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What do filing your tax return and the Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group 3rd Annual Meeting have in common? April 15 — the last day to register for the Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting and the last day to file your income tax return.
Register today for the Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group — April 29-30, 2008
*Registration deadline is April 15.*
Join us at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis for the third meeting of the Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group. The meeting begins at 1:30 p.m. (EDT) on Tuesday, April 29.
The program includes:
– CONTENTdm: Future Directions by Claire Cocco, CONTENTdm Product Manager
– Carpe CONTENTdm by Glee Willis, University of Nevada, Reno
– Metadata Interoperability and CONTENTdm by Amy Jackson and Myung-Ja Han, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
– Adapting CONTENTdm for a Non-Image Database by Sherrie Kline Smith, Kansas City Public Library
– Building Regional Collaborations, Art Collections in CONTENTdm, Managing Historic Maps, Web Templates and Interface Customization, Textile Collections in CONTENTdm, are among other program topics
The complete program.
Register here.
The $70 registration fee covers the cost of lunch and refreshments
during the two-day meeting. Registration is being managed by INCOLSA.
*Workshop is full*: a pre-conference is slated for Tuesday, April 29,
from 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon (EDT). From Spoken Word to Digital File:
Making Oral Histories Available in CONTENTdm is being presented by staff
from Ball State University.
A separate registration fee of $25 covers the workshop cost. Register at INCOLSA.
April 11th, 2008
OCLC Members Council met February 10-12 in Dublin, Ohio, to explore innovative ideas for new services, opportunities that global members and cultural heritage institutions bring to the collaborative, and discuss new possibilities for governance of the world’s largest library cooperative.
Under the leadership of OCLC Members Council President Sandy Yee, Dean of Libraries, Wayne State University (MLC), Council heard from a variety of speakers in plenary sessions offering ideas in library and information science innovation, and met in small groups to discuss ideas and topics of particular interest to delegates. Among the featured speakers:
Joe Branin, University Librarian, The Ohio State University, opened the General Session with a brief virtual tour of The Ohio State University Main Library, which is in the ninth year of a 10-year, $109 million renovation project.
Carol Mandel, Dean of Libraries, New York University, discussed findings of a study focused on defining a library research environment in her presentation, “Defining a 21st Century Library for Faculty and Graduate Student Research.” The study was conducted with the assistance of Katzenbach Partners, LLC (KPL) in 2006.
George Bishop, Director, Ovid-Elsie Area Schools Information Center, provided his vision of OCLC global resource sharing from the perspective of a small school library in rural Michigan.
The Members Council Executive Committee allowed time during the meeting for delegates to hear a variety of short presentations promoting innovative ideas, including:
“Libraries and Low-Cost Laptops for Learners Worldwide,” by Beth Barlow, Chief Librarian, Surrey Public Library, British Columbia (OCLC Canada)
“Pumping Up Automated Cataloging,” by Migell Acosta, Head, ILS Operations, County of Los Angeles Public Library (OCLC Western)
“Web Learning Integration and Community E-spaces for Libraries,” by Lynn Wiley, Head of Acquisitions and Coordinator for Technical Services, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Main Library (ILLINET)
February 28th, 2008
MLC has posted a job opening for an ILS Training & Support Librarian to work on the Michigan Evergreen project. For links to the complete job description and application form, go to:
http://mlcnet.org/cms/sitem.cfm/news__announcements/job_posting/
January 22nd, 2008
Please see below for press release from Emerald re: ALA Midwinter
UNITED KINGDOM, December 2007 –
Emerald Group Publishing are pleased to announce their attendance at the ALA Midwinter conference, Philadelphia, 11th – 14th January, 2008. Emerald would like to invite all visitors to join us at the official US launch of Emerald Backfiles. A project to bring to life over 100 years of management content as Emerald digitizes its archive.
The online collection of 50,000 articles from over 120 journals goes all the way back to volume one, issue one with some articles dating back to 1898. Highlights of the collection include a 1991 issue of Internet Research containing a paper from Sir Tim Berners-Lee with what is believed to be the first reference to the term ‘world wide web’.
Please visit us at booth #1938 and take part in our exciting Emerald Backfiles launch event at 3pm on Sunday 13th January where champagne and cake will be available along with the opportunity to win Apple’s latest innovation the iPod Touch.
Emerald publishes over 180 peer-reviewed titles such as Management Decision, Journal of Documentation, Leadership and Organizational Development Journal, TQM Journal and Industrial Robot.
For more information, please contact Mark Palfreeman toll-free on 1–866–901-1923, alternatively email mpalfreeman@emeraldinsight.com
December 13th, 2007
OCLC Members Council met October 21-23 in Dublin, Ohio, to discuss innovative development and delivery of services to libraries worldwide.
Under the leadership of Members Council President Sandy Yee, Dean of Libraries, Wayne State University (MLC), delegates also provided input to an ongoing governance study, passed a resolution encouraging OCLC leadership to advance delivery of eContent to libraries, and met in small groups to discuss ideas and topics of particular interest to delegates.
Among the featured speakers with links to audio files of their presentations:
* Stephen Abram, Vice President of Innovation at SirsiDynix: “Information 3.0—What’s Next?”
* Meribah Mansfield, Director, Worthington Public Library: “Innovation at Worthington Public Library”
* Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO: “OCLC President’s Report”
* Karen Calhoun, OCLC Vice President, WorldCat & Metadata Services: “WorldCat and the Future of Bibliographic Control”
* Sandy Yee, Dean of Libraries, Wayne State University, University Libraries: “Members Council President’s Report”
* Larry Alford, Dean of University Libraries, Temple University: “OCLC Board of Trustees Report”
View report.
November 19th, 2007
OCLC adopts worldwide brand identity
OCLC is uniting all offices under one name and visual brand identity to reflect a global enterprise with a unified strategy to serve libraries worldwide.
As a result, OCLC PICA, with offices in the Netherlands, Australia, France, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, will be known as OCLC. By bringing together all offices under one name and identity, libraries worldwide can benefit from OCLC membership, research and an expanded portfolio around a comprehensive set of products and services.
“As OCLC PICA and OCLC become one global organization, libraries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa can be part of the world’s leading library service and research organization, capable of achieving the critical mass necessary to create Web-scale services to meet the growing needs and expectations of today’s library users,” said Rein van Charldorp, Managing Director of what will become OCLC Europe, the Middle East & Africa.
OCLC has created global engineering and global product management divisions, with eight engineering centers across Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States that will expand OCLC’s ability to innovate and create products and services libraries need at local, regional and global levels.
OCLC has also created teams of employees from various geographic regions, and has aligned activities in three major geographic areas: the Americas; Asia Pacific; and Europe, Middle East and Africa. These organizational changes, along with the partnerships OCLC has made over the years, make possible this new strategy as one global enterprise.
View news release.
October 30th, 2007
The MLC Nominating & Leadership Development Committee seeks nominations from the membership for the following openings on the MLC Board of Directors:
Public Library Representative (one open seat)
At-large Representative (two open seats)
For details, see MLC’s News & Announcements.
August 13th, 2007
Delegates examine future of OCLC services, governance as membership broadens worldwide.
Dr. Sandy Yee, Wayne State University Libraries, is incoming Members Council President.
OCLC Members Council met May 20-22 in Dublin, Ohio, to discuss the values of the cooperative and how well the OCLC governance structure, products and services are meeting the current and future needs of its members.
Members Council also elected new leaders for the next session, and bid farewell to Phyllis Spies, a senior OCLC manager who participated in 80 Members Council meetings before her retirement this month.
At the conclusion of the meeting, OCLC Members Council President Ernie Ingles, Vice-Provost and Chief Librarian, University of Alberta, OCLC Canada, passed the gavel to Sandy Yee, Dean of Libraries, Wayne State University, who will serve as Members Council President for 2007/2008.
Loretta Parham, CEO and Library Director, Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center (Clark Atlanta University, Interdenominational Theological Center, Morehouse College, Spelman College), representing SOLINET, was elected Vice President/President-Elect.
Newly-elected delegates-at-large are:
Berndt Dugall, Direktor/Librarian,Universitat Frankfurt, Universitatsbibliothek Johanne Senckenbenberg (OCLC PICA)
Jamie LaRue, Director, Douglas County (Colorado) Libraries (BCR)
Lyn McKinney, OCLC Western, Head Librarian, Billings Public Schools, Billings Senior High School Library (OCLC Western)
Jennifer Younger, Director of University Libraries, University of Notre Dame, Edward H. Arnold Library (INCOLSA).
June 6th, 2007
Register online today for OCLC events and meetings, including a WebJunction member reception, the popular OCLC Update Breakfast and a symposium on “Is the Library Open?”
Get the latest information on OCLC services and programs at the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. More than 35 special OCLC sessions and meetings are planned.
Demonstrations at OCLC Booth #1725 will feature WorldCat.org, WorldCat Collection Analysis, contract cataloging services, NetLibrary eContent, WorldCat Resource Sharing, Connexion, virtual reference services, and digital collection and preservation services.
Join OCLC for engaging discussions, previews of new functionality and more.
May 23rd, 2007
OCLC is now offering nine eAudiobook Subject Sets:
Subject Sets Titles Price
Biography 38 $2,000
Business 19 $1,000
Children’s Fiction 28 $1,000
Classics 20 $2,000
Learning Guides 36 $1,000
Mystery & Suspense 36 $2,000
Popular Nonfiction 32 $2,000
Self-Help 17 $1,000
Young Adult Fiction 21 $1,000
Features & Benefits
- Popular subject categories of high-demand quality content
- Includes popular, classics, front-list, and best-selling titles
- Fixed number of titles per set
- No duplication of titles from Set to Set
- Available for purchase by all library types
Prices effective April 1, 2007 through June 30, 2007
Questions about pricing, purchase terms, or ordering?
Please e-mail Xan Goodman or call 800-530-9019 ext. 118
April 23rd, 2007
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