Post-Conference Resources

Thank you for attending the WAAL Annual Conference!
The Conference Committee is grateful for your participation--and we hope that your days spent along the shores of Green Lake have been both peaceful and productive.

Below, you will find links to the materials shared by conference speakers. (Other related information and web sites may be included). We invite you to visit this page frequently--resources will be posted as they become available.

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Wednesday, April 17

E-Books and Wisconsin Academic Libraries: Where Are We Headed? (presentation--Kathy Schneider and David Weinberg-Kinsey)

Plenary: High Touch/High Tech: The Library of Congress' Collaborative Digital Reference Service (Diane Nester Kresh)

• Collaborative Digital Reference Service (web site)
• CDRS In the News (web site)

Keepers of the Flame in a Brave New World: Academic Librarians in the 21st Century (Luncheon presentation--James Gollata)

Library Instruction: Bringing the Library to the Faculty (Steven Heser and Molly Susan Mathias)

• Mathias, Molly Susan and Steven Heser. Mobilize Your Instruction Program with Wireless Technology. Computers in Libraries 22.3, (2002): 24-30. (article)

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Thursday, April 18

Virtual Reference: UW-Madison's Live Help Service (presentation--Steven Frye and Eunice Graupner)

Electronic Reserves: Out of the Box (Debra Duncan, Mary Luebke and Patrick J. Wilkinson)

• Docutek (product web site)

Government Information after September 11th (Elizabeth Harper and Michael Watkins)

• Government Documents Round Table, ALA (web site)

WISCAT Union Catalog and Linked Automation Systems (Sally Drew)

• WISCAT (web site)

It's Electrifying!: Accessing e-journals through OCLC Electronic Collections Online (Kirsten Houtman and Sonya Oliver)

• WiLS OCLC Services (web site)
• OCLC Firstsearch, Electronic Collections Online (product web site)

Plenary: The Incredible Internet Search Engines: Academic Librarians' Friend of Foe? (Greg Notess)

• Search Engine Showdown (web site) Greg Notess

Emerging from Immersion: Information Literacy in Action (Carolyn DeLuna, Jane Egan, Patricia Herrling, Andrea Kenny, Karen Osborne Pope and Jennifer Schmidt)

• WAAL Information Literacy Committee (web site)

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Friday, April 19

Using WebCT to Deliver Library Instruction (presentation--Paula Ganyard)

• UWGB Library Instruction (web site)

Accessibility for Electronic Information Resources for Users with Disabilities: A Review of the Latest Research (presentation--Axel Schmetzke)

• Web Accessibility Survey Homepage (web site) Axel Schmetzke
• Accessible Web Design: Resources (web site) Axel Schmetzke
• Forthcoming editions of Library Hi Tech will present additional research on accessibility.

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Additions? Corrections? Please send comments or queries to Karen Dunn (kdunn@library.wisc.edu)

Page revised: May 13, 2002