Thursday 27 July 2006, NUI, Galway, 0930-1645

This seminar addresses a range of issues directly and indirectly associated with e-resources provision by libraries, with presentations by library and academic staff.

Programme

0930 Welcome and introduction

0940 The CONUL national survey of researchers: implications for online information provision (John Cox, NUI, Galway)

1000 IReL: challenges and opportunities for libraries (Arlene Healy, Trinity College Dublin)

1030 An end-user’s perspective on IReL (Dr. Niall Geraghty, Chemistry Dept., NUI, Galway)

1050 Group discussion

1110 Coffee

1130 Metasearching, personalisation and more besides: an introduction to E-Knowledge, the James Hardiman Library’s Electronic Resource Portal (John Costello, NUI, Galway)

1200 Portals, A-Z, OPAC: exploring options for linking users to e-resources (Monica Crump, NUI, Galway)

1230 Group discussion

1245 Lunch

1400 I pod therefore I am: e-merging technologies for education (Brian Gillespie, Dublin Institute of Technology)

1430 Libraries and the blogosphere: blogs as communication tools for academic librarians (Josh Clark, University College Dublin)

1500 Group discussion

1515 Tea

1530 Information literacy in an evolving online information context (Niall McSweeney, NUI, Galway)

1600 Why traditional and electronic sources aren’t mutually exclusive in legal research: a user’s view (Larry Donnelly and Nora Lydon, Law Faculty, NUI, Galway)

1630 Concluding discussion/course evaluation

1645 Close