ICWI 2005: Conference Tutorial #2

An overview is presented of some methods that managers of information
centres can apply to offer access to classical documents and services on
the one hand, as well as Internet and WWW-based documents and services on
the other hand. Furthermore, instead of making a clear distinction between
classical and digital, the aim should be a seamless integration of both
types in a user-friendly, so-called hybrid library, because users are in
general less interested in the technicalities of information carriers and
systems, and more in the contents of the information sources. This can be
illustrated by the efforts and progress made and by the priorities set in
the environment of the presenter of this tutorial.
Methods, techniques and tools include the following:
--catalogues accessible through the Internet and the WWW;
--web sites of libraries or information centres;
--online authentication and authorization systems to allow or block access
to sources and services, depending on the status of the user;
--proxy servers or other methods to support access to fee-based sources and
services by legitimate users that are active outside of the organisation's
computer network;
--federated searching systems = meta-searching systems, that allow
searching through several databases in one search action;
--context-sensitive (hyper)link resolvers that are based on a knowledgebase
about the sources and services that can be offered by the organisation,
based on OpenURL, that can offer the most relevant links from a particular
starting point, for instance to bring the user from a brief but interesting
bibliographic description of a journal article to the full-text.

Paul NIEUWENHUYSEN

Doctoraat (Science, physics) (= PhD) Grootste onderscheiding, 1979

Geaggregeerde voor het Hoger Onderwijs, 1983 (= Belgian postdoctoral degree)

Speciale Licentie Documentatie- en Bibliotheekwetenschap, 1986 (= Master Information Science)

1983-... : Faculty member, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (V.U.B.), now as "Hoogleraar" (Professor)

1982-'83: Project leader, Research and Development, Safinco.

1974-'82: Research scientist, Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen, now part of the Universiteit Antwerpen.

Board member of the

-- section Scientific Documentary Information of the Flemish library, archive, and documentation society;

-- inter-university post-graduate study programme in Information and Library Science,

organised at the University of Antwerp.

Editorial board member of

-- Bibliotheek- & Archiefgids (journal) and Bibliotheekkunde (series) [Belgium]

-- Informatie Professional (monthly journal) [The Netherlands]

-- LIBRES (electronic network journal) [International]

Author or co-author of more than 100 publications, including more than 30 refereed papers in international scientific/technical journals, and 2 dissertations.

Promoter of a VlIR - International University Cooperation development project with Sokoine University for Agriculture (the Sokoine National Agricultural Library), in Morogoro, Tanzania, Africa.

Lecturer: courses on

-- Online information retrieval (12 contact hours)
(Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Communication Studies)

-- Technology for information systems (27 contact hours)

(inter-university GAS study programme Documentation and Library Science)

-- The information market / Information sources (27 contact hours)

(inter-university GGS specialised study programme Information and Library Science)

-- Information: retrieval, management and presentation (27 contact hours)

(1st year of the inter-university specialised study programme Ecological Marine Management)

-- Scientific reporting and didactics (Partim: computer-assisted presentations, 20 contact hours)

-- Recent Internet development for information management (27 contact hours)

(2nd year of the inter-university specialised study programme Ecological Marine Management)

Other interests: creative photography, computer graphics, music, tribal art...

More information is available online through WWW: http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/nieuwenhuysen/