JIBS is pleased to announce a one day conference entitled:
“Federated Searching, what?, why? and how? : an introduction to federated
searching technology and developments:
The John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester, Wednesday
22nd November, 2006.
JIBS will host this one day conference aimed at library and information
practitioners, within the higher and further education sectors. As
electronic content and sources of information, provided by academic
libraries, become greater and vaster, the need for federated searching
technologies has increased. This conference will introduce delegates to
the concepts of federated searching (also known as meta-searching) of
library content, and will illustrate some of the current developments and
initiatives within this field. Presentations will include experiences of
implementing a federated search engine, and also the development of
bespoke federated searching for specific institutions and for a specific
sector. For those currently involved in federated searching, or even
interested parties who are new to the concept, this conference will
provide plenty of thought provoking examples of the current federated
searching climate.
Programme
10.00 Registration and Tea/coffee
10.30 Welcome and introduction
Linda Humphreys
Chair of JIBS,
University of Bath
10.40 Federated - or Metasearch: an overview
What does it do? Why does it matter?
Jenny Walker,
Xrefer (Formerly of Ex Libris) and co-chair NISO Metasearch Initiative
11.20 ELIN@Lund, a home grown, bespoke institutional Federated Search
tool
Lotte Jorgenson,
University of Lund, Sweden
12.00 Lunch
1.15 JIBS AGM
1.40 Developing Federated Searching for the FE sector
Lise Robinson, OCLC & Clare Holden, Loughborough College
2.20 The EDINA/MIMAS perspective
Andrew Bevan, EDINA
2.40 Tea/coffee
3.00 Searcher: the WebFeat-based federated search service at the
University of Edinburgh
Liz Stevenson, University of Edinburgh
3.30 Federated Searching – Why bother?
Gary Horrocks,
JIBS
4.00 Panel discussion
4.30 Close
For directions to the John Rylands University Library , please locate the
Main Library on the website:
http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/about/librarysites/main/
Places are free to JIBS members, or £50.00 plus VAT to non-JIBS members.
To book onto the conference, please complete the following details and
return to Denise Watkins by post, email or Fax:
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