18th Annual National Online Meeting & IOLS '97
IOLS '97

Thursday
May 16, 1997


Workshop
Planning for Library Technology
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Chair: Marshall Breeding, editor, Library Software Review

This workshop focuses on planning issues related to library technology. The implementation of new integrated library systems, networks, and other automated systems requires significant attention to resource allocation. Initial capital costs, ongoing maintenance, training, and personnel costs are but a few of the important considerations. Marshall Breeding will present information on some of the important aspects of library technology and the management and planning issues they raise.



Product Reviews
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

New Distributed Client-Server Library Automation
Susan Stearns, Gaylord Brothers

Basis Intranet Solution: The Corporate Information Centre
Carol Knoblauch, Information Dimensions


Libraries and the Internet
10:40 AM -12:10 PM
Chair: Vivian Hay, Getty Information Institute

A Proposal for an Internet Standard for a Library Record Transmission Protocol
John Mess, University of Minnesota Twin Cities Libraries

System Security: When Enough Is Not Enough
Julie A. Fore, Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indiana University

Using the Internet as a Teaching Tool
Marlo Brown, New Mexico State University


Panel Discussion
Now Starring in the Role of the Corporate Library: Your Local Public Library
10:40 AM - 12:10 PM
Chair: Pamela Cibbarelli, Cibbarelli's
Moderator: Daniel B. Woods, Information Access Company

While large corporations may have well-equipped internal libraries, the fact remains that most businesses do not. The potential for partnerships between companies and public libraries is enormous. Librarians from public and academic libraries offer comments on library/business partnerships.



Workshop
Library Automation Software
2:00 PM - 5:10 PM
Chair: Pamela Cibbarelli, Cibbarelli's

Gloria Dinerman (The Library Co-Op, Inc.) and Pamela Cibbarelli team to present a workshop on Library Automation. Ms Dinerman will begin the session by providing insights into Contracting for Library Automation Products and Services.

Then Pamela Cibbarelli, editor, Directory of Library Automation Software, Systems and Services, will profile the leading IOLS software, including features and functions of the most successful library automation packages on the marketplace today and user satisfaction ratings for many of the packages.


* NOM/IOLS '97 Home Page