I'm ok with the time change, however, I'm now confused about the number of sessions. I understood that there would be 2 concurrent sessions of one hour each to be broken up as needed. What I think I'm reading now is 4 concurrent sessions. If the 4 concurrent sessions is correct I will need to double the program. What is the real number of sessions? Holly >>> Tim Mason <[log in to unmask]> 7/24/2006 11:58 am >>> Nancy, I think the switch to 9-10 is good. Holly can correct me, but I think last year they were 30 minutes long. I would like to aim for 8 expos for the 4 rooms. Tim >>> Nancy Burford <[log in to unmask]> 07/24/06 12:06 PM >>> We have a total of 4 rooms blocked for the Tech Expo, from 8 am - 9pm on Monday morning. That's all we can get at that time, as we are using what could be divided up into more rooms for the exhibits hall. I'd really like to switch those to 9:00 - 10:00 anyway, because that way we could have the breakfast/opening of exhibits at 8 am. The way it's scheduled now, people who went to the TechExpos wouldn't get any of the food & drink. Posters are staffed from 10:00-noon, then the business lunch from noon - 2. I could see about adding 2 more after the business lunch from 2-3 but we're taking up 2 of those rooms after the business meeting with 2 SCAMeL sub-group meetings (Collection Development & ILL). But are you planning on giving the demonstrators a full hour? or are these meant as 30 minutes total (20 to demo & 10 for questions)? If that's the case, then we can fit in 8 in the 9-10 slot. Please let me know your thoughts on the time switch from 8-9 to 9-10 ASAP, as that will change the schedule we are sending out in the prelim packet. Nancy >>> Tim Mason <[log in to unmask]> 7/24/2006 8:58 am >>> Holly, Yes, Greg Bodin would be good, also Michelle Malizia and Karen Vargas probably would welcome the chance to demo some of the NLM databases. Donna Timm has a Power Point Presentation she designed in the form of a Jeopardy game. Tons of technology involved and she may have other specialties! I know she shared it at another professional conference, but not sure of which one. Here are some more topics/suggestions, we just need to find a librarian: SurveyMonkey, try Jon Crossno Scopus Blogging Reference chat Blackboard WebCT podcasting RSS feeds Up-to-Date RefWorks, try Dena Hanson @ Cooks PDAs, try Lisa Smith Tim >>> Holly Phillips <[log in to unmask]> 07/19/06 5:45 PM >>> Tim, Yes, I've been kind of heading in that direction. Dohn is working with Ebsco to present on DynaMed. I've also asked a colleague to present with someone from SCR on implementing Go Local. At this point I have a half an hour and I'm thinking that perhaps Greg Bodin may be there and able to do an abbreviated 'Geeks Bearing Gifts' class. He will be here on Monday and I will ask him them. If all of these work out, we'll be ok. I was just hoping someone would step up to the call. Please let me know if the above sounds like a good plan. I can also look into the vendor info you supplied. Holly >>> Tim Mason <[log in to unmask]> 7/19/2006 3:34 pm >>> Holly, let's try another way, contact the vendor directly. For starters, Contact Mike Harwell, [log in to unmask] , at Ebsco to see if knows of librarian using one of the Ebsco products such as DynaMed, their LinkSource, A-Z Service, or any one of their many products. I know they are heavily promoting Dynamed, now all we have to do is find a librarian that's using it and to demo it. Here's another lead, contact John Reynolds at Serial Solutions ([log in to unmask] ). Lots of librarians are using this product. He might know of one that would be willing to work with him in demo'ing their products. Cybertools is another one to contact. Texas Tech uses them. Contact Richard Wood, Librarian Director, who could direct you to someone on his staff to work something up with Mark Roux, the Cybertools Pres. Does anyone else on the committee have any suggestions? Nancy or Esther, could you send Holly a list of vendors that have signed on? Thanks, Tim >>> Holly Phillips <[log in to unmask]> 07/19/06 3:49 PM >>> Hello, There have been no responses for the Tech Expo. Another reminder would be helpful. Holly >>> Tim Mason <[log in to unmask]> 7/19/2006 2:41 pm >>> Program Committee, Since we only have about a week left before the deadline, have we received any more responses for papers, posters, roundtables and the tech expo? And Joe, do we have the final speaker lined up? Either Martha or I will send out another reminder at the beginning of next week. Thanks, Tim Tim Mason SCC/MLA President >Attend SCC/MLA 2006, Oct. 20-24, College Station, TX< Tim Mason Technical Services Librarian UNTHSC Lewis Library 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd. Ft. Worth, TX 76107 817-735-2466 >>> [log in to unmask] 06/17/06 9:08 AM >>> If all are in agreement I will send out another call- with the extended deadline next week. Martha >>> [log in to unmask] >>> We have had 6 contributed paper abstracts so far (5 in the last 2 days). I support extending the deadline to the end of July. Esther Esther Carrigan Deputy Director Medical Sciences Library Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4462 [log in to unmask] voice: 979-845-7540 fax: 979-845-7493 >>> [log in to unmask] 6/16/2006 10:07 am >>> Hi all - I think the end of July would give us (the LAC) plenty of time. It just seems to me that the earlier submission deadline was based on a paper/mail world, where whoever the reviewers were had to have things mailed to them and mail them back to a central point. With online submission and email communications & attachments, you don't need to allow that much time. If we set the extended deadline to the end of July, say Friday the 28th, and gave the reviewers 2 weeks to look them over (until Aug11) and get back to people, and then we (LAC) got the final list by Aug 18th, we'd still have plenty of time. Those of you with more experience should speak up - and loudly - if I'm being way too optimistic with my timing. The preliminary program for the registration packet is, after all, preliminary, and doesn't have to include all the individual paper & poster titles - just the times for the sessions. We just need things in time to do the final program, and make sure everything has room to occur. How many submissions for each activity do we have as of today? Contributed papers? Posters? (Vicki said 3) Roundtables? TechExpo? Just remember to include the poster size in the reminder to the deadline extension, please! The things we really need firmed up in order to put up the registration are the Roundtable Topics (if you want those available as sign-ups) and the Continuing Education offerings. Again, if I'm off in my estimates of how much time we need on our end, let me know! Nancy Nancy Burford Assistant Professor Resources Management Librarian Medical Sciences Library Texas A&M University College Station, Texas 77843-4462 [log in to unmask] 979-845-1820 (voice) 979-845-7493 (fax) ---------------------------------------------------------- Attend SCC/MLA 2006 in College Station, Texas! October 20-24, 2006 >>> [log in to unmask] 6/13/2006 7:31 am >>> I think a lot of folks were waiting until after MLA, and then forgot. I have a poster to submit, but haven't yet, either. dh -----Original Message----- From: SCCPLA - SCC Planning Committee [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Campbell, Shirley Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 7:19 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Posters I am really surprised at the low number! I hope we can extend the deadline. Send out emails begging? -----Original Message----- From: SCCPLA - SCC Planning Committee [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tim Mason Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 12:11 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Posters With only three submissions, we need to extend the deadline and resend the call for papers, posters, etc. Nancy, what would be a good date to set to allow you enough time to get the preliminary program printed? Tim >>> [log in to unmask] 06/12/06 12:03 PM >>> What are your thoughts on this? What has been done in the past? We only have three submissions to date. Vicki -----Original Message----- From: Sherry White [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 11:05 AM To: Vicki de Yampert Subject: Posters Vicki, We were wondering if we are bound by the June 15 deadline for posters. I just came up with an idea yesterday, and Craig Elam likes it. He felt that you would take submissions a little later, if requested. I will see if we can do this idea. It would be a survey. I think it is more appropriate as a poster, rather than a contributed paper. I wasn't even thinking about presenting anything, but something just popped into my head! Sherry Sherry L. White, MLS Serials Librarian Gibson D. 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