Internet
Librarian International 2004 Access, Architecture & Action:
Strategies for the New Digital World •
10-12 October 2004 • Millennium
Gloucester Hotel, London
Opening
Keynote
[Cotswold Suite]
The Story of the Cemetery of Books
09:00-10:00 Dr. Saad B. Eskander, Director General,
Iraq National Library and Archive
Moderator:David Raitt, Editor,
The Electronic Library (The Netherlands)
Hear a first-hand report on the devastation and rebuilding
of the Iraq National Library from the recently appointed
director general, Dr. Saad Eskander. A graduate of the London
School of Economics and Political Science, and fluent in
Arabic, Kurdish, and English, Dr. Eskander will describe
the Iraq National Library and Archive as it existed before
the war, and the burning and looting that took place following
the fall of Baghdad. Aided by photos, he will show the extent
of the damage at the National Library and the National Archive
and discuss the reasons and responsibility for what happened.
He will outline the respective roles of the CPA (Coalition
Provisional Government), the NGOs (non-government operatives
and contractors), and the Iraq Ministry of Culture in the
rebuilding effort which will result in the reopening of
the National Library and Archive at its old site. Finally,
delegates will learn about the new administration and new
policies as Dr. Eskander outlines his plans for the future.
Coffee
Break — ILI Sponsor Showcase Opens
[Courtfield Suite] 10:00-10:30
Monday,
11 October
Track A — Information
Literacy & E-Learning
[Aston/Burford Suite]
Moderator:
Richard Hulser, Senior Manager, Digital
Initiatives, Amgen Libraries (USA)
Learn strategies, tools, and best
practices for teaching information skills from colleagues
who have hands-on
experience. E-learning technology and the web offer special
advantages for teaching information literacy and electronic
research and resource skills. Case studies and best practices
in this track describe information literacy projects in
universities in the UK, US, Australia, and South Africa,
and for young adults and the general public in Scotland.
Session
A101
Developing Information Handling Skills 10:30-11:30 Selina Lock, Information Librarian
(Sciences), University of Leicester (UK) Rhona Arthur, Assistant Director, Scottish
Library & Information Council (Scotland) Aneé Sieberhagan, Training Librarian,
Nelspruit Satellite Campus, Tshwane University of Technology
(South Africa)
Find out how librarians from the UK and Scotland are
using e-learning technology to teach information skills
and about how the “digital divide” and disparate
socio-economic backgrounds in South Africa offer special
challenges for information literacy efforts. The Scottish
Library and Information Council has developed an online
information handling skills course for young adults and
the public, while the University of Leicester has designed
an information literacy course using Impatica software and
Informs (JISC) within the Blackboard virtual learning environment.
The information literacy programme at the Tschwane University
of Technology is using a fully equipped electronic resources
centre to instruct and empower students from previously
disadvantaged groups to fully utilise electronic resources.
Session
A102
Teaching Information Competency 11:45-12:30 Maria Brahme, Information Services
Librarian,
Cindy Lundquist, Coordinator, Educational Centres
Libraries, &
Myron Schirer-Suter, Information Technology Librarian,
Pepperdine University (USA) Mary Peterson, Deputy, Library & Educational
Information Services, Royal Adelaide Hospital/IMVS (Australia)
Learn how Pepperdine University in California delivers bibliographic
instruction synchronously online to students dialing from
across the US and around the world. See how IM (ICQ or instant
messaging) and private chats are used in conjunction for
lively multi-directional conversations between students
and faculty. Discover how and why this format levels the
interactive playing field and provides for close attention
to individual questions. Hear some practical strategies
for digital instruction from Mary Peterson of Australia
as she shares tips and techniques about how to run hands-on
training sessions for teaching adults.
Delegate
Luncheon
[Conservatory] 12:30-13:45
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.
Monday,
11 October
Track A (continued) —
Digital Libraries & Electronic Resources
[Aston/Burford Suite]
Moderator: Richard
Hulser, Senior Manager, Digital Initiatives,
Amgen Libraries (USA)
In today’s world of abundant
electronic resources and vast bandwidth, forward-thinking
librarians are collaborating
to harness the potential of digital information and technology
to better serve their patrons and clients. Discover how
the speakers and sessions in this track are “thinking
digital” and joining forces to challenge traditional
mind-sets with new information products and strategies.
Session
A103
Going Digital: Challenges & Rewards 13:45-14:30 Tamara Pianos, Coordinator, vascoda-office,
National Library of Science & Technology (Germany) Terence Huwe, Director of Library &
Information Services, Institute of Industrial Relations,
University of California, Berkeley (USA)
“Going digital” offers a wide range of
risks, rewards, and challenges, and size is no guarantee
as illustrated by the speakers in this session. vascoda
is a joint venture of more than 40 German libraries, database
providers, and other organisations that have joined forces
to provide easy access to academic information. The collaborative
effort was a major challenge for vascoda, given Germany’s
unwieldy federal structure, while Terence Huwe faced different
constraints at the University of California. His account
of how the university’s digital librarians have gained
advantages by being a “late adopting institution,”
will be enlightening and encouraging to internet librarians
in developing regions around the globe.
Coffee
Break & ILI Sponsor Showcase
[Courtfield Suite] 14:30-15:00
Session
A104
Best Practices for Promoting Electronic Resources 15:00-15:45
Moderator:Tom Jackson, Senior Publisher,
Reference & Schools, ProQuest Information & Learning
(USA) Panelists: Derek Fernandez, ICT Development Manager,
Hillingdon Libraries (UK) Brian Mitchell, Collections Promotion Manager,
Joint Information Systems Committee, JISC (UK) Jessie Draper, BBC Information & Archives
(UK)
Join this panel for a lively and interactive discussion
of different approaches used to promote electronic resources
in libraries of all kinds, including innovative ways of
partnering with publishers to increase awareness and usage.
Leading practitioners from public, academic, and special
libraries will share examples and success stories and examine
future trends. Take home some good tips and ideas about
how to encourage greater use of the digital resources in
your library or information centre.
Session
A105
Building Repositories and E-Journals Collections 16:00-17:00 Cokie Anderson, Assistant Professor,
Oklahoma State University (USA) Ali Abdulla, Head of Public Services, United
Arab Emirates University (UAE)
Many universities are developing institutional digital
repositories of the research performed by their faculty
and graduate students. One motivating factor is the high
cost of scholarly journals and the need to facilitate open
access to scholarly communication. Another is the preservation
of the materials scholars are producing in digital format.
Learn what makes up a repository, why repositories are important
to institutions individually and the scholarly community
collectively, and what issues and difficulties arise when
one is planning and building a repository. Likewise, the
cost and complexity of maintaining print journal collections
are leading some libraries to undertake a related set of
challenges and build a collection of e-journals. Hear how
the UAE University Libraries made the difficult decision
to cancel most print subscriptions and are now making the
move toward an all-electronic journal collection.
Monday,
11 October
Track B — Information
Issues
[Chalford/Dean Suite]
Moderators:
Richard Kaser, Donald T. Hawkins, Marydee Ojala,
Information Today, Inc. (USA)
The cause and effect of rapidly changing technologies and
the impact of the internet have deep implications for issues
such as open access, internet copyright and intellectual
property, and ethics. Join the speakers in this track and
other internet librarians to learn and debate about these
critical and far-reaching issues.
Session
B101
Information Issues 10:30-11:30
Moderator:
Marydee Ojala, Editor, ONLINE
Magazine, Information Today, Inc. (USA) Bits, bytes, and bandwidth cross national boundaries
and the pervasive influence of the internet means that many
issues related to the use and accessibility of electronic
content are similar for librarians and information professionals
around the world. Hear three experts discuss global information
issues in this thought-provoking session.
Issues
for Individual Web Searchers Ran
Hock, Online Strategies (USA)
[Substitute Presenter]
Whose
Information Is This & Can I Use It? Helmi
Noman, Internet Strategist (UAE)
Who owns what you find on the internet and where did it
come from? Is it OK to use? To transfer to and from other
web sites? Helmi Noman, an internet strategist, will discuss
emerging legal issues surrounding web content development
and publishing, web-specific legal controversies including
copyright, intellectual property, and the legality of internet
fair use as it relates to various online activities, as
well as the legal rights and responsibilities every information
professional, webmaster, and web site owner should know.
Access
Issues and Initiatives: The Ugandan Experience Eva Mutongole Wamala,
Librarian, National Environment Management Authority (Uganda)
The growing availability of information centres, libraries,
the internet, and digital technologies is providing an opportunity
for promoting open access to information in Uganda. However,
the road is filled with potholes due to socio-cultural and
legislative issues, and publishers, researchers, and other
information providers who are learning to work together.
Hear what Uganda has accomplished so far—its successes
and failures, what it hopes to do in the future, and what
the impact of free access to information has meant to Ugandans.
Ethical
Problems in the Formation of an Information Society Irina Trushina,
Senior Researcher, National Library of Russia (Russia)
The World Summit on the Information Society (2003, Geneva)
defined the beginnings of a strategy for the formation of
a global “information society.” However, the
reality faces myriad ethical dilemmas and poses a key question:
Is it possible to have binding universal codes of conduct
as far as ICTs (information communication technologies)
are concerned, or should the dialogue be about developing
local and regional ethics guidelines? Explore the implications
from the perspective of libraries and information professionals.
Session
B102
Link Resolver Workshop, Part 1 11:45-12:30
Organized
and moderated by:Donald T. Hawkins,
Information
Today, Inc. and EBSCO Publishing (USA) Donald
T. Hawkins, Information Today, Inc. and EBSCO Publishing
(USA) Alice de Jong, Developer, Peace Palace
Library (The Netherlands) As federated search and metasearch systems become more
prevalent, there is a increased need to link from abstracts
to full text documents and from one source to another. The
market for link resolver systems that facilitate linking
is extremely active, but it is likely that many people aren't
fully aware of all the issues that enter into the decision
to install such a system. This special double session (B102-B103)
will help you understand what you need to know about link
resolver technology and products. You will learn what they
are, how they work, and who sells them. You can even build
your own, as you will learn from Alice de Jong in this session.
Delegate
Luncheon
[Conservatory] 12:30-13:45
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.
Session
B103
Link
Resolver Workshop, Part 2 13:45-14:30
Organized
and moderated by:Donald T. Hawkins, Information
Today and EBSCO Publishing (USA) Harry
Samuels, Product Manager, Linking & Searching,
Endeavor Information Systems (UK) Clive Wright, National Sales Manager, EBSCO
Information Services (UK) Owen Stephens, E-Strategy Coordinator,
Royal Holloway, University of London (UK) In the second part of this double session on link resolvers,
hear from two link resolver vendors, LinkSource and Endeavor,
and a user who will describe his experiences in installing
and maintaining the SFX resolver in his library.
Coffee
Break & ILI Sponsor Showcase
[Courtfield Suite] 14:30-15:00
Session
B104
Open Access Forum for
Internet Librarians
[Dean Suite] Monday,
11 October • 15:00-17:00 Moderator:Richard T. Kaser, V.P., Content, Information
Today, Inc., and former Executive Director, National Federation
of Abstracting & Information Services (NFAIS) (USA)
CLICK
HERE to view streaming video of the Open Access Forum
Open Access began as an academic discussion and has now
become a movement to turn the world’s research literature
into a global resource accessible to everyone over the
internet. Leading research organisations, publishers,
and library associations (including IFLA and CILIP) have
issued position statements. Last year’s World Summit
on the Information Society endorsed Open Access as a means
of encouraging development around the world. The Open
Access agenda has even attracted the interest of politicians,
spawning legislation in the U.S. Congress and hearings
in the U.K. House of Commons.
But what is Open Access all about? And what does it have
to do with internet librarians?
Green
roads, gold roads, free roads, toll roads—descriptions
of the world’s various and sundry open access initiatives
tend to be full of colourful metaphors. What is “open
access” and what does it have to do with internet
librarians? In this special session, you’ll have the
opportunity to catch up on the topic and then tell us what
the issues are from your point of view. Following the session—and
a companion event scheduled in November in the United States—Information
Today will publish the results.
What
Is Open Access? A Live Interview with Open Access Advocate, Stevan Harnad
15:00 – 15:30 by Information Today Columnist and International
Journalist Richard Poynder (UK)
Highly opinionated and often quoted, Stevan Harnad can be
observed debating the subject of open access daily on his
American Scientist Open Access Forum list, which he has
moderated since 1998. Stevan is the Professor of Cognitive
Science at Southampton University and Canada Research Chair
in Cognitive Science at Université du Québec
à Montréal.
Open
Access, Issues for Librarians 15:30
– 16:30
This panel features experts who have worked with publishers,
government agencies, and library associations to define
open access issues for their constituents. They explain
what their initiatives have entailed and discuss the issues
they see as open access challenges and opportunities for
libraries.
• Sally Morris, Chief Executive,
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
(ALPSP) (UK)
• Barry Mahon, Executive Director,
International Council for Scientific and Technical Information
(ICSTI) (Paris, France)
• Bruce Royan, CEO, Concurrent Computing
Ltd., on behalf of CILIP, the Chartered Institute of Library
and Information Professionals (UK) •
Hugh Look, Rightscom, Ltd.
Moderator:Richard T. Kaser,
V.P., Content, Information Today, Inc., and former Executive
Director, National Federation of Abstracting & Information
Services (NFAIS) (USA)
Open
Discussion for ILI Delegates and Open Access Forum Guests 16:30
– 17:00
Since
the topic is “open access,” we are opening the
doors to this special forum to anyone who wants to attend.
However, full ILI delegates will have the first choice to
a limited number of seats, which we predict will be filled
fast. Please mark your registration form if you wish to
attend this important session.
Monday,
11 October
Track C — CyberClinics
[Chalford Suite]
Learn from the practical
experiences of your peers in these interactive tutorials,
demonstrations, and poster sessions. Drawing on real-life
situations, each presenter will share lessons learned and
demonstrate problems solved. Innovative projects involving
new technologies and new uses for existing technologies
characterise these sessions.
Session
CC1
Designing Next-Generation Web Sites 13:45-14:00 Frank Cervone, Assistant University
Librarian for Information Technology, Northwestern University
(USA)
Patron expectations of library web sites have changed
significantly. Ease of use and easy-to-find information
are a given. Recent research reveals some very interesting
things about how people use web sites and what they require
in design and services, particularly federated searching,
individualised content, and new trends in usability.
Session
CC2
Five Top Sites for Business Information 14:00-14:15 Marydee Ojala, Editor, ONLINE
Magazine, Information Today, Inc. (USA)
The world of business information is ever-expanding. Join
ONLINE Magazine’s business research columnist
for her picks of the best web sites to get you started on
researching business, commerce, and financial topics.
Session
CC3
Mobile
Libraries 14:15-14:30 Ian Stringer, Support Services Officer,
Barnsley Library (UK)
Mobile libraries present many challenges in their attempts
to give socially excluded people access to online facilities.
With reference to various solutions around the world, this
clinic will demonstrate how to make the best use of the
facilities when they are available.
Session
CC4
Access and Identity Management: The Gatekeeper to E-Resources 14:15-14:30 Lyn Norris, Product Manager, Eduserv
Athens (UK)
Managing a user’s identity and access (user rights)
to valuable protected e-resources, both internal and external,
has become a time-consuming yet important job for Internet
librarians and information professionals. User bases constantly
change, e-resources vary, and remote users complicate the
matter while demanding the exact same experience as on-site
users. In this session, learn how to take a planned approach
to this challenge, while considering user, technical, and
organisational needs and wants. Lyn Norris will also discuss
deployable technology and best practice examples.
Coffee
Break & ILI Sponsor Showcase
[Courtfield Suite] 14:30-15:00
Session
CC5
Integrating Data from Multiple Servers 15:00-15:15 Morten Christoffersen, Information
Specialist, Novo Nordisk (Denmark)
What do you do when the library catalogue and reference
databases are placed at Unix servers and new corporate rules
force you to move to a Windows-based web environment with
strict regulated design rules? Learn how Novo Nordisk Library
& Information Centre solved this by making the standard
systems it had at hand blend Unix-based data and web pages
into one Windows-based web site.
Session
CC6
E-Books Plus 15:00-15:15 Paul Walker, Principal, KASE Associates
(UK)
A new generation of e-books is here. Advances in software
and architecture allow e-books to be used as a desktop productivity
tool for scientists and engineers as well as a reference
source. Knovel combines hundreds of the world's best sci-tech
references and databases into a one-stop online resource
for finding answers for science and engineering. Content
in Knovel has been "knovelized," allowing users
to solve and plot equations, turn printed tables into spreadsheets,
manipulate digitized graphs, search by chemical structure,
and more.
Session
CC7
Five Easy Tricks for Extreme Searchers 15:30-15:45 Ran Hock, Online Strategies (USA)
The author of The Extreme Searcher’s Guide to
Web Search Engines reveals some search secrets that
all serious searchers should know about and profit from.
These quick and easy techniques can be put to immediate
use when you return to your office or library.
Session
CC8
Exploring Toolbars 15:30-15:45 Greg
Notess, Reference Librarian, Montana State University
(USA)
It seems like every search engine has introduced toolbars.
How do they enhance your search experience? Which ones are
worth adding to your desktop? Should you even bother with
them? Greg Notess will review the current state of the art
with toolbars and suggest which ones are worth a chunk of
your desktop real estate.
Session
CC9
Burnout in Libraries and Information Centres 16:00-16:15 Hasan
Siamian, Afsaneh Shahrabi, Mohammad Vahedi &
Jamshid Yazdani Cherati, Mazandaran Medical
Sciences University (Iran)
Some causes of burnout include severe and improper working
conditions, poor management, and marital status. A study
of librarians at Mazandaran and Babol Medical Sciences libraries
in North Iran showed that more than 50 percent suffered
from stress. Hear some suggestions for remedying the situation
and improving work performance.
Session
CC10
An In-House Quick Search Guide 16:00-16:15 Anne-Marie
Pettersson & Eva Norling,
Librarians, Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden)
The Quick Search Guide, a short instructional guide to web
searching, developed in-house, provides an effective tool
to help students in net-based courses learn how to search
the internet. Available in both Swedish and English and
using a combination of graphics and text, the guide delivers
short, quick answers to the most common search problems
and is a shortcut to the library’s information resources.
Session
CC11
New Technologies in Libraries 16:30-16:45 16:00
– 16:15
Michael Stephens, Technology Librarian, St. Joseph County
Public Library (USA)
Hot new technologies for libraries need to be carefully
evaluated. What is appropriate in one setting may not be
in another. Which are the technologies you should be seriously
looking at and which may not be of immediate importance
to you? How can you tell the difference?
Opening
Keynote
[Cotswold Suite]
