SkyRiver/Library Journal webinar: Cataloging at the Crossroads

Date: Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Time: 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST

Click to register with Library Journal In the two and a half years since its introduction, use of SkyRiver has grown to some 70 installations serving several hundred libraries. SkyRiver’s bibliographic database, with its associated open data policy, has doubled in size since the utility’s launch date.

In Cataloging at the Crossroads, moderator Marshall Breeding, noted library automation expert and creator of Library Technology Guides, will review the competitive landscape for bibliographic services today. Cliff Haka, Director of the Michigan State University Libraries, will talk about the need for creative solutions to issues facing academic libraries and describe the path to choosing SkyRiver at Michigan State. Rivkah Sass, Director of Sacramento Public Library and LJ’s Librarian of the Year in 2006, will discuss the challenges facing public library systems in this era of draconian funding cutbacks and how her library has been able to cut costs, while improving staff efficiency and maintaining quality, by moving to SkyRiver. SkyRiver’s Leslie Straus will provide a brief overview of the company’s history and plans.

Follow along on Twitter at @LJEvent #ljskyriver. Can’t attend the webinar? Register anyway and be notified when an archived version of the webinar is available.

Against the Grain interview

The April 2012 issue of Against the Grain contains a lengthy interview with SkyRiver's Leslie Straus, accompanied by a biographical profile. Click here for the PDF (offsite).

MCLS is pleased to offer SkyRiver’s full range of cataloging services to MCLS members.  At a time when many libraries are suffering financially, SkyRiver has arrived.   An easy-to-use, easy-to-integrate cataloging service, SkyRiver offers savings in cataloging expenses without sacrificing cataloging quality and efficiency.

Providing access to millions of bibliographic records that have been pre-screened for quality and fullness, SkyRiver services include an easy-to-use, intuitive cataloging client for searching, editing, and adding records to the library's local catalog. Features include a powerful search engine with facets and tags, automatic record request notification, one-click downloading of bibliographic and authority file records, and shelf-ready support, including spine labels.

Best yet, SkyRiver integrates with any local library system that accepts MARC records and is fully operational in academic, public and consortium-based libraries throughout the U.S.

SkyRiver (www.theskyriver.com) is dedicated to the development and deployment of efficient, economical cataloging services for libraries.

Click here for information about SkyRiver and RDA.

Click here to view a recorded webinar featuring MCLS member libraries who use SkyRiver (password skyriver).

Click for a SkyRiver brochure