Lauren Pressley

Location: NC | Winston-Salem
Speaking Topics: Blended Learning | E-education | Generational Technology Trends | Libraries | Online Research | Personal Branding | social media | social networking

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Lauren Pressley is a digital native with one foot in Generation X and another in the Millennial Generation. She's a librarian that examines new and emerging technologies that can enhance the library's services, reference, instruction, and workflow.

Lauren speaks on using technology to enhance education and technology with an eye to using new services to stay relevant for younger customers. She has published on the Millennial generation.

Previous Presentations: 
Womack, Giz, Kevin Gilbertson, & Lauren Pressley. (2008) “Situating Blogs and Wikis: The Value Added Proposition of the Library as Service Provider.” Triangle/Triad Instructional Technology Meeting, Greensboro, NC. May 7, 2008.
Pressley, Lauren. (2008) “Communication Strategies in a Library 2.0 Environment.” The ACRL/LAMA Joint Spring Virtual Institute: Leading from the Middle: Managing in All Directions, April 30, 2008.
Pressley, Lauren. (2008) “Managing Online: Web 2.0 Tools for Supervision 2.0.” Poster Presentation. The ACRL/LAMA Joint Spring Virtual Institute: Leading from the Middle: Managing in All Directions, April 29-30, 2008.
Pressley, Lauren & Kaeley McMahan. (2008) “A Connected Class: Blended Learning in the Information Literacy Classroom.” Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching in Greensboro, NC. February 8, 2008.
Mitchell, Erik & Lauren Pressley. (2007) “Social Software & the Future of the Library.” SOLINET Annual Membership Meeting. May 10, 2007.
Pressley, Lauren. (2007) “Training with Flickr.” Screencast. Five Weeks to a Social Library. March 5 - March 9, 2007.

Nicole C. Engard

Location: Oxford Valley | PA
Speaking Topics: blogging | Integrated Library Systems | Libraries | Library 2.0 | open source | Web 2.0
Spoken Languages: English

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Nicole C. Engard received her MLIS from Drexel University in 2007. Having worked in libraries for over 7 years, she has recently accepted the position of Open Source Evangelist at LibLime.
Starting in web development and moving on to working with metadata and cataloging, she has had the opportunity to work with people in all areas of the library and can be found at conferences around the world presenting on open source and web 2.0 topics.

Previous Presentations: 
Computers in Libraries 2007
Internet Librarian 2006
New Jersey Library Association 2008