[Evergreen-catalogers] How much interest is there to meet about authorities at 2014 conference?

[Yamil Suarez]

Mike,

Yes, this is referring your authorities presentation with Angela. Glad to know you plan to stop by.

Yamil


On Feb 6, 2014, at 4:31 PM, Mike Rylander <mrylander at gmail.com> wrote:

> Kathy,
> 
> I'm guessing the authority session you mention is the one Angela
> Kilsdonk and I are presenting, is that correct?  Assuming so, I'm glad
> to you found a spot for this IG meeting at a time near that.  Jason
> mentioned down-thread that he wasn't sure if other developers were
> planning to attend, so I thought I'd make it explicit that I will be.
> 
> -- 
> Mike Rylander
> | Director of Research and Development
> | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source
> | phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
> | email:  miker at esilibrary.com
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> 
> On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Kathy Lussier <klussier at masslnc.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> We were able to fit an authorities interest group meeting into the schedule.
>> It will be held on the same afternoon as the authorities session, so you'll
>> all get a chance to see an overview of authorities first before you meet.
>> 
>> However, we do not yet have a facilitator for this interest group meeting.
>> Please send an e-mail to the list to let me know if you are interested in
>> facilitating the session.
>> 
>> Thank you!
>> Kathy
>> 
>> Kathy Lussier
>> Project Coordinator
>> Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
>> (508) 343-0128
>> klussier at masslnc.org
>> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/6/2013 10:58 AM, Yamil Suarez wrote:
>>> 
>>> For the record, for those that want to learn about authorities in EG,
>>> there is currently a proposal for having a presentation at the 2014 EG
>>> conference, see below, that will cover how authorities work in EG at
>>> the time of the conference. According to the recent conference program
>>> survey results, there is a lot of interest for this session, but the
>>> final decision of what presentation will be given has not been made
>>> yet, but I like our chances.
>>> 
>>> Therefore, we might want to consider having our authority meeting
>>> sometime after that presentation, right after or a day after, etc., to
>>> continue discussions about authorities. For example last year when we
>>> had the first meeting we spent a good amount of time discussing how to
>>> make authorities better in future or current versions of EG.
>>> 
>>> Also, I guess we can make an attempt to assign someone to take minutes
>>> of the meeting, and/or set up a Google for those that cannot make it
>>> to the conference.
>>> 
>>> Thanks everyone for their responses so far, keep em coming.
>>> 
>>> Yamil
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=conference:2014:proposals#authority_control_in_evergreen
>>> 
>>> Authority Control in Evergreen
>>> 
>>> Title: Authority Control in Evergreen: The straight dope
>>> 
>>> Description: Authorities are dope, yo. Used properly, they simplify
>>> cataloging and increase patron access to materials through improved
>>> discovery capabilities. During this session we will discuss exactly
>>> how authority control works in Evergreen, some common but inaccurate
>>> assumptions about authority control in Evergreen, and how best to make
>>> use of the advanced capabilities that Evergreen provides. We will
>>> cover browse integration, automatic record overlay, authority
>>> generation, bibliographic and inter-authority record linking, Control
>>> Sets and their configuration, and how to make use of local, extra-LoC
>>> data and expertise to leverage the full potential of Evergreen's
>>> authority control feature set.
>>> 
>>> Audience: Catalogers, systems librarians, reference librarians
>>> 
>>> Presenters:
>>> Mike Rylander, Director of Research and Development at Equinox Software
>>> Angela Kilsdonk, Education Manager at Equinox Software
>>> 
>>> Session Length: Standard 45-minute Session
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Joni <paxtonjo at oplin.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I, too, am very interested in learning more about authorities and
>>>> Evergreen's handling of this topic.
>>>> 
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