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Discovering New Resources • Demystifying Web Technologies
Internet Librarian International 2006
16-17 October 2006 •
Copthorne Tara Hotel, London |
General Conference —
Tuesday, October 17
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 KEYNOTE:
Reinventing Ourselves as Internet Librarians
09:00 – 10:00 • Shannon Suite
Greg Notess, Reference Librarian, Montana State University and SearchEngineShowdown.com (USA)
Just when you think you know how the web works and what the internet can provide in the way of credible resources, it all changes. We
wake up today to an internet world we didn’t experience yesterday. Google tests a new user interface. A student finds a new online
resource we never knew existed. A corporate client informs us that he’s subscribed to a database we already have in-house. Expert
searcher, academic librarian and longtime information industry observer Greg Notess shares his knowledge, insight and critiques of the
volatile world in which internet librarians find themselves. He shares his ideas about the most important changes, how we can teach the
new internet and how we are reinventing ourselves.
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Coffee Break and ILI Sponsor Showcase
10:00 – 10:30 • Shannon Foyer |
TRACK A — MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES
FOR INTERNET LIBRARIANS
• Shannon Suite •
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Session A201 – No Boundaries
10:30 – 11:30
Juliet Wragge-Morley, Web and Information Manager, British
Council (UK)
Jane Macoustra, Tai-Pan Research (UK)
When you live in a virtual world, there are no boundaries. The British
Council Literature Department has developed a range of virtual
resources, including online chats and discussion boards, to support
reader development and English-language and literature teaching
internationally. Twinned virtual reading groups from around the world
are a particularly exciting activity. Jane Macoustra, who lives in the UK
but has colleagues in Asia, uses next-generation communication tools
such as Skype to do business with them. She will provide a live
demonstration. |
Session A202 – Auditing Your Intranet
and Communications Functions
11:45 – 12:30
Ulla de Stricker, de Stricker Associates (Canada)
Barbie Keiser, BEK Inc. (USA)
Whether you are revamping, retooling or completely overhauling your
intranet, you face the challenge of determining how well existing
intranets, databases and tools are meeting evolving business needs. With new technologies and a proliferation of legacy applications, many
organisations need help in choosing new approaches. Ulla de Stricker
supplies concrete and simple guidelines for managing an audit.
Barbie Keiser turns her attention to auditing the communications
function to permit the library/information centre to provide the best
possible service to its clientele. Audits will be discussed as case
studies that form the basis for determining Critical Success Factors.
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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. |
TRACK A — INTERNET RESEARCH INTRICACIES
• Shannon Suite • |
Session A203 – What’s New with Search
13:45 – 14:45
Stephen Arnold, Managing Director, AIT (USA)
Many forces muddy the search engine waters. To stay afloat,
information professionals should pay attention to these forces. What is
happening in web search can affect what happens with enterprise
search and vice versa. Learn about the latest and greatest
developments among search engine companies from this search
industry veteran. What are the trends that will most affect the working
lives of information professionals? |
Coffee Break and ILI Sponsor Showcase
14:45 — 15:15 • Shannon Foyer |
Session A204 – Out-Googling Google:
Finding What Google Missess
15:15 – 16:00
Karen Blakeman, Internet Search and Retrieval Strategy Adviser,
UKeiG (UK)
If you think a Google search will find everything you need, think again.
Google, although the most-popular search engine by far, has
deficiencies. It doesn’t always find the most recent information, or the
most relevant. It has problems at times with Boolean operators.
Alternatives to Google include other major web search engines, such
as Yahoo!; specialised search engines, such as the Wayback
Machine; metasearch engines, such as Dogpile; and even vertical
search within Google itself, such as Froogle or Book Search. Thinking
outside the Google search box is a survival trait for web researchers. |
Closing Keynote – Creating Communities, Interacting with Users
16:15 – 17:00 • Shannon Suite
Jenny Levine, The Shifted Librarian and Technology Trainer, Metropolitan Library System (USA)
Michael Stephens, Dominican University & Tame the Web (USA)
A huge challenge for today’s librarians, regardless of the type of library in which they’re employed, is reaching out to the user base, bringing the library to them. Technology developments, such as XML (eXtensible Markup Language), RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and IM (Instant Messaging), enhance librarians’ ability to create new communities amongst library users, as well as those who have been only occasional, infrequent library users. Creating community, making the library relevant to different generations of users, requires vision and commitment. Round off your Internet Librarian International conference experience by sharing the excitement these two librarians bring to the profession. |
TRACK B — E-LEARNING AND INFORMATION LITERACY
• Liffey 1 & 2 • |
Session B201 – Information Literacy, Virtual Learning
and Social Technologies
10:30 – 11:30
David Ball, University Librarian, Bournemouth University (UK)
Mary Sengati-Zimba, Librarian, Liaison College of Education,
Zayed University (Abu Dhabi)
Kara Jones, Subject Librarian, University of Bath (UK)
David Ball begins this session with a definition of a virtual learning
environment (VLE), its characteristics and functionality. He then notes
the importance of e-books to support learning and the role libraries
have in transforming information architectures and integrating study
skills with the core pedagogy of the coursework. At Zayed University,
Mary Sengati-Zimba is involved with an online course on information
literacy, delivered through blended learning including InfOasis, a web-based
instruction module. Connecting social technologies with
information literacy is explored by Kara Jones as she maps weblogs,
social bookmarking and wikis to information literacy competencies
and builds them into IL instruction. |
Session B202 – Twenty Training Tips for
Internet Librarians
11:45 – 12:30
Michael Stephens, Dominican University & Tame the Web (USA)
Rob Coers, Coers Internet Training (Netherlands)
Revisit some foundations of training and explore new tips for making
library training effective, useful and practical. How do social tools
impact training in libraries? Can we harness wikis, IM and more to
deliver training at the moment it’s needed as well as in our electronic
classrooms? Join Rob Coers and Michael Stephens for another
dynamic session of tips and methods you can implement now. |
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. |
TRACK B — ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
• Liffey 1 & 2 • |
Session B203 – Managing Electronic Resources
13:45 – 14:45
Katalin Bánkeszi, Director, John von Neumann Digital Library
(Hungary)
Armand Brevig, Global Category Leader, AstraZeneca (UK)
Amanda Hill, IESR Project Manager, MIMAS,
University of Manchester (UK)
The “Momentous Days” digital anthology combines contents from the
John von Neumann Digital Library with acquired materials from other
sources. AstraZeneca's strategic approach to optimising value from its information content spend involves effective governance structures,
strategy development and value creation. At the Information
Environment Service Registry (IESR), ways in which it will help
promote the use of electronic resources are being explored. The
Registry can describe a range of service types, but has a particular
emphasis on those interfaces designed to be accessed by other
programs, such as Web services and RSS feeds. How information is
supplied to the Registry and subsequently used by other resources
will be described. |
Coffee Break and ILI Sponsor Showcase
14:45 — 15:15 • Shannon Foyer |
Session B204 – The Search Guide
15:15 – 16:00
Eva Norling, Librarian, Blekinge Institute of Technology Library
(Sweden)
Peter Giger , Blekinge Institute of Technology Library
(Sweden)
The Search Guide describes an interactive course on how to search,
evaluate and work with information. It is adapted to different learning
styles and to the new possibilities the internet offers. To produce a
flexible, need-driven guide, these librarians asked users what they
wanted from a search guide and what their learning style was. As the
world around us changes, our problems, needs and search habits
also change. The Blekinge Institute of Technology’s web-based
Search Guide uses film, sound, animations and interactivity to help
improve searching behaviour. |
Closing Keynote – Creating Communities, Interacting with Users
16:15 – 17:00 • Shannon Suite
Jenny Levine, The Shifted Librarian and Technology Trainer, Metropolitan Library System (USA)
Michael Stephens, Dominican University & Tame the Web (USA)
A huge challenge for today’s librarians, regardless of the type of library in which they’re employed, is reaching out to the user base,
bringing the library to them. Technology developments, such as XML (eXtensible Markup Language), RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
and IM (Instant Messaging), enhance librarians’ ability to create new communities amongst library users, as well as those who have been
only occasional, infrequent library users. Creating community, making the library relevant to different generations of users, requires vision
and commitment. Round off your Internet Librarian International conference experience by sharing the excitement these two librarians
bring to the profession. |
TRACK C — TAXONOMIES, FOLKSONOMIES AND ONTOLOGIES
• Liffey 3 & 4 • |
Session C201 – Leading the Way in Taxonomy Design
10:30 – 11:30
Anne Welsh, Information Officer, Cataloguing and Indexing,
DrugScope (UK)
Julia Daniel, Project Manager Taxonomy Specialist, General Motors Media Archive (USA)
Everyl Yankee, CEO, Yankee Ingenuity (USA)
In “Documentalistes sans Frontières: Taxonomy design for a multidisciplinary,
pan-European subject gateway,” Anne Welsh describes
the 2006 keyword review of the ELISAD Gateway, a manually indexed
portal for European websites dealing with alcohol and other drugs
(AOD) and discusses the challenges inherent in working with a range
of different professional groups throughout Europe. Julia Daniel and
Everyl Yankee then describe their project to provide a robust
information services network for researchers, partners and
collaborators at the University of Michigan’s Transportation Research
Institute, in “The Transparent website: extensible and flexible content
management.” |
Session C202 – Metasearching and Federated Search
11:45 – 12:30
Penny Robertson, Information Officer, Scottish Library &
Information Council (Scotland)
Jan Jüngen, Project Manager Digital Library/EURlib, University
Library, Erasmus University (The Netherlands)
Elisabeth Mantel, Coordinator ULWeb, University Library,
Erasmus University (The Netherlands)
In setting up a distributed Z30.50 cross search from CAIRNS, Penny
Robertson has dealt with issues ranging from firewalls, local authority
expertise, downtime because of system upgrade/migration and the
use of a staff portal to help manage the service. Her practical advice
will be most welcome to those in similar situations. At Erasmus
University in Rotterdam, they are using the Collexis semantic search
engine to structure the Psychology Department’s ELO learning
content, through APA thesaurus and curriculum metadata and to
detect plagiarism at the Research Institute of Management. |
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