| Location |
Registration Form |
Restaurants Attractions in theOld City District of Philadelphia |
Conference Program (October 27) |
Pre-Conference Workshops
(October
26) |
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October 26-27, 2006 Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, Pa Directions to CHF Parking:
Note: Parking is available for those with special needs. In order to obtain one of these limited spaces, the individual will need a Handicapped placard or license plate. Please email Sheryl Panka-Bryman or Roz Goldstein, who will notify CHF. Due
to the limited
availability of parking at CHF, please use the Bourse Garage
located on 4th Street between Market and Chestnut Streets. The
CHF flat
rate for the Bourse Garage is $6.
Parking validation is available upon request at CHF. Metered street parking is also available throughout Old City, though can be difficult to find. |
| Session
Title |
| 8:30 - 9:00 am Registration and Light Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12 noon "Web OPAC Designs and Options” Julie Dore, Innovative Interfaces, Inc. Explores the many configurations possible with Web Options. The new, graphical interface for editing the Web Options file will be highlighted. The brief citation display introduced in Release 2002 Phase 3 will be discussed and possible modifications will be shown. |
| 12
noon - 1:30 pm Lunch on your own |
| 1:30 - 4:30
pm “Login Manager and Settings" Julie Dore, Innovative Interfaces, Inc. The session will be based on the significant changes that have occurred in the Login Manager/Settings areas since Release Silver. Special attention will be spent on templates, macros, and portability of settings between logins. In particular, we will talk about the changing argument for individual logins, effective management of large numbers of logins, and the power of customized settings in the day to day workflow of Technical Services staff. |
| Program: October 27 |
| Time |
Session
Title |
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| 8:30 - 9:15 am | Registration
and Light Breakfast |
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| 9:30 -9:45 |
Opening Session
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| 10 - 11 am |
"Designing an OPAC
for Web 2.0" Plymouth State University Casey Bisson will look at the World Wide Web as a"disruptive technology" and how the Web affects libraries and our users. What role do web technologies and concepts like social software, web 2.0, search engines, RSS, XML, and AJAX have in libraries? How can libraries catch up to user expectations of our online services? How can we reinvent the OPAC to take advantage of these technologies?" |
Millennium
Open Forum Mary Alice Peeling, Moderator Widener University School of Law |
| 11 - 11:15 am |
MorningBreak |
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| 11:15 am -12:15 pm |
"Media
management and rare books - a digitization project Elsa Atson and Andrea Tomlinson Othmer Library, Chemical Heritage Foundation The Othmer Library is in the midst of a 3
year cataloging and
digitization project involving a rare book collection using III's Media Management Product. This presentation addresses the use of the Media Management in the context of this project as well as the collection management of rare books utilizing RFID technology. Topics covered will include the decision to create born digital images, criteria for image selection, RFID processes and documented increase in OPAC usage since the project began. |
"BISAC to
EDIFACT, it's easier than you might think" Adele Barree Somerset County Library System Adele Barree will share Somerset County Library System's experience of transitioning to EDIFACT ordering. Adele will be accompanied by a Baker and Taylor representative. |
| 12:30 -
1:45 pm |
All
Conference Lunch (Tours of the Chemical Heritage Library will be available.) |
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| 2 - 3 pm | "Millennium and New
Products: Updates and Highlights"
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Questions, comments, suggestions to Margaret Guccione |