LUC 2004 Conference Program

LOUIS Users Conference Agenda October 18 – 19, 2004

Pennington Biomedical Research Center

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Monday, October 18 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm

REGISTRATION

1:00 pm – 1:45 pm OPENING SESSION Full AuditoriumPresenter: Ralph Boe’, Director, LOUIS and Gerard Killebrew, Associate Commissioner for Academic Affairs, Louisiana Board of Regents 1:45 pm – 2:00 pm BREAK Monday, October 18 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Transactions Statistics…Extreme Makeover! Auditorium APresenter: Glenn Manino, Manager of Library Information Systems, University of New Orleans Moderator: Selina Wang, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS Target Audience: All The Unicorn Transaction Statistics report can provide a lot of useful information, but it can also be confusing to use and interpret. This presentation discusses the basics of the Transaction Statistics report, and gives a view of the StatLog file, which is where the report gets its information. You will get techniques and software to look at the StatLog file in new ways, and get hour-by-hour breakdowns of the kinds and amount of work taking place at Circulation, Acquisitions, Cataloging, or any other service area. Two additional functions will be discussed: 1) a program to create a fund summary report in Excel directly from WorkFlows, and 2) a new look at the New Book list. LOUIS Consortium Committees Auditorium BPresenter: Sara Zimmerman, Associate Director, LOUIS, Ralph Boe’, Director, LOUIS Target Audience: All Ever wonder how many consortium committees exist, how they work or how someone is selected to sit on one? How about what happens to committee recommendations? This session will explain the structure of LOUIS committees, how they relate to LALINC and LLN and the process behind selecting members, establishing duties, and implementing recommendations. Focus Group: ILLiad Room 322Presenter: Julie LaDell-Thomas, SOLINET's OCLC Program Manager, and Jerome Cummings, Interlibrary Loan/Distance Education Librarian, McNeese State University Moderator: Zehra Zamin, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS Target Audience: ILLiad users and all ILL staff Julie will present OCLC 's integration of Interlibrary Loan into the FirstSearch interface, and its impact on ILLiad. Jerome will present OpenURL and ILLiad. Why Start a Digital Project and What is Involved Room 326Presenter: Pat Vince, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS Target Audience: All Discussion of advantages of implementing a digital project, selecting a collection and audience, funding sources, marketing to stakeholders and public, system and skill level requirements and LOUIS’ role. Federated Searching: What is it and How can it be Used in my Library? Room 327Presenter: Kristi Lobrano, Systems Librarian, Bossier Parish Community College and Eric Johnson, Library Director, Southeastern Louisiana University Moderator: Lisa Stigall, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS Target Audience: System administrators and reference staff This session will provide an overview of federated searching technology and describe how it is being used by database vendors, OPACS, search engines and other content providers. Audience participation welcome.



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3:00 pm – 3:15 pm BREAK Monday, October 18 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Authority Control Overview Auditorium APresenter: Mary Johns, Electronic Information Services Librarian, Paul M. Hebert Law Center Library and Glenn Manino, Manager of Library Information Systems, University of New Orleans Moderator: Selina Wang, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS Target Audience: Authority staff, Catalogers and System Administrators Mary will give Authority Control basics using Unicorn and Marcive authorities, plus a review of Unicorn 2003.1 enhancements to authority control. Glenn will discuss UNO’s process of planning for and loading bibliographic and authority records for their initial Marcive authority records project. Overview of Sirsi’s Latest Products Auditorium BPresenter: Greg Hathorn, Vice President of Library Products, Sirsi Corporation Moderator: Sara Zimmerman, Associate Director, LOUIS Target Audience: Sirsi customers A demonstration of some of Sirsi’s latest products: Director’s Station, SingleSearch, OpenURL Resolver and Rooms will be provided. Focus Group: Unicorn Serials Room 322Moderator: Mary Laird, Applications Analyst, LOUIS Target Audience: Serials staff Serials update and discussion. Digital Imagery and Scanning Basics Room 326Presenter: John Guillory, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS Target Audience: All This session will present basic concepts used to discuss digital images and demonstrate these concepts as they apply to benchmark scanning items for your digital library collection. The Agony and the Ecstasy: Implementing a Thin-Client

Network and a Pay-to-Print System in the LSU-S Library Room 327

Presenter: Carla Clark, Head of Access Services and Systems, Louisiana State University in Shreveport Moderator: Cathy Sicard, Applications Consultant, LOUIS Target Audience: Those interested in library technology, reference librarians and System Administrators Carla Clark will explain the concept of a thin-client network and describe its benefits and limitations. She will discuss the LSUS library's implementation of a thin-client network using CITRIX Metaframe software. She will also talk about the library's use of GoPrint pay-to-print software and the benefits the library has realized from these changes.



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Monday, October 18 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Why Use Custom Acquisitions Reports? Auditorium APresenter: Tonya Chustz, Assistant to the Dean, Louisiana State University Moderator: Selina Wang, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS Target Audience: Acquisitions staff and anyone else interested in acquisitions data This session will explain why LSU chose to implement the use of custom reports for gathering acquisitions data. The discussion will include a list of custom and delivered reports that LSU uses to collect acquisitions data as well as the benefits and uses of those reports. Sirsi Operations Auditorium BPresenter: Don McCall, Chief Operating Officer, Sirsi Corporation Moderator: Sara Zimmerman, Associate Director, LOUIS Target Audience: Sirsi customers Sirsi's operations and how it has evolved over time will be presented, as well as an overview of the Sirsi enhancement process. Focus Group: Unicorn Cataloging & Authorities Room 322Moderator: Mary Laird, Applications Analyst, LOUIS Target Audience: Cataloging and authorities staff Cataloging and authorities update and discussion. Future Direction of CONTENTdm Room 326Presenter: Greg Zick, President, DiMeMa Moderator: Pat Vince, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS Target Audience: All The future direction of CONTENTdm will be discussed. EBSCO’s EJS Registration Tracker and AtoZ: The Connection Room 327Presenter: Sally Carroll, Head-Shreveport Nursing Education Library, Northwestern State University of Louisiana and Linda Cox, Head-Media/Serials, Northwestern State University of Louisiana Moderator: Lisa Stigall, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS Target Audience: Serials and reference staff In February 2003, Northwestern began working with EBSCO’s AtoZ product, and for the following year and a half, two librarians coordinated the effort of registering and activating all of Northwestern’s online access to EBSCO-purchased journals. Once most of the EJS online journals were activated, these titles were added to Northwestern’s AtoZ list. This complicated and time-consuming project will be described in detail, along with an overview of Northwestern’s AtoZ product as it currently stands.



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Tuesday, October 19 7:30 am – 8:30 am

BREAKFAST


CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Library Dynamics Auditorium APresenter: Howard Harris, General Manager, Library Dynamics Moderator: Ralph Boe’, Director, LOUIS Target Audience: Staff involved with collection analysis and development An overview of Library Dynamics collection analysis software will be provided. 9xx and EDI Auditorium BPresenter: Natalie Palermo, Systems Librarian, Louisiana State University Moderator: Selina Wang, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS Target Audience: All The steps needed to implement EDI serials invoicing and 9xx ordering, the workflows involved, and LSU's experiences will be presented. If you are interested in making Unicorn acquisitions easier, this session is for you. Both processes can significantly reduce the amount of time spent manually creating invoices and order records. Using Unicorn to Manage Government Documents Room 322Presenter: Doris Hutson, Library Specialist in Government Documents/Microforms, Louisiana State University, and Elissa Plank, Library Associate in Government Documents/Microforms, Louisiana State University Moderator: Dongmei He, Applications Analyst, LOUIS Target Audience: Government documents staff An overview of monthly and weekly bibliographic title loads created by Marcive. Suggestions of Unicorn reports with selection criteria and output options after the loads are added to the database will be discussed, as well as other useful reports in managing daily functions of a circulating library. Introduction to CSA's New Interface: IDS 7.0 Room 324Presenter: Jennifer Howell, M.L.I.S Manager, Customer Education and Training, CSA Moderator: Zehra Zamin, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS Target Audience: Reference staff This session will focus on the changes made to the CSA Interface with the introduction of IDS 7.0. This will include discussion of the enhancements to the search capabilities used by the researcher as well as the new features of the Administrative Profile Module. Setting Up a Digital Project with CONTENTdm Room 326Presenter: Marcy Stevens, Applications Analyst, LOUIS Target Audience: Users of CONTENTdm This session will focus on different aspects of setting up a digital project. She will cover different attributes of the CONTENTdm software including full resolution manager, setting up field properties, banding images,creating templates to help with the input of metadata and image optimization. Netlibrary and Collection Development at ULM Room 327Presenter: Don Smith, Dean of the Library, University of Louisiana at Monroe, Dinah Williams, Coordinator of Reference Services, University of Louisiana at Monroe, and Carita Alexander, Reference/Instruction Librarian, University of Louisiana at Monroe Moderator: Lisa Stigall, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS Target Audience: All An overview of the collection development/collection management aspects of netLibrary via the reports feature in the administrative module of netLibrary will be provided.



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CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Circulation Reports with a Dash of Booking & Reserves Auditorium APresenter: Jeremy Landry, Automation Librarian, Nicholls State University Moderator: Marcy Stevens, Applications Analyst, LOUIS Target Audience: Anyone with an interest in using reports for circulation, booking or reserves module This session will explore many of the reports that are used in circulation, reserve, and booking functions. Practical scenarios and examples of using these reports will be covered. Primary emphasis will be on circulation and circulation statistical reports. Scan and Click: Inventory with a Handheld Scanner Auditorium BPresenter: Kristi Lobrano, Systems Librarian, Bossier Parish Community College and Kim Pullen, Reference Librarian, Bossier Parish Community College Moderator: Cathy Sicard, Applications Consultant, LOUIS Target Audience: Libraries that conduct an inventory or libraries considering using inventory scanners; Collection Development, Reference One site’s experiences on conducting an inventory with handheld scanners will be presented. Come hear and share tips, learn the steps/process, including the new inventory reports and gather other information on using a scanner to do an inventory in Workflows. Focus Group: Unicorn Acquisitions Room 322Moderator: Mary Laird, Applications Analyst, LOUIS Target Audience: Acquisitions staff Acquisitions update and discussion. Digital Reference Initiatives in Louisiana Room 324Presenter: Ladonna Guillot, Health Sciences Librarian, Southeastern Louisiana University, J.B. Hill, Head of Reference, Southeastern Louisiana University, Ed Rock, Information Services Librarian (Humanities) /Digital Reference Coordinator, Tulane University, Alexia Sheck, Reference/Instruction Librarian, Southeastern Louisiana University, and Melanie Sims, Reference Assistant Coordinator, Louisiana State University Moderator: Megan W. Lowe, Reference Librarian, University of Louisiana at Monroe Target Audience: Reference staff Digital reference is becoming increasingly commonplace in academic libraries across the country. This session provides an overview of digital reference initiatives at three Louisiana universities, LSU, Tulane and Southeastern, and gives a brief introduction to three different digital reference software interfaces, LiveAssistance, QuestionPoint and Tutor.com. Creating Compound Objects in CONTENTdm Room 326Presenter: Selina Wang, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS Target Audience: Users of CONTENTdm Demonstration how to create the document, postcard, and cube Compound objects in CONTENTdm. OCLC Services for Groups Room 327Presenter: Julie LaDell-Thomas, SOLINET's OCLC Program Manager Moderator: Lisa Stigall, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS Target Audience: Cataloging, serials, reference and interlibrary loan staff With OCLC's new services for groups, library consortia can create a customized union catalog in WorldCat that offers a single, unified view of library collections. This session will describe how groups of libraries can build on holdings already contributed to WorldCat to improve access to collections through the familiar FirstSearch interface. Topics will also include OCLC's new subscription pricing options for unlimited access to OCLC Cataloging and Interlibrary Loan.



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10:45 am – 11:00 am BREAK Tuesday, October 19 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Need a Report? – Check out “My Reports” Auditorium APresenter: Joe McNeill, System Administrator, McNeese State University Moderator: Selina Wang, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS Target Audience: All Need a report? This session will cover the "My Reports" area of delivered reports from Sirsi. You’ll find out why you might want to look at this area before giving up and requesting a "custom report" and how easy most of them are to use. Information Literacy in Louisiana’s Academic Institutions Auditorium BPresenter: Beth Namei, Instruction Librarian, University of New Orleans, Beth Orgeron, Library Instruction Coordinator, Loyola University, Crystal Lee, Director of Library Services, River Parishes Community College, Laverne Simoneaux, Associate Professor, Coordinator of User Education, Southeastern Louisiana University Moderator: Sara Zimmerman, Associate Director, LOUIS Target Audience: Academic librarians The LALINC Information Literacy Committee will provide a “state of the state report” of information literacy in Louisiana’s academic institutions including presentation of a brief description of Information Literacy, an update to the statewide ACRL Information Literacy Information Quotient report, and a panel discussion by academic librarians whose schools represent various stages of information literacy programs based on the IQ test results. ARIEL and Document Delivery Room 322Presenter: Jerome Cummings, Interlibrary Loan/Distance Education Librarian and Assistant Professor of Library Science, McNeese State University Moderator: Dongmei He, Applications Analyst, LOUIS Target Audience: Staff with an interest in document delivery, resource sharing or interlibrary loan. An informal discussion on using ARIEL in libraries. Topics include software and hardware maintenance, upgrades to Version 3.4 and beyond, and resources that can be consulted for troubleshooting. Institutional Repository Room 326Presenter: John Kelly, Digital Initiatives Librarian, University of New Orleans Moderator: Pat Vince, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS Target Audience: All This session will introduce the concept of Institutional Repositories, the technologies they use, some of the issues involved (i.e. copyright and self-archiving), and how UNO is using CONTENTdm in a pilot project. Institutional Repositories are a new service that libraries can offer by collecting the scholarship of their university's faculty and making it available on the web to all users. The content may include pre-prints, working papers, images, data sets, and published articles. Such a repository concentrates the intellectual production of a University and highlights its scholarship for researchers and administrators alike. The library handles all submission and commits to upgrading them as technology and software change. OpenURL & Database Administration Room 327Presenter: Carla Clark, Head of Access Services and Systems, Louisiana State University in Shreveport and Lisa Stigall, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS Moderator: Lisa Stigall, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS Target Audience: System administrators and reference staff You will learn how OpenURL works with online databases, ILLiad, etc. and how you can use some of the database admin accounts to configure links.



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12:00 pm – 1:00 pm LUNCH Tuesday, October 19 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Using Workflows Reports for Serials Management Auditorium APresenter: Dana Taylor, Head of Serials Services, Louisiana State University and Janie Branham, Head of Serials, Southeastern Louisiana University Moderator: Selina Wang, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS Target Audience: Staff responsible for any aspect of serials management Presenters will provide an overview of the Serials Group of Workflows reports and describe how these reports can be used to facilitate serials work. Specific attention will be given to reports used for serials claiming, binding, and statistical activities. Selected reports from the Acquisitions, Bibliographic, Cataloging, and Circulation Groups will also be included in this session. Flash - Targeting Undergraduates with Interesting, Interactive,

Innovative and Explosive Twists on Everyday Online Tutorials Auditorium B

Presenter: Ted Chaffin, Reference Librarian, Southern University and Sigrid Kelsey, Electronic Reference Services and Web Librarian, Louisiana State University Moderator: Lisa Stigall, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS Target Audience: Reference staff This session will present a new twist on today's online tutorial options using Flash Macromedia. Like animation? Your students probably do. Flash, by Macromedia, sets a new standard for interactivity, learning, and attention grabbing options for online tutorials. Using Flash, librarians can create visually compelling miniature movies ranging from the simple text-only tutorial to explosive mini-movie demonstrations of techniques and tips for research and library skills. Demonstrations of the powerful possibilities of Flash including examples of tutorials, and some funny and serious Flash animations found on the web, will also be previewed. Focus Group: System Administrator Room 322Moderator: Sara Zimmerman, Associate Director, LOUIS Target Audience: System Administrators Discussion on LOUIS System Administrator topics. Creating Compound Objects in CONTENTdm Room 326Presenter: Zehra Zamin, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS Target Audience: Users of CONTENTdm This session will provide a demonstration on the creation of Monograph Compound objects that have an inherent hierarchy involved, for example Books, Diaries, Journals, Scrapbooks, so that users can retrieve them with the hierarchical structure intact. Eat it Raw: Using Excel to Process Tab-Delimited Data Room 327Presenter: Kevin Hastings-Merriman, Head of Collection Management, McNeese State University Moderator: Mary Laird, Applications Analyst, LOUIS Target Audience: Staff running WorkFlows reports This presentation demonstrates the use of tab-delimited reports imported into Excel to get quick and versatile answers (rather than guessing which report pulls the data you want). The advantages over most WorkFlows reports are on-the-fly customization and the added benefit of immediately creating charts and graphs. This type of information is helpful for collection analysis and strategic planning.



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Tuesday, October 19 2:15 pm – 3:15 pm

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Catalog-Based Reports Auditorium APresenter: Natalie Palermo, Systems Librarian, Louisiana State University and Marsha Aucoin, Head, Database Management, Louisiana State University Moderator: Selina Wang, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS Target Audience: All Reports which can be used for resolving cataloging problems, tracking staff activity, weeding, identifying duplicates, determining the age of the collection, and more will be discussed. EZproxy and Electronic Resources: The Guard at the Gate Auditorium BPresenter: Mike DiCarlo, Associate Director, Louisiana Tech University; Jean Caswell, Systems Librarian, Southeastern Louisiana University; Carla Clark, Head of Access Services and Systems, Louisiana State University in Shreveport; and Jeremy Landry, Automation Librarian, Nicholls State University Moderator: John Guillory, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS Target Audience: Staff maintaining EZproxy or those wanting to learn more about it EZproxy is arguably the most widely used software for securing your library's electronic resources. This session will answer questions about the problem EZproxy solves, how to configure and maintain it, the statistics EZproxy generates, the different resources you can secure with it, authentication, and the different ways libraries have deployed it. Focus Group: Unicorn Circulation, Booking, and Reserves Room 322Moderator: Lisa Stigall, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS Target Audience: Circulation, booking and reserves staff Discussion on circulation topics, patron initiated booking and reserves. Questions/Answers About Digital Projects and CONTENTdm Room 326Presenter: Marcy Stevens, Applications Analyst, LOUIS; Pat Vince, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS; and Zehra Zamin, Consortium Librarian, LOUIS Target Audience: Users of CONTENTdm The LOUIS staff will be available to answer questions related to digital projects and CONTENTdm. General Guidelines for Website Accessibility Room 327Presenter: Janet Woolman, Reference Librarian, McNeese State University, and Brantley Cagle, Government Documents Librarian, McNeese State University Moderator: Cathy Sicard, Applications Consultant, LOUIS Target Audience: Those that deal with general website maintenance and page creation This session will provide practical tips and recommendations for making web pages more accessible. Discussion will include aspects of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, the Web Accessibility Initiative, and Cascading Style Sheets. In addition to individuals with disabilities, focus will be given to users of different types of technology, including PDA's. This session will cater to the general web page creator. 3:15 pm – 3:30 pm Closing Remarks Full AuditoriumPresenter: Ralph Boe’, Director, LOUIS



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