ioug news
Spring 2009 Annual Conference!
The 2009 Annual Conference was held in Chicago at Saint Xavier University on Friday, June 19, 2009. The IOUG Annual Meeting is a premier event for cutting-edge speakers in librarianship, metadata, and patron services. The 2009 speakers are now available in Webcasts that feature the PowerPoint slides and full content of each address.
Click here to access the videos!
Membership Form
The 2009-2010 Membership Form is now available! Click here for more details!
New OCLC Service
OCLC has developed a Training Portal - http://training.oclc.org/
The Training Portal is your gateway to making the most of your OCLC products and services. This site provides you with access to additional in-person and Web-based instruction from OCLC and OCLC-certified Training Partners.
There are three tabs:
'What's New' - overview of the site
'Training Courses' - fee-based classes from other partners
'Support and Training' - free online tutorials and support by product
10@10 Workshops
The 10@10 workshops have now been archived! Click here!
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.
