Belated Tech services roundtable notes

1. Purchasing Co-op deadline March 31; bid by end of April - e-mail

Jan Resnick if necessary.

2. WMRLS Restructuring - process of merger continues; consolidation

of staff and services at the Regional level (47 staff to be reduced to 22); www.wmrls.org has link to merger transition report, with important summary beginning on p. 4; plan should be final by June; WMRLS building will be open for at least a year as delivery hub; MassCat and training will continue; one positive thing is that data bases will be state-wide eventually; MARLS Coop is state-wide already, and it works well.

Facebook: "We Love Western Mass Libraries."

3. FY11 budget - How have individual Tech Services Depts. been

affected? Frustration expressed re: TS staff getting cut, and the difficulty of using subs in TS; also, the difficulty of working as subs in public services, when staff are out sick, on vacation, etc.

4. C/WMARS -Janet Schrader on communicating with CWMARS and

especially when registering for workshops - PLEASE include full name, library name, e-mail and use subject line to state topic or workshop name.

5. CatExpress up for renewal; deadline is very soon. Janet

believes records will still be .99 per record, and it's the same rate for extra records.

6. Migration to Evergreen should be in 18 months. It will only

occur, however, after Serials and Acquisitions modules are ready.

7. RDA will begin to replace AACR2; it might be web-based only,

@$300/yr.

8. Next Meeting: June 9, 2010, 10 a.m. - Belchertown, Clapp

Memorial Library.

Technical Services Roundtable February 3rd in Westfield

Hello Everyone,

You are invited to our next Technical Services Roundtable meeting, at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, February 3rd (the 4th if it snows, which hopefully it won't) at the Westfield Athenaeum.

Jeremy Goldstein, of the Berkshire Athenaeum in Pittsfield, will be moderator.

Please RSVP and send agenda items to jeremy at jgoldste@cwmars.org

I look forward to seeing everyone in February.

Summary of Technical Services Roundtable

Yesterday the latest technical services roundtable was held at the North Adams Public Library.  At the meeting:

The attendees stated that they would like to see more activity on the CWCAT message board. Janet Schrader encouraged us to use CWCAT to communicate with each other about all tech services topics – whether or not C/W MARS cataloging is involved.  The attendees agreed that if we have more continuous activity on CWCAT, then we can send fewer messages to WMRLS and CWINFO.

The MLA Technical Services Section is seeking a candidate for Vice-Chair (2 and a half year committment) to fill an immediate vacancy, as well as candidates for Vice-Chair (3 year), Secretary (2 year), and Member-at-Large (2 year) to be elected at this year's conference in Springfield.  If interested please contact Cecile Bianco (Cecile.Bianco.umassmed.edu)

Libraries were reminded that they are obligated to follow the street dates for materials provided to them by their distributors. 

C/W Mars is actively working on customized templates for libraries seeking to print spine labels from Millenium Cataloging.  If you are interested and your library uses a laser printer, please contact Janet Schrader (jschrader@cwmars.org), if you use a continuous feed printer please contact Tom Corbett (tcorbett@cwmars.org).  It is also recommended that you send C/W Mars an example of your label stock along with its item number.  Click here for further information.

Libraries are strongly urged when adding items containing multiple parts to clearly label on the container what parts are included.  When cataloging these items it is recommended that you only use one barcode for the set as a whole. This is intended for items that circulate throughout the network and on which patrons/staff can place holds. The single barcode is so there will not be multiple item records for what is actually a single item.

A list of all current itypes has been posted to the C/WMars website for quick reference. 

Carolyn Platt wanted to know which products we prefer for attaching book jackets.  Some libraries like fiber or filament tapes, and no one worries about covering up information!

Laura Dankner of the Milne Public Library in Williamstown has volunteered to compile a list of commonly used supplies for covering books.  Please post your supply lists to the CWCAT list for this project. 

Jeremy Goldstein gave a talk on LibraryThing and LibraryElf, and will be happy to answer any questions on either topic (jgoldste@cwmars.org).

The next meeting will be held at the Westfield Athenaeum in February.

Massachusetts Library Association Technical Services Sections One Day Workshop on Digitization October 28th

MLA Technical Services Section proudly presents “Introduction to Library Digitization”, a one day program on Tuesday October 28th, 2008, at the Worcester Public Library. This program will cover what libraries need to consider before starting a digitization project. The speakers will be Massachusetts librarians who have successfully implemented digitization projects at their libraries. The sessions will be:

Virtual Archives: Preparing to Create a Digital Collection
Speaker: Gregor Trinkaus-Randall, M.A.L.S., C.A., F.S.A. Scot Preservation Specialist, Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

Digitizing Dissertations at UMass Worcester Speakers, Mary Piorun, MLS, AHIP Associate Director for Technology Initiatives and Resource Management, Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts, Worcester Lisa Palmer, MLS Catalog Librarian, Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts, Worcester

Digital Copyright in the 21st Century.
Tentative: We are still looking for a speaker on this topic.

Panel Discussion:
The day will end with a panel discussion with Massachusetts & Connecticut librarians on:
* How real libraries actually began their digitization project?
* The issues faced by librarians doing real projects
* Project planning and management
* Hardware needs
* Copyright considerations
* Metadata Standards used for data creation

Location:
Worcester Public Library, Saxe Room
3 Salem Sq
Worcester, MA 01608
(508) 799-1655
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Cost:
Early bird registration: (before Oct 1st) $40.00 per person $30.00 for MLA members

After October 1st:
$45.00 per person
$35.00 for MLA members

Deadline to register:
October 14, 2008
Early bird deadline is October 1, 2008

Catering by: by Eric's LaPatisserie Café ____________________________________________________________________________


To register:
1. Please send your check made payable to the Massachusetts Library Association to:

Lois Bacon
Attn: MLA-TSS program
29 Harding Rd
Needham MA 02492

2. Please fill out the information below and send it with your check

Full name: _______________________
Address: _______________________
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For registration questions, please contact: LBacon@EBSCO.COM

Technical Services Roundtable October 7th

Hello Everyone,

You are invited to our next Technical Services Roundtable meeting, at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 7th. It will be held at the North Adams Public Library.

Carolyn Platt, of the Jones Library in Amherst, will lead the meeting.

Please RSVP and send agenda items to Carolyn at PlattC@joneslibrary.org.

I look forward to seeing everyone in October