Archives: Book Repair and OCLC Resource Sharing

ALCTS would like to apologize to you if you were among the many that were unable to watch the live presentation of the “Book Repair Basics for Libraries” webinar presented earlier today. We were using a different webinar software for this event because of the need to share video. We were unaware of the access problems we would experience. The system locked up on us early in the registration process due to the large number of people that tried to access the webinar at the same time. Only 100 people were able to access the webinar, instead of the 500 that we were told could get in. Again, we do apologize for the technical problems you might have experienced.

The quality of the presentation was wonderful and we hope you will take the time to watch the recording, view the presentation file that has many useful links, and complete the evaluation form. All of this information can be found on the ALCTS web site at http://ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/pres/091411.cfm

Currently the archive file is only available for .flv players such as Adobe Media Player. If you are unable to open the file, please try back in the next few days as ALCTS staff are working to make additional formats available.

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A recording of the August 25 webinar, “What’s new with OCLC Resource Sharing Services,” is now available on the OCLC web site.

This webinar provides an overview of the following enhancements:

• New Lender String report. This report provides details about your library's interactions with specific lenders up to one year in the past.
• Custom Holdings symbol searcher. A new way to quickly identify which Custom Holdings groups contain a specific symbol (up to 10 symbols), so you can modify your custom holdings groups as needed when changes occur.
• New ILL work form fields to support article sharing. These fields provide the PubMed number (PMID) and the Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
• Email from anywhere. Allows your staff to send an email to another library from anywhere in an interlibrary loan workform.
• Improvements to Not Received feature. Now libraries can alert the lender that an item as not been received at any time after the lender updates the request to SHIPPED.

View the webinar.

eBooks' Real Impact on Book Publishing

Tuesday, September 20, 11:00am EDT. (Aptara)

eBooks are the most dominant force in contemporary publishing, but skyrocketing consumer sales aside, what is their real impact on book publishers' operations and bottom lines?

In this free WEBcast, we'll reveal the results, trends, and best practices of eBook publishers as uncovered over the past two years in a three-survey series conducted by Aptara. What works and what doesn't? From production techniques, preferred file formats and distribution channels, to enhanced eBooks and apps strategies, we'll discuss how the findings correspond and differ across publishing market segments. In addition to sharing insight collected from over 1,300 publishers, we'll talk with digital experts from both sides of the Atlantic to understand how digital publishing is evolving in the United States and Europe.

ATTENDEES WILL LEARN

• Primary areas where the eBook market remains nascent worldwide
• Where 1,350 book publishers stand in building their digital programs (the answers will surprise you!)
• Key differences between digital strategies in the Trade, Academic, and STM markets
• How issues like eBook design and formatting may be holding back growth in sales

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Navigating the next IT Revolution

Monday, September 19, 3:00pm EDT. (Educause)

It has become commonplace to open discussions of technology with a nod to the ubiquity of change. Storage, network bandwidth, and computing power double every 18 months. Today's smartphones have more computing power than was onboard Apollo 11 as it hurtled toward the moon. Software gets easier to use with each release.

New online services roll out daily. Most burn brightly and fade by evening. But a few make it, sometimes with profound implications for the ways we work and interact. Security threats and their associated countermeasures proliferate at network speed. The secretary of defense recently announced that a single cyberattack allowed hackers to steal 24,000 military files. Indeed, tales to the constancy of technology-driven change are so common that we risk becoming deaf to moments of real and significant change. This is such a moment.

Information and communication technologies are currently undergoing fundamental changes that will rival the disruptions that we saw with the advent of personal computing. Three forces are driving this sea change: 1) the economics of aggregation, 2) IT consumerization, and 3) the Janus-faced role that technology plays in serving higher education’s mission. In this session, we will discuss each of these forces.

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Book Repair Basics for Libraries

Wednesday, September 14, 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT.

Description: Participants will become familiar with several types of basic repairs for bound circulating collections materials in school, public, and academic libraries. Tip-ins and basic page repairs, hinge tightening, and a variety of spine repairs will be covered. Techniques will be illustrated and demonstrated with text, images, and video. Links to other resources will be provided.

Repairs and conservation treatments on rare and special collections materials will NOT be discussed.

Audience: Individuals with little (some preferred) book repair experience will benefit. More experienced attendees will receive helpful hints.

Presenters:

Peter D. Verheyen is Head of Preservation and Conservation at Syracuse University. After beginning as work-study in preservation under John Dean at Johns Hopkins where he repaired and rehoused circulating collections, he studied binding and conservation in Germany and Switzerland to become a rare book conservator working in private practice and research library preservation programs. He established the conservation lab at Syracuse for the treatment of special collections materials, and developed a high-density system for storing architectural drawings. In response to a need for efficient rehousing in anticipation of off-site storage he introduced Syracuse to the shrink-wrapping of volumes. He presented Archival 101 as an ALCTS webinar during Preservation Week 2010.

Marianne Hanley is Assistant Conservator in the Department of Preservation and Conservation at Syracuse University Library. Her responsibilities include managing the repair and rehousing of our circulating collections, including the training of work-study students. In addition she is training in bookbinding and aspects of book conservation with conservators David Stokoe and Peter Verheyen. She also presents regularly on disaster preparedness as part of departmental staff training and outreach activities. Because Marianne has worked in both the public and private sectors of libraries, she is collaborating in the development of a basic book repair program that will benefit many different institutions and varying types of skill levels.

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Registration will be free for this webinar. Registration opens at 1:30pm (EDT) the day of the webinar, and is open to the first 500 registrants.

Access the webinar by visiting: http://connectpro72403849.adobeconnect.com/alcts. Select “Enter as a guest” and please enter your full name in the space provided, then click on “Enter Room.” Participation is limited to the first 500 guests that login. The session will be recorded and a link to the recording will be posted on the ALCTS Web site (www.ala.org/alcts) shortly following the live presentation.

Libraries in a Post-Print World

Tuesday, September 13, 3:00pm EDT.

What does the library without books look like? We can argue all day about whether or not printed books will eventually become obsolete. Or we can wonder how libraries and librarians will continue to serve their communities if they do. In this thought-provoking webinar, consultants Joan Frye Williams and George Needham will explore the challenges and opportunities presented by a “post-print” world.

It’s no small feat to change an existing brand, and the library brand has always been “books.” Library shelves may not be devoid of paper any time soon, but if alternative reading formats continue to be adopted at current rates, we’ll need to realign and rebrand our services or risk going the way of the dodo.

This is not a webinar about how to add eBooks to your collection; this is a webinar about how to re-imagine and articulate the importance of what we can do in our communities.

Presenters: George Needham & Joan Frye Williams

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The Georgia State Copyright Case

Thursday, September 8, 2:00pm EDT.

Speakers:

• Kevin Smith, Director of Scholarly Communications, Duke University
• Siva Vaidhyanathan, Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia

The Georgia State University copyright infringement case has been closely watched in higher education over the last several years. This lawsuit, brought by several publishers against Georgia State University, involves the use of copyrighted materials in higher education e-reserves, but the impact of the case and its potential results may be far more reaching. The trial has now closed and is awaiting a final decision. Despite the outcome, the case will certainly have an impact on how higher education uses copyrighted materials. The case—which affects faculty, students, scholarly authors, and university services including libraries—brings up issues of fair use in a digital age, scholarly communication and publisher business models, and the broader question of the future of teaching and scholarly communication as a whole.

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Live Webinars for September 2011

September webinars. Go learn stuff!

FEATURED WEBINAR: Amazon vs. Apple: eBook Platform Debate

Thursday, September 15, 1:00pm EDT.

Joe Wikert (GM and Publisher, O'Reilly Media)
"This will be like shooting fish in a barrel. When I said I'd like to see a debate about Amazon vs. Apple's ebook platforms and said I'd take the Amazon position I never thought I'd find someone who would represent Apple! Shortly after that, Amazon announced their Kindle Cloud Reader initiative. Wow, yet another point for my case! I have loads of respect for Kassia Krozser but she's got her work cut out for her. I'm very much looking forward to the debate as well as addressing questions from the audience."

Kassia Krozser, (proprietress of BookSquare.com)
"Joe may wish he chose the Apple side! I won't deny that Amazon has many strengths, but they also have an amazing weakness: selective vision. The Kindle platform is based on an old, creaky format. Apple gets the web, and it gets the technology, hardware and software, that runs the web...which, we all know, will expand both our ability to read all kinds of books in digital format *and* our definition of a 'book'."


Sept 1. Is Self-Employment for You? (w/Pat Wagner, Library Consultant)

Sept 1.  Securing Windows 7 and Internet Explorer (O'Reilly)

Sept 7.  Jump Start Your Grant Seeking (TechSoup)

Sept 7.  Every Child Ready to Read (Nebraska Library Commission)

Sept 8. Endpoint-Level Security for Your Library (TechSoup)

Sept 12.  Back to School Special: For Media Specialists (Teacher-Librarians Virtual Cafe)

Sept 13.  The New Volunteer Manager's Toolkit (Volunteer Match)

Sept 13.  Games Synchronous Trainers Play (InSync Training)

Sept 14.  Preserving Digital Content (NISO)  $

Sept 15.  Stop Managing Too Much with Too Little (Pattern Research)

Sept 15.  Books for Boys (School Library Journal)

Sept 19.  Social Media for Social Good  (Nonprofit Tech 2.0)

Sept 20.  Using Market Segmentation to Understand What Customers Really Want (TSL)

Sept 21.  Volunteer Programs (Georgia Library Association)

Sept 22.  Scan and Deliver: Creative User-initiated Digitization (OCLC)

Sept 22.  SLJ YA Fall Announcements (School Library Journal) 

Sept 22.  A Primer for New Managers (Webex) 

Sept 26.  Enhancing Storytimes, Displays, and Programs with Math (TSL)

Sept 27.  Planning for the Unexpected: Natural Disaster (Office Depot)

Sept 28.  Become an Expert Google Searcher (O'Reilly)

ALA (American Library Association)  All = $

Sept 13. Roadmap to JPEG 2000
Sept 14. Return on Investment in a Tough Economy
Sept 15. Creating Social Media Policy for Your Library
Sept 20. Extensible Catalog: Empowering Libraries to Experiment and Build
Sept 21. Check-out eReaders: Sacramento Public Did It and You Can Too
Sept 21. Floating Collections
Sept 28. RDA and Cartographic Materials

Booklist

Sept 13. Ready for Romance? New Novels and Hot Trends
Sept 22. Acquisition using Specialized Selection and Analysis Tools
Sept 27. Series Nonfiction: What's New for Fall 2011

Infopeople
Sept 8. Video Book Trailers as a Way to Reel in Readers
Sept 14. Location-based Social Networks

Library Journal

Sept 13.  Mystery Fall Announcements
Sept 14.  Maximizing the Mobile Opportunity
Sept 20.  Digital Preservation that Increased a Library's Value

WebJunction

Sept 20. Innovations from America's Best Small Libraries
Sept 26. Putting the Public Back In Public Libraries
Oct 19.  Innovative Use of Skill-based Volunteers in Public Libraries
Oct 25.  Teaming Up with Teens @ Your Library

Wild Apricot

Sept 7.  Writing for the Web: Today's Best Practices
Sept 7.  How to Captivate and Engage Your Customers with Your Website
Sept 8.  Create an Effective Volunteer Handbook
Sept 15.  Evolve Your Volunteer Program to Include New Roles
Sept 26.  Introduction to Corporate Giving

Ebook Summit.  Full day Online Conference.  Oct 12.  Sponsored by LJ.  $

Free Webinars from Pattern Research

All programs are free.  All webinars start at 2 pm Eastern Time and continue for one hour, with extra time for questions.

Ten Tips for Writing Well with Dixie Darr - August 4, 2011

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/625732584

This free webinar provides a quick tour of some of the more common mistakes even experienced professionals make (and regardless of one’s level of education). Topics include punctuation, jargon, keeping words “in agreement,” too many words, using the wrong words, and failure to edit, as well as using social media abbreviations (texting shorthand) in workplace documents.

What It Looks Like and Sounds Like: Tweaking Design Elements and Production Values, with Tim Sullard and Pat Wagner - August 17th, 2011

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/177298784

Graphic design and printed workbooks. Live performances, such as theater and music. Poetry and fine fiction. Film and theater. Radio. All old-school formats for delivering information that can provide insights into what can polish your virtual classroom presentation skills.  Topics: Create checklists and agendas, address production issues before, during, and after, apply classic rules of legibility and commercial design to 21st Century presentations, upgrade sound and recording issues, and collect more practical technology tips. This is the third in a series with the Medical Library Association.

Ten Tips for Book Programs for Babies with Kathy Kirchoefer - August 25th, 2011

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/987739841

You can start teaching early literacy skills to babies without them or their grownups even knowing that that’s what you are doing! Whether you are preparing programs for babies in your library or community center, teaching early literacy skills to daycare providers, or providing support to new parents in an outreach program, a few tips can make your work easier and more productive, as well as more fun and effective for the babies and their adults.

Is Self-Employment for you? Building a Business, with Pat Wagner - September 1, 2011

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/750123448

Being smart, competent, experienced, credentialed, and effective are not enough. Self-employment is as much a lifestyle choice as it is a financial decision. Are you a perfectionist, or can you set limits on how much you do? Does negotiating about money make you uncomfortable, or can you ask for what you want? Does your family think being self-employed means glamour and big bucks, or are they supportive of long hours, missed vacations, and time on the road? Do you hope for a job where people will pay you and leave you alone, or do you actually like human beings?

We will review the basics, including identifying necessary skill sets, managing finances, setting deadlines, finding and keeping customers, and avoiding common mistakes.

Stop Managing Too Much with Too Little, with Pat Wagner

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/534864312

“Time management” is too often a code phrase for “Burn Yourself out for the sake of the team.” Instead, create an operations plan with precise target audiences and limited goals, but improved products and services. The most difficult step: deciding what you will stop doing, so you can free up time, money , and staff for better quality work.

Throwing darts at a wall is not the best way to choose what to eliminate. We will review several tested, practical strategies that help make hard decisions. Topics include reviewing the iron triangle (time, cost, quality), creating a working strategic plan, establishing priorities, ethical constraints, and making hard choices.