TSRT

TSRT Spring Meeting
March 22, 2013 — 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Session 1 — 9:00 am-9:50 am — “What Did You Do With ALL of Our Journals?” Presented by Rebecca Bernthal, Love Library, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and Sally Gibson, Reinert Alumni Library, Creighton University.

Libraries often address space issues by weeding collections or relocating materials to off-site storage.  While several factors are involved in the decision making process, a primary consideration is minimizing the negative impact on patrons.  Both the Reinert Alumni Library and UNL’s University Libraries are involved in large scale weeding projects.  Hear about their planning and decision making processes, and how the decisions each library made were driven by keeping the customer first.

Session 2 — 10:00 am-10:50 am –”Communicating from the Backroom: Hands-On Customer Service.” Presented by Heather Buckwalter, Klutznick Law Library, Creighton University; Casey Kralik, Bellevue University Library; & Jennifer Sorensen, Bellevue University Library.

Many Technical Services staff members do not believe they provide a public service simply because they do not sit at a public service point. The presenters would like to show you how they provide services to faculty and patrons even from the Backroom. We have all seen changes concerning interactions between faculty and technical services staff, specifically with collection development and acquisitions of print and electronic materials. We will discuss some of the initiatives and efforts put forth to keep a working relationship between library and faculty including introductions, orientations, presentation of online collection building tools and our plans for follow-up.

“Free like a Kitten (only better because it’s REALLY free): JTAcq, Jim Taylor’s Acquisitions Software.” Presented by Laura England-Biggs, Keene Memorial Library.

Jim Taylor has been developing third-party library software for many years to perform all kinds of functions from acquisitions to email to url checking. This particular software, JTAcq, makes it easy to create lists, check holdings and create purchase orders without having to fire up the ILS.  You can even open the request form up to patrons.

“RDA Practice Workbook.” Presented by Margaret Mering, UNL.

Members of the Nebraska RDA (Resource Description and Access) Practice Group are creating a RDA practice workbook. The workbook is aimed at smaller libraries. It will be published by ABC-Clio. The presenter will discuss the process of creating the workbook and deciding what to include in the workbook.

“Making Sense of Leveled Readers for Simpler Ordering and Cataloging.” Presented by Laura England-Biggs, Keene Memorial Library.

Anyone who has tried to organize a collection of Leveled Readers knows the challenge.  Each company uses their own system of labeling their product – and there’s no easy way to make sense of it all unless you want to memorize a complex system like Fountas and Pinnell, Lexile, etc.  For those of us who don’t have that kind of time… what to do?  This system – still a work in progress –  tells acquisitions and catalogers where to place a book in OUR collection based on the publisher-assigned level.

Soup-and-salad buffet on site. Included with pre-registration.

Session 4 — 1:30 pm-2:20 pm — “Technically At Your Service:  Streamlining the Acquisitions Process Through Outsourcing and Other Practices.” Presented by Laura England-Biggs, Keene Memorial Library, and Jake Rundle, Hastings Public Library.

Staff changes (through layoffs, retirements, etc) are driving a lot of libraries to look at their workflow and implement changes.  How can we best utilize the resources available to us – both personnel and monetary?  In this session, you’ll hear from two libraries who have chosen to outsource the lion’s share of their copy cataloging and processing, freeing staff for other duties and projects.

TSRT/ITART 2012 Spring Meeting – April 13 at Bellevue University

Building the Digital Library

Schedule:

8:30 AM – Registration

9:30 AM – Opening Remarks (Symposium Room) VIEW RECORDING

10:00 AM – First Concurrent Session

Your Users’ Digital Library – Scott Childers (Symposium Room) VIEW RECORDING
The Trouble with MARC, and Metadata Alternative (slides) – Sue Ann Gardner (Multipurpose Room)

11:00 AM – Second Concurrent Session

Building the UNL Digital Repository (presentation) - Paul Royster (Symposium Room) VIEW RECORDING
Getting Ready for RDA (powerpoint) – Margaret Mering (Multipurpose Room)

12:00 PM – TSRT and ITART Business Meetings and Lunch (Multipurpose Room)

TSRT Business Meeting: Agenda and By-Law Change, Minutes and Treasurer’s Report

1:30 PM – Third Concurrent Session

Creating Digital Collections in an Institutional Repository (Institutional powerpoint – Nebraska Briefs powerpoint) - Richard Jizba, Corinne Jacox, Andrea Cotton (Symposium Room) VIEW RECORDING
Every Patron Ready to Read – Lindsey Bray, Terry Wingate (Multipurpose Room)

2:30 PM – Lightning Round (Symposium Room) VIEW RECORDING

Boost Return Rates with an Autodialer – Andrew Sherman
Secure Public PCs with Deep Freeze – Andrew Sherman (powerpoint for both sessions)
About Content Curation (powerpoint) - Becky Wymer
RDA Practice Group (website) - Casey Kralik
Get to Know Pinterest – Amy Mather

Location: The meeting will be held in the Administrative Services Building on the Bellevue University Campus. On the Bellevue University map, this is building 14. Parking is available in Lot E.

Registration is now open! Please fill out the online registration form. You may pay your registration fee by Paypal or by check.

Registration Fees:

TSRT or ITART Member (Before 3/31): $25

Non-Member (Before 3/31): $30

Current Library Science Student (Before 3/31): $15

On-Site Registration: $40

Attendees can receive up to 4 continuing education credits for this conference. Please fill out the Nebraska Library Commission CE form after attending.

TSRT 2011 Spring Meeting – May 10 at Creighton University

34 attendees

The workshop will provide an introduction to the proposed cataloging rules, Resource Description and Access. It will give an overview of FRBR, the theoretical foundation of RDA. It will, using side-by-side examples in MARC format, show the most significant changes between AACR2 and RDA cataloging practices for monographs and other formats. The workshop will cover using the RDA toolkit. Time will be provided for discussing how libraries are preparing for RDA.

Trainer: Margaret Mering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Schedule:

8:00-8:30 Registration (Refreshments will be provided)

8:30-11:30 Morning Session

11:30-1:00 Lunch and TSRT Business Meeting

1:00-4:30 Afternoon Session

TSRT & ITART 2010 Spring Conference on e-books, April 23, 2010 at Bellevue University.

The preliminary schedule is:
8:30 Registration & welcome

9:00 NLA Presidential address by Scott Childers

9:15 eBooks overview by Michael Sauers, ITART chair

10:00 break

10:15 Circulating e-book readers at UNO: What we know…for now by Joyce Neujahr

11:15 Vendor presentations: Scott Shiells from Barnes and Noble and the Nook (handouts: eBook websites and B&N web books) and Sarah Dawson from Borders Books and the Sony eReader

Noon lunch

1:15 1st breakout session

2:00 break

2:15 2nd breakout session

3:00 ITART & TSRT business meetings

3/20/2009 Joint Unconference with NASIG
Location: Manhattan, Kansas

TSRT is trying something new this year. We will travel to Manhattan Kansas for the NASIG Unconference. Information and registration for the NASIG Unconference is available at http://nasigunconference2009.wetpaint.com/

The cost is $25 for NASIG members and paraprofessionals/support staff.
Non NASIG members is $50

Conference attendees can travel in the TSRT van on March 19th for an estimated $35. Final cost will depend on the number of people. Please contact Sally Gibson at sallyg@creighton.edu if you plan to ride in the van or need additional information by February 19th.

4/25/2008 Spelunking or Serendipity: Discovery in the Catalog
Location: Leadership Center, Aurora, Nebraska 

5/18/2007 Next Generation Library
(co-sponsored with College and University Section)

3/31/2006 Spring Meeting and Workshop
Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program (SCCTP)

5/27/2005 Nebraska Libraries: It’s a Small World After All
(co-sponsored with College and University Section)

4/26/2004 Serial Holdings Workshop
(co-sponsored by North American Serials Interest Group)

4/16/2003 NLA Tri-Round Table Spring Meeting
(co-sponsored with ITART and NMRT)

4/23/2002 NLA Tri-Roundtable Spring Meeting
(co-sponsored with ITART and NMRT)

5/18/2001 Spring Business Meeting and Tour of Houchen Bindery
(co-sponsored with NMRT)

4/19/2000 Spring Workshops: E-Journals: Who, What, Where and Don’t Cancel That Paper Copy Yet and Business Meetings
(co-sponsored with ITART)

Summer 1996 Creating a Web Page Workshop
(co-sponsored with ITART)

5/10/1995 The Changing Face of Resource Sharing Workshop
(co-sponsored with Nebraska Library Commission)

8/22/1994 Demystifying Format Integration
(co-sponsored with Nebraska Library Commission)