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A message passed on from Jeanette Larson with TSLAC: A new series of free online OPAL ( <outbind://17/www.opal-online> www.opal-online.org) events is about to get underway. As the series name implies, these "Casual Conversations" will be one-hour informal conversations with librarians.Everyone in the world is welcome to participate. There is no need to register. Just show up online, listen, text chat, and talk if you want. Aaron Schmidt will be the first guest in this series. Here are the details about the series. More casual conversations will be added in the future. We try to have one per month (with two scheduled for February, in honor of the leap year). Friday, November 30, 2007 beginning at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time, 1:00 Central, noon Mountain, 11:00 a.m. Pacific, and 7:00 p.m. GMT/UTC/Zulu: A Casual Conversation with Aaron Schmidt Aaron Schmidt is the Director of the North Plains Public Library in Oregon and a blogger at Walking Paper. The Casual Conversations series is designed to be up-close and personal from a respectable online distance. While there are many conferences (in-person, online, and in-world) where librarians can hear leaders in the field make formal presentations about interesting projects, there are few opportunities to hear these same leaders discuss informally what they currently are working on, their future plans and goals, the challenges and opportunities facing librarianship, their personal pet peeves, etc. Watch for more information about these upcoming Casual Conversations: Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007: Meredith Farkas Friday, Jan. 18, 2008: Curtis Rogers Friday, Feb. 8, 2008: Lori Bell Friday, Feb. 15, 2008: Michelle Boule Friday, March 28, 2008: Marshall Breeding Friday, April 11, 2008: Jenny Levine Friday, May 16, 2008: Stephen Abram Friday, June 6, 2008: Michael Stephens There are several options for participating. You can enter the online meeting room for the live, full experience, or you can listen to the conversation and text chat into the online room right from the web, without having to install any special software. Details about these options can be found at <http://www.conferen/> http://www.conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs1641902f62b4 If you cannot participate live online, we plan to record, archive, and podcast these casual conversations, adding them to the OPAL Archive ( <http://www.opal/> http://www.opal- online.org/ archive.htm) soon after the conclusion of each conversation. The complete list of upcoming OPAL online programs can be found at: <http://www.opal/> http://www.opal- online.org/ progschrono. htm Tom Peters, OPAL Coordinator TAP Information Services 1000 SW 23rd Street Blue Springs, MO 64015 phone: 816-228-6406 web: <outbind://17/www.tapinformation> www.tapinformation. com Kam McEvoy Electronic Resources Specialist Central Texas Library System, Inc. 1005 West 41st St., Suite 100 Austin, TX 78756 512-583-0704 x19 800-262-4431 x19 fax: 512-583-0709
