Webinars & Training
Webinars
BNC CataList for library collection and acquisition teams
Join BookNet Canada’s Vivian Luu and Carol Gordon for this webinar geared towards Canadian library acquisition and collections teams.
Learn how to:
Use new search features to find books for your collections
Build lists collaboratively with colleagues
Export options for libraries
Find other useful tools on CataList
Bring your questions for the Q & A at the end of the webinar.
BNC CataList for new booksellers
Join BookNet Canada’s Vivian Luu and Carol Gordon as they provide an introduction to the book supply chain and how CataList fits into it.
This webinar is ideal for new booksellers. In it you’ll learn:
how to find titles and catalogues on the site;
how to manage your orders on CataList;
answers to frequently asked questions about ordering books; and
much more about other useful tools on CataList!
Bring your questions for the Q & A at the end of the webinar.
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Past Webinars
SalesData & LibraryData Mini Webinars for Publishers and Retailers: Hidden Gems (May 2020)
SalesData & LibraryData Mini Webinars for Publishers and Retailers: Reader Demand (May 2020)
SalesData & LibraryData Mini Webinars for Publishers and Retailers: Back to the Future (May 2020)
SalesData & LibraryData Mini Webinars for Publishers and Retailers: LibraryData 101 (April 2020)
CataList & Loan Stars Training for Libraries (November 2019)
Getting Your Samples and Excerpts into the Supply Chain (June 2019)
Metadata and Supplementary Data in CataList Catalogues (February 2019)
SalesData's Single ISBN Multi-Market Report for Publishers (October 2017)
Mastering Sales Rights and Territory in ONIX (September 2016)
ONIX 2.1 to 3.0
Join Graham Bell, Executive Director of the global ONIX standards organization EDItEUR, to learn what you need to know about transitioning from ONIX 2.1 to ONIX 3.0. What are the differences between the two versions? Which changes are easy to make, and which will take more planning? How can you get started?
More about Graham Bell: Prior to his recent appointment as the organization’s Executive Director, Graham served EDItEUR as its Chief Data Architect, where he focused on the continuing development and application of ONIX for Books, and on other EDItEUR standards for both the book and serials sectors. Graham previously worked for HarperCollins Publishers in the UK, where most recently he was Head of Publishing Systems. He has over a decade of experience with ONIX for Books.
Review our collected resources on the Transition from ONIX 2.1 to 3.0
SalesData & LibraryData Mini Webinars for Publishers and Retailers: Hidden Gems (May 15, 2020)
Join us for a weekly series of quick (10-15 min.) tutorials on a specific aspect of the SalesData & LibraryData site, followed by a live Q&A to learn some handy tips and tricks for using the site where you can bring your questions and get some answers — live! Learn about some handy reports you may not have tried before!
SalesData or LibraryData subscribers can contact us to request access.
CataList Essential Tools for Libraries (May 8, 2020)
Join us to learn about the essential tools that CataList can offer to libraries. This webinar will provide you with tips on how to use CataList. We'll cover search tools, how to request ARCs, an introduction to our readers' advisory tool, Loan Stars, and how to export data from CataList to Excel or MARC.
SalesData & LibraryData Mini Webinars for Publishers and Retailers: Reader Demand (May 8, 2020)
Join us for a weekly series of quick (10-15 min.) tutorials on a specific aspect of the SalesData & LibraryData site, followed by a live Q&A to learn some handy tips and tricks for using the site where you can bring your questions and get some answers — live! Learn how to use reports to spot trends in reader demand!
SalesData or LibraryData subscribers can contact us to request access.
CataList Essential Tools for Retailers (May 1, 2020)
Join us to learn about the essential tools that CataList can offer to retailers. This webinar will provide you with tips on how to use CataList. We'll cover search tools, how to request ARCs, and order functions.
SalesData & LibraryData Mini Webinars for Publishers and Retailers: Back to the Future (May 1, 2020)
Join us for a weekly series of quick (10-15 min.) tutorials on a specific aspect of the SalesData & LibraryData site, followed by a live Q&A to learn some handy tips and tricks for using the site where you can bring your questions and get some answers — live! This time we’re covering: Setting up reports with an eye to Fall 2020.
SalesData or LibraryData subscribers can contact us to request access.
SalesData & LibraryData Mini Webinars for Publishers and Retailers: LibraryData 101 (April 24, 2020)
Join us for a weekly series of quick (10-15 min.) tutorials on a specific aspect of the SalesData & LibraryData site, followed by a live Q&A to learn some handy tips and tricks for using the site where you can bring your questions and get some answers — live! First up: What are ISBN Clusters? And how to use the Popular Books report.
SalesData or LibraryData subscribers can contact us to request access.
CataList Advanced Tools for Sales Reps (April 24, 2020)
Have you mastered the essential tools that CataList can offer to sales reps? This advanced webinar will give you even more tips on how to use CataList to its fullest. We cover PDF exports and templates, contact lists, and taking orders for retailers.
CataList Essential Tools for Sales Reps (April 17, 2020)
This webinar provides an overview of the essential tools that CataList can offer to sales reps. We cover custom catalogues, adding notes to titles, and rep comps.
LibraryData for Retailers (April 9, 2020)
Join us for a top-to-bottom overview of the LibraryData reporting service. We’ll demonstrate each of the reporting tools available, how the system is integrated with SalesData, and how to make sense of loans, holds, renewals, on order, and collection holdings data from Canadian libraries.
SalesData or LibraryData subscribers can contact us to request access.
LibraryData for Publishers (April 3, 2020)
Join us for a top-to-bottom overview of the LibraryData reporting service. We’ll demonstrate each of the reporting tools available, how the system is integrated with SalesData, and how to make sense of loans, holds, renewals, on order, and collection holdings data from Canadian libraries.
SalesData or LibraryData subscribers can contact us to request access.
LibraryData Mini Webinars for Libraries (March 5, 13, 20, and 27, 2020)
Join us for a weekly series of quick (10-15 min.) tutorials on a specific aspect of the LibraryData site, followed by a live Q&A to learn some handy tips and tricks for using the site where you can bring your questions to Team LibraryData.
Using LibraryData to help with Title Acquisition (March 5)
LibraryData Foundations: ISBN Clusters and Saved/Scheduled Reports (March 13)
SalesData for Libraries: What can we learn from the world of retail? (March 20)
Trend Analysis Reporting (March 27)
LibraryData subscribers can contact us to request access.
SalesData Year-End Reporting Webinar (Jan. 22, 2020)
It's that time of year, where we reminisce about the past... sales performance! SalesData subscribers are invited to join us at 2 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. PT on Wednesday, Jan. 22 for a live webinar as we demonstrate how to use year-over-year reporting options to track publisher and retailer performance in the All Market.
SalesData subscribers can contact us to request access.
CataList & Loan Stars Training for Libraries (Nov. 15, 2019)
Canadian library staff are invited to join us for a half-hour training session and live Q&A on using CataList, an online catalogue tool that helps you discover and obtain information on current and forthcoming books, and Loan Stars, a readers' advisory tool that allows library staff to recommend the forthcoming books they think are essential for Canadian libraries.
Getting Your Samples & Excerpts Into the Supply Chain (June 4, 2019)
Make sure your samples, excerpts, and reading guides are available for retailers, reviewers, and Loan Stars by sending them to BiblioShare for display on sites like CataList. How? BookNet Canada project managers Tim Middleton and Carol Gordon will provide a step-by-step walkthrough that covers: how to provide this content to BiblioShare; when you should be making them available to best support marketing campaigns, retailer requests, and Loan Stars recommending; and how they will be displayed in CataList.
CataList: Metadata and supplementary data for catalogues (Feb. 26, 2019)
CataList runs on data, whether you're creating catalogues, sharing notes with buyers, or adding preview content to support the sales process. So making sure you understand all the different data points you can add (including samples, promotion plans, and more!) and the most efficient ways to keep it all updated is crucial to marketing books successfully through CataList.
Project Manager Carol Gordon will address the most commonly asked questions about data in CataList and highlight priorities to support significant recent and upcoming site features.
Watch the webinar on YouTube and find links to accompanying resources
CataList PDF Customization (Oct. 24, 2018)
Our users asked for it and now here it is! Catalogue creators can customize their PDF exports with flexible row and column layout options, their own headers, footers, optional introductory or end pages, and more. Plus, you can easily save your custom templates for future use and share them with other users in your account.
Watch the webinar on YouTube and find links to accompanying resources
SalesData's Multiple ISBN Report for Publishers (July 2018)
The Multiple ISBN Report provides several, customizable ways to look up sales for multiple titles at once: You can use a list of ISBNs or search by title/subtitle/series, author/contributor, imprint, distributor, or subject, compare your results by markets or over time, and even narrow it down with a range of pub dates. With so much customization at your fingertips, the possibilities for creating unique, insightful reports for your titles are nearly endless.
Join Monique Mongeon, Project Manager for SalesData, to learn about the many ways you can use the Multiple ISBN Report to save time, get the exact information you're looking for, and build automated reports to easily deliver weekly insights.
Video recording available for SalesData subscribers — get in touch to request access
Thema Refresher (June 2018)
Publishers! As interest in Thema's multilingual subject category scheme grows among retailers in Canada and abroad, make sure you're up to speed on what it is, how it works, and if it's in your best interest to start using it in your metadata. Join Tom Richardson, BookNet Canada's Bibliographic Manager, to learn the basics of Thema, find out our recommendations for publisher adoption, and discover the tools and resources you can start using today.
Watch the video on YouTube and find links to accompanying resources
View Tom's presentation slides
Further reading:
How BiblioShare Supports Bookselling (March 7, 2018)
In this webinar, we'll show you how the data submitted by publishers to BiblioShare can be used by retailers to support online book sales. From Web Services like our WordPress plugin to sites like BNC CataList and 49th Shelf, publishers will discover how to better support discoverability and online bookselling through metadata, and retailers big and small will learn how BiblioShare's integrations with widely used modern retail tools take away some of the pain of promoting and selling books online.
This webinar is for anyone in the Canadian book industry who works with creating and/or distributing metadata or wants to promote and/or sell books online. (Or anyone interested in how metadata flows through BiblioShare, who can and should be using it, and what tools we provide for putting it to good use.)
Presented by Tim Middleton, Project Manager, BookNet Canada
Introduction to the Canadian Supply Chain (Nov. 22, 2017)
How do all the moving pieces of the Canadian supply chain work together to get books from editors' desks into readers' hands? From metadata to shipment notices and from consumer behaviour to sales analysis, BookNet Canada's Noah Genner will provide a detailed overview and explain how BookNet serves as the supply chain's nerve centre. Join us for a live one-hour webinar and come prepared to ask questions. Presented by Noah Genner, President & CEO, BookNet Canada.
SalesData's Single ISBN Multi-Market Report for Publishers (Oct. 3, 2017)
Curious what the new Single ISBN Multi-Market Report is all about? Developed based on user feedback, it can be run from its own tab under the usual Single ISBN Report and shows sales for a single ISBN by market over a selected date range. (In the old SalesData system, this was called the All Peers Report.) We'll be explaining why publishers may be interested in this particular report, how to run it, and how to make sense of the results in this short, live webinar.
Presenter: Monique Mongeon, Project Manager, BookNet Canada
Video recording available for SalesData subscribers — get in touch to request access
CataList & WordStock – Together at last! (Sept. 19, 2017)
Say goodbye to manual data entry and import new catalogue items and orders directly from CataList into your WordStock single- or multi-store system. In this short, live webinar, learn how to get the integration up and running, from the quick setup process in CataList, including how to enter custom WordStock data points, to working with orders in WordStock.
Presenters: BNC's Carol Gordon will walk you through all the details, with WordStock's Jeff Spakowski and Bill Solomon joining us to answer any questions you may have.
Using Excel to Graph Your Sales Data (June 13, 2017)
There's no shortage of data available in SalesData (hence the name), but do you know how to analyze it all? Learn how to use Excel to turn all that data into handy, illuminating graphs that will help you better understand the market and make thoughtful projections. After all, tools are more useful when you know how to use them, and more intelligence means better business.
Presenter: Monique Mongeon, Project Manager, BookNet Canada
Mastering Sales Rights and Territory in ONIX
BNC Bibliographic Manager Tom Richardson unpacks your feedback and discusses ways to help companies achieve more clarity and efficacy in their sales rights and territory statements through ONIX.
Direct-to-Consumer Marketing (Nov. 30, 2015)
Join Brian O'Leary of Magellan Media Consulting as he presents eight methods book publishers can use to leverage content marketing for successful ROI, along with the tools to implement a successful content marketing strategy at your publishing house. In this one-hour webinar, he will describe the models most beneficial to publishers, ways to attract and retain an audience, and how to monetize the process.
About the host: Brian O’Leary is founder and principal of Magellan Media Consulting, which works with publishers to improve how they create, manage, and distribute content. O’Leary writes extensively about issues affecting the publishing industry. With Hugh McGuire, he edited Book: A Futurist's Manifesto (O’Reilly Media), a collection of forward-looking essays on publishing. O’Leary is also the author of research reports on: the use of metadata in the book industry supply chain, territorial rights in the digital age; and best practices in digital exports. He has studied the impact of free content and digital piracy on paid book sales and was the editor and primary contributor on a study of the use of XML in book publishing.
Before he became a consultant, O’Leary served as senior VP and associate publisher with Hammond Inc., where he restructured editorial operations to benefit from the firm’s prior technology investments. He came to Hammond after a 12-year career overseeing production and distribution operations at several of Time Inc.’s weekly magazines, including Time, Entertainment Weekly and People. O’Leary joined Time Inc. after earning an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He also holds an A.B. in chemistry from Harvard College.
Educational Standards (Sept. 21, 2015)
This webinar will share the design of the BISG’s new Educational Taxonomy along with ideas on how Canadian publishers can use the terms to aid discovery of appropriate educational materials and resources online. It will also show the importance of related metadata elements for educational titles.
BISG’s new Educational Taxonomy lists the key terms that describe current and emerging educational standards, concepts, learning objectives, and methodologies used in the classroom, such as Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and more. It was developed by the BISG Educational Standards Taxonomy Working Group and incorporates feedback from potential users and from educators and librarians on their search habits. It is available for free download here.
About the host: Patricia Payton, Senior Manager of Publisher Relations and Content Development for Bowker, a ProQuest Affiliate, is responsible communicating book and journal metadata requirements and best practices to publishers of all sizes. Patricia has experience in retail bookstores as well as international markets. She also holds a Master’s degree in Library Information Science specializing in Digital Libraries as well as an MBA. She actively contributes to BISG, AAP, and other industry committees. You can find her on twitter @Metadata24X7.
Build a Bookstore with Shopify (March 30, 2015)
Let us introduce BookNet Canada’s new Bookstore Builder Shopify app! If you want to sell books online, our app provides an easy way to add accurate, relevant product data to your online bookstore. By leveraging the close to 1 million product images and nearly 2 million ONIX records in our BiblioShare database, the app is currently able to pull the following data: title, contributor, price, weight, main or long description, and cover image. Attend our free webinar for a rundown of how it works and how to get started. The webinar will start with a brief introduction to Shopify from Patrick McMullan, Shopify Guru, and then BookNet’s own Tim Middleton will walk you through using the Bookstore Builder Shopify app.
