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ALA Annual 2011: Intellectual Access to Preservation Metadata

Intellectual Access to Preservation Metadata: Real-life tales of using PREMIS Links to the presentations and business meeting minutes are available on ALA Connect. The first speak was Rebecca Guenther, from the Library of Congress, who spoke on “Understanding and Implementing … Continue reading

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The Metadata Interest Group Meeting at ALA Annual 2011

Metadata Interest Group, Sunday, June 26, 2011 Rather than specific presentations, the Metadata Interest Group organized a series of concurrent discussions at round tables, each focusing on a different topic related to metadata.  A summary of the discussion at each … Continue reading

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Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee Update Forum at ALA 2011

Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee Update Forum The Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee Update Forum met on Monday, June 27. There were a variety of speakers who gave updates of interest to the continuing resources cataloging community. Summaries of the reports are … Continue reading

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Electronic Resources Interest Group Meeting (ALCTS CRS) ALA 2011

Electronic Resources Interest Group Meeting The Electronic Resources Interest Group met on Saturday, June 25. The general theme of the meeting was Implementing and and managing web-scale discovery services : Implications for E-Resources Librarians. There were five speakers with time … Continue reading

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ALA 2011 Session Coverage: Creating Multimedia Metadata: Controlled Vocabularies Across Time and Space

Description from the ALCTS website: The performing arts are ephemeral textual forms that often elude capture and are difficult to access. While libraries and archives have developed metadata that enables research into collections of written texts, little has been done … Continue reading

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Join the Metadata Interest Group at ALA Annual 2011

ALCTS Metadata Interest Group meeting Sunday 26 June 26 2011, 8-10 am Convention Center Room 350-351 Today’s meeting program will consist of a round-table discussion forum on various topics related to metadata creation: generating item records metadata migration independent metadata … Continue reading

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ALA Annual 2011: Best Bets for Metadata Librarians and Call for Bloggers

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, … Continue reading

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