Below is a list of digital library-friendly sessions for Midwinter 2009. 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. Fuller descriptions, when available, are listed at the end or linked to. See a section not on here that you think would be of interest? Suggest it!
FRBR Interest Group (Description Below)
Friday, Jan. 23: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM; Colorado Convention Center, RM 205
ALCTS
Cataloging and Classification Section Forum (Description below)
“FRBR and RDA: a Glimpse into the Future of Cataloging and Public Displays.”
Friday, Jan. 23: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM; Colorado Convention Center, Korbel Ballroom 3C
ALCTS
Electronic Resources Management Interest Group
Friday, Jan. 23: 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM; Ritz Carlton Denver, Salon 3
LITA/ALCTS
Cataloging Issues Disc. Group
Saturday, Jan. 24: 8 AM – 10 AM; Crowne Plaza Denver City Center, Office
ACRL
Intellectual Access to Preservation Metadata Interest Group
Saturday, Jan. 24: 8 AM – 10 AM; Sheraton Denver Hotel, Gold
PARS
MARC Formats Interest Group
Saturday, Jan. 24: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM; Colorado Convention Center, RM 501
LITA
Electronic Resources Interest Group Meeting
Saturday, Jan. 24: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM; Ritz Carlton Denver, Salon 3
ALCTS
Catalog Form and Function Interest Group
Saturday, Jan. 24: 10:30-12:00 PM; Grand Hyatt Denver, Maroon Peak
ALCTS
Cataloging Norms Interest Group
Saturday, Jan. 24: 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM; Colorado Convention Center, RM 703
ALCTS
Catalog Management Interest Group (Description below)
Saturday, Jan. 24: 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM; The Curtis, Keep-Away
ALCTS
Emerging Technology Interest Group
Saturday, Jan. 24: 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM; Sheraton Denver Hotel, Colorado
LITA
Standards Interest Group
Saturday, Jan. 24: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM; Grand Hyatt Denver, Maroon Peak
LITA
Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group
Sunday, Jan. 25: 8 AM – 10 AM: Colorado Convention Center, Korbel Ballroom 4F
ALCTS
Cataloging Issues Disc. Group
Sunday, Jan. 25: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM; Hyatt Regency Denver, Captial Ballroom 7
AFAS
Resource Description and Access (RDA) Update Forum
“Resource Description and Access (RDA) Update.”
Sunday, Jan. 25: 10:30 AM–12:30 PM; Colorado Convention Center, Korbel Ballroom 3C.
Authority Control Interest Group Issue Updates & Business Meetings
Sunday, Jan. 25: 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM; Grand Hyatt Denver, Mt. Sopris
ALCTS
Collection Management and Development Section Forum
Focus on collecting free Web resources
Sunday, Jan. 24: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM, Grand Hyatt Denver, Maroon Peak
ALCTS
Blogger: Melanie Wacker
This discussion forum was a follow-up to the ALCTS e-forum that was held in November 2008.
Melanie Wacker moderated the forum and also gave an introductory overview. This included the issues that have to be considered when archiving or cataloging free Web resources, as well as a summary of the e-forum.
Tracy Seneca of the California Digital Archive was the first speaker. Her presentation covered a wide range of issues: The Web Archiving Service (which will become publicly available in summer 2009), tools and vendors available for Web archiving (including Archive-it, CONTENTdm, and Web Curator Tool), workflow issues, the California State Government Documents Project, and the recommendations of the Section 108 Study Group regarding the legal basis for Web archiving.
Alex Thurman of Columbia University Libraries gave a report on a Mellon funded planning grant for establishing a workflow integrating free Web resources into library collections. He described the use of del.icio.us as a selection tool and his experiences with Archive-it as an archiving tool, as well as future plans for this project.
The metadata collected in del.icio.us has been mapped into MARC for integration into the library catalog and will be uploaded from there to OCLC.
Thurman recommended to perform at the minimum one quality controlled crawl for all sites that were selected for being in-scope of the collection. Regular re-crawls should be scheduled for all sites that are determined to have high priority.
The presentations were followed by a very lively discussion.
The Next Generation Catalog Interest Group
Sunday, Jan. 25: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM; Colorado Convention Center, RM 110
LITA
RDA Implementation Task Force
Sunday, Jan. 25: 4:00 – 5:30 PM; Grand Hyatt Denver, Mt. Evans
AlCTS
Program for Cooperative Cataloging Participants Meeting (Description below)
Sunday, Jan. 25: 4:00 – 5:30 PM; in the Colorado Convention Center, RM 201
PCC
Heads of Cataloging Interest Group
Monday, Jan. 26: 8 AM – 10 AM; Denver Marriott City Center, Denver Ballroom III
ALCTS
Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee Update Forum (Description Below)
Monday, Jan. 26: 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM; Colorado Convention Center, Korbel Ballroom 3C
ALCTS
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Descriptions
FRBR Interest Group
10:30: Welcome & introductions, Rice Majors, Innovative Interfaces
10:40: Developing a FRBR-Based System to Effectively Support User Tasks, Yin Zhang and Athena Salaba, School of Library and Information Science, Kent State University
In this presentation, we will share some results from our ongoing IMLS-funded FRBR project (http://frbr.slis.kent.edu/). Specifically, progress in the following areas will be covered:
(1) identifying key issues in FRBR development;
(2) user study and evaluation of existing FRBR systems and online catalogs;
(3) FRBRization of a large library collection using the OCLC Workset Algorithm; and
(4) a plan to develop a FRBR-based catalog.
11:00: Designing Future Systems and Taking Advantage of FRBR and RDA – a preview, Barbara Tillett, Library of Congress
This will be a short preview of a longer presentation Barbara is giving for the CCS Program on Friday afternoon on designing future systems that will take advantage of FRBR and RDA (RDA’s Scenario 1) – where we envision this going.
11:15 FRBR Update from VTLS,John Espley, VTLS Inc.
VTLS will give an update on their FRBR implementation.
11:35-12:00: Questions & answers with the presenters, and general discussion time
Cataloging and Classification Section Forum
FRBR and RDA: a glimpse into the future of cataloging and public
displays. Our speakers will address how RDA and the FRBRized catalog
will better support user tasks and streamline the cataloging
environment. The panel will discuss research on the next generation of
cataloging and the experiments with the next-generation ILS/ OPACs.
Panel / Presentations include:
Barbara Tillett, Chief of the Cataloging Policy and Support Office,
Library of Congress, Diane Vizine-Goetz, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC
Roland McDonald (Indiana University) and Marshall Breeding (Vanderbilt):
OLE project Jon Espley, Principal Librarian, VTLS
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The ALCTS CCS Catalog Management Interest Group invites you to come and
participate in a lively discussion on emerging issues in catalog
management. Issues and Speakers include:
“The Merger of the Catalogs of the Michigan State University Libraries and
the Library of Michigan”
In the 1990s, Michigan State University Libraries and the Library of
Michigan merged their catalogs into one central catalog. This presentation
will review the creation of the shared catalog, some of the special
catalog needs of each institution, particular challenges faced in keeping
a shared catalog, and how these challenges have been addressed.
Speaker: Joshua P. Barton
Serials Cataloging Librarian
Bibliographer for Philosophy
Michigan State University Libraries
“E-Books: Cataloging, Access and Maintenance”
This presentation will discuss criteria used to determine the University
of Houston’s approach to cataloging electronic book collections, with a
focus on various issues raised by vendor-supplied records, solutions to
these issues, and workflow for batch cataloging e-books using MarcEdit.
Also included will be e-book cataloging maintenance work and
recommendations to vendors.
Speaker: Annie Wu
University of Houston Libraries
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PCC Participants Meeting
“Metadata Quality: What End Users and Librarians Want”
Karen Calhoun and Janet Hawk of OCLC will report the results and recommendations from a large-scale 2008 study they have conducted with their OCLC colleagues. The study sought to ascertain the similarities and differences in how various end user groups and librarians define metadata quality. The speakers will discuss the implications of the research results for current acquisitions and cataloging policies, practices, and workflows.
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Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee Update Forum
Updates on current news and events from
* CONSER Coordinator Les Hawkins
* ISSN Coordinator Regina Romano Reynolds
* The continuing Resources Section’s Liaison to CC:DA, Jenniifer Lang
and then a special program: Working with Vendor-Supplied Records,
a joint presentation by
* Peter McCracken, Co-Founder and Director of Research at Serials Solutions
* Steven Shadle, Serials Access Librarian at the University of Washington