TBC 19

What is Tech Boot Camp?

Glad You Asked! TBC is initiative of the Georgia Public Library Service to bring together IT professionals from library systems across the state to share experiences and ideas and to explore opportunities made possible by emerging technologies. 

Our 2019 Theme is Level Up Your Library! We will be exploring all of the ways Georgia's libraries have leveled up, from installing Broadband networks and Makerspaces, to taking tech to the community via outreach programs and strategic partnerships. 

Where: Unicoi State Park and Lodge

When: Monday, November 18 - Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Timeframe: 

• • Sunday, 11/17 - all day - if you arrive early, feel free to come on in and join the set-up chaos. All are welcome.

  • Monday, 11/18 - 9a - Lunch: Registration / Badge Pickup

  • Monday, 11/18 - 1p: Tech Boot Camp begins

  • Tuesday, 11/19 - programming all day

  • Wednesday, 11/20 - programming up until lunch and then we say good bye

FAQS:

• If you asked to come up early - Sunday 11/17, you are good. Just check in at the front desk. Your room will be ready and we have dinner tickets for 11/17 and breakfast tickets for 11/18 set aside for you. (The rest you'll receive with your welcome packets.)

• Everyone coming up on Monday 11/18, we'll have registration open in the morning and we will give you your room keys, welcome packets and meal tickets.

• We will be setting up the LitLab on Sunday afternoon/night/wee hours. Many of you have helped us out over the years and it is much appreciated. Please feel free to do so again. We'll keep a fresh roll of gaffers tape for you. 

NOVEMBER 18 - 20, 2019

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18

11a – 1p

Meet & Greet / Registration

1130 – 1p

Lunch / Networking / Eating & Learning

1p 

Opening Ceremonies 

130p 

Information Security: How to Make the Bad Guy’s Job a Little Bit Harder

Todd Watson – ISO, Board of Regents, University System of Georgia

3p

Break / Networking / Eating & Learning

315p

Creating a Virtual Library: Personalizing Your Library’s Virtual Space So Virtual Reality 

             (VR) Experiences Can Be Housed in a Library-User-Friendly Environment

George Tuttle, IT Librarian, Piedmont Regional Library System

4p

Ask Me about the Library: You & Your Google Business Page

Robin Fay - Athens Regional Library System

430p

Project Management 101: How to Use PM on Library Projects without Alienating Everyone You Work With

Emily Almond - CTO, GPLS 

5p

Dinner / Room Check-in / Networking / Eating & Learning

7p 

Nerd Trivia. The questions are even more esoteric than last year. #talknerdytome

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19

730a

Breakfast / Networking / Eating & Learning

9a

Digital Preservation for Libraries: What It Is, Why You Need It, and How You Can Get Started

Mary Willoughby - Digital Conversion and Curation Librarian, Digital Library of Georgia

10a

Everyone Counts: An Overview of Census Technology Resources and Staff Expectations. 

Wendy Cornelisen - Assistant State Librarian, GPLS

(Pre-Reading: Libraries' Guide to the Census by the American Library Association.)

(Pre-viewing: US Census Bureau Short)

1045a

Break / Networking / Eating & Learning

11a

Broadband Block: 

·      E-Rate Update - Charlie Jackson -  State E-Rate Coordinators, GPLS

·      TV White Space Pilot - Stephen Houser - Director, Twin Lakes Library System

Pre-Viewing: Measuring Library Broadband Networks – Emily Almond - CTO, GPLS

12p

Lunch / Networking / Eating & Learning

4p

PINES Updates

5p

If You Had a Million Dollars: If you could shoot for the moon and money was no object, what would you roll out in your library?                  

Facilitated by GPLS team

6p

Dinner / Networking / Eating & Learning

730p

Analog Board Game Night

Going Old School. Bring your old Magic Cards and D&D games. (You know you still have them.) Bring your new board games! Pandemic, Ticket to Ride, etc. We will also be utilizing the projector to host a MMORPG If you just can’t not go online.)

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20

730a

Breakfast / Networking / Eating & Learning

NoveList Linked Data Presentation Additional Links:

• Linked Library Service FAQs

• Linked Data 101 Blog Post

1130a

Spark Talks! Don’t have enough for an hour but still want to share something pretty cool? This is the spot. 10-15 minutes each:

·      Community VoiceBox – Stephen Houser – Director, Twin Lakes Library System

·      Using NearPod for Staff Development Days – Marquita Gooch, Asst. Director, Technology and Training, Clayton County Library System

·      Next Chapter Grant Update - Lecia Eubanks, Director, Cherokee Regional Library System

Facilitated by Chris Sharp - PINES System Administrator, GPLS

1230p

Closing Ceremonies 

·      Closing Words

·      Fill Out Your Surveys!

·      Prize Drawings

·      Class photos

1 – 2p 

Lunch / Networking / Eating & Learning