Keynote Presentation (Friday, 8:50AM)

Laura Guy, Systems Librarian at the Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines, will present Avoiding DATApocalypse, a discussion of data management and policies for NSF funding recipients.

Laura is a well-known presenter to the Voyager community, but everyone will find the value in her insightful and informative presentation.

 

Thursday, October 27, 2011
09:00 - 09:30 -- Registration / coffee
09:30 - 09:45 -- 15 minutes Welcome / ENUG update (Plenary)
09:45 - 10:15 --- 30 minutes   ExLibris Company / Product / Discovery Update (Plenary)
10:15 - 10:35 --- coffee / networking
10:35 - 11:05 --- 30 minutes        Primo / Metalib (Plenary)
11:05 - 12:00 --- 45 to 60 minutes  Alma (Plenary) More information on Alma from Ex Libris: http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/files/Products/Alma/Alma-FAQ-Dec2010.pdf
12:00 - 01:00 --- Lunch
1:15 -- 2:00 Break out 1 (45 minutes) G1, P1, A1

█G1 The Next Generation of Catalogs for Academic Libraries - Sharon Yang, Rider University and Melissa Hofmann, Rider University
█P1 EAD finding aid data in Primo - Maureen Callahan, Princeton University
█A1 Batch loading e-books at MIT using the single record approach - Christine Moulen, MIT and Beth Brennan MIT

2:10 -- 3:10 Break out 2 (1 hour) V1, A2, A3

█V1 Application of EZProxy logs, Voyager’s Patron Database, MySQL, and ColdFusion for Comparative Usage Analysis of Library Resources - Ray Schwartz, William Paterson University
█A2 SFX buttons in the Aleph OPAC - when and where we want them - Beth Brennan, MIT and Rich Wenger, MIT
█A3 (Scheduled sequentially) Creating Aleph acquisitions orders from Excel spreadsheet data via XSLT - William W Jones, New York University
Creation and loading of XML invoices based on acquisitions data in MARC records - Corinna Baksik, Harvard University

3:10 -- 3:30 coffee / networking
3:30 -- 4:15 Break out 3 (45 min) P2, V2, A5

█P2 Providing databases of multiyear search strategies to faculty for information literacy curriculum assessment - Diane Mirvis, University of Bridgeport
█V2 Enhance Voyager by User Innovations - Sharon Yang, Rider University
█A5 Digital Bookplates: from selection to discovery - Christine Moulen, MIT and Corinna Baksik, Harvard University

4:20 -- 4:50 Break out 4 (30 minutes) G4, P4, A8, V3

█G4 Tour of Magnus Wahlstrom (University of Bridgeport's) Library Info Commons  
█P4  Discussion of using feedback from Primo search strategies - Diane Mirvis, University of Bridgeport
█V3 What's Bugging you? (Voyager General Roundtable) - Kurt Wagner, William Paterson University
█A8 What's Bugging you? (Aleph General Roundtable) - Kevin Collins, Stony Brook University

5:00 -- 5:45   (Plenary )  
█"Alma from a partners' perspective : reflections from staff at Princeton University" Janet Lute, Princeton University

Evening: Dinner (Birds-of-feather or on own; sign up at conference)

Friday, October 28, 2011
8:00 - 8:30 -- Registration / coffee
8:30 - 8:50 Welcome / ELUNA update (Plenary)
8:50 - 9:35 (45 minutes Keynote  Speaker Laura Guy, Colorado School of Mines ) (Plenary)
9:35 - 10:00 coffee / networking
10:00 - 10:45 Break out 5 (45 minutes) S1, P3, A7

█S1 Innovative Use of SFX and Legacy Data to Create an E-Resources Quick Search Tool Fengzhi Fan & Yingting Zhang, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey
█P3 Use of Tag and Review Functionality within Primo to incorporate Information Literacy assignments and assessment within classroom curriculum - Diane Mirvis, University of Bridgeport
█A7 Use of Aleph REST interface to support item requests from a separate discovery system (Aquabrowser) - Corinna Baksik, Harvard University
 
10:55 - 11:30 Break out 6 (45 minutes) G2, G3, A4

█G2 Online Carrel Seating Application Cheryl McGrath, Harvard University
█G3 Metadata Best Practices for the Description of Digital Objects - Molly O'Brien and Rachel Jaffe, Binghamton University
█A4 Aleph Enhancements Update

11:40 - 12:20 Break out 7 (40 minutes) G4, V4, A6

█V4 Electronic Resource Renewal Reminders in Google Calendar (uses Voyager's Oracle backend) - Nada O'Neal, Columbia University
█A6 Custom Circulation Services in Aleph - Steve Bischof, Five Colleges, Inc.
█G4 Tour of Magnus Wahlstrom (University of Bridgeport's) Library Info Commons  

12:30 - 13:00 Lightning talks/wrap-up (Plenary)

13:00 Optional social networking/lunch (on your own)

ENUG 2011 Planning Committee

KJ Collins, Stony Brook University,  Health Sciences Library
kevin.collins@sunysb.edu - ENUG Chair

Ed Corrado, Binghamton University
ecorrado@binghamton.edu

Trevor Dawes, Princeton University
tdawes@princeton.edu

Deborah Dulepski, University of Bridgeport
ddulepsk@bridgeport.edu

William Jones, New York University
william.jones@nyu.edu

Christine Moulen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
orbitee@MIT.EDU

Ray Schwartz, William Paterson University
schwartzr2@wpunj.edu

Kurt Wagner, William Paterson University
wagnerk@wpunj.edu

Karin Wikoff, Ithaca College
kwikoff@ithaca.edu

Sarah Witte, Columbia University Libraries
spurgin@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
• 2008 at Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA
• 2009 at Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
• 2010 at William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ

The meetings have been in the fall and have been very useful, including presentations and workshops by the experienced ENUG members and Ex Libris staff. The ENUG listserv can be used for organizational communications. We have used the by-laws of the North Americanl Ex Libris (ELUNA) group to guide our activities.

To receive information about the Ex Libris Northeast user group, you need to subscribe to the ENUG 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 Ex Libris product listserves. 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 ENUG Group and other commands, please see: http://groups.google.com/support/?hl=en

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