Keynote: The (Actual) Next Generation of Library Management Systems

Peter McCracken is Electronic Resources Librarian at Cornell University, a position he has held since June, 2016. Peter worked as a Reference Librarian at East Carolina University and at the University of Washington, before starting Serials Solutions with his brothers and a friend, in 2000. In 2009, Peter started ShipIndex.org, a site that helps researchers, genealogists, and the curious, learn more about the vessels that interest them. At Cornell, he establishes and maintains access to electronic resources, and has been a member of the FOLIO Resource Management Special Interest Group for the past year. Peter holds a BA in English from Oberlin College, an MSLS from UNC-Chapel Hill, and an MA in Maritime History from East Carolina University.

What Should an ILS Do When Everything Continues to Change? 

Penny Lochner is Head of Collection Resources Management and the Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian at Muhlenberg College (Allentown, Pa.). Penny earned her M.L.S. from Rutgers University (1999-2000). Her perspective on information management, access, and use draws on experience as a legislative researcher and analyst in Washington, D.C., a catalog and web data manager for an STM publisher, a reference librarian, a publisher relations librarian at a subscription agency, and her current role in a liberal arts college library. Her research interests include the value of academic library collections and information discovery.

Alma: a Different Type of ILS

As an English major fresh out of college with no idea what to do with my life, I started working as copy cataloger at the UT Library in 1992. I did that for five years then worked in the Serials Department configuring algorithms for journal prediction patterns. This gradually evolved into a desktop support position followed by ILS administration. I’ve now worked at UT for 25 years and manage the Enterprise Systems Team. I’m married with two active boys (11 and 9) and love fly fishing, mapping caves, and exploring the wide open spaces out west.

SearchWorks, SHARE-VDE, Yewno: the Three Faces of Discovery

Philip E. Schreur is currently the Associate University Librarian for Technical and Access Services at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in medieval musicology from Stanford and an MLIS from the University of California Berkeley. His early focus was on cataloging and metadata development and, as chair of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging, was active in the implementation of RDA within the United States. With a mid-career shift to HighWire Press, he explored the automated sematic analysis of digital text and the assignment of controlled vocabulary terms at scale. He is currently the coordinator for linked data projects for the Stanford University Libraries and the PI for a Mellon-supported grant called Linked Data for Production, focusing on the transition of tradition Technical Services workflows to ones rooted in linked open data.