and Exhibition for Librarians and Information Managers
General Conference
Monday, March 8th
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North America's
Largest Technology Conference
and Exhibition for Librarians and Information Managers
General Conference Monday, March 8th |
9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
A1—Internet Appliances: Tools for
Instructors
Terese Terry, Lippincott
Library of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Christine Drew, Reference
Librarian, Babson College
Digital cameras, camcorders,
and screen cam software are among the latest tools for librarians looking
for improved ways to instruct their customers and market their libraries.
Speakers share experiences in teaching MBAs about business information
using a program called Screen Cam and using a digital camera to move the
library to the classroom for a Virtual Library Tour to new graduate students.
10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
A2—Java-Assisted Document Delivery
Frank L. Walker and
George R. Thoma, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications,
National Library of Medicine
An increasing number of
libraries are using the Internet for document delivery, not only for interlibrary
loan, but for delivery of documents directly to the patron’s desktop computer.
There are technological and copyright barriers to introducing this kind
of service, and the prototype HotMed and MedJava software offer a revolutionary
way to enable libraries to provide this kind of Internet document delivery.
11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
A3—Listening to a Different Drummer:
Using Open Source Software for Libraries
John Iliff, Pinellas
Park Public Library, Pinellas Park, Florida
Staff in Pinellas Park Public
Library have used the freely available operating system Linux, the free
scripting language Perl, the no-cost Apache Web server, and other GNU-based
software (so-called “copy-lefted” programs that are free to use). This
has resulted in considerable savings as well as robust programs that benefit
our user community. While the world marches to the beat of big-name software
companies (read as Microsoft), there are alternatives that may be the best
software choices available no matter the cost.
2:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
A4—Dialog with Expert Web Searchers
Randolph (Ran) Hock,
Online Strategies
Helene E. Gold, Electronic
Services Librarian/Assistant Professor, Eckerd College Library
Kelly Belmonte, Director,
Customer Support, Northern Light Technology
“Extreme searcher” Ran Hock
offers straightforward advice designed to help you get immediate results.
Ran not only shows you what’s “under the hood” of the major search engines,
but explains their relative strengths and weaknesses, reveals their many
(and often overlooked) special features, and offers tips and techniques
for searching the Web more efficiently and effectively than ever. Helene
Gold explores the structure and role of search engines in online research,
how to use special features of search engines (Boolean operators, truncation,
domain restriction, etc.), and careful evaluation of the results. Search
engines, Web directories, and meta-engines are also compared and contrasted.
Kelly Belmonte gives the search engines’ point of view and shares some
lessons learned. What do customers ask search engines? What are the reference
desk characteristics of Northern Light Customer Service that can be applied
to other library situations?
4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
A5—Computer Based Tools for the Graphically
Challenged
David Carlson, Director
of Libraries, Bridgewater State College
Characterizing himself as
graphically challenged, our speaker has found useful tools or applets within
tools for folks like him, which allow him to express things in pictures
(including graphs). The best free-standing application of this is Visio,
which has almost created the area of “business graphics.” He will provide
an overview of the concept and utility of “business graphics,” describe
useful tools and resources with more detailed and specific emphasis on
the major applications, such as Visio; and discuss the value—and dangers—of
graphics in business/library applications.
9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
B1—Library Systems & Technology:
Expectations for the Future
Stephen Arnold, Arnold
IT
With converging technologies,
exploding content streams, and the anticipation of higher levels of integration
and resource sharing, what should we be looking for over the next few years?
Our popular and talented information industry guru addresses some of the
trends, innovations and exciting challenges for information professionals
in a world of networked information.
10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
B2—Implementing State-of-the-Art Technology
Bonnie Preece, Manager,
Technical Training & Support, Carswell
This sessions discusses
the main phases of technology projects and how to plan for an implementation
of state-of-the-art technology. It covers the roles, key issues, and challenges
and provides a guide for managing expectations. Preece also includes a
case study of developing and implementing an electronic service.
11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
B3—CD/DVD Technologies in Libraries
Joe Mendolia, VP Marketing
& Sales, SciNet
Marshall Breeding, Library
Technology Analyst, Vanderbilt University
Libraries and their staff
are facing issues today that they never faced before. New technology is
emerging and taking libraries by storm. With information that was once
kept on paper and microfiche transitioning to CDs and DVDs, Mendolia focuses
on the best way for libraries to tackle this technology and the easiest
way for a non-technical staff to administer it. He addresses the key issues
and concerns that libraries face when looking for CD-ROM networking solutions,
the hardware and software requirements, choosing what goes in the server
and what doesn’t as well as the price/
performance issue. Breeding
provides case studies of working applications and highlights their keys
to success.
2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
B4—Dynamic Delivery of Information
via the World Wide Web, or, Barefoot in the Park
Justin R. Ervin, Jackson
Library, University of North Carolina
Among the most ballyhooed
interactive uses of the Web, database access has, until recently, been
a cross-platform, multi-language, multi-interface endeavor not suited to
the faint-of-heart. Fortunately, Microsoft’s ever-increasing domination
of the software industry has led to the packaging and delivery of many
services in one application. Moving beyond Cold Fusion’s bridging between
databases and UNIX-based Web servers to provide database access and delivery
via the Web, Microsoft’s IIS 2 brings together all the tools necessary
to deliver an existing database over the Web. Ervin illustrates using a
case study of converting a Web resource (News and Newspapers Online, a
comprehensive directory of online newspapers from around the world that
offer free access to current, full-text content) from static HTML files
to a standard-format database (using MS Access 97), mounting the database
on a Web server (using IIS 4), building the user interface (using HTML),
and dynamically delivering the requested information (using Active Server
Pages and Active Data Objects).
3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
B5—URLs, PURLs & TRULs: Link Maintenance
in the Web-based OPAC
Tom Tyler, Associate
Director, Budget & Planning, University of Denver
As libraries begin to recognize
the potential of linking to the wide richness of Web resources from their
OPACs, they also find it necessary to dedicate staff and other resources
to processes associated with maintenance of Web links in environments not
always suited to the task. This session identifies the major problems associated
with maintaining Web links in the online catalog, describes how libraries
are working to solve these problems, and provides examples of various software
solutions that are being used by libraries to make their efforts in this
area more efficient.
4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
B6—Is Groupware Destined to Fail?
Improving the Odds
Lynda Moulton, President,
Comstow Information Services
MIS managers currently favor
groupware solutions that bundle e-mail, document management, and archiving
and records management type activities, while information professionals
have long preferred integrated library systems which have been designed
to be highly structured in their management of information. Knowledge content
organizers are in a perfect position to rescue their organizations from
the endless and expensive pursuit of the ideal solution to information
management. They must sell their time-tested methodology for insuring that
information is acquired, structured and prepared to meet the defined goals
of their organizations. This session provides some tips on how to make
that happen.
| MONDAY EVENING SESSION
7:30 P.M. - 9:00 P.M. Technology & Knowledge Forum: A Look at Dead & Emerging Technologies Since we are now firmly in the knowledge age, and organizations and communities are striving to become learning organizations and centers, librarians are even more critical to the transfer of knowledge in these learning environments. Our popular “dead technology” session focuses this year on those technologies that will, and will not, allow us to transfer knowledge to our clients in easy, cost-effective, and relevant ways. This session features Computers in Libraries experts, pioneers, and practitioners. It is free and open to all registrants, exhibitors, and exhibit visitors. Come and hear our panels’ predictions of future-challenged technologies as they praise and condemn available and emerging technologies. Moderator: D. Scott Brandt, Purdue University Panelists:
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9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
C1—Managing Digital and Physical Collections:
It Ain’t What It Used to Be!
Beatrice Kovacs, Associate
Professor, Department of Library and Information Studies, University of
North Carolina at Greensboro
Randy D. Ralph, Assistant
Professor, Department of Library and Information Studies, University of
North Carolina at Greensboro
Robert R. Downs, Information
Technology, Montclair State University
The day begins by addressing
this question: Can traditional collection management handle the new technologies?
The speakers examine the issues from the traditional library and new cybrary
viewpoints. The second speaker outlines the “Five C’s of Managing the Digital
Library”: communication, cooperation, coordination, collaboration, and
cross-training.
10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
C2—Licensing Content: “Let’s Make
a Deal!”
Tanya Wood Mollenauer,
Manager, Technical and Marketing Information Services, Analog Devices,
Inc.
The process of negotiating
with information vendors is somewhat of an art. This session focuses on
the opportunities and challenges of negotiating with content providers
for digitized assets and gives practical guidelines on what to look at
in order to achieve attractive contracts. Mollenauer concentrates on content,
pricing, delivery methods, quality, ease of use, and other issues that
must be considered.
11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
C3—Shrinkwrap & Clickwrap Licenses:
Is This All Enforceable?
David Mirchin, Vice
President & General Counsel, SilverPlatter Information, Inc.
This is a session in Library
Law 101, given by lawyers. In the past two years courts have held that
shrinkwraps and clickwraps (electronic licenses) are enforceable. David
Mirchin explains the advantages these licenses have for librarians as licensees
and publishers as licensors. Donna Ferullo then gives an overview of the
key issues and challenges in licensing/contract law and Web/
Internet law.
2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
C4—Integrating Real and Virtual Collections
Moderator: Ron
Gardner, East Region Sales Manager, OCLC U.S.
Panelists: Sarah
Mikel, Director, National Defence University
Andy Bullen, Manager,
Information Services, North Suburban Library System
Integrating traditional
paper collections with virtual collections affects many areas of library
decision-making, including collection development, budget, public services,
reference services, and resource sharing. Internal issues related to institutional
or group politics and the allocation of budget and staff also affect a
virtual library integration. Two librarians describe their experiences
and practical advice in creating a single, accessible collection from a
wide variety of new and traditional resources.
3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
C5—Coping with Consortiums and Sharing
Electronic Resources: Academic Case Studies
Scott R. Anderson, Information
Technologies Librarian, Millersville University
Tom Briggs, Regional
Hub Administrator, Shippensburg University
Rob Withers, Systems/Technical
Services Librarian, Western Maryland College
Linda Garber, Acquisitions
Supervisor, Western Maryland College
Roxane Brewer, Cataloging
Supervisor, Western Maryland College
Learn how a backroom conversation
among five librarians turned into a major statewide resource-sharing project
involving 90,000 patrons. The SSHE database sharing project now uses SilverPlatter’s
ERL technology, allowing seven university libraries to provide access for
90,000 patrons to almost two dozen major bibliographic indexes from desktops
in any of the libraries, as well as anywhere on campus and off. Then hear
how Western Maryland College formed a consortium with the local public
library system—the strategies, issues, and solutions.
4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
C6—“Websizing Content” and Linking
to Full Text
Susanne Bjørner,
Special Projects Editor, Choice
Todd Morris, President/Director
of Technology, ScienceServer LLC
Long known as “the best timely, short, critical evaluations of new titles available anywhere,” Choice book and electronic resource reviews have been available primarily in print. But in 1998, Choice launched the beta version of a Web site providing access to over 45,000 reviews. This first presentation describes the lessons from an established print collection that has evolved to a Web-distributed search and alerting tool. The second presenter discusses how some libraries are acting as their own aggregators to obtain electronic documents directly from publishers to host locally within their library collections. OhioLINK, Germany’s Nordrheinwestfalen and University of Toronto are among the cases using ScienceServer this way.
