WHEN:  Tuesday April 30, 2013
6:30 – 7:00 p.m.  Refreshments, Sign-In & Networking
7:00 – 8:00 p.m.  Presentation and Q & A

WHERE:  OCLC, Jordan Auditorium in the Kilgour Building,
6565 Kilgour Place, Dublin, OH 43017
614-764-6000

RSVP: with Jeff Mixter at jeffmixter@gmail.com

PRESENTER:
Wes Boomgaarden, Ph.D.
is Head, Preservation & Reformatting Department, and Associate Professor, The Ohio State University Libraries, Columbus.  Wes manages preservation and digital imaging activities at Ohio State, duties which also include active roles in business continuity and disaster response.  He has served at Ohio State since 1984, and has also held prior positions at the New York Public Library, Minnesota Historical Society and Macalester College.   He has been published widely in the literature of the preservation of library and archival materials.  He was an adjunct professor in the Kent State University School of Library & Information Science from 1992 through 2011, where he taught the Preservation Management course.   Wes was the Libraries’ Project Officer for the William Oxley Thompson Library renovation from 2000 through its completion in 2009, a key part of the team that renovated the Thompson Library facility.

We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday April 30, 2013!

WHEN: Tuesday December 4, 2012
6:30 – 7:00 p.m. Refreshments, Sign-In & Networking
7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Presentation and Q & A

WHERE: OCLC, Smith Boardroom at the Conference Center,
6565 Kilgour Place, Dublin, OH 43017
614-764-6000

RSVP: with Jeff Mixter at jeffmixter@gmail.com

PRESENTER:

Mike Prasse, Ph.D.
has worked in the field of usability evaluation (today known as ‘User Experience’ or UX) for over
25 years. He received his B.A. in mathematics and psychology in 1976 from the University of
Southern California and his doctorate in experimental psychology in 1987 from The Ohio State
University. He has published numerous articles and presentations over the past 20 years, with
his latest being a comparison of the Google search results page with that of worldcat.org, using
eye-tracking data. He lives with his wife Judi and their five dogs, making his favorite hobby by
necessity studying the psychology of dogs and its application to training them!

We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday December 4, 2012!

PRESENTER: Jeffrey A. Young is a Software Architect at OCLC Research. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Ohio State University and an MLIS from Kent State University. He’s worked in software development for 30 years, 25 years at OCLC. His interest in Linked Data is focused on the intersection of domain modeling, semantic mapping, “big data”, Web architecture, application frameworks, and reality.

This program is free and open to the public. RSVP for this Free program with Jeff Mixter on our contact page

WHEN: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13th, 2012
6:30 – 7:00 p.m. Refreshments, Sign-In & Networking
7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Presentation and Q & A

WHERE: Kilgour Presentation Room at the Kilgour Building on the OCLC Campus,
Online Computer Library Center, Inc. at 6565 Kilgour Place, Dublin, OH 43017

Program: Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D., OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc., Consulting Research Scientist,will discuss results from two IMLS-funded projects describing individuals’ preferences for finding and using information sources and services and why their first choices often do not include library sources and services.

Presenter: Lynn Silipigni, Ph.D is the Co-Principal Investigator with Marie Radford of Rutgers University in an IMLS-funded grant project to study virtual reference services. Connaway is also studying the behavior patterns of college and university information seekers in a collaborative project with The Ohio State University, also funded by an IMLS grant. More info on Dr. Connaway is available at http://www.oclc.org/research/staff/connaway.htm

JUDY WAGNER of ERIC will talk about the AskERIC service from both the Clearinghouse and user viewpoints. She will provide demos of the AskERIC website and the resource bank that has been developed. Brochures will also be available.

WHERE: Kilgour Auditorium at OCLC
WHEN: Tuesday, January 15, 2002
6:30 – 7:00 – Refreshments
7:00 – 8:30 (or so) – Program

Come to this CO-ASIST program to learn about:

The background on CORC–what, why, and OCLC’s vision for its future (Sharon Bosarge, OCLC)
The public-service aspects of CORC (Susan Logan, OSU Libraries).
What kinds of resources libraries are selecting for CORC (Tschera Harkness Connell, OSU Libraries)

Tuesday, November 21st, 2000
7:00 PM refreshments
7:30 PM-9:00 PM program
OCLC–Kilgour Auditorium
Main level, Kilgour Building
6565 Frantz Road
Dublin, Ohio

Mr. Jul addressed Knowledge Management’s potential impact on libraries and information specialists.

Eric Miller presented information about RDF and metadata for networked resources.

Speaker: Stuart Weibel, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC

Dr. Weibel, one of the initiators of the Dublin Core, gave an overview of Metadata, including the philosophy behind the Dublin Core, and a quick introduction to RDF.