ALA Announcements

[Ann Okerson <ann.okerson@yale.edu>]

Please find 4 announcements for upcoming ALA conference programs.

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From: "Kemp, Rebecca" <kempr@uncw.edu>
To:  "liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu"
Subject: ALA 2009 Program Announcement: ALCTS Continuing 
Resources

*This message is cross-posted.*

Hello, all.  You are cordially invited to attend the following 
ALA program sponsored by the ALA ALCTS Continuing Resources 
Section College and Research Libraries Interest Group.

Promoting Best Practices For E-Serials
Time: Saturday, July 11th, 10:30am-12:00pm.
Location: Chicago Hilton, PDR 4.

Program:

1. Adam Chandler (Cornell University) -  Towards OpenURL Quality 
Metrics: Initial Findings

The OpenURL standard is a widely deployed technology to 
facilitate linking to resources across the library supply chain. 
At a typical academic library thousands of OpenURL requests are 
initiated by patrons each week. The problem is, too often these 
links do not work as expected, leaving patrons frustrated by a 
lower than desired quality of service. In this presentation I 
will share early findings from an investigation into the 
feasibility of creating industry wide metrics for evaluating and 
comparing the quality of OpenURL implementations across vendors.

2. Peter McCracken (Serials Solution) - KBART Update: A 
Discussion of the Draft Report on Knowledgebase Data Transfer

The KBART Draft Report is released and in this session it will be 
discussed what the draft KBART standard proposes, how this 
proposal would impact libraries, knowledgebase vendors, content 
providers, and especially library patrons, how organizations and 
individuals are responding to the draft standard, and what the 
next steps are in implementing as much useful change in this area 
as possible.

3. Regina Reynolds (Library of Congress): Best Practices for 
Presentation of E-Serials: Hope or Hopeless?

Many continuing resources librarians have become resigned to 
practices of aggregators and publishers that complicate or impede 
accurate and complete cataloging. "They'll never listen, they 
won't change" is a common cataloger refrain. Nonetheless, working 
together with publishers and aggregators to develop best 
practices is gaining momentum and is an activity that is often 
supported by NISO. This presentation will include examples of 
problematic current e-serials presentation practices-such as 
presenting articles originally published under earlier titles 
under the current title, or printing incorrect ISSN--and describe 
efforts to develop and promote some best practices.

Hope to see you in Chicago!

Britta Santamauro, Chair, CRS C&RL IG
Co-Director of Library Services
Chase Collegiate School
Waterbury, CT 06708
bsantamauro@chasemail.org

Rebecca Kemp, Co-Chair / Chair-elect, CRS C&RL IG
Serials Coordinator Librarian
UNC Wilmington
Wilmington, NC 28403
kempr@uncw.edu

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From: "Cynthia Hodgson" <chodgson@niso.org>
To: "Cynthia Hodgson" <chodgson@niso.org>
Subject:  NISO ALA_Programs
Reply-To: <chodgson@niso.org>

NISO will be hosting several programs at ALA, which are listed 
below. Please join us for these and stop by the NISO booth 
(#931). This announcement also includes a list of several other 
sessions at ALA that are featuring standards-related information. 
For full details, visit:

http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/ala09

NISO HOSTED SESSIONS

1) NISO/BISG Forum: The Changing Standards Landscape for Ebooks
Friday, July 10, 12:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Hyatt Regency Chicago, Columbus Hall E/F
Gold Level, East Tower

For agenda, see: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/ala09/bisg/
Free but please RSVP at www.niso.org/contact

2) NISO AVIAC Meeting
Friday, July 10, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Sheraton Chicago, Mississippi Room

Meeting of NISO's Automation Vendors Information Advisory 
Committee. This is an open meeting; no registration is required. 
Agenda topics include discussions of the future of bibliographic 
control and library systems interoperability. Library vendors are 
especially encouraged to attend.

3) NISO Update
Sunday, July 12, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
McCormick Place West 193b

Hear about 2009 planning, news from the NISO Board and emerging 
initiatives to look forward to from NISO's Architecture Committee 
and the three Topic Committees:  Business Information, Content & 
Collection Management, and Discovery to Delivery.

4) Z39.7 Standing Committee Meeting
Monday, July 13. 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Chicago Hilton, Conference Room 4G

This is an open meeting of the Standing Committee to review any 
proposed changes to ANSI/NISO Z39.7-2004: Information Services 
and Use: Metrics & statistics for libraries and information 
providers -- Data Dictionary. Visit 
http://www.niso.org/dictionary/comments/ to view previous 
comments and to add your own suggestions.

OTHER STANDARDS-RELATED SESSIONS

1) LITA/ALCTS Electronic Resources Management (ERM) Interest 
Group
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/lita/litamembership/litaigs/erm/index.cfm

Friday, July 10, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Palmer House, Chicago Room

Includes: Results of OpenURL Quality Investigation (Adam 
Chandler, Cornell University Library and Serials Solutions Open 
Source SUSHI-COUNTER Client (Tae Kim, Serials Solutions, and 
member of the NISO SUSHI maintenance committee)

2) Moving Mountains: Latest Trends in the Physical Delivery of 
Library
Materials

Sponsored by ASCLA ICAN and RUSA
Saturday, July 11, 8 a.m. - 10 a.m.
McCormick Place South, W-196a

How do you move 5, 10, or even 20 million items a year between 
libraries? A panel will present highlights from The 2008 Moving 
Mountains Symposium in Cincinnati including best practices in 
current delivery, future trends, home delivery, automated 
material handling systems, and ways to collaborate.

3) LITA RFID Interest Group
Saturday, July 11, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Palmer House, Chicago Room

4) Accentuating the "e-": Electronic resources in the public 
catalog
ALCTS Catalog Form and Function Interest Group
Saturday, 11 July, 10:30-12:00 a.m.
Chicago Hilton: Continental C

Libraries are increasingly looking for ways to draw attention to 
their growing local and consortial investments in e-resources by 
flagging these titles in the catalog, adding URLs to print and 
e-versions, adding search filters or facets for "Online", 
"Internet", "e-book", and "e-journal" offerings, creating 
external lists, RSS feeds, and so on. We will look at some of 
these methods and see if they are really serving the need they 
were intended to serve.

5) LITA Standards Interest Group
Saturday, July 11, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Palmer House, Chicago Room
Includes a presentation from Clinton Chamberlain, on NISO's 
Shared

E-Resource Understanding (SERU) Recommended Practice and a 
Standards Update from NISO's Managing Director, Todd Carpenter.

6) ALCTS CRS Holdings Information Update Forum: The changing 
landscape of
serials holdings information
Saturday, July 11
3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Hilton, Continental B

Among other presentations, this forum will showcase a successful 
implementation of ONIX Serials Online Holdings (SOH) version 1.1 
which provides a level of holdings detail comparable to the MARC 
holdings standard.

7) ASCLA ICANS Physical Delivery Discussion Group
Sunday, July 12
8:00 am - 10:00 am
Chicago Hilton, Conference Room 4C

8) LITA Next Generation Catalog Interest Group Meeting: 
Post-Integrated
Library Systems?

The Open Library Environment (OLE) and the Unified Resource 
Management (URM) Projects
Monday, July 13. 3:30 - 5:30 pm
Palmer House, Chicago Room
Presentations and discussion about two projects that are on the 
cutting-edge of "redefining"  the ILS.

Cynthia Hodgson
NISO Technical Editor Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
Email: chodgson@niso.org
Phone: 301-654-2512

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From: "Andrea Imre" <aimre@lib.siu.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Subject: ALA annual program: Collecting for Digital Repositories: 
New Ways to Disseminate and Share Information

Dear colleagues,

You are cordially invited to attend this program at the 2009 ALA 
Annual Conference in Chicago:

Collecting for Digital Repositories: New Ways to Disseminate and 
Share Information

Date: Sunday, July 12th
Time: 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Location: Room W-190b, McCormick Place West

Three presenters will discuss collection development and 
management issues for three types of digital repository (i.e., 
institutional, disciplinary, and data repositories).  They will 
focus on selection criteria, content recruitment, and the role of 
digital repositories in scholarly communication.

The presenters are:

Paul Royster, U. of Nebraska-Lincoln (presenter for institutional 
repository)
Dianne McCutcheon, National Library of Medicine (presenter for 
PubMed Central)
Sayeed Choudhury, Johns Hopkins U. (presenter for data 
repository)

Raym Crow from SPARC will be the moderator.

This program is co-sponsored by ALCTS CMDS Collection Development 
and Electronic Resources Committee, ACRL Scholarly Communication 
Committee, and ACRL EBSS E-Resources in Communication Studies 
Committee.  It is funded in part by a generous donation from 
ARTstor.

Adrian K. Ho
Chair
Collection Development and Electronic Resources Committee
CMDS, Association for Library Collections and Technical Services
Scholarly Communication Librarian
The University of Western Ontario
(519) 661-2111 x87832
adrian.ho@uwo.ca
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From: Xan Arch <xanadu@stanford.edu>
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: ALA 2009: Ultimate Debate

*apologies for cross-posting*

For the fourth straight year, the "Ultimate Debate" returns to 
ALA for another smackdown!  You've seen the drama before, but 
with four new faces with one crazy new topic.....watch out 
Chicago!

The title for this year's debate is "Has Library 2.0 fulfilled 
its promise?"

Our speakers will be Meredith Farkas, David King, Michael Porter, 
and Cindi
Trainor.

Roy Tennant will return as moderator.

WHEN: Monday, July 13th from 1:30 - 3:00pm
WHERE: McCormick Place West W-181

This event is brought to you by LITA's Internet Resources and 
Services Interest Group (IRSIG).  For more information about the 
program and about the interest group, please  see the LITA wiki 
at: 
http://wikis.ala.org/lita/index.php/Internet_Resources_and_Services_IG

IRSIG's Annual meeting will be held Sunday, July 12, 10:30 - 
noon, at the  Palmer House, Ashland Room.

After our short business meeting, we will be discussing online 
subject guides - uses, misuses, good technologies and bad ones. 
All are welcome to attend.

Xan Arch
Co-chair, Internet Resources and Services Interest Group

Electronic Resources and Technology Librarian
Acquisitions Department
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, CA  94305-6004

Phone: 650-725-1122, Fax: 650-723-4775
Email:xanadu@stanford.

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