Hello PaLA 2011 Conference Attendees!

This blog and the related accounts linked from here on Google, GMail and Twitter were created for a conference session that was presented on Sunday afternoon, October 2nd 2011 at Penn State.

The purpose of this blog and the attached accounts is to provide a venue for any PaLA members who:

1. Would like to familiarize themselves with some current free online tools, but who are not ready to establish their own accounts.

2. Would like to use this space to save, share and compare notes or summaries of sessions and events from PaLA 2011 at Penn State.

These tools were set up by two librarians from the University of Pittsburgh as part of a live hands-on demonstration for the MobiLibrarians Session at PaLA. These accounts are meant to be grass-roots in nature, and are not part of the official PaLA online presence or archives, just to be clear.

We have no plans to delete or otherwise change the open access nature of these sites and accounts. We will be keeping an eye on them to assist anyone using them for the purposes stated above. Some information on account log-in's and use is outlined here, and anyone who would like the passwords for more complete access is invited to contact us (that information was also distributed during the conference.)

If someone would like to "inherit" these accounts for continued use and take over the "house-keeping" role, please do let us know!

Thank you to everyone who made PaLA 2011 such a great experience!

Patricia & Robin

More Conference Wrap-Up

A nice set of notes from Library Scenester :

at http://libraryscenester.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/pala11sessions/ .

Thanks!

Thanks

Thank you for presenting.

Fwd: Good Job

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Penn Staters <pennstaters2011@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:29 PM
Subject: Good Job
To: PennStaters2011@gmail.com


Thank you for presenting at PaLA 2011.

Teens and Social Media

Monday Conference Wrap-Up & Posts

Some nice commentary on a few Monday sessions here: evancedsolutions

Going Mobile with Lincoln 2:15pm room 203

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Shout Out for Gov Docs!

Exhibit Hall Band at Lunch

from Shelitwits via Twitter #PaLA2011

Thanks!

Gen X + Gen Y + Boomers = ? 10:30am room 206

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Generations

Twitter Search Boxes

This article explains how to make and add Twitter search widgets (like the one here) to your sites. Follow one or more people (PennStaters2011) and/or hash-tags (#PaLA2011). -MobiLibrarian

Log-in to your Twitter website online -
1. Click RESOURCES bottom of page
2. See all Widgets
3. My website

• Profile Widgets display recent tweets from a specific user.
• Search Widgets display highly customizable search results in real time(like for PaLA2011!)
• Faves Widgets will show all the Tweets you have marked as Favorite
• List Widgets show off a list of users you've curated. Great for showing off a subset of interesting folks' Tweets (I use this to collect local media, campus organizations/offices, our public library's Tweets etc. in one spot on my Blogger pages.)

Our Session

The MobiLibrarian: Jumping the Generational/Technological Fence 

Sunday October 2, 2011 4:30 - 5:30

 

Last Spring, librarians escorted students from Pitt’s iSchool to attend the regional ACRL conference. In support of the conference theme, student volunteers and librarian mentors worked collaboratively to share event sessions with peers and professional/staff colleagues off-site, using a variety of mobile devices and free social networking applications. During this session, participants will unravel and discern the basic technological skills and equipment required for launching similar initiatives to increase access to professional development, develop leadership skills, build confidence and marketability for the next generation of librarianship, and comfortably enter the rapidly evolving technological landscape of today’s high-school and college-aged patrons. 

Patricia L. Sharp, Reference & Instruction Librarian, University of Pittsburgh

Robin Kear, Reference & Instruction Librarian, University of Pittsburgh

Sponsor: Electronic Resources Round Table