University of Guelph Library
About Me
BA (Western Ontario), MA (Western Ontario), MLIS (Western Ontario)
In 1989, I completed a Master's degree in Political Studies with a focus on critical theory and Friedrich Nietzsche. Having worked for a while in public libraries, I decided that the Library field seemed like a good idea and enrolled in the MLIS program at Western. I worked at the Kitchener Public Library from 1990-1992.
In October 1992 I moved to the University of Guelph, taking on duties in reference as well as the departments of Political Studies and Philosophy. Since then I have moved through a number of projects and positions, setting up the first networked CD-ROM journal indexes, working on the U of G's web-site, helping to establish the Data Resource Centre, and becoming Head of Academic Liaison.
Contact Me
519-824-4120 ext. 52322
Library
E-mail:
IM:
Skype: dhorne25
Mac user on iChat, I can be found as "morecheese25", believe it or not.
Feel free to call me, but for access to me pretty much 24/7 (yes, I said that), email is the best way to find me, followed by various messengers (if you find me online ... by all means talk to me... everyone else does).
Discovery & Access Team
Works to optimize findability, accessibility, and usability of resources and seamlessly connect users with resources and services. This team is charged with continually improving the user's experience by designing and delivering dynamic user services grounded in a deep understanding of user behaviours, expectations and needs. User services include online and in-person services and point-of-need assistance. The team participates in the creation of an adaptable information network and architecture and provides tools to enable discovery and enhance user productivity.
Scholarly Activities
Conference Sessions and Presentations
Internet Drop-In Workshop for OLITA. Conducted three hour drop-in demonstrating the Internet and its value to Librarians. OLA Conference, November, 1993.
"The CD-ROM Network at the University of Guelph." Gateways to the 21 st Century. OCULA Springbreak, April, 1994.
"CD-ROM Networking at the University of Guelph" (with Parakh Dave). OUCC-IT (Ontario University and Community Colleges Information Technology) Conference, June, 1994.
Coordinated volunteers and participated in the "Cyberport Internet Demonstration for OLITA" (a two-day, 10 hour drop-in Internet demonstration). OLA Superconference, January, 1995.
As an OLITA councilor I took part in the planning of OLITA's portion of the OLA Superconference held in February of 1996. OLITA, April 1995.
Participated in a panel for Bernard Katz's session on Intellectual Property and the Internet. Participated as an expert on database provision as well as licensing of electronic information. OLA Policy Forum, November, 1995.
"Providing Access to Databases: Access vs. Ownership.". OLA Superconference, February, 1996. (available on audio-cassette from the Ontario Library Association.
Convenor "Geographical Information Systems and Libraries" (featuring Raphael Sussman from the City of Scarborough and Richard Pinnell of the University of Waterloo.) Ontario Municipal Information Systems Association Conference in conjunction with the Ontario Library and Information Technology Association, June, 1996. (This was a first attempt to have librarians and municipal information specialists get together on the subject of GIS.)
Floor manager for Cyberport — an exhibit that I was been involved with from its inception in 1994. For a number of years the Cyberport was a very successful demonstration of the latest advances in Internet-based technology for librarians in all types of libraries. OLA Superconference, February, 1997.
"Getting Data to the User: Making Data Delivery a Reality in Your Library." OLA Superconference, February, 1998.
Co-authored a paper presented by Bo Wandschneider to IASSIST Annual Conference, Yale University, May, 1998. (this meeting of the international association of social science data providers. This paper was presented along with leaders in the field of data provision, the University of Virginia and the University of California, San Diego.)
"Creating a Tri-University Data Service" OUCC (Ontario University Computing Centres) Conference, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, 1999. (presented to an audience of computing staff and directors of Computing Services Departments from all over Ontario.)
Received CAUBO Quality and Productivity regional award for the paper "Tri-University Data Resources: A Multi-institutional Collaborative Electronic Data Service." CAUBO 1999 (Canadian Association of University Business Officers), Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Quebec, June, 1999. (www.caubo.ca.)
"Statistical Information Delivery." Access 99, October 25, 1999.
Panel member fotr a presentation by Steve Cisler of Apple Computer on the topic of "The Library as a Learning Environment." Ontario Library Association Superconference, February, 2000.
ALA /CLA focus group member dealing with historical newspapers. 2003.
"Faculty Outreach." ACRL, Western New York, 2004.
"Podcasting." OLA Superconference, 2006. (Notes for this can be found here: http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/?p=152
Panel Moderator for the colloquium session "Artists and Social Responsibility." (featuring Bob Ostertag and Pierre Hebert). Guelph Jazz Festival, September 6, 2006.
"Libraries and Podcasting." New Connections to Information. Toronto Public Library, 4th Annual Information Services Conference, November 29, 2006.
Forthcoming
"Radical Trust: Why 2.0 Really Matters to Libraries." OLA, 2007.
"Emerging Technology Trends that Will be Impacting Libraries in the Next 5-10 Years." Strategic Planning Event. Health Sciences Library, University Health Network, Toronto, 2007.
Publications
"The Khaki University." Collection Update. No. 17, 1994. Guelph, Ontario: University of Guelph Library, 1994. (Appendix 2)
7quot;The Willson Woodside Collection." Collection Update. No. 16, 1993. Guelph, Ontario: University of Guelph Library, 1993. (Appendix 3)
Reviewer. College and Research Library News. (regular reviewer of World Wide Web sites. These have included reviews of The Voice of America, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Copyright and Fair Use Web sites).
Contributor. Official Publications of Foreign Countries. 1995. (Contributed half of the Canadian portion of this directory published by Congressional Information Services, and used internationally as a guide to Government Publications.)
Contributor. UKOLUG (The United Kingdom Online Users Group) Quick Guide to CD-ROM Networking. 1996. (Contributed a case study. UKOLUG is a special interest group of the Institute of Information Scientists.
"Databases: Access versus Ownership." OLA Superconference, 1996. (Available on audio tape from the Ontario Library Association.
Reviewer. Copyright and New Media Law. (Reviewer of World Wide Web sites focused on copyright issues for this Newsletter meant for legal professionals and librarians. I submitted reviews for the second issue of this publication.
"Tri-University Data Resources: A Multi-institutional Collaborative Electronic Data Service." (This paper won the CAUBO (Canadian Association of University Business Officers) Quality and Productivity Award for the Ontario Region. It is available at Http://www.caubo.ca .)
Reviewer. Government Publications Reviews. 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004. (10 reviews per year)
Proofreader. IASSIST Quarterly. (International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology). 2002 –
Contributed a 1.5 hour interview to a journalism thesis/radio documentary on improvisation in Music. Other participants included musicians and music scholars from around Ontario
"Information Seeking During Wartime: Reconsidering the Role of the Library in a Time of Increasing User Self-Sufficiency." Library Juice. Vol. 7 no. 4 (2004). Available: (http://libr.org/Juice/issues/LJ_7.22.html#4)
Links of Interest
Currently, they are all here:
I am accumulating bookmarks of interest on this site and adding metadata tags to all of them as I go. This way you can either browse the entire list (but it's getting long), or see only the links that fall under certain subjects. If a link is of particular interest, chack who else has also linked to this same article and browse their lists as well.
What's New?
I have a renewed interest in emerging communication technologies (as well as those that are quite entrenched with our users, but still new to us). As a result, I've been trying out a few new things:
- Blogs: http://blogs.uoguelph.ca/dhorne/blog
- Del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us/DouginGuelph
- Shadows (take a look): http://www.shadows.com/users/Doug_Horne
- RSS: http://del.icio.us/rss/DouginGuelph
Some of these will be familiar, some less so, but all of them are interesting (to use RSS, you will need an RSS reader or view it in Firefox).
Del.icio.us is a collaborative bookmarking tool with many useful features ... I've been enjoying it, and provide an RSS (really simple syndication) feed from it.