“Managing and Working in the Collaborative Environment: Techniques & Technology to Make Collaborations Easier”

Collaboration isn’t just a great idea, many organizations now find it both a cultural and fiscal necessity.  However, it takes more than good intentions to make sure that collaboration succeeds.  Dr. Stansbury’s workshop features strategies and techniques that increase success in the collaborative environment.  Materials will be presented in a variety of ways, including hands-on exercises, plus both high-tech and low-tech tools to increase effectiveness in the collaborative environment.  Highlights of the morning’s agenda include:

The Nature of Collaborative Work: 

• Characteristics of Collaborative Work, Types of Tasks
• Group Member Skills & Competencies, Decision-Making Processes

Tools for Collaboration:

• Interpersonal, Institutional
• Checklists & Guidelines
• Software: Groove, ProjectPlace, Microsoft Project and open source

Dr. Stansbury, Assistant Professor in Kent State University’s School of Library and Information Science, recently collaborated on “Virtual Inequality: Beyond the Digital Divide”
 
DETAILS & AGENDA
Date:  Friday April 30, 2004 from 8:30 a.m. until 12:00 Noon
Where:  Smith Auditorium at OCLC in Dublin, Ohio
Time:   8:30 AM TO 9:00 AM – Continental Breakfast & Registration. Meet fellow participants and enjoy fresh coffee, an assortment of muffins, donuts, bagels, coffee cake, scones & juice.

Cost: 

• Members of ASIS&T and SLA  $35.00
• Non-members $45.00
  A $5 discount is applied if payment is received by April 15th

Checks should be made payable to: CO-ASIS&T and sent to the attention of Ginny Browne,
Knowledge Management Librarian, OCLC
6565 Frantz Road
Dublin, OH 43017
ph: +1-614-761-5217
fax: +1-614-718-7460
browneg@oclc.org

This program is co-sponsored by the Central Ohio Chapter of the American Society for Information Science & Technology and the Central Ohio Chapter of the Special Libraries Association.

OCLC Location & Map available at: http://www.oclc.org/about/headquarters/maps/default.htm

Dr. Richard Rubin discusses the major issues we face as technological forces redefine the nature of work, the workplace and the work week.

WHERE:
OCLC Kilgour Auditorium
6565 Frantz Rd.
Dublin, Ohio

WHEN:
Monday, March 17, 2003
6:30 pm – 7:00 pm – Refreshments
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Program

WHERE:
Columbus Metropolitan Library, Main Library
96 S. Grant Avenue
The Larry D. Black Auditorium

WHEN:
Wednesday, February 5, 2003
6:00 pm – 6:30 pm – Refreshments
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Program

As we move away from traditional print resources toward the digital library of the future, how do we forsee and manage the changes ahead? At OSU, Mr. Branin provides leadership for one of the largest university library systems in the nation. In addition to overseeing grants dealing with the introduction of new information technologies to libraries, he has served as a consultant and published widely on collection management and information technology topics. Come and share in what promises to be an interesting and informative discussion!

WHEN: Wednesday, March 6, 2002
5:30 p.m. Appetizers and networking
6:30-8 p.m. Presentation, Q&A, and short business meeting

WHERE: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
6565 Frantz Road
Dublin, OH 43017-3395 USA

Kilgour Building Park in the visitor parking lot and enter through the front entrance.

Presented by Larry Learn
Director, Telecommunications Planning, OCLC
Recipient of the LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for 1997

Dinner Program

For the first portion of the hour, Larry Learn will speak about the new and upcoming telecommunications technologies, with emphasis on the three issues (technolgy, economics, regulation) supporting library applications. The presentation will be at a high level, geared toward people who need to know what these technologies mean, but who don’t work with telecommunications every day. Included technologies are:

• High-Speed Modems (33.6/56 Kbps)
• ADSL
• frame-relay
• cable
• wireless communications
• satellite
• ISDN – not new, but where is it now?
• fiber – will everyone ever be converted to fiber?

The second portion of the hour is available for you to use Larry as a free consultant: ask the telecommunications question that you haven’t been able to find the answer to, or ask for an explanation of an answer you got somewhere else!