With the other members of the MnObe Reference Steering committee, Iris organized a full-day instruction workshop (based on ACRL's Immersion program) covering the theory and practice of teaching information literacy for the liberal arts.

Heather Tompkins moderated a panel “Avatarbrarians: Librarians at the Point of Need” at the Midwest Library Technology Conference-May 29, 2008.

Heather Tompkins along with Director of Curricular and Research Support and Academic Technologist Paula Lackie presented “Aligning Curricular Support With Student Acculturation: Results from a Mixed-Method Study” Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Meeting, Minneapolis, April 7, 2009.

Paula Lackie, Academic Technologist and Kristin Partlo, Reference & Instruction Librarian for Social Sciences, co-presented with Michelle Edwards, University of Guelph, at the IASSIST (International Association for Social Science Information…

At the IASSIST 2007 annual conference at McGill University in Montreal, Kristin presented with Rachael Barlow (Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut) on the potential uses of social bookmarking applications in the…

With the assistance of Gould Library colleagues Anita Grommesh and Vicki Burgess, Matt Bailey wrote the Biz of Acq column, "Quick Tips for Media Selection and Acquisitions, Part II" in the November 2008 issue of Against the Grain.

Charles F. Priore, Jr. has published an article entitled:

 "The Academic Underground." In Blue Book of Gun Values, edited by S.P. Fjestad, 14-15. Minneapolis, MN: Blue Book Publications, Inc. 2009.

Iris worked with Amanda Etches-Johnson, Jason Griffey, Steve Lawson, and Jenica Rogers-Urbanek to present a full-day pre-conference workshop called "Academic Library 2.0."

Within this pre-conference workshop, Iris presented a talk called "When In Rome, Be Your Roman Self."

Collaboratively, Hsianghui with Heidi Eyestone (Visual Resources Curator) presented "Using CONTENTdm to Manage Visual Materials Yearbooks" in the first Upper Midwest CONTENTdm User Group meeting at Macalester on October 17, 2008.

Iris and Ann were invited to contribute a chapter to the book The Desk and Beyond: Next Generation Reference Services (Edited by Sara Steiner & Leslie Madden. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2008). They wrote the chapter "Personalizing the Library via Research Consultations."

Heather Tompkins and Carolyn Sanford present “Research Practices Survey: Assessing Information Literacy and Fluency in the Context of the Liberal Arts Campus” at the NITLE Information Literacy conference, Chicago- June 17, 2008.

Collaboratively, Hsianghui with Heidi Eyestone (Visual Resources Curator) presented "Carleton Digital Collection @CONTENTdm" in the first Mid-West Library Technology Conference at Macalester on May 29, 2008.