PAN-European Exploitation of the Results of the Libraries Programme - EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin EXPLOIT 1 Special User Groups

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 2 Special User Groups Overview Type of Service Technology Kind of Media Content and Subject User Community Scale of System Demonstrators and Prototypes

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 3 Special User Groups Type of Service (1) IT-based services for Children –Multimedia library information system –Multimedial offers - Virtual children´s library - Website for European schoolchildren –Improvement of information skills/ information seeking skills

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 4 Special User Groups Type of Service (2) IT-based services for Young adults –Improvement of information seeking skills of young adults Elderly people

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 5 Special User Groups Type of Service (3) VERITY Virtual Librarian

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 6 Special User Groups Type of Service (4) VERITY Virtual Librarian

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 7 Special User Groups Type of Service (5) VERITY Virtual Librarian

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 8 Special User Groups Type of Service (6) IT-based services for Blind or visually disabled people –Access to catalogues –Access to and digital text-documents –Access to Braille music in digital form

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 9 Special User Groups Type of Service (7) TESTLAB Workstation

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 10 Special User Groups Technology (1) Access / search and retrieve –Integrated access to information and retrieval –Access via server gateway –Access, search and retrieve via Internet User interfaces e.g. –Graphical user interfaces –Hypertext user interfaces –Age related user interfaces

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 11 Special User Groups Technology (2) Intelligent systems Multimedia technology

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 12 Special User Groups Kind of Media Electronic catalogues Digitised texts Digitised music Multimedia presentation of information Electronic signposts to Internet sites Internet place for information and discussion

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 13 Special User Groups Content and Subject All fields of knowledge Several selected topics of children’ s or young adults’ interest Heritage and Culture Music Information seeking

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 14 Special User Groups User Community User community for developed applications e.g. Academic and research libraries Public libraries - Offers for adult users - Offers for children

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 15 Special User Groups Scale of System Scale of system –Tools –Demonstrators, prototypes –Complete systems

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 16 Special User Groups Demonstrators and Prototypes (1) VERITY CHILIAS

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 17 Special User Groups Demonstrators and Prototypes (2) HERCULE