Session
PowerPoints and URLs
Tuesday
sessions
Joe Janes
(keynote ppt)
Bill
Fliss
(ppt) and handout
(pdf)
Illinois-SILC
(ppt)
Hennepin
County Library (ppt)
John Wanserski (ppt)
Daniel Frommelt
Tom Zillner
(ppt)
Chip
Nilges
(ppt)
Wednesday
Member Meeting
Gov.
Digital Archive
(ppt)
Milwaukee Public NEH Proposal
(ppt)
Wednesday
Main Sessions Chip
Nilges Keynote
(ppt)
Peter Gilbert
Steinkuehler/Squire
(ppt)
David
Louzecky
(110k doc)
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A Broad Spectrum of Topics
The 2005 WiLSWorld Conference highlights library technology and current
issues. Some of the presentations were applicable to library
practices, others offered a look to the future.
Tuesday, July 19th Sessions
| 8:00-9:00 |
Registration—with
coffee and pastries
| | 9:00-10:15 | Keynote: Librarianship Evolves, Joe
Janes, University of Washington
The information environment of 2005 is
very different from the environment of
even five years ago. The library,
necessarily, is also changing, adapting,
adopting, and the practice of librarianship
continues to evolve as well. What
should we be thinking about? How
can we best serve our communities and clientele
in a highly distributed, technologically
sophisticated, resource constrained world,
and still be "librarians"? | | 10:15-10:30 |
Break
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| 10:30-11:45 |
Breakout Sessions
Building digital collections with CONTENTdm
at Marquette University, Bill Fliss,
Marquette University
The presenter will share the experiences
of Marquette University in building its
first two digital collections on a CONTENTdm
site hosted by OCLC. Issues addressed
in the presentation include training, selection
of materials, copyright, metadata entry,
workflow, and user support. The challenges
and rewards of building digital collections
will be highlighted throughout the presentation. This
session may be of particular interest to
institutions that are considering using
CONTENTdm or have recently begun work on
digital collections.
Statewide Illinois Library Catalog
(SILC) - OCLC Group Services in Action, Anne
Craig and Suzanne Schriar, Illinois State
Library
This presentation will focus on the role
that the Statewide Illinois Library Catalog
(SILC) has played in strengthening resource
sharing throughout Illinois. A discussion
and demo of SILC will illustrate how this
service has greatly expanded both resource
discovery and access to the collections
of all types of libraries throughout Illinois. The
ability to customize and brand SILC for
individual libraries, as well as, the provision
of shelf-status, via links to library Web
catalogs will be highlighted. Finally,
we will discuss implemenation and training
issues, as well as the impact that SILC
has had on overall OCLC usage in Illinois.
Indexing Data from Heterogeneous Digital
Archives, Peter Gorman, UW-Madison
This session will present and discuss some of the issues
involved in harvesting and aggregating metadata from multiple
providers, from both the data provider's and the aggregator's
perspectives. It will also combine a high-level view of service
definition with an "in the trenches" look at implementation
challenges, using lessons learned from participation in the
CIC-OAI Resources Online Project.
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| 11:45-1:15 |
Lunch (lunch on your
own)
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| 1:15-2:15 |
Breakout Sessions
A Conversation With Joe Janes
An informal discussion of issues discussed
in his keynote, and other topics of interest
to Joe and the attendees.
User-Centric Social Software for Just-In-Time
Web-Conferencing, John Wanserski,
UW-Madison
Desktop videoconferencing is ready for
the end-user. With the implementation
of VoIP and improvements in PC hardware,
desktop videoconferencing has become affordable
and practical as a web communication tool. End-users
can finally get the feeling of being in
virtual space while still being firmly
planted wherever they are. The feature
set that librarians associate with online
reference, chat, VoIP, video and co-browsing,
are basic to social software applications. Experience
a live web conference environment among
multiple participants that utilizes a white
board, file transfers, instant polling
and session recording. Some of these
same features can enliven more static environments
like computer kiosks. See how other
industries are using these applications
to bring expert information to high traffic,
low service areas.
Bringing It All Together: Hennepin
County Library's Subject Guides, Glenn
Peterson and Christine Clifford, Hennepin
County Library
Librarians from Hennepin County (MN) Library
describe the development, planning and
ongoing maintenance of their integrated
subject guides. The new guides incorporate
databases, selected web sites, blog-like
librarian notes, links into the catalog,
RSS feeds and more. Why did we do it? How
did we get branch librarians involved?
What's going on under the hood?
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| 2:30-2:45 | Break
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| 2:45-4:00 |
Breakout Sessions
Understanding
Web Standards , Daniel
Frommelt, UW-Platteville
You know about basic HTML, so what is
all this about Web Standards? Why
do non-web people need to know about Web
Standards? Why are they so important?
Learn about the benefits of Web Standards:
achieve higher accessibility; reduce code
markup; reduce file sizes; minimize bandwidth;
optimize pages for search engines; minimize
re-design time for future web sites; and,
offer built in printer friendly pages.
Web Standards are not based on products,
they’re based on technologies: XHTML, CSS,
DOM, ECMAScript 262 (current JavaScript) and
XML. Come and hear what all of the “buzz” is
about!
Open WorldCat, Chip Nilges, OCLC
If your patrons use Yahoo! or Google to
look for information, you'll want to hear
about OCLC's Open WorldCat program. You'll
learn how OCLC is partnering with Yahoo!,
Google and other popular Web sites to help
libraries make their collections visible
and available on the open Web. We'll
review how the program works, results to
date, how your library can participate,
and future plans for this exciting new
program.
Folksonomies:
Users Roll Their Own, Tom Zillner, WiLS
Folksonomies are user-created taxonomies. There has been much
buzz about this term and its application. Tom will discuss
what Folksonomies are and their implications for librarians:
should librarians be worried or elated or neutral? Are users
going to be doing their own cataloging? Is there a role for
librarians in the folksonomy “movement”? Web examples
will be demonstrated, including del.icio.us, flickr and Technorati.
| | 4:00-5:00 |
Wine and Cheese Reception--Sponsored by Promega
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Wednesday, July 20th
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8:00-10:00 | Breakfast & Update from
the WiLS Member Community
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10:15-11:30 |
Keynote: The Future of
WorldCat, Chip Nilges, OCLC
Built by libraries around the globe, WorldCat
is the leading bibliographic database in
the world, with 59 million records and
almost 1 billion holdings indicators. How
is WorldCat evolving to meet the rapidly
changing information needs of the library
community and its constituencies? This
presentation will focus on the future of
WorldCat as a metadata repository and a
library service platform. Topics will include
collection development plans for WorldCat,
including new kinds of metadata stores,
ranging from OAI repositories to holdings
for e-serials; transformational end-user
functionality, including FRBR and the integration
of WorldCat into Yahoo! and Google through
the Open WorldCat program; and new uses
of WorldCat as a professional services
platform, including online collection analysis
and data mining.
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11:45-1:00 |
Breakout Sessions
Ethics and Technology, David Louzecky,
UW-Sheboygan
A discussion of current ethical issues
in libraries and information technology. Specific
cases will be outlined, as well as a general
decision procedure to deal with ethical
problems. Among the topics to be
covered are the Patriot Act, pornography
and content filtering, and patron privacy. Audience
participation will be encouraged.
Gaming and Gamers, Constance Steinkuehler
and Kurt Squire, UW-Madison
Why pay attention to games? For starters,
games are the "medium of choice" for
many millennials, with broad participation
among the 30 and under population.
Although part of a web of new media, technology,
and social shifts, games are the quintessential
site for examining these changes.
Game cultures feature participation in
a collective intelligence, blur the
distinction between the production and
consumption of information, emphasize expertise
rather than status, and promote international
and cross-cultural media and communities.
Most of these characteristics are foreign,
or run counter to print-era institutions
such as libraries. At the same time,
game cultures promote various types of
information literacy, develop information
seeking habits and production practices
(like writing), and require good
old-fashioned research skills, albeit using
a wide spectrum of content. In short, librarians
can't afford to ignore gamers.
The Symbiotic Symmetries of Simulated Annealing, Peter
Gilbert, Lawrence University
The implications of symbiotic symmetries
have been far-reaching and pervasive. Given the current status of
embedded algorithms, statisticians daringly desire the refinement
of extreme programming, which embodies the unproven principles
of artificial intelligence. In this work, we explore an analysis of simulated
annealing (CannyEld), which we use to disconfirm that the well-known
wearable algorithm for the synthesis of write-ahead logging by
Ito et al. [19] is optimal. This research report from the Worldwide Internet
Weirdness Institute of Wisconsin (WIWIWI) has nothing whatsoever
to do with the previous randomly-generated sentences.
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