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