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Coffee Breaks •Outside
Beekman Parlor
Luncheon for seminar attendees •Rendezvous
Trianon, 3rd floor
MONDAY, MAY 17, 1999
(9:00
AM TO 5:00 PM)
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: CASES, COMPLEXITIES,
AND COMPETENCIES
by Stephen Abram,
IHS/Micromedia Ltd., and Rebecca Jones, Dysart & Jones Associates
• Beekman Parlor
•
Monday, May 17, 1999 (9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.)
Cost: $295 (includes lunch and coffee services)
This new full-day workshop focuses on the foundations of knowledge management (KM) and describes what involvement in KM can mean for an information professionals career. It looks at how information professionals can add value by partnering with the knowledge-hungry in their organization and what can happen when those opportunities are missed.
About the Presenters:
Rebecca Jones, a partner
in Dysart & Jones Associates since 1993, provides professional consulting
services to clients in the areas of library and information management,
strategic planning, and change processes. Services range from direction
planning, service design, and market positioning to conference planning,
customized workshops, and team and management coaching. Stephen Abram,
Senior Director, Product Management, IHS/Micromedia Limited, has written
and taught extensively on the topics of transformational librarianship,
leadership, and knowledge management. Instructors have been teaching courses
for the Special Libraries Association and for the University of Toronto
Faculty of Information Studies for the past 10 years. They are also consultants
in knowledge management in the information industry.
OPTIONS FOR DATABASE PUBLISHING ON
THE WEB: A SEMINAR FOR LIBRARIANS, INFORMATION CENTER MANAGERS, AND DATABASE
PUBLISHERS
by Péter Jacsó,
Associate Professor, University of Hawaii
• Sutton Parlor
South •
Monday, May 17, 1999 (9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.)
Cost: $295 (includes
lunch and coffee services)
Description
The Web provides unprecedented
alternatives for publishing databases at a fraction of the cost of traditional
print, online, and CD-ROM publishing and distribution. There are Web software
tools for librarians, information center managers, database producers,
and other information content providers that do not require programming
expertise and a degree in computer science. This workshop presents the
feasible alternatives for publishing structured, searchable textual databases
(directories, bibliographies, abstracting/indexing and full-text databases)
from the perspective of the information workers who have developed desktop
databases for in-house and/or external access and now want to publish such
resources on the Web.
The workshop discusses the reasons for publishing databases on the Web and the tools and costs of such projects. The pros and cons of the major alternatives will be presented and various software tools will be demonstrated. Some of these are Web extensions of well-known textual information management software tools such as ProCite, Reference Manager, EndNote, AskSam, and Db/TextWorks. Others are developments from the ground up for the Web and also provide database creation functions. The products range from the simplest Java applets and HTML solutions to full-blown applications with advanced file importing, browsing, and search capabilities. In price they range from free (for libraries only) to a few thousand dollars with unlimited publishing and access options.
Topics
• The reasons for publishing
your database on the Web
• From Web pages to databases
• The software options
for information workers
• Software tools for building
a new database for the Web
• Software tools for porting
an existing database to the Web
• Planning and cost considerations
Who Should Attend
Librarians, information
center managers, publishers, information content providers, and other information
workers who want to enhance access to valuable information resources that
could not be published and/or distributed in a cost-effective way, or could
be made available only for a limited number of users. Participants are
not required to have any formal prerequisites but are expected to be familiar
(as users) with the major features of traditional textual information retrieval
programs.
About the Presenter
Péter Jacsó
is an associate professor of the Information and Computer Sciences Department
of the University of Hawaii where he teaches courses on database design,
database publishing, and database searching. He is the recipient of the
1998 Pratt-Severn/ALISE National Faculty Innovation Award for his innovative
use of information technology in curriculum design and course work. He
has been offering his tutorial series at the National Online Meeting for
10 years and is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences.
His columns are published in Information Today,Computers
in Libraries, Link-Up and DATABASE.
He has received various awards for his writing, including the 1998 Louis
Shores/Oryx Press Award of the ALA Reference and User Services Association
for his database reviews. He has been a consultant for several database
implementation and software evaluation projects in the U.S. and abroad.
He is the co-author with F. W. Lancaster of the book Build Your Own
Database (ALA, 1999).
THE NEW SEARCH ENGINES—BOOLEAN AND
STATISTICAL APPROACHES TO SEARCHING AND THE WEB SEARCH SERVICES IN HISTORICAL
PERSPECTIVE
by Ev Brenner,
Information Consultant
• Nassau Suite
•
Monday, May 17, 1999 (9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.)
Cost: $295 (includes
lunch and coffee services)
Introduction:
Online services provide
traditional Boolean search capabilities with sophisticated tools to retrieve
information, primarily for the professional searcher. As alternatives,
especially for end users, non-Boolean statistical approach engines with
relevance feedback and weighting capabilities plus semantic and syntactic
enhancements have been appearing in the 1980s and 1990s. The advent of
the Internet and WWW provides professional searchers and end users with
access to a plethora of unindexed full text and many different search services
to aid retrieval. This seminar will review the implications and describe
the characteristics of the new sophisticated non-Boolean search engines
such as PLS, DR-LINK, Conquest, and Clarit and also the Web search services
such as AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, Muscat, Infoseek Guide, HotBot, Northern
Light, Ask Jeeves, etc.
Up-to-date information on
the search engines will be based on the Search Engines and Beyond Conference
held in Boston, Massachusetts, in April 1999.
This seminar also offers
a historical perspective of the information retrieval arena. Not many of
today's players understand the events of the last few decades that have
led to much of today's perplexity in the field. Particular emphasis will
be placed on the interface problems between the databases and the users:
what special considerations are necessary for end-user searching and what
are the hopes and promises for machine-aided indexing and full-text searching.
Seminar Outline:
The Early Years
Who Should Attend
About the Instructor
Ev Brenner is well-known
in the U.S. and Europe as a leading information scientist. He has many
years experience as a database producer for the petroleum industry, an
information science professor, and a designer of various seminars on indexing
and retrieval. Mr. Brenner is a consultant and author of Information
Insights: The Road to Knoware, a compilation of articles written for
Learned Information Ltd.'s publication, MONITOR. He is also the author
of Beyond Boolean—New Approaches to Information Retrieval, published
by the National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services (NFAIS).
In addition he has designed
conferences on search engines for Infonortics, Ltd. for the last three
years in Bath, England, and in Boston in the U.S.
THE INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL IN THE
INTERNET AGE
by Donald T. Hawkins,
InfoResources, and Susan Feldman, Datasearch
• Sutton Parlor
Center •
Monday, May 17, 1999 (9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.)
Cost: $295 (includes
lunch and coffee services)
Who Should Attend
About the Presenters
"The Information Professional
in the Internet Age" is presented by Dr. Donald T. Hawkins, President,
InfoResources (Stirling, NJ), and Ms. Sue Feldman, President, Datasearch
(Ithaca, NY). Each of the presenters has over 20 years of experience in
the online information industry. With their diverse backgrounds in the
corporate library and the independent research areas, they are uniquely
qualified to provide a rich, rewarding, and stimulating experience for
the attendees.
Donald T. Hawkins is president
of InfoResources, a consulting firm working with database producers, online
service vendors, and Internet publishers in the electronic information
industry. He is editor-in-chief of Information
Science Abstracts (ISA) and Fulltext
Sources Online (FSO), publications of Information Today, Inc.
Prior to 1996, Dr. Hawkins
was with AT&T for over 24 years. He was the content manager for several
electronic information projects, and before this, he spent 15 years in
the AT&T Bell Laboratories Library Network, developing and managing
its information retrieval and current awareness services. He won the prestigious
UMI/Data Courier Award for excellence in writing in the online information
industry in 1987 for his two articles on artificial intelligence and online
searching and again in 1992 for his article on intelligent agents for information
retrieval. Dr. Hawkins received BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees from the University
of California, Berkeley.
Susan Feldman is president of Datasearch, an independent information consulting firm which evaluates and writes about new information technologies and products, including search engines, intelligent agents, and interface designs. Recent clients include the U.S. Senate and the H.W. Wilson Company. Datasearch also writes grant proposals related to research in information retrieval and conducts interface usability studies for such clients as the Institute of Physics and Manning and Napier Information Services. Ms. Feldman is a frequent contributor to such publications as Searcher, Online, Information Today, and The Information Advisor. She has just completed a chapter on search engines for the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science.
Ms. Feldman holds a Masters
degree in Library Science from the University of Michigan and also a BA
in Linguistics from Cornell University. She worked in government, public
and college libraries before starting Datasearch in 1981. Datasearch began
to specialize in Internet and information retrieval-related work in 1993
with an early study for the national supercomputing centers on how to establish
a distributed digital library. This work led to further writing about search
engines, interfaces, and user information seeking behavior and has made
Ms. Feldman an authority on search engines, new information technologies,
and how to use them.
AROUND THE BUSINESS WORLD IN 90 SITES
(GIVE OR TAKE A FEW)
by Anne Mintz,
Forbes, Inc. and Susan Klopper, Arthur Andersen LLP
• Sutton Parlor
North •
Monday, May 17, 1999 (9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.)
Cost: $295 (includes
lunch and coffee services)
Overview
Many information professionals
are wandering around the electronic world seeking specific information
in the vast, uncataloged library that is the Internet. In addition, people
working in all industries and environments regularly require information
relevant to the business aspects of their organizations. This one-day seminar
is designed to explore the vast array of electronic sources of business
information, to locate appropriate sources in various fields of business
research, and to develop evaluation criteria for determining the highest-quality
sources available. Understanding that we all function in a global context,
international information will also be included. It is structured to provide
interaction among participants, with small group discussions during the
day.
Outline of topics to be covered:
Who Should Attend
Information professionals
who are called on to perform business research. Basic knowledge of print
and CD-ROM business information is useful, but not required.
About the Presenters:
Anne Mintz is Director
of Information Services at Forbes Inc. in New York. She oversees the information
center for the company and arranges the electronic distribution of Forbes
editorial content to third parties. Susan Klopper is Director of the Atlanta
Information Center of Arthur Andersen LLP. Each has previously chaired
the Business & Finance Division of the Special Libraries Association.
SECOND GENERATION INTRANET DEVELOPMENT
by Howard McQueen
and Jean E. DeMatteo, McQueen Consulting
• Madison Suite
•
Monday, May 17, 1999 (9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.)
Cost: $295 (includes lunch and coffee services)
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