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!

Presenter Ginny Browne
As Knowledge Management Librarian in the OCLC Library, Ginny Browne is responsible for preserving and providing access to internal OCLC digital archives and digital copies of OCLC publications, research reports, and web sites. Come see the ways libraries are using this tool to better serve their patrons.

WHEN: Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
6:30 – 7:00 p.m. Networking, Refreshments & Sign-In
7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Presentation and Q & A

WHERE: Smith Building, OCLC Campus
*See location information and map at:
http://www.oclc.org/about/headquarters/maps/default.htm

RSVP with Patricia Furney at pfurney@columbuslibrary.org

The changing landscapes of higher education, scholarly communication, and technology have provided a catalyst for rethinking existing structures for information delivery and access within the academy. Wendy Lougee will discuss perspectives on the digital information environment. The University of Michigan’s Digital Library Program is offered as a case study to highlight the organizational and technological dimensions of developing digital collections and services. Collaboration–with the technology and research sectors–is offered as an imperative in building local and national infrastructure for digital library resources.

Begun in 1993, Michigan’s Digital Library Program is jointly sponsored by the University Library, the newly chartered School of Information, and the Information Technology Division and brings together the complementary expertise of librarians, researchers, and technologists to develop digital content and the access environment. Through a project-based strategy, the campus information infrastructure is being developed and attention directed toward attendant issues of economic models for information delivery, access policies, and intellectual property management.

Wendy Lougee currently serves as Assistant Director for Digital Library Initiatives at the University of Michigan Library. In this capacity, she oversees a campus-wide collaborative Digital Library Program focused on achieving a comprehensive, coherent networked information environment for the University. Previously, she directed the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library at Michigan, Michigan’s central humanities and social science research library. Her professional and research interests have been in the arena of scholarly communication, collection management models, and digital library development.

Ms. Lougee holds a BA from Lawrence University, an MS (Library Science) from the University of Wisconsin, and an MA (Psychology) from the University of Minnesota.

The OCLC Office of Research graciously invited CO-ASIS members to attend this OCLC Distinguished Seminar and sponsored our attendance.