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Special Libraries AssociationMilitary Libraries Division55th MILITARY LIBRARIES WORKSHOP“Riding the Information Wave”December 4-9, 2011, in Norfolk, VAFINAL PROGRAM
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Sunday, 4 December 2011 – Board Meetings
1300-1700 – MECC+ Libraries Meeting: Washington Room
1800-2030 – Military Libraries Division Board Meeting: Jefferson Boardroom Sponsored by Mango Languages
Monday, 5 December 2011 – Pre-conferences
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Hosted Coffee Bar Sponsored by Gaylord
Pre-Workshop Programming Support Sponsored by BNA
Pre-Workshop Technology Support Sponsored by Taylor & Francis
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0800-1700 – Registration: Conference Center Foyer
- Air Force Libraries Steering Committee Meeting: Jefferson Room
- Army Library Steering Committee Meeting: Wilson Room
- Navy/Marine Corps Libraries Meeting: Washington Room
1300-1600 – Air Force Research Libraries Council Meeting: Tyler Room
0800-1200 – Pre-conference Session: Hampton Ballroom 7
Denial and Deception in Social Networking Sites –Dr. Edna Reid, Department of Justice.
Summary: This workshop will emphasize multi-disciplinary incidents in social networking of denial and deception (D&D) such as those involving espionage, national security, and political deception. It will include the use of deception frameworks and group exercises for analyzing how social media is being used in deception.
Learning Objectives: 1. Gain awareness of emerging trends of deception in social media. 2. Participate in group exercise to analyze how social media is being used in deception. 3. Visualize and explore future usage of deception in social networking sites.
Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify vulnerabilities of social media for individuals and institutions. 2. Understand how to minimize the impact of deception operations.
1000-1030 – Morning Break Sponsored by Northern Micrographics
1200-1300 – Buffet lunch: Conference Center Foyer Sponsored by Swets
1300-1700 – Pre-conference Session: Hampton Ballroom 6
DTIC Boot Camp: Maximizing Your Access to DOD Information – Ms. Helen Q. Sherman, Director, Component Information Support, DTIC, and Ms. Candace Parker, DTIC Lead Instructor, User Services.
Summary: DTIC Boot Camp covers the functionality and content of multiple information resources available through DTIC’s Suite of Services not only to DOD but to other federal agencies and their contractors. The Suite includes DTIC Online Access Controlled (DOAC), a Web-based gateway to public through unclassified, limited information, also referred to as controlled, unclassified information (CUI), through mission essential resources, such as Technical Reports, research in progress, and budget information; DoDTechipedia, an encyclopedia using a wiki format to increase communication and collaboration across the DoD and federal community, avoid duplicated research, reduce costs and promote more rapidly implemented technological solutions to benefit the warfighter; and Aristotle, a Web-based professional social networking tool along the lines of LinkedIn or Facebook but designed specifically for DoD S&T workers and organized by People, Projects, Topics, and Documents.
Learning Objectives: 1.Learn the content and functionality of DoDTechipedia, DTIC Online Access Controlled (DOAC), and Aristotle. 2. Utilize new searching and retrieval methods and Web 2.0 information sharing and social networking tools available through DTIC. 3. Acquire practical skills in accessing various DTIC collections in scientific and technical information, technical reports, R&E data and budget information.
Learning Outcomes: 1. Gain knowledge about new DTIC tools, resources and retrieval methods. 2. Comprehend the benefits of using and adding content to DOD’s Web 2.0 information sharing and professional networking tools. 3. Discover how using DTIC resources can help your organization’s mission.
1300-1700 – Pre-conference Session: Hampton Ballroom 8
Veterans History Project: Preserving Military History: Interviewing Techniques – Dr. Douglas Turner Day, IV.
Summary: An overview of LOC’s Veterans History Project including its history, importance, and participation, and discussion of how military and special libraries can get involved with this important effort to preserve the personal accounts of America’s wartime veterans.
Learning Objectives: 1. Learn about the Library of Congress’ project to collect and preserve veterans’ experiences. 2. Become an active project participant by conducting Veterans History Project interviews.
Learning Outcomes: 1. Be able to implement Veterans History Project programs in your libraries, institutions and communities. 2. Understand the historical value of preserving our veterans’ experiences. 3. Contribute veterans’ primary source material to a national database.
1500-1530 – Afternoon Break Sponsored by Northern Micrographics
1700-1800 – Meet & Greet for Students, New Members and First-Time Attendees: Piano Lounge, 2nd floor
1800-2100 – Welcome and Sponsor Appreciation Reception Hampton Ballroom 4-5
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Tuesday, 6 December 2011 – Information: Too Much, Not Enough, Just Right
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Programming Sponsored by LexisNexis
Technology Support Sponsored by Blackstone Audio
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0700-0800 – Registration and Breakfast: Hampton Ballroom 6-8 Sponsored by Morningstar
0800-0830 – JFSC Commandant’s Welcome – MG (Sel) Joseph S. Ward, Jr.
0830-0945 – Keynote: Hampton Ballroom 1-3
The Value of Military Libraries – Dr. Megan Oakleaf, Assistant Professor, iSchool, Syracuse University
Summary:What is the value of a military library? How can librarians best articulate that value to stakeholders? This keynote will engage librarians in conceptualizing, demonstrating, and communicating library value, not in library terms, but rather in the context of the missions of their overarching organizations.
Learning Objectives: 1. Learn to conceptualize the value of a military library in the context of its parent organization’s mission. 2. Understand how to articulate a military library’s value to its organization in terms meaningful to stakeholders. 3. Learn techniques for demonstrating and communicating a military library’s value to stakeholders.
Learning Outcomes: 1. Know the concepts and vocabulary that demonstrate a library’s value to its parent institution that resonate with stakeholders. 2. Construct effective means for articulating, demonstrating and communicating the participants’ military libraries’ value to their stakeholders.
0945-0950 – Administrative Announcements
0950-1015 – Morning Break Sponsored by TEI-Landmark Audio
1015-1115 – General session: Hampton Ballroom 1-3
Veterans History Project: Making It Matter – Mr. Robert Patrick,Director, Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Summary: An overview of LOC’s Veterans History Project to include its history, importance, participation and how military and special libraries can get involved with this important effort to preserve the personal accounts of America’s wartime veterans.
Learning Objectives: 1. Learn about the Veterans History Project to capture the first-hand experiences of military personnel. 2. Discover an important database of first-person military experiences and its value as a research tool. 3. Become an active project participant by conducting Veterans History Project interviews.
Learning Outcomes: 1. Be able to implement Veterans History Project programs in your libraries, institutions and communities. 2. Understand the historical value of preserving our veterans’ experiences. 3. Contribute veterans’ primary source material to a national database.
1115-1200 – Sponsors’ Showcase Part I
1200-1300 – Lunch: Hampton Ballroom 4-5 Sponsored by Safari Books Online
1300-1330 – DTIC Report – Ms. Helen Sherman
1330-1415 – Sponsors’ Showcase Part II
1415-1445 – Afternoon Break Sponsored by SAGE/CQ Press
1445-1600 – General session: Hampton Ballroom 1-3
Going Far Together: Open Source Development in the University of Virginia Library – Ms. Julie Meloni, Lead Technologist, Online Library Environment, University of Virginia Library
Summary: An overview of the Hydra and Blacklight projects. Blacklight is an open source discovery interface or “next generation catalog” that is powering the UVA OPAC. The Hydra project is creating a comprehensive set of open source repository workflow tools that allow librarians and scholars to manage, describe, deliver, reuse, and preserve digital information.
Learning Objectives: 1. Learn how open source discovery interfaces improve retrievability in online public access catalogs (OPACs). 2. Discover how open source interfaces are utilized at the University of Virginia libraries. 3. Acquire knowledge of specific Hydra and Blacklight open source interface tools.
Learning Outcomes: 1. Comprehend why improved interfaces increase the value of user experiences with OPACs. 2. Understand the challenges and opportunities of open source discovery interfaces implemented in library environments.
1600-1630 – General session: Hampton Ballroom 1-3
Alone in the Archives: Presentation Followed by a Guided Tour of the MacArthur Memorial Museum and Archives – Mr. James Zobel, Archivist, MacArthur Memorial
Summary: Discusses strategies of working alone in a research archives and having to wear the many hats of librarian, registrar, cataloger, researcher, and historian, and still be able to increase usage of the archives.
Learning Objectives: 1. Identify useful strategies to implement when performing many functions in a solo library or archive. 2. Learn about the history and resources of the MacArthur Memorial and Archive.
Learning Outcomes: 1. Discover the history, special collections and other resources available at the MacArthur Memorial Museum and Archives. 2. Gain knowledge about how historical wars and insurgencies can provide insight into current world situations.
1630-1730 – Offsite at the MacArthur Memorial Museum and Archives – Mr.James Zobel & Ms. Amanda Williams
1730- Optional Events:
- Historic Freemason Street Walking Tour with LaDona Kirkland – Walk from hotel to nearby historic area
- Downtown Norfolk Pub Crawl
- Dinner with Friends On Your Own
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Wednesday, 7 December 2011 – Packaging, Managing, and Serving Information
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Programming Sponsored WT Cox
Technology Support Sponsored by IHS/Janes
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0700-0800 – Registration and Breakfast: Hampton Ballroom 6-8 Sponsored by SirsiDynix
0800-0810 – JFSC Academic Dean’s Welcome – Dr. Linda B. McCluney
0810-0825 – Army Report– Ms. Trudie Root
0845-0945 – For Sponsors Only: Resource Committee/FEDLINK Director Meeting – Franklin/Shangri-La/Yorktown, 2d floor
0830-1000 – General session: Hampton Ballroom 1-3
Managing Your Library’s Managers – Dr. Janet McKenzie, President and Chief Creative Officer, Kings Point Enterprises
Summary: This session will focus on determining your leadership position in the organization and utilizing those leadership qualities and collaborative skills to influence more senior managers. It will also review types of leadership skills and collaborative techniques that are helpful for influencing a library’s and an organization’s managers and leaders.
Learning Objectives: 1. Determine what signifies the type of manager/leadership position you have. 2. Investigate leadership skills and qualities most useful to develop in order to influence others. 3. Learn collaborative techniques that can be used in a variety of management situations.
Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand organizational management and leadership hierarchies. 2. Identify useful leadership skills and qualities needed to be an effective leader. 3. Learn different methods of effective persuasion.
1000-1030 – Morning Break Sponsored by Innovative Interfaces
1030-1145 – General session: Hampton Ballroom 1-3
Healthy Heroes: Consumer Health Resources for US Active Duty, Veterans, and Their Families –Ms. Ruth Smith, Outreach Services Coordinator, Edward E. Brickell Medical Sciences Library, Eastern Virginia Medical School
Summary: The Department of Veterans Affairs reported recently that there were 22.7 million veterans and the DOD stated that as of May 31, 2011 our armed services were 1,431,403 strong. These veterans and active duty service members along with their families visit our nation’s military and public libraries. This presentation will provide a basic understanding of the consumer health information needs of our veterans, active duty service members, and their families, along with the skills to guide them to a variety of sources of consumer health information.
Learning Objectives: 1. Learn the consumer health information needs of active-duty service members, their families, and veterans. 2. Gain knowledge of sources of consumer health information focused on military needs. 3. Acquire skills to assist and instruct military patrons to locate and interpret consumer health information.
Learning Outcomes: 1. Familiarity with the range of consumer health information needed by active-duty service members, veterans, and their families. 2. Knowledge of the available consumer health information resources aimed at military personnel and their families. 3. Skill in searching military-focused consumer health information, assisting service members, family members, and veterans to search for and interpret consumer health information.
1145-1200 – Marine Corps Report – Ms. Carol Ramkey, Ms. Cynthia Shipley
1200-1300 – Lunch: Hampton Ballroom 4-5 Sponsored by Gale-Cengage Learning
1300-1315 – Administrative Announcements
1315-1345 – Navy General/Special Reports – Ms. Nellie Moffitt, Ms. Suzanne Ryder, Ms. Marybeth Dowdell
1345 -1445 – General session: Hampton Ballroom 1-3
Information Overload – Mr. Ben Wible, Visiting Professor and National Security Agency Chair, Joint Forces Staff College
Summary: We begin with the Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) vision of the future-current intelligence priorities, expectations and challenges. The conversation will offer insights to the complexities, challenges, and opportunities of a maturing Information Age, an emerging Knowledge Age, and the ever-expanding capabilities and vulnerabilities of information technology that evolves and challenges every area of modern professional life.
Learning Objectives: 1. Gain familiarity with information challenges as they affect intelligence
expectations and priorities. 2. Identify ever-expanding capabilities of information technology. 3. Learn
about the vulnerabilities in information technology that present challenges for our work and personal lives.
Learning Outcomes: 1. Become knowledgeable about information and information technology complexities and challenges. 2. Discover opportunities in expanding information technology capabilities.
1445-1515 – Afternoon Break Sponsored by COMEX
1515-1645 – General session: Hampton Ballroom 1-3
Diplopedia, Knowledge Leadership, and eDiplomacy– Ms. Tiffany Smith Licciardi, Knowledge Leadership Team Coordinator, Office of eDiplomacy, U.S. Department of State
Summary: This presentation will cover background and information related to collaboration, information organization and retrieval, and knowledge management practices within the Federal Government. Specifically, attendees will learn about the way the U.S. Department of State uses platforms including Diplopedia, Corridor, Communities @ State, and Search to find, identify, use, and contribute to shared knowledge within the agency and with other agency partners. Governance, community management, policies, metrics, and best practices will all be discussed.
Learning Objectives: 1. Identify specific platforms at State that further knowledge management practices of collaboration, information organization and retrieval. 2. Learn how Diplopedia, Corridor, and Communities @ State contribute to shared knowledge within the agency and among other agency partners.
Learning Outcomes: 1. Acquire understanding of Diplopedia, Corridor, and Communities @ State and how these tools enable finding, identifying, and using information. 2. Gain knowledge of best practices, metrics, policies and community management that contribute to these shared knowledge initiatives at State.
1645-1700 – Administrative Announcements
1830-2200 – Jazz Night – ‘Spirit of Norfolk’ Dinner Cruise – Sponsored by Peterson’s *Note: The ‘Spirit’ will depart promptly at 1900. Please be on board by 1830*
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