[Eril-l] ALCTS webinar: Designing Collections for Collisions: Preserving Library Serendipity in a Digital World

[ALCTS-CE Announce]

*Apologies in advance for multiple postings.*

ALCTS webinar: Designing Collections for Collisions: Preserving Library
Serendipity in a Digital World

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2015

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11am Pacific, noon
Mountain, 1pm Central, and 2pm Eastern time.

Description: Nearly every librarian has a story to share about a community
member who makes a fantastic serendipitous discovery. Sometimes these
discoveries change lives. Unfortunately, we may be hearing fewer and fewer
of these stories. Why? Because in a digital world the opportunities for
great accidental discoveries are being engineered out of the library
experience. In this presentation Steven Bell, Associate University
Librarian at Temple University, will share insights into why we need to
start talking about designing our libraries, both physical and virtual,
with engineered serendipity in mind. If the whole point of collections is
to facilitate interactions with discovery, research and learning, then we
have to come up with better ways to design it into the library experience.
Serendipitous library discoveries are too valuable to lose. We need to
figure out how to preserve them in a digital world.

Learning outcomes:

Be able to identify factors leading to the decrease in serendipitous
discovery in libraries.

Gain a better understanding of how engineered serendipity works and to
appreciate the importance of accidental discovery.

Learn about strategies libraries can use to design for better serendipity
in an increasingly digital environment.

Who should attend? Librarians in both public and technical services and
from all sectors, any librarian who wants to preserve serendipitous
discovery in libraries.

Presenter: Steven J. Bell is the Associate University Librarian for
Research and Instructional Services at Temple University. He writes and
speaks about academic librarianship, learning technologies, library
management, higher education, design thinking and user experience. Steven
is a co-founder of the Blended Librarian's Online Learning Community. He
blogs at Designing Better Libraries, authors columns, and is co-author of
the book "Academic Librarianship by Design". For additional information
about Steven J. Bell and his projects: http://stevenbell.info

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Registration Fees:  ALCTS Member $43 ; Non-member $59 ; Group rate
(members/non-members) $99/$129 ; International $43

For additional information and access to registration links, please go to
the following website:
http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/091615

ALCTS webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording
shortly following the live event.

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling
1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration at ala.org <about:blank>. For
all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Julie
Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or alctsce at ala.org.

Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.
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