CO-ASIST

ASIS&T: Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going CO-ASIS&T Annual Meeting and Luncheon Speaker: Dr. Eugene Garfield, ASIS&T President The agenda included a brief business meeting, followed by Dr Garfield’s presentation, “ASIS&T–Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going.”

Network Security Speaker: Steve Romig, Manager, OSU Incident Response Team Mr. Romig tailored his presentation to the audience’s expressed interest in Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDS) attacks.

Knowledge Management: From Theory to Practice — Making It Up as We Go Along Speaker: Ginny Browne, Knowledge Management Administrator, Sterling Commerce Ms. Browne focused on a piece of Knowledge Management that complemented our well-attended November Knowledge Management meeting

Knowledge Management: Getting Beyond the Hype Speaker: Erik Jul, OCLC Institute Mr. Jul addressed Knowledge Management’s potential impact on libraries and information specialists.

Distance Education: Challenges and Perspectives Co-sponsored by CO-ASIS&T and NOR-ASIS&T Held at OhioLink and The Kent State University Library, linked via VTEL Panel Discussion Presenters Columbus Site Steve Acker, Ph.D. Acting Director Technology Enhanced Learning and Research Associate Professor of Journalism and Communication The Ohio State University Anne K. Abate, Ph.D. Adjunct Faculty Nova Southeastern…

The Library Channel: Development & Implementation Philosophy CO-ASIS&T Annual Meeting and Luncheon Speaker: Don Barlow, Library Channel Developer and Director of the Westerville Public Library Mr. Barlow discussed the issues associated with the development and implemenation of The Library Channel, a front end to online library and Internet resources.

ERIC: All You Have To Do Is Ask! Speaker: Judy Wagner, Associate Director ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education Ms. Wagner gave a presentation on the history, goals, and objectvies of ERIC. She also showed some of the newer aspects of ERIC, including the free ERIC search sites.

OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center Speaker: Anita Cook, Director of Library Systems, OhioLINK OhioLINK is building a reservoir of electronic full text of journal literature. This is being done by contracting directly with publishers for the rights to load full text and make it fully accessible to the OhioLINK consortium members without copyright restrictions. Currently, electronic…

Metadata for Networked Resources Speaker: Eric J. Miller, Research Scientist, OCLC Eric Miller presented information about RDF and metadata for networked resources.

Computer Access to Special Collections Speaker: Dr. Geoffrey Smith, Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts, The Ohio State University Dr. Smith discussed the cataloging decisions associated with The Charvat Collection of American Fiction leading to successful access to the material in this collection.