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Targeted at library directors, department heads and senior staff from public, academic and special libraries, this hands-on workshop will train participants in dialogue facilitation skills with proven success in strengthening partnerships, building effective teams across departments and organizations, and raising the profile of the library as a center for community life. Participants will leave with valuable facilitation skills that can immediately be put to use for their libraries and communities.

Discussions of interest to trainers for the Program for Cooperative Cataloging.

Do you belong in RUSA? Come learn more about this the Reference and User Services Association--a division of ALA. We represent librarians, library staff and leaders in readers' advisory, collection development, genealogy, reference services, adult services, business reference, archives, interlibrary loan and resource sharing, reference technologies and more. Current members looking for ways to get involved with the division are also welcome to attend.

Learn how libraries are serving as safe and neutral places to promote engagement and civic discourse. Nancy Kranich, Chair of the American Library Association's Center for Civic Life Advisory Board presents an overview of civic engagement programs taking place in libraries today. Librarians from across the field will share specific examples of different types of successful civic engagement programming that can work for you.

Come hear the latest news about book and journal collections on Project MUSE. Share ideas and questions with fellow users of the platform.

The ACRL Arts Discussion Forum

In collaboration with ALA and 37 state humanities councils, NEH has supported development of a discussion program for libraries that probes the meanings of the American Civil War during its sesquicentennial. Following the popular “Let’s Talk About It” model, the program engages participants in discussion of related texts selected by Civil War historian Edward Ayers. Attend this session for how-to information on hosting the series, an overview of the discussion model, and details about funding opportunities for this and other programs about the Civil War.

A forum for the exchange of information about library services in local history and genealogy.

Institutional repositories are an integral part of open access; in 2005 BioMed Central, the pioneering open access publisher created its hosted repository service, Open Repository. This workshop will examine the role repositories serve in institutions and where they fit in the larger environment of scholarly communication. This forum will also provide a useful overview and practical tips for any institution thinking about establishing a repository.

EOS International invites you to a luncheon seminar to learn about EOS.Web Digital, a complete, cost-effective suite of software designed to enable you to easily manage today's incredible amount of varied content. With EOS.Web Digital you can provide your organization with fast access to relevant content. EOS.Web Digital includes:

Electronic Resource Management (ERM)
Electronic Content Management (ECM)
Content Aggregator
All standard ILS software (OPAC, Cataloging, Circulation, Serials, Acquisitions, Z39.50)
KnowledgeBuilder
Reference Tracking
Indexer
IP Authentication
Classification Management
ReportWriter

As budgets tighten, ensuring maximum usage of the collection is more important now than ever. Libraries are increasingly supplementing their collection development policies with “just-in-time” models of collection development—purchasing and delivering resources at the point of need. Ex Libris’ next-generation library management service, Alma, is designed to allow libraries to shift toward user-driven models of purchasing for both print and electronic resources, in order to increase usage and decrease the overall cost of their collections. Come see how Alma will help libraries build out their collections just in time, rather than just in case.

Increasingly under pressure to demonstrate their value to the objectives of the institution or consortium, libraries are looking for ever more creative ways to improve efficiency and productivity. Powerful analytic capabilities enable libraries to put numbers on their value and to expose tangible evidence of their leading role in the academic lifecycle. From usage data and onwards, analytics shed light on the inner workings of the entire institution, as well as those of the library. Valuable insight into libraries’ operation can be gained via purchasing trends, comparative analysis, and even predictive analysis—helping managers to better to plan their daily operation. During this session will explore ways in which Alma Analytics can take libraries into the next generation.

The linked data movement is an effort to develop best practices for publishing and connecting structured data on the Web. This panel will examine efforts to create an environment in which all cultural heritage institutions can more easily contribute to the open Web.

The greatest challenge for discovery systems is providing users with the most relevant search results out of the immense landscape of content. Similar to human interaction between two parties, where people adjust in tone, language, and subject matter, discovery systems need to “understand” the user’s context as well as the materials’ scholarly value. The session will describe Ex Libris Primo’s approach to relevance ranking. In addition to employing traditional information-retrieval methods that have been adapted to scholarly data, ScholarRank takes into account the intrinsic academic value of materials along with information about the user and the user’s research needs.

Meeting to provide a specific forum for those interested in and/or responsible for library services in local history.

Please join your fellow EOS clients for an enjoyable evening of professional collaboration. Learn about the latest enhancements to EOS.Web in a relaxed and open forum.

A case study of the partnership between the Queens Library and the Exploratorium. How to bring children and science together in a fun and hand-on environment.

Topics and discussion of interest to participants in the Program for Cooperative Cataloging.