Access 2006 :: Roy Tennant - Getting the Goods: Libraries & The Last Mile

Talk given at the Access 2006 conference on October 13, 2006.

Keynote Talk - MP3 (46:46)

Roy Tennant is User Services Architect for the California Digital Library. He is the owner of the Web4Lib and XML4Lib electronic discussions, and the creator and editor of Current Cites, a current awareness newsletter published every month since 1990. His books include Managing the Digital Library (2004), XML in Libraries (2002), Practical HTML: A Self-Paced Tutorial (1996), and Crossing the Internet Threshold: An Instructional Handbook (1993). Roy has written a monthly column on digital libraries for Library Journal since 1997 and has written numerous articles in other professional journals. In 2003, he received the American Library Association’s LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Excellence in Communication for Continuing Education.

Access 2006 :: Ross Singer - The Ümlaut and Ü: Öpening the OpenURL

Talk given at the Access 2006 conference on October 13, 2006.

MP3 (9:43)

Ross Singer is an application developer at Georgia Tech Library, creating web services for both the public web presence, maintaining the library’s intranet, and working to create an R&D lab for library apps. He founded the Metro Atlanta Library Technology Association (MALTA) in 2005. Earlier, he worked in library IT at both Emory University General Libraries and University of Tennessee Libraries and had a short stint in the corporate world at internet.com (now JupiterMedia) in New York City. Ross has a B.A. in Theatre from the University of Tennessee. See his website for more on his projects, papers and presentations.

Access 2006 :: Tito Sierra - Improving the Catalogue Interface using Endeca

Talk given at the Access 2006 conference on October 12, 2006.

MP3 (25:14)

Tito Sierra is a Digital Technologies Development Librarian at North Carolina State University Libraries. Before NC State, he worked as a Program Manager and Web Developer at Amazon.com. He has a BA in Government from Harvard University and a MS in Information Management from Syracuse University.

Access 2006 :: Stan Ruecker - Experimental Interfaces for the Dynamic Visual Grouping of Data During Browsing

Talk given at the Access 2006 conference on October 14, 2006.

David Binkley Emerging Technology Award Presentation :: MP3 (60:58)

Dr. Stan Ruecker is an Assistant Professor of Humanities Computing in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. He is a graduate of the University of Regina (BA Hons English 1985, BSc Computer Science 1988), the University of Toronto (MA English 1989), and the University of Alberta (MDes 1999, PhD 2003). His PhD research was on the affordances of prospect for computer interfaces to large, interpretively-tagged text collections. His postdoctoral research dealt with browsing interfaces for electronic documents. His current research interests are in the areas of computer-human interfaces, text visualization, and information design.

Access 2006 :: Paul Miller - Transforming Libraries the Library 2.0 Way

Talk given at the Access 2006 conference on October 13, 2006.

MP3 (40:56)

Paul Miller, Technology Evangelist, Talis. Paul joined Talis in September 2005 from the Common Information Environment (CIE), where as Director he was instrumental in scoping policy and attracting new members such as the BBC, National Library of Scotland and English Heritage to this group of UK public sector organisations. Previously, Paul was at UKOLN where he was active in a range of cross-domain standardisation and advocacy activities spanning Government, education, libraries, museums and archives. At Talis, Paul is active in raising awareness of new trends and possibilities, as well as working to nurture a community of developers around an emerging Library 2.0 Platform. Paul has a Doctorate in Archaeology from the University of York.

Access 2006 :: Mark Jordan - Drupal Hacks for Libraries

Talk given at the Access 2006 conference on October 13, 2006.

MP3 (11:55)

Mark Jordan is head of Systems at Simon Fraser University and maintains drupaLib.

http://drupalib.interoperating.info

Access 2006 :: Anne Christensen - Library Chatbots in Electronic Reference

Talk given at the Access 2006 conference on October 13, 2006.

MP3 (25:57)

Anne Christensen is a Web Services Librarian at the State and University Library in Hamburg. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Library and Information Science from Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and is currently enrolled in the MLIS program at Humboldt University in Berlin.

Access 2006 :: Peter Binkley - Faceted Search with Solr

Talk given at the Access 2006 conference on October 13, 2006.

MP3 (9:59)

Peter Binkley is the Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian at the University of Alberta where he is currently responsible for, among other things, the Peel Prairies Portal digitization project. He has also worked at the Alberta Library as a TAL Online Developer where he was the first developer of the virtual union catalogue TAL Online. He holds an MLIS from University of Western Ontario and a Ph.D., M.A., B.A. in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto.

Access 2006 :: Annette Bailey - LibX: A Firefox Extension for Libraries

Talk given at the Access 2006 conference on October 13, 2006.

MP3 (20:20)

Annette Bailey received her MLIS degree in 2001 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Annette is the digital Assets Librarian at Virginia Tech’s University libraries. Before joing Virginia Tech, she was a research librarian at SRI International. She is the co-developer of LibX.

Dan Chudnov :: Library Geeks 006 - Access Hackfest

Originally posted by Dan Chudnov on October 17, 2006. Read also Dan's "Quick Notes from Access 2006".

Last week's Access conference provided many opportunities for an eager 'caster. If I'd slept at all I would have taken advantage of more of them. Still, I managed to turn the mic on a few times, and today's episode is the first of those.

Ross and I introduce the annual Access Hackfest preconference, and discuss some of the details of how it works. Following this are a series of Hackfesters discussing the projects they've chosen and the progress they've made, including advice to future Hackfest hosts from the current hosts and reflections from a first-time 'fester. (Hmm... maybe "'fester" isn't the best term.)

I've tried for years to communicate how well the Hackfest encapsulates everything great about the Access conference - that it's a chance to engage in a kind of librarianship we don't often get to engage in, without long-term commitments, politics, departmental rivalries. Unless you're actually there it's hard to see just how much fun it is, how much you can learn, and how refreshing (and tiring!) it can be to work so hard on something somebody else suggested and even pay for the privilege. Since you can't all be there, maybe listening to Hackfest participants tell you about it will be the next best thing to being there.