Thursday, October 2nd

--10-11:30 AM - Registration, Continental Breakfast

--11:30-12:00 PM- Introduction & Welcome

Mark Wilson

Erin Hughes

Edward Corrado

--12:15 PM - 1:15 PM - Breakout Sessions 1

• Session 1A - Primo to DiscoverE - Seldon Deemer, Emory University
  In the summer of 2007, Emory University became one of the Primo Charter Customers. Emory has loaded approximately 2.3 million bibliographic records from its Unicorn catalog along with records from multiple local repositories into Primo, and has begun a major roll-out of Primo, which has been as "DiscoverE". This presentation will review a year's worth of effort with Primo, from selection to implementation, including usability testing, and user feedback.
• Session 1B - How We Use Voyager to Catalog Archives Material - William Meng, St. Joseph's College
  A 92-year-old College, with archives “dead” for the last 20 years; the 2008 Summer Project is focused on 1) preserving College publications, historical documents and images according to professional standards and 2) making them accessible online using Voyager 5.0. After some major preparations, the project is step by step, from weeding and evaluating to preserving. The three categories to catalog: publications, documents and images. Achievements so far: all major college publications have been cataloged, 86 linear feet documents have been processed and are now kept in 37 documents boxes; 2,800 photographic images have been scanned, uploaded using flickr.com, cataloged in 112 folders now kept in 35 image boxes. All the records including images are made accessible online. Future considerations include how to encourage the participation of faculty members and library patrons and preservation of scrapbooks and other three-dimensional objects. We have challenges ahead: practical policies and systematic collecting. A vision of a new College Archives in the context of Library 2.0.

--1:30-2:00 PM - Verde Demo - Marian Carney, Ex Libris

--2:00-3:00 PM - Lunch

 

--3:15-4:15 PM - Unified Resource Management System - Marian Carey, Ex Libris

--4:30-5:30 PM - Roundtable Discussions

• Acquisitions - Dan Taylor-moderator, Ithaca College
• Cataloging
• Circulation - Krista Higham-moderator, Millersville University

Friday, October 3rd

--8:00-9:00 AM - Gathering, Reception, Continental Breakfast

--9:00-10:00 AM - Breakout Sessions 2

• Session 2A - Weeding the General Collection at Millersville University - Krista Higham, Millersville University
  In January 2008 Millersville University Library began a weeding project of the Dewey general collection. This presentation will review how the process got started, the list of procedures, how student assistants are utilized to shelf-read and flag books and information on the Access reports used in the process.
• Session 2B - Web Services and the Ex Libris Open Platform: Where does Voyager fit in? - Ken Herold, Hamilton College

--10:00-10:15 AM - Break

--10:30-11:30 AM - Breakout Sessions 3

• Session 3A - Using Voyager to Populate Cataloging Project Progress Pages - Sara Theimer, Syracuse University
  Many people (Administrators and staff) want to know the status of cataloging projects. How much is done? When will we be finished? By creating a web page, embedding OPAC searches and using V-ger select to pull date from MARC records, everyone to view progress on a day to day basis. See two working examples of this featuring Current Sound Recording projects.
• Session 3B - RSS A to V: Using RSS Feeds with Aleph and Voyager - Edward Corrado, Binghamton University
  This presentation describes what RSS feeds are and how various libraries are taking advantage of this technology with their Integrated Library System (ILS) to deliver constantly updated information to patrons. Uses include feeds new book and other acquisitions listings, feeds created for university portals, subject guides, and course pages within Learning Management Systems (LMS) such as Moodle, Blackboard, or Sakai. While this presentation will describe various ways to create RSS feeds from Aleph and Voyager, its primary focus will be on the different ways that RSS feeds can be used to help improve service to your patrons in the Web 2,0 environment. This presentation should be useful for the beginner and expert a like no matter which ILS is used.

--11:30-11:45 AM - Break

--11:45 AM - 12:45 PM - Breakout Sessions 4

• Session 4A - From Aleph to Digitool: Preparing Metadata of Legacy Collections - Sara Spiegel, Jewish Theological Seminary Library
  In this paper I like to emphasize the process and the work flow that was created to efficiently prepare metadata for Digitool. Part of the process was to understand the connection and interplay between Aleph and Digitool when it comes to expressing metadata.
• Session 4B - Data-fu: Bar Duplicate Data Entry - Aaron Dobbs, Shippensburg University
  Discussion or Presentation on getting database-subscription-specific data out of Voyager and into SerialsSolutions 360 Resource Manager. Why would one want to do this? What information will be gleaned from this effort? What steps are called for? How much might it hurt?

--1:00-1:30 PM - Meeting Close - Volunteers for EMA 2009

EMA 2008 - Shippensburg University - PA
October 2 and 3, 2008

Registration for EMA 2008 will soon be available here. The registration fee will be $50.00.

Exact times are subject to change.

Hotel information is available HERE.

 

EMA 2008 Planning Committee

Erin Hughes - Chair - Ramapo College, NJ
ehughes@ramapo.edu

Emily Batista - University of Pennsylvania
batista@pobox.upenn.edu
Trevor Dawes - Princeton University
tdawes@Princeton.edu
Aaron Dobbs - Shippensburg University
AWDobbs@ship.edu
Lori Fuller - Corning Museum of Glass
fullerla@cmog.org
Jesse Koennecke - Cornell University
jtk1@cornell.edu
Merritt Lennox - Syracuse University
mhlennox@syr.edu
Dan Taylor - Ithaca College
dtaylor@ithaca.edu
Frances Caplan - Robert Morris University
caplan@rmu.edu
Edward Corrado - Binghamton University
ecorrado@binghamton.edu
Jennifer Nolte - Yale University
jennifer.nolte@yale.edu
Kurt Wagner- William Paterson University
wagnerk@wpunj.edu
Mark Wilson - Columbia University
mw18@columbia.edu

We have held the following annual meetings thus far:

• 1997 at Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ
• 1998 at Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA
• 1999 at Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ
• 2001 at Millersville University, Millersville, PA
• 2002 at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
• 2003 at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
• 2004 at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
• 2005 at Millersville University, Millersville, PA
• 2006 at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
• 2007 at Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ

The meetings have been in the fall and have been very useful, including presentations and workshops by the experienced EMA members and Ex Libris staff. The EMA listserv can be used for organizational communications. We have used the by-laws of the national Endeavor (EndUser) ans Ex Libris (ELUNA) groups to guide our activities.

To receive information about the Ex Libris Mid-Atlantic Voyager group, you need to subscribe to the EMA Group in Google at http://groups.google.com/group/emausers This is a closed group , which means you will need to be approved. Only employees of libraries with contracts with Ex Libris and Ex Libris employees are permitted. Basically, this means if, and only if, you are eligible for Voyager-L You will receive notice when your subscription is approved. If you have any problems subscribing, please contact Kurt Wagner at wagnerk@wpunj.edu. To send a message to a discussion list, simply click the "new post" button at the top right corner of the "Discussions" section of the group page.   For more information about the EMA Group and other commands, please see: http://groups.google.com/support/?hl=en

If you have questions about the group, please contact any of the following officers of EMA.

• Chairperson - Mark Wilson (mw18@columbia.EDU) - Columbia University
• Chairperson-Elect - Erin Hughes (ehughes@ramapo.edu) - Ramapo College
• Secretary/Treasurer - Trevor Dawes (tdawes@Princeton.EDU) - Princeton University
• Past Chairperson - Kurt Wagner (wagnerk@wpunj.edu) - William Paterson University

Forward comments and suggestions on the EMA web site to Kurt Wagner, William Paterson University of NJ at wagnerk@wpunj.edu.