INTERNET LIBRARIAN CONFERENCE REPORT

摘要

The 2002 Internet Librarian Conference, "Navigating in turbulent waters", was held November 4-6, 2002 in Palm Springs, California. The conference was a mixture of leading-edge ideas, tools, expert speakers, and events focused on information professionals and Internet-related technologies. Internet Librarian 2002 featured four keynote sessions, over 100 speakers in four simultaneous tracks each day for a total of 12 different themes (Virtual services, Knowledge sharing applications, E-learning and training, Wireless Web world, Search engines, Future focus, E-resources, Web operations and opportunities, Searchers and search strategies, Intranets and portals, DRM tools and technologies, and Web design and development), and more than 20 in-depth learning events and workshops. The exhibition hall featured over 70 booths, displaying products covering all aspects of Internet technologies, including content providers, online services, software, document and Web delivery systems and search engines. It was impossible to cover everything but the following are summaries of the highlights.