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ALA Annual 2008: best bets for metadata librarians & call for bloggers

Below is a list of digital library-friendly sessions for Annual 2008. 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 … Continue reading

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Call for Proposals for NRMIG Program at Annual

ALCTS NRMIG (Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group) invites your proposal to participate in a program on workflow tools for digital libraries, to take place at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, July 9-15, 2009. Please note that the deadline … Continue reading

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ALA Write-Ups from Around the Internet

This post includes links to write-ups on other blogs, as well as on this blog, to consolidate them all into one place. I just went back and reviewed the post before ALA and here’s what I could find. If you’ve … Continue reading

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NRMIG Meeting at ALA Annual, Sunday June 28, 2008, 8-10 AM

The first half of the Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group meeting was a discussion of competencies for metadata librarians, which was generated by Erin Stahlberg earlier in the year. The full discussion questions are listed here. Leading the Discussion … Continue reading

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Survey for Challenges and Changes in Technical Services Division (TSD)

Myung-Ja (MJ) Han, Metadata Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is working on a survey to learn about how other catalog departments are handling changes in their cataloging department and the responsibilities of metadata librarians. Before sending out the survey, … Continue reading

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