Family Man Librarian

I may work for Endeavor but I do not intend or want to be a free cheerleader for them here. Yet I can’t resist mentioning a list of presentations planned for EndUser 2006, Endeavor’s upcoming user group conference, that are squarely in the “sweet spot” of discussions that have been going on about social software in libraries (a.k.a. Library 2.0), making library data work harder, and using the ILS in new and innovative ways:

• Ross Singer (well known as maintainer of the Dilettante’s Ball blog, frequent speaker and commentor on library/systems issues who works in library technology at Georgia Tech) will give a presentation on “Declunkifying your Z-Server: Implementing SRW/U, OpenSearch and other web services to your Voyager server”
• “Social software (instant messaging, RSS, blogs, wikis, folksonomies, social bookmarking) and libraries” will be discussed by Edward M. Corrado of The College of New Jersey, and James Robertson of NJIT (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
• Daniel Forsman of Örebro universitet will talk about “Extended features in webvoyage – forwarded searches and RSS feeds”
• Adrienne Butler from Oklahoma Dept. of Libraries is going to give a presentation on “Writing A Search Plugin for WebVoyage”
• “Mending the Gap between the Library’s Electronic [and] Print Collections Using [the] Semantic Web” will be the focus of a talk given by Amanda Xu, Andrew Sankowski, and others from St. Johns University

I am really looking forward to these and other presentations.