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IUG at ALA Midwinter 2006

Friday, January 20, 2006
Location : Room 217C in the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
San Antonio, Texas


Schedule:

2:00 pm IUG Introductions and Update -- Cheryl Gowing
2:15 pm Innovative Interfaces Update -- Betsy Graham
2:30 pm Program : "Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0" -- Casey Bisson, Plymouth State University
3:30 pm Break
3:45 pm Innovative Interfaces, Inc. Presentation: “Make the most of what you have: WebOPAC functions and features you should investigate” – Dinah Sanders, WebOPAC Product Manager, Innovative Interfaces, Inc.
4:30 pm Open questions and answers; Informal breakouts

Program Descriptions

Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0, Casey Bisson, Plymouth State University

Casey Bisson will be giving a special presentation on "Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0" which will look at the World Wide Web as a "disruptive technology" and how the Web affects libraries and our users. What role do web technologies and concepts like social software, web 2.0, search engines, RSS, XML, and AJAX have in libraries? How can libraries catch up to user expectations of our online services? How can we reinvent the OPAC to take advantage of these technologies?" Come to Casey's presentation for the answers to these and other questions!

Casey is the software developer and information technologist at Plymouth State University’s Lamson Library, where he specializes in building applications and systems to serve libraries and higher education. His work and writings on library technology have been cited in Jenny Levine’s The Shifted Librarian, David Rothman’s TeleRead, Roger Sperberg’s Electric Forest, Richard Ackerman’s Science Library Pad, BiblioAcid, Corante, Talis’ Panlibus, Innovative Interface’s InnTouch, and elsewhere, including his own blog, Maison Bisson (http://www.maisonbisson.com/). He's also a popular speaker on web development and library technology issues.

Make the most of what you have: WebOPAC functions and features you should investigate, Dinah Sanders, WebOPAC Product Manager, Innovative Interfaces, Inc.

In addition, maintaining the theme, Innovative staff member, Dinah Sanders will present a session, “Make the most of what you have: WebOPAC functions and features you should investigate” which will focus on some of the tools within the system that libraries can use to customize their catalogs.

Last updated November 28, 2005