CIL at a Glance

Hear from experts, practitioners, technologists, and strategists—all from the information industry. Computers in Libraries offers five strong program streams each day filled with information sessions, panels, and facilitated discussions; two special streams focused on special and government libraries; plus many workshops, networking opportunities, and an extensive exhibit hall hosting sponsors and cybertours. You can participate in sessions relating to information discovery and search, ebooks, web design and development, user experience, K-12 strategies and practices, collaboration, next-generation catalogs, innovation, learning and training, marketing and planning, mobile practices, and more. With over 150 knowledgeable speakers in five simultaneous tracks plus three dynamic keynotes, pre and post conference workshops, and an entertaining and informative evening program, Computers in Libraries 2011 is a definite must-attend event. It caters to all interests and all levels of knowledge while providing many exciting networking opportunities—join speakers, authors, and fellow participants in refreshment breaks, informal dinner groups, receptions, and more. [Download as PDF]
| Sunday, March 20, 2011 | ||
| Start Time | End Time | Pre-Conference Workshops |
| 9:00 AM | 12:00 PM |
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| 9:00 AM | 4:30 PM |
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| 1:30 PM | 4:30 PM |
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| 5:30 PM | 7:30 PM | Gaming & Gadgets Petting Zoo |

| Monday, March 21, 2011 | ||||||
| Start Time | End Time | Information Discovery & Search | Web Presence & Experience | Communities & Collaboration | Marketing & Measuring | Internet@Schools |
| 8:45 AM | 9:45 AM | Keynote – Google Books: Strategic Focus & Value to Library Communities | ||||
| 9:45 AM | 10:30 AM | Coffee Break – Exhibit Hall Opens | ||||
| 10:30 AM | 11:15 AM | Super Searcher Strategies & Tips | Building Great Websites | Using Partnerships & Collaboration to Deliver Service Value | Promoting With Web 2.0 | Collections for Today and Tomorrow: How “e” to Be |
| 11:30 AM | 12:15 PM | Search Engine Update | Improve Your Website Now! | Building Community With Faculty & Suppliers | Measuring the Soft Stuff | |
| 12:15 PM | 1:30 PM | Lunch Break – A Chance to Visit the Exhibits | ||||
| 1:30 PM | 2:30 PM | Search: Quick Tips for Adding Value | Mining Data to Learn About Libraries & Users | Building Community Partnerships: Ideas & Insights | Demonstrating the Impact of Public Access Technology | The Author Visit: From On-Site Appearance to Online Chat With Teachers and Students |
| 2:30 PM | 3:15 PM | Coffee Break – In the Exhibit Hall | ||||
| 3:15 PM | 4:00 PM | Visualization & Geospatial Technologies | In Pursuit of Library Elegance | Collaboration: Connecting Research & Practice | Innovative Marketing Tools and Strategies | In the Trenches—Adaptive Strategies to Teaching With LibGuides |
| 4:15 PM | 5:00 PM | Semantic Web Apps for Researchers: VIVO | Drupal: The Basics & More | SharePoint: Collaboration Tech Tips | Performance Measures: Illustrating Value to Your Community | |
| 5:00 PM | 5:45 PM | Reception in the Exhibit Hall | ||||
| 11:15 AM | 12:15 PM | Ebooks Go to School: Limitations and Possibilities for Instruction and Leisure Reading | ||||
| 4:00 PM | 5:00 PM | Kids Doing Research Right | ||||

| Tuesday, March 22, 2011 | ||||||
| Start Time | End Time | Innovative Services & Programs | Next-Gen Systems & Operations | Ebook Trends & Practices | Enterprise Trends & Practices | Internet@Schools |
| 9:00 AM | 9:45 AM | Keynote – Engaging Digital Natives: Strategies, Services & Satisfaction | ||||
| 9:45 AM | 10:30 AM | Coffee Break – Exhibit Hall Opens | ||||
| 10:30 AM | 11:15 AM | Learning From Inspirational Libraries | Community Tagging | EBook Publishing: Practices & Challenges | Reinventing the Corporate Library | Best of Web 2.0 for Teaching and Learning |
| 11:30 AM | 12:15 PM | MetaSocial: Making Online & Mobile Interactions Rock | Current OPACs & Next-Gen Systems | Empowering the Reader in a Digital World | Organizational Intelligence & Raising Your Value | A Homework Help Site That Meets Teens Where They “Live” |
| 12:15 PM | 1:30 PM | Lunch Break – A Chance to Visit the Exhibits | ||||
| 1:30 PM | 2:15 PM | “Teching Up” Traditional Library Programs | What’s New & Engaging | EBook Models & Challenges | New Alignments, Structures, & Services | Merging Literature and Web 2.0 |
| 2:30 PM | 3:15 PM | Game Creation Programs in Libraries | Integrating iPads Into Learning & Libraries | EBooks & Their Growing Value for Libraries | Mobile Programs for the Enterprise | Graphic Language (Arts!) in the Library |
| 3:15 PM | 4:00 PM | Coffee Break – In the Exhibit Hall | ||||
| 4:00 PM | 5:00 PM | Getting to The Eureka! Moment | RFID: Technology & Applications | EBooks & Their Growing Value for Libraries (continued) | Successful Multigenerational Collaboration Strategies | Marketing Strategies for Your School Library— Create a Brand and Control Your Image |
| 7:30 PM | 9:00 PM | Dead & Innovative Technology: Recreating the Information World | ||||

| Wednesday, March 23, 2011 | ||||||
| Start Time | End Time | Planning & Implementing | User Experience | Mobile Trends & Practices | Content Management & Preservation | Training & Learning |
| 9:00 AM | 9:45 AM | Keynote – Adding Value to Communities | ||||
| 9:45 AM | 10:30 AM | Coffee Break – Exhibit Hall Opens | ||||
| 10:30 AM | 11:15 AM | Thinking Strategically & Critically: Seeing Possibilities | Faculty Information Using Behavior | Mobile Landscape and Location | Digital Preservation Strategies: Value Through Longevity | Face-to-Face? Avatars & Facebook for Learning |
| 11:30 AM | 12:15 PM | Effective Workflows for Multi-Gens & Tech Change | Usability Express: Recipe for Libraries | Mobile Hot Topics | Libraries in the Semantic Web | Creating 21st-Century Information-Literacy Programs |
| 12:15 PM | 1:30 PM | Lunch Break – A Chance to Visit the Exhibits | ||||
| 1:30 PM | 2:30 PM | Persuasion & Permission | Cool Tools: Measuring, Visualizing, & Analyzing What Libraries Do | QR Codes | Repositories: Strategies & Practices | Podcasting & Tools: Endless Opportunities! |
| 2:45 PM | 3:30 PM | Planning & Realizing the “Fourth Place” | Digital Collections: Creative Development & User Experience | Mobile Usability | Collecting & Preserving User-Generated Content | Learning Virtually: 23 Things & Counting |
| 3:45 PM | 4:30 PM | Before & After the Plan: Tracking Strategic Initiatives | Social Media Strategy & Goals | Building Community & Mobile Experiences | Building Digital Collections While Saving Deteriorating Microforms | Transliteracies: Libraries as the Critical “Classroom” |

| Thursday, March 24, 2011 | ||
| Start Time | End Time | Post-Conference Workshops |
| 9:00 AM | 12:00 PM |
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| 1:30 PM | 4:30 PM |
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| 9:00 AM | 4:30 PM |
Data Curation: Understanding & Dealing With Research Data
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