Call for papers for the 34th ELAG conference, 9-11th June 2010, 
“Meeting New User Expectations”
Helsinki, Finland

The ELAG (European Library Automation Group) Conference is Europe’s premier conference for library and information management technology. The meetings aim at in depth discussions of particular library automation topics and at the promotion of informal exchange of ideas and experience. The topics covered are technical and meant for participants with an appropriate technical background.

We invite you to submit a paper on this year’s main topic “Meeting New User Expectations”. 

You will find more information about ELAG, the topic and its sub-themes below.

Information about the conference can be found at: http://elag2010.nationallibrary.fi/ .

There will be a pre-conference meeting of one day, unconference style, on “Using Solr to index your bibliographic data”. This will be held on the 8th June 2010. More information will be available later at the website mentioned above.

The paper should be submitted from http://indico.cern.ch/event/elag2010 .
Here you will also find more information about the Call for Papers.

How to submit a paper:

1) Go to http://indico.cern.ch/event/elag2010 
2) Press: login, and create your user account (if you don’t have one already).
3) Choose Call for abstracts, and then Submit a new abstract
The papers will be reviewed by the ELAG 2010 Programme Committee, http://elag2010.nationallibrary.fi/about/programme-committee/ .
The abstract submitted should not be longer than one A4 page.
The deadline is February 15th 2010.
If you have any questions concerning the Call for papers, please contact one of the co-chairs of the programme committee:
Kristin Olofsson, kristin.olofsson@kb.se    
Roy Gundersen, roy.gundersen@bibsys.no 

Meeting New User Expectations

Users’ perspective on information retrieval is largely shaped by web experiences. Accordingly libraries are feeling pressure to adapt their services in line with new user expectations. Bibliographic databases are no exception to this and users expect them to come up with the most relevant information on the first page of a search result. Thus the challenge for use is “How can we make relevance ranking work in bibliographic databases?” 

Search engines and web experiences have led users expect to get to a resource instantaneously. How do we fulfil this need when large parts of our services are still based around paper material? In a new style library catalogue, users do not expect to find just journal titles, but also expect articles within these journals to be found. What strategies do libraries use to fulfil this wish? As well, Library catalogue records are now harvested by Google and other search engines. Are we able to expose our meta-data to these engines for useful re use and cross referencing? Are we able to expose the richness of our bibliographic databases to the web using semantic web technologies like linked data? Are we ready for the E-book readers? What do libraries do to archive our E-memory? Are our new discovery interfaces understood by our users? Do we know our users? 

Sub themes of the conference 

These can be found here: http://elag2010.nationallibrary.fi/conference/sub-themes/ 

About ELAG
Further information can be found here: http://elag2010.nationallibrary.fi/about/elag/