Eahil Dublin 2009 Workshop

Friday 5 June 2009 11.30 - 13.00 FULL

Searching with the major search engines does not get satisfactory results in many cases, when science contents is searched for, but even searches in specialized search engines do not. However, multiple searches in several of them often will. Going back and forth, performing an identical search in various search engines is a time-taking and somewhat tedious process, where searchers wish for a better solution.

With the advent of WEB 2.0 many new techniques and customizable tools, which can be employed in Internet searches, have become available. In addition various browsers nowadays offer interfaces and add-ons which facilitate the use of search engines without having to go the respective sites. Many of these interfaces are also customizable. With the right choice and combination of the existing tools it is possible to create a personalized user interface that will serve searchers’ needs in the ways they choose. For example searches with academic search engines can be set specifically and then be executed from anywhere by means of customised toolbars, scraps, search bookmarklets, search widgets or customised search engines. Examples of the utilization of these tools, and in some cases their customizations, plus the creation of new ones will be presented. Likewise the respective configuration processes for the non-techie will be passed on in a three click (programming without programming) fashion. As a result audiences should be empowered to making their own devices and getting their search results stripped of trivia.

Friedhelm O. Rump ( Library of the University of Veterinary Medicine Foundation, Hannover, Germany) holds a diploma (1973) and a PhD (1978) in Geochemistry from Göttingen University. He undertook his library training at Göttingen University Library and Fachhochschule fuer Bibliotheks-und Dokumentationswese (1980 -1982). He has held positions at the Göttingen University Library, the Municipal Archives of Göttingen and Hohenheim University, Stuttgart. Since 1990 he has been library director at the Veterinary University of Hannover.

He has held a number of honorary positions: Chairman of the examination board for Library Assistant Trainees of Lower Saxony, Treasurer of the European Veterinary Libraries Group, Council member for the implementation of an automated library network in 7 German States, Chairman of the Council of Library Affairs to the Lower Saxonian Minister of Science and Culture, Member of the editorial board of the EVLG-Newsletter, Spokesman of the European Veterinary Libraries Group, and German representative to the council of EAHIL.