9:00-9:30 Registration and Refreshments

St. Joseph's Auditorium, 985 Madison Avenue

9:30-9:45 Welcome Remarks

Barbara A. Durniak, President, ENY/ACRL
R. Mark Sullivan, President, College of Saint Rose

9:45-11:00 Library and Computer Center Cooperation - "What's Working Where, How and Why"

Panelists:
Bill Davis
Director, Computing and Information Technology,
SUNY Geneseo

Dr. Barbra Higginbotham
Chief Librarian and Executive Director,
Academic Information Technologies,
Brooklyn College of the City University of New York

Mary-Alice Lynch
Director of Learning Resources,
Adirondack Community College

Cerise Oberman, Moderator
Dean of Library and Information Services,
SUNY Plattsburgh

Peggy Seiden
College Librarian,
Skidmore College

11:00-11:15 Break for Refreshments

11:15-12:30 "Ask the Experts" Question and Answer Period with the Panelists.

Cerise Oberman, Moderator.

12:30-1:45 Lunch

1:45-3:00 Concurrent Afternoon Sessions - Campus Center

Session 1

"Project Renaissance"
Trudi Jacobson, Coordinator of User Education Programs, SUNYA and Kathleen Turek, Assistant Director, Computing Services, SUNYA
Project Renaissance, an exciting new concept for providing freshmen with a small college experience withing the large university setting, includes a full complement of information technology skills. This aspect of the program has developed out of earlier library/computer center cooperative ventures, and has provided opportunities for continuing cooperation.

Session 2

"Beyond Traditional BI - Toward Electronic Literacy"
Carla List, Coordinator, Library Education Services,
SUNY Plattsburgh
No longer do we wheel in a truck full of books for a show and tell BI session, but how different is demonstration of a computer database? Strides in technology should prompt us to examine the goals we set for our instruction sessions and programs.

Session 3

"Problems and Pitfalls in the New Reference Paradigm"
David Harralson, Director of the Library,
Utica College of Syracuse University
A discussion of Utica College Library's move toward--and then away from--the New Reference Paradigm.

Session 4

"Establishing Collection Policies for Electronic Materials"
Cancelled.

Session 5

"Creating the Electronic Classroom"
Mary Jane Petrowski, Head of Library Instruction,
Colgate University
Planning a multimedia classroom? This session will address all aspects of planning and offer practical suggestions based on the Colgate University experience.

Session 6

"Marist's Digital Library Project with IBM"
Barbara Breiman, Automation and Projects Librarian,
Marist College
IBM, Marist Library, Information Services,faculty and students participating in the development of MERIT, a component of IBM's nationwide Digital Library initiative. A discussion of this development and a demonstration of the prototype will be presented.

3:00-3:30 Conference Wrap-up - "Where Are We Now and What's Next?"

Cerise Oberman, Closing Speaker

3:45-4:15 Tour of Neil Hellman Library

PARKING

Since parking at the College of Saint Rose will be primarily limited to on-street spaces in the campus area, carpooling is strongly recommended. A block of parking spaces will be available at nearby Siena College, Loudonville, and a shuttle bus will transport conference attendees to and from Saint Rose. Indicate your parking preference on the Registration Form. The first 50 who sign up for Siena parking will be contacted with further information.

CONFERENCE LOCATION

Registration, refreshments, the morning program, and conference wrap-up, will be held in St. Joseph's Auditorium. Lunch will be in Campus Center Dining Rooms 1 & 2 and the afternoon sessions will take place in the Campus Center Conference Rooms. The emergency phone number during the conference is (518) 454-5180, Library Circulation Desk.

ARRIVING EARLY?

There will be an informal pre-conference dinner (dutch treat) at 7:00p.m. for those arriving on Thursday, at Mangia's Pizza & Pasta, Stuyvesant Plaza, Albany, Tel. No. (518) 482-8000. Indicate on the Conference Registration Form if you will be attending.

ACCOMMODATIONS

Below are listed a few area motels if overnight accommodations are needed.

RAMADA INN OF ALBANY, 1228 Western Avenue, (518) 489-2981
QUALITY INN, I-90 Everett Rd., (518) 438-8431
HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS, 1442 Western Avenue, (518) 438-0001

"Who's in Charge Here? Connections and Coalitions Between Libraries and Computer Centers"

REGISTRATION FEES (Includes Lunch)

Check One:

ENY/ACRL Member $35.00 ........
Non-Member $45.00 ........

For non-members this fee includes a one-year membership.
........ Yes, I am interested in a one-year membership.
........ No, I am not interested in a one-year membership.

Student or Retiree $25.00 ........
Check here if you need a receipt. ........

Annual memberships expire on August 31. To inquire about your membership
status, email or phone Jane Subramanian, Membership Chair, (315) 267-332.

........ I plan to attend dinner at Mangia's Pizza & Pasta on Thursday evening, October 10.
........ I will need handicapped access at the conference.
........ I plan to park at Siena College and shuttle to Saint Rose. Please send me directions and details.
........ I plan to park in Saint Rose vicinity.

AFTERNOON PROGRAMS

Please make checks payable to ENY/ACRL and mail to:
Peter Koonz, Local Arrangements
Neil Hellman Library The College of Saint Rose
392 Western Avenue Albany, New York 12203

REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 1, 1996.

Created by Kristin Strohmeyer,
Hamilton College Library,
Last modified, September 5, 1996

Posted September 5, 1996
Michael Engle
Eastern New York Chapter
Association of College and Research Libraries
URL: http://urislib.library.cornell.edu/confF96.html