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OLA: User-Created Content: Is there a Role for it in the Library’s OPAC?

OLA Super Conference
Presenter: Beth Jefferson, BiblioCommons
Beth worked with Ranganathan’s five principles to frame her talk (which provided great context, but I only got notes on four of them! Bad, bad conblogger). She also worked in some examples of work that’s being done on the Oakville Public Library’s website redesign (which is not live [...]


OLA: Connections, not Categories: Applying Social Networking Concepts to Information Organization

OLA Super Conference
Presenter: M.J. D’Elia, University of Guelph
Session focus:
- to provide a broader pic of information organization
- what’s going on in the non-library world & what we can appropriate for our own uses
- where we need to go in the future
- blogs, wikis, etc. and libraries – fad or future?
- three main ways to [...]