Below is a list of metadata and digital library-friendly sessions for ALA Annual 2011. 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@uic.edu with your name, e-mail address, and preferred session. All sessions are linked to the conference scheduler (as an aside, if you haven’t checked out the new conference scheduler, it’s very easy!), and links are provided to fuller descriptions, when available. See a section not on here that you think would be of interest? Suggest it! NOTE: Preconferences are listed for informational purposes only and cannot be covered by the blog.
I’ve tried to be inclusive as possible with the sessions as metadata is a cross-disciplinary topic within library and information science. Sessions of interest include metadata, digital projects, digital technology, and cataloging, and are from all different groups within ALA.
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Thursday and Friday Sessions
8:30am – 5:00pm
RDA 201: RDA Gets Real
Description at ALCTS website
Location: Convention Center Rm 255-257
Sponsor: ALCTS
Ticketed Event
Friday Sessions
8:30am – 4:00pm
What_IS_it Anyway? Library of Congress Genre / Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials
Description at ALCTS website
Location: Convention Center, Rm 263
Sponsor: ALCTS
Ticketed Event
10:30am – 12:00pm
FRBR Interest Group
Downloadable description from ALCTS
Location: Convention Center, Rm 338
Sponsor: ALCTS/CCS
1:30pm – 3:30pm
Electronic Resources Management Interest Group
Downloadable description from ALCTS
Location: Embassy Suites New Orleans Convention Center, Jean Lafitte 4
Sponsor: ALCTS and LITA
3:30pm – 5:30pm
CCS Executive Committee Forum (ALCTS)
Downloadable description from ALCTS
Location: Convention Center, Rm 243
Sponsor: ALCTS/CCS
Saturday Sessions
8:00am – 10:00am
Discovery Tools: Tales of Implementation at Two HBCUs
Location: Convention Center, Rm 333
Sponsor: BCALA
8:00am – 10:00am
Intellectual Access to Preservation Data Interest Group
Downloadable description from ALCTS
Location: Convention Center, Rm 284
Sponsor: ALCTS/PARS
8:00am – 12:00pm
Linked In: Library Data and the Semantic Web
Description on LITA website
Location: Convention Center, Rm 398
Sponsor: LITA
10:30am – 12:00pm
Catalog Form and Function Interest Group
Location: Convention Center, Rm 355
Sponsor: ALCTS/CCS
10:30am – 12:00pm
Electronic Resources Interest Group (ALCTS CRS)
Downloadable description from ALCTS
Location: Convention Center, Rm 397
Sponsor: ALCTS/CRS
Blogger: Teressa Keenan
10:30am – 12:00pm
Future of Libraries: Cutting-edge Services
Location: Convention Center, Rm 391
Sponsor: OITP Advisory Committee
10:30am – 12:00pm
OCLC Increase Your Digital Collection Visibility with WorldCat: A Roundtable for OAI-PMH Repository, Digital Collection and WorldCat Administrators
Location: Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Rosedown
Sponsor: OCLC
10:30am – 12:00pm
Open Source Integrated Library Systems in Consortia
Location: Convention Center, Rm 333
Sponsor: ASCLA
10:30am – 12:00pm
Sound Bytes: Audio Metadata Standards in Slightly More than Six Seconds
Description from ALCTS website
Location: Convention Center, Rm 346-347
Sponsor: ALCTS
1:30pm – 3:30pm
Catalog Management Interest Group Program
Downloadable description from ALCTS
Location: Marriott at the Convention Center, New Levee
Sponsor: ALCTS/CCS
1:30pm – 3:30pm
Cataloging Norms Interest Group (ALCTS CCS)
Downloadable description from ALCTS
Location: Convention Center, Rm 353
Sponsor: ALCTS/CCS
1:30pm – 3:30pm
Digital Conversion Interest Group
Downloadable description from ALCTS
Location: Marriott at the Convention Center, Blaine Kern F
Sponsor: ALCTS/PARS
1:30pm – 3:30pm
Image Resources Interest Group (ACRL)
Description from ACRL Website
Location: Sheraton New Orleans, Napoleon C2
Sponsor: ACRL
1:30pm – 3:30pm
JPEG 2000 Interest Group
Location: Intercontinental New Orleans, Pelican I
Sponsor: LITA
1:30pm – 3:30pm
You Mean Libraries Will Be Able To Deliver Electronic Content Better Than iTunes and Netflix?
Location: Convention Center, Rm 244
Sponsor: LITA
4:00pm – 5:30pm
Diving into the Deep End: Catalog Use Committee Discussion Forum (RUSA RSS)
Description from RUSA Blog
Location: Loews New Orleans Hotel, LaFourche
Sponsor: RUSA
4:00pm – 5:30pm
Collaborative Digitization Discussion Group
Description from Collaborative Librarianship News
Location: Doubletree Hotel, Cresent B
Sponsor: ASCLA
4:00pm – 5:30pm
MARC Formats Interest Group (LITA / ALCTS)
Downloadable description from ALCTS
Location: Convention Center, Rm 354
Sponsor: ALCTS and LITA
4:00pm – 5:30pm
Standards Interest Group
Location: Convention Center, Rm 287
Sponsor: LITA
Sunday Sessions
8:00am – 10:00am
Digital Library Technologies Interest Group
Location: Convention Center, Rm 341
Sponsor: LITA
8:00am – 10:00am
Digital Preservation Interest Group
Downloadable description from ALCTS
Location: Convention Center, Rm 342
Sponsor: ALCTS/PARS
8:00am – 10:00am
Lost in Translation: the Emerging Technology Librarian and the New Technology
Location: Convention Center, Rm 274
Sponsor: LITA
8:00am – 10:00am
Metadata Interest Group
Location: Convention Center, Rm 350-351
Sponsor: ALCTS
Blogger: Kristin Martin
10:30am – 12:00pm
Audio Metadata Task Force (ALCTS PARS)
Location: Marriott New Orleans, Iberville
Sponsor: ALCTS/PARS
10:30am – 12:00pm
Cataloging & Classification Research IG (ALCTS CCS)
Downloadable description from ALCTS
Location: Sheraton New Orleans, Napoleon A1
Sponsor: ALCTS/CCS
10:30am – 12:00pm
Linked Library Data Interest Group
Downloadable description from ALCTS
Location: Convention Center, Rm 265
Sponsor: ALCTS and LITA
10:30am – 12:00pm
US RDA Test Participants Meeting
Location: Sheraton New Orleans, Bayside A/B
10:30am – 12:00pm
Vendor Plans for Implementing RDA
Downloadable description from ALCTS
Location: Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Versailles BR
Sponsor: ALCTS
1:30pm – 3:30pm
Creating Multimedia Metadata: Controlled Vocabularies Across Time and Space (ACRL Arts)
Description from ACRL website
Location: Convention Center, Rm 338
Sponsor: ACRL/ANSS/ARTS
Blogger: Meghan Finch
1:30pm – 3:30pm
Have Metadata, Can Collaborate: Putting the MARC21 583 Field to Use in Cooperative Preservation Efforts
Downloadable description from ALCTS
Location: Convention Center, Rm 342
Sponsor: ALCTS
1:30pm – 3:30pm
RDA Update Forum
Downloadable description from ALCTS
Location: Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Versailles BR
Sponsor: ALCTS
1:30pm – 3:30pm
Top Technology Trends
Location: Convention Center, Auditorium A
Sponsor: LITA
Blogger: Kimberly Durante
1:30pm – 5:30pm
Authority Control Interest Group Meeting – Authority Control in the Next Generation
Downloadable description from ALCTS
Location: Sheraton New Orleans, Waterbury BR
Sponsor: ALCTS and LITA
4:00pm – 5:30pm
Access to Continuing Resources Interest Group: The Age of Discovery: Understanding Discovery Services, Federated Search, and Web scale
Downloadable description from ALCTS
Location: Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Grand Salon C
Sponsor: ALCTS/CRS
4:00pm – 5:30pm
PCC Participants Meeting
Location: Convention Center, Rm 243
Sponsor: PCC
Monday Sessions
8:00am – 10:00am
Emerging Technologies Interest Group
Location: Convention Center, Rm 341
Sponsor: LITA
8:00am – 10:00am
Forum (ALCTS)
Downloadable description from ALCTS
Location: Convention Center, Rm 388-390
Sponsor: ALCTS
8:00am – 10:00am
Heads of Cataloging Departments Interest Group
Downloadable description from ALCTS
Location: Convention Center, Rm 397
Sponsor: ALCTS/CCS
10:30am – 12:00pm
Education and Training for Using RDA
Downloadable description from ALCTS
Location: Convention Center, Rm 352
Sponsor: ALCTS
1:30pm – 3:30pm
Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee Update Forum
Location: Convention Center, Rm 275
Sponsor: ALCTS/CRS
Blogger: Teressa Keenan
1:30pm – 3:30pm
Next Generation Catalog Interest Group
Location: Convention Center, Rm 269
Sponsor: LITA
1:30pm – 3:30pm
The Ultimate Debate: “Library Web Scale Discovery Services: Paradigm Shift or More of the Same?â€
Location: Convention Center, Rm 278-282
Sponsor: LITA
4:00pm – 5:30pm
Cataloging Zine Collections in Libraries and Info-shops
Location: Convention Center, Rm 297
