[OPLINLIST] This Just In...From the State Library...Online Lecture Series

[Jay Burton]

December brings two online lecture events from OPAL...Online Programming for All Libraries.  

This collaborative effort by libraries of all types provides cooperative web-based programming and training for library users and library staff members. It is one of the newest services available now from the State Library.

Questions? Contact Jay Burton at jburton at sloma.state.oh.us or call 614.466.5511

These live, online events are held in an online auditorium where participants can interact via voice-over-IP, text chatting, and synchronized browsing. 

Upcoming Events...
Note: To enter the online room and participate in an event, simply click on the title of the event. Nearly all OPAL public events are free of charge and open to all library users worldwide. Visit the complete list of events at http://www.opal-online.org/progschrono.htm
Friday, December 7, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. 
A Casual Conversation with Meredith Farkas 

Meredith Farkas is the Distance Learning Librarian at Norwich University in Vermont. She also blogs at Information Wants to Be Free. Her book, Social Software in Libraries, was published by Information Today earlier in 2007. She also writes a column for American Libraries, was one of the organizers of the online course, Five Weeks to a Social Library, as is known by some as the Library Queen of Wikis.
Friday, January 18, 2008 beginning at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time, 1:00 Central, noon Mountain, 11:00 a.m. Pacific, and 7:00 p.m. GMT/UTC/Zulu:
A Casual Conversation with Curtis Rogers 

Curtis Rogers is the Director of the Division of Statewide Library Services at the South Carolina State Library. He also blogs at Libraries & Life. 


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. 

Watch for more information about these upcoming Casual Conversations: 

Friday, Feb. 8, 2008: Lori Bell 
Friday, Feb. 15, 2008: Michelle Boule 
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 

Host: TAP Information Services 

Quick Link for Regular Participants who have already installed the OPAL Software: OPAL Online Auditorium 

Link for First-Time OPAL Users, Moderators, and Users of the No-Software-Download-Required Interface: OPAL Online Auditorium 
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 beginning at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time, 1:00 Central, noon Mountain, 11:00 a.m. Pacific, and 7:00 p.m. GMT/UTC/Zulu:

Gifts to the Nation: Treasures from the Library of Congress 

Watch for further information about these upcoming events in the Library of Congress online series of programs: 

Jan 9 - Gen. Washington and the Spy Map 
Feb 13 - History of chocolate in the US 
Mar 12 - Early scrapbooks and the women who created them 
April 9 - Poetry 
May 14 - Jefferson's Library 
June 11 - All History Is Local in a Digital World 

Host: Library of Congress 

Quick Link for Regular Participants who have already installed the OPAL Software: OPAL Online Auditorium 

Link for First-Time OPAL Users, Moderators, and Users of the No-Software-Download-Required Interface: OPAL Online Auditorium 
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 beginning at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time, 8:00 Central, 7:00 Mountain, 6:00 Pacific, and 2:00 a.m. Thursday GMT/UTC/Zulu:

Book Discussion of the detective novel Moth by James Sallis 

If you've never read a James Sallis novel, you're in for a treat. They're tough, sensitive, literate, perceptive, enigmatic, and funny. In this second novel in the series set in New Orleans and featuring the character Lew Griffin, Lew, who has been a private investigator and collector of bad debts, is trying to concentrate on his fiction writing. But then events and memories draw him back into the murky realm of private investigations. 

This discussion is part of the ongoing series of casual book discussions called "Waiting for the Other Gumshoe to Drop," focussing on American and British hard-boiled detective fiction. 

This discussion will also be held in Second Life at Mystery Manor on Info Island. You may participate in OPAL, in Second Life, or both! 

NLS Audiobook number RC 57992. 

Host: TAP Information Services 

Quick Link for Regular Participants who have already installed the OPAL Software: OPAL Online Auditorium 

Link for First-Time OPAL Users, Moderators, and Users of the No-Software-Download-Required Interface: OPAL Online Auditorium 
  Questions? Contact Jay Burton at jburton at sloma.state.oh.us or call 614.466.5511


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