Conference Reports

ER&L 2009: Managing free e-resource collections

Managing freely available e-resource collections with today's vendor provided OpenURL knowledgebases: A challenge in quality control
Mike Bloomberg, Systems Librarian, Augsburg College
Chad Hutchens, E-Resources Librarian, University of Wyoming

ER&L 2009: Eigenfactor

Eigenfactor: Ranking and mapping the scholarly literature
Jevin West
Eigenfactor.org
University of Washington

ER&L 2009: Google Scholar

The Seismology of Google Scholar: Does Google Scholar rock your world?
Pam Howard
Ya Wang
San Francisco State University

ER&L 2009: Open-source ILS Panel

Open-Source ILS Panel
Karen Schneider, Equinox Software, Inc (support software for Evergreen)
Andrew Nagy, VuFind
Tim McGeary, Lehigh University

ER&L 2009: The Invisible Mainstream

The Invisible Mainstrean: E-resources in Workflows and Organizations
Matthew Barnes - R2 Consulting

JBK Summary:
This was a good presentation of the print/electronic paradox, because it didn't just go over the stuff everyone in the room knew - that the number of people assigned to print resource processing is an inversion of the number of e-resources coming in to the library. The presenter attempted to explain why the inversion exists, and showed some of the process that his consulting firm advises libraries to go through in order fix the problem.

ER&L 2009: Standards in the EResource World

Standards in the E-Resource World: COUNTER, CORE, and I2
John McDonald, Claremont University Consortium - COUNTER
Jeff Aippersback, Serials Solutions - CORE
Tina Feick, Harrassowitz - I2

ER&L 2009: Issues with Electronic Resources Librarianship

In Perpetuity: Institutional and implementation challenges with electronic resources librarianship
Lisa Sibert and Julia Gelfand
University of California, Irvine

ER&L 2009: Opening keynote with Elizabeth Goodman

From the conference program:

Elizabeth Goodman's writing, design and research focus on ubiquitous computing and the experience of everyday places and activities. She is particularly concerned with how information and communication technologies affect work and play in cities. Her current work at UC Berkeley examines new kinds of environmental sensing in urban neighborhoods.

As a design researcher with Intel, she was responsible for product research on mobile computing and nursing. Her design work has also been exhibited in New York, Paris, and San Francisco. Currently a PhD student at the UC Berkeley School of Information, she has a master's in interaction design from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University as well as a BA in Art from Yale University.

http://www.confectious.net/

ALA Midwinter, Next Generation Bibliographic Control: What Is the Brave New World?

As of this posting, no slides have been made available on the ALA wiki for this session. This may change in the near future.

ExLibris sponsored the program. It was fortunate I arrived early, as the topic was timely and there were not nearly enough tables, chairs or cookies for the room. And as everyone knows, cookies move all thorny and/or challenging conversations along. Reactions may even be delayed as mouths are busy chewing rather than reacting.

ALA Midwinter, Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group

Early Sunday a.m., I attended the Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group meeting. Handouts from the presentation are available on the ALA conference wiki. The guest speaker was Laura Dorricott, Project Delivery Manager, Taxonomy Services, Dow Jones Client Solutions who spoke about how taxonomies are developed.