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Future Perfect: How Libraries Are Implementing Emerging Technologies

Virtual Conference

About the Virtual Conference

As former Library Journal Editor-in-Chief Francine Fielkoff wrote in an editorial last year, "Libraries Should Be What Users Want—With a Little Help from Librarians." Libraries everywhere are planning, strategizing, experimenting, and conversing with their users in order to realize how they may best serve as successful learning spaces in rapidly-changing technological, social and economic environments. 

Creation is often seen as an important theme of future community spaces - supporting 3D printers and other means of publishing content are a few examples of how libraries may stake their willingness to extend their capabilities in managing shared resources beyond those of an information provider to an information creator.

Join NISO in its first Virtual Conference as we explore this theme with a range of experts - we aim to interact with the audience as much as possible to extend the conversation with those who are attending.

Event Sessions

Keynote – Overview of the emerging technology landscape/how to keep up with emerging technologies

Speaker

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Overview of the emerging technology landscape/how to keep up with emerging technologies
 

Augmented Reality

Speaker

12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m. 

Lunch break

Speaker

12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. 

3D Makerspaces

Speaker

Susan Considine

Executive Director, Fayetteville Free Library
Fayetteville Free Library

1:45 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.  

3D Printing: Intellectual Property Concerns

Speaker

Michael Weinberg

Senior Staff Attorney and Innovation Evangelist, Public Knowledge
Public Knowledge

2:15 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Break

Speaker

3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. 

Espresso Implementation

Speaker

Rivkah Sass

Library Director, Sacramento Public Library
Sacramento Public Library

Library in a Box (Bibliobox)

Speaker

David Fiander

Web Services Librarian, Western University
Western University

3:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Roundtable Discussion: Implementing Emerging Technologies at Your Institution

Speaker

4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 
Moderated by: Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO

Additional Information

  • Cancellations made by Wednesday, February 11, 2015 will receive a refund, less a $35 cancellation. After that date, there are no refunds.

  • Registrants will receive detailed instructions about accessing the virtual conference via e-mail the Friday prior to the event. (Anyone registering between Monday and the close of registration will receive the message shortly after the registration is received, within normal business hours.) Due to the widespread use of spam blockers, filters, out of office messages, etc., it is your responsibility to contact the NISO office if you do not receive login instructions before the start of the webinar.

  • If you have not received your Login Instruction email by 10AM (ET) on the Tuesday before the webinar, please contact the NISO office or email Juliana Wood, Educational Programs Manager at joneill@niso.org for immediate assistance.

  • Registration is per site (access for one computer) and includes access to the online recorded archive of the conference. You may have as many people as you like from the registrant's organization view the conference from that one connection. If you need additional connections, you will need to enter a separate registration for each connection needed.

  • If you are registering someone else from your organization, either use that person's e-mail address when registering or contact Jill O'Neill to provide alternate contact information.

  • Conference presentation slides and Q&A will be posted to this event webpage following the live conference.

  • Registrants will receive an e-mail message containing access information to the archived conference recording within 48 hours after the event. This recording access is only to be used by the registrant's organization.

Event Dates

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Registration

Registration closes on

To sign up: If paying by credit card, register online.

/sites/default/files/events/2018-11/Feb20-2013_emergingtech_virtual_regform.pdf

Fees

SAVE! Register for multiple events.

Registration Costs

  • NISO LSA & Voting Members; NASIG Members

    • $190.00 (US and Canada)

    • $230.00 (International)

  • Non-Member

    • $255.00 (US and Canada)

    • $295.00 (International)

  • Student

    • $85.00

Location

  • NISO has developed a quick tutorial, How to Participate in a NISO Web Event. Please view the recording, which is an overview of the web conferencing system and will help to answer the most commonly asked questions regarding participating in an online Webex event.
  • You will need a computer for the presentation and Q&A.
  • Audio is available through the computer (broadcast) and by telephone. We recommend you have a set-up for telephone audio as back-up even if you plan to use the broadcast audio as the voice over Internet isn't always 100% reliable.
  • Please check your system in advance to make sure it meets the Cisco WebEx requirements. It is your responsibility to ensure that your system is properly set up before each webinar begins.