Basic and Advanced Serials Cataloging Workshop

Basic Serials Cataloging workshop and Advanced Serials Cataloging workshop will be offered at INCOLSA (Indiana Cooperative Library Services Authority) in December.

Presenter: The SCCTP (Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program) workshops will be presented by Joseph Hinger, the Associate Director for Technical Services at St. John's University, Rittenberg Law Library, in Jamaica, New York. Mr. Hinger is a certified SCCTP trainer, authorized to train all 5 of the SCCTP Serials Cataloging workshops.

Basic Serials Cataloging
Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: INCOLSA, Inc., 6202 Morenci Trail, Indianapolis, Indiana
Cost: $75 INCOLSA members, $115 non-members

The course is designed for those new to serials: beginning serials catalogers and technicians, and monograph catalogers working with serials. This course provides the basic principles of serials cataloging for original and copy cataloging for print serials. The course focuses on the elements contained in the CONSER standard record (CSR), including appropriate MARC 21 tagging, as well as problem-solving and decision-making relative to serials cataloging. The course does not provide instructions for the MARC 21 format for holding data, advanced serials cataloging, or cataloging of electronic and special kinds of serials. All materials are based on the CONSER standard record documentation, CONSER Editing Guide, and CONSER Cataloging Manual.

Please register at the INCOLSA website.

Advanced Serials Cataloging
Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009
Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: INCOLSA, Inc., 6202 Morenci Trail, Indianapolis, Indiana
Cost: $75 INCOLSA members, $115 non-members

The course is designed for people who have at least taken the Basic Serials Cataloging workshop or who have been active serials catalogers for more than one year and are familiar with MARC serials tagging and fundamental approaches to serials cataloging. While attendees who do not have this background in serials may find parts of the workshop useful, the instructor will not have sufficient time to review basic serials cataloging. The Advanced Serials Cataloging workshop is an in-depth course on the rules and practices applied to original cataloging of serials. However, there are no specific instructions for electronic serials included in this workshop. While the course focuses on printed serials, the instructions are applicable to serials in any format.

Course topics include:

• What is a serial in the revised scope of AACR2 and how do serials compare to monographs and integrating resources.
• An area-by-area approach to the cataloging of serials, including some of the more complex aspects: uniform titles, links, designations, and title transcription.
• Cataloging of special kinds of serials: supplements, commutations, reprints, microform reproductions, and conference publications.
• Major and minor changes, particularly what constitutes a major title change in the revised rules.
• Discussion of how serial records are used in libraries and displayed in library OPACs.

Please register at the INCLOSA website.

Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want

The research report Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want is now available. Authored by an  OCLC research team headed by Karen Calhoun, Vice President, WorldCat and Metadata Services, the report presents findings about the data quality expectations of catalog end users and librarians. 

The Online Catalogs report offers: 

• Insight for readers seeking to define requirements for improved catalog data.
• Information about the metadata elements that are most important to end users in determining if an item will meet his or her needs.
• Support for the enhancements end users and librarians would like to see made in online library catalogs.
• Insight into the end user's discovery experience.
• Findings for readers in areas associated with contributing, synchronizing or linking data from multiple sources in library catalogs and integrated library systems.

Please visit http://www.oclc.org/reports/onlinecatalogs/default.htm to download a PDF copy of the report, order a print copy, and to learn more.

Information received from OCLC.

IOUG Annual Meeting

Illinois OCLC Users' Group (IOUG) Annual Meeting entitled "The Future is Now: Cooperation in the Bibliographic and Information Commons"

Date: Friday, June 19, 2009.

Location: Saint Xavier University, Butler Reception Room, Warde Academic Center.

Registration Information: Registration and continental breakfast will start the day at 8:30 a.m. Opening remarks will begin at 9:00 a.m. and the day's activities will end at 2:30 p.m. Go to the Library Learning Calendar to register and for more information.

Fee: $45 registration fee includes continental breakfast and lunch.

Presentations Include:

• Welcome and IOUG Report - Anita Morgan, Chair
• Illinois State Library Report - Anne Craig, Director
• CARLI Report - Susan Singleton, Executive Director
• OCLC Members' Council Report - Jan Ison, Delegate
• State of the Art at OCLC - Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO
• Future of Cataloging - Karen Calhoun, Vice President, OCLC WorldCat and Metadata Services
• Information Commons at Loyola - Robert Seal, Dean of Libraries, Loyola University
• WorldCat Local - Jan Ison, Delegate, OCLC

MARC of Quality: Dewey Daze I and Dewey Daze II

The Prairie Area Library System (PALS) is excited to be hosting two upcoming workshops which will take place at the Mendota Civic Center, Mendota, Illinois.

• Dewey Daze I is a two day workshop, April 20 to 21, 2009.
• Dewey Daze II is a one day workshop, being offered twice, April 22 or April 23, 2009.

Attendees will need to bring a copy of DDC22 (all 4 volumes) to the workshops. The fee includes handouts, light breakfast, lunch, and light afternoon snacks.

Registration on the Library Learning calendar is now open to anyone from any library system. A limited number of seats remain, so please register as soon as possible.

Note: Because of the overwhelming response to TMQ (The MARC of Quality) classes in the past, the PALS cancellation deadline for these workshops is March 27, 2009. If you cancel after that date, your library will be charged the workshop fee.

LACONI Technical Services Section: Trends in Technical Services

LACONI (Library Administrators Conference of Northern Illinois).
Topic One: BISAC (Book Industry Standards and Communications) Subject Headings
Topic Two: Outsourcing Technical Services

Date: Friday, March 6, 2009
Time: 9 a.m. to 12 noon
Location: Oak Park Public Library, 834 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL 60301

Schedule:
9:00 Refreshments
9:15 Business meeting
9:30 to 10:30 Topic One: BISAC subject arrangements and use of browsing categories
10:30 to 12:00 Topic Two: Outsourcing technical services

Please send registration form to: Vernon Area Public Library Attn: Caren Soltysiak, Treasurer/LACONI TSS 300 Olde Half Day Road, Lincolnshire, IL 60069

Limit of two attendees per library, additional staff will be placed on a waiting list.

If you have any questions about program registration, please contact: Rohini Bokka
Secretary/LACONI TSS, Naperville Public Library, Phone: 630/961-4100 x6141.

If you wish to go out for lunch after the meeting please indicate on the registration form.
Registration deadline: by March 4th, 2009. Note: confirmations will not be sent.

Book Repair Made Simple

Hey, to those of you who repair the battered and torn library books or know someone who does! Check this website out!

A web version of the Simple Book Repair Manual, created by Dartmouth College Library's Preservation Services, is available at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~preserve/repair/repairindex.htm. Choose a chapter and learn how to tip in a page, clean the book, repair a spine, fix a torn page, etc.--or figure out whether the book is repairable at all. There's also a section on the basic book repair tools.

As seen in the October 23, 2008 edition of Expedition Extra, the Lewis & Clark Library System's e-newsletter.

LACONI Technical Services Section, AV Cataloging

Library Administrators Conference of North America (LACONI)

Discussion: Playaways, Game Cartridges, Electronic Books, Compact Discs, DVDs, and CD-ROMs.

Presenters will highlight the required fields and what information to include when cataloging these audio-visual (AV) materials.

Date: Friday, October 3, 2008
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Location: Fremont Public Library District, 1170 North Midlothian Road, Mundelein, IL 60060
Phone: 847/566-8702
Schedule:
9:30 a.m. Refreshments
9:50 a.m. Business meeting
10:00 a.m. Program begins
11:45 a.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Program continues
3:00 p.m. Program ends

Please send registration form and $8 for each boxed lunch (choose from turkey, beef, or veggie) to:
Vernon Area Public Library, Attn: Caren Soltysiak, Treasurer/LACONI TSS
300 Olde Half Day Road, Lincolnshire, IL 60069
Make check payable to: LACONI TSS

Limit of two attendees per library, additional staff will be placed on a waiting list.

If you have any questions about program registration, please contact: Caren Soltysiak,
Phone: 847/634-3650 x140
Email: csoltysiak@vapld.info
Fax:847/634-9174

Registration Deadline: Thursday, September 24, 2008.

ONIX (Online Information Exchange) for Serials

ALCTS (Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, a division of the American Library Association) announces another webinar on standards.

Date: Thursday, September 25, 2008
Time: 12:00 noon

ONIX for Serials is a family of XML formats for communicating information about serial products and subscription information. The webinar will offer participants information about the background and development of ONIX for Serials, describe the various components of the ONIX for Serials suite, explain the benefits of using ONIX for Serials, and outline the challenges to be faced in introducing ONIX to the workplace.

ONIX for Serials is a joint project of EDItEUR, the international group coordinating development of the standards infrastructure for electronic commerce in the book and serials industries, and NISO, the US National Information Standards Organization.

Presented by Nathan Robertson, Director of Information Policy and Management at the Thurgood Marshall Law Library, University of Maryland School of Law and Katharina Klemperer, Library and Information Systems Consulting. Nathan and Kathy were both heavily involved in the development of the ONIX for Serials standard.

Registration for this first ALCTS Webinar will be limited to 25 people.

Special introductory webinar rate: $29 member/non-member.

Watch for registration information in early September.

ILLINET/OCLC WorkShops in August

The ILLINET/OCLC Services Office will offer the following OCLC workshops in August. All are virtual workshops that utilize web conferencing through Horizon Wimba's Live Classroom.  This saves time and travel costs. You can stay at your own PC and use an Internet connection to view the demonstration and to communicate with the trainer.

You must be an IOUG (Illinois OCLC Users' Group) member to participate in these classes, but there is no additional charge for the workshops. To join IOUG, complete the membership form at http://www.ioug.info/FY09IOUGMembershipForm.doc and submit it with a check ($40 for institutional membership and $15 for individuals.)

Register for these workshops at http://www.islcleo.org.

• August 5 - 9:00 a.m. to noon - Beginning WorldCat Resource Sharing
  Introduces all aspects of the Statewide Illinois Library Catalog (SILC) for resource discovery and interlibrary loan.
• August 12 - 9:00 a.m. to noon - Advanced WorldCat Resource Sharing
  Introduces advanced features of WorldCat Resource Sharing, paying particular attention to ILL Direct Request and Local Holdings editing.
• August 12 - 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. - Introduction to FirstSearch
  Introduces FirstSearch, OCLC's online service that provides access to WorldCat and other reference databases.
• August 18 - 9:00 a.m. to noon - FirstSearch, CatExpress, and Resource Sharing
  Introduces FirstSearch, OCLC's online database service; the MARC record and an overview of the copy cataloging process; CatExpress, OCLC's basic, Web-based copy cataloging service; and aspects of the Statewide Illinois Library Catalog (SILC) for resource sharing and interlibrary loan. Virtual seating is limited, so sign up early to ensure a spot.
• August 22 - 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. - ILLINET/OCLC Network News @ 10:00
  Have you ever wondered about the array of OCLC products available and how they would apply to your library? Do you have some questions about ILLINET, IOUG, or OCLC and want to talk live to the Illinois State Library's ILLINET/OCLC Services staff? This is a monthly discussion of OCLC products and news about ILLINET and IOUG.

If you have any questions about these workshops, contact the ILLINET/OCLC Services Office at 217/785-1532.

Cataloging Index Available Online

• Need a course?
• Need a refresher?
• Need some tips?
• Want to update your cataloging knowledge to 21st century standards?

Check out the columns and articles available through Knowledge Quest and KQWeb. A new KQWeb resource groups all cataloging articles, columns, and reviews in one location.

To learn more about "Cataloging with Carolyn," visit:
http://www.acrl.org/ala/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/kqweb/kqarchives/volume36/363/catalogingindex.cfm