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Program: May 4-6, 2006
Opening Reception (May 4)
Trudi Bellardo Hahn, Welcoming Remarks (May 5)
Scott Walter, Keynote Speaker (May 5)
Joan Lippincott, Keynote Speaker (May 6)
Presentation Descriptions | Student Poster Sessions
Conference Schedule | Breakout Session Schedule [PDF]
List of Conference Attendees [PDF]
Handouts & Powerpoint Presentations
Opening Reception
LOEX 2006 will be launched on the evening of May 4, 2006, at a reception to be held in the Marriott Inn & Conference Center's art gallery. Light refreshments and live music will provide a pleasant beginning to the Conference events.
| Trudi Bellardo Hahn
Welcoming Remarks, Friday, May 5 Since November 2004, Trudi Bellardo Hahn has been serving as the Executive Director of the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS). Before that, she had a long career devoted to various aspects of education and training for library and information science professionals and information users. |
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From 1996 to 2004, she was the Head of User Education Services at the University of Maryland Libraries, where she worked closely with teaching faculty and library staff to develop, deliver, and evaluate library educational offerings. She was a member of the Provost’s Commission on Learning Outcomes Assessment, served on the Honor Council to review cases of suspected plagiarism and cheating, and for four years taught UNIV 101, a two-credit course for freshman on information technology skills and making the transition to campus life. She was also an adjunct professor in the College of Information Studies, teaching LBSC 702, User Instruction, as well as other courses. Her dedication to the highest standards in teaching was recognized in 2002 when she was named a Fellow of the Academy for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.
Dr. Hahn’s prior positions included Training Specialist with the Maryland State Department of Education, Director of Professional Development for the Special Libraries Association, Associate Professor at Catholic University of America, and Assistant Professor and Data Services Librarian at the University of Kentucky.
She has authored or edited five books, published numerous papers, and delivered many conference papers and workshops related to topics and issues in education and training. She has been a member of LOEX since 1996 and has made presentations at three LOEX conferences.
Dr. Hahn was the 2003 President of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. She earned her Ph.D. from Drexel University in1984 and MSLS from the University of Kentucky in 1976.
 | Scott Walter
Keynote Speaker Friday, May 5, 2006 Powerpoint presentation [19 slides] Scott Walter is Assistant Dean of Libraries for Information and Instructional Services and Visiting Assistant Professor of Teaching and Leadership at the University of Kansas. |
Scott received his M.A. in Russian Area Studies from Georgetown University, his M.A. in Education from American University, and his M.L.S. and M.S. in History & Philosophy of Education from Indiana University. He received his Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from Washington State University where he focused on the study of college teaching and completed a dissertation entitled "The Librarian in the Academy: Exploring the Instructional Role of Librarians in Higher Education."
Prior to coming to Kansas, Scott served as Interim Assistant Director for Public Services & Outreach at the Washington State University Libraries, where he had also served as Interim Head of Library Instruction and Head of the George B. Brain Education Library. He has also served as Collection Manager for Education at the Ohio State University Libraries, and as Humanities and Education Reference Librarian at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Scott has conducted research on a number of topics related to education librarianship, information literacy instruction, and professional and continuing education for academic librarians. His work has been presented at national meetings of the American Association of School Librarians, the American Educational Research Association, the American Library Association, the Association of College & Research Libraries, the Association for the Study of Library & Information Science Education, and elsewhere. His work has been published in journals such as Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, College & Research Libraries News, Information Technology and Libraries, The Reference Librarian, and Reference Services Review, as well as in a number of edited volumes, including The Collaborative Imperative: Librarians and Faculty Working Together in the Information Universe (2000). Most recently, Scott has collaborated on projects such as Instructional Improvement Programs (ARL SPEC Kit No. 287) (with Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe), High Velocity Change: Creating Collaborative Learning Environments (with Susan Zvacek), and The Digital Difference: Responsible Conduct of Research in a Networked World (with Richard Fyffe).
In addition to his work for the KU School of Education, Scott has taught a first-year seminar for the KU Thematic Learning Communities program, as well as in the School of Education and the American Studies Program at Indiana University, in the School of Education at Indiana State University, in the College of Education and the General Education Program at Washington State University, in the School of Library & Information Science at San Jose State University, and in the Graduate School of Library & Information Science at the University of Illinois. He has developed instructional programs for The Writing Center and the Center for Teaching, Learning, & Technology at Washington State University and for Instructional Development & Support at the University of Kansas.
A complete review of Scott’s work and professional activities is available at http://people.ku.edu/~slwalter/.
| Joan K. Lippincott Keynote Speaker Saturday, May 6, 2006 Powerpoint presentation Joan K. Lippincott is the Associate Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), a joint project of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and EDUCAUSE. |  |
CNI, an institutional membership organization, advances the transformative promise of networked information technology for the dvancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. She has been with CNI since 1990, in the pioneering days of Internet use in libraries.
At CNI, Joan has provided leadership for programs such as New Learning Communities, Assessment of the Networked Environment, Working Together, access to digital government information, and collaborative facilities and learning spaces. She worked on a joint project with the EDUCAUSE NLII on Transformative Assessment.
Joan previously held positions as the Head of Public Services at the Albert R. Mann Library of Cornell University, Head of Reference at George Washington University, the first Instruction Librarian at Georgetown University, and Reference/Instruction Librarian at SUNY at Brockport. She focused many of her efforts on teaching students and faculty about using technology to access and manage information.
In addition, she worked at the Research and Policy Analysis Division of the American Council on Education and the National Center for Postsecondary Governance and Finance at the University of Maryland.
Joan received her Ph.D. in higher education policy, planning, and administration from the University of Maryland, her M.L.S. from SUNY Geneseo, and an A.B. with honors in History from Vassar College.
She has written articles and made presentations on such topics as networked information, learning spaces, Net Gen students and libraries, collaboration among professional groups, assessment, and teaching and learning in the networked environment. Her chapter on “Net Generation Students and Libraries” in an EDUCAUSE book on Educating the Net Gen www.educause.edu/educatingthenetgen/ has received wide distribution. She is on the board of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) and chair of the editorial board of the Association of College & Research Libraries’ C&RL News.
Additional information, including a list of Joan’s publications and links to those available electronically is available at: http://www.cni.org/staff/joan_index.html
