PreConference:
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
How to Skin an OPAC Integrating Users with the Social Web
Date: Wednesday 10 Oct, 2007.
Location: Delta Ocean Pointe Resort
45 Songhees Road
Victoria, BC V9A 6T3
Tel: 250-360-5858
Fax: 250-360-5938
9:30am-10:00am
Coffee & Refreshments.
10:00am -10:15am
Welcome, Introductions, Review of Agenda, Logistics.
10:15am -11:30am
Project Overview, Research re: Users; Academic Libraries research proposal; Q&A.
Speakers:
Beth Jefferson (CEO,
BiblioCommons)
11:30am -12:30pm
Speakers:
Luc M. Declerck (AUL
Technology Services, University of California, San Diego)
Patricia Martin (Director, Bibliographic Services, California Digital Library)
Patricia Martin
Director, Bibliographic Services, California Digital Library
Patricia Martin is the Director of Bibliographic Services at the California Digital Library and is responsible for a full range of bibliographic and interlibrary loan services, including the Melvyl Union Catalog, Request, and UC-eLinks. She also oversees the development of UC's electronic resource management service, and metasearch projects.
In 2005 Patricia was appointed to the UC Bibliographic Services Task Force, and continues to work on next-generation bibliographic services in her role on the UC/OCLC pilot project Implementation Team. Additionally, Patricia serves on the Digital Library Federation's ILS Discovery Interface Abstraction task force.
Prior to joining the CDL in 2005, Patricia was a program manager at Microsoft
where she worked on various products, including handwriting recognition for
the Tablet PC, speech recognition, MSN Search, and the natural language interface
to Help in Office 2005 (aka Mr. Clippy).
12:30pm -1:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm -2:45pm
Vendor Panel
Tate Nunley (Ex Libris Primo)
Dinah Sanders (Innovative Encore)
Jimmy Thomas (AquaBrowser Library)
Mindy Pozenel (OCLC WorldCat Discovery Services)
2:45pm -3:00pm
Break
3:00pm -4:15pm
Alternative/Open Source Panel
Allan Carlson (PLSB/BiblioCommons Project)
Peter Binkley (Environmental scan)
Mark Leggott (Koho & Social Web in P.E.I.)
4:15pm - 4:30pm
Reactor’s comments/summary
Luc M. Declerck & Patricia Martin
4:30 pm – 5:00pm
Open Q&A; next steps; wrap-up.