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Next Generation Music for Libraries | ALA Anaheim Roundtable Event

11:00 - 11:45 AM: Next Generation Music for Libraries

Roundtable led by Tim Lloyd, chief operating officer
Doubletree Anaheim, Tuscany B

On-site drawing will be for a one-year subscription to Classical Music in Video

Services like Spotify, YouTube, and Vimeo have changed the landscape of streaming audio and video over the past five years.  But are they serving teaching and research needs?  Come join our roundtable discussion to voice your opinions and share ideas for ensuring that library services continue to develop as our online experience becomes increasingly integrated and social.
 
We’ll also unwrap our new audio clip functionality, show some of the exciting new content we’ve added over the last few months (including video masterclasses from Classical Music in Video and contemporary scores from Classical Scores Library), and share some of the new product ideas we’re investigating.

18th Annual Conference of the Special Libraries Association Arabian Gulf Chapter 2012

The main theme of the conference will be "The Information Society: Current Trends in the Arab World".

Where: Manama, Bahrain at the Gulf Hotel

Who's going?: Techknowledge (distributor), Robert Iannello (Regional Sales Director), Julie Stevens (Senior Sales Director)

Bibliostar 2012

Where: Milan, Palazzo delle Stelline

The 2012 Convention theme is I nuovi alfabeti della biblioteca (The new alphabets of the library) and plans to analyse the cultural models and highly advanced service strategies which libraries are called upon to contend with and which derive from the spread of new languages favoured by the development of communication technologies and social transformation.

 

Metadata is King! The Five Things You Have to Know About How Alexander Steet Press is Meeting Your User's Discovery Needs | ALA Anaheim Roundtable Event

2:00 - 2:45 PM: Metadata is King! The Five Things You Have to Know About How Alexander Steet Press is Meeting Your User's Discovery Needs

Roundtable led by Aaron Wood, vice president, systems and data architecture
Doubletree Anaheim, Tuscany B

On-site drawing will be for a one-year subscription to New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990–Present.

Over the past year we’ve made great efforts to re-envision how our metadata and systems can be used by librarians and end users alike. Join us to learn about the richness of metadata now available and the five things you need to know about the discovery landscape:

  • Granular, enriched metadata in discovery systems, including Serials Solutions Summon, EBSCO Discovery Service, ExLibris Primo Central, and OCLC WorldCat Local.
  • MARC records and the Alexander Street commitment.
  • How to tap our metadata: it’s free and open to all.
  • Ubiquity and the search widget.
  • You’ve heard of Zotero, now get acquainted with the next wave in scholarly interaction – Open Annotation!
     

Health Sciences in Video: Out of the Clinic and into the Classroom Roundtable

10:00 - 10:45 AM: Health Sciences in Video: Out of the Clinic and into the Classroom

Roundtable led by Greg Urquhart, vice president, business development
Doubletree Anaheim, Tuscany B

On-site drawing for a one-year subscription to the health sciences collection of your choice.

Our freeform discussion will focus on the emerging trends in healthcare education and the ways in which video can be put to better use in patient-centered, interdisciplinary environments. What can nursing students learn from counselors? What can dentistry students learn from speech therapists? What can libraries and publishers do to better promote the availability of relevant resources outside of a user’s specialty? Come ready for a lively discussion!

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