Today's Topics: 1. ALA ANNUAL: ALCTS Publisher Library Vendor Relations Panel Monday June 29th 8:30-10 a.m. Convention Center 125 N (Elaine Franco) 2. LRRT Mentorship Program: Applications Closing Soon! (due June 10, 2015) (Elaine Franco) 3. ALCTS CaMMS Heads of Cataloging IG 2015 Annual Meeting (Elaine Franco)
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 The ALCTS Publisher Vendor Library Relations Interest Group invites you all to attend the popular Monday morning session at ALA. PVLR brings you topics that interest librarians, publishers and vendors. This ALA Annual session is no exception. The topic for annual is book metadata ... its creation, distribution or dissemination and use, but ultimately its optimal discoverability. The panel will be held Monday June 29th . Time and place are below: 8:30am - 10:00am Publisher/Vendor/Library Relations Interest Group<http://alaac15.ala.org/node/29218> Discussion/Interest group<http://alaac15.ala.org/sessions/all?meettype_tid=5> Moscone Convention Center<http://alaac15.ala.org/node/28558> 125 (N) Book metadata will be discussed from a variety of perspectives. The PVLR co-chairs were approached by publishers who wanted to know more on how to provide metadata to any prospective distributor or user. That could include vendors, utilities and libraries with the goal, as expected, to enhance discoverability whether from an OPAC, a vendor database or discovery layer or from a utility or wherever the publisher needs it discovered! This panel will include perspectives on book metadata creation, distribution, use and partnerships from a publisher perspective (Noah Levin from Springer), a librarian speaking about local practice (MJ Han, a metadata librarian from UIUC) and Suzanne Kemperman from OCLC who will talk about metadata partnerships for WorldCat discoverability. Then the Library of Congress with Karl Debus-Lopez and Camilla Williams will review LC's CIP for ebooks and using contributed publisher metadata via ONIX. One of the great things about PVLR is the insight gained from hearing about a tool or service from a different perspective and this is shaping up to do just that. Please mark your calendar and hope to see you there. Lynn Wiley PVLR CO-chair with Bob Nardini and John Reese ------------------------------- Message: 2 Thinking about or starting to work on a library-related research project? Could you use some help from an experienced scholar? Consider the Library Research Round Table (LRRT) Mentorship Program! Whatever your topic, your LRRT mentor will offer support and advice while you develop skills like creating research designs, conducting surveys, collecting and analyzing data, writing your paper and disseminating the results to both the research and practitioner library communities. Interested? You can learn more about the criteria for mentees, details about the mentors plus information about the LRRT Mentorship Program Forums at ALA Annual 2015 and 2016 on the LRRT Initiatives webpage: http://www.ala.org/lrrt/initiatives The introductory LRRT Mentorship Program Discussion Forum will be held at the ALA Annual Conference on Saturday, June 27, 2015 from 1:00pm - 2:30pm. If you are interested in becoming a mentee in the LRRT Program, please complete the mentee application by June 10, 2015 (application available here: http://goo.gl/forms/F1OJd6TWNj), and an LRRT Mentorship Program Committee member will contact you in June. Questions about the LRRT Mentorship Program? Contact Stephanie Alexander, LRRT Mentorship Program Subcommittee chair at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected] >. LRRT-MEM is the official discussion listserv of the ALA Library Research Round Table. The list's address is [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. When posting messages to this discussion list, please be sure they are sent from the email address recorded in your member profile. Messages intended for distribution to everyone on the discussion list should be sent to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. When responding to an individual please reply to that individual in order to reduce unnecessary email traffic for others on the discussion list. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Heads of Cataloging Interest Group ALA Annual 2015 Monday, June 29 8:30 AM ? 10:00 AM Moscone Convention Center 2010(W) Add this event to your schedule: http://alaac15.ala.org/node/2919 The ALCTS Heads of Cataloging Interest Group invites you to join our two great panelists in San Francisco. We will be discussing one of the most important issues facing technical services today, namely, whether and how to migrate to a next-generation ILS, or what Marshal Breeding has called "Library Services Platforms" [1]. How are critical licensing decisions made? What kind of advance planning and analysis is required? What advice can be given to those of us yet to take the plunge? The stakes are high as we consider options for in-house development, cloud-hosting, and software-as-a-service (SaaS), which in turn affect decisions on organizational structure, professional development, and staff recruitment. Below are presentation abstracts and biographical sketches for our two speakers. Beth Picknally Camden (Director of Information Processing, University of Pennsylvania Libraries) The Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE) is an extensible service-driven library management system designed by and for academic and research libraries for managing and delivering intellectual information. Our strengths include our ability to work collaboratively within the OLE community to prioritize and build a robust library management solution [2]. How and why do libraries choose a community/open-source software solution? This presentation will focus on the path that the University of Pennsylvania Libraries took in joining the OLE community and Penn?s plans for implementation. It will also look at other types of institutions which joined the OLE partnership, and ways that interested individuals and organizations can explore OLE. Speaker?s Bio: Since 2005, Beth Picknally Camden has been the Patricia and Bernard Goldstein Director of Information Processing, responsible for technical services at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Previously, she held positions at University of Virginia and University of Notre Dame. Beth holds a MS in Library Science from the Catholic University of America and a BA in English from the University of Notre Dame. She is actively involved in professional organizations including the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). She is immediate Past Chair of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Policy Committee (PoCo) and Vice Chair/Chair Elect of the Kuali OLE Functional Council. For additional information: http://bpcamden.wordpress.com/ Joseph Kiegel (Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services at the University of Washington Libraries, Seattle) This presentation describes the Orbis Cascade Alliance?s migration from 37 separate systems to the consortial version of Ex Libris? Alma cloud-based library system. It covers the RFP process and implementation timeline, as well as how the Alliance organized for implementation and training. Technical challenges are reviewed. It concludes with a description of how the Alliance has organized for the post-migration period. Libraries contemplating a large-scale consortial migration to a proprietary ILS will learn some of the challenges and the options chosen by the Alliance. Speaker?s Bio Joseph Kiegel is Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services at the University of Washington Libraries in Seattle. Beginning his career as a cataloger, he has held supervisory positions in cataloging and monographic acquisitions for 30 years. He has participated in three system migrations and two major upgrades. He was a member of both the Cataloging Working Group and the Acquisitions Working Group of the Orbis Cascade Alliance Shared ILS Implementation Team for two years during Alma migration. He has an MLIS and an MA in Russian from the University of Iowa. These presentations will be followed by Q&As and discussion. We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco! Daniel Lovins Co-Chair, ALCTS CaMMS HoC [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Jee Davis Co-Chair, ALCTS CaMMS HoC [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [1] http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/9922/FE_Grant_Future_Libr ary_Systems_%20isqv24no4.pdf [2] https://www.kuali.org/ole -- Daniel Lovins Head of Knowledge Access, Design & Development Knowledge Access & Resource Management Services New York University, Division of Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor (311) New York, NY 10003-7112 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 212-998-2489 -------------- next part -------------- End of Tsig Digest, Vol 38, Issue 9 ***********************************
