Monday, March 26, 2007
Mezzanine Conference Room, BPL
10am-3pm

9:30 am Registration and refreshments

10am-12pm OCLC Resource Sharing Services Today
Dana Dietz, Global Product Manager of Resource Sharing & Fulfillment Services, OCLC
Paulette Hasier, Training & Member Services Coordinator, CAPCON.

Join Dana Dietz, Global Product Manager of Resource Sharing & Fulfillment Services and Paulette Hasier, Training & Member Services Coordinator, for demonstration of the latest D2D (discovery to delivery) initiatives at OCLC. Learn how WorldCat Direct Pilot is allowing home delivery of physical materials to patrons in Montana and hear about how some cutting edge libraries are using in-development premium services on the WorldCat.org platform to provide a ‘fresh face’ for their catalog. See how Odyssey can help you deliver electronic documents quickly and easily to your patrons and find out how to use statistics to monitor your service use. The latest WorldCat Resource Sharing & OCLC ILLiad service enhancements will also be covered.

12-12:45pm Lunch (to be provided)

1-3pm OCLC Delivery Services of Tomorrow
Matt Goldner, Executive Director of Cooperative Collection Services, OCLC.

Today's information consumer is demanding -- convenience and simplicity abound on successful consumer websites like iTunes, Netflix, Amazon and Google. Silos in the traditional library organization no longer reflect the needs of this information consumer. Distinctions between circulation, inter-library loan, electronic resource management and stores of online content are lost on the user seeking to "find and get."

Join Matt Goldner, Executive Director of Cooperative Collection Services, who will discuss OCLC solutions for group discovery and consortial borrowing with direct circulation interoperability and how this compares to the current BLC Virtual Catalog.

Matt will also provide an update on OCLC's emerging global framework centered on the information consumer that unifies delivery silos and extends the resolution concept to the entire capacity of a library -- all collections, services and experts in the organization- thus ensuring comprehensive access for the information consumer.