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Internet Librarian International 2003 Conference 25 – 27 March 2003 • NEC, Birmingham, UK Co-located with TLS, Total Library Solutions Exhibition, 26 & 27 March 2003 General Conference — Wednesday, 26 March
The British Library’s Digital Future 9:00 – 10:00 Richard Boulderstone, Director of e-Strategy, British Library The British Library
is creating a digital future for its collections and services as it embarks
on a major effort to extend access to its world-class resources. Using
electronic media and services to provide public access, opening up collections,
creating productive partnerships, and developing new enterprises are central
to the Library’s development of a digital library programme. Digitisation
of many of the Library’s collections and archiving of materials that are
“born digital” are high priorities. As the director of e-Strategy, Dr.
Richard Boulderstone is the driving force behind the Library’s initiatives
to use Internet technologies to make its collection available to the widest
possible audience, leading the way into the 21st century.
Coffee Break —
Sponsored by The Electronic Library Journal
The Electronic
Library—the international journal for the application of technology
in information environments—is delighted to sponsor this coffee
Moderator: Tim Owen, CILIP, UK Session A201 —
Grass-Roots Knowledge-Sharing: Market Intelligence
Derek Fetzer,
Owens Corning, Brussels, Belgium
IT solutions alone
will never ensure the success of a market intelligence effort. Effective
market intelligence management requires employee involvement from all levels
and the creation of an underlying environment that supports knowledge-sharing
behaviours. According to Derek Fetzer from Owens Corning, the process should
engage the entire organisation—from scientists to sales people, marketing,
and customer service. And for a complete market intelligence function,
external information cannot be ignored. Helen Clegg describes the RR Donnelly
approach to market intelligence from this perspective.
Session A202 —
Search Engine Overlap
Ran Hock, Online Strategies, USA Why do you need
to use more than one search engine? Taking a case-study approach to search
engine overlap at the level of individual searches, Ran Hock, author of
The
Extreme Searcher’s Guide to Search Engines, analyses how many and what
kinds of unique pages are covered by multiple engines, the relative importance
of the additional information, the issue of duplicates, and why metasearch
sites are not the way to go.
Lunch Break
Session A203 —
Value for Money: You Mean I Have to Pay?
Marydee Ojala, Editor, ONLINE Magazine, USA Most information
professionals have never subscribed to the myth of free information on
the Internet. However, management often thinks that getting something for
nothing is a superb idea—and sometimes it is. In this session, Marydee
Ojala investigates some of the reasons to pay—or not to pay—for information
and explores whether free sites sometimes offer better information than
fee-based services. Search examples illustrate decision points for when
to use a fee-based or free source.
Session A204 —
Crossfile Searching Revisited
Ben Soares,
EDINA Data Library, Edinburgh University, UK
Xgrain, developed
at Edinburgh University, is a tool for “shallow” cross-searching a group
of A&I databases. Designed as a simple portal to the journals literature,
Xgrain will have its own interface and will also be available for integration
into subject-based and institutional portals. In the workplace,
crossfile searching continues to be a key function as evidenced by
the experiences of long-time business researcher Karen Blakeman.
Coffee Break
Session A205 —
Cool Tools for Web Searching
Gary Price, Library Research and Internet Consulting, USA Pack your search
toolbox with great free or cheap Web resources and tools. Learn the secrets
of successful Web searching as taught by Gary Price, a well-known searcher,
author, and Web resource specialist. Gary’s review of the newest and best
resources, tools, and strategies, all from a practical, hands-on viewpoint,
will give you dozens of new ideas to take home to your keyboard.
WEDNESDAY RECEPTION
Moderator: Frank Cervone, Northwestern University, USA Session B201 —
HTML Is Dead!
Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, UKOLN, UK We are now all
familiar with HTML. But awareness of new formats such as XML and related
technologies is not so widespread. Brian Kelly describes the original Web
architecture, which had limitations, but was successful due to its simplicity.
He will explain why he claims that HTML is dead and tell how XML killed
it. Also, hear about related formats and jargon such as CSS, SVG and SMIL—and
XSLT, which is reviving HTML in a new format known as xHTML.
Session B202 —
Web Services: Next-Generation Interoperability for Libraries
Joaquim Carvalho,
University of Coimbra, &
Web services are
a new technology for sharing information and services among different information
systems. The primary novelty and advantage of Web services are the speed
and low cost of implementation—major factors for many libraries. Providing
bibliographic systems with Web services capabilities can expand dramatically
the dissemination and reusability of bibliographic data. In this session,
explore Web services and their potential for disclosing “hidden Web” database
resources while creating interoperability between library systems.
Lunch Break
Session B203 —
Authoring Web Sites in xHTML
Darlene Fichter, Data Librarian, University of Saskatchewan, Canada What is xHTML and
why should you use it? What are the major differences between HTML and
xHTML? Learn about software packages that let you author in xHTML. Find
out about tools that help you convert existing sites and xHTML validators.
Take home a list of useful resource sites that will help you get started
using xHTML.
Session B204 —
Open Source Software for Libraries
Frank Cervone, Assistant University Librarian for Information Technology, Northwestern University, USA More and more libraries
are turning to open source solutions to help deliver core library services.
What is open source software and what is the philosophy behind it? Find
out what all the excitement is about, how your library can find and use
open source software, and how your staff might contribute to an open source
project.
Coffee Break
Session B205 —
Blogging
Darlene Fichter, Data Librarian, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Blogging software
is morphing from use for personal journals into content management systems
and collaborative communities. When you decide to set up a blog, you have
dozens of choices. Does your blog need to be remotely hosted or installed
locally? What features and services matter? Get up to speed with blogging
software basics. Discover exciting add-ons and innovative features. And
learn how your library can find and use these highly personal, but often
informative, resources as reference tools, as well.
WEDNESDAY RECEPTION
Moderator: Alison McNab, University of Nottingham, UK Session C201 —
Digitisation Collaboration: Ways of Working Together
Cokie Anderson, Oklahoma State University, USA Digitisation projects
require four elements: materials, equipment (computers, scanners, software),
personnel with expertise in digitisation, and funding. Most institutions
must look outside their walls for one or more elements. But through collaboration,
institutions can share the burden. One organisation may “hire” another
to digitise its materials; several institutions may perform different parts
of the process; or a number of institutions may band together to form a
“digital coalition.” Explore the challenges and opportunities presented
by collaboration, as well as how to find potential partners and ways to
initiate collaborative projects.
Session C202 —
Acquiring and Managing E-Journals
Tony Kidd,
Head of Serials/Document Delivery, Glasgow University, UK
If you buy the
e-journal, can you cancel the print subscription? Do you have rights to
the backfiles? For which publishers? Who can access the e-journals? How
do you track usage and digital rights? These and a host of other questions
besiege librarians who embark on e-journal collection management projects.
Tony Kidd has hands-on experience managing e-journals and shares his advice
and expertise on these and other burning questions. Peter Shepherd of the
COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources) brings
a different perspective, describing a collaborative effort by the publishers
to measure usage of online information resources and to make Web logs and
files accessible to subscriber organisations.
Lunch Break
Session C203 —
Improving Access to Digital Resources
Ruth Jenkins,
Assistant Director, Information Services Division of Learning & Research
Support, University of Birmingham
When the Nobel
Prize in Literature was awarded to the Hungarian writer Imre Kertesz in
October 2002, the John von Neumann Digital Library began to create e-book
versions of his works the very next day. The Digital Literary Academy plays
a major role in providing electronic access to the complete works of the
major Hungarian authors. Hear about the Digital Library’s strategies, new
document formats—and the effects and side effects of its instant popularity.
At the University of Birmingham, the eJournals Directory offers access
to electronic journals via TDNet, and the eResources Directory provides
Web-based access to CD-ROMs, online databases, and major Web sites. Ruth
Jenkins discusses how the services were chosen and implemented, as well
as how the university is planning to integrate them with the library management
system, student portal, and virtual learning environment.
Session C204 —
E-Books: Do They Belong in Libraries?
Penny Garrod,
Public Library Networking Focus, UKOLN, UK
A new sense of
realism has pervaded the world of e-books, and librarians need a clear
strategy to meet this. Are e-books still worth adding to library e-collections
or has the collapse of the dot-com market and the economic downturn dealt
them a fatal blow? Hear examples of libraries around the world where e-books
have been acquired and incorporated into services. Ask questions such as
which audiences or users gain the most benefit from e-books and why; are
novels suitable for the e-book format; and what impact will emerging and
converged technologies have on e-books? How are e-books developing within
the academic sector and how is the future looking? What are the critical
issues that librarians should be addressing? Join these two knowledgeable
speakers to discuss examples and debate the pros and cons of this controversial
topic.
Coffee Break
Session C205 —
Rich Media on the Internet: Technology, Implementation, & Distribution
Brad Eden,
Head, Bibliographic & Metadata Services, University of Nevada, Las
Vegas, USA
Project Netmus
(music), the British Film Institute (film and television), and a digital
gallery at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) are real-life illustrations
of how digital repositories can be incorporated into Web projects. The
British Film Institute is very close to launching a project called “screenonline,”
containing up to 1,000 hours of British film. Two large Danish libraries
have cooperated to allow patrons to download music files from Netmus, and
the libraries’ attention to rights management issues is of special interest.
Streaming audio and video are part of the latest update to UNLV’s digital
gallery project, along with a radical redesign. Hear lessons learned from
three project leaders who are really putting rich media on the Internet
today.
WEDNESDAY RECEPTION
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