To assist library staff and trustees in keeping pace with evolving technologies, The Alberta Library hosts an annual library technology conference called Netspeed. Netspeed is a conference for librarians, technical staff and trustees to explore new technologies in a highly connected world.

Conference Proceedings

Preconference Workshops
TAL Universal Core Database Training
Assitive and Adaptive Technologies

Plenary Addresses
Big Worlds and New Literacies
Privacy and Libraries

Conference Sessions
A1 Creating the Blackfoot Digital Library: The Challenge of Cultural Sensitivity
A2 Taking Stock: Usability Testing and Design Considerations for Library Websites
A3 Neo-Reference: Getting Ready for Real Change
A4 Videoconference Adventures: RISE Phase II
A5 New Social Networks for Library Promotion and Reputation Monitoring
B1 Digitization and CONTENTdm: Strategies, Pitfalls and Best Practices
B2 Make Your Website Mobile-Ready
B3 Digital Resources for Digital Classrooms
B4 Video Streaming for a Consortium
B5 Do Consumer Information Technologies Need to be Taught? The RSS Example
C1 A Rough Guide to LibGuides: Pathfinders Go Web 2.0
C2 Increasing User Access by Transforming to a Metadata Driven Website
C3 Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library Update
C4 Online Catalogues: What Users and Librarians Want
C5 Unlocking the Walled Garden: Federated Searching at Chinook Arch Regional Library System
D1 What Google Did Next
D2 Creating Order Out of Chaos: Writing and Maintaining Web Design Standards
D3 APLEN Update
D4 Metadata In Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries
D5 Technology Planning for Public Libraries - Provincial Perspective

 

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