Forwarded on request. hk **************** "Libraries, Community Technology Centers, and Chicago: Building and Serving our Communities" Thursday and Friday, April 3-4, 2008 At Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois, outside Chicago Free with advance registration http://www.cii.uiuc.edu/echicago This year's theme brings together professionals from two strong community-serving institutions -- libraries and community tech centers -- to compare and connect. We'll also hear from many of those defining the local environment socially, politically, and technologically. Questions of the day include: . How have libraries and CTCs served our communities' technology needs and what are our current tasks? . How can we better understand ethnic Chicago? . What are our young people doing with new technology? . What does e-government mean for Chicago? . How are we training librarians and CTC staff? Join lively discussions of these questions at the second annual eChicago symposium featuring these speakers: Karen Danczak Lyons, Chicago Public Library (Thursday evening, with buffet) Shireen Mitchell, CTCNET and Digital Sistas (Friday morning) And others including: Abdul Alkalimat, University of Illinois Dan Bassill, TutorMentor Cabrini Connection Willie Cade, Computers for Schools Ryan Croke, State of Illinois Jon Gant, University of Illinois Ray Hanania, Hanania.com Adrian Kok, Dominican University Shanshan Lan, Northwestern University Jim Madigan, Oak Park Public Library Fran Roehm, Skokie Public Library George Reese, XO Laptop Project, University of Illinois Don Samuelson, DSSA, Inc. Avigail Snir, XO Laptop Project, University of Illinois Diane Velasquez, Dominican University Roberta Webb, Chicago Public Library Hope to see you there! Kate Williams, University of Illinois, and Chris Hagar, Dominican University, co-chairs http://www.cii.uiuc.edu/echicago -- Kim Schmidt | Associate Director for Communications Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 E. Daniel Street, MC-493 Champaign, IL 61820 phone 217-265-6391; fax 217-244-3302 kimsch@uiuc.edu