CONSER Editing Guide

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The 2011 American Library Association conference took place June 23–28 at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. This report summarizes several programs and forums including the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) Continuing Resources Section, Electronic Resources Interest Group program; Holdings Forum: Universal and Repurposed Holdings Information: Emerging Initiatives and Projects; the RDA Update Forum; and the Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee Update Forum.     

Advances in Librarianship,Vol. 28

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This quarter’s column reports on sessions from the Charleston Conference, held in Charleston, SC, November 6–10, 2017.     

Reports of Conferences, Institutes, and Seminars

This quarter's column features reports from the New England Library Association Annual Conference; the Pennsylvania Library Association Annual Conference; the Potomac Technical Processing Librarians Annual Meeting; the Charleston Conference; the Brick and Click Libraries Symposium; a NISO Webinar entitled “The Case of the Disappearing Journal: Solving the Title Transfer and Online Display Mystery;” and the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting.     

Serials Spoken Here: Reports of Conferences,Institutes, and Seminars

This quarter's column spans nearly eight months in 2016 and comprises reports from three library conferences. The UKSG 39th Annual Conference and Exhibition took place in the Bournemouth International Center (BIC), April 11 to April 13. The Potomac Technical Processing Librarians 92nd Annual Meeting convened October 21 at the University of Richmond. The Charleston Conference took place in Charleston, SC, October 31 to November 5.     

Little Magazine Interview Index 2003

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Reports on the 2005 Potomac Technical Processing Librarians Conference, Annapolis, Maryland, and the 25th Annual Charleston Conference in South Carolina.     

Reports of Conferences, Institutes, and Seminars: ASIS&T 2008 Annual Meeting

This installment of “Serials Spoken Here” features reports on the ASIS&T (American Society for Information Science & Technology) 2008 Annual Meeting, the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference, and the 2008 Charleston Conference.     

Reports of Conferences,Institutes, and Seminars

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Reports from the 78th Potomac Technical Processing Librarians Conference held October 2002, and the Charleston Conference, Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition, held November 2002. Serials Review 2003; 29:144–150.     

NISO Webinar: The Future of Integrated Library Systems: Part 1: RDA & Cataloging

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This column's offerings cover late spring through summer to fall of 2011: NISO Webinar: The Future of Integrated Library Systems: Part 1: RDA & Cataloging (May 11); American Library Association Annual Conference (June 23–28); Association of College and Research Libraries New England Serials and Electronic Resources Interest Group Summer Program: Current Trends in E-Journals (August 18); Kentucky Library Association/Kentucky School Media Association Joint Conference (September 28–October 1); American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting (October 9–12); Great Lakes E-Summit Conference (October 10–11); and Potomac Technical Processing Librarians Annual Meeting (October 21).     

Serials Spoken Here

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This quarter's column features a report from the Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians (OVGTSL), held May 15–17, 2013, in Richmond, KY; the 29th Annual North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) Conference, held June 5–9, 2013, in Buffalo, NY, including a separate report on the June 6 RDA &; Serials preconference; and, the American Library Association's Annual Conference, held June 27–July 2, 2013, in Chicago, IL.     

Serials Spoken Here–Reports of Conferences,Institutes and Seminars

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This quarter's column offers a report from the Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge, held May 14–17, 2016, in Timberline Lodge, Oregon, and also provides coverage of multiple sessions from the Kraemer Copyright Conference, held June 6–7, 2016, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Some reports are collected, as well, from the NASIG Annual Conference, held June 9–12, 2016, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference, held June 23–28, 2016, in Orlando, Florida. Lastly, there is a report from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress, held August 13–19, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio. Topics covered include open access, linked data, copyright, text mining, e-resource management, and digitization.     

Reports of Conferences,Institutes, and Seminars

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This quarter's column reports on sessions from NASIG 2017: Racing to the Crossroads, held in Indianapolis, IN, June 8 to 11, and ALA Annual 2017: Transforming Our Libraries, Ourselves, which took place in Chicago, IL, June 22–27.     

In Order to Form a More Perfect Union … List of Serials: A Report of the Workshop

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Reports from the 18th North American Serials Interest Group Conference held in June 2003 and the annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology held in October 2003.

The two reports in this column describe the experience of a conference student grant winner at the 2003 North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) Conference at Portland State University (PSU) and six plenary sessions from the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) held in Long Beach, CA. NASIG has not been held in the Northwest since the group was in Vancouver in 1996. Many attendees enjoyed spending time in Powell's bookshop. I'm sure the Portland economy was booming with so many librarians in town. Because there were no residence halls at PSU, delegates stayed in local hotels—quite a change for long-time NASIG members. Lisa Bowman focuses on this theme of change. Rafal Kasprowski presents a very thorough and fascinating report on ASIST sessions dealing with the humanizing of technology. While not specifically aimed at serialists, we can all appreciate how this topic fits into our daily routines where technology seems to rule, or maybe it only rules as much as we let it. Nonetheless, Kasprowski covers a lot of excellent research on new directions in system design as well as several theoretical and methodological approaches for more effective information service. Social and cultural analysis is important, and emotion can even play a key role in user interaction with systems. There is a lot yet to learn and understand about user behavior, and the ASIST conference has really put together an excellent series of presentations.     

Reports of Conferences,Institutes, and Seminars

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Reports from a spring 2002 New England Technical Services Librarians conference on standards, the 2002 Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge, and a program on “AACR2 Chapter 12 Revised” held during the 2002 American Library Association Annual Conference. Serials Review 2002; 28:327–338.     

Reports of Conferences,Institutes, and Seminars

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This column covers sessions from the 2018 Charleston Library Conference, an informal annual gathering of librarians, publishers, electronic resource managers, consultants, and vendors of library materials in Charleston, South Carolina, in November. Topics include the impact of open access and open research, assisting faculty with locating and integrating these resources into their courses through partnerships and open applications, and managing gifts and donations with restricted resources.     

Green,Yellow, Red: Implementing a New Workflow for Collection Management at College of Charleston Libraries

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This article summarizes the North Carolina Serials Conference presentation “Green, Yellow, Red: Implementing a New Workflow for Collection Management at College of Charleston Libraries,” a case study evaluating a new workflow created by the Collection and Content Services Department at the College of Charleston Libraries to streamline the renewals process after significant departmental and staff changes. The librarians involved in creating the workflow found that they could not only use it to organize their renewals processes, but also to open communication with faculty regarding underutilized resources.     

Reports of Conferences,Institutes, and Seminars

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Late winter and early spring of 2009 was a busy conference time for librarians. Some of the conferences held during that time are reported herein: the American Library Association Midwinter Conference, January 23–28; Electronic Resources and Libraries (E&;RL), February 9–12; the North Carolina Serials Conference, March 27; the New England Technical Services Librarians' (NETSL) Spring Conference, April 17; and the Technical, Electronic and Digital Services Interest Group (TEDSIG) Spring Meeting, April 24.     

Serials spoken here: reports of conferences,institutes, and seminars

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Reports on the Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians (OVGTSL) Annual Conference, the April 2004 New England Technical Services Librarians (NETSL) Conference, the 2004 Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge, and the 2004 Conference of the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG).

Reports are from four conferences held in various parts of the United States and cover a wide range of topics. The Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians program emphasized the relationship between technical and public services. Education, both formal and continuing, was the theme for the New England Technical Services Librarians. Timberline Lodge hosted another Acquisitions Institute featuring sessions on new discoveries. The report on the 2004 North American Serials Group Annual Conference allows Conference Student Grant Award winner Chris Brady to include some personal reflections along with summaries of the sessions he attended.     

Reviews and Notices

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Mortality Experience: Mortality Experience of the Australian Mutual Provident Society. 1849–88. Compiled by Richard Teece, F.I.A., Actuary and Manager. Reviewed by Miles Menander Dawson.

Bulletins of the Canadian Census: No. 1. August, 1881. Preliminary Returns of Population.

Bulletins of the Canadian Census: No. 2. October, 1891. Population of the Sub-Districts of the Province of Ontario.

Reports of Labor Statistics: Third Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of Minnesota, 1891–92. L. G. Powers, Commissioner. Minneapolis, 1893. Pp. 446.

Reports of Labor Statistics: Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor of Michigan, Feb. 1, 1893. Henry A. Robinson, Commissioner. Lansing, 1893. Pp. 1353.

Reports of Labor Statistics: Fifth Biennial Report of the Commissioner of Labor, Census, and Industrial Statistics. Wisconsin, 1891–92. Madison, 1892. Pp. 175.

Reports of Labor Statistics: Fifth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Industrial Statistics of Rhode Island. Providence, 1892. Pp. 191.

Reports of Labor Statistics: Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of Connecticut for the Year Ending Nov. 30, 1891. Hartford. 2 vols. Pp. 1510.

Reports of Charities and Corrections: Fifth Biennial Report of the State Board of Corrections and Charities of Minnesota for the Year Ending July 31, 1892. Minneapolis, 1893. Pp. 256.

Reports of Charities and Corrections: Twelfth Biennial Report of the Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities of Illinois. Springfield, 1893. Pp. 326.

Reports of Charities and Corrections: Eleventh Biennial Report of the Michigan State Board of Corrections and Charities, 1891–92. Lansing, 1893. Pp. 169.

The Civil Service of Buenos Ayres: Estudio Estadístico del Presupuesto Nacional seguido de un Proyecto de Reforma del Mismo, etc. By Francisco Latzina. 1893. Pp. 75. Tables. Reviewed by L. P. Lane.

Assisted Emigration: Del Patronato degli Emigranti in Italia e all' Estero. By Dr. Egisto Rossi. Relazione al Primo Congresso Geographico Italiano, Genoa, 1892. Rome, 1893. Pp. 93.

Physical and Mental Condition of Children: Results of an Inquiry as to the Physical and Mental Condition of Fifty Thousand Children seen in One Hundred and Six Schools. By Francis Warner, M.D. London. In Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, March, 1893.

Miscellaneous: Address upon the Condition of Articulative Teaching in American Schools for the Deaf. By Alexander Graham Bell. Boston, 1893. Pp. 72.

Miscellaneous: Proceedings of the Twenty-third Annual Meeting of the National Board of Trades held in Washington, January, 1893. Boston, 1893. Pp. 254.     

Statistical Computing Software Reviews

This section is similar in organization to a Book Review section in other journals; however, software of interest to statisticians is the subject of review here. Emphasis is on software for microcomputers. Programs that operate only in larger mainframe computers will seldom receive review. Normally, producers of programs make a copy of their product available to the Section Editor, who then selects one or more persons to test the product and prepare a review.

Producers of computer software who wish to have their product reviewed are invited to contact the Section Editor, Professor Kenneth Berk, Department of Mathematics, 313 Stevenson Hall, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61761.

Findings and opinions expressed in every review are solely those of the author. They should not be construed as reflecting endorsement of the product, or opinions held, by the American Statistical Association, nor is any warranty implied about any product reviewed.

STAN, Version II.0. David M. Allen. Available from Statistical Consultants, Inc., 462 E. High Street, Lexington, KY 40508. $300. Reviewed by Peter A. Lachenbruch     

Reports of Conferences,Institutes, and Seminars

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This column includes reports on sessions from the Electronic Resources Minnesota Conference 2019 and Charleston Library Conference 2019. The reports cover a user experience analysis of a discovery system, managing change due to an organizational restructure, improving communication between subject specialists and technical services, and key findings of the LYRASIS 2019 Accessibility Survey Report.