Library Management Hot Topics
A Roundtable Discussion with Experienced Library Managers
Broadcast date: March 10, 2006, noon-1:30p.m.
Based on numerous requests and positive reaction to the roundtable format used last spring, we will bring together experienced library managers to discuss a series of management-related issues. Both large and small academic and public libraries will be represented.
Viewer-suggested topics include: roles of support staff in libraries, team-building when the director won’t lead, library recruiting, keeping staff motivated, disaster planning and strategies for working with faculty.

Serving Immigrant Populations
A Library Prototype for Diversity
Speakers: Bill Erbes and a panel of experts
Broadcast Date: April 7, 2006, noon - 1:30 p.m.
This teleconference begins with a look at the history of immigrants and libraries, and examines how to assess the needs your community’s immigrant population, including English as a Second Language materials, legal issues, work issues, and bilingual library resources.

Google Book: Its Impact on Scholarship and Libraries
Broadcast date: April 28, 2006, noon-2:00p.m.
This program will explicate Google’s vision of the future. We will discuss how a successful project will impact the world of information from the perspectives of librarians, academic administrators, scholars and publishers. This project has stirred up a bundle of issues, some of them contentious, but our goal is to highlight the key issues in a constructive manner. We plan to produce a program that is consistent with the academic tradition of a “spirit of inquiry” and not a polemic.