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Web Access to Databases--ALA Meeting Announcement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zhishan Xu)
Wed Jun 25 20:31:42 1997
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 15:32:59 -0500
From: Zhishan Xu <zxu@MIT.EDU>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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1997 ALA ANNUAL MEETING--San Francisco
LITA Internet Resources Interest Group Meeting
Topic: WEB ACCESS to DATABASES: TECHNICAL POSSIBILITIES and IMPACT
ON LIBRARY SERVICES
Format: Panel Presentation Discussion
Time: 9:30-11:30 am., Sat. June 28, 1997
Place: Holiday Inn Union Square, Union Square North Room
AGENDA
9:30-9:40 Welcome and Introduction, Amanda Xu, MIT Libraries,
Co-Chair of the LITA Internet Resources I.G.
9:40-9:55 The Context of Information
Marilyn Geller, Internet Services Manager, Readmore
This presentation describes two techniques for putting
databases on the Web in a way that is meaningful to
end-users. One method is to extract and focus databases;
the other method is to combine and expand databases.
In each case, it is the context of information that
supplies the meaning and, therefore, increases the
usefulness of these databases for users.
9:55-10:10 Utilizing the World Wide Web: The Strategy of the Institute for
Scientific Information (ISI)
Jacqueline Trolley, Director of Corporate
Communications, ISI
This presentation will cover the enormous possibilities
that the World Wide Web offers to a database publisher.
In place at ISI is a Web-based informational site with
options to use "push technologies" for product and
alerting services, as well as product access
availability. Short-term plans call for linking from
the "Web of Science" to primary literature housed on
publisher servers. There are also plans to enrich the
database by indexing or linking to quality material
that is only published on the Internet and to offer
application-based training electronically.
10:l0-10:30 Access to Networked Resources: Where We Are and Where
We're Going
Cindy Miller, Director of Product Strategy, Endeavor
Information Systems, Inc.
This presentation is focused on the concepts behind
the "buzzwords" in searching network resources, and how
the current state of the technology affects access
options. It will also discuss some emerging
technologies and trends and how they will affect the
services we deliver to our end users. Topics include:
Static databases vs Dynamic databases, Java,
Java Applets, Java Applications, Web organizations,
Evolution of HTML, New standards for identifying
network resources.
10:30-10:45 Been There, Done That: Our First Year with Web Databases
Karen G. Schneider, Contractor with Garcia
Consulting and the Director of the US EPA Region 2
Library
This presentation will discuss the expected and
unexpected consequences of Web databases on
(information) business in the EPA.
10:45-11:10 "Webolution" in North Carolina: Scaling Up The NCSU
Libraries Web
Keith Morgan, Client Services Librarian for Networked
Resources, Department for Digital Library Initiatives.
North Carolina State University.
Steve Backs, Reference Librarian, Research and
Information Services Department. North Carolina State
University.
The discussion will begin with a brief enumeration of
the historical factors, both organizational and
technical, which have driven the NCSU Libraries Web.
The panel will provide the background and ultimate
decision making factors, justifying the purchase of new
Web management tools, including the Verity Search
Engine, Netscape Suite Spot Server, and HTML
publishing tools. Finally, they will outline how these
innovations culminate in a feature-rich and customer-
centered Web. Two attributes reflecting the Library's
commitment to technical innovation in Web based
information delivery services will be discussed in
detail: implementation of WebSPIRS for sixteen of the
seventy-nine databases available to NCSU students,
faculty, and staff via the WWW and the roll-out of
version 1.0 of DRAWeb for the Libraries public access
catalog.
11:10-11:30 Questions and Answers
11:30-12:30 Business Meeting--conducted by Deleyne Wentz, Utah State
Univ., Co.-chair of LITA Internet Resources I.G.
