2002 NWIUG Conference

University of Portland - Portland, Oregon

Program Sessions

NWIUG CONFERENCE PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Monday, October 14, 2002

12:30 - 1:00 pm - Registration, Franz Hall Lobby

1:00 - 2:00 pm

Millennium Media Manager - Claudia Conrad & Lynne Branche Brown - Innovative Interfaces (Franz Hall Room 214)

A look at the new Millennium media product that allows libraries to scan, import, and integrate images into the bibliographic database.

 

BEFORE Create Lists; or, Finding Elusive Information in Your Library Database - Berniece Owen, Portland Community College (Franz Hall Room 223)

Create lists is a wonderful tool for all levels of library staff in all types of libraries. However, non-catalogers and non-programmers frequently have a lot of difficultly learning to use the function productively. They may lack a basic understanding of fixed and variable fields, to say nothing of MARC. They may also struggle to understand that the information they seek could be in multiple databases. That is, the full trail of a circulation transaction will affect the item record database and the patron database. This is a basic tutorial on tracking elusive database information and statistics that may not come in pre-bundled reports. I will share our learning experience with Create Lists, and I will offer hints and strategies to help you map your own successful reports.

WebOPAC with a WebBridge Focus - Ted Fons, Innovative Interfaces (Franz Hall Room 206)

A review of the latest Web OPAC features with a focus on the possibilities of contextual web linking with Innovative's WebBridge software.

2:15 - 3:15pm

MilCat w/Automatic Authorities Processing - Claudia Conrad, Innovative Interfaces (Franz Hall Room 206)

An overview of the Millennium Cataloging module with an emphasis on the new editor and automatic authorities processing.

URL/Link Checking - Terry Reese, Oregon State University (Franz Hall Room 223)

As electronic resources begin to make up more and more of a library's current research collection, issues such as url maintenance and the mechanisms for doing such maintenance become more and more important. In the past, URL maintenance primarily was done either using a myriad of freeware applications or your system's built-in URL checking software. Like most vendors, III has traditionally included a URL checking application, but its overall usefulness has always been suspect. However, with III's 2002 Phase 2 release, the URL checker has been both improved and integrated into the MilCat application. This presentation will be a discussion and simple demonstration of this software and its functionality.

New Release Information - Betsy Graham, Innovative Interfaces (Franz Hall Room 214)

An overview of upcoming enhancements.

3:30 - 4:30pm

Millennium Create Lists/Millennium Statistics - Claudia Conrad & Ted Fons, Innovative Interfaces (Franz Hall Room 206)

An overview of Millennium Create Lists features and an introduction to the
upcoming Millennium Statistics program.

The Networked Union Catalog: Requesting Items Using INNOPAC and INN-Reach - Linda Frederiksen & Nicole Campbell, Washington State University - Vancouver (Franz Hall Room 214)

Using Cascade and Griffin Request Item as an example, this presentation will focus on patron requests, examining both the patron side and the staff side, as well as how INNOPAC and INN-Reach perform item selection, typical problems encountered during the request process, and how statistics are produced by each system.

Advanced Create Lists - Robbie Giles, Washington State University (Franz Hall Room 223)

This session will focus on complex searches in the create lists function. You will also learn to e-mail functions to create reports.

4:30 - 5:30 pm - Reception (Buckley Center Art Gallery)

Visit with your colleagues and representatives from Innovative Interfaces.

Tuesday, October 15, 2002

8:15 - 9:00 am - Registration and Coffee (Buckley Center Auditorium Foyer)

9:00 - 9:30 am - Welcome, Introductions (Buckley Center Auditorium)

Innovative Update, Betsy Graham, Director of Product Development, Innovative Interfaces

9:45 - 10:45 am

Using III to do authority work in-house - Shirley Lincicum, Western Oregon University (Franz Hall Room 026)

This session will provide an introduction to using III system tools to peform routine authority work in-house. It will include a brief overview of the primary goals of authority control and discuss how III tools work in support of these goals. Approaches and specific practices used at Western Oregon University that allow routine authority work to be successfully integrated into the regular workflow will also be discussed. This presentation will be of greatest interest to those who are unfamiliar with III authorities tools and are seeking to develop procedures for performing basic authority work and related database maintenance without regular assistance from outside vendors.

WebOPAC with a WebBridge Focus - Ted Fons, Innovative Interfaces (Franz Hall Room 015)

A review of the latest Web OPAC features with a focus on the possibilities of contextual web linking with Innovative's WebBridge software.

BEFORE Create Lists; or, Finding Elusive Information in Your Library Database - Berniece Owen, Portland Community College (Franz Hall Room 206)

Create lists is a wonderful tool for all levels of library staff in all types of libraries. However, non-catalogers and non-programmers frequently have a lot of difficultly learning to use the function productively. They may lack a basic understanding of fixed and variable fields, to say nothing of MARC. They may also struggle to understand that the information they seek could be in multiple databases. That is, the full trail of a circulation transaction will affect the item record database and the patron database. This is a basic tutorial on tracking elusive database information and statistics that may not come in pre-bundled reports. I will share our learning experience with Create Lists, and I will offer hints and strategies to help you map your own successful reports.

Circulation Forum - Jill Palmer, Washington State University (Franz Hall Room 214)

An open forum for the users of the circulation module. Bring your questions, answers, and tips to share with your colleagues.

Using Expect to Automate Repetitive Tasks in the Innopac - Mark Dahl, Lewis and Clark College (Franz Hall Room 223)

This presentation will demonstrate how to use the Expect programming language to automate repetitive tasks in an Innopac. Expect is an easy-to-use language that can simulate human interaction with menu driven, telnet based interfaces. I will demonstrate how to use Expect to extract bibliographic, order, or patron data using the III create lists feature. I will also show how it may be used to automatically create statistical reports, initialize and verify backup tapes, and move order data into item records.

11:00 - 12:00 pm

Serials Forum - Susanna Flodin, Oregon Institute of Technology (Franz Hall Room 015)

An open discussion for users of the serials module. Bring your questions,
answers, and tips to share with your colleagues.

MilCat with Automatic Authorities Processing - Claudia Conrad, Innovative Interfaces (Franz Hall Room 026)

An overview of the Millennium Cataloging module with an emphasis on the new editor and automatic authorities processing.

Advanced Create Lists - Robbie Giles, Washington State University (Franz Hall Room 206)

This session will focus on complex searches in the create lists function. You will also learn to e-mail functions to create reports.

Electronic Resource Management - Diane Grover, University of Washington & Ted Fons, Innovative Interfaces (Franz Hall Room 214)

Fully integrated with the Millennium system or available as a stand-alone, Electronic Resource Management enables libraries to keep track of their e-journal licensing and purchasing details using a single interface, streamlining workflows, and eliminating the need to maintain separate databases. The module defines relationships between aggregators or publishers and the resources they provide, and enables libraries to manage payments and other financial/subscription details. Electronic Resource Management also helps libraries store relevant data and selectively display information about electronic resources in the Web OPAC for public services staff and patrons. This program will update attendees on the progress to date for developing the module.

Basic Circulation: Into the Millennium - Zippy Nickerson, Central Washington University & Beth Longwell, Eastern Oregon University

A basic overview to the Circulation module, both MilCirc and character-based.

1:45 - 2:45 pm

New Release Information - Betsy Graham, Innovative Interfaces (Franz Hall Room 015)

An overview of upcoming enhancements.

How to use III Authority Module and OCLC Authority Service to do Authority Work - Lihong Zhu, Washington State University (Franz Hall Room 026)

Two years ago, WSU libraries and EWU Library embarked on an authority control project aiming at improving the precision of retrieval in their shared online catalog Griffin. The project involved three major phases. First, in 2000, the existing database in Griffin was sent to OCLC/WLN, our authority control vendor, for processing. OCLC/WLN processed the entire database and returned it to us up to current authority standards. Second, new records are sent to OCLC/WLN on a bimonthly basis for authority "washing." Third, cataloging librarians at WSU and EWU go through OCLC/WLN bimonthly and quarterly authority reports and use III authority module to solve any problems that can not be solved by OCLC/WLN's automatic authority control process. The presentation will focus on how we use III authority module to accomplish what can not be done by OCLC automatic authority wash.

Web Access Management - Beth Longwell, Eastern Oregon University & Carolyn Piatz, University of Portland (Franz Hall Room 206)

A brief overview of the Web Access Management module with an emphasis on how to set up your system to use the proxy rewrite method.

Millennium Media Manager - Claudia Conrad & Lynne Branche Brown, Innovative Interfaces (Franz Hall Room 214)

A look at the new Millennium media product that allows libraries to scan, import, and integrate images into the bibliographic database.

Managing Ejournal Titles and Holdings with Vendor Partners - Ted Fons, Innovative Interfaces & Peter McCracken, Serials Solutions (Franz Hall Room 223)

Serials Solutions and Innovative Interfaces are offering services and products that allow libraries to manage electronic journals available through database aggregators, subscription agents, and electronic publishers. Serials Solutions offers services like full MARC records for ejournal titles and Innovative offers bibliographic and serials holdings control tools and a new Ejournal Holdings Update product that uses data provided by vendors like Serials Solutions. This session will review these options as they have been implemented by libraries and describes the partnership between Serials Solutions and Innovative in bringing these options to libraries.

3:00 - 4:00pm

Acquistions Forum - Donna Packer, Western Washington University (Franz Hall Room 015)

An open discussion for users of the acquisitions module. Bring your questions, answers, and tips to share with your colleagues.

Cataloging Forum - Rich Edwards, Washington State Library (Franz Hall Room 026)

An open discussion for users of the cataloging module. Bring your questions, answers, and tips to share with your colleagues.

Millennium Create Lists/Millennium Statistics - Claudia Conrad & Ted Fons, Innovative Interfaces (Franz Hall Room 206)

An overview of Millennium Create Lists features and an introduction to the upcoming Millennium Statistics program.

MARCEdit and Locally-Created Load Profiles: Can We Load It? Yes We Can! - Terry Reese, Oregon State University & Janet Crum, Oregon Health & Sciences University (Franz Hall Room 214)

Libraries often need to load records from many sources--OCLC, database vendors, local databases of patron information, authority vendors, etc. In this presentation, we will demonstrate ways to use locally-created load profiles and Terry's MARCEdit program to load data from a variety of sources--without having to purchase profiling services from Innovative.

E-Journal Management Alternatives - Michael Spalti, Willamette University (Franz Hall Room 223)

Managing e-journals is a multi-dimensional problem that libraries have faced for a number of years. Potential solutions exist today, each with differing costs and benefits. This presentation offers a partial update on the status of these alternatives, which range from in-house solutions to a variety of competing commerical products. An in-house solution developed at Willamette University will be presented as a case study in what is possible locally. The question of whether and to what extent such open source projects are a feasible approach to e-journal management will be asked but not necessarily answered.