Science Library Pad

Council of Federal Libraries 2005 - 13:45 - proposed School of Information Studies at University of Ottawa

13:45 Leslie Weir - proposed School of Information Studies at University of Ottawa

needs of Ottawa area libraries for trained professionals aas well as professional development

* employer-stated need for bilingual LIS and archives graduates in the National Capital Region (NCR)
* 160 library, archives and information orgs in National Capital Region (NCR)
* 8Rs Report (University of Alberta)

concerns that with retirements there won't be sufficient new trained personnel available

* 2-year or 4 semester MIS

target to open September 2007

Q: Professional development certificates?
A: Yes.

Q: Take into account students who e.g. go to McGill, how can they switch mid-stream?
A: We will take it into consideration.

Council of Federal Libraries 2005 - 11:30 - Agatha Bystram Award

11:30 Agatha Bystram Award for Leadership in Information Management

Dr. Ian Wilson presents the award
(Makes a side comment about challenges of blogging within federal regulatory environment.)

Two awards this year:
1 CISTI team receives award for Secure Document Delivery

Donna Meighan gave a brief speech accepting the award on behalf of CISTI.  CISTI team members were present.

SDD is DRMed PDFs to the desktop.  It uses the FileOpen plugin.

2 Human Resources - Homeless Individuals and Families Information System (HIFIS)

providing tools to help all the different stakeholders communicate

Additional Links (post-seminar):
You can see the complete list of Agatha Bystram nominees for 2005 and previous years.

Council of Federal Libraries 2005 - 10:40 - Steven Cohen on Blogging and RSS

10:40 Communication With Your Constituency via Blogs and RSS
Steven Cohen - PubSub - LibraryStuff

http://www.stevenmcohen.info/CFL09142005.ppt (PowerPoint)

demo of PubSub sidebar using alerts on members of parliament e.g. Prime Minister Paul Martin

be aware of what technologies are coming

Google Blog search http://blogsearch.google.com/ is out

Georgia State University Library blogs
UThink
Simple Machines

* Marketing
- stand out in the crowd
- ease of use
- best way to publish without trade publications
- finding your niche
- write everyday
- Marketing the Librarian ( http://www.liscareer.com/cohen_marketing.htm )

My commentary:
Did not discuss major issue for federal blogging which is that it appears to be impossible to do
and comply with official languages (unless you have every single posting translated).
There would also be Common Look and Feel (CLF) issues, access to information and privacy implications, etc.

Council of Federal Libraries 2005 - 09:00 - Ian Wilson on LAC

Council of Federal Libraries - Ahead of the Digital Wave: Transforming Services, Building Communities

September 14, 2005

room is packed
no wireless

09:10 opening by Mary Low (CISTI)

176 people (record)

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09:15
Mr. Ian Wilson
Collaboration and Transformation in the Public Sector
Librarian and Archivist of Canada

paraphrase "all of our problems lie in the future, all of our experience lies in the past"

LAC - a new type of knowledge-based institution of Canada,
systematically preserve the documentary heritage of Canada

documentary heritage
- properly described
- accessible (interpret and present)

"government is simply a very large information processing machine"

challenge the notion that libraries all deal with books

LAC exists to serve its mandate, not library and archiving professionals

from librarians and archivists to community of experts
change how we think about ourselves

Four Catalytic Initiatives
#1 metadata

Sept 27-28 2005 Canada Metadata Forum

#2 digital collection

Canadian Digital Information Strategy (CDIS) - discussion across government

AMICUS as common database?

#3 AMICAN: merge AMICUS and MECAN

#4 service delivery transformation

"seamless user service, ... digital delivery of content, ..."

speaker series

Also Government of Canada service transformation.
We must link up with government-wide initiatives.

concerned about the state of information management in government

proper record creation and record keeping is critical for the public service

One Strategic Outcome: Information and knowledge are effectively managed in the GoC

strategy to increase capacity of federal libraries to provide high-quality information

need to make a business case about the value of federal libraries to government

Related links (post-seminar):

• I would link to the Leaders in the Field Speaker Series, but it doesn't appear to have a web page.
• Innovations in Metadata, September 26, 2005
• GoC Information Management Portal - http://www.informationmanagement.gc.ca/

Council of Federal Libraries 2005

Tomorrow I will be at Council of Federal Libraries 2005 - Ahead of the Digital Wave: Transforming Services, Building Communities.

back

I am back from vacation.

As always, I will try to provide mostly analysis and commentary in this blog.  For raw links, check out my Furl linkblog.

As indicated on my wiki, my main current projects are

• Internet Librarian International 2005 unofficial wiki (please contribute!)
• Library Success wiki - Web Browser Extensions

The Web Browser Extensions page will be used to support the brief presentation I am giving at ILI2005.
I am planning to add more information about JavaScript and XML there as it is becoming clear to me that these are new core technologies for building interfaces to your library on the web.
I am also working on secret project which hopefully will be done by the end of the month.

In terms of conferences you can see the conference plan on my wiki, but basically here's what's coming up:

Council of Federal Libraries in Ottawa September 14, 2005 (will attend).  I'm going to tag this with the rather awkward CFLAFS2005 (the AFS part is for Annual Fall Seminar).
Internet Librarian International in London October 10-11, 2005 (will present) - for more info, see my ILI2005 category.
There will be an entire track on blogs and wikis at ILI.

In 2006 I may attend some or all of:
148th ARL in Ottawa May 16-19, 2006
CLA 2006 in Ottawa June 14-17, 2006 - for more info, see my CLA2006 category.  Presumably the web site will be http://www.cla.ca/conference/2006/index.htm, but currently only info for exhibitors is up.

Access 2006 in Ottawa October 11-14, 2006

As you can see, 2006 is going to be a library-conferenceriffic time here.