A c t i o n f o r L i b r a r i e s — F e b r u a r y 2 0 0 5

BCR Staff Prepare for Alaska
and Kansas Library Conferences

By Brandie Baumann
BCR's Executive Director, Dave Brunell, will be traveling to the far northern reaches of Alaska for the 2005 Alaska Library Association annual conference March 10-13, in Barrow.

Brunell will present his popular program, "The Library as a Place in Cyberspace: Reproducing the look and feel of the local library online," from 8-9 a.m. on Friday, March 11. He will talk about style guidelines, usability studies and services librarians are using to reproduce the look and feel of their local library on their Web sites.

Rosario Garza, BCR's assistant director for member services, will be attending the Kansas Tri-Conference, this year being held in Overland Park, March 31-April 1. Garza is scheduled to present two programs, the "BCR Update," Wednesday, March 30, from 2-2:50 p.m. and "Reference, Resource Sharing and FRBR," on Friday, April 1, 8:30-9:30 a.m. The "BCR Update" will give Kansas librarians an overview of what is new at OCLC, in reference databases and among the many other library services available through BCR. At the "Reference, Resource Sharing and FRBR" session, Garza will discuss how the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) model will impact the way search results are displayed from databases such as online catalogs.

Brunell and Garza also will staff the BCR booth in the Exhibits Area of each conference. Please stop by to get acquainted and take a look at all that BCR has to offer libraries, including group purchases, discounts on reference databases, consortial purchases of e-books, access to the latest in library training — distance learning and classroom sessions — and OCLC products and services.

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BCR Staff Prepare for Alaska and Kansas Library Conferences

BCR Staff Prepare for Alaska
and Kansas Library Conferences