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Internet being somewhat hard to come by at this conference, I took a few notes off line over the last few days & have summarized them for posting. The ASIS&T confernce kicked off sunday afternoon with a full slate of sessions. I attended a session that presented work on informaiton/service management systems. In this session... more ›
Wanda and Erik were in Decatur, GA on Thursday attending an ASERL institute on the new age of discovery. Karen Calhoun kicked things off with a presentation on the need to change library systems, bibliographic control, and user services to keep the library a relevant part of the research process. Some interesting links that she... more ›
This morning began with a long run into spearfish canyon which ended in a driving cold rain. The terrain here is pretty dramatic and although I was soaked and freezing by the time I got back to the hotel, running between the rising limestone walls of the canyon was well worth it! The conference picked... more ›
ELUNA is much smaller than the old Endeavor conferences and lacks coffee at the breaks but otherwise is very similar in content. The first afternoon session focused on the common ‘future of the ILS’ theme as seen through Ex-Libris eyes. The main concept discussed was the idea of the decoupling of a user interface from... more ›
Hi all from Spearfish, SD. This morning saw the opening presentation at the ExLibris Users group for North America. The opening session included presentations by Matti Shem Tov (President & CEO), Robert Mercer (North American President), and Don Muccino (NA Customer Support). Much of what we have heard already has been reiterated, an emphasis on... more ›
On Friday, May 4th I attended a one day conference at North Carolina Central University on Digital Libraries. The morning sessions included two presentations on the digital divide and included a discussion on the differences between technical factors (lack of availability, connectivity, expertise) and social factors (lack of community focus, lack of training, difference in... more ›
For Monday & Tuesday this week I am in Durham, NC attending the EBL/IP conference. The noon luncheon featured a talk by Dr. Griffiths on an approach to applying return on investment (ROI) studies to libraries and academic institutions. While the talk went into great detail, one of the most interesting comments was a short... more ›
Jordan provided an overview of OCLC & the library/information industry. He mentioned Worldcat.org (84 million records in woldcat 1.x million holdings, talks clickthroughs – 67M in 2005, 85M in 2006). Jordan observes that Worldcat is about driving user back to library through access links. He reports on upcoming features – more content (articlefirst, gpo, eric,... more ›
Michael Tiemann spoke as the keynote lecture during the 2007 Kilgour Symposium. He covered topics on open source sustainability and development principles and looked at how these forces work in industrial, educational, economic, and scholarship environments. Pointing to initiatives like Creative Commons, Open courseware systems, and what an ‘ownership society’ means in contrast to an... more ›
This morning sees the conclusion of icor2007 & begins with presentations on application profiles, repository interoperability, and OSA models. The final Keynote session revisited the ideas introduced in the SPARC discussion touching on future directions in scholarly communication and implications for open/closed publishing models. Perhaps more to come later. . . more ›