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_Presentations

  • Pre-conference Panel, "Making Room for Assessment: techniques and strategies for reference managers." RUSA, Re-Invented Reference V, ALA Chicago, July 2009.
  • Online Talk, "Reference vs. Instruction: what the data reveals." w/Jon Bodnar. GIL Users Group Meeting (GUGM), May 2009.
  • Keynote, "Don't Wait, Do It Yourself: Rewiring the Culture of the Academic Library." Wisconsin Association of Academic Libraries, April 2009.
  • Closing Speaker, "Libraries and the Inspiration Business." Simmons College, April 2009.
  • Panel, "Mapping Your Path to the Mountaintop: Planning Where You Want To Be In Your Career." w/ Steven Bell, John Shank, and Lauren Pressley, ACRL, Seattle, March 2009.
  • Panel, "If fish markets can do it so can we: designing memorable library experiences for students and faculty." w/ Steven Bell and Valeda Dent Goodman, ACRL, Seattle, March 2009.
  • Workshop Facilitator, "How does the library make you feel? Focus groups for academic libraries." ACRL - Pennsylvania, June 9, 2008.
  • "Opening New Windows of Opportunity" Blended Librarian Webcast, 2008.
  • Invited Speaker, "Think like a Media Mogul: experiential marketing for academic libraries." ACRL - New England, UConn, April 18, 2008
  • Invited Panelist, "Creating Interactive Library Experiences" Council on East Asian Libraries - Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, April 2, 2008.
  • Invited Speaker, "Sending Mixed Messages: repackaging the value of your library" Florida - ACRL Fall Meeting, Edison College, Fort Myers, FL, October 26, 2007.
  • Co-speaker, "Understanding your LibQUAL+ results and using assessment to improve your library." w/ Kathy Tomajko, COMO/Georgia Library Assoc. Annual Conference, Jekyll Island, GA, Oct 18, 2007.,
  • Co-speaker, "Too Shy or Too Shameless: Finding a Balance in Personal PR" w/ Crit Stuart, ACRL New Members Discussion Session, ALA Annual, Washington DC 2007.
  • "Learning from LibQUAL+: Measuring what you already know and what you could never have imagined." ALA Annual, Washington DC, 2007.
  • Invited Speaker, "Social Context - a place for libraries on the social web?" The Ohio State University, June 13, 2007. (link)
  • Poster Session, " Thinking Globally: library support for international locations." w/ Lisha Li, American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, June 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii.
  • Invited Speaker, "Where do we go from here? Settling the Frontier of the Social Web." Boston Public Library, May 10, 2007.
  • "Re-Engineering Libraries for the Digital Age." Charles E. Beard Lecture Series, University of West Georgia. April, 2007 w/ Bonnie Tijerina & Rich Meyer.
  • Panel Discussion, “ The Reference Question--Where has Reference Been? Where is Reference Going?”
    w / James Rettig, Jerry D. Campbell, William Miller, and Cheryl LaGuardia, ACRL, Baltimore, MD. ACRL, 2007
  • "Mobile Librarians: insight into the portable web" w /Bonnie Tijerina, Cyber Zed Shed Showcase, ACRL, Baltimore, 2007.
  • "Conversations w/ Patrons: Extending your library's presence online." Webcast for The Blended Librarian, October 31, 2006.
  • "Online Social Networks" Guest Speaker, Soaring to Excellence, Best New Technologies: Keeping Up with the Storm, October 22, 2006.
  • "The Ubiquitous Enterprise: What Libraries Can Learn From the Business Community."COMO, Athens, Ga, Sept 21, 2006.
  • Why do we need a wiki?" w/ Sarah Steiner, COMO, Athens, Ga, Sept 21, 2006.
  • "Embracing Emerging Technologies: Combining Tools and People to Create New Services." w/ Cathy Carpenter & Sarah Steiner, GOLD/Galileo Annual Conference, Athens, GA, August 4, 2006.
  • Panel, "What is LibQUAL+? Everything You Need to Know to Get Started." with W. Bede Mitchell, Kathy Tomajko, and Shawn Tonner, at GUGM, Macon Georgia, May 18, 2006.
  • Podcast, Academic Library 2.0. For: American Library Association course on Library 2.0, May 10, 2006.
  • Poster Session, "Social Bookmarking: What are the Implications for Teaching and Learning?" w/ Cathy Carpenter, ACRL/CNI/EDUCAUSE Joint Virtual Conference, April 20-21, 2006.
  • Online Roundtable, "Leadership & The Next Generation Librarian: Envisioning the future." w/ Bonnie Tijerina,ACRL/CNI/EDUCAUSE Joint Virtual Conference April 20-21, 2006.
  • Co-facilitator, LibQUAL+ training for the University System of Georgia Consortium. Atlanta. March 30, 2006.
  • Presentation, "Blogs, Social Bookmarking, RSS, Wikis, SMS and RFID: An Overview of Next Generation Communication Tools." w/ Cathy Carpenter, Special Libraries Association, Georgia Chapter, March 14, 2006.
  • LibQUAL+ Share Fair: "Benchmarking with LibQUAL+ @ Georgia Tech ” at ALA Annual, Chicago, June 28, 2005.
  • Poster Session, "Creating a BUZZ : Attracting SCI/TECH Students To The Library !" at ALA Annual, Chicago, June 27, 2005.
  • Presentation, " Listening to your Patrons with LibQUAL+" w/ Caroline Killens at GUGM Conference, Macon Georgia, May 19, 2005.
  • Poster session, "From Orientation to Defense: Library Services for Doctoral Distance Learning Students" w/ Douglas Carroll and Laura Khouvongsavanh at the Association of College & Research Libraries 12th National Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 8, 2005.
  • Panel discussion, "Real-Time Reference Roundup" , with Rachel Viggiano, Kathy Whitley and Alice Primack at the Information Strategies Conference, Fort Myers , Florida , November 16, 2001.
  • Poster session presentation, " Who Me??? Help Someone with a Patent Search!!!", with Peter Spyers-Duran and Nancy Adams for the Annual American Library Association Conference, San Francisco , California , June 16, 2001 .