Monthly Archives: February 2012

ALA Midwinter 2012: Discovering and Cataloging Repositories and Unique Collections: An Update on Standards, Preservation, and Usage

Standards Committee, Holdings Committee, Continuing Resources Section, ALCTS  Auditing Digital Repositories: An Update on Standards, Preservation, and UsageCenter for Research Libraries By Marie-Elise Waltz, Special Projects Librarian, Center for Research Libraries  Marie introduced that, based on the interests of members … Continue reading

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ALA Midwinter 2012: Metadata Interest Group

ALA Midwinter 2012: ALCTS Metadata Interest Group presentations, Sunday, Jan 22, 2012, 8-10 a.m. Links to presentation slides are available on ALA connect. The Metadata Interest Group had three presentations.  Below is a short synopsis of these presentations. Video metadata … Continue reading

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ALA Midwinter 2012: Digital Conversion Interest Group

The Digital Conversion Interest Group meeting featured four speakers each sharing their experiences with different aspects of digital conversion work. The session’s first speaker was Jacob Nadal, a Preservation Officer at the UCLA Library, who described the process by which he … Continue reading

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