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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2004
From: Scott Wicks (Cornell Univ.) <sbw2_at_cornell.edu>
Subject: Meeting Announcement
If you're attending the Charleston Conference, be sure to check out:
WHAT:
RECENT INNOVATIONS IN TECHNICAL SERVICES AND COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT
-One-Step Shopping, One-Stop Shipping: Aggregation of New Title Sources
and
Harvesting the Acquisitions Decision
-Partnership Makes It Work
-Sure, ILL Order the Book
WHEN:
SATURDAY, 9 AM UNTIL 10:45
WHERE:
PINKNEY ROOM
A few months ago, I sent out a call for co-presenters at this year's
Charleston Conference. I am pleased to announce that there will be
three
"innovations" described on Saturday morning that have potential benefit
for
collection development and technical services. The program consists of
two
parts. Part one will include discussion and demonstration of ITSO CUL
(Cornell's integrated tool for selection and ordering) and the result of
a
collaborative effort between the University of Western Ontario Library
(an
III library) and Coutts. Part two, starting at 10, will continue with a
discussion of an innovation developed by Alibris in collaboration with
OCLC
and partner libraries that facilitates the option to buy a book at the
point
of the Interlibrary Loan decision.
PART ONE
One-Step Shopping, One-Stop Shipping: Aggregation of New Title Sources
and
Harvesting the Acquisitions Decision (Scott Wicks)
To take advantage of automation in both collection development and
technical
services, Cornell has developed a web-based selection tool that will:
* Take incoming files of MARC records from the Library of Congress and
materials vendors
* Sort the records to the appropriate subject selector
* Facilitate the selection process through a single web interface
* Embed relevant acquisitions data (price, fund code, holdings location)
for
a majority of titles
* Assign appropriate vendor code
* Automate the creation of a purchase order, loading bibliographic, and
holdings records without human intervention.
Scott Wicks will discuss why Cornell has taken this approach, what was
required
to develop the tool, who needed to participate in the planning process,
what were
the pitfalls along the way, and share the resulting outcome of their
experience.
He plans to demonstrate a piece of the total workflow by connecting to
the
web-based tool (ITSO CUL).
Partnership Makes It Work (Anne Deacon and Andy Alferovs)
As staffing levels in Technical Service departments dwindle, we must
find new ways
of accomplishing our goals. We want to partner with our vendors to
simplify the
ordering process and facilitate our cataloguing using the strengths of
our vendor
and our ILS.
We have achieved success in seamlessly ordering directly from one of our
vendor's
databases. Fully loaded MARC records ready for payment and circulation
are
automatically created without being touched by human hands. As with
Cornell, we are
taking advantage of processes machines can do which has resulted in
staff being
able to focus on areas where machines can't be utilized. Their work is
intellectually challenging and has eliminating the repetitive aspects of
ordering
books.
Find out how we do this, marrying the strengths of Coutts Library
Services and
Innovative Interfaces!!!
PART TWO
Sure, ILL Order the Book (Dudley Emmert)
Alibris, a leading supplier of used, new, and hard-to-find books, music,
and movies,
has developed technology that allows libraries to purchase books
directly through
the OCLC ILL system. I will discuss how the process works and outline
current
research on how ILL-triggered book purchases can enhance library
collection
development and acquisitions.
Panelists include:
Scott Wicks- Head, Acquisitions, Bibliographic Control, & Government
Documents,
Cornell University
Anne Deacon- Head, Acquisitions, D.B. Weldon Library, University of
Western Ontario
Andy Alferovs- VP Sales & Marketing, Coutts Library Services
Dudley Emmert- Director, Business Partnerships, Alibris
Scott B. Wicks
Head, Acquisitions, Bibliographic Control, and Government Documents
Central Technical Services
Cornell University Library
110 Olin Library
Ithaca, NY 14853-5301
607 255-9405
607 255-6110 (FAX)
sbw2_at_cornell.edu
http://www.library.cornell.edu/tsweb/
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