LTR session in Puerto Rico, 2011

If you missed the annual conference in Puerto Rico or if you want to see other papers to prepare your answer to the call of paper for 2012, see the papers presented last summer.

The 95th session of the last annual Conference was about : Data collections in the service of libraries. The session was organized by the LTR section and Statistics and Evaluation section.

• Speaker introduction and introduction of evidence-based librarianship
  LYNN SILIPIGNI CONNAWAY (OCLC Research, Dublin, OH, USA)
• Researching data sets to develop State Library standards
  LESLEY FARMER (Librarianship Program, California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA)
• Attaining information literacy: evaluating a theory and research based educational intervention
  MELISSA GROSS and DON LATHAM (School of Library and Information Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA)
• Mapping the education of rural librarians' technology literacy and management training: use of mixed data collection methods in the ITRL program
  BHARAT MEHRA, KIMBERLY BLACK, VANDANA SINGH and JENNA NOLT (School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA)
• 65+: Engaging underserved patrons – a success story
  JASMINA NINKOV and VESNA VUKSAN (Belgrade City Library, Belgrade, Serbia)
• Is mobile really necessary? The usability of mobile databases
  TIFFINI A. TRAVIS (University Library, California State University, Long Beach, California, USA) and AARON TAY (National University of Singapore Libraries, Singapore)
• Session summary and conclusions about evidence-based librarianship
  MICHAEL SEADLE (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany)