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Internet Librarian International 2005
Transcending Boundaries:
Information Technologies & Strategies for the 21st Century
10-11 October 2005 •
Copthorne Tara Hotel, London |
General Conference —
Monday, October 10
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 OPENING KEYNOTE:
Digitising Library Collections: Oxford University and the Google Project
09:00 – 10:00 • SHANNON SUITE
Ronald Milne, Acting Director of University Library Services & Bodley’s Librarian, Bodleian Library (UK)
Ronald Milne, the Acting Librarian of the Bodleian Library will speak about the agreement between the University of Oxford and Google to
digitize the Bodleian Library's 19th century collections and to make them freely available on the World Wide Web. He will talk about the
logistical and operational issues, consider the benefits of the project for the academic community, and assess the likely impact on the
wider information world, as well as discuss Oxford University's viewpoint on being involved in the program.
Speaking about the project recently, Milne said,
"When Sir Thomas Bodley founded the Bodleian
Library in Oxford over 400 years ago, in 1602, he
laid down the specific condition that this new
library should not just serve his alma mater, but
that it should also be a library for the
worldwide "republic of letters." The emergence
of the Internet, and the scope for creating
digital surrogates of library materials for
networked availability, have radically altered
the paradigm for access to the Library, opening
up a whole new meaning for the Bodleian as a
'library for the world' in the 21st century.
Oxford's mass-digitisation programme with Google
fits perfectly into this historic context as a
key modern element of the Bodleian's strategic
aim for the whole of its existence: to bring its
great collections to the wider world." |
Coffee Break and ILI Sponsor Showcase Opens
10:00 – 10:30 • SHANNON & LIFFEY FOYERS |
TRACK A — BLOGS, WIKIS AND COLLABORATION TOOLS
• SHANNON SUITE •
Moderated by Marydee Ojala, Editor, ONLINE Magazine (USA)
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Session A101 – Digital Tools for Collaboration
10:30 — 11:30
Aaron Schmidt, Reference Librarian, Thomas Ford Memorial
Library, Illinois (USA)
Michael Stephens, St. Joseph County Public Library, Indiana
(USA)
Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, UKOLN (UK)
One role of librarians is to bring people together with information. The
world of wikis, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), social bookmarks,
image sharing and instant messaging can help librarians share their
content and connect with their users and co-workers. In this thought-provoking session, Michael Stephens, Aaron Schmidt and Brian Kelly
will show examples of how libraries and librarians have used these
tools and share ideas and suggestions about how to use digital tools
to communicate and collaborate. |
Session A102 – Online Collaboration Tools
11:45 — 12:30
May Chang, North Carolina State University (USA)
Christopher Hamb, University of Illinois (USA)
Hear from May Chang how one U.S. university library implemented
open source communication and collaboration tools on the public web
and the staff intranet, including discussion forums, weblogs/RSS and
wikis, as well as an instant messaging system and learn how the project
has had a positive impact on staff communication and collaboration in
the library, with the campus community and beyond. Chris Hamb
reports on how his library designed its own blog software and began a
library news blog and RSS feed using Active Server Pages and
VBSscript instead of expensive or limited proprietary blog software.
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Delegate Lunch
12:30 — 13:45 • BRASSERIE RESTAURANT
Join your colleagues and the conference speakers and sponsors for
lunch, and enjoy an opportunity to get acquainted with other
attendees and discuss the topics you’ve heard at the morning’s
sessions. Many of the day’s speakers will host tables so you can talk
with them about their work. |
Session A103 – Collaborating with Wikis
13:45 — 14:30
Rachel Bridgewater, Reference Librarian, Washington State
University Vancouver (USA)
Anne-Marie Deitering, Instruction Services Coordinator,
Oregon State University (USA)
Wikis, web pages that anyone can edit, offer exciting new possibilities
for collaboration. Wikis allow a community of users to build and
update a site that actively addresses their changing needs and
expectations. Find out how these two librarians developed a wiki for
instruction librarians to cooperatively share their ideas and
instructional materials. Learn about implementation details, successes,
setbacks and the challenges they faced in developing this project and
hear tips about how to use a wiki for a local or geographically remote
work group. |
Session A104 – Integrating Library Content into Collaborative Tools
14:45 — 15:30
Morten Christoffersen, Information Specialist, Novo Nordisk
Library and Information Centre (Denmark)
Learn why and how the Novo Nordisk Library and Information Centre
delivers information directly to its users, integrating library content into
collaborative tools, including other research project websites and
alerting services. Following the philosophy that users should get the
information where they are instead of going to the library web site has
changed the role of information professionals in this organisation. |
Coffee Break and ILI Sponsor Showcase
15:30 — 16:00 • SHANNON & LIFFEY FOYERS |
Session A105 – ILI Sponsor Update
16:00 — 17:15
Moderated by Nancy Garman, Director, Conference Development, Information Today, Inc. (USA)
Gareth Smith, EBSCO Information Services
Jenny Walker, Ex Libris Group
Neil Dennis, IEE Digital Library
Luke Davies, International Food Information Service
Cristina Blanca-Sancho, ProQuest Information and Learning
Robert Jacobs, Swets Information Services
Bob Sternbridge, Thomson Scientific
Get a brief update of new products and features offered by the ILI
sponsors in the short demos offered in this session. It’s a great way to
gain a quick overview of what’s new and what’s coming from popular
library vendors. To follow up and for more information, visit with the
sponsors in the ILI Sponsor Showcase area during the conference. |
Networking Reception for Conference Delegates
17:00 — 18:15 • BRASSERIE RESTAURANT |
TRACK B — E-LEARNING AND TRAINING
• LIFFEY SUITE •
Moderated by Tim Buckley Owen,
Head of Membership, Marketing & Media, CILIP (UK) |
Session B101 – Information Issues: Tools for Teaching
10:30 — 11:30
Using PowerPoint to Create Demos
Graham Spooner, Library Manager, College of Nursing,
Sydney, New South Wales (Australia)
Using E-Learning to Teach Research Skills
Rajen Munoo, Senior Librarian, National Library Board
(Singapore)
Teaching Information Competency to University Students
Mariann Løkse, Subject Librarian, University of Tromsø (Norway)
In this three-part session, get practical advice from Graham Spooner
on how to create library demos with PowerPoint, including screen
captures, and animations to explain how to use products and
services. Next, Rajen Munoo shares how he used e-Learning to teach
web search skills to in-house librarians as well as the lessons he
learned about benefits and drawbacks of an e-Learning strategy.
Finally, using a different strategy, Mariann Lokse developed a 6-hour
information competency course for students at her university library.
Listen, learn and think about which strategies and tools described in
this session might work in your organisation. |
Session B102 – Twenty Technology Teaching Tips
11:45 — 12:30
Michael Stephens, St. Joseph County Public Library,
Indiana (USA)
Rob Coers, Internet Trainer and Consultant (The Netherlands)
Two experienced technology trainers share their top 20 practical tips
for librarians who are creating and presenting technology training in
their libraries, including design hints, presentation skills and how to
get management support for an information or technology literacy program. Their helpful suggestions range from practical tips to big-picture
topics such as staff development requirements to create a staff
of ‘in the know’ librarians. |
Delegate Lunch
12:30 — 13:45 • BRASSERIE RESTAURANT
Join your colleagues and the conference speakers and sponsors for lunch, and enjoy an opportunity to get acquainted with other attendees and discuss the topics you’ve heard at the morning’s sessions. Many of the day’s speakers will host tables so you can talk with them about their work. |
TRACK B — INFORMATION ORGANISATION & DISCOVERY
• LIFFEY 1 & 2 •
Moderated by Tim Buckley Owen,
Head of Membership, Marketing & Media, CILIP (UK) |
Session B103 – Next-Generation Search:
From Documents to Facts
13:45 — 14:30
Bjørn Olstad, Chief Technology Officer, Fast Search and Transfer
Norway)
Researchers at one leading search engine are working on technology
that identifies facts hidden inside documents that can then be used as
a basis for improved discovery in various portal, intranet and library
applications. Researchers have developed methods to construct and
display “table-of-content” search results from millions of documents
quickly. Multifaceted, auto-computed “table-of-content” results could
greatly enhance search value and productivity. Related research is
leading the way to identifying and visualising patterns/facts across
large sets of documents. |
Session B104 – Developing and Using Taxonomies
14:45 — 15:30
From controlled vocabularies to indexing to taxonomies, librarians are
specialists in organising information. The speakers in this session offer
a good foundation in taxonomy development and implementation.
How to Build a Taxonomy
Katharine Schopflin, Researcher, BBC Heritage (UK)
This practical session defines a taxonomy and discusses the reasons
you need one and how your users might use it and then leads
attendees through the process of building a taxonomy, including
background work, useful tools, breaking down the subject and
selecting appropriate terminology. It concludes with the importance of
testing and factors to think about if you are integrating your taxonomy
into a web interface.
A Taxonomy Life Story
Jan Parry, Head of e-Working Programme, Home Office (UK)
Nigel Owens, Taxonomy Integration Project Manager, Home
Office (UK)
UK’s Home Office developed a taxonomy that is being integrated
throughout all the IT systems in the Home Office and on their intranet
and public websites. The work involved a huge project that collected
the Home Office thesaurus, the documents and records listings and
various other lists that were owned throughout the department into a
single taxonomy. Hear how they did it by working collaboratively with a
team of information professionals, IT teams, consultants and civil
servants who just wanted to find things. |
Coffee Break and ILI Sponsor Showcase
15:30 — 16:00 • SHANNON & LIFFEY FOYERS |
Session B105 – Folksonomies: Community Metadata?
16:00 – 17:15
Marieke Guy, Interoperability Focus, UKOLN (UK)
Brian Kelly, UKOLN (UK)
Michael
Stephens, St. Joseph County Public Library (USA)
A folksonomy is a decentralised, social approach to creating online
metadata for digital assets. The result is a flat namespace with no
hierarchy or control. This new practice, used on sites like del.icio.us
and Flickr, has sparked much debate between those eager for a
user-centered web and others in favour of more formal classification
systems. This session explores the history of folksonomies and
discusses the advantages and disadvantages of personalised
classification (tagging). The session concludes
with a lively panel discussion about whether folksonomies are being used in real-world
applications. |
Networking Reception for Conference Delegates
17:00 — 18:15 • BRASSERIE RESTAURANT |
TRACK C — GLOBAL BEST PRACTICES
• LIFFEY 3 & 4 •
Moderated by Ulla de Stricker,
President, De Stricker & Associates (Canada)
| This special track is a series of short, informative sessions that
illustrate projects and best practices around the world. Come with
questions and enjoy the opportunity to discuss related projects with
the speaker and other delegates. |
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Session C101 – E-Publishing for Everyone
13:45 – 14:00
Cokie Anderson, Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University
(USA)
By partnering with local or regional professional societies to publish
their journals electronically, even small and mid-sized libraries can
help make scholarly research more widely and freely available. This
session will cover identifying and contacting potential partners,
negotiating and formalising e-Publishing agreements, preparing a
budget, handling intellectual property issues, managing the digital
project and promoting your online journals. Small-scale efforts at a
local level can have global impact by making regional scholarship
accessible to a worldwide audience and libraries of all sizes can be
part of the open access revolution in access to information. |
Session C102 – The TNW Information Universe Model: A Framework for Information Access
14:15 – 14:30
Sheila Corrall, Professor and Chair in Librarianship and Information Management, University of Sheffield (UK)
Ray Lester, Editor-in-Chief, The New Walford (UK)
The TNW Information Universe Model has been designed to provide a pragmatic framework for organising the contents of The New Walford: Guide to Reference Resources and to introduce students of library and information science to the contemporary world of reference resources. The model aims to integrate print and digital media, identify new forms of resources and illuminate relationships between different resource types, capturing the complexity of the new information universe while at the same time simplifying it into one coherent framework. |
Session C103 – Change Management:
Meeting Users’ Requirements
and Managing Expectations
14:45 – 15:00
Ross MacIntyre, Senior Project Manager, University of
Manchester (UK)
Ross MacIntyre tells the tale of the successful transition of a
substantial existing user community to Thomson's ISI Web of
Knowledge Service for UK Education, a new intranet application
hosted and supported at the UK's national academic data centre at
The University of Manchester. His story of successful change
management is of interest to anyone who supports services for a
large and diverse user community. |
Session C104 – How to Enhance Access
with Browser Extensions
15:15 – 15:30
Richard Akerman, Technology Architect, CISTI, National
Research Council (Canada)
Imagine users searching your online catalogue from the same
browser interface they use for Google, or automatically finding the
appropriate local electronic copy when looking at search results from
Google Scholar. Richard Akerman describes how to extend many
different web browsers by adding new code modules (plugins, ActiveX controls, bookmarklets, etc.) and shows demonstrations of
Quick arch keywords, search plugins, bookmarklets, sidebars and
extensions using the Firefox web browser, which is easily extensible. |
Coffee Break and ILI Sponsor Showcase
15:30 — 16:00 • SHANNON & LIFFEY FOYERS |
Session C105 – Developing a Research Portal
15:45 – 16:00
Heila Pienaar, Assistant Director, E-Information Strategy and KM,
University of Pretoria, and
Martie van Deventer, Council for
Scientific and Industrial Research (South Africa)
In defining a coherent information and knowledge support system for
e-research in South Africa, it became clear that one of the main
elements should be an e-research portal for South African researchers.
Hear how the South African Research Information Services (SARIS)
team is designing and developing its e-research portal to further
empower and extend the South African Site Licensing initiative. |
Session C106 – Working with Corporate Partners
16:00 – 16:15
Lucy Arundell, Assistant State Librarian, eLibrary Services,
and CIO, State Library of New South Wales (Australia)
Brian Craighead, Senior Partner, Strategy, The Communications
Group (Australia)
The State Library of New South Wales has successfully used a capital
campaign committee to inspire and recruit major corporate partners to
assist in launching a major new anywhere/anytime information
service. This session discusses the impact of having partners who
challenge the traditional view of libraries—and the pro bono expertise,
skills and technology they bring to the project. |
Session C107 – A Global Library in a Local Society
16:30 – 16:45
Susanne Buus-Pedersen, Project Leader,
Tora Trier Hansen and
Henriette Ritz Kylmann, Copenhagen City Library (Denmark)
Take a virtual tour of Copenhagen Digital Library, which is a hybrid
between the conventional and digital library, where electronic resources and traditional hardcopy resources are presented alongside
each other. See a demonstration of Downlaan, a national infrastructure
for the digital distribution of books and other text-based material to
Danish library patrons. |
Networking Reception for Conference Delegates
17:00 — 18:15 • BRASSERIE RESTAURANT |
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