Long Island Section of ACRL/NY, Fall 2005 Program
cosponsored by Nassau
County Library Association, Academic and Special Libraries Division and Long
Island Library Resources Council
CREATING SURVEYS, AND MAKING SENSE OF STATISTICS: A HANDS ON WORKSHOP FOR LIBRARIANS
Includes an afternoon training session using SPSS.
SPEAKER: DR. MARC SILVER, Full Professor and Chair of Sociology Department,
Hofstra University
DATE: September 23, 2005
Hofstra University, Axinn Library Room 108
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Registration & Breakfast)
Fee: $15.00 for members only of ACRL/NY, NCLA-ASLD, and LILRC
FIRST COME FIRST SERVED * space limited to 40 people only
See Hofstra University website for directions at www.hofstra.edu/StudentServ/IC/ic_directions_maps.cfm
Registration Deadline is September 13, 2005.
For further information contact:
Eloise Bellard, Chair ACRL/NY Long Island Section (516) 877-3584 or e-mail bellard@adelphi.edu
Sandhya Srivastava, Vice Chair ACRL/NY long Island Section (516) 463-5959 or e-mail librsds@hofstra.edu .
This program is for librarians in academic libraries who are interested in
learning about empirical research and SPSS techniques in order to do research
for publication.
Description: This training session will explore discrete statistics, correlation,
hypothesis testing, and survey construction on quantitative techniques in the
morning session. The afternoon session will be specifically geared to training
in SPSS and use of a specific data set to enhance and reinforce understanding
of the software.
Objectives: At the end of the workshop, participants will:
Speaker:
Dr. Marc L. Silver received his degree from Columbia University in 1981. He
first joined the faculty of Hofstra University in 1982. Between 1994 and 2000
he served as Chairperson of the Department of Sociology & Anthropology.
He has been Chair of the Department of Sociology since 2003. His research interests
have been in the areas of organizations, work relations and the labor process,
housing policy, and racial segregation in the suburbs.
Dr. Silver teaches courses in statistics, research methodology, social theory,
race relations, and the sociology of work. Both his teaching and research have
been influenced by his concern for social justice and interest in the processes
of social change. His principal focus as a teacher has been to help his students
develop the intellectual and communicative skills that will enable them to think
critically about social issues, to be able to look beyond the "taken for
granted" aspects of social life, and to dare the ruthless criticism of
everything existing. Silver is also a winner of the Lawrence A. Stessin Prize
for Outstanding Scholarly Achievement, and he serves as the Center of Teaching
& Scholarly Excellence's Program Evaluator and Assessment Consultant. In
the Spring 2005 semester, Silver presented a four- part Empirical Research Workshop
Series for faculty inexperienced with empirical research.
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REGISTRATION FORM for Creating Surveys & Making Sense of Statistics
September 23, 2005, 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., Hofstra University Axinn Library
Room 108
Name: __________________________________ Phone: ________________________
Library: _________________________________ Fax : ________________________
I am a member of : ___ ACRL/NY ___ NCLA ___ ASLD ___ LILRC
My check for $15.00 payable to ACRL/NY is enclosed.
Boxed Lunch Choice: ___ Ham ___ Roast Beef ___ Turkey ___ Vegetarian
Send form and payment to Eloise Bellard, at Adelphi University Swirbul Library
Reference Dept., South Avenue, Garden City, New York 11530.