Mile-High Views

Carol Ann Borchert, MLS, MA, BBA, has been the Coordinator for Serials at University of South Florida (USF) since 2004. Previously, she was in the Reference and Government Documents departments at USF, and in the Cataloging, Serials, Reference, and Government Documents departments at Furman University’s James B. Duke Library. She has been an active member of NASIG since 2004, with service on the Nominations and Elections Committee. Gary Ives, MLS, BA, has been the Assistant Director of Acquisitions and Coordinator of Electronic Resources at Texas A&M University Libraries in Texas since 2001. Previously he served as Associate Director for Information Resources at the Medical Sciences Library, at Texas A&M University. He has previously been with the Medical Sciences Library, Texas A&M University, the Moody Medical Library, University of Texas at Galveston; the University Library, University of Texas at El Paso; and the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia. He has been an active member of NASIG since 2002.

• * Introduction* PRECONFERENCE PROGRAMS* Basic Serials Cataloging Workshop (Joseph P. Hinger, Presenter, Kevin Petsche, Recorder)* Advanced Serials Cataloging Workshop (Steve Shadle, Presenter, Amanda Lin Louie, Recorder)* Mapping License Language for Electronic Resource Management (Tim Jewell, Trisha L. Davis, and Diane Grover, Presenters, Jill E. Grogg, Recorder)* How to Implement an Institutional Repository (Carol Hixson, Presenter, Linda Cracknell, Recorder)* VISION SESSIONS* Things Fall Apart (Robin Sloan, Presenter, Pat Howe, Recorder)* All the News That’s Fit to Digitize: Creating Colorado’ Historic Newspaper Collection (Brenda Bailey-Hainer, Presenter, Sarah Sutton, Recorder)* What’s a Serial When You’re Running on Internet Time? (T. Scott Plutchak, Presenter)* STRATEGY SESSIONS* FRBR in the Real World (Paul J. Weiss and Steve Shadle, Presenters)* Small and Medium Publishers in an E-World: Thinking Outside the Box (Ezra T. Ernst, Zac Rolnik, and Sean O’Doherty, Presenters)* The Changing Landscape of Serials: Open Access Journals in the Public Catalog (Krista Schmidt and Nancy Newsome, Presenters)* The UC/JSTOR Paper Repository: Progress Thus Far (Colleen Carlton, John Kiplinger, Nancy Kushigian, and Jeff Sundquist, Presenters)* Envisioning the Future of ERM Systems (Theodore A. Fons and Timothy D. Jewell, Presenters)* Journal Pricing 10 Years Later (Robert Boissy, Tina Feick, and Leslie Knapp, Presenters)* Getting from Here to There, Safely: Library Strategic Planning for the Transition Away from Print Journals (Roger C. Schonfeld, Presenter)* The State of Scholarly Communications: An Environmental Scan of Emerging Issues, Pitfalls, and Possibilities (Lee C. Van Orsdel, Presenter)* How Did We Ever Manage Without the OpenURL? (Nettie Lagace and Janet K. Chisman, Presenters)* Mountains, Valleys, and Pathways: Serials Users’ Needs and Steps to Meet Them* Part I: Identifying Serials Users’ Needs: Preliminary Analysis of Focus Group and Semi-Structured Interviews at Colleges and Universities (Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Presenter)* Mountains, Valleys, and Pathways: Serials Users’ Needs and Steps to Meet Them* Part II: Steps to Meet Serials Users’ Needs: The Access Level Record for Serials, and ISSN Revision (Regina Romano Reynolds, Presenter)* TACTICS SESSIONS* E-Resources=E-Opportunity: Connecting Systems, Technical Services and Patrons (Sharon Wiles-Young and Betty Landesman, Presenters, Lori J. Terrill, Recorder)* Crawling Out of the Web: Alternative Citation Sources (Deborah Lee, Presenter, Lisa S. Blackwell, Recorder)* Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts: Social Software in the Library (Abigail Bordeaux, Presenter, Morag Boyd, Recorder)* Climbing Peaks and Navigating Valleys: Managing Personnel from High Altitude (Jeff Slagell, Presenter, Joe Holtermann, Recorder)* Old Is New Again: Using Established Workflows to Handle Electronic Resources (Amanda Yesilbas, Presenter, Becky Schwartzkopf, Recorder)* The Shape of Things to Come: Resource Description and Access (RDA) (Ed Jones, Presenter, Patrick L. Carr, Recorder)* To Train or Not to Train? (Rick Anderson and Kittie Henderson, Presenters, Masha Sapp, Recorder)* Electronic Resource Management (Janet Chisman and Greg Matthews, Presenters, Chris Brady, Recorder)* Linking the Library and Campus Course Management System (Claire Dygert, Presenter, Paul Moeller, Recorder)* Tackling the Reorganization Chart (Serenity King and Mona Metcalf, Presenters, Molly Larkin, Recorder)* Mile High to Ground Level: Getting Projects Organized and Completed (Jennifer L. Marill, Presenter, Marcella Lesher, Recorder)* Generating E-Collections Lists for Dummies: Creating a Better Electronic Reference Collection (Tara Baillargeon, Mohan Ramaswamy, and Char Simser, Presenters, Kathryn Johns-Masten