• Imagine.Create.Innovate 2013

    by  • March 18, 2013 • Libraries • 0 Comments

    This sounds like a great two-day conference and I’d love to attend but I’ll be @ Computers in Libraries at that time. Did I mention it’s free?

    The Monroe County Library System, Rochester Regional Library Council, and the Friends & Foundation of the Rochester Public Library Present:

    RRLC LogoImagine.Create.Innovate 2013

    Monday, April 8, 2013 & Tuesday, April 9, 2013
    9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
    Monroe County Library System Central Library
    Gleason Auditorium
    115 South Avenue
    Rochester, NY 14604

    Join us April 8th and 9th for a conference featuring nationally recognized experts and local leaders in the library field whose cutting-edge work is innovating library services. Our experts will share information on topics like makerspaces, social media tools, library-developed eBook lending platforms and integrated library systems, publishing in the library and much more. Our two days together will be exciting, thought-provoking and inspiring. The conference will be held at the Monroe County Library System’s Central Library in Downtown Rochester. There is no cost to attend and you may register for the entire conference or for a portion of it. This conference will be predominantly paperless, so bring a device or a notebook for note taking.

    To register and for complete information including conference sessions, detailed descriptions, and speaker bios visit this site: http://tinyurl.com/ImagineCreateInnovate

    About

    Michael Sauers is currently the Technology Innovation Librarian for the Nebraska Library Commission in Lincoln, Nebraska and has been training librarians in technology for more than 15 years. He has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller. He earned his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael’s eleventh book, Semantic Web Technologies and Social Searching for Librarians was published May 2012 and has two more books on the way. He has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs Web sites for authors and historical societies, takes many, many photos, and reads more than 100 books a year.

    http://www.travelinlibrarian.info/

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