Partial funding of this conference is provided by EBSCO Information Services and SirsiDynix.
2007 Library Deans/Directors Conference
Sunday, April 29 - Wednesday, May 2, 2007
The Reinert-Alumni Memorial Library and Creighton University welcome you to Omaha, Nebraska! If you have questions about the information contained on this site, please email Christine Carmichael, Web Services/Reference Librarian, or Michael LaCroix, Library Director.
Registration and Hotel
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Register for the Conference
(If paying by credit card, this is a secure transaction form.
If paying by check, please remit to Creighton University. Mail to: Barbara McElfresh, Reinert-Alumni Library, Creighton University, 2500 California Plz., Omaha, NE., 68178-0209 ) - Downtown Omaha Doubletree Hotel (Use Group Code "ALD" to make reservations from now until April 8th for a discounted rate)
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Interactive Map of Omaha (Downtown and Midtown)
Click on the bottom orange tab labeled Downtown and Midtown to get the best view of the Old Market, Doubletree Hotel, and Creighton University areas. "Need to know" intersections are:- 16th & Dodge/Douglas Streets - Doubletree
- 11th & Howard Streets (Old Market) - French Cafe
- 24th & California - Creighton Campus
- Note: Numbered streets run N/S and named streets run E/W. The numbers increase the further west you get from the Missouri River.
Conference and Creighton Campus
- Conference Agenda
- The Dundee Dell -
Pre-Conference Scotch Tasting
- The entire group is invited to the Dundee Dell. Those not wanting to sip scotch need not register for the pre-conference event. They may purchase their choice of beverages/spirits on a "pay as you go" basis.
- Map of Creighton University (pdf available for download)
- Parking Information and directions to campus (coming soon!)
Omaha Area Attractions
Since you are here, why not take some time and discover why Nebraska's called "The Good Life?" Below you will find links to some local attractions.
- Insight Omaha (choose "Insight" and scroll down to Insight Omaha a 56-page article in United Airlines' Hemispheres Magazine)
- Henry Doorly Zoo (home to the world's largest indoor rainforest)
- Strategic Air Command Air and Space Museum
- Joslyn Art Museum (down the street from CU)
- Omaha Performing Arts
- Durham Western Heritage Museum
- Girls and Boystown
- Omaha's Old Market (5 blocks from Doubletree)
- Omaha Chamber of Commerce
- Westroads Mall
- Regency Court (home of Warren Buffett's Borsheim's Jewelers, Omaha's answer to Tiffany's)