Decision Center is a web-based, user friendly reporting software that allows library staff to analyze circulation and collection costs and trends without requiring you to perform complex Boolean queries in advance. There are many queries already pre-defined in Decision Center; we will only be demonstrating and practicing some of these in training, but encourage users to explore all of the possible reports on your own.
Decision Center is an integrated solution and operates seamlessly with Sierra.
Learn how the program review process can work to your advantage in advocating for change and gaining support from your administration. Join Cynthia Duffenhoffer, from Central Methodist, as she shares her insights as an HLC reviewer and hear from Angela Grogan, from Westminster, as she shares some lessons learned with the review process.
The MOBIUS Overdrive Shared Collection is now more than a year old and continues to attract attention and serve as a national model for other academic groups. Join us to learn how the collection has become one of OverDrive's most successful academic consortial collections. With a focus on affordability and how the Overdrive collections can contribute to institutional cost savings, we will talk about the growth in the collection this year and the factors that we believe contribute to its ongoing success. We will also share how we resolved ongoing issues, new strategies for promoting to faculty and students, and new developments and features that make OverDrive a powerful tool for academic libraries.
Resource Description and Access (RDA), first implemented in 2013, introduced several changes to descriptive cataloging guidelines. Whereas many libraries were early adopters of RDA, there are still libraries who have not yet adopted RDA or have not adopted it fully. If your library has not yet adopted RDA, or if your library has adopted RDA, but you are feeling overwhelmed with the task of keeping up with the changes to RDA, this presentation will help bring you up-to-date. The presenters will cover changes to several fields, including main entry, title and statement of responsibility, publication information, physical description, and the new 33X fields. In addition, presenters will suggest some beneficial freely available resources to aid in understanding and accessing RDA. An overview of recent changes to RDA, MARC, and BIBFRAME will also be discussed.
Two half sessions! On the Road Again: The MOBIUS Courier Network. (30 min) The MOBIUS courier network conjures up images of 18-wheeler tractor trailers, CB radios, and bands of good-natured misfits trying to outrun the law while speeding through states across the midwest. Get up to date on where we are with this ever-growing network of cars, vans, and trucks that are delivering materials across thousands of miles and multiple states each and every day. Learn more about what’s in store as we look to move into a new state later this year!
You Can Take it With You: Exporting out of Create Lists. (20 min) Create Lists is a hallmark of Innovative systems going back decades. Create Lists enables you to export selected fields from a review file to a delimited file and do many things with it, from downloading it, to prepping it for further revisions, to creating a Featured List of records that can be browsed by patrons from the public catalog. Learn more about some of the nuances this amazing application can do for you.
Is there an upcoming conference, workshops, seminar, or course you’d like to attend? How about an amazing trainer or workshop you’d like to bring to your library? If so, the Missouri State Library can help! Join Lisa Stock, MOSL’s Adult Services Consultant, as she discusses the Show Me Steps to Continuing Education grants, including an overview of grant requirements, such as grant priorities, minimums, maximums, and allowable costs. Examples of awarded Show Me Steps grant projects will be shared.
