[Apologies for duplication.]
LITA NGCIG Meeting at ALA Anaheim: Next Steps in Next Generation
Catalogs
The LITA Next Generation Catalog Interest Group will meet on Monday,
June 30, 10:30 a.m. - Noon.
Anaheim Convention Center, 213 C
We will have presentations and discussion about two examples of recent
next generation catalog endeavors.
Karen Schneider (Evangelist for Equinox's Evergreen support) will share
what she does as an Evangelist by giving some real world, grounded
information on how "Running a Free and Open Source Software ILS does Not
Equate to a Tightrope Act with No Net".
Sara Davidson and Amy Kautzman (Members of UC/OCLC Pilot Implementation
Team) will present "Launching a Next-Generation Consortial Catalog".
What can you produce when you bring together 10 University of California
campuses, the California Digital Library (CDL), an existing union
catalog, Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), multiple task groups and
the efforts of numerous individuals? In our case, the result is the
Next-Generation Melvyl pilot which draws together content from UC's
existing union catalog and provides it on OCLC's WorldCat Local
Platform. We will review the implementation process, the challenges
encountered, beneficial features, and next steps.
A brief IG business meeting will follow the discussion.
See you in Anaheim.
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Sharon Shafer
sshafer_at_library.ucla.edu
Received on Wed Jun 11 2008 - 18:37:19 EDT