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Hello, all.  You are cordially invited to attend the following ALA program sponsored by the ALA ALCTS Continuing Resources Section College and Research Libraries Interest Group.

Promoting Best Practices For E-Serials
Time: Saturday, July 11th, 10:30am-12:00pm.
Location: Chicago Hilton, PDR 4.

Program:
1.      Adam Chandler (Cornell University) -  Towards OpenURL Quality Metrics: Initial Findings
The OpenURL standard is a widely deployed technology to facilitate linking to resources across the library supply chain. At a typical academic library thousands of OpenURL requests are initiated by patrons each week. The problem is, too often these links do not work as expected, leaving patrons frustrated by a lower than desired quality of service. In this presentation I will share early findings from an investigation into the feasibility of creating industry wide metrics for evaluating and comparing the quality of OpenURL implementations across vendors.

2.      Peter McCracken (Serials Solution) - KBART Update: A Discussion of the Draft Report on Knowledgebase Data Transfer
The KBART Draft Report is released and in this session it will be discussed what the draft KBART standard proposes, how this proposal would impact libraries, knowledgebase vendors, content providers, and especially library patrons, how organizations and individuals are responding to the draft standard, and what the next steps are in implementing as much useful change in this area as possible.

3.      Regina Reynolds (Library of Congress): Best Practices for Presentation of E-Serials: Hope or Hopeless?
Many continuing resources librarians have become resigned to practices of aggregators and publishers that complicate or impede accurate and complete cataloging. "They'll never listen, they won't change" is a common cataloger refrain. Nonetheless, working together with publishers and aggregators to develop best practices is gaining momentum and is an activity that is often supported by NISO. This presentation will include examples of problematic current e-serials presentation practices-such as presenting articles originally published under earlier titles under the current title, or printing incorrect ISSN--and describe efforts to develop and promote some best practices.

Hope to see you in Chicago!

Britta and Rebecca

Britta Santamauro, Chair, CRS C&RL IG
Co-Director of Library Services
Chase Collegiate School
Waterbury, CT 06708
bsantamauro@chasemail.org

Rebecca Kemp, Co-Chair / Chair-elect, CRS C&RL IG
Serials Coordinator Librarian
UNC Wilmington
Wilmington, NC 28403
kempr<at>uncw<dot>edu