The ACRL/New England Bibliographic Instruction Committee (NEBIC) and the Yale University Library are pleased to present a one day program on Electronic Classrooms. The program includes speakers, panel discussions, and site visits to electronic and wired classrooms around the Yale Campus. It will take place in the Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall (120 High Street).

• Program Information
• Electronic Classroom tours
• Registration information
• Directions and Parking
• Program Contacts
• Interesting Electronic Classroom Web sites
• About Yale and New Haven
• Lodging in New Haven
  (Note: There are rooms blocked at the Grand Chalet at Long Wharf for $64/night. Please book reservations by May 18th to get the NEBIC rate. Their phone number is (203) 562-1111.)

9:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Registration and refreshments

10:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Welcome: Danuta Nitecki, Associate University Librarian, Yale University

Keynote Speaker: Cheryl LaGuardia, Coordinator, Electronic Teaching Center, Widener Library, Harvard University.

"A Rocky Romance With Electronic Classrooms"

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Panel 1: Planning Electronic Classrooms

Moderator: Nancy George, Salem State College

Florence Doksansky and Anne Cerstvik Nolan, Brown University

Florence Doksansky's and Anne Cerstvik Nolan's Powerpoint Presentation

An overview of the process of creating a space for an electronic facility in an existing university library, focusing on the completed facility.

James Estrada, Fairfield University

Planning for a multi-purpose electronic classroom, including floor plans, group software, furniture, lighting and other factors.

Linda Zieper, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth

Discussion of a facility shared by the library and the university's computing services office, and jointly-developed written policies that cover everything from software and scheduling to moving furniture.

12:30-1:45 p.m.

Lunch on your own. A list of local restaurants will be provided.

1:45-3:15 p.m.

Panel 2: Teaching in Electronic Classrooms

Moderator: Mary MacDonald, University of Rhode Island

Keith Gresham, University of Colorado at Boulder

Keith Gresham's Powerpoint Presentation

Focus will be on a method known as "concepts in application," in which the inherent concepts of the online environment are made explicit at the precise time students encounter or apply the concepts while searching.

Katherine Holmes, Lesley College

Kathy Holmes' Presentation

A demonstration of a design for interactive learning experiences that responds to diverse student needs in an electronic classroom.

Ken Gibson, SUNY Stony Brook

Ken Gibson's Powerpoint Presentation

Discussion of how instructional styles have been modified and how service has been enhanced by use of an electronic classroom.

3:15-4:30 p.m.

Electronic Classroom Site Visits
These site visits have been arranged to showcase a wide array of Electronic Classroom facilities at Yale -- including Library classrooms, University labs and wired classrooms. The tours will last approximately 45 minutes. There will be four simultaneous tours; please select one when you register for the program.

1. General Library Classroom

A visit to the Library's Electronic Classroom

2. Arts and Humanities

Visit Street Hall (a traditional classroom wired for digital Art History education) and the Phelps Classroom

3. Social Sciences and Sciences

Visit the Social Sciences Statistical Laboratory, the Dunham "Garage" and a wired classroom, if time permits.

4. Medical

Visit the training center at the Yale Medical Library

1. Your name/job title/name of your library.
2. Your email address
3. Your work phone number (will not be published)
4. Your library's complete mailing address
5. Are you a member of ACRL/New England? If not, would you like information about joining?
6. Which tour do you want to attend? For more information about the following electronic classrooms, see the descriptions above.
   • General/Library Electronic Classroom
   • Arts and Humanities
   • Social Sciences and Sciences
   • Medical

$5.00 ACRL members
$10.00 Non-ACRL members

*Upon receipt of your check, your reservation will be confirmed via email. Once you receive your confirmation, check the program website (http://www.library.yale.edu/instruction/nebic/) for directions, parking, hotels in the area, and other information about the program.

*Reservations will not be accepted by phone, but for information about the program that is not on the website, please call Laurie Sabol at (617) 628-5000 x5167.

*We expect this program to be very popular. Please consider sending small numbers of people so that a wide variety of libraries may be represented.

*Registration is limited to 70 people.

*The registration deadline is May 22, 1998.

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• Map of Downtown New Haven (including public parking garages)
• Map of the Yale Campus

Directions to Sterling Memorial Library from the Crown St. Garage

Exit the garage on the Crown Street side. Take a right and walk down College Street for 2 1/2 blocks. You will cross Chapel Street, walk past the New Haven Green on your left, and cross Elm Street. After Elm, walk half a block until you reach a large open campus on your left (Cross Campus). Walk through Cross Campus, and Sterling Memorial Library is the large gothic-style building at the far end of Cross Campus. The Program will take place in the SML Lecture Hall.

Directions to the Crown St. Garage
Please see the map of New Haven for locations of other parking garages.

From the North (Hartford/Springfield/Boston)

Take I-91 south (or I-84 to I-91 from Boston) to New Haven, take exit 3 (Trumbull St.). At the end of the ramp go straight on Trumbull St. At the 3rd intersection, go left on Prospect St. Proceed down Prospect St., through three traffic signals (passing the New Haven Green). After the third signal (Chapel St.), you will see the Palace Theater to the right. The Crown Street Garage is across the street, next to the Shubert Theater.

From the East (New London/Providence)

Take I-95 south to New Haven, take exit 47 (Route 34 & downtown). Take exit 1, and then a right at the first traffic light onto Church St. and get into the left lane. At the second light go left on Crown St. Go through 1 stoplight, and there will be a public parking garage on the right (Crown St. Garage).

From the South (Bridgeport/New York)

Take I-95 north to New Haven, take exit 47 (Route 34 & downtown). Get into the right lane as quickly -- and carefully -- as you can, and take exit 1. Go right at the first traffic light onto Church St. and get into the left lane. At your second light go left on Crown St. Go through 1 stoplight, and there will be a public parking garage on the right (Crown St. Garage).
*Note: If you miss exit 1, you can take exit 2 and go right at the second light onto York St. Take the next right onto George St. Make a left onto Church St. at the 4th intersection (after you go under the Chapel Sq. Mall underpass). Go left at the next intersection onto Crown St. Go through 1 stoplight and the Crown St. Garage will be on your left.

From the North West (Danbury)

Take I-84 east until the Route 34 exit in Newtown. Take Route 34 (Derby Ave.) east to New Haven to the fork of Derby Ave. and George St. Bear right onto George St. and continue about 1.25 miles to Church St., after the Chapel Square Mall underpass. Go left onto Church. Make a left at the next traffic light onto Crown St. Go through 1 stoplight and there will be a public parking garage on the right (Crown St. Garage).