From: Deb Hunt (dhunt@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 11 2005 - 12:27:02 PST
Message-Id: <26E6E29C-640F-11D9-BE84-0030656B1132@exploratorium.edu> From: Deb Hunt <dhunt@exploratorium.edu> Subject: Infopeople's webcast "Metasearching: Librarians Like Searching, Users Like Finding Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:27:02 -0800
Infopeople is pleased to announce our next webcast "Metasearching:
Librarians Like Searching, Users Like Finding". Roy Tennant will
deliver the webcast on February 8, 2005 starting at noon. There is no
charge for viewing the webcast.
Please print and post or route this message to staff and colleagues who
might be interested in this topic.
Title: Metasearching: Librarians Like Searching, Users Like Finding
Date and time: February 8, 2005 , noon - 1pm PST
This webcast will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for
Infopeople webcasts.
For more information and to participate in the February 8 webcast, go to
http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/02-08-05_metasearch.html
When it comes to online searching, today's libraries have lots of
competition -- and that competition (Google, anyone?) has raised the
bar on making finding tools both simple and effective for end users.
Metasearching can help streamline the user's quest for high-quality
library-owned or licensed content. With emerging metasearch tools,
libraries can provide a simplified interface to a variety of separate
sources. If you want to learn about how to demystify library searching
and keep up with your commercial competitors, this webcast is for you.
This session presumes no prior knowledge of the subject. The presenter
will begin with definitions of key terms, give a description of the
problem being solved, and discuss the promise of metasearching
technology, using examples from public and academic libraries that are
already using metasearch tools.
Presenter: Roy Tennant. Roy is the User Services Architect for the
<http://www.cdlib.org/>California Digital Library. He has been
instrumental in the development and deployment of the
<http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/>eScholarship Repository
and the <http://texts.cdlib.org/escholarship/>eScholarship Editions.
He is the owner of the <http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/>Web4Lib
and <http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/XML4Lib/>XML4Lib electronic
discussions, and the creator and editor of
<http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/>Current Cites, a current
awareness newsletter published every month since 1990.
He has taught Internet workshops for the Infopeople Project, UC
Extension, the American Society for Information Science, the California
Library Association, Apple Computer, and other professional
organizations and commercial companies. He has taught Internet
workshops in Australia, France, Hungary, New Zealand, and Romania and
been invited to speak at conferences in Australia, Canada, China,
England, France, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webcasts to anyone in
the California library community. If you are outside California,
please do not register for the live event. However, you are welcome to
see the archived version the day following the webcast. Check our
archive listing at:
http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/archived.html
Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list.
Metasearching: Librarians Like Searching, Users Like Finding
February 8, 2005
Noon - 1pm PST
________________________
Deborah Hunt
Senior Information Specialist
Exploratorium
3601 Lyon Street
San Francisco, CA 94123
Voice: 415-353-0485
Fax: 415-561-0370
mailto:dhunt@exploratorium.edu
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