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Bibs for Playaways are now coming with the GMD “electronic resource” due to an OLAC decision. All the others in our catalog are sound recordings. Please continue to use “sound recording” until further notice.

Also, they no longer include extra batteries.

Choosing our Tools for Tomorrow: The Ohio Library Council 2008  Technical Services Retreat at Mohican State Park: 

Handouts from this conference featuring presentations by Janet Swan Hill, John Sluk, Glenn Patton, Brenda Block, Brian C. Gray and many others are now available for download at http://www.personal.kent.edu/~mbmaurer/Choosingourtoolsfortomorrow.html. Enjoy! 

Margaret Maurer
Associate Professor, Head, Catalog & Metadata
Kent State University Libraries & Media Services
370 Library,

From Jodie Gambill:

Go to Start –> Control Panel –> Folder Options.  Go to the File Types tab.  Wait for the list to load (sometimes takes a minute), then scroll down to MP4 (or whichever file type is relevant).  Click on MP4, and you’ll see that you can click Change to change the program files of this type open with.  In looking at mine, I can see that the default was Quicktime, but I’ve overriden it at some point with iTunes.Ann

If you need to catalog podcasts from home, here’s the address to get onto OCLC via the web:

http://connexion.oclc.org/ 

I tried making a go of it with just using LC authorities but that was way too clunky.

Here is a list of subject terms the Podcast group is using, and some that are specific to Vanderbilt:

• Class of [fill in year; this should be used for commencement addresses and such]
• Colloquia
• Conferences
• Court decisions
• Environmental issues
• Honors and awards
• […] major
• Ingram Scholars
• Senior Class Day [year]

News Services Names

• Ann Marie Deer Owens
• Barb Cramer
• Megan Umphres