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Schedule for the Library 2.0 Seminar

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

8:30-9:00 Registration; Coffee
9:00-10:00It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Web 2.0 World: Hidden Treasure or Just More Pressure? - Steven Bell
Break
10:15-11:45Wikis in Libraries: Enhancing Services, Promoting Sources, and Building Community - Chad Boeninger
11:45-1:00Lunch
1:30-2:30 Social Context - A Place for Libraries on the Social Web - Brian Mathews
Break
2:45-4:15RSS Basics and Beyond: Tips and Tricks for Getting the Most out of Syndicated Content – Ken Varnum

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

8:30-9:00Registration; Coffee
9:00-10:30Mashups and Web Services - Eric Schnell
Break
10:45-12:15Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging– Ellyssa Kroski
12:15-1:30Lunch
1:30-3:00 Our User Experience: Puzzle Pieces Falling in Place – Stephen Abram
Break
3:15-4:00 From Discovery to Disclosure: How Will Libraries Connect Resources to Users in the Web? - Lorcan Dempsey
   
More detail on some of the topics:
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Web 2.0 World: Hidden Treasure or Just More Pressure? - Steven Bell: Love it or hate it, our libraries our operating in a Web 2.0 world – and it’s a world that will never be the same. Because it’s changing everything about user expectations this is a trend that librarians ignore at their own peril. As a prelude to a stellar cast of Library 2.0 experts, Steven Bell will explore how the constant technology change creates new pressures on library staff to keep up their skill set. But Web 2.0, and whatever technology advances will follow in the years ahead, offers librarians new opportunities to design library products and services that can provide our users with better experiences that meet shifting expectations. It’s all in how we mange the pressure as we seek the treasure.
Our User Experience: Puzzle Pieces Falling in Place - Stephen Abram: We’re at a great tipping point in library-land. There have been discussion this year about OPAC's sucking and open source initiatives. Are we asking the right questions about where the OPAC is going? Are we asking our questions with a focus on the new end user or are we mired in the library workers needs as a priority? Where does the OPAC fit in the emerging information experience? Where does it fit in the new learning and R&D ecology? Stephen will help take the many puzzle pieces strewn around the floor and assemble them into a picture of what the user experience needs to be in coming years. How will libraries adapt to our changing users? How will we increase our own capacity for learning and change? How will we continue to be highly relevant in our communities, to learners, to scholars and those we interact with? Can we increase our own productivity while harvesting the wonders of e-content, web 2.0 opportunities, new formats and containers, and all the rest? As chief strategist of the SirsiDynix Institute, Stephen will share some SirsiDynix research and provide some structure to what he comments on in his popular blog, Stephen’s Lighthouse, and international speeches.