Blog Business: A Demo

Sitting in a classroom in Volusia demonstrating how to create a blog entry. Fun, fun, fun! :-)

Workshop Wealth: Orlando!

Orlando is the place to be this fall for a number of upcoming conferences of potential interest to CFLC members. Check these soon to take advantage of "Early Bird" registrations.

EDUCAUSE will hold its annual conference, Transforming the Academy: Dreams and Reality ("the premier IT event in higher education"), in Orlando from October 18 to 21. Information and registration (including registration for exhibits only) is available via this page.

FAME, the Florida Association for Media in Education, is holding its annual conference, The Key to Literacy: Your School Library, in conjuntion with the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) annual conference, Exploring the Vision, from October 19 to 21. Registration and information for FAME is found via this page and for AECT is found via this page. AECT is also holding a three-night preconference Seminar at Sea in collaboration with the International Council for Educational Media from October 14 to 17, information for which is found at the main AECT page.

SUBJECTS: WORKSHOP WEALTH

CFLC Chronicles: Member Open House

From the UCF Special Collections comes this invitation to CFLC members:

The University of Central Florida Libraries Special Collections Department will hold an Open House on Friday, August 26, 2005 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Carla Summers, Head of Special Collections, and Elizabeth Konzak, University Archivist and Curator of Manuscripts will lead tours of the collections storage areas and staff will be on hand to answer questions. UCF faculty, staff, students and members of the community are invited to attend the Open House.

After undergoing renovations for the past several months, Special Collections has now reopened to the public. During the course of the renovations, the Special Collections fifth floor collections storage area climate control, security, lighting and fire protection systems were upgraded and new shelving was installed to house the collection. Renovations were completed by MVB & Associates.

For more information or to RSVP, please call 407-823-2576 or e-mail nhelm (at) mail.ucf.edu.

SUBJECTS: CFLC CHRONICLES