You are invited to attend: Searching 2.0 (EI Web Conference)

PLEASE NOTE:  ONLY A FEW SPOTS LEFT!

As part of the APLA Vice-Presidents' series, you are invited to attend an Education Institute Web Conference:  Searching 2.0 on Thursday, November 19 at 3 pm.  Location: Alderney Gate Public Library (Dartmouth) - Helen Creighton Room (2nd floor).  Seating is limited, so please e-mail me directly to register:  beckd@halifax.ca   This session is one hour long and FREE.

Description of session:  Trainer Michael Sauers applies the super-search strategies he is known for to the latest generation of Web tools. Blogs, RSS, wikis, Flickr, podcasting, mashups, the read/write Web, kartoo, BitTorrent, Google Book Search, the WayBack Machine, visual search engines, folksonomies, Firefox Search Plugins, Del.icio.us, and more. If you aren't intimately familiar with these tools and how to fully exploit them in your daily reference work, then this presentation is for you. Irreverent and fun, this presentation will expose you to some of the more recent tools that make the most of the Web 2.0 environment: from improving basic search skills and evaluating search results to making the best use of search engines, both common and cutting-edge. Sauers will also show you how best to organize your resources for quick access at the reference desk. (Mr. Sauers will cover as much as he can in the time allowed. Due to time limitations, there is a chance that not all of the services mentioned in this description will be covered.)