Saturday, February 5 @ 8:00 am

ALL-CONFERENCE PLENARY SESSION

Roy Tennant
User Services Architect, California Digital Library.

"Only Librarians Like to Search, Everyone Else Likes to Find"
RETHINKING MARC, METASEARCHING, AND MARGINALIZATION

| Session Presentation (hyperlink)

Roy points to areas where we are failing (points of pain), solutions that may at first appear to be peculiar, and a vision of patron paradise that may never become real, but that is worth seeking nonetheless. These and related issues leave no sacred cow ungored, and no assumption unchallenged.

Roy Tennant is an award winning, internationally recognized pioneer in digital library development and Internet training. He is Manager of eScholarship Web & Services Design for the California Digital Library. He created and manages the eScholarship Web site. Prior to that he was the Digital Library Project Manager for the Library at the University of California, Berkeley. Roy writes the monthly column "Digital Libraries" for Library Journal and has been identified as one of the world's leading Internet researchers in the book Secrets of the Super Net Searchers: The Reflections and Hard-Won Wisdom of 35 of the World's Top Internet Researchers by Reva Basch. His several books include his latest, Managing the Digital Library.