Hah! Me thinks I can make sense of this elephantine conference...

Friday, June 27

• LITA Happy Hour
• Many Voices, Many Nations (am supposed to volunteer here)

Saturday, June 28

• Leaders Wanted: Is an LIS Doctoral Program Right for You?
• Opening General Session (go onstage with some Spectrum Scholars b/w 6:30 and 7 pm)
• ALA/ProQuest Scholarship Bash

Sunday, June 29

• UW iSchool Reception
• Spectrum Dutch Dinner, 6:00 PM

Other Stuff (as if I could clone myself)

• California Dreamin' Big Game (joined the LSW group)
• Exhibit Hall floor map (troll through the exhibits late Monday afternoon before departing back to PDX)

CONTENTdm in Context: Integrating Workflows and Handling Fully Searchable Text

Friday, June 27, 9:00 am – 12:00 noon, Anaheim Convention Center, Room 208B

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What I really wanted from this program is to get an idea of how CONTENTdm collections can be integrated with WorldCat which was covered in the first part. But I missed that. I was only able to catch the second part of this program where Geri Ingram demonstrated how to import, load and search fully searchable digital collections. As examples, she used a 1967 yearbook of a fellow OCLC staff, a handwritten postcard and a book about bridges from LeHigh U's digital collections. This last one was converted from a Greenstone Digital Collection to a ContentDM collection [see LeHigh's Digital Bridges].

This program is really geared for those who are already using CONTENTdm but I registered and attended anyway because I expect it to be relevant to the Metadata Management Librarian position that I recently accepted with the University of Oregon libraries but which I will not start until mid-August. I'm especially interested that one could use a metadata field for fully-searchable text - this opens up a lot of possibilities for enhancing the user's search experience.

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OCLC Symposium:The Mashed-Up Library

Friday, June 27, 1:30 – 4:30 pm, Marriott Anaheim, Platinum Ballroom 1-5

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The session took up 5 Pavilion rooms at the Marriot and it was justifiably filled. The handouts were gone by the time I got there. I was told that the hotel wouldn't give the code for wireless access so I couldn't pull out the online program description to remember who was speaking up front.

The speaker was Michael Schrage...Will finish this post later. Gotta run to another session at another hotel.

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Ebook Workflows: Selection to Access

Saturday, June 28, 8:00 am - 10:00 am, Anaheim Convention Center, Room 204B

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By the time I got to this session, several people were already splunked on the floor or standing by the walls. So, ebooks must be causing headaches to attract this big an audience. I counted 13 rows, 14 chairs each times 2 sides so that's about 400 people. I grabbed a chair from the other room and started taking notes.

Aline Soules of the California State University, East Bay was in the middle of her presentation when I got there. She set the stage for defining what an ebook is and what users want. Most of it is online at http://libresos.pbwiki.com/Ebkwkflows.

Next speaker was Laura Wrubel of the U of Maryland, College Park. Her presentation was titled Learning to Sail Together: Adventures with E-books in a Consortial Setting. Difficult to integrate workflows at the consortial level - challenges with regard to ebook uptake, access and discovery: pricing models, licensing issues, identifiers, etc. These have been talked about for a few years now. The need for consistent consortial models is evidently still up in the air. Laura ended her slides with a quote from a Bertha Calloway: We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.

Next speaker: Michael Walmsley from YBP Library Services. He tells his audience they won't get a PowerPoint from him. Michael rambled mostly about the separation of print and ebook workflows - the challenges that libraries face to keep long-established print workflows and adopt new ones geared toward e-content. Booksellers can help with their tools for duplication detection, electronic invoicing, approvals plans, tech services - nothing that you don't already know. Michael did show a slide of his angelic one-year old daughter with a pile of books pulled out from a bookshelf. Books are here to stay, Michael assures his audience.

Well, I had to leave. Somebody from Coutts is next to speak but I was getting the sense that I wasn't going to get any new information about ebooks that I already don't know. I focused on ebooks while I was at Blackwell (why don't they present at this sessions?) so I feel like my brain is actually drowning with ebook info that I still need to process into some actionable forms.

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From Here to Eternity: The Challenge of Managing Oscar's Very Special Collections

Monday, June 30, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm, Marriott Anaheim, Salon F

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Institutional Repositories: New Roles for Acquisitions

Monday, June 30, 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Hyatt Regency, Grand A

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Authority Control Interest Group

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Cataloging and Classification Research Discussion Group

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Catalog Management Discussion Group

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Cataloging Norm Discussion Group

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June 28, 2008, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Room Malibu, Hilton Anaheim Hotel. See abstracts of three presentations for this meeting.

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Electronic Resources Interest Group

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See meeting invitation on the ERIG blog site.

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Electronic Resources Management Interest Group

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Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information (MARBI)

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Annual 2008 Agenda.

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• Past MARBI meetings

MaRC Formats Interest Group

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Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group

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See meeting announcement on the NRMIG blog site.

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Next Generation Catalog Interest Group

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See meeting announcement on the LITA blog

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• OCLC Next Generation Cataloging Pilot Project
• Next Generation Melvyl Project (UC/OCLC)

Publisher - Vendor - Library Relations Interest Group

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RDA Update Forum Task Force

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I was not able to attend this forum but see Karen Coyle's blog post on this and the JSC's announcement Full Draft of RDA Delayed.

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• Presentations on RDA (compiled by the JSC)
• RDA Update forum at Midwinter 2008 (NRMIG blog post)

Standards Interest Group

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Task Force on Competencies and Education for a Career in Cataloging

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Program Description | Resources

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Time and Location: Saturday, 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Hyatt Regency, Orange County Grand A

Program Description

See Program Description at the ALCTS site.

Session Notes

I have posted my notes on this session at the NRMIG blog site. The notes are quite raw and long at the moment but I will soon condense them into only the most important points.

Program Description

Time and Location: Sunday, 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm, Anaheim Convention Center, 210 A-C

To improve search and retrieval experiences for users, the data modeling concepts of FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records)- work, expression, manifestation, and item - have been incorporated into RDA (Resource Description and Access) and elsewhere. FRBR has been extended to both name and subject authority data through the work of FRAD (Functional Requirements for Authority

Program Description

See Program Description on the ALCTS website.

Session Notes

See Amy McNeely's post on this session on the NRMIG blog.