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General
Conference — Thursday, March 11
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| Opening
Keynote |
Ten
Years into the Web: The Search Problem is Nowhere
Near Solved
International
Ballroom Center
9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
David Seuss, CEO,
Northern Light Group, LLC
As an Internet pioneer and the guiding force behind
Northern Light, David Seuss has found himself
back in the fray and owning Northern Light again.
With his unique perspective of Web history and
navigation, David Seuss shares his vision of the
"Web of the future" and suggests some
areas that information professionals should watch
carefully as they develop their plans and strategies
for the future.
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Coffee
Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibits
9:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. |
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Track
A — Information & Knowlege Exchange
International Ballroom
Center
Facilitating the exchange of information
and knowledge is another core capability of information
professionals and these sessions focus on innovative
new ways of meeting the challenge.
Moderated by Pat Ayers, Congressional
Research Service |
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Session
A201: Intelligent Systems: The World of AI for
Libraries
10:30 a.m. – 11:15
a.m.
Roy Balleste, Head of Public Services,
St. Thomas University Law Library
Communication and information delivery are always
concerns for librarians, and the concept of artificial
Intelligence ((AI) presents us with a valuable
avenue. Intelligent systems represent the next
technological frontier within libraries, presenting
the potential to change how we offer our information
and ourselves to the communities that we serve.
This case study illustrates how an AI librarian
agent named AKI supplements reference services,
explains the main concepts, and demonstrates how
librarians can set up the service.
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Session
A202: Supporting KM with Weblogs
11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Michael Angeles, Information
Specialist, Lucent Technologies
Weblogging software has received plenty of
attention as a quick and easy way to post content
to a Web site. Weblogging can also be used to support
knowledge management, called knowledge logging,
or k-logging, and is emerging as an inexpensive
alternative to large-scale KM solutions. The blogs
may support research development, share industry
information, capture and disperse project information
among a team, or just annotate relevant literature
for colleagues. This session uses real-world examples
to illustrate how libraries can support k-loggers
in their organizations and discusses what systems
the library can create to make Weblog content findable
and accessible.
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Lunch
Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibits
12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. |
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Session
A203: Beyond Blogging 101
1:45 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Terence Huwe, Director
of Library and Information Resources, Institute
of Industrial Relations, University of California,
Berkeley
Weblogs, or blogs, are everywhere these days, and
potential library applications have gained a lot
of interest and momentum in the past year. This
presentation goes beyond "how to get started"
and focuses on how blogs influence work styles and
organizations. Huwe demonstrates how his organization
created a subject-specific blog to meet its user
communities and concludes with some strategic recommendations
for building a high-value blog along subject lines. |
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Coffee
Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibits
2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. |
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Session
A204: Unleashing the Power of RSS
3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Steven Cohen, Assistant
Librarian, Rivkin Radler, LLP
Jenny Levine, Internet Development
Specialist, Suburban Library System & The Shifted
Librarian
RSS feeds can easily help you keep up-to-date with
the latest news, but there is more to RSS than just
collecting content from numerous Web sites. It is
a critical accessory to the librarian's virtual
toolbelt. This session discusses new tools, strategies,
and methods to personalize the content coming into
your news aggregator. The first speaker focuses
on utilizing RSS feeds to deliver customized content,
saving time by making the most out of the aggregator,
and ensuring prompt delivery to clients. The second
speaker illustrates with a case study of how blogging
software is not only great for keeping your library's
Web site dynamic and current, but can help improve
communication in-house. Combined with RSS news aggregators,
this powerful combination makes it easy to post
(information and knowledge) and keep up with that
flow. |
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Session
A205: Sharing Content: Video on Demand
4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Alexander Eykelhof,
Director, IT and Colleges Digital Library, The Bibliocentre,
a Division of Centennial College
The Bibliocentre, five colleges and a school board
have launched a Video-on-demand (VOD) pilot project
to deliver streaming video on demand to the business
and health sciences curricula in each of the schools,
providing them with detailed drill-down access to
the contents of the video. This session provides
an overview of the planning process, the technical
considerations, and the delivery system for the
project as well as some of the hurdles in launching
the project, lessons learned and the future of sharing
VOD. |
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B — Optimizing Technology
International Ballroom
East
This track profiles technologies that are
worth the hype in today's increasingly Webbed
world. It focuses on how to harness these technologies,
what to watch out for, and highlights working
examples of Web operations and systems in different
types of libraries.
Moderated by Andrew Pace,
North Carolina State University |
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Session
B201: Federated Searching & OpenURL
10:30 a.m. – 11:15
a.m.
Frank Cervone, Assistant University Librarian,
Northwestern University
Federated searching is the next generation in
library services on the Web. This session describes
how federated searching provides a single, unified
interface to multiple products resulting in better
use of resources. It talks about what is available
today, what's involved in implementing a federated
search service, its impact on the library, and
how the Open URL standard and other linking initiatives
relate to these new services. |
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Session
B202: Electronic Routing & Personalized Content
Distribution: Case Study
11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Eric Gross, Executive
Vice President, Ozmosys, Inc., &
Ronda Fisch, Director of Library
Services, Reed Smith
Subscription management is an administrative
nightmare. Delivering the right information to the
right people at the right time is vital to a large
organization with too many information requirements
and disparate content providers. This case study
demonstrates how a global top 20 law firm makes
managing all of the firm's subscriptions simple
and shares their strategy for organizing and controlling
information overload and overlook. |
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Lunch
Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibits
12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. |
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Session
B203: Top Five Prerequisites for Building Successful
Library Information Portals
1:45 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Eric Graham, System Administrator,
GMILCS Consortium, &
Mark Calkins, Senior Vice President,
Dynix
One of the most hotly debated issues in the library
industry today concerns the shape and form of patron-facing
library portals. Portals have the potential to deliver
a number of services in a variety of shapes. This
session explores five key considerations every library
should consider before moving ahead with a portal
strategy, illustrating with real-world examples
such as consortia, academic, public, and special
libraries. Discussions include "out-of-the-box"
vs. customized solutions; consolidated searching
capabilities; the importance of search functionality
that extends beyond Z39 catalogs and includes Web
and external databases; and the value of single
vs. multiple user interfaces. |
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Coffee
Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibits
2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. |
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Session
B204: Next-Generation Library Web Sites
3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Andrew White, Associate
Director, & Joseph Balsamo,
Systems Administrator Health Sciences Center Library,
Stony Brook University
Library Web sites are evolving rapidly to keep pace
with new user demands. White and Balsamo look at
the tools that libraries use to maintain Web site
content and discuss how the centralized Web site
maintenance model often collapses under its own
weight. The presenters describe how their library
tackled the problem by switching to using Plone,
an open source content management system requiring
little knowledge of HTML codes. |
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Session
B205: JerseyCat: New Jersey's Statewide Virtual
Catalog & Interlibrary Loan System
4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Scherelene Schatz,
Consultant, NJ State Library
JerseyCat is New Jersey's Statewide Virtual Catalog
and Interlibrary Loan system used by academic, public,
school, and special libraries. It is a hybrid system
using Auto-Graphics AGent software that has built
a union catalog of small library collections across
the state. If a patron finds a needed item, it can
be requested via interlibrary loan. This session
discusses the migration process from one virtual
catalog to another, the technical capabilities of
the system, and training a field of over 1,500 interlibrary
loan personnel in hands-on sessions. |
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C — Content Management Systems & Strategies
International Ballroom
West
Delivering content electronically to patrons
is foremost in the minds of many library administrators
and highlighted on their budgets. This track enables
you to learn from those who have been pioneers
in digitizing content or in leveraging Web resources
and tools to ensure their clients and patrons
have the content they want - when and where they
want it.
Organized and moderated by Rebecca
Jones, Dysart & Jones Associates
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Session
C201: Digital Repositories: Now that They Are
Up & Running
10:30 a.m. – 11:15
a.m.
Terence Huwe, Director of Library and
Information Services, Institute of Industrial
Relations, University of California (UC), Berkeley
UC's eScholarship program hosts a large-scale
repository of academic working papers, covering
the entire UC system. It's been open for business
for over a year, enabling information professionals
to learn from its experience. Huwe explores the
production and dissemination sides of managing
collections within the digital repository, as
well as the administrative issues facing librarians
who manage large-scale digital repositories. He
also addresses the longer-term intellectual property
issues raised by the digital publication of articles
intended to be peer-reviewed in print. |
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Session
C202: Developing Digital Collections: Case Studies
11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Nancy Allmang, Reference
Librarian, & Paula Deutsch,
Technical Information Specialist, Information Services
Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST)
This case study of a digital collection illustrates
how the Information Services Division of Technology
Services NIST formulated a requirements analysis
and development plan for a model system that integrates
an all-electronic manuscript submission and approval
system for authors with a bibliographic database
of agency publications and a digital library, touching
on specifications to streamline workflow and digitize
publications. |
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Lunch
Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibits
12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. |
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Session
C203: How to Survive Your Digitization Project
1:45 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Bill Helling, Systems
Librarian, Crawfordsville District Public Library
Many libraries have undertaken digitization projects
without realizing the full scope of the effort required
until mistakes are compounded, money is gone, and
patience is exhausted. Beyond the costs of hardware
and software tools, a digitization project is also
a burden on overworked and undertrained staff. This
session demonstrates how digitizing a collection
can be a success for your library, its local patrons,
and even a worldwide community of users through
proper organization and adherence to certain sound
principles. By emphasizing that a well-designed
process is much more important than a large budget,
Helling shows that even the smallest library can
digitally preserve and share local resources. |
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Coffee
Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibits
2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. |
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Session
C204: Using Consortia & Collaborative Ventures
to Expand E-Content
3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Daniel Mack & Roberta
Astroff, Humanities Librarians, Penn State
University Libraries
Patricia Wilson, Associate Director,
Himmelfarb Library, George Washington University
Electronic formats and 24/7 service anywhere, anytime
is the expectation on all academic campuses. This
presentation looks at how these librarians have
built a series of strategic alliances to ensure
these expectations could be met. Wilson talks about
the negotiation process used at Himmelfarb Library
for creating alliances, the real benefits of such
arrangements, and the factors that have led to successes.
Mack and Astroff illustrate how Penn State has carved
out an original model for the library in publishing
in which librarians collaborate with faculty in
academic departments and with the Penn State Press
on projects incorporating traditional publishing
with technological enhancements delivered via the
Web. |
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Session
C205: Specialized Content: Web and Software Resources
to Support the CI Function
4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Margaret Carr,
Principal, Carr Research Group
The business intelligence or competitive intelligence
(CI) function of organizations is increasingly important,
and one in which libraries can play a vital role.
There are CI Web-monitoring and software tools to
fit most library budgets. Based on 15 interviews
with key CI practitioners, attendees get an inside
view of what has worked, what has not, and considerations
and limitations when selecting services and resources
to support different areas of the CI function. Carr
shares successes, failures, benefits and pitfalls
as well as a matrix and question tip sheet to use
for your own institution. |
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D — Working & Learning Electronically
Jefferson Room
In our outcomes-based, learning-objectives-oriented
libraries, technology is no longer the driver
of innovation and planning, education is. We have
staff, patrons, students, and customers to instruct
and teach. The environment in which this happens
certainly utilizes technology for creation and
delivery, but more and more relies first on determining
strategic goals, building teams, scanning the
culture, and identifying specific needs. This
track gives perspective from the learning angle
- what are the learning needs of our constituents
and what can we do to meet them successfully.
Organized and moderated by D. Scott
Brandt, Technology Training Librarian,
Purdue University Libraries
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Session
D201: Collaborations
10:30 a.m. – 11:15
a.m.
Julia Schult, Reference Librarian/Coordinator
of Reference
Jesse Thomas, Multimedia Specialist &
Krista Siniscarco, Multimedia Assistant,
Hamilton College
Bor-sheng Tsai, Associate Professor,
School of Information and Library Science, Pratt
Institute
Learning projects and programs rarely happen in
isolation. Nowadays, working in liaison with diverse
teams and multiple groups is the norm. This session's
speakers share insights into and tips for such
collaborations, which support learning at an in-depth
level. We'll see team-building initiatives between
the library and an IT department which provide
critical support for instructional initiatives.
A multi-library assessment to develop and manage
a subject-focused information "learning ground"
is also examined. |
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Session
D202: Web-Based Learning Resources
11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Barbara Martin, Professor,
University of North Texas, &
Yunfei Du, Assistant Professor,
Wayne State University
Frank Vuotto, Business/Agribusiness
Librarian, California Polytechnic State University
Instruction increasingly lives on the Web,
whether as synchronous distance education, asynchronous
learning modules, or resources that support various
instructional outcomes. Our first speaker focuses
on online delivery of projects using specialized
technical solutions, such as ColdFusion-driven Web
content. Then we look closely at how subject-specialized
resources can function as tutorials to help support
learning environments. |
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Lunch
Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibits
12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. |
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Session
D203: Organization Perspectives
1:45 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Angela Ballard, Information Technology
Training Librarian, North Carolina State University
(NCSU) Libraries
Michael Stephens, Networked Resources
Development & Training Librarian, St. Joseph
County (IN) Public Library
Robert Lewandowski, Trainer,
St. Joseph County (IN) Public Library
Well-coordinated efforts to initiate, learn, or
celebrate technology require tuning into the organizational
culture for perspective, buy-in and systemwide understanding.
Trainers play key roles in creating and assessing
environments, as well as in motivating people and
keeping them charged. This session looks at efforts
at different ends of the spectrum - beginning a
training program and celebrating successes after
technology deluges. Our presentation on building
a training program identifies components of the
organizational culture that can affect success.
Our presentation on celebration highlights dynamic
ways to senliven and invigorate a staff.
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Coffee
Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibits
2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. |
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Session
D204: Information Skills I: Literacy, Tutorials,
Course Management
3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Gary O. Roberts, Information
Systems Librarian, Alfred University
As learning continues to get more and more comfortable
online, needs for tracking and demonstrating progress
and success continue to cause a stir. Many are turning
to course management (CM) software for help, since
these programs offer a suite of tools for large
online courses. In particular, the registration
and testing features found in CM systems can be
integrated with the engaging content of online information-literacy
tutorials to support comprehensive information literacy
programs. This presentation demonstrates how a tutorial
can be enhanced by integrating it into CM. |
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Session
D205: Information Skills II: Higher-Order Critical
Thinking
4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Gwendolyn Reece,
Reference/Instruction/Web Librarian, American University
It is easier to teach and assess simple information-seeking
skills than higher-order critical thinking skills,
which results in a tendency to emphasize one over
the other. However, information literacy requires
critical thought, and librarians are finding ways
to efficiently and effectively help students and
patrons learn these skills. An online information
literacy tutorial is used to demonstrate the process
and challenges of using technology to design outcomes,
providing learning situations that integrate abstract
concepts of information literacy and the practical
mechanics of information-seeking skills. |
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