IUG 2006 -- Focus Session

Notes and presenters' handouts from the Following Sessions at IUG 2006:

Saturday May 20

1. Opening Session / Jerry Kline / iii. New developments:

   1.  WebPac Pro with relevancy ranking "Right Results".  Example search in old search engine "History of New York": results contain the "History of New York" somewhere in the title and/or description. Example search in the new WebPac Pro "Good to Great": the first three hits are the title Good to Great. Search first goes to title, then 245|b to reflect descending relevancy order. After the first 3 hits where the actual title is "Good to great", hits #4 and onward meet the condition of subtitle (245|b) contains "good to great".

   2. Spellchecker: from "no results found" to "did you mean..." with suggested alternate forms of correct spelling. "More" leads to alternate terms. This works with single words and word pairs.

   3. WebPac Pro is enabled to bring in RSS feeds. Next step: pooling all reviews and sending them out to library systems

   4. Reserach Pro: next generation of Metafind.

2. Keynote address / Nancy Davenport, CLIR:

   1. Library world is faced with a "new abundance": abundance, not scarcity of information. This brings new issues:

      1. Licensing, copyright

      2. "intellectual content" is leased rather than owned --> implications?

      3. "the innovator's dilemma": technology can catalyze success or failure. Technology changes business models very drastically.

         1. The magazine Peer Review has articles describing how creativity can lead to thriving across technological boundaries.

         2. Marquette University described as example of new library with technology incorporated is a location for prestige and vitality.

         3. learning commons

         4. digital asset management

         5. digital labs / "serial direction" (i.e. journals' increasing move to e-form)

   2. Destinations of choice (for e.g. retirement and free-lance relocation):

      1. vibrant intellectual life considered key factor

      2. libraries are a major hub of such intellectual library

   3. Pricing issues:

      1. The British magazine Used Car Dealer describes pricing models where buyer and seller agree at a price good for both parties (price negotiation, no float).

      2. Contrary to the used-car realm, there is still no good pricing model for scholarly information.

   4. Preservation issues:

      1. Cited the Waters paper on http://www.clir.org/

      2. question: 3rd-party repositories

   5. Starbucks and its cultural impact:

      1. Coffee house / connection to other people

      2. Cox Center at Emory University incorporates "Starbucks-style connectivity":

         1. Flexible space: chairs and tables on wheels: round tables on wheels, ergonomic chairs on wheels, also beanbags for lounging/studying

         2. Smart Classroom equipped

         3. informal / classroom space flexibility

         4. also has formal meeting rooms styled after corporate boardrooms (also smart classroom equipped)

         5.  

iii presenters' slides at http://csdirect.iii.com/ppt/#iug14

Serials & Acq

http://csdirect.iii.com/ppt/iug2006_acqserup_tf.zip  (general session description at http://innovativeusers.org/iug2006/programs/F11)
 

Sunday May 21

Monday May 22

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