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Ex Libris Mid-Atlantic User Group Meeting November 5 & 6, 2009 The Ex Libris Mid-Atlantic User Group promotes the exchange of ideas and innovation between users of all Ex Libris products (Aleph, Voyager, SFX, MetaLib, DigiTool, Verde, and Primo) in New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Eastern Pennsylvania. In addition, we invite users from any other state or country. The annual Ex Libris Mid-Atlantic Users Group (EMA) Meeting will be held at Binghamton University's Downtown Center in Binghamton, New York on November 5th from 9am to 6th till 2pm, 2009. Hotel and meeting registration is open! Information is available on the official conference website at: http://www.emausers.org Early Registration ends Thursday October 22nd. Online Registration ends on Tuesday, November 3rd Midnight, after which only on-site registrations will be accepted. Registration includes two breakfasts and two lunches. We invite potential moderators to submit proposals for a total of three Roundtable discussions. List your topic(s) on the conference registration form <https://liberty.wpunj.edu/library/EMA/EMA2009registration.cfm> There are some discounted hotel rooms available at the Holiday Inn. Make your reservations today. If you are driving to Binghamton and are willing to take passengers, please provide some details for carpooling on the registration form. The program includes: Ex Libris Presentations * Ex Libris Update and Overview of product plans - Susan Pastore, VP Business Development and Greg Gosselin, Sales Account Manager for the North East, Ex Libris * Unified Resource Management System Update - Susan Pastore, VP Business Development and Greg Gosselin, Sales Account Manager for the North East, Ex Libris Plenary Session * User Research at the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries: Using an Anthropological Approach to Build a Better Catalog - Nora Dimmock, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries Roundtable Discussions Breakout Sessions 1 * Digital Preservation: The Next Library Frontier (General) - Edward M. Corrado, Binghamton University Libraries * Scholarly Communications: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (General) - Elizabeth Brown, Binghamton University Libraries * Global changes, loading records and database maintenance in Aleph - Sandy Card, Binghamton University Libraries Breakout Sessions 2 * Text Messaging from Voyager OPAC - Yongming Wang, The College of New Jersey * Pre-"viewing" Poetry via the Aleph Library Catalog - Bern Mulligan & Edward Corrado, Binghamton University * Extending Metalib to Meet our Users: Making Metalib available at the point of need - LibX, iGoogle, Facebook and custom ad hoc deep linking - Sarah Witte, Breck Witte, Susan Marcin, Columbia University Libraries * Conducting an Inventory of the collection (Voyager) - Debbie Pluss and Mark Sandford, William Paterson University Breakout Sessions 3 * Build for the Library with Drupal (General) - Katherine Lynch, Drexel University Libraries * Creating Custom Services in Aleph - Natalie Sturr, SUNY Oswego (State University of New York at Oswego) * Customizing WebVoyage 7 Tomcat - Peter MacDonald and Ken Herold, Hamilton College Library * Marrying Voyager, SFX and Meridian data : how to identify what you really have - Janet Lute, Princeton University Breakout Sessions 4 * EL Commons: Using the Voyager Developer Zone - Ken Herold, Hamilton College * Voyager Acquisitions: Automate Your Ordering - Carol Fagundus, Princeton University * Creating OCLC cataloging macros, letting the script do the work for you ( Aleph) - Tony Tersmette, Binghamton University Libraries Lightning Talks Optional Tour of the Libraries Your attendance and participation is very much appreciated! EMA Planning Committee