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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Industry-Sponsored Professional Development

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Back in March, I attended an “e-book summit” in Boston that was sponsored by Springer.  Springer did a fantastic job of putting together a program of topics and speakers who touched on various aspects of e-book access and management. They included plenty of time for discussion and brainstorming among the attendees.  The best part? [...]

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Carol Tenopir @ NASIG

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Liveblogging Carol Tenopir’s keynote “Measuring the Value of the Academic Library: Return on Investment and Other Value Measures”
Carol reports that she did not participate in the Fun Run/Walk at 6:30 a.m.
We’re facing the challenge of demonstrating our value to stakeholders. Economy adds to this by pressuring budgets, combine w/ perceptions of library as gateway (Ithaka [...]

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KBART Update @ NASIG

Friday, June 5, 2009

Liveblogging Peter McCracken’s update on KBART
OpenURL overview: evolution from magic to sausage making in how it is implemented and how information gets passed around. when the link resolver fails it affects the user’s perception of the tool
bad data, bad formatting, lack of knowledge
what is the measure of success? better access, fewer false positives and negatives. [...]

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ONIX-PL @ NASIG

Friday, June 5, 2009

Liveblogging Todd Carpenter on ONIX-PL
ONIX-PL is what you get when you combine licenses with XML
To license – give
To license – receive
A license
They are everywhere now – digital and physical, e.g. Turbo Tax and parking stickers
Talking about click-through licenses
But libraries have made massive investment negotiating. is it worthwhile? (Mentions SERU – an opportunity to move beyond [...]

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Peter Morville @ NASIG

Friday, June 5, 2009

Liveblogging Peter Morville keynote at NASIG
Information Architecture – Combination of organization, labeling, search, navigation – art + science.  Can learn from related fields like HCI but not sufficient. Still emerging discipline.  Done by many people who don’t know the term.
3 common lessons for many of his clients:

Multiple ways to find the same information. (e.g. Stanford [...]

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