Web 2.0 for Smaller, Underfunded Libraries with Sarah Houghton-Jan

Technology, Social Networking Audio Conference Tuesday, December 2, 2008 1:00 pm ET One Hour Member: $54.00 Non-Member: $74.00 Tech Tuesdays: Talking with Techies Series Some of us don't have a dedicated Web services staff, much less a single dedicated Webmaster. This session is for those libraries struggling to provide innovative Web services with little resources to devote to staff, software, or hardware. Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 sound great in concept but are seemingly impossible to implement in smaller, poorer, and/or under-technology-staffed libraries. But we too can offer excellent on-line services to our users! This session will cover twenty easy steps that libraries can take to improve their Web sites with ease. Who Should Participate: Anyone can benefit from this session, but Web services staff, reference staff, and managers will certainly benefit from attending. The Key Benefits For Participants: This session will offer small libraries a real list of things they can do to improve their Web sites and fold in 2.0 technologies to improve services to users. Key Topics to be Explored: How to fold in Web 2.0 technologies to any library Web site How to improve library Web sites without much technology staff Free and easy site improvements and services to add to any library Web site Sarah Houghton-Jan Sarah Houghton-Jan is the Digital Futures Manager for the San José Public Library in the heart of Silicon Valley. She serves on the Library and Information Technology Association’s Top Technology Trends Committee and is a well-traveled consultant, speaker, technology instructor. Sarah has been published widely in both library and technology magazines and journals and authored a book-length piece for ALA's Library Technology Reports, entitled Technology Competencies and Training for Libraries. Sarah also writes daily for her award-winning blog about library technology issues and resources, Librarian In Black. Developed for the Education Institute by Darlene Fichter’s Northern Lights Internet Solutions, Inc. in Saskatchewan.