ALA Midwinter Discussion Forum

[bezanson <bezanson@gwu.edu>]

Although not strictly about licensing, this forum relates to database use
and may be of interest to liblicense-l participants:

ALA Midwinter 2003 Discussion Forum:
One Stop Searching: Effects on Information Literacy, Research, and the
Learning Process
Date: Sunday, January 26: 9:30 a.m. -11:00 a.m.
Location: Philadelphia Convention Center, Room 103C

The Products and Services Committee of ALA's Reference User Services
Association (RUSA) Machine Assisted Reference Section (MARS) will be
presenting a discussion Forum at ALA's Midwinter 2003 Conference on the
topic of portals and their impact on information literacy. Representatives
from Fretwell-Downing, ExLibris, and Endeavor, and a representative from
the ARL Scholars Portal Project will discuss issues such as:

1. In the development of your portal product, was enhancement of
information literacy skills a factor in the design?

2. How did you collect data and feedback for this aspect of the design?
(focus groups of students, librarians, surveys, watching students search,
etc.)

3. What aspects of your portal do you feel specifically enhance
information literacy skills?

Following brief presentations by each of the speakers, the floor will be
open for discussion.

For those interested in joining the Products & Services Committee, a
business meeting of the committee will follow the discussion forum.

Deborah Bezanson
Coordinator, Electronic Resources
Gelman Library--George Washington University
2130 H Street, NW
Washington DC 20052
bezanson@gwu.edu
(202)994-1357(v)  (202)463-6205(f)