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Free CyberTours
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Hall Hours |
| Wed., March 10: |
9:45 AM to
5:45 PM |
| Thu., March 11:
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9:45 AM to
5:45 PM |
| Fri., March 12:
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9:45 AM to
3:15 PM |
Listen and learn at a series of free cybertours and information
sessions for all Computers in Libraries 2004
Exhibit Hall visitors. Taking place at the CyberCorner
in the Exhibit Hall, these cybertours cover a range of
topics & subject areas. They are open to all and add
value to your visit. Space is limited so it’s first-come,
first-served.
Join our Net savvy Web experts for a look at their favorite
sites and topics! There is no need to register, simply
pick the cybertour of interest and arrive at our CyberCorner
within the CIL 2004 Exhibit Hall at the
appropriate time. |
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| Wednesday,
March 10 |
Online
Trends
11:00 a.m. – 11:15
a.m.
What’s happening in the online world? What
should we be studying, thinking about and using?
Mary Ellen Bates, industry expert
and author of Super Searchers Do Business
& Super Searchers Cover the World shares
her opinions in this conference nugget session.
Hear what an expert searcher and writer has to say
about trends in the online world.
What is RFID?
12:00 p.m. – 12:15 p.m.
This cybertour provides definitions, descriptions
of uses in libraries, and examples of the benefits
of this new technology known as Radio Frequency
Identification. Chris Harris, Director
of Sales & Marketing, & Scott Hackstadt,
Director of Technology, Vernon Library Supplies
discuss the use RFID in circulation, security and
inventory.
Cool Web Search Tools
1:00 p.m.
– 1:15 p.m.
This session reviews several new web search tools,
and some old favorites, which can make your searching
more
effective. Gary Price, Publisher,
Resourceshelf.com, and Co-Author, The Invisble
Web, shares his knowledge and
strategies.
Favorite Google
Tricks
2:00 p.m. – 2:15
p.m.
Need some new tricks to keep ahead of your clients?
Google can do a lot more than point you to Web pages,
if you know how to use it. Join Chris Sherman,
Search Engine Watch, as he shares his favorite Google
tips for coaxing the most out of the world's most
popular search engine.
Stalking
The Wild (Privately-held) Company
3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Finding information on publicly-held companies has
become fairly straightforward, but how do you get
the straight dope on private companies? Mary
Ellen Bates, Bates Information Services
& author of Super Searchers Do Business,
takes you on a whirlwind tour of the best sources
and techniques for tracking down information on
the elusive privately-held companies.
Making Your Web Site Usable
4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Hear the top ten tips from an experienced Web designer
and developer for making your site usable and readable
to those you most want to reach. Frank Cervone,
Assistant University Librarian for Information Technology,
Northwestern University fills this session with
tips you’ll want to try in your own environment. |
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| Thursday,
March 11 |
eBooks:
Creating Customized Virtual Resource Centers
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m
This cybertour, by Mary Mercatante,
VP & Bonnie Hawkwood, Product
Manager, Thomson Gale, highlights several case
studies of libraries integrating ebooks into their
resource offerings, using them to develop collections,
or virtual reference libraries.
Elections
’04 Cybertour
12:00 p.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Need to track the U.S. presidential and congressional
elections? Need to answer questions about who’s
running in which primaries, who’s ahead
in the race for convention delegates, and who
is ahead in the polls? Whether you need to be
an instant expert or are just a political junkie
at heart, Donna Scheeder, Congressional
Research Service, Library of Congress takes you
to the best sites for staying current on events
in the present cycle and the history of elections
past.
Five Easy Tricks for Extreme
Searchers
1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Ran Hock, Online Strategies &
author of The Extreme Searcher’s Guide
to Web Search Engines reveals his secrets
in this cybertour. As an expert searcher, he looks
at five quick and easy techniques that all serious
searchers should know about and profit from.
Researching International
Business Statistics on the Web
2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Country statistics are increasingly available
on the Web, published by official organizations
such as IMF and World Bank, and government sites
such as national statistical offices. In this
cybertour, Tim Walker, Sales
Manager, Euromonitor International shares Euromonitor’s
30 years of experience researching this type of
information by demonstrating the best sources
to consult, both free and paid, with key considerations
of quality – i.e. accuracy and reliability
of statistics.
Search Engine Toolbar Cybertour
3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Every search engine now seems to have a toolbar
that supposedly makes it easier to use. Are toolbars
still cool? Are they worth the browser screen
space? What are the benefits of plugging in a
search toolbar to your browser? Many already use
Google’s toolbar and maybe you’ve
upgraded to the new version. Are there better
ones? Come see which ones this searcher, Stephen
Abram, President-elect, Canadian Library
Association, finds useful.
Blogging Basics
4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
So what is blogging? Why is it important to librarians
and how can they use it in their work? Hear from
Darlene Fichter, Data Librarian,
University of Saskatchewan, an Internet pioneer,
and a blogging expert.
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| Friday,
March 12 |
Using
Weblogs to Jump Start Your Career
11:00
a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Increasing the distribution of library content to
your users is a common use for Weblogs, but how
can individual librarians use Weblogs to help their
career at any point in their professional life?
Steven Cohen, the creator of the
Library Stuff Weblog discusses the methods for becoming
a “blogger” writing for the library
field, and how creating and writing a Weblog can
increase your visibility and marketability with
potential employers.
Essential Power
Searching Tools
12:00 p.m. –
12:15 p.m.
Searching is more than just finding information—it's
also about managing, storing and sharing what you
find. Hear from Chris Sherman,
Search Engine Watch, who monitors search engine
tools on a daily basis, as he looks at some of the
best tools that can help you with all of those activities.
Hot Off the Presses:
Cybertour of News Sources
1:00
p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Jimmy Olsen, get in here! A quick look at some key
resources for locating the hottest news, the most
far-reaching news, the newest news, and even the
oldest news on the Internet. Join, Ran Hock,
Online Strategies & author of The Extreme
Searcher’s Guide to Web Search Engines,
for this information packed cybertour!
Visual Interfaces
2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
What you see – is pretty good! Join this wild
and whacky cybertour of the top visual interfaces
for Web sites or OPACs. What do they do? Why are
they cool? Do they increase information seeking
behaviors? Do they provide more context for search
result displays? Come and hear Stephen Abram,
President-elect, Canadian Library Association, discuss
what happens when you think beyond words. |
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