Category: Events

Library events around the Bay Area

EVENT: BayNet 2010 Annual Meeting with Author Siva Vaidhyanathan

By BayNet | Published: February 26, 2010

Please RSVP by May 14, 2010. Register here.

EVENT: Tour of the Bernard E. Witkin Alameda County Law Library with Mark Estes, March 10

By BayNet | Published: February 5, 2010

Bay Area Library and Information Network is proud to present:

What: A tour of the Bernard E Witkin Alameda County Law Library with Mark E. Estes, Law Library Director, followed by a no host social dinner/cocktail hour at Pacific Coast Brewing Company.

When: 3:30 pm Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Where: The Bernard E. Witkin Alameda County Law Library is located at 125 12th Street (on 12 St. between Oak St. and Madison St.),Oakland, CA. 94607. The Pacific Coast Brewing Company is located at 906 Washington Street Oakland, CA 94607

EVENT: George Oates of the Internet Archive: What is an Open Library? Feb 2

By BayNet | Published: January 14, 2010

Bay Area Library and Information Network and SLA SF Bay Area Region Chapter are proud to present:

What: George Oates of the Internet Archive: What is an Open Library?
When: Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Where: Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704. (510) 848-7800.

The web allows libraries to describe and expose their collections in unprecedented ways. George Oates, head of the Internet Archive’s Open Library project, will explore some of the exciting benefits that placing books into a network affords us as she outlines the upcoming redesign of the openlibrary.org web site.

Oates is an award-winning, world-renowned web designer. A member of the founding team that built Flickr, she is fascinated by collaboration, organic information systems and virtual society. After creating the innovative Commons program (flickr.com/commons) as a way for institutions around the world to share their photographic collections on Flickr, she now finds herself ensconced in the world of librarianship, heading up the Open Library project at the Internet Archive.

SLA-SF will also present awards to its 2009 recipients: Jaye Lapachet (Professional Achievement Award), Linda Yamamoto (Special Projects Award), and Anne Hall (Horizon Award).

Agenda

5:30-6:30 p.m.             Registration, networking and appetizers
6:30-7:15 p.m.            SLA-SF and BayNet announcements and awards presentation
7:15-8:30 p.m.             Program with Q&A following

Transportation

Public Transit: Berkeley City Club is about six blocks from the Downtown Berkeley BART station.

Parking: Street parking is difficult. There are parking lots at in the Sather Gate Public Garage at 2450 Durant Ave. (BCC will validate for 50% off) and at UC Berkeley (the closest lots are the Bancroft Fulton and the Ellsworth structure). There may also be parking at First Presbyterian Church on Channing Way between Telegraph and Dana and Douglas Parking (behind and across street from BCC).

Cost: $25 for BayNet/SLA members, $30 for non-members and guests, and $20 for students, retired, and unemployed.

DEADLINE: Please register online or mail your check by Tuesday, January 26.

Online registration: http://units.sla.org/chapter/csfo/calendar/regform_oates.htm

(Note: You do not need a PayPal account to register through this PayPal-administered site.)

If you prefer to mail in your registration, please see attached file for a registration form.

Also posted in Events - Past | Tagged internet archive, open library |

EVENT: BayNet Board Meeting, February 3

By BayNet | Published: January 7, 2010

The next BayNet board meeting will be held Wednesday February 3rd from 9:30 am to 12:00 noon at the Academy of Art University Library.

The meeting will be held in room 621 of the Library, which is located on the 6th floor of 180 New Montgomery Street (at Howard Street), San Francisco, CA 94105. (Map). Please RSVP to Debra Sampson, Library Director, dsampson@academyart.edu .

Also posted in Events - Past, San Francisco |

EVENT: 21st Century Education: Motivation, Creativity, and Achievment, January 16

By BayNet | Published: January 4, 2010

On Saturday, January 16, 2010, the San Francisco Waldorf High School Lecture Series presents:

“21st CENTURY EDUCATION: MOTIVATION, CREATIVITY, and ACHIEVEMENT”

A Conversation with Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of A Whole New Mind:Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future and Drive: the Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

and Michael Krasny, host of KQED’s Forum and Professor of English at San Francisco State University.

Location: Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California Street,
onsite parking, public transportation – see details below
Time: 2:00 pm, Book signing to follow.
For reservations and information: call 415-213-6194, email hslectures@sfwaldorf.org or visit www.sfwaldorfhighschool.org/lectures

Suggested donation $5.00
Co-sponsored by Books Inc.

What is the most important preparation for work in the 21st century? What values and skills will be needed and rewarded? What truly motivates us to achieve? How do we foster internal motivation in students to do well at school and for life?

Join us for a thought-provoking presentation and discussion with best-selling author Daniel Pink on an education that moves far beyond left-brain “academic” thinking, to an approach that fully integrates social and emotional learning-one that calls upon students’ inner resources to meet each other and the world.

In Pink’s new book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, he examines 40 years of research in behavioral science that calls into question how we run our schools, organizations and many aspects of our lives. Pink will share insights into what research tells us about motivation , potential, and reward systems. He will highlight the motivational techniques that have long-term benefits for learners and the motivators that help unlock the mind’s potential to think critically and creatively.

Public transportation:
The following MUNI bus lines stop in front of the JCCSF:
#1 California
#2 Clement
#3 Jackson
#4 Sutter
#43 Masonic

Also posted in Events - Past, San Francisco |

EVENT: Solo Librarians Meeting Jan 27th

By BayNet | Published: December 22, 2009

The Solo Librarians of the San Andreas Chapter of SLA invite you to join them at their first meeting of 2010 on Wednesday, January 27th at 6 PM. Anyone with an interest in libraries is welcome including students and recent grads of the MLIS programs.

The Solo Librarians will be meeting at the Beethoven Center (http://www.sjsu.edu/beethoven) at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library at San Jose State University. The Beethoven Center is located in Room 580 in the special collections area on the fifth floor of the library. A map and directions to the library can be found at the link below.

There will be a tour of the Beethoven Center including a demonstration of the Center’s historical keyboard instruments. Please arrive at the Center by 6 PM. The tour is expected to last about an hour. There will be an opportunity to view the exhibits on your own after the tour. While there is no charge for the tour, the Beethoven Center requests donations to help keep the instruments in tune.

Those who are planning to attend need to contact Sonia Dorfman by January 21, 2010 at sdorfman@neuropace.com or (650) 237-2784.

Sonia Dorfman
Eric Kristofferson

San Andreas Solo Librarians

Directions and Parking: http://www.sjlibrary.org/about/locations/king/directions.htm

Also posted in Events - Past |

EVENT: Oct 20: User-contributed content in Library catalogs

By BayNet | Published: October 19, 2009

The University Library and the BayNet Library Association present a panel discussion on User contributed content in library catalogs as part of the Research for the Real World Symposium at Golden Gate University.

WHEN: Tuesday Oct 20, 2009, 5:30-8:30
WHERE: Golden Gate University, 536 Mission St. (between 1st and 2nd), San Francisco. The panel discussion will be held in the University Library, room 1373. The University library is on the 1st (street level) floor, immediately to the right as you walk in the building.

This event came about as a result of the discussion that took place at a similar panel discussion last March about implementing Web 2.0 technologies in libraries. Many at that event expressed an interest in exploring the pros and cons as well as any measurable efficacy of tag clouds in the library’s online catalog. As a result of discussions with a panelist planned for this event, Roy Tennant, we have expanded the scope of the event to include all other kinds of user-contributed content in library catalogs.

Each panelist will give a 10 minute presentation. After each presentation and at the end there will be a Q&A session with the audience.

5:30 P.M. — Meet and mix (sandwiches and refreshments will be served)
6:00 P.M. — Introducing the panelists
6:15 – 8:00 P.M. — Presentations, Q&A and more Q&A

Moderator:
Steven Dunlap — Head of Technical Services, University Library, Golden Gate University.

Panelists:
Ann Sperske — Teacher Librarian Vintage High School , Napa, CA.
Ann works with high school students to use web tools effectively. http://www.vhs.nvusd.k12.ca.us/vhs_library.html

Roy Tennant (of OCLC and other adventures) — Senior Program Officer, OCLC.
Roy is also the owner of the Web4Lib and XML4Lib electronic discussions, and the creator and editor of Current Cites, a current awareness newsletter published every month since 1990. http://roytennant.com/professional.html

Rice Majors — Product manager for Encore the OPAC discovery layer by Innovative Interfaces Inc.

Cathy Marshall — Senior researcher at Microsoft Research’s Silicon Valley laboratory and an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries at Texas A&M University. She was a long-time member of the research staff at Xerox PARC and has written a soon-to-be-released book, Reading and Writing the Electronic Book. She wrote an article about tags and maintains a blog about her ongoing work.

Also posted in BayNet Libraries, Events - Past, Highlights | Tagged catalog, tags |

EVENT: October 14 – BayNet Board Meeting

By BayNet | Published: October 8, 2009

BayNet will have a board meeting on Wednesday, October 14, from 9:30 – noon. Members are welcome. The meeting will be held at Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass in the San Francisco Ferry Building. Space is limited. Meeting agenda:

Agenda Overview. Confirmation of New Treasurer, Sharon Miller. Vacant board positions that need filling. (Andrea Mitchell 10 minutes)
Secretary’s Report (Jo Falcon 10 minutes). Minutes from previous meeting, and Membership update from Rose Falanga.
Treasurer’s Report/BayNet Insurance (Sharon Miller 10 minutes)
BayNet Board Manual additions/corrections have been made & need vote (Wess Murdough 10 minutes)
Newsletter report (Debra Sampson) 10 minutes
BayNet Strategy Plan/ Where are we? (Andrea Mitchell & Board 25 minutes)
BayNet Board Wiki / Whose responsible? (Board 10 minutes)
Program/Event Reports: Past programs: Health Literacy NCNMLG/BN Joint Event and SLA (Craig 5 minutes); Future of Libraries (Tamera LeBeau 5 minutes); Forthcoming programs: User Contributed Content Panel (Steven Dunlap 5 minutes), New possibilities: (Tamera & Andrea 15 minutes)
Membership information: updating/adding for BayNet member database (Craig Cruz 10 minutes)
Committee assignments, 10 minutes
New Business/ other items?
Schedule next board meeting

Also posted in Events - Past, San Francisco | Tagged board meeting |

EVENT: The Future of Libraries (5.0) – Sept 23

By BayNet | Published: August 22, 2009

The Future of Libraries (5.0): Libraries: The Recovery Engine on the Hard Times Train
Danielle Patrick Milam, Keynote Speaker

San Francisco Public Library, Main Library, Koret Auditorium
Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 9:00 am – 4:45 pm
(sign-in 8:30 – 9:00)
$40 Registration Fee

Sponsored by the Pacific Library Partnership Staff Development Committee (formerly the Library Staff Development Committee of the Greater Bay Area) and the BayNet Library & Information Network.

Conference materials are available at http://www.systemref.org/classes.htm.

“The Future of Libraries 5.0″ is the fifth in an ongoing annual series of conferences where speakers draw from library traditions to highlight innovations taking place in libraries today. This year’s conference will focus on libraries’ special roles in helping our patrons navigate the challenges of today’s economy. Presentations will feature examples of what is and is not currently working for libraries, with an emphasis on projects and programs that are being implemented creatively and economically.

This year’s keynote speaker is Danielle Patrick Milam, Las Vegas-Clark County Library District Foundation Development Director and former Vice President for Program and Development of the Urban Libraries Council. She edited the Urban Libraries Council report “Making Cities Stronger: Public Library Contributions to Local Economic Development”. Danielle will provide a survey of how libraries and businesses are creatively forming partnerships to benefit the communities they serve.

The remainder of the presenters throughout the day are drawn from libraries, nonprofit organizations, and businesses throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and will be discussing the programs, services and collaborations that they have developed to assist with economic development in our communities

For more details and to register, go to http://www.plsinfo.org/workshops/future09.htm .

Daniel Hersh
dhersh@oaklandlibrary.org
for the Library Staff Development Committee of the Greater Bay Area

Also posted in Events - Past, San Francisco | Tagged annual series, innovation |

EVENT: Solo Librarians Meeting on September 10th

By BayNet | Published: August 14, 2009

The Solo Librarians of the San Andreas Chapter of SLA invite you to join them at their next meeting on Thursday, September 10th. Anyone with an interest in libraries is welcome, including students and recent grads of the MLIS programs.

Sonia Dorfman will be hosting the meeting at 6 P.M. on Thursday, September 10th at NeuroPace, 1375 Shorebird Way, Mountain View. The map link is below.

We will have Craig Cruz, Jr. on hand to discuss BayNet (Bay Area Library and Information Network). Founded in 1982, BayNet’s mission is to strengthen connections among all types of libraries in the San Francisco Bay Area. Craig will give us some background on the history of BayNet and discuss its current activities.

Craig Cruz, Jr. is the immediate Past-President of BayNet and a member of the BayNet Executive Board. He is the Manager of the Krames Health Sciences Library at Krames Health & Safety, a provider of patient education information in San Bruno.

You are welcome to bring a snack or dinner to the meeting. There will be soft drinks available. Those who are planning to attend need to contact Sonia Dorfman by September 4th at sdorfman@neuropace.com or (650) 237-2784.

Sonia Dorfman
Eric Kristofferson
San Andreas Solo Librarians

Location map & directions: http://www.neuropace.com/about/contact/map.html

Here is an added tip for locating NeuroPace: Once you are on Shorebird Way, turn right into the driveway at the Accuray sign. The parking lot and building on the left is NeuroPace.

Also posted in Events - Past, San Jose and Silicon Valley | Tagged solo librarians |