Selected Presentations

  • (2009) Presented as an invited talk at the Library of Congress Annual Forum on Federal Information Policies, The Future of Reading, October 22, 2009.
  • (2003a) Presented at the California League of High Schools Annual Conference, What You Can Do About Plagiarism, a workshop for high school teachers, Monterey, California, November 22, 2004.
  • (2003b) Presented at the California School Library Association Annual Conference, Science Information Literacy Portal: 9-12 Learners, a workshop for school librarians and teachers, Ontario, California, November 16, 2004.
  • (2002a) Presented at the Poster session, Teaching Science Information: Taking Users to the Next Level, of the Chemical Division, Special Libraries Association, 2002 Annual Conference in Los Angeles, June 11, 2002. "Mapping of physics content standards to information literacy power." Abstract is available here. The entire poster session may be accessed is here.
  • (2002b) Association of Independent School Librarians, AISL, Conference, April 17-20, 2002, in Pasadena, California. The Conference was on "Curriculum and Beyond." Panel presentation within Workshop 2, Did They Forget What They Learned in High School? A panel of college and high school librarians discussed what students needed to know when they get to college.
  • (2002c) California School Library Association, November 2002, Sacramento, Sowing the Seeds of Literacy, Reaping the Riches of Learning. To present a session on "Aligning 9-12 science learning outcomes with information literacy skills." The abstract will be available soon.
  • (2001a) The 67th International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) conference in Boston, August 16-25, 2001. Participation in the Discussion Group, "How is virtual reference different from face-to-face reference? Guidelines and new competencies for reference services to the remote user." http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla67/papers/058-98e.pdf
  • (2001b) Annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). Washington, DC : Oct 31-Nov 4, 2001. Contributed paper to be presented: "Accessing engineering global information for engineers." to be published in the Proceedings of the ASIS&T 64th Annual Meeting. vol. 38.
  • (2000a) COBISS/SICRIS Annual Conference, keynote presentation, "Toward a global access to bibliographic information: Converging patterns, new paradigms." The presentation is available here with its English version. The presentation was on November 29th 2000 in Maribor, Slovenia. Published in Obvestila, 5(4) : 4-28, 2000.
  • (2000b) California School Library Association, Santa Clara, November 2000. Presented 2 workshops:
    • "Survival skills: What every high school graduate must know before s/he goes to college." 1-hour session.
    • "Curriculum-embedded information literacy for 7-12 learning communities: From design to implementation and assessment." 3-hour workshop.
  • (1999a) Annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS). Washington, DC : Oct 31-Nov 4, 1999. "Learning Portfolio for accessing engineering information for engineers." Published in the Proceedings of the ASIS 62nd Annual Meeting. vol. 36, p. 450-61.
  • (1999b) California School Library Association, Palm Springs, November 1999. "Curriculum-embedded information literacy for 7-12 learning communities."
  • (1998a) Distributed Information, Computation, and Process Management for Scientific and Engineering Environments (DICPM), May 15-16 1998. Invitational workshop sponsored by MIT and funded by NSF.
     
  • (1998b) Information technology literacy: A position paper, invited by the National Academy of Sciences. Irvine, January 16, 1998.
     
  • (1998c) LOEX-of-the-West Conference: Library Instruction for the 21st Century. "Information Literacy: Teaching now for year 2000". Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah, May, 1998. Published in RSR, Reference Services Review, 26(3-4), 1998. Special Double Issue. p. 139-142, 160.
     
  • (1998d) Invitational presentation at the Sixth Annual Conference of the Southern
    California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC), May 18, 1998, USC.
     
  • (1995a) "Information access instruction: A case study."  University of California at Berkeley, January 13, 1995.
     
  • (1995b) "Design principles for Information Access Instruction: A case study." Stanford University, March 10, 1995.
     
  • (1994) "Information access instruction: design principles." Presented at the California Library Association, November 12, 1994.
     
  • (1990) "The design and implementation of Mapper: A semi-automatic advisor", presented at the 81st Annual Conference, SLA, Geography and Map Division, Pittsburgh, June 9-14, 1990.
     
  • (1989) "A multiple-observation approach in knowledge acquisition for expert systems: A case study", a paper presented at the conference sponsored by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development, Zurich, June 26-28, 1989.