Please post the following meeting announcement.

Thank you.

-Scott

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.

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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).
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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!!!

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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.

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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@cornell.edu
http://www.library.cornell.edu/tsweb/