08:00 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 12:30 GREG NOTESS: Digging
deeply into Google and the other Search Engines
12:30 - 13:00 FINGER LUNCH
13:00 - 16:30 Title: Current awareness
delivery options
Presenter: Genie Tyburski
Description: Electronic
current awareness services are critical for users of all types of libraries
and information services. This practical half-day workshop provides
an overview of the many options for delivering specialized current information.
Nationally known experts Price and Tyburski examine current awareness
needs and choices from start to finish, look at strategies, tools, and
resources for gathering new information, and investigate delivery technologies.
Learn about the pros and cons of initiating such services via e-mail
and Web-based newsletters, Weblogs, k-logs, and RSS/XML newsfeeds. Get
up-to-speed on the latest techniques and thinking on this crucial topic.
08:30 - 10:30 Swets
08:30 - 09:30 Title: Electronic
Subscription Management Services
Presenter: Roné Robbetze
The increasing complexity of hybrid subscriptions from various sources
necessitates tools and structures to not only simplify their management
and administration, but also access to them. Learn how Swets has approached
this situation and the resources available to you as the subscriber.
09:30 - 10:30 Title: Making the most
of DataSwetsConnect
Presenter: Philip de Kock
This session will focus on managing your active subscriptions more effectively
with Swets through utilizing this product's claiming function, subscription
information function and title information function (For your Info).
An added bonus for consolidation customers is the consolidation function
which will be demonstrated and explained.
08:30 - 10:30 Nisc
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08:30 - 10:30 Bowker and CSA
Title: Bowker bibliographic databases - an in-depth look.
Presenter: Darren Roberts
Libraries offer a wealth of knowledge, sources for every type of information,
and therefore require tools to accurately identify exactly what their
users need. Bowker is proud to offer library professionals the authoritative
and unbiased information, and time-saving workflow features, that are
only available using Bowker’s robust interfaces. Our services include
Ulrich's Resource Linker (OpenURL link resolver), Ulrichsweb, Ulrich's
Serials Analysis System and Books in Print.
10:30 - 11:00 Tea and Exhibition
Please note that sessions are running concurrently!!
11:00 - 13:00 Ebsco
Title:
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11:00 - 13:00 Springer
Title: SPRINGER AND SASLI: Accelerating Online Access in Southern
Africa
Presenter: Alan Harris
Springer (incorporating the former publishing programmes of Springer
Verlag and Kluwer Academic Publishers) cooperates with SASLI via Swets
SA with a “Walk In Consortium” offering access to 1250 Springer
e-journals. Each individual SASLI member also has the option to take
“reduced-fee” access to any of Springer’s other electronic
products, including Springer Online Journal Archives, Springer e-book
Series, Springer online e-books, Springer online e-reference works and
Zentralblatt Math. This presentation gives a ‘bird’s eye view’
of each Springer electronic product and the commercial models (available
to SASLI members) for each. Springer’s ‘Corporate’ division
will also be represented.
11:00 - 13:00 Sabinet
Title: Introducing Sabinet Law and other full-text products
Presenters: Various presenters
13:00 - 14:00 Tea
Please note that sessions are running concurrently!!
14:00 - 16:00 Ovid
Title: OVID TECHNOLOGIES' - SEARCHSOLVER: MAXIMISING YOUR LIBRARIES'
RESOURCES WITH THE SINGLE SEARCH SOLUTION
Presenter: Bianca Saporiti
Does information in your library reside in silos? Do you have to remember
multiple database search protocols and passwords? Do you send students
to the OPAC terminal to find books in the library collection but to
another computer to look for periodical articles? Perhaps there's a
third for Internet access? Are end users in your library confused about
the difference between one information source and another? Do results
from a Web search and a fee-based premium information source look totally
different? When researching a subject, can you imagine being able to
do a single search, including subscription databases, Internet search
engines, and electronic publications, instead of doing multiple searches
across different sources and deleting duplicates?
According to Donna Fryer (The March/April 2004 issue of Online), "Federated
searching aggregates multiple channels of information into a single
searchable point. This blends e-journals, subscription databases, electronic
print collections, other digital repositories, and the Internet."
Ovid in partnership with MuseGlobal now can provide all academic libraries
with SearchSolver, the service software with an easy to use front-end
federated search engine that allows users to search across databases
from different vendors, online full text journals from different publishers
and agents, and university's OPAC. The user doesn't need to know which
database offers a particular journal title or learn a search syntax
for each service. The federated search product searches the services
subscribed to by the researcher's library and returns a combined search
results list. With the scope and amount of information sources of most
academic libraries, this "one stop shopping" concept is a
very exciting development.
14:00 - 16:00 Proquest
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14:00 - 16:00 Oxford University Press
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