4/9/99

Notable:
Lexis/Nexis Redesigned ACADEMIC UNIVERSE August 1999 Release Preview
    Demo by Raymond Crow VP Product Development

ERIC Documents Electronically (E*Subscribe)
    Remote access to Level I ERIC documents from 1996 to present.  EDRS will do retrospective access to 1993. Cost of adding e-access is only   over fiche annual subscription.

IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services)  National Leadership Grants Program Overview.  IMLS is the Federal agency charged with "fostering leadership, innovation and a lifetime of learning by supporting museums and libraries."  In fiscal 1999, IMLS library programs were funded at $166,175,000.

Faculty Assistance in a digital environment
     Course page training:
     Web Site Development Training for TA's and Faculty (University of Michigan)
           see Virtual Resource Packet, a web site with information and links on developing course
           web sites
      Intellectual Property:
      Scholarly Communication Center at NC State provides legal guidance on copyright issues for librarians and faculty.  Staffed by attorney on library staff.

Student Assistant Training Modes:
     Credit granting Course Model (University of Albany)
     Web based Tutorial on Company Information Search Strategies (Babson College)

Harvesting Hyper space: Discovering Technological Solutions to Internet Resource Discovery and Description (Cornell University)  -- Combining web indexing utilities (harvesting software) and MARC description to create Internet resource collections.  Similar to our InfoDome resource and the CORC Project

Digital Libraries Support Distributed Education (Scholarly Communication Research Project,  VPI)

Service Surveys:
     Assessing Satisfaction and Identifying Unmet Needs (University of Iowa)

     "Through our Client's Eyes" (Focus Groups)  with the goal of describing the campus information landscape not limited to assessing library services   (Naval Postgraduate School)

4/10/99

Roundtables
NT Server Printing and User Pay for Printing (University of Wisconsin)
Moving Collection Development Online
Invited Paper:  Academic Publishing: Networks and Prices--Malcolm Getz, Vanderbilt University economist.

Cutting Edge Technology Training in Less than Cutting Edge Classrooms:  Techniques and TIps (Harvard University)
Post Your Electronic Database Statistics on the Web (University of Notre Dame)