Silver Jubilee Celebration-   Poster Sessions  Contact: Jessica Mize Courtright Memorial One Otterbein College Otterbein College Westerville, OH 43081 614.823.1985 work 614.823.1921 fax JMize@otterbein.edu

Poster Sessions

BUILDING A BETTER MOUSETRAP: USING MOUSEPADS TO ADVERTISE LIBRARY SERVICES by Nancy Moeckel & Joanne Goode, Science Librarians, Miami University. Miami University Libraries are using an innovative advertising method with faculty and selected other remote users - mousepads with replaceable inserts. The library logo, URL and phone numbers are permanently printed in a banner on the clear cover of the mousepads, which were distributed as gifts. Inserts are mailed as needed to promote new services, provide and solicit user feedback. A webpage, the MousePad Archives, provides more details and hotlinks for each topic. Reaction has been very positive. We want to share the success of this program with other libraries.

DEPOSITORIES OF KNOWLEDGE: THE STATEWIDE ACADEMIC DEPOSITORY SYSTEM IN OHIO by Michael McHugh, Manager, NW Ohio Regional Depository; Donna DeGeorge, Manager, OSU Depository; Sue Berry, Manager, SW Ohio Regional Depository. The three depository managers will talk about access materials housed in the depositories and on trends in preservation, photocopying and digitization that may impact depository management .

DEVELOPING REFERENCE SERVICES FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION by Mary Hricko, Library Director, Kent State University-Geauga Campus Academic Librarians must be prepared to develop reference services for distance education programs. This presentation will offer suggestions for librarians and discuss the issues involved in providing such services. A general overview of what Ohio libraries are doing will be included.

ELECTRONIC REFERENCE SERVICE by Wade M. Lee, University of Toledo At the University of Toledo we have just completed our first year of an electronic (e-mail, with a web submission form) reference service. The session will describe the benefits and drawbacks of offering the service, steps and considerations for setting up such a service, and suggestions for how to manage the service.

TO GOBI OR NOT TO GOBI by Sherri Edwards and Susan DiRenzo, University of Akron. This poster sesion will describe the University of Akron Libraries' experience implementing Yankee Book Peddler's GOBI service in conjunction with two Innovative Interfaces software products. GobiSelect and GobiBatch are two major components of YPB's online interactive bibliographic service (Global Online Bibliographic Information - GOBI). Innovative Interfaces' Extended Approval Plan software is used to create bibliographic and order records using GobiSelect data, and the Electronic Book Order software is used to place orders with YBP. The University of Akron has a unique implementation of GobiSelect in which the bibliographer plays a prominent role in the selection and ordering process. Cooperation between Collection Management, Acquisitions and Systems has been the key to a successful implementation of GobiSelect at the University of Akron.

MANAGING LICENSE AGREEMENTS by Carol Ficken, Head, Accounting/Receiving/Order Unit, University of Akron. Due to our increasing need for license agreements for electronic products, the University of Akron Acquisitions Department is in the process of addressing issues of 1) improving our procedures for requesting license agreements from publishers, and 2) increasing our timeliness for renewing serials that have license agreements on file.

"UP AGAINST THE WALL, OR, WHY DOESN'T ANYBODY EVER WANT THE VIDEOS THAT ARE ALREADY CATALOGED????" by David Prochazka, Music/Special Materials; and Virginia Berringer, Cataloger, University of Akron. Changes in personnel, cataloging priorities, and purchasing patterns resulted in large backlogs of uncataloged VHS videos and music CDs. To maintain control of and to provide access to materials in these backlogs, each title was assigned an accession number. Requested items needed immediately were given temporary labels and taken to AVS for circulation, or, of time permits, rush cataloged. After circulation, uncataloged items were returned to the Cataloging Dept. where they may be returned to their shelves, or added to the current/priority cataloging shelf.

Updated 26 October 1999
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