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Discovering New Resources • Demystifying Web Technologies
Internet Librarian International 2006
16-17 October 2006 •
Copthorne Tara Hotel, London |
General Conference —
Monday, October 16
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 OPENING KEYNOTE:
The Knowledge Glut
09:00 – 10:00 • Shannon Suite
Professor Danny Quah, London School of Economics (UK)
In a world replete with information and awash in data, our ability to use it productively is declining. A knowledge glut exists and this
excess supply of knowledge does not bode well for the economy. What economic and historical forces have brought this about? What
policies do we need to put in place to escape this bind? And what are the consequences if we fail to do so? Who are the front line shock
troops in this situation? What roles have librarians historically played when facing similar challenges and what roles will they take up now?
Danny Quah, Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Director of the Andrew Mellon
Programme on Information Technology and the Weightless Economy, provides his insightful answers to these stions.
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Coffee Break and ILI Sponsor Showcase Opens
10:00 – 10:30 • Shannon Foyer |
TRACK A — WEB 2.0 AND LIBRARY 2.0
• Shannon Suite • |
Session A101 – Setting the Stage for 2.0
10:30 — 11:30
Phil Bradley, Internet Consultant (UK)
Paul Miller, Technology Evangelist, Talis (UK)
Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, UKOLN (UK)
Michael Stephens, Dominican University & Tame the Web (USA)
The notion of Web 2.0, with its emphasis on new technologies and
platforms, and the corresponding ideas surrounding its offspring,
Library 2.0, has been widely discussed in recent months. This session
will put some practicalities to the theories as Phil Bradley looks at
some of the many emerging applications that fall under the general
umbrella of Web 2.0 that are applicable to libraries, Paul Miller
provides his viewpoint on library services outside the building itself
and Brian Kelly talks about both the exciting possibilities of Web 2.0
technologies for libraries and the barriers that confront librarians trying
to implement them. Michael Stephens will guide the discussion and
encourage conversation. |
Session A102 – Putting Library 2.0 into Practice
11:45 — 12:30
John Crosby, Associate Executive Director, Communications &
Marketing, SLA (USA)
Thor Dekov Buur, Developer, Copenhagen City Library
(Denmark)
Fedja Kulenovic, Librarian, Peace Support Operations Training
Center (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Each library and each librarian decides individually which parts of
Library 2.0 are appropriate in their settings. Coming from very diverse
library settings, these speakers present their implementations of
Library 2.0 technologies. John Crosby will present case studies of successful podcasting, how podcasts can become a strategic
resource for organisations and how information professionals can
leverage the technology to enhance their services. Ågot Berger
explains how a public library in a non-English-speaking country uses
Library 2.0 concepts to make the physical library connect with users.
Fedja Kulenovic uses Library 2.0 ideas to help peacekeepers have the
information they need in a timely fashion.
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Delegate Lunch
12:30 — 13:45 • Brasserie Restaurant
Join your colleagues, the conference speakers and sponsors for
lunch. Enjoy the 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 – Wikis and Social Software
13:45 — 14:30
Marieke Guy, Interoperability Focus, UKOLN (UK)
Sara Jorgensen, Head of Development and IT Department,
Herning Central Library (Denmark)
In “Wiki or Won’t He?” Marieke Guy considers the highs and lows of
establishing a public sector wiki. Setting up a wiki might be seen as a
“cheap and cheerful” way to get people talking and eventually arrive at
consensus, but nothing worthwhile ever came easy. Social software is
being explored at the Herning and Randers libraries in Denmark for
their potential to develop library websites into open and interactive
spaces for cultural debate, learning processes and information seeking. |
Session A104 – Networking in the New Library Environment
14:45 — 15:30
Terence Huwe, Institute of Industrial Relations, University of
California, Berkeley (USA)
Katharine Schopflin, Chair, Association of UK Media Librarians (UK)
Special librarians are increasingly following their user communities
wherever they go, whether in person by moving their desks closer to
work groups or meeting online via social software, blogs, wikis and
podcasts. Terence Huwe describes how his library became a digital
publisher, talks about how each new platform contributed to existing
content management strategies and evaluates the dynamics of
communities of practice. Katharine Schopflin covers the nature and
value of networking for information professionals, along with the pros
and cons of networking virtually versus meeting people in person. She
offers advice on how to make your own virtual or actual network work. |
Coffee Break and ILI Sponsor Showcase
15:30 — 16:00 • Shannon Foyer |
Session A105 – Real-World Information Delivery
16:00 — 17:15
Graham Spooner, Library Manager, The College of Nursing
(Australia)
Gillian Wood, The College of Nursing (Australia)
Barbara Peacock, Knowledge Broker, Nedbank (South Africa)
Andrew Lewis, e-Services Officer, The Royal Borough of
Windsor and Maidenhead (UK)
This session starts with Graham Spooner’s “Cooperating Librarians
and Health Clinicians,” detailing the innovative CIAP (Clinical Information Access Program) that shows librarians can powerfully
influence outcomes of information projects, even those aimed at
clinicians. Barbara Peacock discusses how Nedbank provides
centralised information distribution over a huge geographic area.
Moving to a very different model and setting, Andrew Lewis
champions the use of computer games technology in public libraries
in his “Shock, Horror: Computer Games are Good for Public
Libraries.” |
Networking Reception for Conference Delegates
17:00 — 18:00 • Shannon Foyer |
TRACK B — OPEN ACCESS, OPEN SOURCE
• Liffey 1 & 2 • |
Session B101 – Building Institutional Repositories (IR)
10:30 — 11:30
Cokie Anderson, Associate Professor & Director, Electronic
Publishing Center, Oklahoma State University (USA)
Richard Jones, Web & Information Technology Specialist,
Imperial College (UK)
Kondwani Wella, Assistant Librarian, Kamuzu College of Nursing
(Malawi)
As more institutions embrace the open access movement and look to
become a part of it by implementing institutional repositories, they
face two major challenges: how to build it and how to populate it.
Richard Jones will demonstrate that Open Source Software (OSS) is
the only reasonable choice to support an Open Access Archive. Cokie
Anderson will present strategies for getting faculty to support and
contribute to an IR. Kondwani Wella discusses the first steps towards
open access at a constituent college of the University of Malawi. |
Session B102 – Open Source in Public
Library Environments
11:45 — 12:30
Bente Jensen, IT Library Assistant, Copenhagen City Library
(Denmark)
Joan Larsen, Copenhagen City Library (Denmark)
Bente Jensen moves the discussion to the public library environment,
talking about the open source content management system Plone,
which is built using Zope, an object-oriented application server. The
scripting language of Zope and Plone is Phyton. Since Plone is
connected to a large, international developers’ community, there are
many add-on products for it that add new features and content types,
as Copenhagen City Library is learning. |
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 — DIGITISATION DISCOVERIES
• Liffey 1 & 2 • |
Session B103 – KM and the Success of Collaboration Tools
at the London Development Agency
13:45 — 14:30
Boyd Hendriks, Informationland (UK & The Netherlands)
Jonathan Gordon-Till, Knowledge Manager, London
Development Agency (UK)
The London Development Agency is restructuring and relocating this
autumn. Processes have been redesigned to improve performance
further, strongly supported by extended knowledge and information
management. Pilots ran with Web 2.0 collaboration tools (Blogs &
Wiki's) supporting the knowledge processes have been very
promising. The new position of knowledge management and its
related km-impact business case will strongly contribute towards the
performance enhancement. The speakers will discuss how they
introduced collaboration tools successfully and how they made the
km-impact business case.
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Session B104 – Virtual Services in Research Environments
14:45 — 15:30
Martie van Deventer, Project Manager: VRE Enablement, SCIR
(South Africa)
Adéle van der Merwe, CSIR (South Africa)
Gina Cybulska, Environment Agency (UK)
The South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research is
refocusing its activities to stay relevant and make a difference in the
lives of ordinary citizens, while participating in the global research
environment. The first six months of enabling a virtual research
environment is described by Adéle van der Merwe. Establishing a
virtual library for the UK Environment Agency to meet the needs of
13,000 users is the topic of Gina Cybulska’s presentation. She will
focus on the importance of the user and the role technology plays in
the development of a virtual service. |
Coffee Break and ILI Sponsor Showcase
15:30 — 16:00 • Shannon Foyer |
Session B105 – Digitising Collections
16:00 – 17:15
Bonny Tan, Reference Librarian, National Library Board
(Singapore)
David Alsmeyer, Information Services Manager, BT (UK)
Lilia Bayabos, Senior Lecturer, University of the Philippines
Diliman (Philippines)
According to Bonny Tan, Singapore is a relatively young country, but
the National Library Board’s collection dates back to 1824. She will
present on Singapore InfoPedia, a digital encyclopaedia comprising
short entries on Singapore’s history, people and culture, which is part
of a larger component, the Singapore Pages. David Alsmeyer has
managed the transition over the last 12 years of BT’s library from a
large paper-based collection to an integrated online resource. The
EU’s SEKT project uses BT’s digital library to incorporate semantic
web technologies to enhance the way users search for, use and share
information. The Philippines eLib, discussed by Lilia Bayabos,
provides a framework for successful library networking and is the first
public electronic library in the country to represent its evolving culture
and modernity. |
Networking Reception for Conference Delegates
17:00 — 18:00 • Shannon Foyer |
TRACK C — CASE STUDIES
• Liffey 3 & 4
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| Learning from others is indigenous to the culture of librarianship.
Information professionals appreciate the real-world experiences
recounted by their colleagues from around the world. They can take
these case studies and apply the “lessons learned” to their own work
situations. These short, informative presentations are designed to
provide insights about resources, technology and management
techniques. |
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Session C101 – Coping with Copies on the Web:
Investigating Deduplication by
Major Search Engines
Wouter Mettrop, Information Professional, CWI, Centre for Mathematics and
Computer Science (The Netherlands)
Duplicates and near-duplicates create problems for users. This
investigation into how the major search engines cope with the
problem and how users are impacted by it, shows the complexity of
very similar files and the transient nature of search results.
Session C102 – Desa Informasi: A Virtual Village of New Information Resources
Toong Tjiek Liauw, Head of Library, Petra Christian University (Indonesia)
Desa Informasi (Information Village) is a web-based platform used by the library to development new information resources. It utilises local content as a new species of learning resources for the campus communities.
Session C103 – If You Build It, Will They Come? Institutional Repositories and Faculty Participation
Myoung C. Wilson, Information Services Librarian, Rutgers University Libraries (USA)
Ronald Jantz, Digital Library Architect, Rutgers University Libraries (USA)
This paper examines the content of selected institutional repositories that are based on DSpace, DigitalCommons and Fedora. What are the faculty contributions to, and participation in, digital repositories? The evolutional trajectory of institutional repositories and their significance as a novel intervention into scholarly discourse will also be mapped. |
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Session C104 – Libraries as Publishers
Jens Bang Petersen, Project Leader/Music Librarian, Gentofte Public Library (Denmark)
Susanne Buus-Pedersen, Copenhagen City Library (Denmark)
Danish public libraries have been in the forefront of developing online music services. Small pilot projects have resulted in Netmusik.dk, a national music distribution network offering legal online downloads. In collaboration with Mymusic.dk and the independent digital distribution network DIGIDI, the libraries have entered a new era as music publishers. This presentation will include information on collaboration, legalities and a model for and flow of the online acquisition model.
Session C105 – Access and Identity Management
Phil Leahy, Eduserv Athens (UK)
The Athens Access Management System (AMS) controls access to
web-based subscription services. The speaker will introduce
Shibboleth and Athens and explain their interoperabilty. As Athens
expands beyond the UK, this session will center on migrating from
exisitng systems to Shibboleth/Athens depending on requirements,
advantages to users/administrators of the change, and implications of
federations.
Session C106 – Digitisation in the Developing World
Neelam Sharma, Deputy Librarian, and
Mritunjay Kumar, Assistant Archivist, Panjab University (India)
Panjab University has taken a giant step to digitise its holdings. The
first step is digitising its 1500 old manuscripts and 20,000 rare books,
which represent a rich historical text of India in pre-partition days and
reflect multiple languages (Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Sanskrit, Punjabi,
Hindi, English and several regional languages). This presentation will
include an explanation of the basic techniques and technology
guiding the digitisation process. |
Coffee Break and ILI Sponsor Showcase
15:30 — 16:00 • Shannon Foyer |
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Session C107 – A Map is worth a Thousand Words
Aimee Ellis, Manager, Departmental Library, Yukon Energy,
Mines and Resources Library (Canada)
Gerald Burla, Technical Services Librarian, Regina Public Library
(Canada)
The Yukon Energy, Mines and Resources Library has created a GIS
interface that enables clients to search the Library’s catalogue
graphically by selecting GIS layers and relevant locations on a map as
an alternative to traditional textual queries. The spatial information
recorded with MARC records is limited and cumbersome to search,
so a GIS interface enhances the user experience.
Session C108 – NARCIS: Integrating Dutch Research
Information and Research Results
Arjan Hogenaar, Editor, KNAW (The Netherlands)
Marga van Meel, Head, Research Information Department, Royal
Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Netherlands)
NARCIS (National Academic Research and Collaborations Information
System) is a totally new portal that gives access to both current
research information and research results. The latter mainly appears in
publications, while the former includes descriptions of scientific
research, researchers and research institutes. It combines already-existing
information sources into one virtual database using harvesting
and spidering techniques.
Session C109 – Unlocking the Mysteries of
Online Resources for an International
User Community
Susan Flanagan, Senior Reference Librarian for Electronic Resources, Getty Research Institute (USA)
This presentation will provide an overview of the efforts of a major cultural heritage research library to reveal to an international user community new and varied resources that use a variety of web formats and technologies, including commercial relational databases, linking software and online finding aids. Issues of findability and navigating a digital image repository are thoroughly explained.
Session C110 – The Challenges of Implementing
Electronic Resources in the UHI
Millennium Institute
Elizabeth McHugh, Electronic Resources Manager, UHI
Millennium Institute (Scotland)
The challenges of developing and implementing an electronic resource
policy and collection in a distributed, federated higher-education
institution are discussed, with a view to explaining what worked.
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Networking Reception for Conference Delegates
17:00 — 18:00 • Shannon Foyer |
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