us/

For people who couldn’t make it, here are links Megan shared to “get our tech on”:

LITA – Library Information Technology Association, http://www.lita.org

TechSoup for Libraries project, Share and Learn page – http://www.techsoupforlibraries.org/share-and-learn

Moodle demonstration site – http://moodle.org , for people who create online learning

WebJunction technology answers – http://www.webjunction.org/technology

For a fairly small subscription fee, http://www.lynda.com/ offers technology tutorials.

And Megan pointed us to this list by Librarian In Black, Sarah Houghton-Jan, on Technology Skills Library Staff Should Have:  http://alalearning.org/2011/01/21/techskills/

Matt’s learning links include:

http://www.howcast.com/ for videos on how to do just about anything

Sites like http://www.aroundme.com/ that make it easy to find a coffee joint (or whatever) when you need one, based on your mobile GPS location

http://evernote.com/ for storing your thoughts, photos, etc. on the cloud so they’re accessible on whatever device you’re using to connect.

Kudos to Esti Shay, Mary Arnold, Sheena Barbour, Shannon Marshall, Rachel Nelson, and Julie Teglovic for putting the event together on behalf of CoALL and RMSLA.

Thanks to contributors Thomson-Reuters, LexisNexis, and HeinOnline, to the CU Law School for hosting the session, and to the librarians of the William A. Wise Law Library for arranging the venue.

Register now for Spotlight on Your Career 2009! Saturday, February 28, 2009, is the 2009 Spotlight on Your Career: Building Your Professional Network event. It will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Rocky Mountain Special Libraries Association (RMSLA) and Colorado Association of Law Libraries (CoALL) are co-sponsoring this year’s informative and exciting event.

First listen to a national expert on social networking then stay for networking and interactive technology demos!

Keynote speaker Liz Ryan, delivering “Social Networking: Business Relationships Built Here,” is an award winning speaker, author, and expert on the New
Millennium workplace. Her “Ask Liz Ryan” online community reaches more than 30,000 professionals. Liz Ryan addresses issues of buy-in, relevancy, practical use and more every day, and will address them in this presentation.

The program also includes technology demonstrations, real hands-on opportunities to see for yourself how some of the technologies (such as
LinkedIn, twitter, and more) work and ask questions from users familiar with the methods and benefits of some of the most popular and valuable social networking tools.

To see the flyer, download this pdf file: Spotlight flyer

For registration form, download this pdf file: Spotlight Registration Form

For more information, contact Lori Dubois at loridubois1@yahoo.com

Spotlight On … Your Career, a conference  on library career development sponsored by the Colorado Association of Law Libraries (CoALL), was sold out a week before the event, which was held on Saturday, February 25.  Attendees remarked that the content was interesting and useful and the setting (the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver) was excellent.

The keynote speaker, Rachel Singer Gordon, who is a consulting editor at ITI Books, the author of several books on library careers and management, and the webmaster of Lisjobs.com, talked about several ways to keep a library career on track, including publishing, presenting, participating online, keeping current by using technological tools, and building a personal network.

Rachel’s address was followed by the Librarians as Authors Panel, which featured a lively discussion among several authors and editors about what editors are looking for, how potential authors can generate ideas and complete projects, and how to find and negotiate with publishers. Participants then networked and relaxed over a lunch catered by Pasquini’s. After lunch, the Careers Panel featured successful information professionals talking about how they created their careers and how others could achieve similar success.  One of the panelists, Michael Sauers, posted photos of the event on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/sets/72057594070654291/

Michael also discussed the conference in his blog, http://www.travelinlibrarian.info/2006/02/conference-blogging-alternate-view.html

Scott Brown, president-elect of RMSLA, was a member of the committee that put the program together and a participant on the careers panel. The conference was sponsored by West Librarian Relations, the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Otten Johnson Robinson Neff + Ragonetti, and the Library and Information Student and Alumni Association of the University of Denver.