Tech Innovation for All! Dream, Think, Collaborate, Create

Apr 24, 2018 12:00pm -
Apr 24, 2018 01:00pm
(GMT-5)

Event Description

A monthly webinar featuring innovations in library technology

Join Diana Silveira as she talks with St Petersburg College's Chad Mairn as they discuss the latest in Virtual Reality and how it can be an integral part of your library's future. The St Petersburg College Innovation Lab is one of the country's top makerspaces offering students and the community the chance to experience and develop programs for Virtual Reality. Find out how students are utilizing Virtual Reality and where the technology is heading.

Chad Mairn is a librarian, teacher, author, and self-described geek who frequently shares his enthusiasm for 'all-things technology' as a speaker at library and technology conferences. He is an Information Services Librarian, Assistant Professor, and manages the Innovation Lab at St. Petersburg College. In October 2015, the Innovation Lab received a $7,500 Curiosity Creates grant from the Walt Disney Company in collaboration with ALA’s Association for Library Service to Children to expand their successful Maker Boot Camp series that helps “promote exploration and discovery for children ages 6 to 14.” Imagination and originality, flexibility, decision-making, communication and self-expression, collaboration, and motivation are the critical components of creativity that the Maker Boot Camp has integrated into their curriculum.  Check it out here!


While an undergraduate studying Humanities at the University of South Florida (USF), Chad was awarded a Library of Congress Fellowship archiving Leonard Bernstein's personal papers. During his Library and Information Science (LIS) graduate work, also at USF, Chad became a technology liaison between the Bill Gates Learning Foundation and Florida public libraries.

Much of Chad's recent interests have focused around mobile and emerging technologies. Chad has written a couple of book chapters and numerous articles on library technologies. Chad also plays drums in two bands, Fowler's Bluff and Low Season, and he also organizes Pinellas Comic and Maker Con, which is held each year at the St. Petersburg College Seminole Campus.

Diana Silveira is the President of Novare Library Services, a company that focuses on web, mobile and infrastructure services for libraries. Previous to starting Novare Library Services, she was the Virtual Reference Manager for Florida’s Ask a Librarian Service and coordinator for Florida’s Statewide Delivery System. She presents regularly on implementing technology, best practices and privacy issues online. She also works with libraries to deploy new technologies and develop new mobile and desktop.

 


Event Type:Training
Category:Technology
Early registration ends on Apr 02, 2018.
Regular registration starts on Apr 03, 2018 and ends on Apr 22, 2018.
Late registration starts on Apr 23, 2018.
(GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)