After sharing the results of case studies, workshop leaders facilitate an interactive session examining KM projects and ideas. Our experienced and entertaining presenters cover the essential technologies and processes for creating digital libraries and dealing with large amounts of content in many different formats. They include the planning and management involved, as well as specific technologies available now and in the not too distant future for storing, organizing, scanning, production imaging, rights management, advanced searching, and archiving of a variety of media. Workshop leaders provide checklists of do s and don ts, case studies, and share real world experience from the trenches. Thesaurus management deals with the core concern of content developers and disseminators how quickly to convey meaning of a record or document so that it can be found precisely and accurately.
Ambiguity is the ever-present enemy of clarity.
As designers and developers of databases for over 20 years, our presenters discuss techniques for building and managing vocabularies and define the various types of word control, including rules for distinguishing among different word control formats. The challenge of external content budgets, as well as the number of users of that content in many different types of organizations, demands a realignment of traditional library content acquisition strategies. In this half-day workshop, participants will discuss those strategies and improve skills to be more effective content managers. The steep increase in availability and use of materials in electronic format raises a new spectrum of questions about the role of document delivery. This half-day workshop explores whether interlibrary loan and document delivery services have a place in library services.