Neal, with more than 30 years of broad experience in the field of library and information science, will walk participants through the basics of conducting survey research and quantitative research analysis.
Preconference: Monday 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Postconference: Wednesday 1:30 - 4:30 pm
Fee: $50
Neal Kaske is NCLIS Director of Statistics and Surveys. Before that he was Manager of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Library at the University of Maryland Libraries in College Park. He is also an adjunct faculty member in the College of Information Studies. His areas of current research are developing and measuring the effectiveness of electronic services and the general evaluation of library especially from a users’ perspective. He is active in the American Library Association and writes on the topic of research for portal: Library and the Academy. Before joining the University of Maryland he was a program officer for the U. S. Department of Education, Library Programs, where he directed discretionary library research and demonstration grants. He has also worked in research and research management at OCLC, Inc. and has been a faculty member at the universities of Alabama and Case Western Reserve. Neal's Ph.D. is in industrial engineering - library systems management from the University of Oklahoma.
Colleen will walk participants through the basics of conducting focus group research and employing qualitative research methods.
Preconference: Monday 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Postconference: Wednesday 1:30 - 4:30 pm
Fee: $50
Colleen Cook, Dean and Director of the Texas A&M University Libraries, oversaw the administration of the SERVQUAL protocol to the University library community in 1995, 1997, and 1999, which led to her role in developing LibQUAL+ (TM). She has published journal articles and book chapters and made numerous presentations in the fields of library science, history, and research methodology. She specializes in qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Colleen currently chairs the ARL Statistics & Assessment Committee and is a member of the IFLA Statistics and Evaluation Section Committee. She has a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration.
Joe Zucca will walk participants through various methods he uses to present results and market the library effectively using data.
Preconference: Monday 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Postconference: Wednesday 1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Fee: $50
Note: As of 6/6/06, this event is full. If you register for it, you will be placed on a waiting list
Joe Zucca is Assistant Director for Management Information Services and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania Library. He is responsible for helping librarians access and use data in assessment and the managment of services, and for providing to library administration data useful for planning. His position is designed to enhance the Library's "organizational intelligence" and to make that intelligence available to the Library's assessment efforts, and other programs as well. Joe therefore has a central role in marketing services and responsibility for communicating directions and priorities internally to staff and to University and other external audiences. Key to Joe's work at Penn has been the development of the Library Data Farm, a large relational database integrated with library web services and the LIS. Data Farm provides measurement tools to staff and a wide range of quantitative and qualitative data derived from transactional systems like the opac, departmental statistical reports, and surveys. Joe has worked with management information and publications since coming to Penn in 1993. Earlier, he held various positions at Temple University Library, including assistant to the University Librarian, head of Circulation and Reserve Services, and head of Interlibrary Loan.
A bus will take you from the hotel to Monticello. This tour will begin with the Jefferson Library, recipient of the 2003 AIA / ALA design award, which embraces all aspects of Thomas Jefferson's life, times, and legacy through published and archival collections as well as virtual online resources. The tour will move up the hill to Monticello, one of Jefferson’s architectural masterpieces, for a very special private tour that will include the upper floor and the Dome Room which are not usually open to the public.
Sunday, 4:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Limit: 35 people
Fee: $40
Free guided tours of the Rotunda and Lawn are provided year-round by the University Guide Service. Tours meet daily at 10, 11, 2, 3, and 4 inside the main entrance of the Rotunda. Call (434) 924-7969 for more information. Tours are accessible to individuals in wheelchairs, and interpreters are available for the hearing impaired. The Rotunda provides brochures with walking tours of the Academical Village, the Rotunda, and the Pavilion Gardens. It is a short walk from the hotel to the Academical Village, but you can also catch one of the free trolleys provided by Charlottesville Transit Service. Usually this line is serviced by the Green Trolleys offering free rides between Downtown, The Corner and UVA Grounds every 15 minutes, Monday - Saturday from 6:30 AM - mid-night. Regular CTS buses displaying a "Free Ride" sign may substitute for the trolley.