WHEN:  Wednesday February 27, 2013 (Snow Contingency Date: Thursday March 7, 2013)
6:30 – 7:00 p.m.  Refreshments, Sign-In & Networking
7:00 – 8:00 p.m.  Presentation and Q & A

WHERE:  Columbus Metropolitan Library, Main Branch in the Carnegie room,
96 S. Grant Avenue Columbus, OH 43215
614-645-2275

RSVP: with Jeff Mixter at jeffmixter@gmail.com

PRESENTER:

Sandra Aya Enimil,
a licensed attorney, is the Head of the Copyright Resource Center at the Ohio State University Libraries.  Prior to working at Ohio State, she was the Archives/Copyright Manager of the Chicago Defender Newspaper. Sandra is currently enrolled in a Masters of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2004, she was awarded a Law degree from the University of Illinois College of Law. Sandra has Bachelor of Arts degrees in Political Science and Psychology from the University of Michigan and a Master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Ghana. A native of Chicago, Illinois, Sandra participates in several professional and social organizations. She also owns a fashion design business with her mother, Theresa Obeng Sam, called Pretty Afrika Designs,www.prettyafrika.com. The business has been featured on television, in several publications and participates in various designer shows and events.

We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday February 27, 2013 (or on Thursday March 7, 2013, if we need to cancel due to snow emergencies).

Join us on Wednesday evening, November 9th, 2011 for our CO-ASIS&T Program:

We will take a look at how one library is using CollectionHQ, an evidence based stock management tool, to help make collection management easier and more efficient. Collection HQ uses historical and current information about stock use along with local target setting as its evidence base, to assist librarians in making the management of stock more effective, more customer focused, less wasteful, and more measured and performance based.

WHEN: Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
6:30 – 7:00 p.m.  Refreshments, Sign-In & Networking
7:00 – 8:00 p.m.  Presentation and Q & A

WHERE: Columbus Metropolitan Library, Larry D. Black Auditorium at the Main Library, 96 S. Grant Avenue, Columbus Ohio, 43215 (Phone: 614-645-2275). Parking available in the garage attached to the library. Parking garage rates

RSVP with Laura Cheng at
lauracheng888@gmail.com or through the contact page

PRESENTERS

Robin Nesbitt, MLS

Robin Nesbitt is the Technical Services Director of the Columbus Metropolitan Library, 2010 LJ Library of the Year.  Robin launched central selection and floating collections at CML.  She’s presented at PLA about Technical Services efficiencies and does regular Tweet chats about eReaders and Digital Content.  She was a panel member on Novelist/LJ’s 2011 webcast “Libraries are Essential” talking about readers’ advisory as a core service that libraries continue to offer even in this age of digital readers and eContent.  At BEA 2011, she was on the panel, “Selling Trade eBooks to Libraries: The Real Deal and was on the 3rd annual Librarian Shout N Share.  She was a keynote speaker for theLJ/SLJ October 12 webinar – Ebooks: The New Normal. Robin has been working with collection management issues for the last 12 years and happy to finally find a BI tool in CollectionHQ. While her experience with the product is recent, her enthusiasm is mighty!

Leslie King

Leslie King has been with CML for 25 years.   For the last 11 years she has been a Collection Development librarian, responsible for juvenile and adult nonfiction in a variety of areas.    She is not a “techie” and asserts that if she can figure out how to use Collection HQ, anyone can.

Kathy Leonard

Kathy Leonard has  been a librarian for CML for 24 years, and a selector for the last eleven years.  She currently selects adult fiction; teen fiction; and adult and juvenile 700’s. Readers Advisory is a passion. She is excited about using HQ to test some of her assumptions about what circulates the most at CML and to data mine our collection in new and exciting ways. The grubby report (over 60 circulations on a copy) has  provided some wonderful replacement possibilities and the dead (no circs in the last 6 months or more) is a good way to spot trends.

We look forward to seeing you at the presentation on Wednesday evening, November 9th, 2011!

Join us on Monday evening, August 29th, 2011 for our CO-ASIS&T Annual Meeting.

Presenter Glen Horton will share his tips for managing your data. Learn how to use the right methods and tools to capture, organize, filter, and protect your digital assets.

Glen Horton recently became the Digital Services Manager for Campbell County Public Library in Northern Kentucky. He is currently building the library’s digital branch and implementing online programming. Glen previously served as the Technology Coordinator for SWON Libraries where he spent eleven years training and providing technology assistance to libraries. He currently resides in Cincinnati with his wife, two kids, one cat, and a lot of data.

This program is free and open to the public. Light dinner will be served.  Please RSVP below.

WHEN: Monday, August 29, 2011
6:30 – 7:00 p.m. Sign-In and Light Dinner
7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Presentation and Q & A

WHERE: Columbus Metropolitan Library, Larry D. Black Auditorium at the Main Library, 96 S. Grant Avenue, Columbus Ohio, 43215 (Phone: 614-645-2275). Parking available in the garage attached to the library. Parking garage rates

We look forward to seeing you at the presentation on Monday Evening, August 29, 2011!

WHEN:  Monday, May 9, 2011
6:30 – 7:00 p.m.  Refreshment, Sign-In and Tour the Jobsmobile
7:00 – 8:00 p.m.  Presentation and Q & A

WHERE:  State Library of Ohio, 274 E. First Avenue, Columbus, OH 43201
Ph:  (614) 644-7061.  There is plenty of free parking available.

RSVP: for this Free program with Patricia Furney here

We look forward to seeing you at the presentation on Monday evening, May 9, 2011!

WHEN:  Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
6:30 – 7:00 p.m.  Refreshments, Sign-In & Networking
7:00 – 8:00 p.m.  Presentation and Q & A

WHERE:  Columbus Metropolitan Library, Larry D. Black Auditorium at the Main Library, 96 S. Grant Avenue, Columbus Ohio, 43215.
614-645-2275

RSVP with Patricia Furney at pfurney@columbuslibrary.org

PRESENTERS
Robin Nesbitt, MLS
Robin Nesbitt is the Technical Services Director of the Columbus Metropolitan Library.  Robin launched central selection and floating collections at CML.  She has presented at PLA about workplace efficiencies and at BEA as a member of the Librarian Shout ‘N Share panel of good books.  Robin has been involved with digital content and following the publishing industry on this topic for the last decade and she is “still amazed at how thorny the whole topic continues to be!”

Jennifer Hrusch, MLIS
is Team Leader II at Columbus Metropolitan’s Rovers & Information Line Division and CML’s social media “guru”.  A resident expert on Twitter, Facebook and the intricacies of these increasingly powerful tools, Jennifer’s been involved with numerous technology initiatives at CML.  She also implemented and oversees the KnowItNow and CHAT services for Columbus Metropolitan Library.

George Morrison, MLIS
With foundations as a Small Business IT Consultant from the age of 12, George Morrison has always had an interest in computing technologies.  George has held various positions in the Library over the last five years, and is currently Youth Services Library Assistant at the Dublin Branch.  His passions for youth services are rivaled by excitement for progressive library technology integration.  As a current Subject Matter Expert (or SME) on OverDrive services, George is actively developing and executing training to Columbus Metropolitan Library staff throughout the system.

We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011 !

Join Helene Blowers in exploring the e’s of librarees and social media and see how librarees all over the country are engaging customers in powerful ways through web 2.0 tools.

WHEN: Wednesday, September 10, 2008
6:30 – 7:00 p.m. Refreshments, Sign-In & Networking
7:00 – 7:10 p.m. Central Ohio Chapter-Annual Meeting Business*
7:10 – 8:00 p.m. Helene Blowers Presentation and Q & A
WHERE: Larry D. Black Auditorium, Main Library
Columbus Metropolitan Library, 96 S. Grant Ave.
Columbus, OH 43215
*We begin with a brief chapter business meeting,
with the presentation immediately following.
RSVP with Ginny Browne at browneg@oclc.org

Presenter Helene Blowers is the Director of Digital Strategy for the Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML) in Columbus, Ohio. Prior to her recent move to CML, she worked for the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County in Charlotte, NC as Public Services Technology Director, where she provided leadership for many groundbreaking library services, including the widely adopted discovery learning program, “Learning 2.0: 23 Things” which has been duplicated by hundreds of libraries world-wide.

Helene is a 2007 Library Journal Mover & Shaker and the 2008 recipient of the LITA Hi-Tech Award. She is the co-author of the book “Weaving a Library Web: A Guide to Developing Children’s Websites” and a frequent presenter at library conferences. When Helene is not busy trying to keep CML from falling off the ever-surging technology wave, she enjoys travel and spending time with her husband and two young daughters. She blogs at LibraryBytes.com

RSVP with Ginny Browne at browneg@oclc.org
Ginny Browne
Knowledge Management Librarian, OCLC
6565 Kilgour Place
Dublin, OH 43017
614-761-5217

We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday, September 10th!

Metadata schemas for resource description such as Dublin Core and LOM (Learning Object Metadata) and domain specific markup languages such as MatML (Materials Property Data Markup Language) or CML (Chemical Markup Language) have evolved dramatically during the last five years. Much of this development, however, has been a parallel evolution. There often has been no clear indication of how resource level metadata can be integrated most effectively with domain-specific content markup or with structural markup describing the internal architecture of resources. This presentation will review available metadata standards and markup language standards, analyze the functions of each mechanism in dealing with different digital collection: data, text-based information, non-text-based and non-document-like resources.

Monday, April 8, 2002
Kilgour Auditorium at OCLC

6:30 – 7:00 – Refreshments
7:00 – 8:30 – Program