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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

Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group
Discussion and Business Meeting
1/25/2009 Sunday
08:00 am – 10:00 am (Discussion from approximately 8:00-9:15)
CCC Korbel Ballroom 4F
Topic: Taxonomy Development

The discussion will be led by Laura Dorricott, Project Delivery Manager of Taxonomy Services for Dow Jones Client Solutions. We invite you to participate in this discussion, also to stay afterward for the business portion of the NRMIG meeting.

Laura is requesting information about topics of interest and/or questions in advance. Please leave a comment on this blog post that contains your thoughts, interests, and questions on taxonomy development and related issues in general or in your library. That way Laura can incorporate them into her presentation and we can be sure to include them in the discussion. Thank you!

OCLC — “Solutions for digitizing and managing documents and newspapers”
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Washington State Convention & Trade Center, Room 620

> Digitization

> Content conversion
– OCR
– Keying
– XML markup
– PDF with hidden text
– Web-optimized images

> Presentation
– Single images
– Multi-page PDF
– Compound object
– Export to XML (METS, CDL XSLT)

> CDM features
– Full text search
– Highlighted words
– JPEG
– PDF
– Clipping methods
– Reference URL

> Imports NEH/LC NDNP data formats
– Provide enhanced access to newspapers, building on USNP (US Newspaper Program)
– NEH will make awards to state projects to convert
– LC will develop and maintain American Chronicle to make freely available
– Slates can make available locally

> Newspaper enhancements
– JPEG2000
– Full text searching
– Article management
– Full article segment highlighting and extraction
+ Not part of NDNP program
+ Extra add-on process and add-on charges

> Example
– http://news.dimemanews.com/

Blogger: Paul Soderdahl

Lorcan Dempsey
Vice President and Chief Strategist, OCLC
“Moving to the network level: discovery and disclosure”
ALCTS 2007 Midwinter Symposium: “Definitely digital: an exploration of the future of knowledge on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of ALCTS”
Jan. 19, 2007

Background:

The digital environment hasn’t merely changed people’s workflow, it has BECOME their workflow. This is true for us librarians, but especially for our patrons.

Our relationship with networked sources is part of that workflow. Hand in hand with unbundling is rebundling (of work processes).

Then: users built their workflow around the library. Now: The library must meet the patron in their workflow.

Then: Resources were scarce, centralized in library, and users’ attention was abundant. Now: Resources are abundant and decentralized, and our users’ attention/time are scarce.

Long tail information providers (like Amazon.com and Google) are successful because of the way that they aggregate the supply of information and resources: unified discovery: low transaction costs (for user). They spend BILLIONS getting into users’ workflow, with toolbars, one-click setups, etc.). And aggregation of demand: mobilizing large numbers of users over a unified set of resources, you DRIVE people down the long tail, ie. provide more information, more resources, in the long run.

How does this apply to libraries?

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