Now Available On Your Desktop

The teleconference series Library Challenges & Opportunities is now available via streaming video delivered directly to your desktop. The individual parts of the series are described below:

Library Marketing - Discuss how library professionals can promote new services and programs to patrons. Innovative information specialists will share their marketing success stories and tips to understanding the modern library customer and methods of promoting services to suit their needs.

Library Transformation: Library as Place - Discover revolutionary practices that have rejuvenated the image of the library from a building with books, to an exciting destination. Industry experts will indicate how libraries are transforming to become community centers with the advent of amenities such as comfortable furnishing, high-speed internet access, and on-site cafes.

Library Hot Topics - Get the inside scoop on all of the happenings of the ALA Conference. What are the hot topics? What are the exciting new technologies? In the style of a television news magazine, qualified speakers who are in-the-know, and at the forefront of new issues share their knowledge with those who were unable to attend the conference.

The URL’s below provide links to the webcasts of each teleconference.

#1  "Library Marketing"   www.dupage.edu/COD/index.php?id=157
#2  "Library as Place"  www.dupage.edu/COD/index.php?id=156
#3 "Library Hot Topics" (Look for the announcement of this link in the June issue of Points North.)

To receive the Webcast, you need Windows Media Player 7 or higher.
You can get an updated Windows player here: www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/download/download.aspx
The Macintosh version is available here: www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/software/Macintosh/osx/default.aspx