OpenURL and Metasearch
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OpenURL and Metasearch


The NISO workshops The Next Generation of Access: OpenURL and Metasearch have concluded and presentation materials are available. Just PowerPoint slides but they may be useful.

Conferences should be investigating alternatives to .ppt. The Texas library conference is available on CDs in MP3 format. OCLC and LC have made streaming video available for some recent presentations. Dynix has some good presentations on-line. The Maricopa Center for learning and instructions has slide/voice presentations available. I'd even be happy to see the text or handouts from the talk, slides just don't convey enough, IMHO.





- Olac Conference Handouts
The OLAC Conference organizers came up with a terrific idea, using Dropbox to store and make available the conference handouts. Find below a link to the dropbox for conference handouts. So far, we have the handouts for the FRBR workshop, the CONSER serials...

- Conference Presentations
Have you done a conference presentation lately? If so, let all that work continue to inform the library community by submitting it to the WebJunction conference page. They already have several presentations, both slides and audio, from several conferences....

- Metasearching
NISO has announced a pair of meetings The Next Generation of Access: OpenURL and Metasearch. On October 29 and 30 NISO will hold two one-day conferences to inform you about the two leading standards initiatives that promise to re-shape information access...

- Catalogs
Bernhard Eversberg has had his presentation What should catalogs do? available for quite some time. As a rule I do not point to presentations because PowerPoint slides do not contain much information. However, this presentation has links to substantial...

- Olac Conference
The presentations from the OLAC Conference Electronic and Media Cataloging for the 21st Century are now available. There is a summary for each presentation and often a link to the PowerPoint presentations or handouts. The workshops include:Creating Annotations...



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