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<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Apologies for
cross-posting!</span></font></i></b></p>
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<h1 style='border:none;padding:0in'><b><font size=3 color=navy face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy'>Lost In Translation:
Can Children's Librarians and IT Staff Talk? </span></font></b></h1>
<h1 style='border:none;padding:0in'><b><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>November 9, 2004</span></font></b></h1>
<h1 style='border:none;padding:0in'><b><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:normal'>Co-sponsored by
the OLC Children’s And IT Divisions, with generous funding from OHIONET</span></font></b></h1>
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<h1><b><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Can
we talk? <br>
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Not “may” we talk, but “can” as in “are we able
to talk?<br>
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Talk to whom? Talk about what? <br>
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</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;font-weight:normal'>Leaders of OLC’s Children’s
Services Division and its Information Technology Division have pooled their expertise
and resources to create a workshop focused on the needful communication that
has to take place between the library’s IT department and its
children’s services staff if the library’s website is going to be
appealing to its youngest users. The latter, creative people that they are,
generally have fabulous notions about what will entice and engage children:
Lights! Color! Action! All too often, however, IT folks, practical people that
they are, understand the technical difficulties inherent in mounting web pages
that may not download quickly, require additional plug-ins or leave less-savvy
users behind. Often, in terms too technical, they’re expertise is
perceived as a roadblock to help the children’s staff achieve its vision.<br>
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<i><span style='font-style:italic'>What to do?</span></i><br>
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This workshop invites </span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>both children’s and IT staff</span></font><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
font-weight:normal'> to explore ways to more effectively communicate and to
understand what to do, what not to do, and why to do or not to do it when
working to design engaging children’s sites.</span></font></h1>
<h1><b><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Verdana'>See the full agenda and details at</span></font></b></h1>
<h1><b><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Verdana'><a href="http://www.olc.org/WorkshopDescription.asp?ID=279">http://www.olc.org/WorkshopDescription.asp?ID=279</a></span></font></b></h1>
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