Concurrent Sessions  (in alphabetical order)

The 5th Annual Library Technology conference will feature more than 85 traditional conference sessions, hands-on sessions, workshops, and poster sessions on a wide range of library technology related topics.  

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NOTE:  Workshop sessions and Hands-On Computer Lab sessions will have limited participation levels. Participation in these sessions will be determined on first come/first serve basis.

Adding Flair to Faculty Pages

APIs & You

Approaches to Database Management: Did Our Comprehensive Review Work?

Archiving research data for access, preservation, and sharing? We can do that

Art of Redirection: Putting Mobile Devices Where You Want Them

Assessing and Building Digital Literacy Skills for Low-skilled Adults: A Practical Approach  

Black Hats, Farms, and Bubbles: How Emerging Marketing and Content Production Models are Making Research More Difficult (And What You And Your Students Can Do About It)

Blogging for fun and profit - or at least access and potential profit  

Books on the floor: teaching information literacy

Breaking Down the Silos: Technology, Socialization, and Culture Change

Bringing Historic Maps to Life: Adventures in ArcGIS Server and Spatial Scholarship

Bringing Makers into the Library: Digital Humanities, Hackerspaces, and the new DIY

Bringing Patrons in and Giving Them Somewhere to Go - Designing an Effective Library Website 

Cataloging Emerging Technologies

Cheap and Easy Project Management

Click or Poll Your Way to an Interactive Library Instruction

Collaborating in New Learning Spaces to Support Students' Research and Technology Training Needs  

Building a Digital Archive at a Special Library

Critical Thinking in Action: Integrating Classroom Response Systems into Your Instructional Design Toolkit

Digital Branch Libraries: Serving Patrons Online Beyond the Library Website 

Engaging Adults Learners with Technology

Enterprise Content Management and Digital Libraries: Cultural Clash and Collaboration Opportunity

Evolving Workflows at the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Digital Library

Exhibits: Merging the Physical with Digital

From F2F to VLE: Converting Your Live Presentation for an Online Audience  

From traditional to cutting-edge: Globe University makes the leap to OCLC’s Web-scale Management Service

Gaming as a Means for Collaboration

Get this House in Order: personal workflows for productivity and collaboration

Get Your Head in the Cloud: How Wikis in the Classroom (and Librarians in Classroom Wikis) Facilitate Group Work and Prepare Students for an Increasingly Online, Increasingly Collaborative World

Google+ Goes to School: Using Google+ in a University Environment

Helping Libraries Decide If and What Open Source Software is Right for Them

Hennepin County Library’s eBooks team: the advantages of a cross-functional team in launching a new collection/service

Highlighting the Research Experience with Digital Commons

Homegrown Usability Testing-- Will It Provide Results?

How Do I Learn All of This Stuff?!: Keeping Up with Patrons' Demands  

Imagining Emergent Metadata, Realizing the Emergent Web

Implementing BookLens at the Saint Paul Public Library

Improving Library Services by Design: Service Design as a tool for Creating User-friendly, Competitive, and Relevant Library Services

Improving Library Resource Discovery: Exploring the Possibilities of VuFind and Web Scale Discovery in a Consortial Environment

Information 2.0: Can Collaborative Information Be Authoritative?   

An Introduction to jQuery Mobile: Creating Simple Mobile Webpages

Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop

Introduction to New American Factfinder

Is there a tech gap? -- A Faculty / Student Instructional Tech Survey

It's Not Paranoia if Your Tech Really Is Out To Get You: Critical thinking about new technologies

Library Data and Student Success   

Library in an app: Testing the usability of Boopsie as a mobile library application

Library Newsletters: Monkeying Around with MailChimp

Media Literacy for Libraries 101: What it is, the University of Minnesota Model, and the Criticality of Library Support

The Minnesota Library Futures Initiative

The Mother of all LibGuides: Reduce Maintenance and Enhance Uniformity Through Strategic Planning

Online Smart, Online Safe: A Program for Developing Digital Citizens

Optimizing the iPad - Apps that help you work smarter, and some just to have fun!   

Orientation Impossibilities: 780 students in One Day!

Phoning It In: Increasing Student Engagement Using Mobile Phone Polling  

Plan, Execute, Evaluate, Repeat: Social Media for Libraries and Non-Profit Organizations

Point, Shoot and Educate: Using QR Codes To Inform Your Patrons  

Prezi beyond its intended use: exploiting the potential

Privacy, Libraries, and the Internet: Have the Rules Changed?

Prove it! Me Report Pretty One Day

Quick and dirty usability testing for libraries with no budget, no technical expertise, and very little time

Sampling from the buffet of free concept mapping software

Short Attention-Span Code: Leveraging Google Apps to Build Custom Solutions

Solo Tech: How to manage a library's tech alone

sticky Teaching: six Principles for developing Memorable Curriculum

Supporting users in their pursuit and use of our e-books: Perspectives from one large academic library

Surfing the Tide: eBook Best Practices

Teaching with Google Books: Research, Copyright, and Data Mining

Things in a Flash: An iPad App Buffet

Think you know your patrons? Using Google Analytics to Discover Patron Behaviors on the James C. Kirkpatrick Library Website

Through JTacq-Colored Glasses: Streamlining the Acquisitions Process

Universal Design, the Library, and Assistive Adaptive Technologies

Usability Testing in the Academic Library: A LibGuides Case Study

Using LibAnalytics to Gather and Evaluate Reference Statistics

Using Social Media to promote the library

Using the Cloud to Organize Your Library Projects

Using Trillian to handle electronic reference inquiries, including chat and text

Using Video of Your Computer to Teach

We Can Figure This Out: Creating Online Tutorials/Assessment Tools With the Tools at Hand, In the Time We Have

Web 2.0 Tools for Productivity

What is Islandora? Could it meet your digital repository needs?

What the Heck is HTML5 & CSS3? An Introductory Workshop

Where in the Library is the QR Code?

Your Library Website Stinks and it's Your Fault

YouTube for Hosting Video Tutorials: The Hows, Whys and Why Nots