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The ALCTS Serials Section College and Research Libraries Discussion
Group invites you to:

TOPIC:  Doing Less to Do More: incorporating outsourced MARCs and
brief bibs for serials discovery
DATE: Saturday, June 23, 2007

TIME: 10:30 - 12:00

PLACE: HYATT (Grand Hyatt) -- Lafayette Park

Are you thinking about using outsourced MARC records or
auto-formatted brief bibs to aid in discovery of electronic journals?
Concerned about load issues, quality of records, what you gain and
what it takes to get started?

Please join us on Saturday, June 23rd, 10:30 - 12:00 at the HYATT,
Lafayette Park, for a discussion about the advantages and pitfalls of
using outsourced and/or auto-formatted brief bibs.

Panelists include:

Cecilia Genereux, Serials and Electronic Resources Cataloging
Coordinator at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, coordinates
maintenance of the SFX knowledge base and works with the library
systems department to load MARCit records into the Libraries' catalog
(Ex Libris' Aleph).

Paul Moeller, Serials Cataloger and Bibliographer for Religious
Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, oversees the
maintenance of the Libraries' knowledgebase in Serials Solutions and
the loading of Serials Solutions MARC records into the Libraries'
catalog (Innovative's Millennium).

Rebecca Kemp, Serials Supervisor Librarian at UNC Wilmington, manages
access to online and print titles and is responsible for loading both
auto-generated brief bibs into her ILS (Innovative's Millennium), as
well as loading EBSCO produced MARC records.

Please join us!

Chair and Moderator of SS College and Research Libraries DG,
Selden Durgom Lamoureux
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Selden Durgom Lamoureux
Electronic Resources Librarian
Davis Library CB#3938
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890 U.S.A.
phone: (919) 962-1067 Fax: (919) 962-4450
email: <mailto:Selden_Lamoureux@unc.edu>Selden_Lamoureux@unc.edu
url: <http://www.lib.unc.edu/acq/>http://www.lib.unc.edu/acq/
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