Building Information Communities

SCOUG Looks at the Tools and Strategies Librarians Are Using

to Develop Information Infrastructures for the Organizations They Serve

SPONSORS

Program Schedule & Highlights

Exhibitors


Are you a leader — or just a cog in the institutional wheel? The "mayor" of an information community, or just another service provider? In order to succeed, today’s info pros must be leaders of many groups of end-user searchers, information communities with diverse and varied needs, skills and goals. On behalf of these communities, info pros in every field — academia, public libraries, the legal and medical professions and the corporate world — negotiate contracts for services to intranets, extranets and institutional Web sites. They evaluate interfaces. They design, oversee and administer training programs for in-house searchers. They coach searchers through individual sessions, advising them on sources and strategies. They judge the effectiveness of end-user searching. They lead discussions with end-users, sharing experiences and talking about problems. They offer on-the-job training to novice searchers in their organizations. And they take a leading role as decision-makers in all these areas.

Or they should.

SCOUG’s 2001 workshop will offer specific advice and information on how you can make the switch from the passive role of search intermediary to a proactive information professional, identifying, training, defining, uncovering, building and — most importantly — leading and directing lay searcher communities.

Learn about it all:

Presenters include SCOUG’s always eclectic and electrifying mix of professional superstars -- corporate library managers, academic librarians, Internet gurus, leading library school educators, information industry vendors, Web-based training experts -- not to mention new technologies you need to keep your eye on.

All that, and SCOUG’s own information community leader, Barbara Quint, on the podium to keep track of what’s important, what’s been overlooked and who’s got the real answers.

Program Schedule and Highlights

SCOUG Spring Workshop - May 4, 2001, Hilton Burbank Airport

Program Schedule and Highlights

Mistress of Ceremonies Latonya Jefferson, KPMG

7:30 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m. Morning keynote speaker Scott Kurnit, founder of the Mining Company, and president of its current incarnation, About, Inc., addresses the idea of communities and the role of the Internet in locating, creating, maintaining, reaching and serving them.

9:15 a.m. Vickie H. Taylor, Capital Group Research, Inc., looks at information communities in a global corporate environment

9:45 a.m. Kay Henshall, director of the Bay Area Libraries Project, talks about public libraries’ commitment to reach and serve numerous diverse communities

10:12 a.m. Coffee Break. Visit the vendor booths.

10:37 a.m. What You Need To Make It Work, Part 1 - Web Conferencing, One Technology Solution
Pavel Curtis, PlaceWare

11:05 a.m. Q and A with Barbara Quint and the morning’s speakers.

11:20 a.m. Vendor Sound Bytes

11:30 a.m. Visit the vendor booths. Lunch.

12:45 p.m. Afternoon Keynote "Making It All Work" Jose-Marie Griffiths, Ph.D.
Dr. Griffiths is Chief Information Officer of the University of Michigan, as well as professor of Information, and executive director of The University of Michigan Information Technology Division. Dr. Griffiths is a past president of the American Society of Information Scientists, a recipient of both the 1999 ASIS Award of Merit and the National Communicator Award for her video "Knowledge Communities: Technology, Tradition, & Transformation in Higher Education."

1:15 p.m. Best Practices Discussion: "Intranets - Love ‘Em, Hate ‘Em, You Still Gotta Use ‘Em — And SCOUG Will Help You Figure Out How"
Vendor/Client Intranet Panel Part 1: Factiva and Lexis/Nexis providers will give a brief overview of their companies' products.
Clients from Universal Studios and Genentech will discuss their experiences with the product in depth.
Moderator: Chris Dobson of F1 Inc., Dallas, Texas

2:15 p.m. Sweet Tooth Break, Visit the Vendor Booths

2:45 p.m. Vendor/Client Intranet Panel Part 2: Northern Light presents Allergan and Dialog presents Rockwell International
Moderator: Chris Dobson of F1 Inc., Dallas, Texas

3:45 p.m. "What You Need to Make It Work – Successful Models, Part 1"
Jean M. Heilig, Director, Research & Information, Jones International’s e-global library

4:15 p.m. "What You Need to Make It Work – Successful Models, Part 2"
Carole Leita, coordinator, Librarians’ Index to the Internet, instructor and consultant for the California State Library InFoPeople Project.

4:45 p.m. Wrap up with Barbara Quint and all the day’s participants.

5:00 p.m. Conference ends.

 

 

SPONSORS:

PLATINUM SPONSORS

Dialog Corporation

Factiva

Lexis-Nexis

Northern Light Technology, LLC

Gold Sponsors

ProQuest (BELL & HOWELL)

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