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ACRL President’s Program
Predictably Irrational
Julie Todaro - President (Director of Austin Community College)
Dan Ariely - author of Predictably Irrational
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What is DOPA? Deleting Online Predators Act - won’t give money unless you block minors from interactive websites
bill reintroduced in both houses last year - still a bill
Panel
John Morris (general counsel for Center for Democracy & Technology)
Michele Ybarra (Internet Solutions for Kids, Inc.)
Linda Braun (Librarians and Educators Online)
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Privacy: Is it time for a revolution?
ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom received a grant to start a privacy initiative
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Continued!
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I am very tired of sitting on the floor. Conference centers really need to get with the program and start putting more seating near the power outlets! I understand that putting in MORE power outlets is a bit more difficult, in that it would actually require some rewiring and possibly more electrical infrastructure. But it is stupid not to put benches or something near the outlets that already exist.

“Creating the future of the catalog”
Panel:
Roy Tennant
Jennifer Bolan
Diane Hilman (Syracuse)
Martha Yi (UCLA Film & TV Archive)
Tim Spaulding
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“Creating the future of the catalog” with Tim Spaulding, “Information privacy: Should anyone care” with Cory Doctorow, the GLBTRT Social, and possibly Feminist Night at the Movies, if I can stay awake!

BIGWIG: Social Software Showcase
Jason Griffey co-chair
http://www.yourbigwig.com/
push the presentations out (they’re online) and bring the conversations to Annual
Karen Coombs is online right now - virtual discussion that will be on the website later
this session is being streamed live and recorded
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If We Don’t Call it Distance Learning, Does it Exist?
Lauren Pressley - Wake Forrest University
Distance Learning Interest Group Blog
http://dlig.wordpress.com
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I left the OCLC Symposium at 3:45 to stop by the Emerging Leaders Poster Session to see Ellie’s ACRL 101 poster. Then, after a brief respite at the hotel, we went to dinner with the Community College librarians at Naples.

More on that later!