Jay Jordan
President and CEO
OCLC
Dublin , Ohio, USA
Jay Jordan became the fourth president in OCLC's 38-year
history in May 1998. He came to OCLC after a 24-year career
with Information Handling Services, an international
publisher of databases, where he held a series of key
positions in top management, including president of IHS
Engineering.Mr. Jordan graduated from Colgate University in
1965 with a B.A. in English literature and served as a U.S.
Army officer in Germany. He has spent more than seven years
living and working outside the United States.Mr. Jordan is
active in professional organizations, including the
American Library Association and the Special Libraries
Association. He is a Fellow of the Standards Engineering
Society.Under Mr. Jordan’s leadership, OCLC has built a new
technological platform, introduced new services, created a
library advocacy program, and introduced new initiatives to
make library holdings and libraries more visible on the
open Web. The number of participating institutions outside
the U.S. has increased from 3,200 in 64 countries to more
than 11,000 in 110 countries.
Keynote 2: New and Emerging Information and Communication Technologies: Implications for Teacher-Librarians and School Libraries PPT mp3
Ken
Haycock
Professor
and Director
School of Library and Information Science
San Jose State University
San José,California,USA
Ken Haycock was born in 1948 and attended school in Hamilton and London where he obtained his B.A. in political science from the University of Western Ontario in 1968 and Dip.Ed. in 1969Ken Haycock’s areas of special interest and accomplishments are education for library and information studies, organizational leadership and development, including board governance, implementation of change and staff development, and teacher-librarianship. He has held research grants recently for the study of the characteristics of directors of large urban public libraries and branch managers, staff development, and the impact and effectiveness of the teacher-librarian. He has a passion of turning research into practice and thus works with graduate students to identify guiding principles for effective practice based on tertiary reviews of research; recent examples include the instructional effectiveness of the academic librarian, public library effectiveness, the instructional effectiveness of the school librarian, youth services in public libraries and staff development.Dr. Haycock presents papers and leads workshops at innumerable conferences of educators, librarians and trustees, particularly in the areas of leadership, quality management, advocacy, organizational effectiveness, translating research into practice and collaborative planning for information literacy.His teaching interests include management and leadership, orientation and training, instructional partnerships, issues in special librarianship and marketing.
Keynote 3: About Teachers’ Personal Knowledge Management and the Use of Global Digital Learning Objects Repositories PPT mp3
Mei-Mei Wu
Professor
Graduate Institute of Library and Information Studies,
National Taiwan Normal University
Taipei , Taiwan , ROC
Mei-Mei Wu is a Professor of the Graduate Institute of Library & Information Studies at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. She took a research leave as Visiting Scholar at Rutgers University and University College of Boras, Sweden from December 2006 to June 2007. She received her MLIS and Ph.D. in School of Communication, Information and Library Studies from Rutgers University. Her Doctoral Dissertation was Information Interaction Dialogue: a Study of Patron Elicitation in the Information Retrieval Interaction. Her major research interest is the relationship between information use and people’s changes in cognitive state. Her research projects involve in Building and Evaluation of Digital Learning Objects Repositories, Instructional Design in the Online Teaching Environment, Training Online Tutors and Facilitators, Teacher’s Personal Knowledge Management, Chinese Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation, and Information Resources for the Self-Paced Learners. She teaches Information Psychology and Research Methods, and applies Moodle, WebCT, JoinNet to facilitate her teaching. Her research publications appear in both Chinese and English, in monographs, JASIS&T, IP&M, as well as book chapters and conference papers. She has organized numerous international conferences and chaired multiple sessions/tracks in recognized conferences. Professor Wu also serves as a referee, research reviewer for national and international scientific journals and conference papers. Her web site is: http://mwu.glis.ntnu.edu.tw/blog