PTDLA Day Agenda
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Invited Speaker: 10am – 11am
National Inventors Hall of Fame
By Joyce Ward

Lunch & Business Meeting : 11am – 1:00pm
Attend the business meeting and enjoy a free box lunch sponsored by PTDLA

Includes a guest speaker from past Saturday Night Live, highlights of PTDLA Web site, and executive council resolutions for three PTDL staff

PTDLA Best Practices Presentations:

1pm – 1:30pm
Boring Patent Data? Visualize It! How to Turn Dull Data Into Effective, Eye-popping Graphics
By Mike White

1:30pm – 2pm
Hathi Trust in Government Documents
By Leena Lalwani

2:15pm – 2:45 pm
Outreach Strategies for PTDL Librarians
By Jan Comfort

2:45pm – 3:30pm
Bringing New “Life” to PTDL: Easing the Burden
By Bob Kackley, Jim Miller, Mauren Cech, Damon Austin, and Nedelina Tchangalova

Please review and submit comments on the 2008 draft of the PTDLA Strategic Plan . Vision and mission statements were accepted at the 2008 PTDLA Business Meeting.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Invited Speaker: 9 am -11 am
Title: Patent information from the EPO - latest developments in policy, products and practice
Speaker: David Dickinson, EPO

Lunch & Business meeting 11:30 - 1 pm
Attend the business meeting and enjoy the free pizza lunch sponsored by PTDLA

PTDLA Panel Presentations 2:30 pm - 4 pm

Title: Marketing & Strategizing Outreach for Patent & Trademark Presentations
Speakers: Joanne Dugan, Jim Miller, and Bob Kackley
Abstract: One of the biggest challenges facing PTDLA members is providing Patent & Trademark assistance for those beyond our normal reference arenas. Baltimore PTDL Rep. Joanne Dugan, and Jim Miller and Bob Kackley of College Park will briefly share their experiences, collaboration, and ideas on marketing future presentations to those in need of our services. Our first joint collaboration was on Valentine's Day 2008 at Northrop-Grumman's BWI Airport location. We demonstrated the universal web availability of patent & trademark information. Many questions dealt with legal issues, and Joanne’s law expertise was crucial. About 40 employees attended, including eleven from around the country via online hookup. Previous sessions included Prince George's County Memorial Library librarians (2003) and their patrons (2008); Fairfax County VA Librarians (2004); 19 Law Librarians at a DC Special Libraries Association session hosted by a DC law firm (2007); and a Frederick County MD Public Library business venture session for county residents (2008); among others. Now, motivated by our successes, we are ready to aggressively collaborate in marketing our services to meet this evidently widespread need for patent and trademark knowledge. We plan to market our seminars to more public libraries, business ventures and companies in other Maryland counties, and even to "magnet" public high schools in MD.

Title: Zotero & Patents
Speaker: Andrew Wohrley