The Librarians' Association at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (LAUNC-Chapel Hill) will host the 2010 LAUNC-CH Research Forum on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. in the Hitchcock Room of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center on the UNC Chapel Hill campus. The forum will include poster sessions, paper presentations and a reception. The event is free and open to the public.
The first poster session will begin at 1:00 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Opening remarks will are scheduled at 1:45 p.m. with paper presentations immediately following. A second poster session will be held from 3:15 - 4:00 p.m.
Papers
The titles of the papers and their presenters include:
- "Laying the Foundation: Benchmarking Reference Data for Current and Future Assessment"
Don Welsh, College of William and Mary - "Preserving a County's Past: Cross-Institutional Collaboration to Archive a Community's History"
Susan S. Smith and H. David “Giz” Womack, Wake Forest University - "Taking Summon for a Usability Test Drive at NCSU Libraries"
Abe Crystal, More Better Labs, Inc. and Josh Boyer, North Carolina State University Libraries
Posters
"Surveying the Global Health Efforts of Health Sciences Libraries"
"Open-source Science: the Library's Role"
"Implementing and Assessing Library Instruction in GIS: GIS Boot Camp for Planners"
"Using Genealogical Resources and Methods to Research Late 19th & Early 20th Century Personal Names for NACO Authority Records"
"From Appalachia to Shanghai: Learning through International Librarian Exchange"
"One of me, 500 of Them: Using Streaming Video for Curriculum and Assignment Based Bibliographic Instruction"
"Asking Students What They Think: a Usability Study of LibGuides at Duke University"
"Understanding the Users of a Large Research University's Library's Information Commons"
"Service Fluency: Managing Staff Skill Development for a User-Centered Experience"
"Collaboration and Technology in the CVCC CenTER InnovationSpace"
"From Science to Librarianship: Career Motivation of the Scientist-Turned-Librarian"
All are welcome! Refreshments will be served.
Sponsored by the Librarians' Association at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://www.lib.unc.edu/launcch/forum/
