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User Centered Instruction

Scott Brandt and I did our pre-conference workshop Tuesday afternoon. “Make Learning Stick: Creating 5 Star User Centered Training & Instruction”featured a DVD presentation about Bob, a harried trainer faced with training his entire staff on Web mail. We outlined 5 factors to insure training is user-focused and successful everytime!

We had 23 participants and [...]

March 21st, 2004 | Category: Computers in Libraries 2004 | Comments are closed

Top Tech Trends @ CIL Friday Keynote Session

One of my favorite parts of this conference: lisdtening to some forward-thinking speakers outline what the future may hold for library services…

What follows is an annotated congrunt…

Roy Tennant Theme: Digital Libraries

XML — Standards must improve Harvesting data University faculty are realizing the crisis with scholarly communication

Also: Storage!“As somone who has recently [...]

March 21st, 2004 | Category: Computers in Libraries 2004 | Comments are closed

Federated Searching Session: Federated Searching & OpenURL

Frank Cervone, Assistant University Librarian, Northwestern University

Our users don?t know what DB the results came from, journal title is important?they just want the info.

What can you link to: OPAC DBs

What is federated searching? ?Squishy at this point?

Metasearch: searches that use metadata to make decisions Megasearch: Dogpile, AlltheWeb, etc.

Can be combined [...]

March 21st, 2004 | Category: Computers in Libraries 2004 | Comments are closed