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Recent Web sessions and recorded presentations
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Good Practices for Great Outcomes: Cataloging Efficiencies that Make a Difference
Daphne Kouretas, OCLC Member Services Consultant, and Bruce Crocco, Vice President, Library Services for the Americas, OCLC, welcomed more than 70 participants to OCLC’s headquarters in Dublin, OH, for Good Practices for Great Outcomes: Cataloging Efficiencies that Make a Difference on October 21, 2011. The event featured Ted Fons, Director, WorldCat Global Metadata Network, OCLC, who presented, “Our WorldCat: Working Harder, Working Better.” He was followed by David Whitehair, Senior Product Manager, OCLC, who discussed, “Tech Services Workflows: Trends and Good Practices.” This event also featured speakers from our member community, including Susan Banoun, Head, Electronic Resources Department, University of Cincinnati, Morag Boyd, Head of Special Collections Cataloging, The Ohio State University Libraries, and Pam Matthews, Acquisitions Manager, Cuyahoga County Public Library. Beverly Cain, Agency Director and State Librarian at the State Library of Ohio also provided an insightful presentation on current trends and the future direction of libraries to close this event.
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October 21, 2011 |
OCLC CJK User Group Chinese Cataloging Webinar
Charlene Chou of Columbia University leads a webinar on Chinese cataloging. [50 minutes] |
September 28, 2011 |
Update on Controlling Headings in WorldCat and Connexion Changes
Becky Dean, OCLC discusses changes to controlling functionality in WorldCat along with changes to Connexion that apply to users of both the Web-based Connexion browser interface and the Windows-based Connexion client interface. The changes covered include those that support automatic date expansion for personal names, reduce unexpected automatic subfield flips, and resolve known problems in controlling. Information about Connexion changes related to the OCLC-MARC Bibliographic, Authority and Holdings Formats Update 2011 and upcoming controlling efforts in WorldCat, is also provided. [WebEx recording, 45 minutes] |
August 18, 2011 |
Creating Cataloging Efficiencies that Make a Difference
Chris Martire, Director, Member Services, OCLC, welcomed 75 participants to a session during the ALA Annual conference. This meeting included a keynote speaker (below) and lively roundtable discussions.
Bradford Lee Eden, Associate University Librarian for Technical Services & Scholarly Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, provided an informative keynote presentation,“Transforming Collection Management and Technical Services Operations: the Next-Generation Technical Services (NGTS) Initiative of the University of California Libraries.”
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June 27, 2011 |
From Charles Cutter to Tim Berners-Lee: Data Quality in the 21st Century
Lars Svensson of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek discusses the DNB's work with linked data, Adam Schiff of the University of Washington and Michael Norman of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign talk about their libraries' participation in the Expert Community, and Glenn Patton from OCLC tells about collaborative initiatives involving WorldCat that improve data quality, collective metadata management and access to library resources.
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June 26, 2011 |
End-to-End E-resource Management: How OCLC Makes it Easier [Streaming video, 46 minutes]
New OCLC services let you centralize and simplify management of e-resources from selection and purchase to discovery, delivery and ongoing maintenance. Hear how the new, cooperative WorldCat knowledge base features and data help OCLC members connect users to e-resources in library collections through WorldCat Local, WorldCat Resource Sharing and OCLC’s Web-scale Management Services. Learn how the knowledge base integrates with the new OCLC License Manager to help gain control of all aspects of your license arrangements.
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June 25, 2011 |
OCLC Update at AJL Meeting
David Whitehair and Cynthia Whitacre, OCLC, provides an OCLC update remotely to the Association of Jewish Libraries conference attendees. [68 minutes] |
June 19, 2011 |
OCLC CJK User Group Japanese Cataloging Webinar
Keiko Suzuki, Japanese Officer for the OCLC CJK Users Group and Japanese Catalog Librarian at Yale University, leads a webinar on how to identify and handle catalog records that originate in Japan. [52 minutes] |
June 08, 2011 |
Genre/Form Headings webinar
Linda Gabel, OCLC, discusses changes to the way the Library of Congress genre terms are tagged in MARC records. The discussion also includes usage of other genre/form vocabularies in MARC records. |
May 12, 2011 |
Connexion Enhancements
Learn about authority control improvements that will apply to Windows-based Connexion client and Web-based Connexion browser users. The enhancements to Connexion client version 2.30 are also discussed. [49 minutes] |
April 20, 2011 |
Creating Cataloging Efficiencies that Make a Difference [2 streaming video segments, 55 minutes]
Catriona Cannon of the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, talks about evolving cataloging and collection management workflows to boost efficiency. A question and answer session follows the presentation.
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January 10, 2011 |
Cataloging Defensively: When to Input a New Record in the Age of DDR
"Cataloging Defensively: When to Input a New Record in the Age of DDR". During the session, Jay Weitz, OCLC, discusses the importance of creating a new WorldCat record that distinguishes itself from others.
Download the presentation slides |
October 28, 2010 |
Good Practices for Great Outcomes: Cataloging Efficiencies that Make a Difference
Karen Calhoun, Vice President, Metadata Services, OCLC, shared the latest perspectives on metadata and cataloging trends. Mary Alice Robinson, Senior Training Coordinator, OCLC, provided the latest tips and tricks for cataloging efficiencies. We also featured the following speakers from our member community, who highlighted efficiencies and discussed challenges at their libraries during the panel discussion portion of the program:
Learn more about this event series
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October 01, 2010 |
Controlling headings in Connexion
An overview during which you'll learn:
- The benefits of incorporating controlling into your cataloging workflow,
- An overview of the three different types of controlling (single, multi-control, control all),
- Use of fixed field elements in controlling,
- The scope of current controlling functionality,
- A review of current 'known problems'.
Prerequisite: The session is aimed at those that are familiar with controlling functionality in the Connexion client. Attendees are encouraged to view the Controlling Headings in Bibliographic Records tutorial beforehand.
Download the presentation [PowerPoint: 1.24 MB] |
August 31, 2010 |
Cataloging Alchemy: Making Your Data Work Harder
OCLC staff provide a cataloging update and discuss tools that help WorldCat data work harder for you and lay a foundation for more effective use of bibliographic data on the web.
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June 28, 2010 |
Redesigning Technical Services Workflows
Recorded at the ALA Annual 2010 conference. Panelists discuss the discoverability, synchronization and syndication of library data and new ways of updating library holdings information.
Speakers include Janet Fransen, University of Minnesota, Ksenija Mincic-Obradovic, The University of Auckland Library, and Ted Fons, OCLC.
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June 26, 2010 |
WorldCat: New Dimensions in Growth and Quality [Streaming media, 55 minutes]
Ted Fons, OCLC, explains how OCLC is building and enriching WorldCat, including synchronizing local library collections and WorldCat, further enhancing metadata management and discoverability of library collections on the Web.
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January 17, 2010 |
Redesigning Technical Services Workflows
Leaders in the global technical services community share their perspectives on the theme, "Dollars and sense: paying for the collaborative national bibliographic framework." Karen Calhoun, Vice President, WorldCat and Metadata Services, Alasdair Ball, Head of Collection Acquisition and Description, British Library, Ruth Fischer, R2 Consulting LLC, and Brian E. C. Schottlaender, The Audrey Geisel University Librarian, UC San Diego, presented.
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January 16, 2010 |
Expert Community Experiment Wrap-up Webinar
The webinar, recorded on Sept. 25, 2009, provides a report on the results of the Experiment. 54 minutes in length. |
September 21, 2009 |
Redesigning Technical Services Workflows [Streaming video, 1:54:15]
Presentations include "Streamlining Book Metadata Workflow": A Report from NISO and OCLC presented by Todd Carpenter, NISO, and Renee Register, OCLC; The Only Constant is Change presented by Arlene Klair, University of Maryland Libraries; and Technical Services for a Radically New Reality presented by Rick Anderson, University of Utah.
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July 11, 2009 |
Integrating Technical Services and Preservation Workflows: Mainstreaming Digital Resources [Streaming video, 72:32]
After an introduction from Geri Bunker Ingram of OCLC, Amy Rudersdorf (Director, Digital Information Management Program, The State Library of North Carolina) discusses integrating a whole host of systems into a digital curation workflow, including OCLC's Connexion tools, Digital Archive, WorldCat, Digital Collection Gateway and CONTENTdm.
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July 11, 2009 |
Expert Community Experiment
The webinar introduces the Expert Community Experiment pilot. |
February 25, 2009 |
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