As students and researchers are increasingly broadening the horizons of their search for scholastic material, the need for metasearching continues to spill over into all areas of the academic computing environment--be it the library portal, course management systems, or subject-specific websites.

Join this webinar to gain insight to how you can:

• Provide metasearch services to your users right where they are and in the context they understand
• Provide unified search interfaces to minimize the users' learning curve and library's support requirements
• Deliver customized solutions utilizing a well-documented and fully-supported framework

Speakers

• Roy Tennant, User Services Architect, California Digital Library 
• "Using the MetaLib X-Server at the California Digital Library"
• Owner of Web4Lib and the XML4Lib electronic discussions, and the creator and editor of Current Cites, a current awareness newsletter published monthly since 1990 
• Books include Managing the Digital Library (2004), XML in Libraries (2002), Practical HTML: a Self-Paced Tutorial (1996), and Crossing the Internet Threshold: an Instructional Handbook (1993)
• Monthly column on digital libraries for Library Journal since 1997
• Recipient of 2003 LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Excellence in Communication for Continuing Education
  
• Charles Brown-Roberts, Administrative Support Coordinator, Online Curriculum Library Services, California State University, Sacramento 
• "Integrating MetaLib Functionality into Moodle Using the X-Server API"
• Member of the University Library staff since 2003
  Involved in Sacramento's Web application development
• In his "part time", also a Graduate student in the California State University, Sacramento, History Masters Program
   
• Karen Groves, MetaLib Product Manager, Ex Libris, will serve as moderator

How can you participate in the Webinar?

To participate in the webinar all you need is a networked computer with a sound card and speakers. Both audio and video will be delivered directly to your computer over the Internet.

For questions about the Webinar or registration, please email conferences@exlibrisgroup.com