Washington D.C. Area Information Professionals:
As the DC/SLA Click U Coordinator, I'd like to share information with you about an upcoming Click U session. Click U sessions are a great way to keep up professionally. The sessions are free to SLA members but you do need to register to attend the locally hosted session in DC. Registration information is provided below.
Here's the program description:
Program: Understanding Digital Libraries
Presenter: Michael Lesk, Professor of library and information science at Rutgers University
Program Description:
Can we get all the resources we want from a keyboard? This dream dates back to 1945, but it's now close to realization. In this seminar we will talk about what kinds of material have been digitized, what remains to be done, what the obstacles are, and what the future will hold.
Increasingly, digital libraries are moving beyond current journals. The best-known example is Google Books, but we also see vast amounts of digital imagery, video, sound, and archival manuscripts. Each poses a different technical issue, but more important are the social issues. Many of these new materials have not been through traditional abstracting or indexing processes and instead rely on hyperlinks or "tagging" by volunteers. New technology may help us with identifying images, extracting information from multimedia sources, and searching.
People use online materials in different ways; for example, they are more likely to read small amounts of text from multiple places in a book rather than go through it cover to cover. Some condemn this, some welcome it, but we can't really fight it.
Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST
Location:
LexisNexis
6th Floor
1150 18th Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20036
(Metro: Farragut West/North)
Guests must show a photo ID to the guard in the lobby.
RSVP (All Attendees Must RSVP):
Please RSVP to Marie Kaddell to reserve your seat.
Make sure to note whether or not you are a SLA member in your RSVP.
Price:
Free for DC/SLA members; $25.00 for non-DC/SLA members (payable via PayPal
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