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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/ .

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