Category Archives: ALA Midwinter 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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ALA Midwinter 2012: Heads of Cataloging

Cataloging IS a Public Service: Repositioning Cataloging and Metadata Services Heads of Cataloging IG, ALA Midwinter 2012 ALA Midwinter 2012, Jan. 23, 2012 Five speakers shared their experiences in running and reorganizing their cataloging departments. Common themes that ran through … Continue reading

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Bibliographic Control: A Meeting between Educators and Practitioners

Bibliographic Control: A Meeting between Educators and Practitioners Co-Sponsored by ALCTS and ALISE This meeting focused on the requirements for educational preparation of catalogers and other metadata specialists, so that the educational system will continue to produce professional librarians whose … Continue reading

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ALA Midwinter 2012: Intellectual Access to Preservation Metadata

Metadata for Datasets and Dataset Management: Tools and Approaches for Access and Preservation Joan Starr, California Digital Library Intellectual Access to Preservation Metadata Interest Group ALA Midwinter Meeting, Jan. 21, 2012  The presentation began with an overview of the California … Continue reading

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Copy Cataloging Interest Group – Jan 21, 2012

The ALCTS CAMMSCopy Catalogying Interest Group’s meeting today was full beyond capacity with session participants sitting and standing around the periphery of the room. The session was broken into 4 parts. The first was a brief introduction to the session … Continue reading

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ALA Midwinter 2012: Best Bets for Metadata Librarians and Call for Bloggers

Below is a list of metadata and digital library-friendly sessions for ALA Midwinter. 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 … Continue reading

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