Recent Web sessions and podcasts

WorldCat Link Manager is open, interoperable linkserver software that OCLC provides as a fully supported, hosted service. When your library users click a journal citation in your catalog or in your electronic databases, they are taken directly to the full content of the article in your collection. The service is a proven solution for libraries that don’t want the hassles of running their own link server operation.

Join us to see a demonstration of the service and learn how it can help your library more effectively make your resources accessible to the people who need them.

Our speakers:

1. Tony Melvyn, OCLC library Services Consultant
2. Pete McDonnell, Southwest Minnesota State University

Our fellow librarians share their innovative practices in resource sharing.

• Paula Braun, National coördinator for Seek&Book at VOB, The Dutch national association of public libraries
  Paula Braun is a professional librarian, worked for over 12 years in the public library of The Hague (The Netherlands) at several departments. In 2001 she moved to Montreal (Canada) to work for a LMS Supplier (Bibliomondo) and was product manager for the LMS Concerto and their OPAC application Zones. Later she worked for all European offices of Bibliomondo, within Europe. In March 2005 she started as National coördinator for Seek&Book at VOB, the Dutch national association of public libraries.
• Ed Rivenburgh and Cyril Oberlander, Library Director and Associate Director, Milne Library, SUNY College at Geneseo
  Ed Rivenburgh is currently Director of the Milne Library at SUNY Geneseo and came up with the idea of the Information Delivery Services (IDS) project. SUNY Geneseo and the IDS project are winners of the first Rethinking Resource Sharing Innovation Award. The IDS Project was recognized for designing rapid access to more than seven million volumes for 140,000 students and 10,000 faculty members. The project was developed by a team at SUNY Geneseo’s Milne Library and currently serves 27 academic libraries in New York, both public and private.
• David Millikin, Product Manager, Library Logistics, OCLC
  David Millikin earned his B.S.B.A. at Ohio State in 2000 with a double-major in Transportation and Logistics and Operations Management. As Product Manager for Library Logistics, he is currently developing new home delivery and storage management solutions for libraries and hopes to develop broader-reaching logistics services while working with OCLC. David talks about the Cooperative Collection Management Trust (CCMT), group of institutions connected by the need to reduce the costs and footprint associated with physical storage and management of print materials while maintaining access to the content.