We started the day by going down to the convention center and getting registered. At 8:30 we caught the right wave. I was all set within 90 seconds, which included New York chitchat with the Brooklyn-born desk helper. After breakfast at Reading Market, we went to Market Street to find a camera card adapter so these live reports could include photos. Then we headed west to a couple of museums - the Rodin Museum and the Franklin Institute. Rodin was like walking into another world - or pure genius. There were statues and busts of Balzac, Hugo, George Bernard Shaw.
We still had more than an hour, so we crossed over to visit the nearby Franklin Insitute. We had taken our son there several times when he was small, so today we just went to revisit our inner child. The main exhibit on the top floor was about genetics and how it gives us our identity. I found out that if I hold out my arms, the distance from left fingtip to right is almost identical to my height. Something I never would have thought of. The best thing though was a computer simulation that took a picture of me and showed me what I would look like if I were black or Asian. I could even see what I would look like as a woman. Don't ask. The stunning image was myself as an elderly black man. Wish I looked this good in real life.
We tried to do lunch at the local Mexican food restaurant, but it was typical ALA. The restaurant was swamped with librarians. Plan B was a neighborhood restaurant on Cherry that seemed popular with locals but unknown to librarians. That was the ticket. I went back to the room to rescue my laptop and walked down to the Crowne Plaza.
We tried to do lunch at the local Mexican food restaurant, but it was typical ALA. The restaurant was swamped with librarians. Plan B was a neighborhood restaurant on Cherry that seemed popular with locals but unknown to librarians. That was the ticket. I went back to the room to rescue my laptop and walked down to the Crowne Plaza.
Innovative gathering ALA Midwinter January 11, 2008
Introductions by current chair Nancy Fleck. Given the relatively light attendance, it seemed interesting that this intro did not include the customary stats on IUG institutional membership.
The hotel was a brief walk from the Sheraton. The sign did not say which room the meeting was in - just a listing of the meetings and their times. As I went up the escalator, it began to dawn on me that the hotel was undergoing major renovations.
Introductions by current chair Nancy Fleck. Given the relatively light attendance, it seemed interesting that this intro did not include the customary stats on IUG institutional membership.
The hotel was a brief walk from the Sheraton. The sign did not say which room the meeting was in - just a listing of the meetings and their times. As I went up the escalator, it began to dawn on me that the hotel was undergoing major renovations.
New inducement for IUG service. They will begin to pay stipends for attendance at ALA. Free rooms at IUG conference. There will be an IUG session this year at PLA in Minneapolis. The jackhammers drone on and on and on. Kind of a cross between conference attendance and oral surgery. Clearinghouse is going great guns - 17 new submissions this year.IUG 2009 will be in Anaheim may 17.
Betsy Graham- Release 2007 should be available mid-March. Company doing well. Rated highly in LJ annual survey. Best service rep to site ratio. Working on Library 2.0, open source, social computing, New technology, etc. Ted Fons new director of Service. Flickr has a private and public group. later I saw her at a party and twitted her for not getting me in the private group. She explained that the private group was for people who worked at Innovative. Okay.
Eric Leckbee: .Millennium Express Lane/Circa/Print Templates in Mil Circ.
EXP Lane Used to be Millernnium Graphical Self-check. Corrals checkout, renewals and e-commerce. Going for keyboardless self check. Uses screen touch, bar code and mag scanners. Also RFID.
EXP Lane Used to be Millernnium Graphical Self-check. Corrals checkout, renewals and e-commerce. Going for keyboardless self check. Uses screen touch, bar code and mag scanners. Also RFID.
Functionality mimics what they would see in Amazon.
Wireless circ machine is now called Circa - uses a handheld. RFID scans one shelf at a time. Will be able to do batch checkouts. Will use these to create v irtual shelf lists.
Print templaces. Customizable hold and transit slips.
Wireless circ machine is now called Circa - uses a handheld. RFID scans one shelf at a time. Will be able to do batch checkouts. Will use these to create v irtual shelf lists.
Print templaces. Customizable hold and transit slips.
ArticleReach - Sandy Westall talked about a new consortial product for a defined set of libraries to share articles - a complimentary product to InReach. New England Expess has loaded this in addition to InReach. ArticleReach Direct - a group of major libraries the does not have InReach. Will go active in the spring. A librarian from Michigan State talked aout the implementation. There is a union catalog for the journal holdings of the participating libraries. Said that the default search for patrons was changed from keyword to journal title, to try and dissuade them from searching article titles. There is the capabilty to add non-III libraries, but so far that has not been done.
Using this in tandem with WebBridge, a form can be reached from a citation and it will fill out all of the details about the publication and article request and search the union catalog for that item and set up the transaction. If the user goes in with a new request, they must fill out their own data. The request gets passed through to the library's ILL vendor - in this case, Illyad.
Afterwards, I met Donna and used to shuttle to get to the Convention Center for the opening of exhibits. As we got upstairs and made our way into the mob, we were curious where the ceremony was taking place. Turns out that we were right on top of it. Usually we tend to tune out these things, but this was different due to the fact
that Loriene Roy is president now. As the board members were called up, we noticed a troupe of mummers who were there to open the event. At the end of the speeches, they marched into the hall and we followed. We headed for Greenwood to check out the newest bobblehead, but it turns out that the Dickens bobeheads were seriously delayed. Sounds like they won't be seen until the Anaheim conference. The food selection was extraordinary, with a room full of Philly cheese steak makings, but we had reservations for the White Dog, so I could only admire.
that Loriene Roy is president now. As the board members were called up, we noticed a troupe of mummers who were there to open the event. At the end of the speeches, they marched into the hall and we followed. We headed for Greenwood to check out the newest bobblehead, but it turns out that the Dickens bobeheads were seriously delayed. Sounds like they won't be seen until the Anaheim conference. The food selection was extraordinary, with a room full of Philly cheese steak makings, but we had reservations for the White Dog, so I could only admire.
Previously, Donna said she felt bad because we wouldn't have an opportunity to speak with Loriene, and I said "You wait. We'll run across her. Sure enough, walking the aisles, we found her walking by herself. Loriene has taken a special interest in our son Bob, so we had a great talk.
Later in the evening we took a cab to far-west Philadelphia for dinner at the delightful White Dog, and then finished off the night with a reception.
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