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| Free
CyberTours |
| Listen and
learn at a series of free cybertours and information sessions
for all Computers in Libraries 2005 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 to you
and arrive at our CyberCorner within the CIL 2005 Exhibit
Hall at the appropriate time. |
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CyberTours — Wednesday, March 16 |
OpenURL
11:00
a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Cindi
Trainor, Director, Information Technology,
The Libraries of the Claremont Colleges
Are your patrons/clients constantly lost in the
maze of electronic resources? Attend this cybertour
and learn what the OpenURL standard is and how it
is solving this problem by allowing librarians and
users to get directly to the articles that they
seek. |
Electronic Table of Contents
For Health
12:00 p.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Alexandra Davis,
Librarian, Ottawa Hospital
Keeping up with published information these days
is almost impossible. This session discusses an
electronic system that helps hospital-based health
professionals stay current with journal publications
in their field. Using InMagic Web Publisher, a Web-based
electronic table of contents service is updated
weekly and pushed out to the client group. The program
eases the process of keeping current and promotes
discussion among professionals about specific articles. |
Online Trends from the
CyberCorner
1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Mary Ellen Bates, Bates Information
Services
What’s happening in the online world? What’s
on the horizon for info pros? What should we be
studying, thinking about, and using? Mary Ellen
Bates, industry expert and author of Building
& Running a Successful Research Business,
shares her opinions in this cybertour of the top
10 trends to watch for in the online world. |
Making Your Web Site Accessible
in 10 Easy Steps
2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Bill Helling, Crawfordsville District
Public Library
With your Web site as the major portal for your
patrons and clients to access your services, you
don’t want to exclude any segment of users.
This talk by a systems librarian/Webmaster/assistant
director shows how simple it can be to turn an inaccessible
site into a site that takes into consideration everyone’s
capabilities. |
Graphical Data Visualization
3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Michael Sauers, Internet Trainer,
BCR
The future is not text-based. Today search engines
and databases are experimenting with methods of
representing data in a graphical form. These methods
not only show you the results but the relationships
between the results. Sauers introduces the world
of graphical data with live examples and provides
tips for getting the most out of graphical data. |
Library Automation Update
4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Marshall Breeding, Creator,
Library Technology Guides & Author, Library
Journal Annual Automated System Marketplace
In a world where libraries manage increasing proportions
of electronic content relative to traditional materials,
how well do the offerings on the market today help
address this fundamental shift? While the core integrated
library system remains an essential part of the
library infrastructure, what additional components
do libraries need to keep up with the times? For
the answers to these questions and to hear about
the latest trends in library automation, you’ll
want to attend this cybertour. |
| Free
CyberTours — Thursday, March 17 |
A Dozen Search Engine “Shortcuts”
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Ran Hock, Online Strategies
Hear from the author of The Extreme Searchers
Internet Handbook, and learn to amaze and mystify
your friends and colleagues with some neat, quick
and unusual shortcuts and tricks that you can perform
in the search boxes of Google, Yahoo, and Ask Jeeves. |
Firefox
12:00 p.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Cindi Trainor, Director, Information
Technology, The Libraries of the Claremont Colleges
Come and see why so many people love this new
browser. Take a look at cool built-in features such
as tabbed browsing, a pop-up blocker, bookmark keywords,
and cookie management, and hear why Firefox gives
you more security and functionality than Internet
Explorer. |
Five Ways to Make Search
Smarter
1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Chris Farnum, Information Architect
& Usability Design Product Manager, ProQuest
End users often don’t know what to put
into the search box and often aren’t aware
of the powerful indexing and metadata included in
content-rich databases. This session shares the
five best practices for making controlled vocabularies,
indexing, and metadata accessible to searchers and
illustrates with examples from ProQuest and other
search engines. Practices range from making a thesaurus
available to building a system for matching keywords
to index terms. |
Digitization Projects
2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Bill Helling, Crawfordsville District
Public Library
So you want to lead your community or organization
in a digitization project, but don’t know
if you have anything that merits your time and effort?
Helling shares his experience in finding the hidden
treasures libraries and other local organizations
already possess—the treasures that many people
want to access. He talks about what to include in
the project and where to get it. |
Ten Hot News Sites
3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Ran Hock, Online Strategies &
Author, The Extreme Searchers Internet Handbook
A quick look at 10 or so news sites that everyone
should know about because they are outstandingly
important, new, unique, or just darned interesting!
Join us for an enjoyable and informative tour. |
Taking on Google: 7 Library
Responses
4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Stephen Abram, VP Innovation,
Sirsi
In just a few months the ubiquitous Google has announced
Google Print, Google Libraries Digitization, Google
Suggest, Google Local, Google .... more and more.
How should libraries respond strategically to these
innovations? Stephen expands on his Library
Journal article about the 7 strategic goals
of libraries in a Google world. |
| Free
CyberTours — Friday, March 18 |
IM—Email is Dead!
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Cindi Trainor, Director, Information
Technology, The Libraries of the Claremont Colleges
Today’s librarians use instant messaging programs
to communicate with each other, with family, friends,
and (gasp) users. Each major program (Yahoo!, MSN,
AOL, ICQ) has its own features and can mean managing
multiple contact lists. Programs like Trillian allow
you to talk to users on several of these chat networks.
See these programs in action and learn why you should
be using them in your library. |
Favelets & Bookmarklets
Cybertour
12:00 p.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Michael Sauers, Internet Trainer,
BCR
There are many bookmarks/favorites out there that
you can add to your browser that will give you single-click
access to useful tools. This cybertour covers what’s
available, what they do, and how to add them to
your browser. |
Top 10 Things to Stay Tech
Current
1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Aaron Schmidt, Reference Librarian,
Thomas Ford Memorial Library
This cybertour introduces many key technologies
with which libraries and librarians can stay tech
current. It includes a variety of technologies such
as Instant Messaging (IM), wireless and Really Simple
Syndication (RSS), each having its own level of
commitment to implement. Leave with plenty of good
ideas about keeping your library relevant. |
Bates’ Competitive
Intelligence Cybertour
2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Mary Ellen Bates, Bates Information
Services
Do you need to keep track of your organization’s
competitors and the competitive landscape in general?
In this fast-paced cybertour, Mary Ellen Bates,
industry expert and author of Super Searchers
Do Business and Super Searchers Cover the
World, discusses the top sites for CI through
Web research and techniques for competitive intelligence
gathering — dumpster-diving not required. |
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| Exhibit
Hall Hours |
| Wednesday, March 16,
2005 |
9:45 AM to 5:45
PM
– Reception: 5:00 PM |
| Thursday, March 17,
2005 |
9:45 AM to 5:45 PM
– Reception: 5:00 PM |
| Friday, March 18, 2005 |
9:45 AM to 3:15 PM |
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