Digital Libraries a la Carte: New Choices for the Future

Tuesday, 22 August 2006

Module 1: Technological Developments: Threats and Opportunities for Libraries

8:15 hrs Departure taxi van from Hotel IBIS to Tilburg University campus - Corner Prof. Verbernelaan and Hogeschoollaan - for those participants staying at Hotel IBIS

8:30 hrs Registration, Coffee/tea (Coffee corner)

8:45 hrs Welcome and Introduction (Tias building, room TZ 9)

Michael L. Breaks
University Librarian, Heriot-Watt University, UK

9:00 hrs Trends, Strategic Issues and Opportunities for Libraries (Tias building, room TZ 9)

  • the changing information environment: the disintegration of software, information and content
  • web services architecture, blogs, WIKIs, RSS feeds and repositories as examples of trends
  • end-user behaviors trends and backgrounds
  • how libraries must engage users
  • the roles of the library and the librarian
  • how and where can libraries devote their limited resources in order to gain increased visibility through the provision of maximum value to the end-users of libraries
  • full abstract
  • PowerPoint presentation as PPT file (5.521kB)
Carl Grant
President and COO, VTLS, Inc., USA

10:00 hrs Discussion (Tias building, room TZ 9)

Carl Grant
President and COO, VTLS, Inc., USA

10:30 hrs Coffee/tea (Coffee corner)

11:00 hrs Advances in Search Driving Library 2.0 (Tias building, room TZ 9)

  • trends in information access impacting next generation digital library services
  • examples: effective access to rich media, extreme precision by contextual analysis and social networks
  • how can Library 2.0 services create new patterns for interaction with students and scholars
  • how can strategic advantages be realized in the eco-system of different digital library providers
  • full abstract
  • PowerPoint presentation as PDF file (4.598kB)
Dr. Bjørn Olstad
Chief Technology Officer, Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), Norway

12:00 hrs Discussion (Tias building, room TZ 9)

Dr. Bjørn Olstad
Chief Technology Officer, Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), Norway

12:30 hrs Lunch (Food Plaza Tilbury nr 3 - building F)

14:00 hrs Electronic Paper Display and its Impact on the Scholarly Information Chain (Tias building, room TZ 9)

  • electronic paper-like displays
  • electronic reading devices based on paper displays
  • the impact of paper-like displays on e-publishing
  • the impact of paper-like displays on libraries
  • full abstract
  • PowerPoint presentation as PPT file (9.714kB)
Peter van de Graaf
Director, Kiva, NL

15:00 hrs Discussion (Tias building, room TZ 9)

Peter van de Graaf
Director, Kiva, NL

15:30 hrs Coffee/tea (Coffee corner)

16:00 hrs When Portals Collide: Portals Between and Across Institutions (Tias building, room TZ 9)

  • portals combining services from Library, Course Management, Research and Administrative Systems with personalised and customisable interfaces
  • the promises of portals
  • work undertaken, the portal experience so far
  • technical and organisational challenges
  • a look forward to how portals might combine with Web 2.0 approaches
  • full abstract
  • PowerPoint presentation as PDF file of the slides (3.006kB) or as PDF file of the handouts (180kB)
Ian Dolphin
Head of e-Strategy University of Hull, UK

17:00 hrs Discussion (Tias building, room TZ 9)

Ian Dolphin
Head of e-Strategy University of Hull, UK

17:30 hrs Short break with snack (Coffee corner)

18:00 hrs Aiming for New Levels of Cross-Repository Functionality (Tias building, room TZ 9)

  • changes in scholarly research and scholarly communication
  • scholarly repositories as nodes in a global scholarly workflow system
  • cross-repository interoperability
  • recording and expressing the chain of evidence when reusing a unit of scholarly communication
  • the Pathways project (Cornell University and Los Alamos National Laboratory)
  • the April 2006 "Augmenting Interoperability across Scholarly Repositories" summit
  • full abstract
  • PowerPoint presentation as PDF file (774kB)
Herbert Van de Sompel
Team Leader Digital Library Research and Prototyping, Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library, USA

19:00 hrs Discussion (Tias building, room TZ 9)

Herbert Van de Sompel
Team Leader Digital Library Research and Prototyping, Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library, USA

19:30 hrs Wrap-up and Review (Tias building, room TZ 9)

Michael L. Breaks
University Librarian, Heriot-Watt University, UK

19:45 hrs End of Sessions

20:00 hrs Joint Dinner (Food Plaza Tilbury nr 3 - building F)

21:30 hrs Departure taxi van from Tilburg University campus - Corner Prof. Verbernelaan and Hogeschoollaan - to Hotel IBIS for those participants staying at Hotel IBIS

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