Jennifer Pearson, Manager, Cataloging Services and Mary Ann Abner, Cataloger, Database Maintenance, Ingrams Library Services. When the organizing and processing of Kentucky state documents was absorbed by the Ekstrom Library's Content Access Team, we decided to provide access to both print and web-based Kentucky publications in the local catalog. This session relates how we adapted established procedures and implemented OCLC's CORC service to carry out this goal. Humor is thought to be a means to promote teamwork, reduce stress, stimulate creativity, and improve communication, morale and productivity. This presentation offers information on appropriate and potentially helpful applications of workplace humor to enhance the work atmosphere in libraries from both management and personal perspectives.
Librarians have many skills that easily transfer to publishing.
Learn about university presses as publishers, see a view from inside the world of publishing, and hear tales and adventures in marketing books. Trends in Scholarly Publishing. Overview of current trends in scholarly publishing, but the major focus wil be on their impact on libraries. Changes in everything from pricing to delivery, have meant a sea-change in funding, in cooperative agreements and ultimately in the products we can provide. At the same time almost every aspect of what we do as librarians, especially technical services librarians has changed, radically.