PHOTO REVIEW
Digital Snaps
POWERPOINT SLIDES
The Reference Revival
Davd Lankes
The
State of eLearning
Hal Schlais & Patricia Ploetz
American
Journeys
Paul Hedges
State
Historical Web
James Ellis
Open
Content
Gerry McKiernan
The
Knowledge Bank
Laura Tull
Intelligent
Conversational Agents
J.Wanserski & J.Rheaume
UW
K-12 Portal
Lee Konrad
Advertising
VR
Cheryl Becker
Shibboleth
Thomas Dowling
SFX
and Metalib
Valerie Malzacher &
Susan Barribeau
OCLC
Environmental Scan
Peter Hamon & Patrick Wilkinson |
Tuesday, July 27 Sessions |
Wednesday
Sessions
| 8:00-9:00 |
Registration—with
coffee.
|
| 9:00-10:15 |
Keynote: The Reference
Revival, R. David
Lankes, Syracuse University
Powerpoint Presentation
6,799k
Digital or virtual reference has become an active community that has deployed digital reference widely across library types. Now the reference community is using the lessons learned
to energize reference and the library as a whole. This talk will outline those lessons and how they can be used to energize the library community on a local, national and international level. |
| 10:15-10:30 |
Break
|
| 10:30-11:45 |
Breakout Sessions
Croquet:
A Persistent, Unified, and Extensible
Framework for Collaborative Interaction
and Knowledge Management in Higher Education,
Julian Lombardi, UW-Madison
Researchers at The University of Wisconsin-Madison
(UW) and University of Minnesota-Twin
Cities (UM) are working to develop and
test Croquet, a software technology and
open architecture for delivering a deeply
collaborative virtual learning environment
(VLE). Croquet offers a scalable, persistent,
and extensible interface to network-delivered
educational resources and tools for knowledge
management and social presence. Faculty,
students, and staff in different real-world
locations will encounter and interact with
one another in real-time in a VLE containing
representations of participants, resources
and tools. The resulting combination of
structured and impromptu interactions will
provide a crucial social foundation for
the development of academic communities
of practice.
The State of eLearning in the UW System
and Beyond, Hal Schlais and Patricia
Ploetz, University of Wisconsin System
Powerpoint
Presentation
532k
Despite the
economic disaster of the "dot.bomb" several
years ago, the eLearning market space continued
to expand. The growth of online learning in the
UW System, in higher education, and in government
and corporations has been rapid and unabated
since 1999. As the maket matures, we are witnessing
a revolution in educational delivery in higher
education. Libraries are certainly part of that
revolution, especially as attention is focused
on learning object repositories, reusable content,
and content management systems. This presentation
will discuss the current state of eLearning and
look a year out to where it might be this time
next year, both in the university and in the
marketplace.
American Journeys: Exploring Undocumented
ContentDM Territory, Paul Hedges, Wisconsin Historical Society
Powerpoint
Presentation
2,715k
An overview of how the Wisconsin Historical Society
used ContentDM to develop and manage American Journeys:
Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and
Settlement (americanjourneys.org).
American Journeys is a digital collection of
over 150 books and manuscripts documenting eyewitness
accounts of North American exploration from the
sagas of Vikings in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain
men in the Rockies 800 years later. The presentation
will include a review of the development process and
the challenges staff faced to develop a user interface
that met the needs of National History Day students
across the nation. |
| 11:45-1:15 |
Lunch (lunch on your own) |
| 1:15-2:15 | Breakout Sessions
Virtual Reference, David Lankes
A continuation of the discussion of the keynote.
Wisconsin Historical Society Web Site Design, James
Ellis, Wisconsin Historical Society
Powerpoint
Presentation
470k
An in depth discussion about what it takes to redesign
a large website in a short amount oftime with little
staff and a meager budget. The Wisconsin Historical
Society web site (www.wisconsinhistory.org
),
like some many Academic and Government websites, was in need of a re-think. From Information Architecture and restructuring, to Visual Design
and Usability, to technology and new enhancements, the site was re-conceived to fit what we understood about our users and about our own needs. So
we razed it to the ground and started from almost scratch. The site, which was about 3000 static pages created in FrontPage and a dozen
applications, was completely redesigned in 11 months by a handful of people for less than $15,000 (not counting staff time). James Ellis,
manager and lead technical director of the redesign, will discuss all aspects of the projects, including politics, people, web standards, users, roll-out,
and how to get the most out of your redesign.
Learning Objects—The Wisc-Online Repository
Project, David Bunnow, Fox Valley Technical
College and Wisc-Online
The Wisconsin Online Resource Center is a digital repository of web-based teaching, learning and
assessment resources for instructors to use when designing or revising courses. Faculty from throughout the 16 colleges within the Wisconsin
Technical College System, supported by web technicians at Fox Valley Technical College, author and design "learning
objects" for a variety of course and program offerings. Individual instructors then have the option to pick and choose from the menu
of learning objects to customize their online courses, as well as their traditional courses for their students and their personal style. The
repository is a searchable database that allows faculty to search by author, topic, and key word. To date over 1300 learning objects have been
created and are accessed worldwide. |
| 2:30-2:45 |
Break
|
| 2:45-4:00 |
Breakout Sessions
Open Content and Access For Digital
Scholarship, Gerry McKiernan,
Iowa State University
Powerpoint
Presentation
The Open Archives
Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
(OAI-PMH) provides an application-independent
interoperability framework based on
metadata harvesting. There are two
classes of participants in the OAI-PMH
framework: Data Providers and Service
Providers. Data Providers administer
systems that support the OAI-PMH as
a means of exposing metadata from digital
collections or repositories; while
Service Providers use metadata harvested
via the OAI-PMH as a basis for building
value-added services. In this
presentation we will profile several
major OAI-PMH Data and Service Providers,
and describe and discuss their innovative
content, features, and functionalities.
The
Knowledge Bank: powered by Dspace,
Laura Tull, Ohio State University Libraries
Powerpoint
Presentation
3,519k
The Knowledge Bank concept developed in
the University’s
Distance Learning/Continuing Education Committee
at Ohio State University. The idea was
to create a “storehouse of knowledge capital” from
faculty research and course materials that could
be shared with students and faculty for learning
and to support the development of new research
and course content. The concept became
a joint project of The Libraries and the Office
of the CIO. An invitation from MIT Libraries
to join the DSpace Federation to pilot their
open source software brought the concept into
the implementation phase. This presentation
provides background on the Knowledge Bank, a
demonstration of DSpace and the staffing, funding
and service models put in place at Ohio State
University to support an institutional repository
powered by DSpace.
Intelligent Conversational Agents for Information Resource Discovery,
John Wanserski, Wendt
Engineering Library and Joe Rheaume, UW-Milwaukee
Powerpoint
Presentation
7,031k
"Virtual humans" (VH) may seem like something
out of science fiction, but they are already here.
Companies use them as website hosts, individuals use
them as personal assistants, and people interact with
them in computer games, and educational applications. Librarians
can create their own authentic and engaging virtual
personalities that have some memory capacity. These
entities are able to describe services, search databases,
and guide users through other types of knowledge resources. See
how VH technology has been applied in a library setting,
to create an engaging interactive gateway for a wide
range of information resources. The audience
will have an opportunity to converse with a VH info-bot. |
| 4:00-5:00 |
Wine and Cheese Reception |
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Wednesday, July 28 Sessions
8:00-10:00
8:00-8:45 |
Breakfast & Update
from the WiLS Member Community
Breakfast |
| 9:00-10:00 |
Brief reports on exciting
new activities:
•UW Madison K-12 Portal—Lee Konrad,
Ken Frazier, UW-Madison
Powerpoint
Presentation
172k
•Digital Exploratory Committee—Kathy
Schneider, WiLS
•Advertising Virtual Reference—Cheryl
Becker, South Central Library System
Powerpoint
Presentation
670k
•Digital Archive Project—Sally
Drew, Reference & Loan |
| 10:15-11:30 |
Keynote: Library
Consortia and the Grand Challenges of
Digital Librarianship, Thomas Dowling,
OhioLINK
Thomas Dowling will summarize the grand challenges
facing libraries over the coming generation of
digital services. Using the experiences of OhioLINK
(the Ohio Library and Information Network), he
will look at the large-scale questions these challenges
raise, the sorts of answers available to us, and
the ways in which library consortia can help (and
sometimes hinder) our efforts to meet these challenges.
Can we keep our services interoperable; can we
really know whom we're serving in an online environment;
can we guarantee that the content we pay for today
will be available and usable in fifty years? |
| 11:45-1:00 |
Breakout Sessions
Shibboleth, Thomas Dowling, OhioLINK
Powerpoint
Presentation
361k
One of the persistent challenges in online library
services is identifying our users and making
sure they have access to our services (and
that others do not). Thomas Dowling will
discuss the Shibboleth project from the Internet
2 organization for communicating with online directories
and user databases, and will talk about OhioLINK's
current directions in user authentication
and Shibboleth implementation.
SFX and MetaLib from Ex Libris: How We Got It
and What
We're Doing With It, Valerie Malzacher, UW-River
Falls and
Susan Barribeau, UW-Madison
Powerpoint
Presentation
246k
The CUWL Electronic Resource Management Task Force,
formed in February 2003, investigated federated
or cross-database search software enabling library
patrons to identify library resources and services
from multiple databases in a variety of formats.
The task force also evaluated linking software
based on the OpenURL framework. In the end, SFX
and MetaLib were selected for implementation across
the UW System. This presentation will describe
features and benefits of the software as well as
the statewide procurement process.Once the selection
process is done and the purchase decision made,
the real fun begins. The customization and implementation
of the Ex Libris products requires the involvement
of librarians and staff from technical services,
collection development, library technology, and
public services. This presentation will discuss
the planning, decisions, and tasks.
Putting the OCLC Environmental Scan into
Action,
Peter Hamon, SCLS
Patrick Wilkinson, UW-Oshkosh
Powerpoint
Presentation
305k
"The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition,
A Report to the OCLC Membership" was released
in January 2004. Designed to examine the significant
issues and trends impacting OCLC, libraries, museums,
archives and other allied organizations the Scan is
a high level view of the information landscape, intended
to both inform and stimulate discussion about future
strategic directions. In this session Patrick Wilkinson,
UW Oshkosh, and Peter Hamon, South Central Library
System, will lead a discussion on ways they are using
or plan to use the Scan in their institutions including
any plans for service changes as a result of reading
the Scan.
A limited number of copies of the Executive Summary
of the Scan will be available for those who have
not yet read the complete Scan. The full Scan is
available at
www.oclc.org/membership/escan/default.htm
in print ($15/copy) or electronic (No Charge) versions. |
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