Emerging Technologies presentation
I’ve uploaded the presentation I did today for the Library’s Emerging Technologies workshop series to Slideshare…you can see it at http://www.slideshare.net/julieshedd/so-much-to-say-presentation/.
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The New OPAC
Following up on what folks at LITA were saying about library catalogs being, well, bad…
David Lee King reports from the Internet Librarian Conference that the library of the University of Pittsburgh is working on a better OPAC. The beta version is at http://pittcatplus.pitt.edu/ (PittCat “Classic” stays online while the new OPAC is in testing). It works a lot like Google; you enter a search term, and the catalog brings you all types of media. You refine your search with facets. Go play around with it; it’s really cool.
A Faceted Browsing Approach to Duke’s Digital Collections: Using Open –Source Platforms to Enhance the User Experience
Will Sexton and Sean Aery presented this talk. Duke has been a leader in digital collections for years.
Library 2.0 PDQ: Meeting the Challenges of the Rapid Growth of Distance Learning and Off-Site Courses at a University Regional Campus
“Library 2.0 PDQ: Meeting the Challenges of the Rapid Growth of Distance Learning and Off-site Courses at a University Regional Campus” was presented by John J. Burke and Beth E. Tumbleson from Miami University Middletown in Miami, OH.
HI-Fi Sci-Fi Library
Michael Porter gave an energetic talk about the future of libraries as envisioned by science fiction, interspersed with hilarious clips from shows like Futurama, Star Trek, and How William Shatner Changed The World. Porter moved way too fast for me to really liveblog it, but suffice to say that if you get a chance to hear him lecture in person, take it. He might show you his “Hi-Fi Sci-Fi Library” music video! (Which is not geeky at all.)
Course Management Systems: Integrating Library Content
The panel included Elizabeth Black from Ohio State University, Don Kim from Murray State, and Kim Ducket and Jason Casden from North Carolina State University.
Civil Rights Digital Library
P. Toby Graham presented an overview of the structure and holdings of the Civil Rights Digital Library, the most comprehensive effort so far to provide digitized material on the civil rights movement. There is a video archive, a learning objects component that provides curricular support, and the portal. The library is based in the University of Georgia Libraries and was launched in the spring of 2008.
“What Is ‘Social Cataloging’ and Why Should You Care?”
Tim Spalding, founder of LibraryThing, gave the keynote lecture for the 2008 LITA Forum.
Spalding started off by not defining the phrase “social cataloging”—he came up with the phrase, and he doesn’t necessarily know what it means. Rather, he uses “prototype theory”. Just as you could say “A robin is a good example of a bird,” you could say “LibraryThing is a good example of social cataloging.” That is as close as he can come to define social cataloging. Basically, it’s what happens when you make personal cataloging social.
Liveblogging from the 2008 LITA Forum
For the next few days (assuming the blog acts right) I will be liveblogging from the 2008 Library & Information Technology Association National Forum in lovely Cincinnati, Ohio. Stay tuned for more information from the sessions I’m attending.
