International Ballroom Center Keynote — Planning for a Handheld Mobile Future 9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Megan Fox, Web & Electronic Resources Librarian, Simmons College
As more and more of our clients and staff members interact with the library using mobile handheld devices, such as PDAs, iPods and smart phones,
it is increasingly important to understand both the possibilities and the limits of providing content and services for small screen mobile devices.
Fox provides an overview of the current hardware available, and how new technologies are making handheld computers not just palatable but
preferable for on-the-go users. She highlights both what clients are already doing on these tools—from text/instant messaging to local search for
nearby restaurants and directions—as well as what libraries could be doing with mobile search (of the Web, the library catalog, or subscription databases);
RSS news and other alerts (such as books coming due); podcasting and audio content.
International Ballroom Center Track A – Content Management
Content management is a hot area not only for libraries but for just about
every organization. Hear about new strategies and techniques from our
experts and practitioners.
Moderated by John Latham, Special Libraries Association
Coffee Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibits 9:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Session A201 — Exploiting the Value of Structured Metadata 10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC
Libraries make major investments in creating, maintaining, and sharing standardized
data (e.g., metadata) but frequently fail to realize the full value of
the data they possess. Technorati, Wikpedia, and a host of other voluntary-contribution
platforms offer proof that end users are eager and willing to
build and enhance the information commons. This session looks at creative
initiatives underway and suggests strategies for the future.
Session A202 — Digital Project Development 11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Craig Summerhill, University of Nevada, Reno
The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) has been developing digital collections
with CONTENTdm since 2002. Its extensive collections include primary
source materials from Special Collections, the Department of Art in
the College of Liberal Arts, the Center for Basque Studies, and the Office
of the Vice President for Marketing and Communications. Image libraries,
maps, artworks, and documents are now accessible online in regional collaborations
such as the Mountain West Digital Library and OAIster digital
information retrieval resource based at the University of Michigan. Craig
describes implementation, community response, lessons learned, and future
plans.
Lunch Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibits 12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Session A203 — Collaborative Digital Projects: The ECHO Depository 1:45 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Taylor Surface, OCLC Richard Pearce-Moses, Director of Digital Government Information,
Arizona State Library & Archives Thomas Habing, Grainger Engineering Library
The ECHO Depository project aims to address the issues of how to collect,
manage, preserve, and make useful the enormous amount of digital information
our culture is now producing. It is a partnership between the University
of Illinois; OCLC; Tufts University’s Perseus Project; the Michigan State
University Library; and an alliance of state libraries from Arizona, Connecticut,
Illinois, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. It has adapted archival criteria
for selecting Web publications for capture and preservation based on the
“Arizona Model” and OCLC has built software to automate the process. It is conducting a comparative repository architecture evaluation, and examining
issues related to the semantic preservation of the digital content we harvest
and retain. This session provides an overview of project results to date and
outlines the implications for the future of preservation of born-digital information
objects.
Coffee Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibits 2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Visit the Information Today, Inc. booth, where Rachel will be signing copies of her new
book—available for the first time anywhere
at Computers in Libraries!
Sessions A204 & A205 — Taxonomy Tales
3:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Jennifer Evert, Taxonomy Product Manager, Lexis Nexis Marjorie M. K. Hlava, Access Innovations Inc.
While information professionals remain experts in the development and management
of controlled vocabularies, end users are benefiting more and more
from the application and use of valuable metadata. Evert discusses easy
Web interfaces for exploiting indexing and taxonomies at many points in the
research process and illustrates with case studies. Hlava discusses integrating
search and display to highlight relevance as well as to underscore
that placement of data is not straight-forward to achieve. She illustrates with
a case study of Media Sleuth's portal which uses a taxonomy to display all
records tagged with an individual taxonomy term as well as to expand searching
using all taxonomic equivalents.
International Ballroom West Track B – Digital Libraries This track includes practical tips from those who have been there and done
that as well as the long view on digital preservation.
Moderated by Hope Tillman, Babson College
Coffee Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibits 9:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Session B201 — Digitizing & Creating New Collections 10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Sharon Carlson, Director, Archives and Regional History Collections,
Western Michigan University (WMU) Margaret Graham, Digital Projects Archivist, & Charles Dennis, Digital
Development Archivist, Drexel University College of Medicine, Archives & Special Collections on Women in Medicine
Digitization provides opportunities to take existing archival collections and
create new collections. A Civil War diary digitization project at WMU drew
from eight existing archival collections to create a new collection of digitized
diaries with searchable transcribed text. Hear how they addressed basic
archival theory, ordered the digital collections, approached traditional and
online finding aids for collections that previously had no relationship to one
another, and more. Graham talks about building an open source digital
library from the ground up, creating a digital collection of 25,000 pages of
historic graphic and textual materials on the history of women physicians. Learn from our speakers’ experience as they share lessons learned, strategies,
tips and techniques.
Session B202 — Digitization Issues & Challenges 11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Stephen Abram, VP Innovation, SirsiDynix Lloyd Davidson, Northwestern University Christopher Warnock, ebrary
Digitization and dealing with digital and nondigital content is at the core of
our challenges today. This panel provides different perspectives, strategies,
ideas and insights. Join us for a lively discussion.
Lunch Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibits 12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Session B203 — Long-Term Management of Digital Collections 1:45 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. James Hodson, Digital Conversion Specialist, Library of Congress
The successful long-term preservation of digital materials will only come as
a result of the confluence of various forces. Efforts towards long-term management
of digital collections must include not only technical and systemic
issues, but also educational, cultural, and societal commitments. This session
provides an overview of the necessary components and assesses what
has been achieved so far and what remains to be achieved.
Coffee Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibits 2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Visit the Information Today, Inc. booth, where Rachel will be signing copies of her new book—available for the first time anywhere at Computers in Libraries!
Session B204 — Digital Preservation & the Open Web
3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Joanne Kaczmarek, Archivist for Electronic Records, University of Illinois
Urbana–Champaign Terence K. Huwe, Director of Library & Information Resources, Institute
of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley
Hear findings from two organizations involved in the Library of Congress
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Project (NDIIPP)
initiative. Kaczmarek focuses on issues related to digital preservation, rights
management, and intellectual property rights, while Huwe addresses Web
archiving and collection development challenges as well as developing toolkits
to assist with these activities.
Session B205 — The Michigan eLibrary (MeL):
Growing Pains and Gains 4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sheryl Mase, Director, Library Development & Data Services, Library of Michigan
The Library of Michigan (LM) and the Michigan Library Consortium (MLC)
unveiled the new look and features of the Michigan eLibrary (MeL) featuring
a federated searching gateway to MeL Internet, MeL Databases, MeL
Digital, and MeLCat, the new statewide resource-sharing system. Libraries
of all sizes and types have been involved in vendor selection, policy formulation,
and system development. Every library in the state will be eligible to
participate in the union catalog, without the need to change their local automated
system, making this one of the few truly multitype statewide resource-sharing
efforts in the country. Hear about this ambitious project, with the
potential for participation from more than 1,000 Michigan libraries, the challenges
of working with multiple vendors of multiple library systems on a large
scale, dealing with user desire for simplicity with the complexities of providing
federated searching, and developing policies that meet the needs for
every size library--from large research libraries to small public and K–12
libraries.
International Ballroom East Track C – Learning There’s no turning back—the Web has consumed us! Much, if not most, of
our library world revolves around it, or has been heavily influenced by it. That
goes double for teaching, training, and instruction. Not only are patrons and
students increasingly sophisticated at using the Web, more and more they
expect to learn on it. This requires the knowledge and skills to create online
learning, the technological applications to facilitate it, an understanding of
the issues and consequences of doing it, and help! This track presents several
sides of Web-enabled learning. From training to instruction, it provides
in-depth insight and ways to plan, build and use it online.
Organized and moderated by D. Scott Brandt, Purdue University Libraries
Coffee Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibits 9:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Sessions C201 — Two Views on Educating Librarians 10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Jeanne Holba Puacz, Adjunct Faculty, University of Illinois Lynn Westbrook, Assistant Professor, University of Texas
First, while various technologies have become ubiquitous in libraries, technology-related issues and questions raised by patrons are increasing in number
and sophistication. A survey of options is shared for training librarians in
their pursuit of greater technological knowledge. Second, developments in
adult education, digital communication, and human-computer interaction
have moved digital reference training from “first generation” into a “second
generation.” Four overarching guidelines and essential training principles for
various stages of the reference interview are discussed in this new context.
Session C202 — Training for Staff & Patrons in Public Libraries 11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Janie Hassard Hermann, Technology Instruction Librarian, Princeton
Public Library Travis Bussler, Network Administrator, Chippewa River District Library
To take technology training to the next level and devise innovative programs
and classes requires increasingly tech-savvy trainers. This session examines
solutions, offers an overview of trends in training, and looks at “what’s
hot and what’s not.” It also revisits the issue of “basic” training in a public
library setting. How much training, and what kind, is needed to get staff to
the level of being able to trouble shoot problems when there isn’t a systems
department?
Lunch Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibits 12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Session C203 — Plagiarism: Confrontation or Collaboration? 1:45 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Susan Herzog, Information Literacy Librarian,
Kimberly Armstrong Silcox, University Judicial Officer, &
Janice Wilson, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Eastern Connecticut
State University
The 21st-century electronic environment has made it very easy for students
to succumb to plagiarism and more difficult than ever for faculty to prevent
and detect it. This presentation describes two successful programs, organized
by the Information Literacy Librarian, that can easily be duplicated on
your campus. It aims to empower librarians to be recognized as essential
partners in learning and scholarship with faculty and other colleagues.
Coffee Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibits 2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Visit the Information Today, Inc. booth, where Rachel will be signing copies of her new book—available for the first time anywhere at Computers in Libraries!
Session C204 — Information Literacy & Instruction
3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Kathleen Stacey, Instruction Librarian, Montgomery College Chad Boeninger, Reference & Instruction Librarian, Ohio University
Many academic librarians are still challenged by the overwhelming amount
of information that can be presented in a typical “one-shot” library instruction
session. This session begins by reviewing what basic elements of
instruction can be covered in 1 hour. Then, looking at new ways to achieve
information literacy goals, the second presentation explores the use of a
wiki as a research guide. Lessons learned in this process of experimenting
with a wiki as a subject guide include pros and cons of community editing,
getting others to contribute, and the strengths and weaknesses of the wiki
over traditional HTML research guides.
Melissa Harvey, Computer Science Librarian, Carnegie Mellon University
Distance learning has opened many new doors for librarians to teach online.
While they may be great teachers in the classroom or at a reference desk,
teaching online is a whole different world. This presentation covers techniques
to use for tutorials, library instruction, or for entire courses taught
online. Learn skills to become an effective and successful online teacher.
Jefferson Room Track D – Planning In & For a Digital World Since we have no idea what the future will bring, we need as much information
and as many processes as we can get to make reasonable plans.
This track is filled with tips, strategies, processes, and ideas for building
solid plans for our ever-changing digital future.
Moderated by Donna Scheeder, Law Library of Congress
Coffee Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibits 9:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
If you don’t know what’s going on around you, how can you plan? This session
provides a key for planning tools and process. It defines environmental
scanning (ES), discusses its importance for planning in any organization,
comments on the lack of information on ES in the library literature,
and provides practical tips and advice for creating your own ES. Wilson
illustrates the process used by OCLC for its scan, includes strategies for
how to be successful in doing your own scan, and great resources for information
on ES.
Session D202 — Digital Preservation: Planning for the Future 11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Donna Scheeder, Director, Law Library of Congress Judith C. Russell, Superintendent of Documents & Managing Director,
Information Dissemination, U.S. Government Printing Office Michael Kurtz, Assistant Archivist, National Archives & Records
Administration
Librarians, archivists, and records managers share the challenges of digital
preservation. While the goal is the same, the Archives, the Government Printing
Office, and the Library of Congress are taking different approaches to
tackling this issue. The speakers share their different perspectives and report
on their progress and future plans. Provides lots of insights for planning your
own digital future.
Lunch Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibits 12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Session D203 — New Library, New Technologies, New Services 1:45 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Bill Helling, Crawfordsville District Public Library
How can you move from a century-old Carnegie library to a newly constructed
building with three times the floor space—expecting to greatly
increase circulation and serve many more patrons—all without adding any
library staff or permanently stretching the existing budget? You learn to add
to your existing automation level! Helling outlines strategies for a successful
implementation of some current technologies while also addressing the
serious implications for support staff. Helling covers the library’s adoption
of RFID, wireless access, instant messaging, secure Internet computers,
and other technologies that allow the automation of time-consuming and
staff-intensive procedures.
Coffee Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibits 2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Visit the Information Today, Inc. booth, where Rachel will be signing copies of her new book—available for the first time anywhere at Computers in Libraries!
Session D204 — Disaster Recovery Planning:
What You Need to Know Now
3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Frank Cervone, Assistant University Librarian for Information
Technology, Northwestern University
Disasters—no one wants to think about them, but we need to have systems
and plans in place. Whether it’s a natural disaster or an intruder that has
compromised the library’s Web server, being prepared is critical. How should
you create a computing disaster plan? What procedures and steps do you
need in place before a digital disaster happens? Who is designated to
respond when disasters happen? How should your team communicate the
plans and keep them up to date? Cervone offers practical and timely advice
on planning for computing disasters.
Session D205 — Working & Planning with Your IT Department 4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Barrett Jones, Joint IMF World Bank Library
Many library staffs depend on support from their organization’s IT departments.
Some have good relationships and others do not. This session provides
tips and insights into how to work with your IT department to build a
solid relationship for future planning and implementations. Jones shares his
knowledge and experience from years of working with IT departments in a
wide variety of corporate and government settings.
