The following sessions are just a sample of the many programs and events taking place during SLA 2005. Visit the online Personal Planner for a listing of all conference events.
Digital Library Collections & Services
Saturday, June 4, 2005 8:00AM - 12:00PM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, Room: 203A
A vast array of online resources await any library with the wherewithal and technical ability to make them available to their users. What are these collections and services, what technologies are required to make them available, and how are libraries using them to better serve their clientele? These topics and more will be highlighted in a session replete with working examples of modern library collections and services.
Speaker(s):
Roy Tennant
Ticketed Event #130 Price: $199 mbr/$299 nmbr
SLA Units: Professional Development Center
Taxonomies for Indexing: A Hands-On Approach
Saturday, June 4, 2005 8:00AM - 5:00PM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, Room: 202B
A well-built taxonomy is part of the foundation of the information architecture underlying websites and corporate intranets, connecting search queries to relevant content in databases. This session covers the rules for thesaurus construction, explores terms and source materials, and explains each part of the thesaurus record. Participants will perform multiple hands-on exercises demonstrating various aspects of thesaurus construction, including building a mini-taxonomy.
Audiences: All attendees
Speaker(s):
Dr. Jay Ven Eman, CEO, Access Innovations, Inc.
Alice Redmond-Neal, Training Director, Access Innovations, Inc.
Ticketed Event #105 Price: $299 mbr/$399 nmbr
SLA Units: Information Technology Division
Creating Your First Digital Library: Planning and Implementing a Successful Imaging Project
Sunday, June 5, 2005 8:00AM - 5:00PM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, Room: 205C
Core concepts for creating a digital library are reviewed so participants can appreciate the principles and best practices associated with digitization projects, including: understanding the purposes and objectives of the digital library being created; identifying target audiences (stakeholders); and creating, curating, and managing access to digital collections.
Audiences: All attendees
Speaker(s):
Daniel Pence, Vice President, Document & Imaging Services, Systems Integration Group, Inc.
Barbie E. Keiser, President, BEK Inc.
Ticketed Event #210 Price: $299 mbr/$399 nmbr
SLA Units: Information Technology Division
How to Build Taxonomies that Support Your Enterprise Goals
Sunday, June 5, 2005 8:00AM - 12:00PM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, Room: 206C
Taxonomies arrange knowledge for superior information retrieval. This entertaining program teaches client-centered methods that support enterprise goals by emphasizing the selection and arrangement of vocabulary, categories and organizational structure. You will learn how to evaluate and build the best hierarchy. These innovative techniques are explained with examples from Katherine Bertolucci’s experiences as Snoopy’s librarian and her 25 years in taxonomy development. The class will practice their new skills by working together on an enjoyable topic.
Difficulty Level: Level 2
Speaker(s):
Ms. Katherine Bertolucci, Taxonomy and Information Management Consultant, Isis Information Services
Ticketed Event #325 Price: $199 mbr/$299 nmbr
SLA Units: Leadership and Management Division
Beyond Google: Searching Faster and Smarter on the Web
Sunday, June 5, 2005 1:00PM - 5:00PM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, Room: 201C
This course is designed for experienced web searchers who want to expand their web search horizons and go beyond search engines to other high quality sources of information. Participants will be introduced to a wide variety of resources and top starting points, and will discover the best ways to search them effectively. Who Should Attend This course will benefit experienced web searchers who want to refine and improve their searching, and discover new top-quality FREE web search resources.
Speaker(s):
Rita Vine, Co-Founder of Workingfaster.com, Workingfaster.com
Ticketed Event #365 Price: $199 mbr/$299 nmbr
SLA Units: Professional Development Center
Business Library Web Sites: Planning and Methods of Usability Testing
Sunday, June 5, 2005 1:00PM - 5:00PM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, Room: 203A
The extensive array of services, subscription-based databases, free Web sites, and other electronic sources makes the design of a business library Web site a particularly complicated and daunting task. This is effectively accomplished by conducting usability tests throughout the design process. This workshop will provide an overview of usability testing. Discussion on how to set-up usability tests as well as a hands-on opportunity to participate in usability testing will be included.
Audiences: All attendees
Speaker(s):
Hal Kirkwood, Purdue University
Ticketed Event #370 Price: $250 mbr/$300 nmbr
SLA Units: Business & Finance Division
Design for News: A Live Tour of Five Newsroom Intranets
Sunday, June 5, 2005 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, Room: 206D
Design for news will explore five newsroom intranets using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to gain real time access to these websites. Library managers of the presentation websites will offer a description and explanation of the hardware and software that supports the Intranet and discuss design and usability issues as well as the degree of difficulty involved in creating high-powered Intranets. Each Intranet Webmaster will discuss the technology used, development cycle and plans for future development.
Difficulty Level: Level 1
Audiences: Members Only
Moderator(s):
Mike Meiners, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Speaker(s):
Ms. Susan Ebbs, Raleigh News & Observer
Mr. John Hurst, Newsroom Technology Manager, St. Louis Post Dispatch
Ms Jennifer Ryan, Atlanta Journal Constitution
Ms. Dana Gordon, Assistant Library Director, Newsweek
Mr. Victor Black, Information Specialist-Intranet, Columbus Dispatch
Ticketed Event #380 Price: $199 mbr/$299 nmbr
SLA Units: News Division
Digitization projects in the biomedical and life sciences: DBIO Contributed Papers Session and Breakfast
Monday, June 6, 2005 7:30AM - 9:00AM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, Room: 202A
Hot digitization projects
Enjoy breakfast while learning about innovative digitization projects in the biomedical and life sciences during the DBIO Contributed Papers Session. Specific topics include digitizing healthcare information for PDAs, digitization of heritage science collections and development of a digital library of taxonomic literature.
Audiences: All attendees
Moderator(s):
Barbara Butler, Librarian, Oregon Institute of Marine Biology
Speaker(s):
Rebecca L. Tremaglio, University of Michigan
David McKnight, McGill University Libraries
Rajesh S. Mangrulkar, University of Michigan
Susan Kendall, Reference Librarian, Michigan State University Library
Anne-Marie Karle-Zenith, Michigan State University Libraries
Patricia W. Martin, Taubman Medical Library
Erica Burnham, McGill University Libraries
Theresa S. Arndt, Taubman Medical Library
SLA Units: Biomedical & Life Sciences Division
Sponsors: Ebsco Information Services
SLA Tech Zone: RSS - Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication, You Decide?
Monday, June 6, 2005 7:30AM - 9:00AM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, Room: 201B
SLA tech zone - Want an easy way to distribute your news to multiple sites and increase visibility? Learn how to take advantage of existing RSS feeds on the web. Learn how to build an RSS service for your site. This will allow others to take automatically updating content from your site and add it to theirs. Included will be tips on how to generate helpful and meaningful feeds. Additionally, participants will take part in a hands-on implementation of a RSS feed.
Speaker(s):
Jason Malatesta, Manager, Integration Support, Factiva
Ticketed Event #420 Price: $35
SLA Units: Special Libraries Association
Sponsors: Factiva
Blogging/RSS'ing the Librarian Way
Monday, June 6, 2005 11:30AM - 1:00PM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, Room: 104C
The panel will discuss how librarians utilize blogs and RSS both professionally and personally. Technology trends will be examined, and using blogs/RSS for professional development will be discussed. Finally, we will hear the personal experience of a tech guru who became a famous blogger herself.
Audiences: All attendees
Moderator(s):
Kan Kin, Senior Associate Librarian, Morrison & Foerster, LLP
Speaker(s):
Marie C Kaddell, Information Professional Consultant, LexisNexis
Jenny Levine, Metropolitan Library System; The Shifted Librarian
Catherine Lavallée-Welch, Associate Librarian, University of South Florida - Lakeland
SLA Units: Information Technology Division
Sponsors: American Chemical Society
LexisNexis
SLA Tech Zone: XML- Facilitating Your Information Distribution
Monday, June 6, 2005 11:30AM - 1:00PM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, Room: 201B
SLA Tech Zone- Understand the impact and benefits that XML can supply to today’s information distribution. Learn the difference between HTML and XML. Discover the different ways XML is being used to enhance wireless technology, as well as CRM’s, intranets and portals.
Speaker(s):
James Marcellus, Technical Trainer, Factiva Learning Programs, Factiva
Ticketed Event #445 Price: $35
SLA Units: Special Libraries Association
Sponsors: Factiva
SLA Tech Zone: Team Collaboration Site - The Key to Success!
Monday, June 6, 2005 3:30PM - 5:00PM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, Room: 201B
SLA Tech Zone - Learn how to create and maintain a team collaboration site using Microsoft Sharepoint. The course will demonstrate how to use Document Libraries, Discussion Boards, Calendars, Custom Components, and much more to help you run an efficient team. Examples will be provided explaining how SharePoint is used to manage corporate events, as well as technology and business initiatives. Participants will build a SharePoint team site and tailor it to their needs.
Speaker(s):
Mark Evans, Technical Specialist, Employee Communications, Factiva
Michael Fry, Intranet Development Consultant, Factiva
Ticketed Event #465 Price: $35
SLA Units: Special Libraries Association
Sponsors: Factiva
Emerging Technologies Breakfast
Tuesday, June 7, 2005 7:30AM - 9:00AM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, Room: 204
Emerging Technologies Breakfast
Breakfast, blogging and buzz, an unbeatable combination! Start your day with a hearty breakfast, be energized by emerging technologies, like blogging, and leave inspired with what you hear from your colleagues, the buzz of the profession!
Moderator(s):
Nathan Rosen, Credit Suisse First Boston
Speaker(s):
Nathan Rosen, Credit Suisse First Boston
Thomas Fleming, Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro, LLP
Wendy Brown, Librarian Relations Manager, Thomson West
Ticketed Event #530 Price: $10
SLA Units: Legal Division
Sponsors: Thomson West
Establishing a Weblog on Your Organization's Intranet
Tuesday, June 7, 2005 11:30AM - 1:00PM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, 205A-C
Blogging Behind The Corporate Firewall
Our speakers will lead you through blogging strategies and applications, demonstrate tools and techniques, and discuss content and collaboration issues. They will focus on how this cost effective, powerful yet simple and inexpensive application can be leverage to deliver timely, comprehensive, value-added content and resources relevant to current clients, for marketing and competitive intelligence, and to facilitate inter and intra departmental communications. How you can make blogs work for you within your organization.
Moderator(s):
Elizabeth Bumgarner , Information Systems Librarian, Time Inc
Speaker(s):
Dennis Hamilton, Information Services Manager, KZF Design Inc
Sabrina I. Pacifici, LLRX.com
SLA Units: Solo Librarians Division
Legal Division
Sponsors: BASCH SUBSCRIPTIONS, INC
Practising Law Institute
SLA Tech Zone: Team Collaboration - The Key to Success!
Tuesday, June 7, 2005 11:30AM - 1:00PM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, Room: 201B
SLA Tech Zone - Learn how to create and maintain a team collaboration site using Microsoft Sharepoint. The course will demonstrate how to use Document Libraries, Discussion Boards, Calendars, Custom Components, and much more to help you run an efficient team. Examples will be provided explaining how SharePoint is used to manage corporate events, as well as technology and business initiatives. Participants will build a SharePoint team site and tailor it to their needs.
Speaker(s):
Mark Evans, Technical Specialist, Employee Communications, Factiva
Michael Fry, Intranet Development Consultant, Factiva
Ticketed Event #570 Price: $35
SLA Units: Special Libraries Association
Sponsors: Factiva
Mining the NEW Web for Information: RSS Feeds, Blogs, Social Networks and More
Tuesday, June 7, 2005 1:30PM - 3:00PM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, 104C-D
A session not to be missed! Can you afford to ignore the latest buzz around new technologies and new ways of communicating? Join Mary Ellen Bates as she guides us through the latest and greatest of the Web. Find out how these new developments impact you and the research you do.
Audiences: All attendees
Speaker(s):
Mary Ellen Bates, Bates Information Services
SLA Units: Advertising & Marketing Division
Reviewing Software Tools for Intelligence Collection and Analysis
Tuesday, June 7, 2005 1:30PM - 3:00PM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, Room: 202D
"Competitive Intelligence (CI) software tools come in all shapes, sizes, and functionalities, and can be significant investment for organizations -- but how do you begin to evaluate them? This session will provide an overview of the topic and will identify different types of Competitive intelligence (CI) software tools available for each stage of the CI process. Our speakers will also provide suggestions on how to evaluate these tools,discuss features to your organization's needs, and provide examples of products.
Audiences: All attendees
Moderator(s):
Ms. Amelia Kassel, President, MarketingBase
Speaker(s):
Ms. Cynthia Cheng Corriera, Principal, Knowledge inForm
Mr. Raoul Farcot, Cipher Systems
Mr. James Andrus, President, Netro City Design & Information Systems, Inc.
SLA Units: Competitive Intelligence Division
Sponsors: Infotrieve, Inc.
SLA Tech Zone: Make the World Smaller - Web-Conferencing is the Way Forward!
Tuesday, June 7, 2005 1:30PM - 3:00PM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, Room: 201B
SLA Tech Zone - Web-conferencing is one of the biggest time and money savers in the business world. It's fast, easy and effective. Learn how to schedule and run a web-conference using Microsoft LiveMeeting. We will discuss the main features of a good web-conferencing tool. The session will also explore how to select and deploy the right web-conferencing vendor for your organization and also discuss some "lessons learned". Participants will have the opportunity to participate in a LiveMeeting, as well as schedule and host their own web-conference.
Speaker(s):
Mark Evans, Technical Specialist, Employee Communications, Factiva
Michael Fry, Intranet Development Consultant, Factiva
Ticketed Event #585 Price: $35
SLA Units: Special Libraries Association
Sponsors: Factiva
New Web Tools
Wednesday, June 8, 2005 11:30AM - 1:00PM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, Room: 105
The popular Web experts, Genie Tyburski and Gary Price, discuss tools available for effective Web research and trends for the future. If you like to keep current, you will want to be at this session!
Moderator(s):
John DiGilio, Thomson West
Speaker(s):
Genie Tyburski, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP
Gary Price, Librarian, Information Research Consultant, and Writer
SLA Units: Legal Division
Sponsors: Mergent, Inc
William S. Hein & Co., Inc
SLA Tech Zone: E-Learning Technologies - No Programming Required!
Wednesday, June 8, 2005 11:30AM - 1:00PM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, Room: 201B
SLA Tech Zone - Organizations around the globe commonly use e-Learning to educate their users on various topics. Early on, the creation of e-Learning module often required a subject matter expert and a dedicated IT resource to build and update modules. Today, e-Learning technologies and applications are built with the purpose of empowering the subject matter expert with the ability to create and update e-Learning modules. Tools in the market place range from the simple to the sophisticated. This session will introduce you to some of these applications, as well as provide you with an opportunity to create an e-Learning module.
Speaker(s):
Nicole McCain, Manager, Learning Programs, Factiva
James Marcellus, Technical Trainer, Factiva Learning Programs, Factiva
Ticketed Event #720 Price: $35
SLA Units: Special Libraries Association
Sponsors: Factiva
Testing, Testing 1,2,3: A View of Digitization Impact on Testing Libraries, Products and Services
Wednesday, June 8, 2005 11:30AM - 1:00PM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, Room: 201A
Digital resources have been used in testing libraries in diverse ways. This session presents both process and products from two major test libraries: ACT and Educational Testing Service (ETS). This session will also include the Information Competencies Initiative Assessment, a collaborative project between ETS and the California State University's Office of Information Competence Initiatives.
Audiences: All attendees
Moderator(s):
Susan H Couch, National Board of Medical Examiners
Speaker(s):
Jacqueline Snider, Manager, ACT Library, ACT
Karen McQuillen, Information Specialist, ETS
Janet Williams, Director, Education Testing Service (ETS)
SLA Units: Education Division
Social Science Division
Self-Archiving, Information Repositories, and Knowledge Management : What Can Different Types of Libraries Learn From Each Other?
Wednesday, June 8, 2005 1:30PM - 3:00PM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, Room: 104B
Corporate, government, and academic libraries create repositories for their institution's internally-generated information. Academic libraries call it self-archiving and corporate libraries call it knowledge management. Are they the same thing? A panel of librarians from various institutions presents what different libraries can learn from each other about internal information management.
Audiences: All attendees
Moderator(s):
Erika Steffer, Research Consultant, Russell Reynolds Associates
Panelist(s):
Aimee Ellis, Manager, Departmental Library, Yukon Energy, Mines and Resources Library
Marcia Rodney, Sr. Research Analyst, Ball Aerospace
Caroline Lonsdale, Program Consultant, Office of Strategic Projects, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
SLA Units: Engineering Division
Aerospace Section of DENG
Science & Technology Division
SLA Tech Zone: Top 10 Essentials of a Successful Web Site
Wednesday, June 8, 2005 1:30PM - 3:00PM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, Room: 201B
SLA Tech Zone - Most organizations have a presence on the Web, but are they successful. Join us and learn the ‘must-have’ elements in creating a useful, informative and attractive Web site. The session will address the different types of navigation and when to use them; how to treat and organize large amounts of information; how to handle output options, such as printing, emailing and pdf documentation. We will also discuss how to deal with the “function over fashion” in web design. You will put your new skills to practice by testing and critiquing a wide range of Web sites to help determine what works and what does not work. There will be opportunity for one-on-one consultation about your specific Web challenges with Factiva’s expert Web Designer.
Speaker(s):
Bonnie Jarvie, Senior Interactive Designer, Factiva
Ticketed Event #725 Price: $35
SLA Units: Special Libraries Association
Sponsors: Factiva
The Future of Search Engines - Contrasting Views
Wednesday, June 8, 2005 1:30PM - 3:00PM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, Room: 203A-D
What's important in search engine capabilities, like the proverbial elephant, can seem different depending on the point of view. This program will compare and contrast future trends in search engine technology from the perspective of a top web search engine, a next generation commercial search engine, and a metasearch tool.
Audiences: All attendees
Moderator(s):
Mary Ellen Bates, Bates Information Services
Speaker(s):
R.J. Pittman, CEO, Groxis
Patrick Keane, Director, Product Marketing , Google Inc.
Dr. Mark Bluhm, Sr Director Technology, Thomson Legal & Regulatory
SLA Units: Information Technology Division
Sponsors: Dialog
Winner's Circle of Best Science Websites
Wednesday, June 8, 2005 1:30PM - 3:00PM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, Room: 202B
Members of SLA's science related divisions will highlight the best new, recently revised and 'must see' Web sites in their respective subject areas.
Audiences: All attendees
Moderator(s):
Peggy M Jones, Librarian, Pritzker Research Library, Children's Memorial Research Center, Chicago
Speaker(s):
Claudia Lascar, City College of New York
Robert Buchanan, Auburn University
Lorri Zipperer, Zipperer Project Management
SLA Units: Biomedical & Life Sciences Division
Chemistry Division
Environment & Resource Management Division
Science & Technology Division
Sponsors: CambridgeSoft Corporation
Research Management Software
Wednesday, June 8, 2005 3:30PM - 5:00PM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, Room: 104D
Tracking research requests, answers and resources
What happens when you combine research management software, including virtual reference applications, and knowledge management techniques to order and respond to the conflicting demands of newsroom research projects? What are the best practices colleagues employing to facilitate knowledge sharing among de-centralized research staff?
Audiences: All attendees
Moderator(s):
Donna Scheeder, Library of Congress
Speaker(s):
Jody Habayeb, Tampa Tribune
Michael Jesse, The Indianapolis Star
SLA Units: News Division
Sponsors: EOS International
SLA Tech Zone: E-Learning Technologies - No Programming Required!
Wednesday, June 8, 2005 3:30PM - 5:00PM
Location: Toronto Convention Ctr, Room: 201B
SLA Tech Zone - Organizations around the globe commonly use e-Learning to educate their users on various topics. Early on, the creation of e-Learning module often required a subject matter expert and a dedicated IT resource to build and update modules. Today, e-Learning technologies and applications are built with the purpose of empowering the subject matter expert with the ability to create and update e-Learning modules. Tools in the market place range from the simple to the sophisticated. This session will introduce you to some of these applications, as well as provide you with an opportunity to create an e-Learning module.
Speaker(s):
Nicole McCain, Manager, Learning Programs, Factiva
James Marcellus, Technical Trainer, Factiva Learning Programs, Factiva
Ticketed Event #730 Price: $35
SLA Units: Special Libraries Association
Sponsors: Factiva
