Correction to Reference Renaissance Postings

Dear Readers:
In each of my posting on Reference Renaissance, I said:
Note: By August 20, 2008, all of the presentation slides and handouts for Reference Renaissance will posted to the conference site at http://www.bcr.org/referencerenaissance/index.html. Later in the year, Neal-Schuman will be publishing conference proceedings. I’m looking forward to those, since I (or anyone else) could only [...]

Reference Renaissance: Final Thoughts

Over the past several days, I’ve written about my experience in attending sessions at the BCR sponsored Reference Renaissance conference. But since any conference is more than sessions, I have some general comments about this excellent conference that I heartily recommend to anyone involved in providing reference services.
Local Arrangements Committee
Based on my experience, at the [...]

Reference Renaissance: Beyond the Hash(mark)

The last session I attended at Reference Renaissance had a definite take-home idea for me. Ironically an idea I knew I was taking home since the first morning of the conference, but more about that later.
The presentation was titled, “Beyond the Hash(mark): Tally Sheets are so 2005 with these presenters from Kansas State University (KState):

Danielle [...]

Reference Renaissance: Theory Meets Practice

Theory Meets Practice: Educators and Administrators Talk was the sleeper hit of Reference Renaissance, at least for me. I mean this in the sense that on paper it sounded like the least interesting session. If *anything* had been playing against it, I would have gone to the other program. But it was the plenary session [...]

Reference Renaissance: Outreach, E-Learning, Resource Guides

The second session I attended on Tuesday at Reference Renaissance was Outreach, E-Learning, Resource Guides with panelists:

Kathleen Keating University of New Mexico
Marleen van Wyk JS Gericke Library Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch South Africa
Stephanie Alexander and Jennifer Gerke, University of Colorado at Boulder

Kathleen Keating began her presentation by noting that her co-author and major outreach librarian, Paulita [...]

Reference Renaissance: Opportunistic Reference

The first session of August 5, 2008 at Reference Renaissance got off to a great start with:
Opportunistic Reference with Virginia Cole of Cornell’s Olin Library; Bill “Slam the Boards” Pardue of Arlington Heights Memorial Library and Greg R Notess of Montana State University and the Search Engine Showdown.
Virginia provided an evaluation of patron usage of [...]

Reference Renaissance: You Bought It, Now Sell It

The fourth session I attended at 2008 Reference Renaissance was called, “You Bought It, Now Sell It!: Merchandising Reference Services” with presenters:

Karen Long, Farmington Public Library
Bernadine Goldman, Los Alamos County Public Library System
Lizzie Eastwood, Los Alamos County Public Library System

Karen spoke on her library’s efforts to market their reference services. Not just chat reference, but [...]

Reference Renaissance: “Okay This is Just Too Weird”

“Okay This is Just Too Weird”: Identifying Outreach Opportunities in Facebook by David Bietila and Elizabeth Edwards of George Washington University (GWU) was the third session that I attended at the 2008 Reference Renaissance.
This was a fun session to be in. And as someone who dabbles in social networking sites both personally and professionally, quite [...]

Reference Renaissance: Staff Training in 21st Century

Note: By August 20, 2008, all of the presentation slides and handouts for Reference Renaissance will posted to the conference site at http://www.bcr.org/referencerenaissance/index.html. Later in the year, Neal-Schuman will be publishing conference proceedings. I’m looking forward to those, since I (or anyone else) could only attend 1/6 of the offered sessions, plus the Keynote and [...]

Reference Renaissance: Reference in the Age of Wikipedia

Note: By August 20, 2008, all of the presentation slides and handouts for Reference Renaissance will posted to the conference site at http://www.bcr.org/referencerenaissance/index.html. Later in the year, Neal-Schuman will be publishing conference proceedings. I’m looking forward to those, since I (or anyone else) could only attend 1/6 of the offered sessions, plus the Keynote and [...]