Establishing an effective new records program or overhauling an existing one so that the resulting program is truly effective requires a clear vision, careful planning, and judicious consideration of numerous choices. Some components of a records management program are essential while others are elective, but even the key components require decisions regarding methods and philosophy. Those decisions should be based upon the organizational environment and reflect a results oriented approach.

The Filtering Challenge at San José Public Library

This presentation will describe the proposal from a City Council Member to filter library Internet access and the response of the Library. Topics will include the Library’s testing of filters and other research, the community outreach process, and how the issue has evolved over an eighteen month period.

An overview of SJSU's Librarians for Tomorrow Program

Recruiting and retaining library school students from underrepresented groups has been a challenge for the profession for decades. ALA's Spectrum Scholar Program, the Knowledge River Program and recent initiatives sponsored by the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program have successfully brought new students from underrepresented groups to enhance the depth, breadth and diversity of librarianship in response to changing demographics.

This program highlights recent diversity and professional recruitment studies with an overview of SJSU's Librarians for Tomorrow Program. Students in the Librarians for Tomorrow program will be present to share their experiences at SJSU.

From Board Books to FaceBook: Children's Services in a Time of Change

Children's lives have changed dramatically; have library services changed enough to keep up with them? In an age of smart phones and social networking, where do library services fit into children's lives? This talk looks as the library as a part of an information network linked to resources in the community and to the larger world. What practices do we give up and what do we keep in this new environment?

Should Libraries Evolve or Reinvent Themselves?

Think of the challenges: the Detroit automakers, healthcare, the energy crisis, and the economy just to name a few. Evolve or reinvent? Think of the Google Generation and libraries. Do we evolve or reinvent ourselves? In this presentation, a foundation of research is used to develop a new theory of school libraries as an example of what a reinvention might look like. However, can a field actually reinvent itself?

The purpose of a Records Information Management Plan is to provide a strategic focus for the direction and development of records management for the organization. Join us to learn more about strategic planning for records management from Nancy M. Kunde, Records Officer for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives. Ms. Kunde, who is both a certified archivist and a certified records manager, will address the convergence of skills necessary to manage records. She will also discuss the need to integrate records management into the IT infrastructure of organizations.

Dual Use Libraries: Guidelines for Success

Combined libraries have been studied extensively for more than 30 years. Common advantages and disadvantages have been identified, together with typical problems. From the work of researchers in three countries, predictors of success have been identified for joint-use ventures.

Where do you want to go today? Leadership, Motivation, and Career Planning

Records managers are constantly faced with the challenge to perform in environments where their profession and responsibilities are not understood and often not appreciated. The keys to success include three vital factors: leadership, motivation, and career planning. Records managers must first lead and motivate their personnel to perform daily records management tasks with high quality. Leadership and motivation does not stop there, however, but extends also to gaining the commitment and participation of top management and other staff to the records management program. Success does not happen naturally. The successful records manager exercises leadership and motivation within a careful career plan. This presentation will examine key elements of leadership, motivation, and career planning designed to strengthen records managers in their daily efforts.

The records continuum theory and its more familiar representation in model form, is offered as an alternative to the linear representation of recordkeeping in the lifecycle model. Many find its expression dense and unapproachable, but it represents a holistic approach to recordkeeping independent of era, format and age of records. It encompasses both records management and archival practice thus providing a means of unifying the field of recordkeeping. This presentation uses approachable case study based examples to orient participants to the records continuum illustrating its utility as a thinking tool and a conceptual basis for approaching recordkeeping in the twenty-first century.

There are 73,000 philanthropic foundations. How do you find intervention points with these folks? What makes your project fundable? What are some relevant areas of interest that foundations have? Libraries have a challenge in their hands in reaching out to young people, low-income and minority youth. Libraries have wonderful assets in their facilities, their imaginative programs, and their commitment to the community. We will explore all of this.

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In evaluating and analyzing the role of libraries in American society, too much emphasis has been placed on how technology has developed and not enough attention has been devoted to how people have evolved. The mistake that many observers make today is seeing people as an extension of technology (which is understandable given the number of people with blue teeth sticking out of their ears) and not as human beings.