AAASS Pre-Conference Workshops

[Patricia Hswe]

AAASS Pre-conference Digital Resources Workshop

Faculty and students planning to attend the Salt Lake conference are
cordially invited to attend a Digital Resources Workshop, to be held on
Thursday morning, November 3 from 8.45 am - 12.15 pm.  Sponsored by the
AAASS Bibliography & Documentation Committee  
( http://www.library.uiuc.edu/spx/BnD/index.htm ),
the workshop will be held at the Family History Library
( http://www.familysearch.org/ ).
To offer six presentations we will need to run concurrent sessions, and the
FHL has kindly allowed us to use adjacent labs at 35 North West Temple
Street (six blocks from the conference hotels).

The program follows below.  Track 1 will focus on information access, and
will be held in the Family History Library Lab (30 spaces available).  Track
2 will focus on digital issues, and will be held in Family Search Center
West  (28 spaces available).  Registrants should indicate a track
preference, but some movement between labs should be possible.

To register, please contact the workshop coordinator, Miranda Remnek 
<mremnek at uiuc.edu>.  Preference will be given to faculty and students, but
interested librarians should also be able to attend.  Additional details
will be posted to the website 
( http://www.library.uiuc.edu/spx/BnD/index.htm#Resources ).

TRACK 1

Session A1 (9.00-10.00) Advanced Searching for Catalogs & Union lists:
Worldcat, RLIN, Karlsruhe Federated Search, etc (Hands-On).  Michael Brewer
(U. Arizona)

Session A2 (10.15-11.15) New Online Resources: New ABSEES Interface, UDB,
World News Connection/FBIS, etc. (Hands-On).  Gordon Anderson (U. Minnesota)

Session A3 (11.15-12.15) Up-to-the-minute News from Eastern Europe: New
Approaches to Media and Government Information via the Internet.  Angela
Cannon (LC)

TRACK 2

Session B1 (9.00-10.00) E-Text Resources for Scholars in the Humanities:
History Resources, FEB, etc. (Hands-On). Kevin Hawkins (U. Michigan)

Session B2 (10.15-11.15) Digital Encoding: Whats behind these E-text
Resources? (Hands-On). Andy Spencer (U. Wisconsin)

Session B3 (11.15-12.15) Academic & Digital Copyright: U.S./International
Copyright Law, Fair Use, What is in the Public Domain?, TEACH Act.  Janice
Pilch (U. Illinois)

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