November 2006 RLG-OCLC Transition Forum—Middle East Librarians Association

Date & Location: Saturday, November 18, 2006. Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA.

Agenda

2:00 – 2:05 pm Introductions to the RLG-OCLC staff

• Karen Smith-Yoshimura, OCLC Service Center
• Arthur Smith, OCLC Middle East & Northern Africa
• David Whitehair, OCLC Connexion client product manager

2:05 – 3:35 pm Experiences Using Connexion for Arabic-script Cataloging

• Hikmat Faraj, Middle Eastern Studies Bibliographer
  Emory University Libraries
• Roberta L. Dougherty, Middle Eastern Studies Librarian
  University of Texas Libraries, University of Texas at Austin

3:35 – 4:00 pm Transitioning RLG Services to OCLC

• Karen Smith-Yoshimura, on behalf of the OCLC-RLG Technical Services Transition Team
  
  Discussion: Share your questions about integrating the RLG Union Catalog into WorldCat and migrating RLIN21 use to Connexion!