Scholars Portal Day 2011

8:30 AM

Coffee, Breakfast, and Registration

9:00 AM

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Margaret Haines, Chair, Scholars Portal Operations and Development Committee

Recording 1

9:15 AM

Keynote: Next-Generation Discovery and User-Centred Design

David Lindahl, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Executive Director of the eXtensible Catalog Organization (XCO)

10:15 AM

Coffee break

10:45 AM

Scholars Portal Update part 1:
Teaching, Learning, & Research Support
Member Services
Communication
Q&A

Alan Darnell, Jacqueline Whyte Appleby, Charlotte Innerd, Dana Thomas, Bartek Kawula, Amy Greenberg

Recording 2

12:00 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM

Scholars Portal Update part 2:
Content Services
Preservation
Q&A

Alan Darnell, Ravit David, Jacqueline Whyte Appleby, Wei Zhao, Stephen Marks

Recording 3

1:45 PM

Discovering relevant articles: the bX recommender service

Amy Greenberg, Scholars Portal Assistant Director
Dana Thomas, Scholars Portal Assessment and Evaluation Librarian
Pascal Calarco, Associate University Librarian, University of Waterloo

2:10 PM

Discovering the new SP Virtual Reference service, Ask A Librarian

Klara Maidenberg, Scholars Portal Virtual Reference Service Librarian
Rachel Palmieri, Ask A Librarian intern

2:40 PM

Break

3:00 PM

Discovering the new SP GeoPortal

Leanne Hindmarch, Scholars Portal Data & Geospatial Librarian

Recording 4

3:30 PM

Scholars Portal Future Directions and Closing Remarks

Alan Darnell, Scholars Portal Director

4:00 PM

End