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Annual Conference Presentations
Download Karen Calhoun's PowerPoint presentation with notes.
Coming Soon: Presentation videos of Jay Jordan and Karen Calhoun.
Spring 2009 Annual Conference!
Join us in Chicago at Saint Xavier University for the Illinois OCLC
Users' Group annual meeting on Friday, June 19, 2009. Guest speakers
include Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO, Karen Calhoun, Vice
President of OCLC WorldCat and Metadata Services, and Robert Seal, Dean
of Libraries, Loyola University.
Entitled "The Future is Now: Cooperation in the Bibliographic and
Information Commons," registration and continental breakfast begins at
8:30 am, with opening remarks at 9:00. The day's activities will end at
2:30 in the afternoon. The $45.00 registration fee includes a
continental breakfast and lunch. There will be flash drive and pen
give-aways, and the chance to win a Netbook or Creative Zen Media
Player.
Maps of the Chicago campus can be found at: http://www.sxu.edu/Administrative/Facilities_Mgmt/chicago_tour.asp
Registration Information:
Registration and continental breakfast will start the day at 8:30 am. Opening remarks will begin at 9:00 am and the day's activities will end at 2:30 pm. The $45.00 registration fee includes continental breakfast and lunch.
Click here to register and see more detailed information about the day's activities.
Presentations Include:
Welcome and IOUG Report - Anita Morgan, Chair
Illinois State Library Report - Anne Craig, Director
CARLI Report - Susan Singleton, Executive Director
OCLC Members' Council Report - Jan Ison, Delegate
State of the Art at OCLC - Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO
Future of Cataloging - Karen Calhoun, Vice President, OCLC WorldCat and Metadata Services
Information Commons at Loyola - Robert Seal, Dean of Libraries, Loyola University
WorldCat Local - Jan Ison, Delegate, OCLC
Hotel Information:
A limited number of hotel rooms are available for the night of June 18th, 2009 at a rate of $119.00 plus tax at the Hilton Oak Lawn, located at 9333 South Cicero Avenue in Oak Lawn, Illinois. Be sure to mention the IOUG Annual Meeting when you call 708-425-7800 to reserve your room. Deadline for this rate is May 28, 2009.
Attendees will receive a flash drive and other goodies, and have the chance to win a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Netbook, a Creative Zen Media Player and other great prizes.
We look forward to seeing you in June!
10@10 Workshops
The 10@10 workshops have now been archived! Click here!
Membership Form
The 2008-2009 Membership Form is now available! Click here for more details!
Ask Away!
Ask?Away is a virtual reference project that offers both e-mail and chat reference and is currently funded through a grant that is administered by the Illinois State Library. Ask?Away uses the OCLC QuestionPoint platform "to deliver professional library reference services to all residents and students of Illinois by providing them with digital access to librarians 24/7".
The Ask?Away project launched on April 24, 2006 and since then over 250 Illinois libraries have joined. Each of these libraries has taken the bold step to provide their patrons with access to librarians 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Illinois librarians monitor with back up from other librarians in the cooperative so that a patron can always get a reliable answer. Staffing is currently optional, so you don't need to use your staff hours to provide your patrons with this service.
Even if your institution is providing IM, e-mail or some other type of virtual reference, consider the benefits of offering your students access to trained and experienced librarians 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. We are still actively recruiting libraries and hope that your library will join. Please go to www.askawayillinois.info for more information or contact Natalie Tagge, Illinois Virtual Reference Coordinator at the Illinois State Library - ntagge@ilsos.net or 217-557-6329.
who is ioug
The purpose of the Illinois OCLC Users' Group (IOUG) is to promote the use of the OCLC database and related ILLINET/OCLC services for libraries and educational institutions for educational, literacy, scientific, and research purposes.
