[MNASIS-L] Online OPAL Programs: February 8 & 15

[Janet Arth]

Friday, February 8, 2008 at 1:00 Central
   -- A Casual Conversation with Lori Bell--

Lori Bell is the innovative and energetic Director of Innovation at 
the Alliance Library System <http://www.alliancelibrarysystem.com/>. 
Lori has been instrumental in bringing librarianship to Second Life 
and other virtual worlds. She also is interested in electronic books, 
digital audio books, Library 2.0 tools, and other cool stuff. Lori 
also is a Library Journal Mover & Shaker 
<http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA385859.html>.

The Casual Conversations series is designed to be up-close and 
personal from a respectable online distance. While there are many 
conferences (in-person, online, and in-world) where librarians can 
hear leaders in the field make formal presentations about interesting 
projects, there are few opportunities to hear these same leaders 
discuss informally what they currently are working on, their future 
plans and goals, the challenges and opportunities facing 
librarianship, their personal pet peeves, etc.

Host: <http://www.tapinformation.com/>TAP Information Services
Link to http://www.conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs1641902f62b4
at the time of the meeting to join the OPAL Online Auditorium program.


Friday, February 15, 2008 at 1:00 Central:
   -- A Casual Conversation with Michelle Boule --

Michelle Boule is an academic librarian, a blogger at 
<http://wanderingeyre.com/>A Wandering Eyre and at the ALA TechSource 
Blog, an organizer of <http://www.sociallibraries.com/> Five Weeks to 
a Social Library, an LJ Mover and Shaker, and much more. Plus, she is 
married to a real-life rocket scientist, owns a Nebolish Mastiff 
named Pullo, and is about to have a baby.

The Casual Conversations series is designed to be up-close and 
personal from a respectable online distance. While there are many 
conferences (in-person, online, and in-world) where librarians can 
hear leaders in the field make formal presentations about interesting 
projects, there are few opportunities to hear these same leaders 
discuss informally what they currently are working on, their future 
plans and goals, the challenges and opportunities facing 
librarianship, their personal pet peeves, etc.

Host: <http://www.tapinformation.com/>TAP Information Services
Link to the 
<http://www.conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs1641902f62b4>OPAL 
Online Auditorium


  -- Watch for more information about these upcoming Casual Conversations --

Friday, March 28, 2008: Marshall Breeding
Friday, April 11, 2008: Jenny Levine
Friday, May 16, 2008: Stephen Abram
Friday, June 6, 2008: Michael Stephens
Friday, July 11, 2008: Greg Schwartz