Spring Meeting! Next Generation Library

Registration is now open for the joint College & University Section/Technical Services Round Table Spring Meeting at Union College on May 18th. Learn about the Next Generation Library and network with colleagues. Link to the preliminary program:
http://www.nebraskalibraries.org/TSRT/spring.html and the registration form:
http://www.nebraskalibraries.org/TSRT/07registration.rtf

More Next Generation Warm Up

What does the Future hold in the Next Generation Library?

Take a look at a few of these resources on Next Generation Libraries and attend our spring meeting on May 18^th.

From the LITA blog, a look at the Next Generation Catalog

Deirdre has mentioned this before but it’s worth a revisit. Join a list-serv created by Eric Lease Morgan to find out what’s cooking:
http://infomotions.com/serials/ngc4lib

The Library of Congress has formed a group called the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, check out more here: http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/

Sirsi Conference Review

Let me start a trend to post reviews of attended conferences, workshops, seminars. In February, I got to attend Sirsi's Superconference also know as UUGI. In sunny Colorado Springs at the Broadmoor Resort Hotel, I attended several sessions on Sirsi's ILS over a three day period. From this conference, some I took away information on federated searchers, application of RSS for your new books, social bookmarking in the OPAC and how to create deep-links from your library's homepage to your our catalog. It was nice to hear how others were applying some of these tech trends to our own ILS and that it was possible (with a wee bit of training).

In addition, I found that while our library is in the majority (something like 60%) who have not upgraded to the JAVA client that we seriously need to upgrade. What's nice is that you can run the old and new clients side by side to ease into that transition. I, also, met our new sales rep and talked with several vendors.

Lastly, I hope to bring one of the sessions "home". I will be presenting at SMUG (Sirsi Midwest Users Group, for the non-Sirsi folks) this year which will be held at Bellevue University on July 26th and 27th on the topic of deep-linking/creating external links to your Sirsi OPAC. If you have attended a conference and want to share what you learned please email me your review at casey.kralik@bellevue.edu and I will get it posted!