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Services in Spanish at NW Oregon Libraries by Kristen McKee

Conference Presentations

John Goodyear, Jennifer Steward/2008 OLA/WLA Joint Conference: Floating Collections

How Multnomah County is set up to maximize sharing collections between branches. View the slideshow.
Emily-Jane Dawson, Jennifer May/American Library Association (ALA) 2007 Annual Conference: Zine-a-paloosa 2007! Or, Zines in Public Libraries, A Panel

Multnomah County Library zine librarians join colleagues from Baltimore County and Salt Lake City Libraries in a panel presentation about how they have successfully integrated zines into library collections and services. Read the presentation and view the accompanying slideshow, and be sure to take a look at the library's zines website!
Cindy Gibbon, Access Services Manager, Multnomah County Library: Keeping our patrons' secrets: Privacy policies and audits for Library 1.0, 2.0 and beyond (ppt)

PORTALS Workshop, May 4, 2007
John Goodyear, ILS Analyst, Multnomah County IT, Innovative Users Group 2007: Maximum Flotation (ppt)

How Multnomah County is set up to maximize sharing collections between branches.

New Location Code Scheme (ppt)

Illustrates the process of migrating our Central branch to a new location code scheme..
Donna Reed, Web Services Coordinator, Multnomah County Library: Skill Set for the Librarian of 2010: Panel to follow up on Keynote

Part of a panel discussion.
Donna Reed, Web Services Coordinator, Multnomah County Library, Paul Irving, Insite Web Publishing: Consider Your Users: How Helpful is your Interface?

Presented at Online Northwest 2007. Includes a link to the powerpoint used at the presentation.
John Goodyear, James Price, Scott Nolte, Multnomah County IT, NW Innovative Users Group 2006: Improving Paginglists (ppt)

How Multnomah County Library made its paging lists more functional.
Sara Ryan, Teen Services Specialist, Multnomah County Library: Teens, Technology, Libraries

Presented for the Portland Area Information Literacy group. Includes a link to the powerpoint used at the presentation.; Teens @ Your Library (ppt)

Staff training on adolescent development, including research on the teen brain, what teens want and need from the library, an overview of the positive youth development approach to working with teens, and strategies for dealing with challenging situations.
Brandon Barnett/Pacific Northwest Library Association (PNLA) 2006 Annual Conference (pdf): Library2Go: Audiobooks on the Go!

In early 2006, 8 Oregon libraries joined together to provide downloadable audiobooks to patrons. Learn about this new service and what the future might hold for Library2Go.
Emily-Jane Dawson, Laural Winter/Pacific Northwest Library Association (PNLA) 2006 Annual Conference (pdf): Zines, Culture and the Library: Multnomah County Library's Adventure with Zines

Librarians talk about how to bring zines into library collections, services, outreach, and event programming. Read the presentation and get handouts, and make sure to take a look at the library's Zines website!
Vailey Oehlke, Laural Winter/Pacific Northwest Library Association (PNLA) 2006 Annual Conference (pdf): Leadership Development and Enhancing Reference Services Through a Virtual Library

An overview of the design, team and project experiences they have had in this challenging leadership program.
Kristen McKee/Pacific Northwest Library Association (PNLA) 2006 Annual Conference (pdf): Presenting information on the Web in Spanish

One library's process of the evolution of a website in Spanish. See the presentation (ppt) and handout (pdf) for this presentation. Find out more about LIBROS (pdf), Multnomah County Library's Spanish-language outreach program.
Emily-Jane Dawson, Jennifer May and Laural Winter / PDX Zine Symposium, August 11–13, 2006: Zines + Libraries = Luv!

(The audience for this talk is mostly zinesters): One thing we know for sure is that zines and libraries go together — but why is it that lots of libraries don't have zines to check out? Come to this workshop to learn some tips about how to promote zines at your local library. We'll have ideas for how to talk to library staff and how to plan zine events at your library, and we'll give some info about what's happening at libraries that do have zines.