Upcoming Presentations

• Ask an Avatar: Canadian Academic Libraries in Second Life, Internet Librarian, October 2008 - presenting with Amy Buckland

• Nerds of a Feather: Gaming and Virtual Worlds in Academic Libraries, OLA SuperConference, February 2009 - presenting with Shawn McCann

Presentations

• Gimmick or groundbreaking? Canadian academic libraries using chat reference in multi-user virtual environment, International Federation of Library Associations Annual Conference, August 2008 – presented with Amy Buckland

• Electronic Government Information: It was Here a Minute Ago!? Issues and New Strategies in its Collection, Preservation and Use, Canadian Library Association Annual Conference, May 23, 2008 – presenting with Helene LeBlanc(Wilfred-Laurier University) and Sharna Polard

• Transforming Information Literacy: Do We Have the Skills? WILU workshop, May 14, 2008 – presented with Karen Nicholson (McMaster University) and Shawn McCann (McMaster University)

• Integrating Second Life (SL): Courses & Collections, Computers in Libraries, Virginia,Apr. 2008 – presented with Craig Anderson, Reference Librarian, Kean University, Troy Swanson, Teaching & Learning Librarian, & Larry Sloma, Adjunct Librarian, Moraine Valley Community College

• A Whole New World: Libraries and Education in Second Life. York University Library, March 2008.

• Second Life: Pick-up Team or Major League, Ontario Library Association Super Conference, Toronto ON, Feb. 2008 presented with Donna Bourne-Tyson (Mount Saint Vincent)

• Education in A Virtual World: The Second Life Experience. Second Life LRTC Techology Symposium, McMaster University, Dec. 2007 – presented with Shawn McCann

• Learning 2.0 Learning and Study Skills Association (LASSA) Conference, dec. 2007– Presented with Peter Walsh

• Do Librarians Need a Second Life? Education Institute Web Conference, Nov. 2007.

• A Second Life for Virtual Reference, Westerns New York – Ontario Chapter ARCL conference, Rochester NY, October 2008.

• Second Life: Virtual Reference & IL Librarians with Wings, Canadian Library Association Annual Conference, St. John’s Newfoundland, May 2007
- Presented with Donna Bourne-Tyson (Mount Saint Vincent), Denyse Rodrigues (Mount Saint Vincent), Nancy Collins (University of Alberta)

• Learning in a New World: Second Life and Social Networks, Learning about Learning: A Forum for Mills Learning Commons Partners, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Feb. 20, 2007.

• How Do I Teach That? Government Publications and Information Literacy in Academic Libraries, Ontario Library Association Super Conference, Toronto ON, Feb 4, 2006.

Publications

• Outside Referee for Resources of College Libraries, Classical Literature and Language section. 2007.

• Dinberg, Donna and Krista Godfrey. “A Brave New Virtual World, or, 500 librarians can’t be wrong!”. Feliciter. 53.4 (2007)

• Internet Review: “Google News Archive”. College and Research Libraires News. June vol. 68, no.6 (2007), 390. http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/candrlnews/internetreviews/200706/Googlenewsarchive.htm

• Internet Review: “Civilization.ca”. College and Research Libraries News. Oct vol.26, no.9 (2006), 579, 586. http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/candrlnews/internetreviews/200609/civilization.htm