Written by Steve Sanzo
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AV Media Preservation Program - Registration Deadline Approaching
Deadline Approaching! Registration must be postmarked by July 7, 2008. Register now!
A RACE AGAINST TIME: PRESERVING OUR AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA
Presented by the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
July 24 and 25, 2008
Boston, MA
Sessions:
• Overview of Machine-Based AV Media Identification and Preservation
• Funding Opportunities for AV Media Preservation
• Reformatting Options for AV Media
• Contracting for AV Preservation Services
• Surveying and Selecting AV Media Materials for Preservation and Access
• Case Studies and Round Table Discussions
Lead Speaker:
Alan Lewis, Audiovisual Archives Consultant, Washington, DC
Speakers:
David Ackerman, Audio Preservation Engineer, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
George Blood, President, Safe Sound Archive
Thomas F.R. Clareson, Program Director, New Initiatives, PALINET
Sarah Stauderman, Preservation Manager, Smithsonian Institution Archives
The fee for this two-day program is $200. Funders for this program include the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
In partnership with PALINET
Local cosponsors include Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science; Weissman Preservation Center, Harvard University Library and Preservation & Imaging Services and Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard College Library; the Northeast Document Conservation Center; and NELINET.
Download the brochure at http://www.ccaha.org/uploads/media/d45877b85ed384cb8954655895e3caba.pdf and register now!
For more information, contact the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts: call 215-545-0613, email pso@ccaha.org or visit www.ccaha.org.
All journal content on Blackwell Synergy is merging into Wiley InterScience
As of Monday, June 30th 2008, all Blackwell journal content—including all full-text HTML and PDF versions of articles from current issues, backfiles, and issues published online before print—will be incorporated into Wiley InterScience.
Wiley-Blackwell plans to close Blackwell Synergy at the end of business (Pacific Standard Time) on Friday June 27th and they anticipate that the migration will be completed by Monday June 30th. Over the weekend of June 28th and 29th, there will be a period when both Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience will be unavailable while we transition and re-index data.
After June 30th, Blackwell Synergy will no longer be available.
Details about the actual downtime period will be posted on each site prior to June 27th, and you can find other essential information and FAQs about the change in service here:
Some important things to remember:
- No new Wiley-Blackwell content will be published online from June 21st until July 7th. After July 7th, publication schedules will resume as usual.
- Links to journals on Blackwell Synergy will automatically redirect to Wiley InterScience. There is no need for you to change your links.
- Subscriptions for Blackwell journals on Synergy will migrate to Wiley InterScience, with the terms of all existing licenses honored.
- If you have activated TPS access for your institution, see interscience.wiley.com/transition for details on updating your TPS script.
- These access options will continue to function seamlessly:
• IP authentication
• Athens authentication
• Username and password access
- For the Library/Customer Administration area, we have matched Synergy and Wiley InterScience accounts so you will be able to manage all your Wiley and Blackwell journals using your existing Wiley InterScience Administrator login. If you do not already have a Wiley InterScience administrator ID, you will receive further instructions after the transition.
- From September 2008 onwards, usage data for Blackwell journals will be available on Wiley InterScience, presented in a separate report but in the same format as that offered for Wiley journals. Usage data for Blackwell journals for the period prior to December 2005 will not be transferred to Wiley InterScience and will no longer be available.
- We are running several free Webex training sessions about Wiley InterScience, including how to use the library administration area. For more information about joining these webinars, visit: interscience.wiley.com/training
New Online Service Launching in 2009
This transition to Wiley InterScience is in preparation for the launch of our next-generation online service for all Wiley-Blackwell journals, books, reference works, databases, laboratory protocols, and other Wiley resources in 2009. This will include many of the best features of the current platforms and more, enabling us to deliver even greater publishing capabilities and customer value for the future. More information about the new service will be provided well in advance of the launch date in 2009.
Usability Basics
Date: 7/17/2008
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Instructor: Nicholas Lux (nicklux@gmail.com)
Location: Online
How good is your library Web site? Find out by taking our Usability Basics course! Usability testing helps system designers and developers understand how a Web site is being used and the effectiveness of the design and navigation features. This course provides an overview of current issues in Web usability and user testing and reviews the theories behind designing usable systems. In addition, you’ll learn practical solutions to building usable systems.
TO REGISTER: Register for this course or obtain more information here: Usability Basics.
Sharing Slides and Images
Date: 7/29/2008
Time: 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Instructor: Erin Logsdon (logsdon@nelinet.net)
Location: Southborough, MA
Improve the visibility of your library! Do you have library images that you’d like to share - photos from your last event, construction progress, archives, etc.? Want a free online place to store, share and view PowerPoint presentations (for public or internal use)? Learn how to share your digital media with your library users, your board, or friends of the library on the Web using flickr and SlideShare.
TO REGISTER: Register for this course or obtain more information here: Sharing Slides and Images
Note: If you have any questions about registering for a program, please contact Maria Brady (brady@nelinet.net) at 1-800-NELINET, ext. 1945.
NELINET’s 2008 Annual Meeting was held on May 2, 2008 at the Four Points Sheraton in Norwood, Massachusetts. Approximately 100 attendees participated in the day’s events, which were centered on the theme, Insights & Innovations.
In keeping with that theme, the opening keynote speaker, Eric von Hippel, the T Wilson Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School and Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT, gave a lively presentation on “Democratizing Innovation.” He provided fascinating examples of product and service innovation that is increasingly user-driven and that offers many advantages over manufacturer-centric innovation. Among his examples were innovations that libraries have made to their OPACs to better accommodate specific needs, such as adding book retrieval instructions to accommodate the complex distribution of a collection among many buildings.
Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map that Changed the World and NELINET’s Distinguished Speaker, spoke on his experiences traveling in China and the inspiration for his new book, The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom. He concluded his riveting account by emphasizing the importance of China’s role in the world. As stated by one attendee, “Talks by guests stretch [the] mind and create opportunities for new ideas, new ways of thinking.”
OCLC Members Council Special Report About OCLC Governance Changes
The report, prepared by NELINET Members Council Delegates Sherrie Bergman, Steve Podgajny, and Ken Wiggin, was provided to attendees. It outlined significant changes to the OCLC governance structure proposed by the OCLC Board of Trustees, to be voted on at OCLC’s May Members Council meeting. The proposed changes are intended to reflect OCLC’s increasingly global role and to adjust governance to ensure representation and participation by members from all over the world.
Business Meeting
Chairman Charles M. Getchell, Jr. discussed NELINET’s strategic planning process, which began last fall, and referred to the draft of the strategic plan provided to each attendee. He also announced resignations from the Board and new members of the Board: Gene Weimars, Bates College, replacing former Northeastern University Library Director Ed Warro who accepted a position in Qutar; Chris Loring, Smith College, replacing Barbara Doyle-Wilch, who resigned in anticipation of her retirement from Middlebury College; John Arnold, Chair of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, replacing Maurice Glickman as one of the two non-librarian Board members; and Frank Urso, Assistant Vice President of the Division of Students and Enrollments at Brandeis University, filling the vacancy for the other non-librarian Board position.
Also during the meeting, NELINET employee Kenna Juliani was recognized for her 25 years of dedicated service to NELINET and member libraries.
Member Input Session
Also during the meeting, NELINET provided a forum for members to give input on issues pertaining to NELINET and beyond. Common topics mentioned include: open-source software, group purchasing, assessment tools, and continued opportunities for member engagement.
Attendees seemed very pleased with the speakers and the venue. One member enthusiastically commented, “This is the first meeting that I have attended. The speakers were amazingly good, the food was superb, the venue was easy to get to and luxurious by library standards. How are you going to top this next year?”
To: NELINET Members
From: Connie Massey, Program Director of Educational and Consulting Services
Subject: NELINET Member Feedback – An Update
As NELINET’s new program director for educational and consulting services, I would like to update you on what we’re doing in response to your feedback from NELINET’s annual meeting in May as well as from class surveys you’ve completed over the last year. We appreciate your feedback, and our talented instructors are developing new classes now and tailoring them to meet the needs you’ve expressed. With most of our classes free and unlimited to member institutions and their staff and with new efforts underway to remove barriers to attendance, we invite you to take full advantage of every opportunity for staff development, especially during these fast-changing and challenging times!
Among all our feedback requests, more members have asked for open source information, support, and service than for anything else. In response, we’re planning new open source educational events for the coming year, including an overview of the best open source products for libraries. Our new Library 2.0 Series is geared to uncover the world of open source software and Web 2.0 tools that provide cost effective ways to make your library more user driven. We also created the Dynamic Web Development Series to teach members how to use the world’s most popular open source software database, MySQL, and PHP, the open source HTML scripting language.
We’re now also looking for open source solutions that NELINET can help members implement and support. To that end, we’ll be surveying members to determine who is using what open source products in their libraries already and which open source solutions are of most interest to our members. We’ll share those results so that you’ll see where your library fits on that spectrum in the New England region.
The next most common theme in member feedback is the need for NELINET to make educational events more accessible. In response, we’ll be converting more courses to online via Moodle, the open source course management system, and we’ll also be setting up more regional events. Please contact me if you are interested in a regional educational event.
We would also like to explore videoconferencing as a way to put more of our classes “on the road” in an energy-efficient way. Please email me and let me know if your institution has videoconferencing equipment and space and if you’d like to participate in a test class delivered to your staff via videoconference.
More to come soon about member feedback and our plans on assessment and accreditation!
Library 2.0 is a new model of service in libraries that embraces change and technology and engages users to create a customer-driven library. In this introductory workshop series, NELINET trainers Erin Logsdon and Stephen Spohn will explore Web 2.0 tools and other technologies. In each half-day workshop, you will get hands-on experience using one or more technologies with practical applications for your library. Click on the link to find out more information on each class:
Social Bookmarking and Reference - July 15, 2008
Sharing Slides and Images - July 29, 2008
Wikis and Project Teams - August 12, 2008
Blogs and Microblogs - September 16, 2008
Moodle and Peer Training - October 7, 2008
Forums and User Feedback - October 21, 2008
Tools to Manage Information Overload - November 4, 2008
Library 2.0 - The Mystery Topic - December 16, 2008
Each ½ day class is held at NELINET’s Southborough training center from 9:30 am – 12 noon. Register for all or part of this series today!
Join an interactive webinar to learn more about Oxford electronic resources! See the sessions below, and register by June 5th; you will then be provided with the webinar URL and call-in instructions.
Available sessions:
Tuesday, June 10th
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
1:30 – 2:30pm (register)
4:00 – 5:00pm (register)
Friday, June 13th
Oxford Islamic Studies Online
11:00am – 12:00pm (register)
4:00 – 5:00pm (register)
Monday, June 16th
Oxford Reference Online Premium with integrated Oxford Digital Reference Shelf titles
1:00 – 2:00pm (register)
4:00 – 5:00pm (register)
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
www.oxfordlanguagedictionaries.com
The innovative Oxford Language Dictionaries Online offers essential language resources never before available online: fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages. French, German, Spanish and Italian are currently available; Russian and Chinese will be added in May 2008, along with revolutionary new audio pronunciation software.
Oxford Islamic Studies Online
www.oxfordislamicstudies.com
Encompassing over 3,000 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur’anic materials, primary sources, images, and timelines, Oxford Islamic Studies Online offers a multi-layered reference experience designed to provide a first stop for anyone needing information on Islam. This fully integrated resource features reference content and commentary by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture, and will be regularly updated as new content is commissioned and approved under the guidance of the Editor in Chief, John L. Esposito.
Oxford Reference Online Premium with Oxford Digital Reference Shelf titles
www.oxfordreference.com www.oxford-digitalreference.com
Oxford Reference Online Premium combines rich and scholarly resources offered by acclaimed titles in the Oxford Companions series with authoritative quick-reference coverage of the full subject spectrum. Since launch, the site has expanded to include access to over 170 ready reference dictionaries, as well as an ever-growing list of Oxford Companions titles, over 450 political and geographical maps, and timelines to key events throughout history. Updated at least three times a year, Oxford Reference Online Premium is an absolute must-have for all libraries and institutions.
Strengthen your reference collection by moving it online, and reach out to patrons who rely on web-based research! Created from Oxford’s award-winning print scholarly references, Oxford Digital Reference Shelf titles are fully searchable as standalone titles or through Oxford Reference Online Premium. Buy any number of titles to fit your library’s collection needs and deliver Oxford’s authoritative reference content to your users’ desktops and laptops. The one-time purchase of an Oxford Digital Reference Shelf title means that you gain unlimited user and remote access 24/7—forever! The content of each title is yours—it’s not just access, it’s ownership of an award-winning multi-volume reference set online.
Alphabet Soup: A Metadata Overview
Date: 7/11/2008 - Time: 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Instructor: Erin Logsdon (logsdon@nelinet.net)
Location: Southborough, MA
Do you need to update your understanding of XML, OAI, METS, MODS, MARCXML and DC? Would you like to learn more about what these acronyms really mean along with ONIX, FGDC, CCO and DACS? Come to this class and discover which of the various metadata standards will help you make the most of your collections!
TO REGISTER: Register for this course or obtain more information here:
Alphabet Soup: A Metadata Overview
Note: If you have any questions about registering for a program, please contact Maria Brady (brady@nelinet.net) at 1.800.NELINET, ext. 1945.
FREE Aeon Demonstration at NELINET!
You are cordially invited to attend a special demonstration of the Aeon System, a special collections management software system developed and offered through Atlas Systems, Inc. This new system is designed for special collections, archives and historical information.
Features include:
Customizable web-based request management for special collection users
Customizable automated circulation management
Customizable user authentication and data control
Learn more at http://www.atlas-sys.com/products/aeon.
Where: NELINET, Inc.
When: June 17, 2008 - 10:30am - 1:00pm (Lunch included)
Cost: FREE
Registration:
NELINET Members - http://www.nelinet.net/eaccount/EventDetail.aspx?eventid=00000735
Non-members - Please contact Maria Brady (brady@nelinet.net) at 508-597-1945 to register for this event.
Please join Atlas and NELINET for this special FREE demonstration.
Written by Margaret Lourie
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No need to go to as far as
Anaheim for the SCCTP Electronic Serials Cataloging Workshop! The same SCCTP workshop that is being held at the ALA Annual Conference in
Anaheim will be held at NELINET on September 23, 2008. This is a one-day workshop.The workshop will be taught by Gretchen Yealy, Serials Catalog Librarian at
Brown
University. Those who attended the SCCTP Basic and/or Advanced Serials Cataloging Workshops in March will want to come back for more excellent serials cataloging training from Gretchen, and those who did not attend the earlier serials cataloging workshops will also want to learn all about cataloging electronic serials.September seems a long way off now, but be aware that registration is limited to 25 people.For more information and registration:http://www.nelinet.net/eaccount/EventDetail.aspx?eventid=00000726