(Target Audience) (About the Webcast) (Panelists) (Resources) (Technical Requirements)

Target Audience

• Staff from throughout the library
• Faculty, researchers, administrators
• Library school faculty and students
• Anyone interested in the library's role in higher education

About the Webcast

The past several decades have witnessed unprecedented change in libraries and higher education. New technologies have led to new ways of creating and sharing scholarly information. There has also been a growing focus on assessment, an increasingly diverse range of students and library users, and tightening constraints on resources. Libraries and academic institutions are adapting to these changes with a variety of solutions, such as campus portals, course management systems, federated search engines, and chat reference. Over the years, librarians have served as gatekeepers to campus information resources and ensured that users learn how to identify, select, and value resources in research, learning, and teaching.

As we move ahead in this evolving environment, we find ourselves recognizing the vast role that libraries play in research and education. But how best to proceed? How can our libraries and staff most effectively engage in the transformations affecting their institutions and users? How do we ensure that we coordinate our work with that going on in classrooms on the other side of campus or projects across the continent?

Duane Webster of ARL will introduce the webcast, followed by Julia Blixrud of ARL, who will look more closely at this issue as it has been playing out in the academic library community and highlight some possible future directions for ARL libraries. Stanley Wilder of the University of Rochester will then share some of his own thoughts on the role of a librarian in teaching, learning, and research. Barbara Dewey, Rita Smith, and Teresa Walker will then tell us about the approach to this environment at the University of Tennessee and introduce The Teaching Library @ UT. We will end with questions from the audience.

Panelists

Introduction

Duane E. Webster
Executive Director
Association of Research Libraries

Moderator & Presenter

Julia Blixrud
Assistant Executive Director, External Relations
Association of Research Libraries

Presenters

Stanley J. Wilder
Assistant Dean for Information Management Services
River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester

Barbara I. Dewey, Dean of Libraries
University of Tennessee

Rita H. Smith, Head, Reference and Instructional Services
University of Tennessee

Teresa B. Walker, Digital Reference and Instructional Technology Librarian
University of Tennessee

Resources

Links to additional resources, websites, as well as the PowerPoint Presentation and Participant Questions from the live event.

Technical Requirements & System Diagnostic

• Windows or Unix (Mac are not supported at this time)
• 32 MB RAM
• Microsoft Internet Explorer (Netscape is not supported)
• Internet access
• Sound card with speakers
• Pop-up blocker sofware disabled

To test your computer, please launch the diagnostic to ensure that you are able to successfully view this program: http://desktop.ilearning.com/launcher/check.htm. Note: You will need to disable pop-up blocker software to view the Webcast. When the diagnostic console loads for the java test, you only need to verify that you receive sound and video. You do not need to watch the test program.

The diagnostic will check your machine and connectivity to ensure all systems are ready to go. Recommend that you complete this step on the system you will use to view the Webcast as soon as possible, in case you require technical assistance, but no later than 24 hours before the event.

For an increased learning experience, it might be desirable to participate in this Webcast as a team if there is a group of people that might benefit from this Webcast at your institution. The registrant will receive an e-mail with the URL you will need to access and a password to login on the day of the event. Only one computer will be allowed to access the Webcast with this login information, but the number of participants is not limited.