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ALA Midwinter 2007

IUG at ALA Midwinter 2007

Friday, January 19, 2007
Location : Room 616-617 at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center
Seattle, Washington


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Schedule:

2:00 pm IUG Introductions and Update -- Corey Seeman, IUG Chair 2006-2007 and Nancy Fleck, IUG Vice Chair 2006-2007
2:30 pm Innovative Interfaces, Inc. Company Update and Presentation: Betsy Graham & Dinah Sanders, Innovative Interfaces, Inc.
3:45 pm Break
4:00 pm Local Showcase of Innovative approaches to the library system management from the Pacific Northwest

Program Descriptions

IUG Introductions and Update -- Corey Seeman, IUG Chair 2006-2007 and Nancy Fleck, IUG Vice Chair 2006-2007 PowerPoint Slides
As we approach our 15th meeting, we are reflecting on the role and function of the independent ILS users group in three main areas:

  • Bringing People Together in person (annual conferences including updates to IUG 15 and announcement of IUG 2009)
  • Bringing Users Together in a virtual sense (IUG list, IUG Calendar, jobs list, IUG Clearinghouse)
  • Bringing the users and the vendor closer together (Changes to the enhancements process)
Innovative Interfaces, Inc. Company Update and Presentation: Betsy Graham & Dinah Sanders, Innovative Interfaces, Inc.
  • Company Update
  • An introduction to Encore, Innovative's new discovery platform, including a status update and previews of features our development partners are working with now (e.g. faceted search, subject tag cloud, dynamic system-generated recommendations)
  • Other Innovative Interfaces, Inc. Events at ALA Midwinter
Local Showcase of Innovative approaches to the library system management from the Pacific Northwest
  • Michaela Brenner & Tom Larsen (Portland State University) on their use of ERM to display a multi-level archival digital collection in the OPAC. PowerPoint Slides
  • Sion Romaine & Linda Pitts on the University of Washington Training Resources (available from the IUG Clearinghouse.) PowerPoint Slides
  • Terry Reese (Oregon State University) on their tool to convert Dspace (institutional repository) resources to MARC so it can be easily loaded in the library catalog. PowerPoint Slides
  • Janet Crum (Oregon Health & Science University) on "Attempting to provide one-stop shopping for electronic journal holdings." PowerPoint Slides (original presentation slides)

Last updated January 24, 2007