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All the papers ánd presentation of the Inforum 2007 Conference came available just yesterday in pdf. I will name some more interesting talks below. Some of them I have to look into, because I just missed them. There are relatively a large number of product pitches, but some of those are just very good to see what is happening. Presentations that I have to look into: Tools to Empower Searching – Helping Users to Find the Right Information Author: Jens Gräßler, Ovid Technologies - Wolters Kluwer Medical Research, Germany Central Search & Vivisimo. Viva Vivisimo! Author: Gareth Williams, ProQuest CSA, United Kingdom eBooks & New Products from SpringerLink Author: Frans Lettenström, Springer, Germany The Evolving Library & Information Professional – Development, Leadership and Networking for Evolving Patron Needs Author: Russell Bailey, Providence College Library, USA From The European Library to a European Digital Library Author: Jill Cousins, The European...

This is the first post of a series about my working week in Prague at Inforum 2007 . It was my intension to write a post every day, but there are two reasons I could not live up to that. First of all it was the high temperatures in the city. At arrival it was already 27 degrees Celcius and it only went up, and unfortunately the airconditioning at the hotel could only condition the air the other way around, max 6 degrees UP, not down. The second reason was the scale and intensity of the conference. All activities, presentations and social interactions were keeping me mentally and physically too occupied to just quietly sit down and concentrate. I am going list the subjects that I will post on more extensively later. The highlight of Inforum 2007 for me were: the presentation of Péter Jacsó: Trends in Professional and Academic Online Information Services Astonishing facts about the bad handling of references and metadata of Google Scholar, clustering, and federated search. his...

A little too late, but still interesting, be sure to watch the video! San Jose State University School of Library & Information Science Grand Opening Current Spring classes are entering for short visits. Summer students will use Second Life as a lab in LIBR 246 to experiment with virtual environments for teaching, service and library space building. See this video for an overview and recent developments. New developments for Spring 2007 include a design laboratory for young adult spaces, an e-portfolio exhibit and new presentation spaces.

Frank Gehry's The Fred and Ginger Dancing Building (B&W) Originally uploaded by Zut Le Flash . Next monday I will be leaving for the beautiful city Prague to attend the Inforum2007 Conference and to deliver a keynote speech on Tuesday. I am very honoured to be doing my speech after Dr. Péter Jacsó Trends in Professional and Academic Online Information Service. The 13th annual conference of INFORUM that deals with professional electronic information resources for research, development, education and business purposes will be held from May 22 to May 24, 2007 in Prague . Since 2003 the original territorial focus on the Czech Republic and Slovakia has been expanded to the other Central and Eastern European countries and it has become the main event in this field in the region. The conference is attended especially by information professionals from special and public libraries, private corporations and state agencies, IT managers, physicians, lawyers, university teachers...

It's good to see others exploring the possibilities of browser extensions, like Toolbars, as well! Just this week I spotted -doing a demo for people from the VUmc Library in Groningen- that Rob Feenstra is busy testing/developing a UBVU library Toolbar ánd that he has made some Netvibes Search Modules also. VU Library general search: and QuickSearch by discipline: the Metalib tool. Tags: library toolbar , quicksearch , netvibes , vu , ubvu , vumc , metalib , browser extension , toolbars

toolbar powered by Conduit This Toolbar provides (almost) all Search Tools to find information about Second Life, Blogs, RSS Feeds, Links, Podcasts, Video's and Images. Do you want to find out HOW Second life can be useful for EDUCATION, TEACHING, SCIENCE and RESEARCH? And you want to see examples of that? Do you want to know what is available for sale IN and OUTSIDE Second Life? Or are you looking for Auctions, Classifieds, Events, Groups, Help? Try this toolbar and keep up with what is happening in Second Life. SEE THIS SHORT DEMO! Or add the Second Life Search Module to Your Netvibes account: News about Second Life Search? Have a look at SecondLifeSearch.blogspot.com Tags: Secondlife , Second Life , Search Toolbar , search , Toolbar , Sl , SL Search , Linden , netvibes , search module , api