MINNESOTA
IUG Spring Meeting 2004
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PROGRAM SCHEDULE
REGISTRATION
9:30am-10:00am
Registration Desk in Buntrock Commons (Viking Theater)
on the campus of St. Olaf College.
-Pickup meeting materials
-Coffee/tea and cookies
10:00am-10:15am
GENERAL SESSION
10:15am-11:30am
Presenter:
Life in technical services sure has changed in the past ten years. Powerful integrated systems, electronic ordering and claiming, and collection and management of electronic resources have all contributed to change how technical services does business. Has your technical services workflow changed with the times? Linda will share her thoughts on designing a workflow to fit today's reality.
2:15pm-3:00pm
Presenter: David Lesniaski, Collection Development Librarian, St. Olaf College.
Within our Innovative Library Systems is a wealth of data including usage and holdings information. In this session, David will explore the processes that can be used for extracting data from the system and importing it in to other programs where it can be more easily manipulated, used for other purposes or made more presentable.
BREAK
3:00pm - 3:15pm
ISSUES FORUMS
Issue forums are an opportunity for staff interested in the specific topics to sit down with others from Innovative libraries to share experiences, ideas, strategies, and information and to get questions answered.
3:15pm-4:00pm
Forum A: Bindery management procedures
Discussion leader: Dani Roach, Library Specialist in Collection Management/Serials at Macalester College's DeWitt Wallace Library.
Are you in a bind? Are you bound to share your knowledge with others? Please bring your questions, tips and helpful hints on Innovative's binding functions to this Binding Issues Forum. The discussion leader will
facilitate conversation and exchange after a brief review of Innovative's binding functions. Both Millennium and text-based questions and tips are welcomed. Please come prepared to participate and bring copies of written
procedures or any materials your colleagues may be able to make use of.
Forum B: Issues in music acquisitions
Discussion leader: Dawn Moder, Library Associate, St. Olaf College.
Acquiring
music materials for a library can present special and unique challenges.
This session provides an opportunity for people involved with music acquisitions
to get together to share ideas, strategies, and information. Possible
discussion topics include vendors available for different types of music,
uniform titles, and methods for verifying current holdings.
4:00pm-4:45pm
Forum C:
Electronic ordering
Discussion leader: Louise Merriam, Head of
Acquisitions, Minneapolis Public Library.
Innovative Interfaces provides libraries
with the opportunity to do electronic ordering with serials and book vendors.
The Innovative system allows purchasing books and serials, processing
electronic invoices, and obtaining MARC records on the Web. This
session will provide staff who do electronic ordering and those who would
like to learn more about this process an opportunity to share experiences
and get questions answered.
Forum D:
Basic MARC holdings statements
in Millennium serials
Presenter: Betsy Polakowski, Serials/Technical
Services Librarian, University of St. Thomas, Archbishop Ireland Memorial
Library.
Is your library considering whether
to change its serial holdings (library has) statements from plain text
into the MARC Holdings Format? How hard is it to learn MARC? What types
of problems will crop up? Betsy will give an basic "how to use"
the MARC Holdings Format within Millennium Serials.
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