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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 Â 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
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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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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