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# Research and New Technologies Interest Group Meeting

## Agenda

## Monday, 21 May 2007

### Smith Conference Center
9:45–10:55 a.m.

Welcome and introductions | Chew Leng Beh (Chair)
Presentation and Q&A: Archives-related activities at OCLC (.pdf: 809K/16 slides.) Ricky Erway discussrf archives-related activities at OCLC. She touched on the conception and evolution of ArchiveGrid (http://www.oclc.org/archivegrid/), including how users were involved in the design process, its value to and use by researchers, and its transition into OCLC’s oversight. In addition, she described a proposed archives registry, as well as work with the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) schema (http://www.loc.gov/ead/) and the Encoded Archival Context (EAC) initiative (http://www.library.yale.edu/eac/). Ricky also highlighted an RLG-Programs pre-conference session at the August 2007 Society of American Archivists (SAA) meeting in Chicago. | Ricky Erway (Program Officer, OCLC Programs and Research)
Wrap up | Chew Leng Beh

## Tuesday, 22 May 2007

### Smith Conference Center
10:15–11:00 a.m.

Welcome and introductions | Chew Leng Beh
Presentation and Q&A: Seeking Synchronicity by studying virtual reference services (.ppt: 166K/28 slides) Lynn will report on emerging findings from an ongoing study of Virtual Reference Services, “Seeking Synchronicity: Evaluating Virtual Reference Services from User, Non-User, and Librarian Perspectives.” The co-investigator of the project is Marie L. Radford, Associate Professor, Rutgers University. This project is funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) (http://www.imls.gov/) and in-kind contributions from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (http://www.rutgers.edu/), and OCLC. Lynn’s presentation will pay particular attention to findings relating to the so-called “millennial generation” (generally considered to include those born between 1979 – 1994) and its youngest subset, the 12-18 year-old “screenagers.” An early-stage report to the IG in February 2006 prompted an active discussion, with requests for follow-up reports as the research progresses. The project Web site is available at http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/synchronicity/ . Handout: Excerpts from selected transcripts of virtual reference chat sessions (.pdf: 89K/8 pp.) | Lynn Silipigni Connaway (OCLC Consulting Research Scientist)
Wrap-up, including recap of significant issues | Chew Leng Beh, with Eric Childress (Recorder pro-tem)

Please send all inquiries to: Robert Bolander