Annual Fall Seminar 2004
Emerging Trends and Technologies - what do they mean to libraries?
New date: September 22, 2004
Government Conference Centre
2 Rideau Street
Ottawa, Ontario
Please use Colonel By entrance.
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Description
A constant shift in information technologies is impacting the way information is exchanged in today's knowledge society and wired world.
This seminar is for you if in your work environment you are:
- Experiencing symptoms of information overload
- Adapting technology to support service requirements
- Looking to change the culture of your information environment
Attend the seminar to:
- Learn about upcoming Information Management/Knowledge Management technologies
- Discover the blogging tool kits
- Understand the power of Weblogs and Really Simple Syndication applications
- Gain knowledge of the Open source applications defining access controls and authentication
- Learn of the advantages of Community of Practice
Speakers
- Heather Berringer
- Darlene Fichter
- Thomas McKegney
- Glen Newton
Heather Berringer
Heather Berringer is a Reference Librarian at Carleton University Library and President of the Library Association of the National Capital Region. A graduate of Dalhousie University's School of Library and Information Studies, Heather has been involved with the Canadian Library Association,
Atlantic Provinces Library Association, and Nova Scotia Library Association, and was awarded the 2003 Atlantic Provinces Library Association Award and School of Library and Information Studies Leadership Award. Heather is also co-moderator of IFLA DIGLIB and, for over a year, has been investigating the area of efficient professional development through best use of current awareness tools including Web site tracking software, electronic mailing lists, weblogging, and RSS. Her current major project is the development of a blog-based portal - with RSS feed, of course - for Canadian academic librarians.
Presentation summary:
Beyond Vanity Press: Why Weblogs and syndication aren't just for the rich
and famous
While some dismiss Weblogging as electronic vanity press, there are ways that this valuable technology can heighten the profile of your library and help you keep up to date with developments in your field. This session will explain some of the basics of using Weblogging technology and Rich Site Summary (or RSS for short) to publish and explore headlines on a variety of
important topics.
Darlene Fichter
Data Library Coordinator at the University of Saskatchewan Library. She is also the owner of Northern Lights Internet Solutions Ltd - a web consulting and training company.
Darlene has a B.A. Philosophy (1981) from the University of Saskatchewan and a M.L.S (1987) from the University of Toronto. As a librarian and an internet consultant, Darlene has been the project leader for several Internet, Intranet, digital library and portal projects. Usability, metadata, information architecture, XML and knowledge management are areas of particular interest to her.
Darlene is also columnist for Online magazine and a frequent conference speaker. She was included in the Library Journal's first list of 50 Movers & Shakers in librarianship
Presentation summary:
Divining the Future: Delivering Library Services in a Wired World
How is technology changing libraries and how knowledge workers access, store, search and use information? Which new technologies are on the horizon that we should pay attention to right now? Darlene will zero in a few key technologies, such as federated searching, link revolvers and open source software. Librarians have to be nimble and savvy in evaluating these type of technologies. We need to be quick to seize opportunities that can add real value and deliver better services to users while avoiding fads and hype.
Thomas McKegney
Chief Editor, Public Sector Community of Practice Platform at Compra.ca
Thomas McKegney has a varied background in journalism, consulting, and the federal and provincial public service. He is an Honorary Life Member of the New Brunswick Legislature Press Gallery.
Presentation summary:
Nurturing Public Sector Communities of Practice
"Community of practice" or CoP is a fancy term for the networks and personal support systems that all of us build and maintain as part of our day-to-day lives. Government organizations are recognizing the critical importance of these informal workplace networks to the ability of the Public Service to adapt and transform to meet rapidly evolving government and public expectations.
A small number are beginning to experiment with modern communication tools to enable "virtual" networking and exchanges with individuals who share common interest but who may be physically located in another building or region of the country.
This presentation provides an overview of some of the ways federal public servants are using CoPs to help meet personal learning and knowledge-sharing needs. It will also describe some of the support being provided to nurture CoPs, including the Public Sector Community of Practice platform at www.compra.ca which provides access to tools that informal communities can use both to supplement face-to-face contacts and to nurture virtual links with individuals in a broader CoP across Canada or even internationally.
Glen Newton
Glen Newton is Program Head, Research - Information Technologies, Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI), National Research Council (NRC).
In the past, Glen has worked at the National Atlas, Natural Resources Canada, where he was responsible for putting the first interactive online GIS on the Web in 1994. He won the Canadian Internet Award in 1995 for best educational site, and subsequently spent several years working in private industry. His interests include OO design and programming, distributed object technology, Open Source software, agent technology, electronic (scientific) publishing, E-Commerce, collaborative environments, databases, GIS, AI, information sciences, open archives and Web standards. He has been the NRC W3C representative and one of its CNI representatives for the last several years.
Presentation summary:
Distributed Authentication and Authorization for Digital Resources: A Snapshot of the State-of-the-Art
Digital library resources have become the primary focus of many library collections. With their adoption has also come difficulties in managing user authentication ("You are who you claim to be") and authorization ("You are allowed 'these' resources"). Libraries have had to take on the additional burden of collecting their organizations IP addresses and sending them to users or shipping lists of userids to publishers or having one userid for all users (and one for each publisher), or, as multiple publishers are almost always involved, some combination of all of the above. These models impact users, often forcing them to have multiple userids and passwords or having to use a proxy server for access. Issues like privacy, security, personalization and scalability are not well-addressed in these models.
Distributed authentication and authorization or federated identity is an attempt to address many of the problems facing libraries wanting to serve the digital resources of many publishers to many patrons in any location. A number of projects are in progress to build systems which can deal with these sorts of issues. In this talk, we shall examine two of the major systems: Shibboleth, and the Liberty Alliance and their impact on the library community.
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