Workshop Schedule

Friday October 1, 2004

8:00        REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:45        WELCOME
        LACASIS Chair, Linda Heichman
        Workshop Chair, Amy Wallace

9:00          Is "Patron Privacy" a Realistic Library Goal?

Karen Coyle, kcoyle.net
Karen Coyle is a librarian with nearly 30 years experience in digital libraries. She worked for over 20 years at the University of California in the California Digital Library, primarily on the development the online access system used by libraries of the nine UC campuses. She is a recognized expert in technical issues, such as metadata and information retrieval, as well as social, political and policy issues. While active in developing computer systems for libraries, she is outspoken about the effects, both negative and positive, electronic information is having on the social role of libraries. She speaks and writes on the effect of computer culture on privacy, intellectual property, social equality and gender image.


9:45        Library Cyber Crime and Network Security

Jackie Siminitus, SBC Library Advocate
Jackie Siminitus is a former academic and corporate librarian.  She joined Pacific Bell – now SBC – 17 years ago for her issues management work at a national public affairs firm.  She soon became the company’s Library Advocate.  As Library Advocate, she follows library issues, trends, grants, and network applications for school, public, and academic libraries.  She has completed extensive courses on network services and trends, with a focus on network applications for the public sector. 

Her research summaries are available online at http://www.kn.sbc.com/support/jackie ; her library grants eNewsletter “SBC California LIBRARY News” can be found under the KNEws tab on SBC Knowledge Network Explorer at http://www.kn.sbc.com ; and her favorite (free) workshops include “Marketing Libraries in a Networked World” and “Library Cyber Crime and Network Security.”   Jackie is active in several California library organizations and helps position SBC to better serve its customers.

Ken Mills, SBC Technical Sales Executive
Ken is a Technical Sales Executive at SBC and supports primarily higher education accounts for the Los Angeles and Ventura counties.  He also supports El Monte Union High School District and Los Angeles County Office of Education.  In his 25 years at Pacific Bell/SBC, he has worked on a variety of accounts from large industry to local government to federal government.  He worked on the Pacific Bell communications team for White House visits to San Diego during the Reagan Administration.  He has an A.A. with emphasis in Mathematics from Grossmont College, a B.A. in Political Science from San Diego State University, and a MBA from National University.


10:30        BREAK

10:45         RFID Panel

Laura Smart, Cal Poly Pomona
Laura Smart makes use of her journalism degree by producing the web blog “RFID in Libraries” and writing about library technologies.  Her interest in RFID started when she became part of a project team at her place of work.  It’s a complicated subject and she wants librarians to be as informed as possible.

She received her MLIS from University of Western Ontario and her professional experience spans public and technical services.  She continues to bridge the two by working with digital materials.

Jeanny Chan, Cerritos Public

David Molnar, Graduate Student, Computer Science at UC Berkeley
David Molnar is a graduate student in Computer Science at UC-Berkeley. He works on cryptography, computer security, and electronic privacy. Together with his advisor David Wagner, David recently completed a study of security and privacy issues in library RFID deployments, to appear in the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. The study is available online at http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~dmolnar/library.pdf . David is supported by an Intel OCR Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.

12:15        LUNCH

1:15        Patriot Act, Recent National & California Legislation

Candace Carroll, ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties
Candace M. Carroll is a shareholder with the law firm of Sullivan, Hill, Lewin, Rez & Engel, with which firm (and predecessor firms) she has practiced for 21 years. After practicing for several years in the areas of civil litigation and bankruptcy, during the past ten years her practice has emphasized civil appeals and writs in the federal, state, and bankruptcy courts.  Ms. Carroll currently serves as President of California Women Lawyers, the statewide women’s bar association, having been a member of its Board of Governors, and of its Executive Committee, since 1999.  She has been a member of the National Board of the American Civil Liberties Union since 1996, and has served on the Board of the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties since 1992.  Ms. Carroll received her J.D., with honors, from the Duke Law School in Durham, North Carolina, where she served as Note and Comment Editor of the Duke Law Journal and was awarded the Order of the Coif. 


2:00        Break

2:15     Outsourced Access Panel

Privacy in Digital Reference

Heather Tunender, University of California, Irvine
Heather Tunender is the Electronic Reference Services Librarian at the University of California, Irvine.  She has also worked at Chapman University where she was responsible for managing electronic resources and Web development.  She received her MLS in 1997 from the University of Missouri, Columbia where she worked with the Truman Presidential Library on Project Whistlestop. Heather has published and spoken on digital reference at Virtual Reference Desk, ALA and CARL.


TBA, EBSCO


3:15     WRAP UP ACTIVITY

Karen Coyle, kcoyle.net