Past Events › Technical Services

Join us for a day with representatives from Children’s Plus, Midwest Tape, Baker & Taylor, and Ingram. They will give presentations on their online ordering systems, demonstrate how Technical Services and Acquisitions may benefit from their services, and answer your questions.

Join us for a day with Dewey Decimal Classification! Caroline Saccucci from the Library of Congress will give beginning catalogers & paraprofessionals a detailed overview of all sections of DDC; demonstrate basic Dewey number-building in WebDewey; and give tips and tricks for using WebDewey. Do you Dewey? We do.

This Basic Serials Cataloging Workshop will offer an introduction to cataloging serials with RDA. It will cover RDA and CONSER standards, RDA core elements and terminology, transcribed versus recorded elements, new or revised areas of information, and creation of new records and serial maintenance.

Catalogers and non-catalogers are invited to attend this workshop on the MARC format for bibliographic records. Catherine Suchy, instructor at the Joliet Junior College Library Technical Assistant Program, will present an overview of the fields and tags in the MARC bibliographic record.

Panelists Richard Stewart (Indian Trails Public Library), Joy Anhalt (Tinley Park Public Library), Michelle Sandstrom (Naperville Public Library) and Rebecca Bartlett (La Grange Public Library) will discuss cataloging resources, including OCLC Classify, WebDewey, Cataloger’s Desktop, RDA Toolkit, professional websites, blogs and listservs.

Panelists Rebecca Bartlett (La Grange Public Library), Laura Murff (Lisle Library District), Rohini Bokka and Technical Services staff (Naperville Public Library) will help you optimize the workflow in your Technical Services department.

This interactive workshop will move participants beyond the basics of Resource Description & Access (RDA) into more advanced cataloging territory. The instructor will cover RDA for “non-traditional” resources – games, kits, equipment, Playaways, and other non-book items. New MARC fields will be explained, and plenty of examples and activities will be provided to help empower participants to tackle cataloging their own troublesome resources!

Join us for the 2018 Un-conference! We will have presentations that include the decisions catalogers make that influence patron’s interaction with library materials, various Connexion Client functions including when to derive, create or update records, and a demonstration on how to use MarcEdit, a free MARC editing software suite.