TLA 2005 April 5-9 Austin Convention Center
Virtual Reference Services In Multilingual Environment Speaker: Yuhfen Diana Wu
TLA 2005, April 5-8, AustinY.Diana Wu WWW and Internet Users Diversity of Internet Users - 80% non-English Users More then 50% are non-English Contents U.S. Hispanics are biggest share of Spanish speakers online ( Use of Internet in Latin America projected to be 75 millions; up from 15 millions in 2000 ( d= &rel=true) d= &rel=true
TLA 2005, April 5-8, AustinY.Diana Wu Multilingual Virtual Reference Collaborations In the United States AskNow offers English and Spanish versions New York Suffolk Library in English, Spanish and Chinese Multi-national Collaborations Follow the Sun HelpDesk by London School of Economics (UK, Australia, and U.S.A.) VraagPunt at University Library K.U. Leuven of Belgium in Dutch and English Regional in Spain and Portugal
TLA 2005, April 5-8, AustinY.Diana Wu Live Reference Services in Chinese at Suffolk County Library, New York
TLA 2005, April 5-8, AustinY.Diana Wu San Jose Library Homepage Spanish Chinese Vietnamese
TLA 2005, April 5-8, AustinY.Diana Wu San Jose Library Homepage Spanish Chinese Vietnamese
TLA 2005, April 5-8, AustinY.Diana Wu Chinese Home Page by Yahoo and Google
TLA 2005, April 5-8, AustinY.Diana Wu Google Language Tools
TLA 2005, April 5-8, AustinY.Diana Wu OCLC FirstSearch in Multiple Languages
TLA 2005, April 5-8, AustinY.Diana Wu ProQuest in Multiple Languages
TLA 2005, April 5-8, AustinY.Diana Wu Approaches and Solutions for Multilingual Information Retrieval Dictionary-based Corpus-based Hybrid or Knowledge-based Human Interactions
TLA 2005, April 5-8, AustinY.Diana Wu Expectations Ease of Use for Users Outcome to be Accurate Real-time Retrieval around the Clock Cost Effectiveness for Provider
TLA 2005, April 5-8, AustinY.Diana Wu Technical Difficulties Inter-operability among diverse operating systems and applications Lack of standard in encoding Complexity and irregularity among languages
TLA 2005, April 5-8, AustinY.Diana Wu Google Language Translation
TLA 2005, April 5-8, AustinY.Diana Wu AltaVista Language Translation
TLA 2005, April 5-8, AustinY.Diana Wu Live Reference Services in Chinese at Suffolk County Library, New York
TLA 2005, April 5-8, AustinY.Diana Wu Live Reference Services in Spanish at San Jose Library via AskNow, California
TLA 2005, April 5-8, AustinY.Diana Wu Online Tutor via El Paseo Public Library, Texas
TLA 2005, April 5-8, AustinY.Diana Wu Our Challenges Challenges for Virtual Reference Services in Multilingual Environment Technical Development and Supports Staff Qualifications and Training Quality Control and Assessment Policies
TLA 2005, April 5-8, AustinY.Diana Wu Two photographs taken in Essaouira, Morocco
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