NOTSL

Tammy Troup
$500 Jane Myers Scholarship
Tammy is a Clerical Assistant at Akron Summit County Public Library and plans to use the money to help pay for a Metadata cataloging workshop at KSU in the spring of 2012.

Shadi Shakeri
$500 Jane Myers Scholarship
Shadi is an international student at KSU and would like to use the money to pursue a career in cataloging.

Melissa Hill
$500 NOTSL Scholarship
Melissa is working at The Ohio State University as a volunteer and would like to use the award to take a KSU cataloging and classification course in the spring of 2012.

Northern Ohio Technical Services Librarians (NOTSL) will hold its Spring Meeting on Friday, April 27, 2012. The meeting will center on the topic of the current status of RDA, its revision, and implementation. The keynote speaker will be Chris Oliver, Coordinator of Cataloguing and Authorities, at McGill University Library. Ms. Oliver is the current Chair of the Canadian Committee on Cataloguing and has been a member of the Committee since 1997. She served as a member of the Joint Steering Committee’s Format Variation Working Group and as Chair of the RDA Outreach Group. Ms Oliver is the author of: Introducing RDA: a Guide to the Basics, published by ALA Editions in 2010. In November 2011, Ms Oliver was appointed by the Co-Publishers of RDA as Copy Editor to improve the readability of parts of RDA.

The meeting location and additional speakers have yet to be confirmed. Registration will be available in early March 2012. Please watch your mailbox for further information.

Registrations will be accepted through December 2nd.

Complete program information is available online here and the registration form is available online here.

Registrations are now being accepted for the NOTSL Fall 2011 meeting, Coming to Terms with Genre/Form Access.

How can we make it easier for library users to find materials such as music, movies, video recordings, cartographic materials, and fiction? Resource discovery and access for library users is the primary objective of the “cataloging process”. When new opportunities emerge for libraries to improve discovery and access for their patrons, libraries should respond and take advantage.

Northern Ohio Technical Services Librarians (NOTSL) is pleased to present a program on Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms. Speakers include Janis L. Young (Cataloging Policy Specialist, Policy and Standards Division, Library of Congress), Karen Anderson (Authority Control Librarian at Backstage Library Works), and Paige G. Andrew (Associate Librarian at the Pennsylvania State University Libraries).

Complete program information is available online here and the registration form is available online here.

Save the date!

On Friday, December 9, 2011, NOTSL will hold its Fall Meeting at the Kent Student Center on the Kent State University Main Campus. The topic will be New Developments in Genre/Form headings.  Our keynote speaker will be Janis L. Young, Genre/Form Coordinator for the Library of Congress.  Karen Anderson, Authority Control Librarian at Backstage Library Works, will discuss  issues related to genre/form headings and automated authority control. Our third speaker, Paige Andrew, Map Cataloging Librarian at Pennsylvania State University, will discuss practical applications of genre/form headings related to cataloging cartographic materials.

Registration will be available in early October. Please watch your mailbox for further information.

Results from the election at the June 17, 2011 NOTSL Meeting:

Vice Chair / Chair Elect – Richard Wisneski, Head, Bibliographic and Metadata Services, Kelvin Smith Library, CWRU

Treasurer – Suzette Burlingame, Associate Director Library Technologies, Stark County District Library

Executive Committee – Kathleen Lamantia, Technical Services Librarian, Stark County District Library

Scholarship Committee – Lori Thorrat, Associate Librarian for Technical Services and Collection Management, Ingalls Library, Cleveland Public Library

Many thanks to out-going Board Members Rosanna O’Neil, Regina Houseman, and Jeni Bull for their service to NOTSL.

Registrations are now being accepted for the NOTSL Spring 2011 meeting, You Can’t Always Get What They Want — or, Can You? Patron-Driven Acquisitions. The registration form is available online here.

Northern Ohio Technical Services Librarians is pleased to present a program on Patron-Driven Acquisitions (PDA). This acquisitions model emerges from a combination of new formats (electronic) and a new collection development philosophy. Here the focus is on shifting from print collections with titles chosen by librarians and faculty, to making thousands of e-books available and letting the purchasing choices be made by “patrons.” The NOTSL 2011 Spring meeting will focus on this model, and examine what impact PDA may have on traditional library services for both academic and public libraries. Speakers for the program include Suzanne Ward (Purdue University), Peter Spitzform (University of Vermont), and Cheryl Engel (Akron-Summit County Public Library). Our speakers will discuss how PDA programs have impacted their libraries and library staff. They will also discuss their experiences and relationships with vendors regarding PDA programs. And, they will also focus on the benefits or drawbacks for library users.  Will library patrons now really be able to always get what they want, when they want  it?  We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

Cheryl S. Paganelli
Kent SLIS student: assistant cataloger at a public library, pursuing MLIS focusing on cataloging
NOTSL/Jane Myers Memorial Cataloging Scholarship: $500.00
Educational activity: Offset tuition costs in the KSU MLIS program

Annette M. Fuldauer-Lang
Kent Library/Media licensure student: enrolling in a course on School Library/Media cataloging
NOTSL Scholarship: $350.00
Educational activity: Offset tuition costs in the KSU Instructional Technology Program

Anne E. Lockard
Kent SLIS student: music cataloger pursuing additional coursework in cataloging
NOTSL Scholarship: $350.00
Educational activity: Offset tuition costs in the KSU MLIS program

Don P. Jason III
Kent SLIS student: pursuing advanced cataloging courses to enhance video access
NOTSL Scholarship: $350.00
Educational activity: Offset tuition costs in the KSU-MLIS program

Applications for 2011 Northern Ohio Technical Services Librarians (NOTSL)  Scholarships are now being accepted.

Applicants for the NOTSL scholarships must either be currently working in an Ohio library in a professional or support position in a technical services area, or be students (residing or studying in Ohio) currently taking coursework in librarianship. The 2011 Scholarships apply to activities during the 2011 calendar year only.  The deadline for the 2011 award is Monday, December 6, 2010 and recipients will receive the scholarship award notification by Monday, January 17, 2011.

2011 Scholarship Requirements

2011 Scholarship Application

Registrations are now being accepted for the Fall 2010 meeting, The Wild, Wild (mid) West of E-Books. The registration form is available online here.

Northern Ohio Technical Services Librarians is pleased to present a program on issues associated with e-books.   Whether one is selecting, purchasing, cataloging, or providing access to these materials, they present issues different from their print counterparts.  Our keynote speaker, Sue Polanka, author of No Shelf Required: E-Books in Libraries will discuss opportuntities and challenges associated with e-books, including eBook formats, access to and use of eBook content, eBook readers, digital textbooks, and future directions for eBooks.  Nicole Merriman of the State Library of Ohio will join us through distance technology and share information about the Ohio E-Book Project.  The afternoon will conclude with Jeff Trimble of Youngstown State University discussing the technical services aspects of managing OhioLINK’s e-book collection.  We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!