My name is Gerard Bierens, I'm from Eindhoven (the Netherlands), and visiting CIL for the first time. I'm working for Fontys Hogescholen (or in English; the Fontys University of Applied Sciences). My job description: not sure, but 'library (web)developer/trainer/writer' comes close. Right now I'm in the middle of a project where we hope to find the perfect federated search solution for our Fontys Library Portal. This project is one of the reasons I'm visiting CIL2007, but I'm also working on projects involving weblogs, wiki's, knowledgemanagement, repositories, screencasting and other web/library 2.0 tools.

 

Over 5 years ago I started my blog weblogzonderhaast.nl (that's Dutch, yes). Every now and then you might see a photo of one of my beautiful kids, but the main topics are libraries, education and technology. I also read a lot of librarian bloggers, some for years, I'm looking forward to meet those of you who are present at CIL. If you want to get in touch with me, have lunch, dinner, a drink during the congress just email or IM me at gerard.bierens[ at ]gmail.com.

 

My Schedule

 

Saturday

Time Details
5:00 Arriving in Washington
Dinner Dinner with Elisabeth Mantel

 

Sunday

Time Details
All day might go visit family in NJ, do the Searchers Academy preconference or check out Washington DC
Lunch with Elisabeth Mantel
Dinner with Elisabeth Mantel

 

Monday

Time Details Backup
     
9:00 - 9:45 Opening Keynote Web 2.0 & the Internet World (Lee Rainie)  
9:45 - 10:15 Coffee Break  
10:15 - 11:00 A101: Alternative & Customized Search Engines (SEs)  
11:15 - 12:00 A102: Social Search Engines C102: Building Collaboration, Communication, & Community Online
12:00 - 1:15 Lunch with Jenny Levine, David King, Elisabeth Mantel  
1:15 - 2:00 B103: Mashups, Remixing Info, & Making Data Browsable  D103: Info Life with the Fed
2:15 - 3:00 C104: Building community  
3:15 - 4:00

B105: Information Design for the New Web

 D105: Gaming & Libraries: Engaging Strategies
4:15 - 5:00 A106: Metasearch & Clustering Engines (switched to D106 after 10 min.)  D106: Gadgets, Gadgets, Gadgets!
5:00 - 7:00 Reception  
Dinner with Chad Boeninger, Jason Griffey, Jenica Rogers-Urbanek, Michelle Boule, Amanda Etches-Johnson & Elisabeth Mantel  

 

Tuesday

Time Details Backup
9:00 - 9:45 Keynote Gaming, Learning & the Information World (Elizabeth Lane Lawley)  
9:45 - 10:30 Coffee Break  
10:30 - 11:15 A201: What’s a Mashup & Why Would I Want One?  D201: Accelerated Planning
11:30 - 12:15 B202: Comments in the Catalog (Glenn Peterson) C202: Dynamic Instructional Content (Chad Boeninger)
12:15 - 1:30 Lunch with Jenica and Liesbeth (if you want to join meet us at the registration desk at 12)  
1:30 - 2:30 D203: Innovative Libraries: Best Practices & Tales from the Stacks B203: Cutting-Edge Tech Leaders
2:30 - 3:15 Coffee Break  
3:15  - 4:00 C204: Podcastig Possibilities for Library Instruction (Rachael Clemens)  D204: Easing Renovation with Web 2.0 Tools
4:15 - 5:00 D205: Guiding Libraries & Info Pros Through Change (David King) B205:Gaming and Learning
5:00 - 5:45 Reception  
7:30 - 9:00 Evening Session - The first InfoTony/InfoTubey Awards  

 

Wednesday

Time Details Backup
9:00 - 9:45  Keynote World Digital Libraries (John van Oudenaren)  
9:45 - 10:30 Coffee Break  
10:30 - 11:15 C301: Repositories & Digital Initiatives (Frank Cervone)  D301: Trends in Mobile Tools & Applications for Libraries
11:30 - 12:15 B302: Catalogs/OPACs for the Future (Roy Tennant, Tim Spalding)  A302: Keeping one Click Ahead (Gary Price)
12:15 - 1:30  No plans for lunch yet  
1:30 - 2:30 D303: Building Libraries in Virtual Worlds  A303: Searching, Finding, and the Information Professional
2:30 - 3:15 Coffee Break  
3:15 - 4:00 A304: Federated Search: State of the Art

C304: Repository Essentials (Roy Tennant)

D304: The Library of teh Future
4:15 - 5:00

A305: Book Search Engines Update

D305:Tech Freebies & Program Ideas
     
Dinner No plans for dinner yet  

 


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