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Innovations in Library Design--Lloyd Library and Museum
SWON Libraries Office Closed - Labor Day
Time: 1:30-4:00 pm
Joy Adams (Boone County Public Library), Brandy Babb (Campbell County Public Library), Ruth Coyle (Kenton County Public Library), Rita Doran (Oldham County Public Library), Leoma Dunn (Thomas More College), Shirley Eccles (Paul Sawyier Public Library, Frankfort), Akram Pari (Cincinnati Law Library Assoc.), Nancy Rice (Paul Sawyier Public Library, Frankfort), Aaron Smith (Clermont County Public Library), Tracey Stivers (Cincinnati State), Connie Strait (Greene County Public Library), Margaret Whitehead (Boone County Public Library), and Doug Williams (Campbell County Public Library), with special guest Anne Abate (Executive Director, SWON Libraries)
After introducing ourselves to one another, we used a set of Power Point images compiled by Aaron as a dialogue-starter. This set of screen shots illustrated how five different local catalogs handled the same search, offering ideas for new approaches and raising some interesting questions. We will give the specific MARC records a closer look as far as editing practices are concerned at a future meeting.
We looked at the evaluations contributed by attendees after the workshop, finding a generally positive reception to our offering. Anne felt that the workshop still has life, and requested that we offer it in the northern area of the SWON Libraries jurisdiction in 2007 (see below).
We were reminded of two significant training offerings to come in the months ahead:
The two-day session offered by INCOLSA in Indianapolis entitled Book Blitz II is being offered in two separate sessions (Nov. 7-10); for cost and registration info, please go to: http://www.incolsa.net/WebCal/CAT.html?Category=E#1838
The Intermediate Cataloging workshop will take place here at SWON headquarters in Blue Ash on Nov. 30, led by Carol Bradsher. She will offer training on the assignment of LC subject headings and on the use of AACR2rev. For a detailed description and link to registration, please go to: http://www.swonlibraries.org/viewevent?id=750
There was a substantial amount of interest in having Carol Bradsher do programs on audio and video cataloging. Pending a lot of administrative detail, we would likely invite her present most programs twice, one south and one north. These programs could be full-day, or half-day, pending Carol's preferences. A specific idea that garnered some interest was the possibility of a day comprised of a morning of audiobook cataloging, and an afternoon of basic music sound recording cataloging. There was broad consensus that attempting to do both video and audio cataloging on the same day was a bad idea.
We arrived at a tentative date of March 15, 2007 for yet another reprise of the Introduction to MARC program (a reprise of the June 1st offering), but this time in the northern part of our area. Because three of our major presenters for that program were not present and two of them live some distance south of Cincinnati, we will discuss it and see if we can find a way to accommodate that northern audience.
In the works: an approach to a hands-on cataloging workshop using the laptops; we'll see if we can locate some simple software that emulates a cataloging module to make this kind of program work.
Finally, Anne desires another visit from Joe Hinger (SCCTP), thinking that Dayton should be fertile ground for such a visit. She suggested that she poll directors for need, as to whether we should request Basic Serials Cataloging, Integrating Resources Cataloging, etc. We will follow up.
[We have in the past discussed graphic novels and cataloging children's materials; those topics did not come up at this meeting, but remain on the table as future possibilities]
We briefly discussed the Library of Congress' recent decision to discontinue series authority maintenance, and talked about our approaches to filling that void. As we are all somewhat dependent on our MARC sources, our consortial ties, and (for some) our outsourced authority jobbers, we seem to be on hold, coping with problems as they arise until a pattern emerges.
We also touched on the inconvenience to our users involved in updating name-authority headings with death dates, particularly in those local systems which do not have regular authority heading review, leading to multiple access points for the same personal name.
We continued this quick review through the Power Point tutorial (thanks to Lynnette Fields, formerly with the Lewis & Clark Library System), prompting us to discuss the ways our systems handle uniform titles differently and the local choices we've made, particularly in terms of foreign language original titles.
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 1:30-4:00 pm, SWON Libraries headquarters, Blue Ash
Agenda thus far:
Respectfully submitted,
Aaron Smith
Clermont County Public Library