Internet Librarian's Conference 2003

This is an outline of the high points. If you want more information or would like to discuss any of these topics let me know. I do have some copies of PowerPoint lectures I can get to you if you are interested. -- Jenny

E-Library

E-books: the Third Generation

• People love them (engineering library)
• Powerpoint slides for this presentation are supposedly at: https://webspace.utexas.edu/dillondj/www/ebook.html
• Discussed costs, programs, delivery mechanisms and other factors to collecting ebooks.
• Emphasized the need for bibliographers to be involved

New Age Navigation: Innovative e-Journal Interfaces

• Concept Space
• D-Lip Magazine
• Self Organized Map Index
• Astronomy and Astrophysics Centre de Donnees Astronomiques de Strasbourg
• Topic Map
• High Wire Press
• Some of these reminded me of the fish-eye view in my home library catalog I have a small version of it on my notebook computer if you want to take a look.

Building a Library with Free Web Resources

• Books
• Project Gutenberg
• Alex
• Bartleby
• Etc
• Periodicals
• Findarticles vs steep document delivery charges
• Infotrieve
• Ingenta
• Find Articles
• Magportal
• AJR (newspapers)
• When one thing dies, another comes along
• Pubscience – PolySearch (Peter Jasco

Power Tools for Digital Libraries

• Scout Portal Toolkit (http://scout.wisc.edu/research/SPT)
• Strengths: opensource code, off the shelf functionality, standards include Dublin core, flexible, easy to use, totally web based, free
• Weaknesses: initial releases had bugs, no support for windows
• Other: can be used on Linux or Windows servers
• Other products were discussed at length and demonstrated. For more information I can photocopy the paper for you.

E-Learning

Outcomes: Adventures in E-learning

• set of steps for failure and a set of steps for success
• elearning web resources were also viewed including a survey tool called Zoomerang and a quiz tool called Hot Potatoes

Environment: Impacts and Objects (really this was about electronic learning objects)

• what are reusable learning objects
• small interchangeable “programs” of information that can be used in multiple ways for teaching the same concept across learning constructs.
• How to use RLOs
• Why use RLOs
• Reusability
• Share-ability
• Personalization

Curriculum Competencies and Challenges

• integration of technology into classroom
• challenge of technical knowledge
• challenge of teacher/professor resistance (It’s harder to teach with technology than without, lecturing is the easiest form of instruction on the teacher)

Tools: Designing & Developing

• using screen capture video software to create a tutorial
• develop a script
• use powerpoint to add text or graphics
• record audio/vido separately
• products
• camtasi studio by techsmith
• viewletbuilder by qarbon
• robodemo by the ehelp corporations
• websites referenced or visited during presentation
• www.macromedia.com
• www.screenwatch.com
• www.techsmith.com
• www.qarbon.com
• www.ehelp.com
• www.ulib.csuohio.edu/help/hands-on
• www.realnetworks.com
• www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/
• They used Flash by Macromedia for the CSU project

Web Searching

30 Tips in 40 Minutes (searching the web)

• My favorites
• always use more than one search engine
• use thesauri to come up with more/alternate terms
• use Google’s “related” operator
• use reverse link searching
• use type of document indicators
• know what you’re looking for
• complex search statements do not work well on the web – simplify
• order of search terms matters

Web Design

User Centered Design in the Academic Library: Some Practical Examples

• Use various methods to gain information about users to inform web design
• Page use statistics
• User surveys
• Usability testing

Tips and Tricks for Usability Studies

• What to do BEFORE you start
• Ideas for getting “Buy in”
• Formal usability
• Card sorts
• Focus groups

Palm Pilots

Medicine in Your Palm

• managing information overload by using the palm.
• Access patient information
• Track patient symptoms and signs
• Access to medical reference info
• Tracking educational experience
• Research data entry
• Scheduling, contacts
• Usage of PDA’s (at Mount Sinai)
• 20% of physicians in U.S.
• 40% of trainees
• 50% of residents
• Concerns:
• Data reliability
• Data integrity
• Security
• Did 4 studies on usage in various situations
• ICU
• Paper vs electronic medical databases
• Surgical procedure logging
• Pharmacopoeias
• Ontario critical care information network
• Overall the PDA’s were a positive addition to the system. For more details I can photocopy the handouts for you