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Dalai Lama Visit: Morning Program
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Dalai Lama Visit: Public Lecture
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Local History and Local Resources Presentations
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From Civil War to Civil Rights: The Politics of New Freedom
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Culture, Social Life, and Customs of Civil War America
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American Civil War: Why Does It Matter?
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2012 May Hill Arbuthot Honor Lecture
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OVGTSL 2011 Conference Program
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OVGTSL 2011 Newsletter
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Sharing Knowledge: Using the Wiki Tool to Instruct and Inform
(2012-05-11)This presentation will discuss how wiki can be used as an interactive teaching tool and will also briefly highlight how the wiki page can be used as a dynamic staff training resource, allowing technical services staff to ... -
Adding “Free E-Books”: Providing User Access to Public Domain Hathi Trust Resources in the KentLINK and OhioLINK Catalogs
(2012-05-11)At the request of the OhioLINK Database Management and Standards (DMS) committee, Kent State University Libraries began investigating the possibility and feasibility of loading bibliographic records for public domain digital ... -
Incorporating Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Projects in Technical Services: an Examination of Possibilities and Potential Pitfalls
(2012-05-11)This presentation will showcase work being done at an academic library to encode a collection of manuscripts on Cleveland and the Western Reserve in XML format following TEI guidelines, and address the objectives of and ... -
Automated Metadata Generation and the Critical Role of Catalogers and Indexers in Technical Services of the Future
(2012-05-11)Academic and research libraries have an important role in collecting, organizing, and facilitating access to the world’s scholarly information. Technical services librarians build the foundation upon which scholarly ... -
Validating Online Serial Holdings with Help from a Worldcat API
(2012-05-11)Maintaining knowledgebase holdings for individual journal subscriptions can be difficult, especially when publishers do not appropriately present title relationships, but a script-assisted workflow can validate holdings ... -
This Relationship Isn’t Working … But Hopefully We Can Still Be Friends: How to Choose and Move to a New Vendor
(2012-05-11)With all of our daily tasks and special projects, assessing a vendor’s performance is probably the last item on a library’s priority list. But with rapid technology growth and the budgetary difficulties that libraries have ... -
DIY E-Resources: Break Out and Build Your Own
(2012-05-11)The options for libraries to create databases and access points far beyond the traditional ILS have expanded exponentially in the last few years. Library technical services departments can use their expertise to create ... -
Tailoring Technical Services Data to Fit the Changing Needs of Academic Liaisons
(2012-05-11)Increasingly dynamic collections, changing curriculums, and tightening budgets work together to put more and more pressure on liaisons to stay well-informed and respond nimbly when confronting collection management decisions ... -
Is There Value in Value Added Cataloging?
(2012-05-11)As with most libraries, the Grasselli Library holdings include many items with zero or very few circulations. In particular, we were facing decisions about whether to withdraw numerous items contained in monographic series. ... -
"I'm Prepared for IP Rights Governance": Creative Commons Licensing, Media Assets Management, and the Role of Technical Services as IP Rights Administrator
(2012-05-11)Intellectual Property Rights Governance (IPRG) is fast becoming an important part of both education and enterprise-based activities (i.e. multimedia-based student portfolios, library learning commons, media assets ... -
Cataloging Remote Access Multimedia: An Open Access Virtual Guide
(2012-05-18)The following lightning talk session introduces a freely accessible, peer-reviewed guide that effectively explains how to catalog remote access multimedia, including podcasts, streaming video, streaming audio, e-books, and ...