Breakout Session Ideas

Version 5 by Tom Burton-West
on Feb 11, 2006 15:30.

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		+Wednesday, February 15+

		Building a library IM bot. As suggested by Ed Vielmetti, it would be handy to provide bots that patrons can add as buddies to their AIM, MSN, or Yahoo IM accounts. Features might include:

		* catalogue searching
		* library hours
		* my account information (at least display it, and maybe renew books too?)
		* contact information for circ desks, liaison librarians etc.
		* forward a reference question to a librarian IM account

		Developing unAPI and w/unAPI

		Discuss open issues on the spec and prepare a revision for release on 2/16 (day 2 of code4lib). Also a good time to learn more about what it can do for you, and to try implementing it, too! -dchud

		Developing an Interface to the Metalib XServer (or for a new OPAC interface)
		Developing an Interface for Federated Search engines or for an OPAC interface
		How are we all facing the issue of developing a well-designed and architected interface for a federated search engine or an OPAC? What are we missing, what is necessary, what is the "killer-app"?
		Suggested By Andrew Nagy



		+Thursday, February 16+

		14:15-15:45 - The future of code4lib (Roy Tennant)

		More Lipstick on a Pig: Improving OPACs
		Share ideas for ways to improve OPACs either by hacking/adding services/integrating services with vendor supplied OPACs or by exporting the data and presenting it in a custom app.
		(Tom Burton-West)