Dr. Frank Exner, Little Bear

• March 2008. Dr. Frank Exner, Little Bear's (MIS 1996, MLS 1998) latest column Bear Thoughts #8 ("Libraries: Culture's Central Institution") was published in the March 2008 edition of Associates. It is available (here)

Dr. Ismail Abdullahi

• January 19, 2007. ALA Advocacy Institute, American Library Association Midwinter meeting, Seattle, Washington. "How to grow your own advocacy."
• February 5-7, 2007. Africa Information Ethics Symposium, Pretoria, South Africa. "Cultural Diversity, Globalization and Ethical Issues."
• August 19-25, 2007. IFLA Congress, Durban, South Africa. Panel Chair. "Advancing LIS Education in Developing Countries: Views from LIS Educators and Practitioners"; "LIS Education in Developing Countries"; and "Collaboration Among LIS schools in Africa."
• August 24, 2007. IFLA Congress, Durban, South Africa. "Cultural Mediation in LIS Teaching and Learning."
• November 19-21, 2007. 24th Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science National Conference, Dharwad, India.
• November 23-24, 2007. Asia Pacific Conference of Library and Information Science Education and Practice, Taipei, Taiwan. "Accreditation and Collaboration."

Dr. Robert Burgin

• September 18, 2007. Duke University Librarians Assembly, Durham, NC. "Professional Organizations: How to Get More Involved and Get More Out of Your Membership."
• September 10, 2007. State Library of Virginia, Public Library Directors Meeting, Richmond, Virginia. "Transforming Your Library."

Dr. Diane Neal

• October 18-25, 2007. American Society for Information Sciences & Technology (ASIS&T) 2007 Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "Social Computing, Folksonomies, and Image Tagging: Reports from the Research Front." (More)
• October 18-25, 2007. American Society for Information Sciences & Technology (ASIS&T) 2007 Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "Toward Web 2.0 Music Information Retrieval: Utilizing Emotion-Based, User-Assigned Descriptors." (More)

Dr. Irene Owens

• August 2007. Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Fort Worth, TX. "Library Education for African-Americans: The NCCU-SLIS Story."

Dr. Deborah Swain

• October 23, 2007. ASIST&T 2007 Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "Introducing a Statewide Public Health Community to Social Computing and Knowledge Sharing."
• August 27-28, 2007. 2007 International Conference on Knowledge Management, Vienna, Austria. "Using Modes of Collaboration to Share Project Knowledge."

Dr. Eun-Young Yoo

• January 8-11, 2008. ALISE (Association for Library and Information Science Education) Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA. "Understanding Undergraduates' Use of Information Sources and Social Networking Media: Implications for Librarians in the Networked Community." (Abstract)
• October 18-25, 2007. American Society for Information Sciences & Technology (ASIS&T) 2007 Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "'Connecting' or 'Disconnecting': Understanding Undergraduates’ Social Networking Websites and Media Use."