Continuing Education
Registration Form: Trends in Technology

Course Description

Solinet's "Trends in Technology" online colloquium, in partnership with the Georgia Tech Library and Information Center's Emerging Technologies Group, will keep you up to date with the latest technology developments and how they may impact libraries. In this two-hour online session, Tyler Walters, Associate Director for Technology and Resource Services, Georgia Tech Library and Information Center, will key in on important technology trends and new developments in areas such as networking and infrastructure; portable devices and wireless technologies; social software and communications; searching and findability; open access, repositories, and digital preservation. He will discuss how libraries are using these new technologies to make them leaders in the web dissemination of information.

At Georgia Tech, Walters provides leadership, vision, and technical expertise for acquisitions services, information control and management (cataloging), systems, digital initiatives, and university archives and records departments, combining modern information services with emerging information technologies. He leads innovative initiatives that involve managing university-based digital intellectual output through repositories, integrating scholarly information systems with digital learning environments, coordinating the shift to licensing, acquisition, and technological management of electronic resources, and leading GT Library involvement in national and state-level technology and resource management initiatives.

Intended Audience:

Anyone interested in keeping up to date with the latest technology trends.

Registration to this free of charge class is limited to two people from each library system. While this is an online class, it is live and there are only 15 seats available. If you were paying for this session it would cost $120 per person. Registration will be accepted on a first come first served basis. The registration deadline is two weeks prior to the session.

Technical Requirements for Live Online Classes:

Dates, Times & Locations:

Tuesday, May 13, 2 pm - 4 pm ET, online

Certification Renewal Points:

0.2

Deadline for Registration:

Two weeks prior to the class session.

LIMITATIONS:

No more than 2 persons per library system will be accepted per class session.

Registration Form

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Provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.