Kilgour lecture – afternoon session – Jay Jordan

mitcheet — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:38:13 +0000

Jordan provided an overview of OCLC & the library/information industry. He mentioned Worldcat.org (84 million records in woldcat 1.x million holdings, talks clickthroughs – 67M in 2005, 85M in 2006). Jordan observes that Worldcat is about driving user back to library through access links. He reports on upcoming features – more content (articlefirst, gpo, eric, medlilne), powerful searching, citation management, resolution. He talked briefly about piloting a direct to user multi-library ILL service in Montana (12 public libraries), integrated Circulation, ILL and direct delivery.

Jordan talked about Worldcat Identities (http://orlabs.oclc.org/Identities/), a new service which shows author profiles.

Quotes Fred Kilgour – “librarians will move out of the bibliographically infested back halls in to the user infested front halls where it will be necessary to provide new principles, standards, work skills, and new job descriptions and titles”

Fred Kilgour Symposium – Michael Tiemann keynote

mitcheet — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:35:52 +0000

Michael Tiemann spoke as the keynote lecture during the 2007 Kilgour Symposium. He covered topics on open source sustainability and development principles and looked at how these forces work in industrial, educational, economic, and scholarship environments. Pointing to initiatives like Creative Commons, Open courseware systems, and what an ‘ownership society’ means in contrast to an ‘intellectual property controlled society.’ Some interesting citations – “The generous man“, Game theory & open source development sustainability, Open source enables ‘long tail’ development.

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Kilgour lecture – afternoon session – Jay Jordan

Fred Kilgour Symposium – Michael Tiemann keynote