 | 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
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| 8:30 hrs | Registration, Coffee/tea (Coffee corner)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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
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| 20:00 hrs | Joint Dinner (Food Plaza Tilbury nr 3 - building F)
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| 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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