Concurrent Sessions I (11:15 am - 12:20 pm)
Participants Choose 1 from A, B, or C

SESSION I BREAKOUTS – PROSPECTS & PROMISE

Breakout Program A, 65 Minutes (Georgia Center Room TBD)
“Staking a Claim on WorldCat Resource Sharing and Serials Union Listing: GOLDen Opportunities for Enriching Patron Payoff"
Cathy Kellum, OCLC Online Computer Library Center
Laura Crook, SOLINET

Eureka! A global resource-sharing strategy has been discovered, and the news of user-satisfaction riches is spreading like wildfire. OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing isn’t just for ILL anymore. OCLC is integrating the functionality of the MARC 21 format for holdings data (MFHD) into its mainstream ILL platform. With WorldCat already containing more local holdings data than any other single repository in the world, this implementation means goodbye to a separate union listing module and proprietary passport protocol and hello to radical new delivery possibilities.

Revolutionize materials classification of all types by describing multi-type summary holdings that exist well below the bibliographic surface. Mine deep within an individual collection of multi-format materials, identify and describe each on an item-by-item basis, then mark each element with its own fulfillment code. Finally — availability decisions are free from the all-or-nothing supplier/non-supplier status that has tarnished many a GOLD experience! Come join us to explore new directions and investigate the myriad of workflow options that are available, now that resource sharing transaction pricing is a thing of the past. Share in migration survival stories, strategies and best practices — and dream about the new service wealth that lies within.
Breakout Program B, 65 Minutes (Georgia Center Room TBD)
"Hitting Pay Dirt for Patrons with Special Needs: Internet for All"
Linda Stetson, Director, Georgia Library for Accessible Services (GLASS)

Do you get that sinking feeling when you engage a patron who cannot read a computer screen or a printed page because traditional services won’t help them? Linda Stetson, Director for the Georgia Library for Accessible Services, will point out software and collaborations that enable special needs patrons to drive their own information destinies. She’ll talk about what kind of accommodation these patrons need and how you can provide it. Some of the software may already be available on your public computers and only wants for a little polish to uncover true shine.
Breakout Program C, 65 Minutes (Georgia Center Room TBD)
"Georgia’s Golden Past and Future: the Miner, the Mint, and the DLG"
Toby Graham, Digital Library of Georgia
Edward Johnson, University System Office, Board of Regents

This session will include a demonstration of the new Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) Web site, which connects users to Georgia-related digital collections drawn from 40 libraries and archives and 80 agencies of state government. Presenters also will provide a preview of projects from the Georgia HomePLACE initiative, the DLG’s partnership with the Georgia Public Library Service and individual public libraries to digitize local and family history materials.

Concurrent Sessions II (1:35 pm - 2:25 pm)
Participants Choose 1 from D, E, or F

SESSION II BREAKOUTS – CAMARADARIE & COOPERATION

Breakout Program D, 50 Minutes (Georgia Center Room TBD)
"Great Prospects: School and Public Library Cooperation"
Liz Forster, Forsyth County Public Library
Vanessa Cowie, Forsyth County Public Library

Are you “prospecting” for those illusive gold nugget ideas that will brighten the partnership between your school library and your public library? This session presents simple but effective steps taken to create such an ongoing collaboration by connecting the school age population with print and electronic resources available exclusively through the public library.
Breakout Program E, 50 Minutes (Georgia Center Room TBD)
"Explosive Things to Come: A Dynamite GALILEO Upgrade"
GALILEO Staff, University System Office, Board of Regents

Exciting things are coming for GALILEO. This session will fill you in on the plans for upgrading GALILEO for the 21st century, including new features and functions that will make searching for resources faster and easier.
Breakout Program F, 50 Minutes (Georgia Center Room TBD)
"Buy, Borrow, Download: Mining Decisions for ILL and Collection Development"
Charles Skewis, Georgia Southern University
Susan Smith, University of West Georgia
Susan Stewart, Life University

Interlibrary loan costs rising? Would you prefer to buy rather than borrow? How are other libraries handling this dilemma? Join us for a panel discussion on acquisitions, ILL/WorldCat Resource Sharing, document delivery, and collection development. This discussion will cover a broad spectrum of existing practices and concerns with a Q & A session to follow.

Concurrent Sessions III (2:40 pm - 3:30 pm)
Participants Choose 1 from G, H, or I

SESSION III BREAKOUTS – EXCAVATION & ENTERPRISE

Breakout Program G, 50 Minutes (Georgia Center Room TBD)
“Striking It Rich: Nuggets of Wisdom for Promoting New Services and Programs @ your library™"
Lisa MacKinney, Hall County Library System
Claire Colombo, University of Georgia
Adrian Mixson, Hall County Library System
Susan Morris, University of Georgia

You have worked so hard to plan for a new service to enrich your users’ library experience! Now…how do you let them know? Come and hear how two libraries - one public, one academic - promoted new services in their institutions. Adrian Mixson and Lisa MacKinney will discuss the array of techniques that the Hall County Library System uses to market such services as Hall Reads Together and NetLibrary Audiobooks. Claire Colombo and Susan Morris will relate the UGA Libraries’ experience in starting up GIL Express – how they publicized it and how they worked at educating users on the difference between this new service and traditional interlibrary loan.
Breakout Program H, 50 Minutes (Georgia Center Room TBD)
"Tracking Traces of “Oro” to the Mother Lode: Building Multicultural Library Collections"
David Tucker, Dekalb County Public Library

Presents an overview of how DeKalb County Public Library has developed collections in languages such as Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and Vietnamese. Also features an introduction to Library Take-Out, DCPL’s new portable kiosk providing library services and outreach to immigrant communities.
Breakout Program I, 50 Minutes (Georgia Center Room TBD)
"Bringing the Mountain to the Miner: Exposing Library Collections, Content, and Service to Users Where They Already Are"
Ross Singer, Georgia Institute of Technology

The introduction of Google Scholar, Elsevier's Scirus and Wikipedia has given us the opportunity (mainly out of surprise and fear of obsolescence) to contextually push our collections and services to our users in the interfaces they are actually using. Instead of requiring our users to find our content through "the front door" of our websites, we can instead deliver it to them and attempt to make the library ubiquitous again in regards to information retrieval.