Who's in the Driver's Seat - You or Technology?

Location

Industry Hills Sheraton Resort & Conference Center
One Industry Hills Parkway
City of Industry, CA 91744
United States
Phone: (626) 810-4455
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Are you in the driver's seat? Would you like to learn more about the complex issues facing today's information professionals? Are you ready to have some assumptions challenged and others confirmed–and hear about how your colleagues are dealing with these issues? Here's the workshop you've been wishing for, with up-to-the-minute solutions, the first word on new research, and the opportunity to discuss these issues with leaders in the field. See you there!

Event Details
Date and Time: 
Friday, September 18, 1998 - 7:45am
Location: 
Industry Hills Sheraton Resort & Conference Center
One Industry Hills Parkway
City of Industry, CA 91744
United States
Phone: (626) 810-4455
See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps
Venue: 
http://www.asis.org/Chapters/lacasis/workshops/workshop98.html#map
Directions and Parking: 

Free Parking
Cost: ASIS Members $80.00 Non Members $90.00 Students $65.00 Retired/Unemployed $65.00

Program Information

Speaker Information: 

Eduard Hovy

Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California

Nancy O'Neill

Nancy is the Principal Librarian, Reference Services, Santa Monica Public Library, Santa Monica, CA. She is also an Adjunct Instructor with the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Science

Ken Pflueger

Ken Pflueger has a Master's Degree in Educational Technology from Arizona State University and a Master's in Library and Information Science from Western Michigan University. Currently, he is Associate Provost for Information Services at California Lutheran University, where he was responsible for the restructuring of an administrative unit which includes the traditional area of computing, library, media services and telecommunications. He has also worked at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji where he was involved in writing distance education course materials for the library and information studies degree program.

Li Hunt

Leta (Li) Hunt is member of the Information Services Division Faculty at the University of Southern California. She is currently the senior systems analyst for the Integrated Archives (IDA) Version 1.1 software development. Li was the project manager for the Information System for Los Angeles (ISLA) project and for the development of IDA Version 1.0 (Proof of Concept)software. She came to USC after five years at the University of Illinois Map and Geography Library where she was responsible for Geographic Information System (GIS) reference and development.

Jeffrey D. Smith

Jeff Smith currently holds the title of "Evangelist, Collaboration Products" at NTT MCL but still tries to devote part of his time to research on CSCW, organizational theory, and knowledge management (whatever that means). He is one of the founders of NTT MCL and lived in Japan for five years working for NTT in Tokyo prior to moving to Palo Alto.

Craig Knoblock

Craig Knoblock is a Project Leader at the Information Sciences Institute and a Research Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California. He is also on the faculty of the Integrated Media Systems Center, which is a NSF Engineering Research Center at USC. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991 and joined USC that year. His current research interests include information gathering agents, information integration, automated planning, machine learning, and knowledge discovery. For the last six years he has been working on the problem of information integration from heterogeneous data sources. He is one of the primary architects of the SIMS information mediator, which builds on work in planning, machine learning, and knowledge representation. He currently leads the Ariadne project, which is addressing the problem of integrating internet and intranet information sources.

Jody Simon

Jody Simon joined the Amgen Libraries as an Associate Manager for the Library Systems and Development group last year. After nine years in the laboratory, she accepted a position providing scientific software support and systems administration for Research. She has been a user of the library for many years and participated on cross-functional teams concerning issues related to both Research and the Library. The past year has been interesting and educational to change from a pure information consumer to the side of information provider.

Karl Geiger

Karl Geiger began working with library and information retrieval systems at the University of Southern California in 1987. While at USC he worked on numerous projects including USCInfo, the Online Chronicle of Higher Education, and ISLA. In November 1995 Karl left USC for the Amgen Libraries where he has been building AMINO (AMgen Information Online), a web-based IR and knowledge system. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, ACM, and AAAS.

Debbie Hansen

Debbie Hansen is Associate Director of San Jose State University's School of Library and Information Science. She administers the school's Southern California Campus and has helped design and implement their distance education program.

Jacqueline Lesch

Jacqueline Lesch is the SLIS Technology Administrator responsible for distributing information resources to the school's distance education students.

 

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Resource Materials
Event Materials: 

The Year 2000 clock is ticking away. The development cycle for new products is racing faster and faster–is your organization ahead of the game or just barely keeping up? Users’ expectations are skyrocketing–can you meet them? Changing technologies bring challenges and worries as well as alluring promises–and your organization is counting on you to manage it all!

Are you in the driver's seat? Would you like to learn more about the complex issues facing today's information professionals? Are you ready to have some assumptions challenged and others confirmed–and hear about how your colleagues are dealing with these issues? Here's the workshop you've been wishing for, with up-to-the-minute solutions, the first word on new research, and the opportunity to discuss these issues with leaders in the field. See you there!

New this year! Lunchtime discussions on a variety of topics from copyright to digital libraries!

What do knowledge management and information literacy mean for different populations?

Are definitions changing?

Are expectations changing?

Are we doing a good job?

High Tech Touch–unusual interfaces, new agents, advanced avatars.

See and hear about the latest research and challenges for the future

Information management policies, organizational practices, and copyright.

Hear experts' accounts of how policies, practices, and concerns about copyright affect knowledge management programs and Information Literacy goals.

Access for remote users–corporations and educational institutions take on the future.

Additional Information:

 

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