IUG at ALA Midwinter 2009
Innovative Users Group
ALA Midwinter 2009
Denver, CO
Friday, January 23, 2009
2:00 - 5:00 pmview meeting agenda in pdf format for printing
2:00 Opening Remarks, IUG Overview (John Culshaw, IUG Chair, University of Colorado at Boulder) VIEW SLIDES (PDF)
2:15 Free Books! How Libraries Can Take Advantage of Open-Access, Digitized Books (Jeffrey Beall, Metadata Librarian / Assistant Professor, Auraria Library, University of Colorado Denver) VIEW SLIDES - MyIUG login required (PDF)
Mbooks are open-access, digitized books freely available on the Internet. This presentation will describe one library's experience of loading brief MARC records for Mbooks into its Millennium-based online public access catalog and will look at some of the issues that arose from the record-loading project. Despite the low quality of the records, loading them into the catalog was advantageous because of the rich content in the collection and because many of the records could be improved using the global update functionality in the online catalog. Making the records available through the catalog, as opposed to merely linking to the entire collection from the Library's web page, proved valuable because of the aggregation a catalog provides and because the Mbooks collection helped fill gaps in the Library's physical collections. The presentation will also describe how Millennium's global update functionality proved valuable in adding missing data to the records. As more open-access, digitized books become available, libraries will need to plan and manage how best to provide access to them.
2:45 IUG 2009 Conference Update (Carol Gyger, IUG Vice Chair/Chair-Elect and IUG 2009 Program Committee Chair, Fort Collins Regional Library District) VIEW SLIDES (PDF)
Carol will give an update on the upcoming IUG conference planned for May 17-20, 2009 at the Anaheim Hilton in Anaheim, CA.
3:00 Innovative Interfaces Corporate Update (Betsy Graham, Vice President Product Management, Innovative Interfaces, Inc.)
3:45 BREAK
4:00 Encore on the Front Range - a panel presentation of Encore implementations in Colorado.
Jefferson County Public Library (Kathy Halloran, Systems Administrator; Cindy Phillips, Online and Outreach Library) VIEW SLIDES - MyIUG login required (PDF)
Working on a development project brings its own set of challenges. There are many questions to answer. How do you assemble your team? How do you set up communications with staff, III and the public? How do you direct people to try this new, ever changing product? We'll go over how encore was implemented at JCPL and how we made our decision process work.
Denver Public Schools (Antonio Nicotera, Educational Resource Services) VIEW SLIDES -- MyIUG login required (PDF)
As a school district with web catalog users even as young as 5 years old, scoped searching by school locations is a prerequisite for our needs. However, the out-of-the-box Encore set-up lacked this functionality so we created our own search pages, using Javascript, to add the scoped searching feature. Once this methodology proved successful, we also applied it to other facets in the Encore search results so that if a user knew beforehand they were doing an author search, they could preselect that option and not have to click again to refine their search results.
University of Denver, Penrose Library (Christopher C. Brown, Reference Technology Integration Librarian; Elizabeth S. Meagher, Metadata & Materials Processing Librarian; Sandra Macke, Catalog Librarian) VIEW SLIDES -- MyIUG login required (PDF)
Encore leverages complex library collections in exciting ways. One reference librarian and two catalog librarians from the University of Denver present a panel discussion touching on data cleanup before and after implementation, increasing access by amending format icons, leveraging scopings and locations, interfacing with the ERM, providing effective discovery with facets, and more. Hear how an academic library's experiences with Encore has created greater exposure to rich collections.
Innovative Interfaces (Dinah Sanders, Senior Product Manager)
Dinah will focus today on the new Community Tagging feature and other coming social functionality in Encore.