In her interview, Karen M. Burns of the Southwest Iowa Library Service Area, asks 3 Iowa librarians how they used online tools to plan, create and present a session at the 2009 ARSL conference.
To watch and listen to the archive within Adobe Connect: http://iowaec.na4.acrobat.com/
Librarians interviewed:
Tena Hanson, Director, Milford Community Library
Pat Means, Director, Villisca Public Library
Sarah Williford, Asst. Director, Kirkendall Public Library
Here are the questions answered in this interview:
- The three of you had a proposal accepted for a presentation at the ARSL conference in Sacramento, and needed to work together on the presentation from various locations across the state. How did you go about doing that, and why did you choose to do it that way?
- Talk a little about the experience: What did you find the most helpful, or useful, about those tools, for this purpose? What aspects or features made them helpful?
- Were there limitations in using those methods, for your purposes? If so, what were they?
- Did your experience turn you into "believers" of conferencing and collaborating this way, i.e., have you--or would you--use these methods/tools again? Why or why not?
