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Data Scientist: A New Role For Librarians?
Amy Affelt Amy Affelt, Director of Database Research Worldwide at Compass Lexicon and author of The Accidental Data Scientist, a newly-published book by Information Today, discussed some...
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Social Media and Community Engagement
Social Media and Community Panel In what has to be the all-time record for the largest panel ever at CIL, 9 people gave their perspectives on social media and community engagement.. Characteristics of...
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Capturing, Using, and Analyzing Data
Capturing Data Panel (L-R): Lei Jin, Dana Thomas, David Stern Lei Jin, Electronic Resources Librarian, and Dana Thomas, Assessment Librarian at Ryerson University described an attempt to link...
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Community: Engagement, Partnership, and Impact
Sue Considine Sue Considine, Executive Director, Fayetteville NY Free Library (FFL), described how her library became an early adopter of making in libraries. The power of fabrication is social, not...
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Decades of Innovation and Tips For the Future: The Tuesday Evening Session
Tuesday Evening Panel: (L-R) Marshall Breeding, Meg Backus, Jason Griffey, Jan Holmquist, Darlene Fichter Led by Marshall Breeding, long-time CIL attendee (very long–he has attended every CIL...
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Technology & Libraries: Now & Into the Future
Mary Augusta Thomas, Deputy Director of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries (there are 20 of them), presented her views on technology and libraries in her keynote talk on the third (and final) day...
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Redefining a Corporate Library With a 3D Printer
Theresa Dillon Theresa Dillon, InfoDesk Team Lead at the MITRE Corporation, described how 3D printing was used to redefine the MITRE library. InfoDesk Services is the first point of contact for...
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“Geek Squad®” at the NIH Library
James King NIH Buildings and Library Staff James King, Branch Chief and Information Architect at the NIH Library described the NIH and its library, which has 48 employees working in three branches....
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Data-Driven Decision Making: Using Bibliometrics for Collection Analysis
Stacy Bruss Stacy Bruss, Reference Librarian at the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), described how she used bibliometric analysis in the NIST library to develop the collection....
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See You Next Year!
1985 to 2015 As we were reminded at the registration desk, this was the 30th anniversary of CIL. Like the previous ones, it was a great conference. I attended lots of interesting and educational...
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