December 2008 – present
- Presented on Our Students & The Changing Information Environment
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ITI PresentationView more presentations from Lauren Pressley. - Organized field trip to see Duke University’s CIT and LINK
Strategic Planning Committee for Innovation in Technology and Information
Technology and Trends Round Table, secretary and treasurer
North Carolina Library Association
2008 – present
- Organized speakers for “High Tech / Low Cost Solutions for Libraries” workshop
- Establish Technology and Trends blog, wiki, del.icio.us, and Twitter account
Putting the Library in Wikipedia
Pressley, Lauren and Carolyn McCallum. (2008). “Putting the Library in Wikipedia.” Online Magazine. 32(5).
High Tech / Low Cost Solutions for Libraries
Harris, Amy, Edward Hirst, Lynda Kellam, Lauren Pressley, & Giz Womack. (2008) “High Tech / Low Cost Solutions for Libraries.” Workshop. North Carolina Library Association, Technology and Trends Roundtable. Elon, NC, August 4, 2008.
Supervising While Away: Tools for Online Student Supervision
Pressley, Lauren. (2008) “Supervising While Away: Tools for Online Student Supervision.” Poster Presentation. University Library Group, American Library Association, Anaheim, CA, June 28, 2008. Invited.
Communication Strategies in a Library 2.0 Environment
Pressley, Lauren. (2008) “Communication Strategies in a Library 2.0 Environment.” The ACRL/LAMA Joint Spring Virtual Institute: Leading from the Middle: Managing in All Directions, April 30, 2008.
Managing Online: Web 2.0 Tools for Supervision 2.0
Pressley, Lauren (2008) “Managing Online: Web 2.0 Tools for Supervision 2.0.” Poster Presentation. The ACRL/LAMA Joint Spring Virtual Institute: Leading from the Middle: Managing in All Directions, April 29-30, 2008.
Instructional Design Librarian
Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
July 2007-present
- Develop and co-teach a weekly class on instruction for librarians
- Develop and teach monthly emerging technology talks for library staff
- Develop and co-facilitate a monthly educational technologies discussion group with the Teaching and Learning Center
- Develop information literacy course activities
- Create a local Learning Objects repository
- Create content for social sites to extend library’s presence
- Manage Women’s and Gender Studies, Philosophy, and Teaching and Learning Center collections
- Implemented text message reference service
Social Software & the Future of the Library
Mitchell, Erik & Lauren Pressley. (2007) “Social Software & the Future of the Library.” SOLINET Annual Membership Meeting, Atlanta, GA. May 10, 2007.
Introduction to Podcasting
Pressley, Lauren. (2007) “Introduction to Podcasting.” UNCG Library and Information Studies Student Association Peer Presentation. April 3, 2007.
