Professional Development Advisory Committee

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Getting Organized: Using Del.icio.us and Wikis to Organize Library Content

May 2009 at WPI
9:00 - 9:30 Registration and Refreshments
9:30 - 11:00 Del.icio.us
Pingsheng Chen is the Electronic Reference Supervisor at Worcester Public Library. She manages electronic resources and distance reference, including QuestionPoint chat reference, email reference, and telephone reference services. Previously, she was Reference Librarian and Webmaster at Worcester Public Library beginning in 1994. She manages multiple blogs, wikis and twitters and uses Web 2.0 applications to innovate services. She teaches the use of these tools as well.
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:45 Wikis
Betsy Like is the Educational Services Librarian at Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. She coordinates educational services for TCSVM students, faculty and staff, provides reference services, and manages day to day library operations. Betsy has been at Tufts since 2003. Prior to coming to Tufts, Betsy worked at NELINET, Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Itek Optical Systems.