Archive for the 'CIL 2006' Category

Cil 2006 – Future of Catalogs

March 28th, 2006 by Jason A. Clark

Roy Tennant, California Digital Library
Andrew Pace, North carolina State University (NCSU)
Packed house which was to be expected. It’s like E.F. Hutton when Roy and Andrew speak. (Do you remember that commercial?) And on top of that, everyone has an interest in OPACs – reference librarians, access services librarians, catalog librarians, etc. Lots [...]

CIL 2006 – Dead and Emerging Technologies

March 28th, 2006 by Jason A. Clark

I’ve been reticent about posting my reaction to this late night session. It’s usually lots of fun and you can get a good sense of library technology trends on the bleeding edge. More of the same this year. The theme was library 1.0 versus Library 2.0. It’s all fair game, but [...]

CIL 2006 – Structured data, Web 2.0, Libraries

March 23rd, 2006 by Jason A. Clark

Lorcan Dempsey
Second day of the conference and my first post… It’s been busy, but exhilirating. This was a good session that really worked to bring together the possibilities of web 2.0 for libraries. Lorcan began by emphasizing the need to make bib data work harder; of releasing the value from Library Marc and [...]