NASIG Notes Day 1

Using OpenURL in Creative Ways

  • capture citation service that allows people to copy and paste citations
  • direct export into EndNote
  • use of OpenURLs for e-reserves links
  • Citation Linker tutorials with screen capture software
  • desire to integrate into course management software (nobody actually doing this yet)

Examining Workflows and Redefining Roles

  • need to review serials/acquisitions in light of move to electronic environment
  • reviewed data from ILS and compared to workload distribution among staff
  • stopped claiming when planned to move to e-only anyway
  • too much time spent on missing print issues that were available online
  • did not stop check-in!

AACR3

  • very much work in progress
  • actually not AACR3, but entirely new work: “Resource Description and Access”
  • desire to be more responsive to user needs, less print-oriented
  • format independent
  • looking at structure (not content) of other metadata standards for guidance
  • speaker: “any of what I tell you may change!”
  • publication planned for 2008