LITA BlogLITA Preconference Friday, June 23, 8:30 am – 2:30 pm
Contracting for Content in a Digital World
A panel of experts discussed the forces and interests on the national and international scene that are shaping the new terms libraries, publishers, aggregators and search engines are negotiating in contracts and licenses today.
Sybil Boutilier, Manager of Contract Administration for [...]
Opening General Session
The following is a summary of the Opening General Session, with selected excerpts of remarks by New Orleans mayor C. Ray Nagin, and keynote speaker Madeleine Allbright.
Welcome from President Michael Gorman: “We’re proud of our diversity, united by our common values.”
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Online NW 2006
February 10, 2006
CH2M Hill Alumni Center, Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon
Keynote: Paul Bausch
Paul Bausch was co-creator and developer of Blogger; PC Magazine named him one of their 2004 People of [...]
This important program had more than a little schizophrenic feel to it. People obviously came to hear big name author and PBS commentator Michael Codrescu, but his remarks had little to do with the title of the event, or with Michael Gorman’s focus on library education. That was how it should be, but it divided the program focus quite dramatically and creating an event with a marked split personality.\
Yan Han, Systems Librarian at The University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, AZ and current chair of the LITA Standards IG introduced the program and the first speaker. Reports included NISO’s Strategic Direction, SUSHI, the License Expression Working Group, RFID, Web Services and Practices and ISBN-13.
We should be doing a lot more with usage stats than we are.
Implementing a Federated Search Tool
Speakers:
Peter Webster, St. Mary’s University
Marvin Pollard, California State University
Robert Sathrum, Humboldt State University
Joseph Fisher, Boston Public Library
Peter Webster led off the panel with an overview of the basics of federated searching.
First he defined the concept:
Too @#& many interfaces
“One stop shopping”
“Google like searching”
Silo busting
Cross-file searching
He reminded us that cross-file searching isn’t [...]