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OPAC 2.0: Reinventing the Library Catalog
Annual Bibliographic Services Conference 2006
November 17, 2006
College of the Holy Cross, Hogan Center, Worcester, MA
| Biographies |
| Laurie Allen |
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Laurie Allen is the Social Sciences Data Librarian and liason to the Urban Studies and Criminology departments at the University of Pennsylvania Library. She has a B.A. from Bard College and an M.S.L.I.S from Simmons College. As a member of the Research & Instructional Services Department at the Van Pelt Library, she serves as chair of the PennTags Development Team where she brings experience working with students and faculty at the reference desk and in classes to the development of a social bookmarking tool. |
| Abby Blachly |
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Abby Blachly, LibraryThing's "Head (and only) Librarian," got her MS in Library and Information Science and her MA in History from Simmons College. She worked in college archives and then as a corporate indexer/cataloger. At LibraryThing, Abby's job description is "everything but the coding" (which of course, tends to mean she sometimes helps with coding too). |
| Gregory Crane |
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Gregory Crane's interests are twofold. On the one hand, he has published on a wide range of ancient Greek authors (including articles on Greek drama and Hellenistic poetry and a book on the Odyssey). Much of his recent energy has been devoted to Thucydides; his book The Blinded Eye: Thucydides and the New Written Word appeared from Rowman and Littlefield in 1996; his second Thucydides book (The Ancient Simplicity: Thucydides and the Limits of Political Realism) was published by the University of California Press in 1998. He is currently conducting preliminary research for a planned book on Cicero.
At the same time, he has a long-standing interest in the relationship between the humanities and rapidly developing digital technology. He began this side of his work as a graduate student at Harvard when the Classics Department purchased its first TLG authors on magnetic tape in the summer of 1982. He developed a Unix-based full text retrieval system for the TLG that was widely used in North America and Europe in the middle 1980s. He also helped establish a typesetting consortium to facilitate scholarly publishing. Since 1985 he has been engaged in planning and development of the Perseus Project, which he directs as the Editor-in-Chief. Besides supervising the Perseus Project as a whole, he has been primarily responsible for the development of the morphological analysis system which provides many of the links within the Perseus database.
He is currently directing a $2,700,000 grant from the Digital Library Initiative to study general problems of digital libraries in the humanities. Current work is refining the classical collections in Perseus and establishing testbeds in other humanistic areas, ranging from ancient Egypt to nineteenth century US history. Much of his personal scholarship since 1998 has gone into expanding the Greco-Roman materials in Perseus, designing collections on such topics as London, the history of Mechanics, and the American Civil War. Each of these collections provides new insights into the implications of such new electronic tools on learning. He is particularly interested in the extent to which broadcast media such as the World Wide Web not only enhance the work of professional researchers and students in formal degree programs but create new audiences outside academia for cultural materials. His current research focuses on "computational humanities" and how this new field can help to democratize information without compromising intellectual rigor. |
| Michael Kaplan |
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Michael Kaplan is Director of Digital Products Technical Support for Ex Libris, Inc. Prior to joining Ex Libris in 2000, he was Associate Dean of Libraries and Director of Technical Services at Indiana University, Bloomington. While at Indiana he was elected Chair of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (BIBCO/CONSER) and Chair of the ALA/ALCTS Technical Services Directors of Large Academic Libraries Discussion Group (aka, ‘Big Heads’). Prior to his service at Indiana University, he was associated with Harvard University Libraries for 20+ years.
In 1997 Dr. Kaplan received the Best of LRTS award from ALCTS for his article “Technical services workstations: a review of the state of the art”, and in 1998 he received the LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for his body of his work over the previous five years that showed “outstanding achievement in communicating to educate practitioners within the library field in library and information technology.”
A frequent speaker on library topics, Dr. Kaplan was a presenter at the Library of Congress Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium, and he has addressed various NELINET or NETSL conferences (four times, if his records are correct), most recently as the keynote speaker in 2001 at the NELINET conference “Moving Beyond the Catalog: Bibliographic Access in a Web World,” where his topic was “Wherefore Bibliographic Access: The Next Stage in the Web (R)Evolution.” In 2001 Marty Joachim published “An Interview with Michael Kaplan” in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly.
Dr. Kaplan edited the 1997 monograph, Planning and Implementing Technical Services Workstations, which was published by ALA Editions, and alsoedited the 1996 ARL SPEC Kit on TSWs.
Dr. Kaplan received his Ph. D. in Classical Languages and Literatures from Harvard University in 1977. |
November 29, 2006
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