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ALA Annual 2012: MARBI (Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information) meetings

10:30am-12:00pm, Sat. June 23; 1:00pm-5:00pm, June, 24, 2012 Matthew Wise, the committee Chair, announced the statement from ALCTS. The ALCTS Board approved to dissolve MARBI as of the conclusion of Annual 2013 and create a joint ALCTS-LITA Metadata Standards Committee … Continue reading

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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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News from the front: briefings from RDA test participants

ALA program organized by ALCTS at Midwinter Conference 2011 RDA testing has been completed. In this session, a group of test participants shared their experience in an informal panel discussion. Representatives from academic, museum, school libraries, ILS vendors and LIS … Continue reading

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Open Access Digital Initiatives in the Humanities: Creation, Dissemination, Preservation

ALA program organized by ACRL-LES at Annual Conference 2009 The panel explored the ways in which new media and digital technology were transforming how we do research and scholarship – and the place of the libraries in that transformation. All … Continue reading

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