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When: October 26 & 27
Where: Yale University Library
What: Presentations, opportunities to hang out, and a Saturday unconference for sharing ideas


Registration Form


Schedule

Friday, October 26th

8:30-10 registration open

9:15-10 Welcome and Keynote: "Academic libraries in the time of DPLA," Michael Dula, Chief Technology Officer, Yale Library IT

10 - breakout rooms open

10:00 Rich Wenger - In The Library With A Data Pipe: A look into how the MIT Libraries are evolving a data ecosystem

10:20 Deborah Kaplan- Accessibility in Libraries

10:40 Edward Iglesias ad Debbie Herman - Distributing the Future: Makerspaces in Academic Libraries

11-11:15 - break

11:15-noon

11:15 Junior Tidal - Transitions: Moving from a PHP Flat-File Electronic Resources Manager to Drupal 6 Views

11:35 Lisa Sawin - Serendipitous Discovery: Leveraging Drupal Taxonomy to Increase the Visibility of Information Throughout Your Site

Noon-1:30 - lunch on your own

1:30 Joe Montibello - The last mile – If you can’t buy it, build it

1:50 Andrew Predmore - Linked From?

2:10 Ido Peled - Bed, Bath and Beyond: RESTful, SOAP and the World of Ex Libris APIs

2:30 Deborah Kaplan - CIDER: An Open-Source Collection Management System for Archives

2:50 Amy Deschenes - Making the Library Catalog Mobile-Friendly

3:10 Sands Fish - In the library with a data pipe - data ecosystem

3:30 breakout rooms close

3:30-3:45 - break, unconference signup/lightning round signup

3:45-4:45 - panel discussion

5ish-7 reception at the Yale CSSSI


Saturday, October 27th

9-10 registration (for those only coming for Saturday)

10-2:30 unconference

Noon - pizza delivery


Information about meeting rooms and available equipment

Yale Info & Directions

New Haven Visitor Info
Yale University Library


Interstate 91 - Merge onto Interstate 95 South and follow directions below.

Interstate 95 - From the north or south: Take exit 47 for the Oak Street Connector and head west. Turn right on York Street. There are two parking options off of York St:

  1. York St. parking garage - 150 York St, on the left. (Walking Directions to the Library).
  2. Broadway parking lot - continue up York St, turn left on Elm Street, and merge onto Broadway. Lot entrance is on left. (Walking directions to the Library)


Lodging

1) Courtyard by Marriott at Yale University
30 Whalley Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/HVNDT-Courtyard-New-Haven-at-Yale

Special Code4lib Room rate -- $139.00.

30 rooms reserved under Code4lib. Must book by September 26th or room holds will be relinquished.

Quick facts about hotel:
Check-in @ 3:00pm
Check-out @ 11:00am
On-site parking, $18.00 per day
Wireless high speed internet
on-site restaurant/lounge
exercise room


2) Quality Inn, East Haven
30 Frontage Road, East Haven, CT 06512
http://www.qualityinn.com/hotel-east_haven-connecticut-CT080

Special NECode4lib room rate -- $70.00. (note - you'll need to phone in your reservation as the code won't work online.)

20 rooms reserved under NECode4lib. Must book by September 26th or room holds will be relinquished. However, the manager offered for any attendee of this group to contact him after this release time to see if there are any rooms still available and if so, he’ll honor the special rate of $70.00.

Quick facts about hotel:
Free deluxe continental breakfast
Free Wi-Fi internet access
Weekday newspaper
Shuttle service for groups to Yale University (the committee will work with Quality Inn to provide shuttle services to/from Yale for conference)


3) New Haven Hotel
229 George Street, New Haven, CT 06510
http://www.newhavenhotel.com/

Special NECode4lib rate -- $129.00.

20 rooms reserved under NECode4lib. Must book by September 26th or room holds will be relinquished.

Quick facts about hotel:
Free WiFi internet access
on-site restaurant
Guest parking in secure garage across the street, additional fee of $18.00 per night
24 hour fitness center
within walking distance of Yale University - see walking map: http://goo.gl/maps/qJhKg


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