{"id":5208,"date":"2012-07-13T11:32:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T17:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mulibraries.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/?p=5208"},"modified":"2012-07-13T11:32:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T17:32:32","slug":"virtual-ala-conference-available-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/2012\/07\/13\/virtual-ala-conference-available-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual ALA Conference Available Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you did not get to attend ALA this year, or if you did but were unable to attend sessions you wanted, you now have an opportunity to virtually attend some of the ALA 2012 conference.\u00a0 The MU Libraries have registered for a group account, and so you may come and go to any of the sessions you wish, and you do not need to individually register.\u00a0 View the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learningtimes.net\/ala12\/program\/\">two-day program<\/a> to determine which sessions you want to attend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Virtual ALA Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wed-Thurs, July 18-19, 8:30am\u20136:00pm CST<\/p>\n<p>Ellis Library, Room 4F51-A<\/p>\n<p>Questions?:\u00a0 Contact Cindy Cotner<\/p>\n<p>The theme <em>Mapping Transformation, Experimentation and Innovation<\/em> includes some of the following speakers and sessions:<\/p>\n<p><strong>George Needham &amp; Joan Frye Williams:<\/strong> Libraries In a Post-Print World<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephen Abram<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong> Mirages, Maps, Menus, Flowcharts, and Dreams<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marie Ostergard:<\/strong> Mediaspace: Transforming the Library of the Future<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lee Rainie<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong> The State of eBook Borrowing from Libraries<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Mathews<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong> Thinking Entrepreneurially: What Libraries Can Learn from Startups and Other Innovative Organizations<\/p>\n<p><strong>James LaRue<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong> Moving Upstream: From Distributor to Co-Creator<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marlene Harris<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong> Beyond the Bestseller List: Filling Patron Demand for Great eBooks Without the \u201cBig 6 Publishers\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Murray:<\/strong> Introducing FOSS4Lib: Helping Libraries Decide IF and WHICH Open Source Software Is Right for Them<\/p>\n<p><strong>Terry Ballard:<\/strong> Using Google Products to Enhance Your Library\u2019s Mission and Branding<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Dowdall:<\/strong> One-Stop Center: The Multiple Roles of the Public Library, Today and Tomorrow<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steven_Bell\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Steven Bell<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong> Start With a \u201cWay We Serve Statement:\u201d Design a Library User Experience the Way the Pros Do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you did not get to attend ALA this year, or if you did but were unable to attend sessions you wanted, you now have an opportunity to virtually attend some of the ALA 2012 conference.\u00a0 The MU Libraries have<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/2012\/07\/13\/virtual-ala-conference-available-next-week\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Virtual ALA Conference Available Next Week<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 22:45:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}