SLA Monday morning
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msmemory_archiveThem as don't care about my professional conference can hit Page Down now.
Skipped Champagne Taste on a Beer Budget in favor of a very long shower and a stop at Starbucks. (I AM in Seattle - it would be sacrilege not to have coffee a couple times a day.)
9:00
Panel on Researchers' Changing Expectations
Two panelists. The first, John something, from ProQuest, presented the results of a fairly large study of researchers' habits, focused on undergraduates' information seeking. Did they use the library, or information services [such as ProQuest] available through the library, or public web sites such as Google. If they changed between them during the research process, why? Users expectations have changed based on the open web - the bar is higher. Resource choice 3 points: library outreach, brand awareness [they recognize names like JSTOR and return to them - and keep in mind that today's college students are tomorrow's new hires], and professional/professorial recommendation. Paper was published in an Australian proceedings "VALA"?
Second panelist, Mike Buschman from IEEE, was more focused on promoting library services by presenting kinds of services that users want, or expect. NOT card catalogs or things that feel like them, and NOT brown-bag sessions that are in the mood of Library Training. Instead: targeted, topical talks on research topics relevant to the institution ("MRI in excess of 105 [units]" with illustrations of how to find the info and what info is there). Some passing mention of the usual 2.0 tools: Enterprise Twitter (!), Second Life, Facebook Groups specific to the organization.
11:45 EOS International vendor lunch
Free food in exchange for sales pitch. This tool is lovely but way over CN's users point. Runs on .NET. Expects MARC and Z39.50 standard records. Even though they illustrated ways to use many other types of media cataloged with their system it still felt like it was all shoehorned into one of those formats. If I had time money and personnel it could be really spiff, but who's going to re-key all our 60K records to conform to their standards? (Someday, we oughta....) Prices are ONLY available on individual custom quotes. $$$ You could tell the product was expensive because the lunch was high end - no tunafish here, it was rosemary focaccia, caprese salad, grilled veggies, Tazo teas.
More later.
Skipped Champagne Taste on a Beer Budget in favor of a very long shower and a stop at Starbucks. (I AM in Seattle - it would be sacrilege not to have coffee a couple times a day.)
9:00
Panel on Researchers' Changing Expectations
Two panelists. The first, John something, from ProQuest, presented the results of a fairly large study of researchers' habits, focused on undergraduates' information seeking. Did they use the library, or information services [such as ProQuest] available through the library, or public web sites such as Google. If they changed between them during the research process, why? Users expectations have changed based on the open web - the bar is higher. Resource choice 3 points: library outreach, brand awareness [they recognize names like JSTOR and return to them - and keep in mind that today's college students are tomorrow's new hires], and professional/professorial recommendation. Paper was published in an Australian proceedings "VALA"?
Second panelist, Mike Buschman from IEEE, was more focused on promoting library services by presenting kinds of services that users want, or expect. NOT card catalogs or things that feel like them, and NOT brown-bag sessions that are in the mood of Library Training. Instead: targeted, topical talks on research topics relevant to the institution ("MRI in excess of 105 [units]" with illustrations of how to find the info and what info is there). Some passing mention of the usual 2.0 tools: Enterprise Twitter (!), Second Life, Facebook Groups specific to the organization.
11:45 EOS International vendor lunch
Free food in exchange for sales pitch. This tool is lovely but way over CN's users point. Runs on .NET. Expects MARC and Z39.50 standard records. Even though they illustrated ways to use many other types of media cataloged with their system it still felt like it was all shoehorned into one of those formats. If I had time money and personnel it could be really spiff, but who's going to re-key all our 60K records to conform to their standards? (Someday, we oughta....) Prices are ONLY available on individual custom quotes. $$$ You could tell the product was expensive because the lunch was high end - no tunafish here, it was rosemary focaccia, caprese salad, grilled veggies, Tazo teas.
More later.
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Date: 2008-06-17 04:32 am (UTC)Whoa. o_O