[Web4lib] "The Next Evolution in OPAC's and Search Engines" - MARS Hot Topics at ALA Midwinter

[Mark Dehmlow]

"The Next Evolution in OPAC's and Search Engines"

Sponsored by MARS Hot Topics and MARS Products and Services

Date: Saturday, January 20, 2007
Time: 10:30 am -12:30 pm
Location: Fairmont Olympic Hotel - Metropole Room

Exciting new technologies are changing the look and feel of today’s 
OPACs and search engines with visual interfaces and features that 
enhance the user experience. RUSA’s MARS Hot Topics Discussion Group has 
joined with MARS Products and Services to present a dynamic panel of 
three speakers who will discuss their experience with new OPAC 
interfaces such as Endeca, visual interfaces such as Aquabrowser, and 
what the usability implications are for these new graphic interfaces. 
Question and discussion session to follow.

Presenters include Jody Fagan Condit from James Madison University who 
will discuss usability studies with ESBCO’s implementation of Grokker, 
Tito Sierra from North Carolina State University who will discuss their 
implementation of Endeca, and David Wasserman of King County Library 
System who will discuss their experience with Aquabrowser.

Mark Dehmlow, co-chair, MARS Hot Topics
Nancy Cunningham, co-chair, MARS Hot Topics
Marina Salcedo, chair, MARS Products and Services