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OLA Super Conference 2013 January 30th-February 2nd, 2013

Nydia Parries — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:19:40 +0000

OLA Super Conference 2013
January 30th-February 2nd, 2013 Metro Toronto Convention Center

About Super Conference
The Ontario Library Association is Canada’s largest library organization and OLA’s Super Conference is Canada’s largest continuing education event in librarianship. Within the Super Conference event is the country’s largest library tradeshow. The program is a tribute to the ability of OLA members to balance the cutting edge and the practical in a way that can satisfy an increasingly diverse number of member interests and needs.

While this is a very big event, it is also a very good event with exceptionally high scores in delegate evaluations. With each passing year, OLA members surpass themselves in the breadth and excellence of what they produce in this program. They succeed because, more and more, they are willing to take risks, to raise their sights in identifying what is needed, what is possible and what will move themselves and their peers forward.

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ALA Midwinter Conference: January 25-29 Seattle

Nydia Parries — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:13:30 +0000

ALA Midwinter Conference

The 2013 Midwinter conference will be held January 25th-29th in Seattle at the Washington State Convention Center. Please stop by and visit The Library Corporation at booth #509 and E-bibliofile at Booth #628!

Exhibits

With over 400 exhibiting organizations and the PopTop stage featuring the hottest authors, the exhibit floor is an integral part of the learning and professional development that takes place at the Midwinter Meeting. The Exhibit Hall offers attendees the opportunity to explore the breadth and depth of library products, services, books and online services and the tools and technologies available in today’s libraries. View the Exhibitor Directory.

Exhibit Hours
Grand Opening Reception on the Exhibit Floor
Friday, January 25	5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Saturday, January 26	9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Sunday, January 27	9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Monday, January 28	9:00 am – 2:00 pm
Wrap Up/ Rev Up Celebration	2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Small Press/Product Area

The Small Press/Small Product area in the exhibits is where new and independent presses often launch their latest titles. This area also serves as a jumping off point where new vendors introduce themselves to the library community.

Ribbon-Cutting & Exhibits Opening Reception

The Exhibit Hall opens immediately following the Author Forum, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony featuring a brief welcome by ALA and Seattle dignitaries. The Exhibits Opening includes food, drink, and entertainment through the exhibit hall, giving exhibitors and attendees their first chance to network as the exhibits kick off.

Meet the Authors

Use this link to Meet the Authors for the schedule of Authors /Illustrators appearing in exhibitor booths.

The PopTop Stage: Popular Topics, Every Day

The PopTop Stage will focus on three popular librarian favorites: Mystery, Romance and Storytelling. The PopTop Stage will feature readings, discussions, and presentations over the course of the exhibits. Click here for the PopTop Stage Schedule.

Spotlight on Adult Literature

Jointly sponsored by United for Libraries and ALA Conference Services, the “Spotlight on Adult Literature” is an opportunity for conference attendees to learn more about new authors as well as new books from seasoned authors of adult literature. On Saturday from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm in the Exhibit Hall, participating publishers will give away free books and some will host author signings during this time. A flyer listing all participating publishers will be handed out at the entrance to the Exhibit Hall on Saturday afternoon and is also available at this link.

Award-Winning Products at the ALA Store

Find the ALA Conference Store in the exhibit hall again at booth #1670, near the North Lobby entrance–an ideal location for easy access and convenient browsing. The ALA Store is a lively spot to browse, and offers products that meet the widest range of your promotional and continuing education/professional development needs. With plenty of new and bestselling items available, make sure to carve out some time in your schedule to stop by!

ALA Conference Store hours:

Friday, January 25 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Saturday, January 26 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Sunday, January 27 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Monday, January 28 9:00 am – 2:00 pm

ALA Graphics highlights new posters, bookmarks, and incentives, including the latest additions to the READ campaign and posters and bookmarks featuring popular characters. Look out for new and popular recent items including posters and bookmarks featuring the Hobbit, Mo Willems’ Friends, and Lost Hero (Percy Jackson series) plus Hunger Games and Hugh Jackman posters. Fun gift items include candles, journals, mugs, and more.

While you’re at the ALA Store, equip yourself with campaign items for Spring 2013 events including National Library Week, Teen Tech Week, School Library Month, and Choose Privacy Week. As always, the conference t-shirt will sell out fast—arrive early to get your size.

ALA Editions is excited to offer new titles hot off the press, such as the long-awaited third edition ofReference and Information Services in the 21st Century, the landmark textbook by Kay Ann Cassell and Uma Hiremath. And remember that you can now find Neal-Schuman, Chandos, and Facet titles in the ALA Conference Store. All ALA Editions, Neal-Schuman, Chandos, and Facet books will be 20% off the list price (an additional 10% off the ALA Member price).

Buy as many books as you like and get them shipped FREE! You can get free shipping on all book orders placed in the ALA Store (posters, bookmarks, and other gift-type items are not eligible for this offer).

Follow us for updates for updates on author/illustrator signings, special offers, and more: ALA Graphics on Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr. ALA Editions on Twitter and Facebook.

Prices at the Conference Store automatically reflect the ALA Member discount, so there’s no need to dig out your membership card. And remember that every dollar you spend at the ALA Store helps support library advocacy, awareness, and other key programs and initiatives!

ALA Membership Pavilion—The Place to Connect

A favorite stop in the exhibits where you can learn how membership can enhance your career, connect you with colleagues, and help you improve library services to your community. For our newest members, meet colleagues from the New Members Round Table (NMRT) who will help you find ways to get more involved in the association, supporting your career and the rest of the profession. ALA volunteer members and staff are ready to help answer your questions about your membership, the conference, and the many things happening at ALA. With information and displays from ALA divisions, round tables, and offices, the ALA Membership Pavilion is your one-stop place to learn and get connected.

Internet Room

Open to ALA members, the Internet Room is located in the Exhibit Hall and is open during exhibit hours only. It is managed by ALA’s Internet Steering Committee and staffed by volunteers.

Post Office

The United States Postal Service will be on hand to take care of your shipping needs, offering exclusively Priority Mail service. Check the Post Office location on site for daily hours.

Exhibits Closing & Wrap Up/Rev Up Celebration

Join us Monday afternoon to close the exhibits and rev up for the Annual Conference in Chicago. Start in the Exhibit Hall where there will be discount sales and exhibitors will offer special giveaways in their booths. The Exhibits Closing will be followed by the Wrap Up/Rev Up party. Come enjoy live music on the Wrap Up/Rev Up stage. The party will feature raffle prizes and fun.

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Press Release: TLC team members praised for dedication

semanticwill — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:00:00 +0000

INWOOD, W.Va. (Dec. 20, 2012) – During its annual holiday party, The Library Corporation saluted the commitment and hard work of its employees, 17 of whom received special recognition for sharing their talents with TLC for a combined total of 335 years.

“The longevity here is truly impressive,” said President and CEO Annette Harwood Murphy, noting that the vast majority of current TLC staffers have been with the family-owned company for five years or more. “You are part of a global enterprise, and what you’re doing is reaching millions. It’s truly amazing how far we’ve come.”

The following team members at TLC’s Inwood, W.Va., headquarters were awarded with certificates honoring service milestones:

30 YEARS – Michelle Weidman, Product Implementation Assistant Manager/Team Leader
25 YEARS – Lisa Rauh, Director of International Sales; Woody Woodsmall, Inwood Operations Director of Customer Assurance; Calvin Whittington, Director of Finance and Administration; Vickie Curry, PAC Implementation/Data Specialist
20 YEARS – Valencia Godlove, Inside Sales Representative
15 YEARS – Larry Waugh, Research & Development Principal Software Engineer; Beth Lentz, Product Implementation Data Analyst
10 YEARS – Dianne Coan, Product Management Strategist; Philip Puffinburger, Research & Development Application Developer
5 YEARS – Phillip Green, Automation Consultant; Cody Hartle, Research & Development Junior Software Developer; Joshua “Jabe” Bloom, TLC CTO; Alvin Knight, Product Management Agile Project Manager; Jonathan Lorusso, Research & Development; Damon Martin, Customer Support Principle Support Technician; Ryan Jones, Product Implementation Web Design

TLC employees recognized for achieving service milestones in 2012 were (from left) Vickie Curry, Calvin Whittington, Damon Martin, Ryan Jones, Phillip Green, Cody Hartle, Jonathan Lorusso, Alvin Knight, Dianne Coan, Philip Puffinburger, Larry Waugh, Beth Lentz, Joshua “Jabe” Bloom, and Michelle Weidman. Not pictured are Lisa Rauh, Woody Woodsmall, and Valencia Godlove.

TLC was founded in 1974 to serve the automation and cataloging needs of libraries worldwide. In addition to its headquarters in Inwood, the company has offices in Denver, New York City, and Singapore.

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Press Release: Library•Solution excels in Canadian school system

semanticwill — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:00:29 +0000

INWOOD, W.Va. (Nov. 1, 2012) – After 19 years with the same library automation system, Canada’s Mountain View School Division was ready for an upgrade. They wanted a Web-based system that was powerful, dependable, and adaptable to the workflows they had established over two decades. “We also looked at longevity because we’ve seen a lot of systems come and go,” said Mountain View Library Director and Resource Center Coordinator Charlene Purdon.

When TLC’s Library•Solution® integrated library system was implemented in the nearby Winnipeg School Division, Purdon took notice. “If you could handle their division in terms of service, you could handle ours,” she said.

The Winnipeg School Division in southern Manitoba includes 77 schools and serves more than 32,000 students. The Dauphin, Manitoba-based Mountain View School Division is comprised of 16 schools and 3,300 students.

Purdon said she was impressed by TLC’s willingness to customize Library•Solution in ways that allow staff in Mountain View’s 17 libraries to continue working as they had become accustomed. “There are things we do that other companies weren’t willing to accommodate,” she said. For example, “We print our own barcodes, we print our own labels, and having TLC see that these things were important to us made a huge difference. They allow us to do things the way we do them, and I like that.”

Purdon said Library•Solution was up and running by the start of the new school year in September, less than six months after she signed the purchase order. “We went from one library system to another without any issues. I’ve never had user complaints. To me, that’s the sign of a good implementation.”

Purdon said she and her staff are impressed with the comprehensive cataloging and reports functionality of Library•Solution, and the division’s teachers and students are enjoying the improved search capabilities of the system’s OPACs – LS2 Kids in the elementary schools, LS2 PAC in the middle and high schools. And since the ILS is Web-based, she said it serves the small, outlying schools an hour away from Dauphin just as efficiently as the larger schools in the heart of the district.

“I’ve certainly found TLC very good to deal with, and I’m certainly a satisfied client,” Purdon said. “You get your money’s worth, and I think it’s a very good value.”

The Library Corporation, a family-owned company founded in 1974, creates and distributes automation and cataloging software to library systems worldwide. For more information, e-mail Brian Brehm at bbrehm@TLCdelivers.com, or call 1.800.325.7759.

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Press Release: eBiblioFile ‘a wonderful service’ for catalogers

semanticwill — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:00:08 +0000

INWOOD, W.Va. (October 16, 2012) – After going live July 1, the eBiblioFile MARC records service for digital downloads surpassed 175 library system customers at the end of September. It represents one of the fastest-growing new library businesses in recent years, and eBiblioFile has established itself as the most streamlined and sophisticated version of an e-resource cataloging service on the market today.

Heather Powers, product owner, explains: “To register, our customers select eBiblioFile as their MARC vendor for e-resources. From there, they automatically begin receiving our custom MARC records. Unlike other services, we don’t require the library to do any additional work.”

As the first e-resource on-demand service, eBiblioFile has evolved to handle large back-orders seamlessly and painlessly.

“It’s a wonderful service; I couldn’t be happier,” says Ruth Ann Copley, the cataloging coordinator for the North Carolina Digital Library. “eBiblioFile’s much faster than our last service. Turnaround is so much faster on bib records.”

The advantages of eBiblioFile don’t end with convenience. For many libraries, eBiblioFile is also the most cost-effective option on the market. For consortiums, one record is provided that can then be distributed to member libraries. This streamlined measure is less work for the library and, in many cases, a major savings.

Scott Reinhart, e-resource coordinator for the Maryland eLibrary Consortium, says, “With eBiblioFile, we have the assurance that we are going to get all of our records within two days of ordering. We didn’t have that with our previous vendor. As a pilot consortium, we didn’t expect the process to be as painless as it was.”

Libraries that register for eBiblioFile are also signing up to receive a superior level of customer care.

As Reinhert says, “They are a pleasure to work with … straightforward and flexible. The fact that they actually care about the customer is readily apparent with every interaction.”

To find out more, go to www.ebibliofile.com or e-mail ebibliofile_support@tlcdelivers.com.

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Press Release: Lists & Actions for librarians on the go

semanticwill — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:00:02 +0000

INWOOD, W.Va. (Sept. 27, 2012) – The Library Corporation is pleased to introduce Lists & Actions, a powerful new circulation feature to compliment the Web-based LS2 Staff interface for TLC’s Library•Solution® automation system.

The LS2 Staff interface is a touchscreen-optimized, tablet-friendly design that allows a librarian to leave his or her desk and perform circulation tasks anywhere in the library. The new Lists & Actions tab leverages this mobility to provide lists of items and associated transaction data wherever it’s needed using an array of filters associated with MARC record data and circulation statistics. Each selected filter opens a range of options to help narrow down the search. Librarians can view saved pick lists, create weeding lists on the fly, or limit collections from within the stacks, in the workroom, or anywhere in the library by any number of filters and variables.

Data from lists and saved searches can be exported to a spreadsheet, added to an existing list, or used to create new lists. Each filter has options available for further narrowing a search, and each column in the results table can be rearranged, resized, sorted, or deleted to customize a user’s list or saved search.

To learn more about the advantages delivered by Lists & Actions, LS2 Staff, and Library•Solution, e-mail Brian Brehm at bbrehm@TLCdelivers.com, or call 1.800.325.7759.

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Press Release: Sault Ste. Marie PL launches ‘most modern computer system in the north’

semanticwill — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:00:40 +0000

INWOOD, W.Va. (Sept. 13, 2012) – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio host Markus Schwabe said on the Jan. 9 broadcast of his “Morning North” show that Sault Ste. Marie Public Library’s new Library•Solution automation system is “the most modern computer system in the north.” Mark Jones, head of corporate services for the library, agrees. “I don’t think there are any libraries in northern Ontario that have something comparable,” he said.

In January, Sault Ste. Marie Public Library went live with TLC’s Library•Solution ILS and several of its Web-based, touchscreen-enabled modules, providing the library system with social-networking capabilities that were not previously available to staff and borrowers. “It’s given us a much nicer PAC for our patrons,” Jones said of TLC’s LS2 PAC catalog.

Jones offered further praise for TLC’s implementation and customer support teams. “Whenever we have had a question, they have gotten back to us very quickly.”

Established in 1896, the Sault Ste. Marie Public Library serves a population of more than 80,000 along the St. Mary’s River in Ontario, Canada. Its three locations offer 202,000 items and circulate more than half a million titles each year.

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Press Release: TLC, OverDrive partner to provide MARC records

semanticwill — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:00:37 +0000

INWOOD, W.Va. (Jan. 21, 2012) – The Library Corporation and OverDrive are pleased to announce an agreement that enables OverDrive customers to order high-quality TLC MARC records and cataloging services simultaneously with their digital OverDrive materials.

Using TLC’s streamlined BiblioFile OnDemand technology, MARC records for e-books, audiobooks, and music and video titles will be prepared and delivered directly to each OverDrive library ready to import in just a few days. Final testing is under way and is expected to go live very soon.

“The first step to integrating electronic materials in today’s library system is to make sure MARC records exist for those items in the library catalog,” said Heather Brockerman, TLC Product Owner. “Our service accomplishes this quickly and easily. Our test libraries have been especially pleased with the quality and fast turnaround of just a matter of days.”

OverDrive is a leading full-service digital distributor of e-books, audiobooks, and other digital content. Founded in 1986, OverDrive currently hosts more than 700,000 premium digital titles from more than 1,000 publishers, including Random House, HarperCollins, AudioGO, Harlequin, and Bloomsbury. The Cleveland, Ohio-based company’s digital distribution services are utilized by more than 18,000 libraries, schools, and colleges worldwide.

TLC was founded in 1974 to create technology for libraries and school districts of all sizes, including some of the busiest libraries in the world. TLC’s library automation and cataloging products include Library•Solution®, CARL•XTM, LS2 PAC, LS2 Kids, LS2 Mobile, and ITS•MARC® – all backed by an unparalleled level of customer support and assistance.

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