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The 21 papers in this collection were presented at the meetings of two sections and three round tables of the Division of Education and Research: (1) "Library and Information Services in Culturally Diverse Communities" (Cheryl Metoyer-Duran); (2) "Library Education in a Pluralistic Society" (Shmuel Sever); (3) "Each One an Individual: International Students in United States Library and Information Science Programs" (Julie Tallman); (4) "Instructing the User or Improving the System: Research and User Feedback for Interactive Library Catalogues" (Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu); (5) "La investigacion bibliotecologia en Mexico: por que, y para que" (Librarianship Research in Mexico: The Why and the What For) (Estela Morales); (6) "Scholars Seek Information: Information Seeking Behaviour and Information Needs of Humanities Scholars" (Harriet Lonnqvist); (7) "Bringing Rural Librarianship to Canada in the 1930s" (Maxine K. Rochester); (8) "Literacy and Reading in Iceland" (Darlene E. Weingand): (9) "Development in Reading in Yugoslavia" (Durda Mesic); (10) "The Possibility of Comparative Study on Children's and Young People's Reading Habits" (Jadwiga Hildengarda Kolodziejska); (11) "The Serial 'Librarianship and Bibliography Abroad' within the Professional Library Press System in the USSR" (Olga A. Diakonova and Olga V. Timokhina); (12) "The Study Circle Library in a Historical Perspective" (Lars Arvidson); (13) "In Search of the Informed Citizen: Study Circles as Bridges between Libraries and Learning" (Kenneth Abrahamsson); (14) "Need and Priority Areas for Continuing Education for Sub and Professional Information, Library and Archives Personnel in Tanzania" (Julita Nawe); (15) "The Continuum of Library Education: Maintaining Competence through the Professional Worklife" (Darlene E. Weingand); (16) "Continuing Education: An Australian Perspective" (Fay Nicholson and Angela Bridgland); (17) "Distance Education in Library and Information Science Education" (Fred W. Roper); (18) "Open and Distance Learning in Continuing Education" (Borje Holmberg); (19) "CPE (Continuing Professional Education) on the Management of Change in Academic and Research Libraries" (Riitta Makinen); (20) "U.S. Government Support for Continuing Professional Education for Librarians" (Anne J. Mathews and Thomas C. Phelps); and (21) "Adult Learning in Study Circles" (Henry Blid). (MAB)

Twelve reports comprise this collection from the 1989 Arizona State Association Conference: (1) "CD ROMs Teach Online Searching" (Susan Awe); (2) "Collection Development as Intellectual Activity: An East Asian Specialist's View" (Ju-yen Teng); (3) "Computer-Assisted Reference Service in Map Librarianship: Electronic Access to Cartographic Information" (Charlene M. Baldwin and Jack D. Mount); (4) "Crossing Borders: From Slip Catalog to OPAC" (Margaret F. Maxwell); (5) "Expanding the Borders of Educated America: The Librarian's Role in Recruitment and Retention of Minority Students" (Jeanne L. Pfander); (6) "From Equal Opportunity to Affirmative Action: Changing Hiring Practices at the University of Arizona" (Merri Hartse, Atifa Rawan, and Roger Scanland); (7) "Going Offline (sort of): The Impact and Implications of CD-ROM and PAC Databases as Online Alternatives" (George Machovec and Dennis Brunning); (8) "Homage to Melvil Dewey: The Need for Library Standards in Archival Description" (Robert P. Spindler); (9) "Interdepartmental Cooperation--Making the University of Arizona Library Stronger" (Janet S. Fore and R. Cecilia Knight); (10) "Library Express: The Establishment of an Across-Campus Document Delivery Service" (Sheila Walters); (11) "A Model for Resource Sharing" (Janice Bradley); and (12) "Researching Interdisciplinary Topics Online: A Methodology for Evaluating Databases" (Karen Williams and Ruth Dickstein). (SD)

Papers from the joint meeting are assembled in this document. Each of the meeting's five program sessions featured presentations by a Standing Conference of National and Universal Libraries (SCONUL) director and an Association of Research Libraries (ARL) director. The presentations highlight perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic and are intended to provide a basis for understanding the challenges faced by the member institutions of both groups. The program sessions covered: (1) "Sharing Resources: Do We Have Valid Models?" (Brian Burch, University of Leicester, and David H. Stam, Syracuse University); (2) "In an Environment with Limited Funding, How Can Research Libraries Increase Their Effectiveness for Collection Development and Sharing?" (Reg Carr, University of Leeds, and Graham R. Hill, McMaster University); (3) "How Can Local and National Collection Development Policies Be Linked with Each Other and Related to International Preservation Responsibilities?" (James F. Govan, University of North Carolina, and Michael Smethurst, British Library); (4) "How Can Collection Development and Management Be Most Effectively Organized and Staffed?" (Barry Bloomfield, British Library, and Sheila Creth, University of Iowa); and (5) "Is Stimulation of Cooperative Interinstitutional and Multinational Planning of Collection Development Worth the Effort?" (Fred Radcliffe, University of Cambridge, and Martin D. Runkle, University of Chicago). Appendices include a summary of the ARL business meeting, a report on association activities, a list of participants in the joint meeting, and descriptions of ARL and SCONUL. (SD)

Twenty-six scholarly papers and ten abstracts comprise the content of the thirteenth annual Brick and Click Libraries Symposium, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at the symposium, portray the contemporary and future face of librarianship. The 2013 paper and abstract titles include: (1) Worth 1,000 Words: Using Instagram to Engage Library Users (Nicole Tekulve and Katy Kelly); (2) Life on the Bleeding Edge: Migrating to OCLC's WorldShare Management Services Next Generation Integrated Library System (Sabrina Riley, Margaret Emons, Julie Pinnell, and Philip Hendrickson); (3) Planning at the Speed of a NASCAR Race: the Reinert-Alumni Library Reconfiguration (Sally Gibson and Debra Sturges);(4) Research Rescue: Beyond the One-Shot Instruction Session (Gloria Tibbs, Fu Zhuo, Susan Sanders, and Jen Salvo-Eaton); (5) Our Student Library Workers Rock! Investing in the Student Staff Development Process (Jeremy McGinniss and Joshua B. Michael); (6) Students in the Director's Chair: Leveraging Student Talent to Create Library Videos (Veronica Arellano Douglas); (7) Children's Collections in Academic Libraries: Views on Relevancy and Collaboration (Charissa Loftis and Valerie Knight); (8) Librarians' Preference of Virtual Meeting Platforms (Katie Anderson and Anne Larrivee); (9) Changemaking in Access & Outreach @ USD (Li Fu); (10) More Than a Poster: How Marketing Can Revitalize Your Library's Communty Engagement (Jennifer Raian and Jennifer Self); (11) Responsive Web Design: How Mobile Devices are Changing the Way We Build the Web (John Wynstra); (12) Library Programs to Aid in Student Retention (Cynthia Lenox); (13) Breaking Free in the Special Collections and Archives: Shattering Conventions and Display Cases with Augmented Reality (Ashley Todd-Diaz and Earl Givens Jr.); (14) The Library Extravaganza! Implementing a Welcome Event at Your Library (Karen Evans and Cheryl Blevens); (15) Lib Guides as a Marketing Tool (Scott Norwood); (16) Portable Display Kiosk and Signage Using the Raspberry Pi (Raleigh Muns); (17) Playing Cards for Information Literacy: An Active Learning Experiment (Melissa Clark); (18) Libraries Without Walls: Extending Service Beyond the Physical Building (Rochelle Krueger); (19) Using Event Tracking to Enhance Library Web Interfaces (Scott Hanrath); (20) It's All Up in the Clouds (Sally Bryant and Gan Ye); (21) Libraries and Licenses: Best Practices, Pitfalls and Trends (Corey Halaychik); (22) Discovery Tools: Where Do We Go From Here? (Lisa Lapointe and Melissa Mallon); (23) Motivating Student Employees: What Circulation Workers Want From Their Supervisors (Peter Johnson); (24) Implementing an Open Source Room Reservation System (Rob Withers); (25) Google Chrome: Using Apps to Streamline Workflow (Ellie Kohler); (26) Kansas City Local Library Exchange: How We Developed a Low-Cost, High Payback Professional development Program (Mark Swails); (27) Flipping Your Library Instruction (Rebecca Hamlett); (28) Marketing Students + Library= Student Centered Promotion for the Library (Nora Hillyer and Danielle Shultz); (29) Overwhelmed by Large-scale Library Digitization Projects? (Xiaocan (Lucy) Wang and Eric Holt); (30) Disruptive Thinking about Disruptive Innovation (Dr. Susan Breakenridge Fink and Marc Davis); (31) Tips + Taps: Integrating Apps into the research Process (Mary Oberlies and April Kelley); (32) The Choice Is Yours: Collections in a Patron-Driven Climate (Elizabeth Sullivan); (33) What Few Can Do: A Small Library Using Technology to Make the Impossible Possible (Eric A. Deatherage and Jennifer K. Johnson); (34) Reaching Out to International Students (Leila June Rod-Welch); (35) Why Undergraduate Students Choose to Use E-books (Edward Walton); (36) Don't Make the Kid Who is Blind Play Dodge Ball: Making Interactive Library instruction Accessible to Students with Disabilities (Angie Brunk and Dale Monobe). An author/title index is also included. (Individual papers contain references.) [For the 2012 proceedings, see ED537605.]

The 12 papers in this volume explore the development of electronic texts in the humanities and describe the possible roles for libraries as electronic books take the place of printed ones. The diverse perspectives of librarians, publishers, system administrators, scholars, readers, and writers are brought into conjunction, and a number of significant themes emerge. The papers are: "Authors and Readers in an Age of Electronic Texts" (Jay David Bolter); "Electronic Texts in the Humanities: A Coming of Age" (Susan Hockey); "The Text Encoding Initiative: Electronic Text Markup for Research" (C.M. Sperberg-McQueen); "Electronic Texts and Multimedia in the Academic Library: A View from the Front Line" (Anita K. Lowry); "Humanizing Information Technology: Cultural Evolution and the Institutionalization of Electronic Text Processing" (Mark Tyler Day); "Cohabiting with Copyright on the Nets" (Mary Brandt Jensen); "The Role of the Scholarly Publisher in an Electronic Environment" (Lorrie LeJeune); "The Feasibility of Wide-Area Textual Analysis Systems in Libraries: A Practical Analysis" (John Price-Wilkin); "The Scholar and His Library in the Computer Age" (James W. Marchand); "The Challenges of Electronic Texts in the Library: Bibliographic Control and Access" (Rebecca S. Guenther); "Durkheim's Imperative: The Role of Humanities Faculty in the Information Technologies Revolution" (Robert Alun Jones); and "The Materiality of the Book: Another Turn of the Screw" (Terry Belanger). (MAS)

The six papers in this collection, which were presented at the 1991 Library Association of the City University of New York (CUNY) Institute, focus on the theme of library collection development: (1) "Evolving Knowledge Resource Access Systems: Keynote Address" (Peter R. Young, Executive Director of the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science); (2) "Cooperative and Collaborative Collection Development: Planning and Outcomes to Date in the University of California Experience" (Julia Gelfand, Applied Sciences Librarian at the University of California, Irvine); (3) "City University Resource Sharing--Is It Possible?" (Susan Vaughn, Associate Librarian for Collection Development at Brooklyn College, CUNY); (4) "The SUNY University Center Libraries' Participation in the PAClink Project and Two Other Grants" (Suzanne Fedunok, Assistant Director for Information and Research Services, State University of New York (SUNY), Binghamton); (5) "METRO's Collection Development Programs--How and Why They Do or Don't Work" (Rhonna A. Goodman, Assistant Coordinator of Programs and Services, METRO); and (6) "Collection Development: Survival Tactics in an Age of Less: Annotated Selective Bibliography" (Mimi B. Penchansky, Head, Online Search Service, and Suzanne R. Katz, Interlibrary Loan Librarian, Queens College, CUNY). (MAB)

This collection of papers from North Carolina's state and regional Conferences on Library and Information Services, which were held over a 6-month period in 1990-1991, includes copies of: (1) the agenda of the state conference (Raleigh, February 6, 1991); (2) a list of the delegates to the national White House Conference on Library and Information Services; (3) a list of resolutions to be presented at the national conference; (4) a press release for the state conference; (5) a copy of "Tar Heel Libraries" containing information on the nine regional conferences and resolutions from eight of them; (6) reports and resolutions from the state and individual regional conferences; (7) keynote papers from individual conferences; (8) a flyer announcing the governor's conferences, a fact sheet on each of the three national conference themes--democracy, literacy, and productivity--and position papers from individual conferences; (9) a statement of the mission and purpose of North Carolina's libraries; (10) discussion papers for the national conference; (11) a fact sheet on the national conference; and (12) a copy of the North Carolina Governor's Executive Order authorizing the state and regional conferences. (BBM)

The 16 papers in this collection focus on the impact of new technologies on libraries and their managers: (1) "Has Technology Failed Us?" (Frederick W. Lancaster); (2) "The Wheel of Fortune: Academic Libraries. IT and the Re-emerging Past" (Alasdair Paterson); (3) "Management Strategies for Enhancing the Adoption of Technological Innovations" (Mary M. Huston and Anita Grahn); (4) "Training Issues in Management of Information Services in an Advanced Technological World" (Ellen Hoffmann); (5) "The Next Generation of Information Products" (Arnoud de Kemp); (6) "'Free' or 'Fee' Information Resources in Academic Libraries--The Case of Small and/or Developing Countries" (Shmuel Sever); (7) "Providing Scholars with Information from Electronic Books" (Frederick Kilgour); (8) "Micro Management: Multi-Tasking and CD-ROM Applications" (David Price); (9) "CD-ROM-Retrieval in Heterogeneous Networks--Conceptions, Solutions, Conclusions, and Influence on Library Management" (Christian Heinisch); (10) "Co-operative Bibliographic Utilities as a Platform To Support Library Automation and Catalogue Retroconversion in Local Library Systems" (Ronald M. Schmidt); (11) "Managing Information Technology in Academic Libraries" (David R. McDonald); (12) "Information Retrieval at the University Library Vienna--RDB--The Austrian Legal Database" (Renate Niegl); (13) "OPAC Extension to Conventional Data with Bibliographic Expert Systems" (Karl F. Stock); (14) "Teaching End-Users How To Access Online Systems in Libraries and Gaining Access to Online Catalogs through Networks" (Maureen Pastine); (15) "Information Services and Information Utilities--A Management for the User" (Sigrid Reinitzer); and (16) "Information Technology and User Education Management" (Dieter Schmidmaier). A seminar agenda, lists of participants and of participating vendors, and a summary of the conference by Philip Bryant are also provided. (MAB)

Twenty-three scholarly papers and twelve abstracts comprise the content of the eleventh annual Brick and Click Libraries Symposium, held at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The peer-reviewed proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at the symposium, portray the contemporary and future face of librarianship. The 2011 paper and abstract titles include: (1) Redefining Relevancy in the Electronic Age: The Library as a Real Place (Alberta Davis Comer); (2) E-science and Libraries (for Non Science Librarians) (Eric Snajdr); (3) The Ins and Outs of a Multicultural Library Orientation Session (Tony Garrett); (4) Student Assistants 2.0: Utilizing Your Student Assistant's Capabilities (Carla M. Gruen and Anne M. Wooden); (5) Bridging the Gaps: Teaching Transliteracy (Lane Wilkinson); (6) Proactive Approach to Embedded Services (Charissa Loftis and Valerie Knight); (7) Weed the Stack, Feed the Collection and Harvest the Space (Deborah Provenzano); (8) Making an Impact: The Who, What, Where, Why, and How of Creating a Genre Based Popular Collection in an Academic Library (Kathy Hart, Sara Duff, Lisa Jennings, and Neil Robinson); (9) Info on the Go: Using QR Codes to Enhance the Research Experience (Melissa Mallon); (10) Tweet-a-Librarian: How to Use Twitter for Free Text Messaging Reference (Sonnet Ireland and Faith Simmons); (11) Use It or Lose It: Are One-Time Purchases of Electronic Resources an Effective Use of Limited Funds? (Lea Currie and Kathy Graves); (12) "Full Exposure" of Hidden Collections: Drake University First-Year Students Create a Living Archive (Claudia Thornton Frazer and Susan Breakenridge Fink); (13) From Static HTML to Interactive Drupal: Redesigning a Library Intranet that Enables Collaboration and Social Interaction (Elaine Chen); (14) Demographic Trends of College Students Today and Tomorrow: How Do We Entice Them to Use the Academic Library? (Marie Bloechle and Sian Brannon); (15) A Winning Strategy: University Library and Athletic Department Partnership (Rosalind Alexander); (16) Multilingual Zotero: Its Promises and Limits (Fu Zhuo); (17) A Fine Balance: Tangible or Electronic? (Gretchen Gould); (18) The Advantages of Importing Usage Statistics to Millennium ERM with SUSHI (Li Ma); (19) A Look from Both Sides Now (Melissa Muth); (20) Campus Copyright Support from a University Library (Chris LeBeau and Cindy Thompson); (21) Jack be Nimble...Quick', and Communicative: Flexible Staffing Positions for Changing Technical Services Workflows (Angela Rathmel); (22) Putting the Customer First: Developing and Implementing a Customer Service Plan (Kathy Howell and Lori Mardis); (23) Catch the "Campus Express!" (Brad Reel); (24) Wiki-fy Your Student Worker Program (David Kupas); (25) Smartphone Trends on the UCM Campus: Is it just the Net Generation? (Alice Ruleman); (26) Social Media Wrangling: A Comparison of Feed Tools (Kristen Mastel); (27) Putting QR Codes to the Test (Jason Coleman and Leo Lo); (28) Speaking to the Masses: The Evolution of Library Instruction for SPCM 101, Fundamentals of Speech (Elizabeth Fox and Nancy Marshall); (29) Don't Panic!: Revising Your Collection Development Policy and Putting it into Action (Abbey Rimel, and Andy Small; (30) 2 for the Price of 1: Combining Access Services and Reference Desks (Diane Hunter and Mary E. Anderson); (31) Do I Have the Best Library Website on the Planet or What? (Rene Erlandson and Rachel Erb); (32) Implementing LibAnswers at Multiple Service Points (Elizabeth A. Stephan, Gabe Gossett, and Rebecca Marrall); (33) College Readiness Dialogs: Librarian Collaborations from High School to College (Laurie Hathman, Ken Stewart, Jill Becker, and Danielle Theiss); (34) Fu Can Cook: Using Chinese Cooking Techniques to Teach Library Instruction (Fu Zhuo); and (35) Is There Really an App for That? (Robert Hallis). (Individual papers contain references.) [Abstract modified to meet ERIC guidelines. For the 2010 proceedings, see ED513812.]

Twenty-one scholarly papers and fifteen abstracts comprise the content of the tenth annual Brick and Click Libraries Symposium, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The peer-reviewed proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at the symposium, portray the contemporary and future face of librarianship. The 2010 paper and abstract titles include: (1) Quick & Dirty Library Promotions That Really Work! (Eric Jennings and Kathryn Tvaruzka); (2) Leveraging Technology, Improving Service: Streamlining Student Billing Procedures (Colleen S. Harris); (3) Powerful Partnerships & Great Opportunities: Promoting Archival Resources and Optimizing Outreach to Public and K12 Community (Lea Worcester and Evelyn Barker); (4) Mobile Patrons: Better Services on the Go (Vincci Kwong and Gary Browning); (5) ERMes: An Open Source ERM (Galadriel Chilton and William Doering); (6) All Stressed Out? Enumerating and Eliminating Stress in the Academic Library (Mary Wilkins Jordan); (7) But What Did They Learn? What Classroom Assessment Can Tell You about Student Learning (Catherine Pellegrino); (8) The Impact of Budget Cuts on Acquisitions Workflow (Clint Wrede and Susan Moore); (9) The Library through Students' Eyes: Exploring Student Research Needs in the Brick and Click Space (Julie Gilbert, Anna Hulsberg, Sarah Monson, and Amy Gratz); (10) 23 Things x 600 People = Building an Online Library Learning Experience in Kansas (Heather Braum, Rebecca Brown, Jan Brooks, and Diana Weaver); (11) Keeping the Baby, Throwing Out the Bathwater: Exporting Cataloging Data from a Commercial ILS into a Locally-Developed Catalog (Rob Withers and Rob Casson); (12) My InfoQuest: Collaborative SMS Reference Service (Rene Erlandson and Rachel Erb); (13) Inquiry, Peer Mentors and Collaboration - Redefining How and When to Teach Library Skills (Jennifer McKinnell, Janine Knight, Ben Mccutchen, Roopinder Kaloty, and Jasmine Dhaliwal); (14) From Forgotten Intranet to Successful Wiki: Best Practices for Implementing an Academic Library Staff Wiki (Kristen Costello and Darcy Del Bosque); (15) Current Trends in Library Web Site Redesign with CMS/Drupal (Elaine Chen); (16) Purchase on Demand: Using ILL Requests to Influence Acquisitions (Amy Soma); (17) Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Issues, Alternatives, & Access (Janice Boyer); (18) To Buy and Not Borrow - Does It Pay? (Brad Reel and Erica Conn); (19) A University's Information Literacy Assessment Program "Using Google Docs" (Ma Lei Hsieh and Patricia H. Dawson); (20) Making Significant Cuts to an Approval Plan without Drawing Any Blood (Lea Currie); (21) To Inventory or Not: Findings from Inventory Projects Performed in Two Different Types of Academic Libraries (Jan Sung and Nackil Sung); (22) Thursdays at the Library - or "Be Careful What You Wish for!" (Joyce A. Meldrem); (23) Say This, Not That: Library Instruction for International Students in Intensive English Programs (Andrea Malone); (24) There Are No Limits to Learning! Academic and High School Libraries Collaborate to Teach Information Literacy to High School Seniors (Jeff Simpson and Cendy Cooper); (25) ???A Living Book??? (Shuqin Jiao); (26) Boost Your Use: Promoting E-Resources to Students and Faculty (Andrea Malone); (27) Embedded Librarianship: A Briefing From the Trenches (Galadriel Chilton and Jenifer Holman); (28) Managing the Multi-generational Library (Colleen Harris); (28) Getting Started With Assessment: Using the Minute Paper to Find Trends in Student Learning; (29) No Ballast to Throw Overboard: Restructuring an Already Lean Library for Hard Times (Lisa Wiecki, Adam Haigh, and Mike Berry); (30) Ne How, Hola, Welcome: Coordinating and Providing Meaningful Library Services to International Students (Martha Allen); (31) Access to Video Material in Academic Libraries (Sandra Macke); (32) Reference E-Books: The Other Hidden Collection (Sara E. Morris, Frances Devlin, Judith Emde, and Kathy Graves); (33) Copyright 0 to 60 in One Year (Kati Donaghy); and (34) Getting Ready to Go Mobile: A Primer for the Uninitiated (Rene Erlandson and Rachel Erb). An author/title index is also included. (Individual papers contain references.) [Abstract modified to meet ERIC guidelines. For the 2009 proceedings, see ED507380.]

Twenty-three scholarly papers and eleven abstracts reflect the content of the seventh "Brick and Click Libraries Symposium," held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at the symposium, portray the contemporary and future face of librarianship. Many of the papers include charts and illustrations, which enhance readers' understanding of the information presented. Several papers describe research projects or deployment of current trends in a specific library setting. Topics incorporate information of interest to librarians working in the areas of reference, instruction, access services, and collection development. The following are included: (1) Introduction (Connie Ury and Frank Baudino); (2) Often Overlooked: Database Users with Disabilities (Chris Le Beau and Rebecca Power) [abstract only]; (3) Are ebooks the Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread? We Think So, Why Don't They? (Julia F. McGinnis and William M. Meloy); (4) Are We Having Fun Yet? Putting Fun into the Workplace! (Joyce Meldrem); (5) Outsourcing Outreach: Developing a Student Ambassador Program (Kristin J. Whitehair); (6) Representing eJournals in the Library Catalog: Trying to Fit a Square Peg in a Round Hole? (Kelly Smith) [abstract only]; (7) At the "Point-of-Need": Usage Patterns of Streaming Video Tutorials (Jack M. Maness); (8) The Impact of Usage Statistics (Bob Schufreider and Ed Goedeken) [abstract only]; (9) Government Information in the All-Electronic Age and the Implications for Libraries (Laura Sare); (10) Thinking inside the Box: Applying Design Principles to Your Physical Library (Denyse K. Sturges) [abstract only]; (11) Keeping on Track (Lori Mardis, Lisa Jennings, Kathy Ferguson, and Sara Duff) [abstract only]; (12) Designing YouTube Instructional Videos to Enhance Information Literacy (Robert Monge); (13) Communicating and Training across the Hours: Using Course-Management Software to EnhanceStudent Training and Build Community (Peggy L. Kaney, Brande M. Flack, and Donna G. Graham); (14) Oral History in the Library: Collecting and Preserving "Voices" (Tanya Finchum and Juliana Nykolaiszyn); (15) ERM on a Shoestring (Dalene Hawthorne) [abstract only]; (16) Mabee Wikis Are Better: Transitioning from Static Research Guides to Wikis (Tony Greco, Cal Melick, Heather Smith-Collins, and Kelley Weber); (17) When the Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Part(ner)s: Northwestern Partnerships for Success (Denise M. Shorey and Bob Davis) [abstract only]; (18) Weeding the Storage Facility: WorldCat Collection Analysis as a De-Selection Tool (Mary C. Aagard) [abstract only]; (19) Measure for Measure: Developing an Assessment Plan for Access Services (Robin Ewing) [abstract only]; (20) The Librarian as Hacker, Getting More from Google (R. Philip Reynolds); (21) The Online Information Literacy Game: A Trivial Pursuit? (Scott Rice and Amy Harris); (22) Supporting Campus Publications at the University of Kansas Libraries (Brian Rosenblum and Holly Mercer); (23) Digg This: Tagging and Social Collaboration on the Web (Keri Cascio) [abstract only]; (24) A Semester Long Library Research Course (Pamela M. Salela and Julie M. Chapman); (25) Information Literacy: Creating Modules for Summarizing and Evaluating Quantitative Studies in Education and Psychology (Jose A. Montelongo); (26) Not Just Q & A! Teaching through Digital Reference (Frances Devlin, John Stratton, and Lea Currie); (27) Understanding Evolving User Requirements in the Library New Media Service (Sean Cordes); (28) Enhancing Library Services through Support Staff Training: A Unique Approach (Jill Becker and Monica Claassen-Wilson); (29) Looking at the Whole Pie & One Piece at a Time: Measuring Our Instructional Delivery (Connie Ury and Gary Ury); (30) Developing a Digital Collection (Edwin B. Burgess); (31) Blackboard to the Rescue: Use of Course Management Systems in Employee Management and Training (Marian G. Davis and Robert Hallis); (32) The MOBIUS-YBP Statewide Purchasing Plan: First Year Implementation Experiences (Dennis L. Goodyear, Jean Eaglesfield, and Robert Frizzell) [abstract only]; (33) Journey of Incorporating Portable Media Players into Library Services (Larisa Hart and Amy Presley) [abstract only]; (34) Strategies for Preparedness for Library Disasters: The ILL Response (Sarah McHone-Chase); and (35) Web Based Photo Database: Creation and Maintenance on a Shoestring (Raleigh Muns). An author/title index is also included. (Individual papers contain references.) [Abstract modified to meet ERIC guidelines. For the 2006 proceedings, see ED493910.]