Oklahoma ACRL conference

On Monday, Nov. 5, I went to the OK ACRL conference. This is for American College and Research Libraries in Oklahoma. It was the first conference that I have ever been to. It was a small conference and I am glad that I went to it. I think that it is better to start out at a smaller conference before going to a bigger one. The title of the conference was "Eyes Forward and Hands On: Gearing Up for 2.0 in Oklahoma".
One of the speakers was David Silver, he was from California and his presentation was very entertaining, it was called "Where Books Meet Facebook and Other Web 2.0 Tales". He had a lot to say about getting students involved in the library and how he gives assignments to his students to get them in the library. He was very funny and I think that he had some good ideas. I wish more professors were like him!
The next speaker was Dr. Lynn Silipigni Connaway, her presentation was called, "'The Library is a Good Source if You Have Several Months.' Making the Library More Accessible." She had done some very interesting studies on what students do in the library, how they use it and what changes they would like to see made in the library. I thought that it was surprising as to what some of the students said.
After the first 2 presentations we had lunch and were told to go to Breakout sessions. I chose to go to the Tagging and del.icio.us breakout session done by Jason Cimock from UCO. It was pretty cool! I learned that there is a website called del.icio.us where you can put all your bookmarks. Generally when you save a bookmark it is saved to the computer that you are working on, but if you set up a del.icio.us account you can save your bookmarks and tags to that account and access it on any computer!
The next session I went to was about Animoto and it was done by Jason Dupree from SWOSU. Animoto is basically a website that you can go to to create videos, all you have to do is upload pictures and music and Animoto will create a 30 second video for you for free! If you want to create a longer video however you have to pay for it. I thought that it was pretty neat! I plan on using this in the future.
I had a good time at the OK ACRL conference and I plan to go to more conferences in the future!