Today’s Computing Services Special Interest Section events include:
D6: Research Guides 2.0: Creating Guides that Patrons Love with Less Hassle, 8:45am – 9:45am at CCC-Room 605-607 – Live Streaming
Research guides are a favorite tool of law librarians for sharing information with patrons, but the task of creating, updating and distributing them is time-consuming. There are now a number of software solutions that aim to streamline this process and enable librarians to create user-friendly, multi-media research guides. This program will compare the commercial and open-source applications available, including the popular LibGuides product, and provide participants with tools necessary to make an informed decision for their library. Panelists will also showcase strategies for implementing these systems, and explore best practices for creating and managing research guide content.
F4: Beyond Wayback: Preserving Born-Digital Ephemera, 10:45am – 11:45am at CCC-Room 205-207
The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine provides a great service preserving web sites that many librarians have used for research. Some libraries have even implemented their own versions for archiving digital materials, but new types of internet content have changed the game. Tweets disappear from Twitter’s search within a week and a half after posting. YouTube videos can be taken down as quickly as they are posted. These new forms of digital content are often transient, with no permanent home, promise of preservation, or even plan for long-term data storage.
Richard Leiter, host of the Law Librarian Blog Talk Radio Show, will lead a panel discussion on preserving digital ephemera. Preservation experts will discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with archiving data. They will explain preservation efforts already underway, describe tools for preservation, and offer considerations when building collections of digital ephemera.
CS-SIS Roundtable Discussion on Preserving Born-Digital Ephemera, 12:00pm – 1:15pm at CCC-Room 608 – Live Streaming / Evaluation
This roundtable will continue the discussion of issues raised during session F-4: Beyond Wayback: Preserving Born-Digital Ephemera. Immediately following the session, panelists and attendees are invited to attend this group discussion of digital preservation issues. Please join hosts Jason Eiseman and Richard Leiter in what promises to be an important and engaging roundtable, discussing technologies, challenges and opportunities for digital preservation.
CS-SIS Program: Database Ownership: Myth or Reality? 4:00pm – 5:15pm at CCC-Room 107 – Live Streaming / Evaluation
For some databases, vendors advertise the option to purchase data outright so libraries “own” the content if the vendor goes out of business or the library cancels its subscription; this option is expensive but promises perpetual access to the data. Join the Barco Law Library staff as they explain the hidden costs of “owning” a database and the difficulties of storage and access when a subscription was cancelled and the vendor provided content as promised.
Blogger’s Get Together/TweetUp, 5:00pm – 6:30pm at Katie Mullen’s Irish Pub at the Downtown Sheraton (off the 16th St Mall, 2 blocks from the Convention Center) – Details / Live Streaming
Join us for the Bloggers Get Together at the AALL Annual Meeting at Denver, CO
Time: 5:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
Date: Monday, July 12th
Place: Katie Mullen’s Irish Pub – Downtown Sheraton (off the 16th Street Mall, 2 blocks from the Convention Center)
We will have a private area of the pub and access to some great food deals!
Speaker: Andrew Dye (Andrew works for Techstars in Boulder)
Karaoke with Ken, 9:30pm-?? at Armida’s, 840 Lincoln St (Meet in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency at 9:15 and take cabs to the restaurant)
Join us at the 10th Anniversary of Karaoke with Ken sponsored by the Computing Services Special Interest Section. This year’s event will be held Monday, July 12, beginning at 9:30 p.m. at Armida’s Restaurant, 840 Lincoln Street, Denver, CO. All AALL attendees are welcome!