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The two presenters were: Frank Cervone, Assistant University Librarian for Information Technology Northwestern University f-cervone@northwestern.edu Grace Sines, Head, Information Technology Branch USDA, ARS, National Agicultural Library Gsines@nal.usda.gov Day 2 continued with discussions on the 9 areas of knowledge within project management. Having a work breakdown structure (WBS) can be helpful in time management. This is [...]

The two presenters were: Frank Cervone, Assistant University Librarian for Information Technology Northwestern University f-cervone@northwestern.edu Grace Sines, Head, Information Technology Branch USDA, ARS, National Agicultural Library Gsines@nal.usda.gov There were about 44 people in attendance, and there was an interesting breakdown from there: 30+ from academic libraries 0 from school libraries 2 from Tech processing areas [...]

This concurrent session covered the background, purpose, and evolution of the DPubS (Digital Publishing Systems) open source software project, based at Cornell University Library, as well as a case study based on Pennsylvania State University Libraries’ use of the package. The audience left with an appreciation of the potential of electronic publishing software to allow [...]

Speakers: Gretchen Gueguen, Digital Collections Librarian, University of Maryland Libraries Jennifer O’Brien Roper, Metadata Librarian, University of Maryland Libraries PowerPoint presentation Gretchen Gueguen began the session by giving an overview of the work done by the University of Maryland Libraries. UM has identified four basic types of digital collections: Thematic collections, sometimes containing multiple types [...]

This session was subtitled “E-Commerce, Self-Service, Bindery, ILL, Statistics – New Applications for the NCIP Protocol”, and as the session began attendees got an answer to the question posed by the title, as presenter Ted Koppel of Ex Libris admitted that new applications for NCIP have not been as plentiful as was anticipated, so the [...]

Show me the librarian that doesn’t have repetitive questions that receive repetitive answers and I’ll show you oceanfront property in West Las Vegas. If, on the other hand you are a librarian that would like to have a video recording of the steps you have repeated over and over, then video tutorials are a route [...]

(note: the preconference material referred to the software as CUIPID 3, but a new version has since been completed) CUIPID (pronounced “cupid”) is the University of Rochester’s Catalog User Interface Platform for Iterative Development. Built by their Digital Initiatives Unit, it serves as an experimental base for library catalog enhancements. David Lindahl and Jeff Suszczynski [...]

Show me the librarian that doesn’t have repetitive questions that receive repetitive answers and I’ll show you oceanfront property in West Las Vegas. If, on the other hand you are a librarian that would like to have a video recording of the steps you have repeated over and over, then video tutorials are a route [...]

Speakers: Chieko Maene, Map Librarian, University of Illinois at Chicago Library John Shuler, Government Documents Department Head, University of Illinois at Chicago Library Chieko Maene began the session with an overview of Web services, particularly the concepts of reusability, information sharing, and service orientation. She focused on the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and its standards [...]

OMG, the cameras are out and it’s Halloweeen weekend and the wait-staff are in costume here at the Flying Saucer.  Here’s the stream… and so much for the “live” part…