SARC
IV
February 27-29, 2008
Hilton St.
Petersburg Carillon Park
St. Petersburg, FL
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Program
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Registration (12:00PM to 5:00PM) and
Opening Reception
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Registration (8:30AM to 5:00PM) and
Conference
Evening outing to the
Salvador Dalí
Museum (transportation included)
Friday, February 29, 2008
Registration (8:30AM to 12:00PM) and
Conference
Full program (pdf;
as of 02/04/2008)
One-page program (pdf)
Conference flyer
(pdf)
SARC sponsors and exhibitors
Available Presentations
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Second Life in the Library and Instruction World - Meg Kribble (ppt)
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"Electronic Legal Information - In Flux" - Robert Hudson (ppt)
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"Live Library Instruction for Distance Learners" - Catherine Lavallée-Welch (pdf)
Keynote Speakers
Thursday, February 28th, 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Stephen
Abram, President of SLA
Stephen Abram is
currently Vice President of Innovation for
SirsiDynix where he
is charged with predicting the future of libraries, technology and user
behavior. His most recent role was as Vice President of Corporate
Development at
Micromedia
ProQuest. In addition to membership in CASLIS he belongs to
SLA’s Toronto Chapter and the Leadership & Management Division. Abram
was awarded SLA’s prestigious John Cotton Dana award in 2003.
Friday, February 29th, 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Graham Farmelo, Senior Research Fellow, Science Museum, London
Graham Farmelo is an international consultant in the public
dimensions of science, a theoretical physicist and noted scholar of Paul
Dirac, Nobel Prize winner, who stands with Einstein in the pantheon of
twentieth-century scientists. Dr Farmelo’s forthcoming biography of
Dirac ‘The Strangest Man’, written mostly at the Institute for Advanced
Study in Princeton, will be published by Faber in September 2008. An
adjunct professor at Northeastern University in Boston, his previous
book ‘It Must be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science’ was one
of the highest-selling popular science books in 2003. He was elected
Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 1999.