Below is a list of digital library-friendly sessions for Annual 2008. Planning to attend a session or already reporting on a session? Think about blogging it here! If you would like to blog any of the sessions, please contact Kristin Martin at kmarti@email.unc.edu with your name, e-mail address, and preferred session. Fuller descriptions, when available, are listed below for sessions without fuller descriptions elsewhere on the Web. See a section not on here that you think would be of interest? Suggest it!
FRBR Interest Group
Friday, June 27: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM; Anaheim Convention Center, Room: 203 B American
ALCTS
Electronic Resources Management Interest Group
Friday, June 27: 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM; Anaheim Convention Center in 203 A
LITA/ALCTS
Cataloging and Classification Research Discussion Group
Saturday, June 28: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM; Doubletree/Anaheim Convention Center in Tuscany C
ALCTS/CCS
Electronic Resources Interest Group
Saturday June 28: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM; Disneyland Hotel in Adventure Room
ALCTS (Description below)
RDA Update Forum
Saturday, June 28: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM; Anaheim Marriott in Salon E
ALCTS/CCS
Blogger: Lisa Robinson
Catalog Management Discussion Group
Saturday, June 28: 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM; Hyatt Regency Orange County in Grand B
ALCTS/CCS
Blogger: Mary Aycock
Cataloging Norm Discussion Group
Saturday, June 28: 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM; Hilton Anaheim in Malibu
ALCTS/CCS (Description below)
Metadata Mashup: Creating and Publishing Application Profiles
Saturday, June 28: 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm; Anaheim Convention Center in 204 B
ALCTS
Blogger: Sai Deng
There’s No Catalog Like No Catalog: The Ultimate Debate on the future of the Library Catalog
Saturday, June 28: 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm; Hyatt Regency Orange County in Grand A
LITA
MARC Formats Interest Group
Saturday, June 28: 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM: Doubletree/Anaheim Convention Center in Tuscany F
LITA/ALCTS
Getting Ready for RDA and FRBR: What You Need to Know
Saturday, June 28: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm; Anaheim Convention Center in 204 B
ALCTS CCS
Blogger: Amy McNeely
Creating the Future of the Catalog and Cataloging
Sunday, June 29: 8:00 am – 12:00 pm; Anaheim Convention Center in 204 B
ALCTS CCS
Blogger: Glenda B. Claborne
Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group
Sunday, June 29: 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM; Disneyland Hotel in No. Exhibit Hall Mtg. Rm. B
ALCTS
Blogger: Kristin Martin
You Know FRBR But Have You Ever Met FRAD?
Sunday, June 29: 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm; Anaheim Convention Center in 210 A-C
LITA
Blogger: Amy McNeely
Heads of Cataloging Discussion Group
Monday, June 30: 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM; Anaheim Convention Center in 207 D
ALCTS CCS
Emerging Technology Interest Group
Monday, June 30: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM; Anaheim Convention Center in 207 D
LITA
Next Generation Catalog Interest Group
Monday June 30: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM; Anaheim Convention Center in 213 C
LITA
Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee Annual Update Forum
Monday June 30: 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM; Anaheim Convention Center in 304 A/B
ALCTS CRS
Institutional Repositories: New Roles for Acquisitions
Monday June 30: 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM; Hyatt Regency Orange County in Grand A
ALCTS AS
Map Cataloging/GIS Metadata Cross Walk
Monday, June 30: 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
ALA MAGERT
Collaborative Digital Initiatives: Show and Tell and Lessons Learned
Monday, June 30: 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM; Hyatt Regency Orange County in Grand B-D
LITA/ALCTS PARS
Descriptions:
Electronic Resources Management Interest Group
ERMing for a Consortium: Are We There Yet?
Are there successful Electronic Resources Management systems (ERMs) implementation models for consortia? What are vendors doing to improve their systems to be deployed at the consortium level? What works? What doesn’twork? What needs to be done for libraries to explore this option to integrate and implement an ERM at the consortium level? What is the needed functionality? The program provides three perspectives on the topic: the vendor, the consortium, and the librarian.
Speakers:
Jeff Aipperspach, Product Manager, Serials Solutions
Ted Fons, Director of Customer Services, Innovative Interfaces Inc.
Rick Burke, Executive Director, Statewide California Electronic Library
Consortium
Tommy Keswick, Membership Services Coordinator, Statewide California
Electronic Library Consortium
Angela Riggio, Head of Digital Collection Management, Digital Collections
Services, UCLA
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Cataloging Norms Discussion Group
The meeting will begin with Jina Choi Wakimoto?s (Faculty Director, Cataloging and Metadata Services Dept. University of Colorado at Boulder) “Scope of the Library Catalog in Time of Transition.”
There has been a flurry of healthy discussions and debates about the future
of cataloging and the catalog, from FRBR and RDA on cataloging rules (focus on content) to next-generation discovery interfaces on the catalog (focus on carrier). A segment that is not receiving as much attention in the midst is the scope of the library catalog. Library catalog can be viewed as the Web in the local context. This presentation offers an opinion on the scope of the catalog in a research library, the role of the catalogers in this time of transition and some practical approaches catalogers can take to reposition the catalog.
Next, Elaine L. Westbrooks (Head of Metadata Services, Cornell University Libraries) will present “Access, Fear, and Change: Bringing Catalogers along in the Non-MARC Metadata Arena.”
According to On the Record: Report of The Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, the future of cataloging will be shaped by the way in which we redefine bibliographic control and the bibliographic universe. Redefining these critical concepts would require library administrators and catalogers to abandon the prevailing system of cataloging. For administrators, the use of fear to instigate change (while ignoring the shortcomings of MARC encoding and the poorly constructed integrated library system) within technical services has been a widely implemented yet largely ineffective- hence a paradigm shift away from fear to use of positive incentives for change is necessary. For the cataloger, the shift from perfecting the MARC record has taken place in many institutions however, the sense of accomplishment that could be gained from creating access and facilitating discovery require a paradigm shift that would highlight the connection between the cataloger and the end-user. The purpose of this talk is to discuss methods by which this paradigm shift can be cultivated within research libraries to begin thinking about a new
system of cataloging which can be less resource intensive and one that focuses on the user.
The final presentation will be “A California Adventure: WorldCat Local and Next-Generation Cataloging,” presented by John Riemer (Head, UCLA Library Cataloging & Metadata Center) and Linda Barnhart (Head, Metadata Services Department, UCSD Libraries).
WorldCat Local implementation could bring major technological and sociological changes to cataloging work. The University of California libraries released their union catalog on the WorldCat Local platform on May 27, 2008. John and Linda will present some of the key lessons learned from the implementation process as well as their thoughts about how this new product moves the profession toward next-generation cataloging.
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