ALCTS News is looking for volunteers to report on ALCTS preconferences, programs, and forums at the 2018 ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. Are you attending one of the sessions below? Would you like to share what you learn with the ALCTS community? Email Chelcie Rowell, editor of ALCTS News, at alctsnews@lists.ala.org to volunteer to report on a session at Annual.
Reports should summarize the session and highlight particularly valuable takeaways. If the session is not sponsored by ALCTS, reporters should articulate the ‘so what?’ for ALCTS members. Length of reports typically ranges from 400–600 words. Reporters are also encouraged to contribute photos or other images. Shortly before the conference begins, Chelcie will be in touch with more detailed how-to’s for reporters.
Preconferences (Ticketed Events)
- A Practical Introduction to the New RDA Toolkit
- Hacking Acq: Tools and Apps for Better Acquisitions Workflows
- Preservation in Action: Preservation Hall
- Technical Services Assessment: Tools and Techniques That Demonstrate Value
Forums
- A Look at the State of the Book with DPLA
- ACRL/SPARC Forum: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications
- Library of Congress BIBFRAME Update Forum
- OCLC Linked Data Roundtable: Stories from the Front
- OCLC Research Update
- RDA Forum
- RDA Linked Data Forum
Affiliate Programs
- Alma for Every (Size) Library
- FOLIO Early Adopters Panel
- Improving Access Control in a Privacy-protecting Way: An Update on the NISO RA21 Initiative and How it Aligns with Privacy Goals
- NISO Annual Meeting and Standards Update
- NISO FASTEN (Flexible API Standard for E-content NISO)
- Print Archive Network (PAN)
- Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) At Large
- Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Participants Meeting
- Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Program Training
Programs
- 21st Century Collection Development Strategies for Media
- ABCs of Cataloging and Discovery for School Librarians
- ALCTS President’s Program: Dining from a Haunted Plate
- Biggest Bang for the Buck: Buying High-Impact Textbooks to Support Student Success
- Collaborative Collection Development: Increasing Equity in Times of Austerity
- Culinary Cooperation
- Documenting Our History through Storytelling
- Endangered Government Information: Strategies to Protect Government Collections
- How Metadata Enables or Inhibits Discovery and Access to Diverse Communities and Concepts
- Implementing Linked Open Data in the Real World
- Integrate and Consolidate: The New Tech Services at Consortia and Universities
- Intercultural Competence in Knowledge Representation
- License Review and Negotiation 101
- Managing Change (and an ILS migration) like a Get out the Vote (GOTV) Campaign
- Meet Me in the Middle: Charting a Path for an Influential Career
- National Policy and Libraries: What’s Going On?
- New Directions in Non-Latin Script Access
- New Research in Collection Management and Development
- Open Education Resources (OER): Where Libraries Are and Where We Are Going
- Preservation Showdown: Environmental Edition
- Ready, Set, Search! Launching a Discovery Assessment Campaign
- Rethinking the Institutional Repository: Increasing Open Access Academic Articles and Manuscripts through Integration of Publisher APIs
- Shared Print 101
- System Migrations from an Acquisitions Perspective
- When Crisis Comes: Rapidly Acquiring, Describing, and Preserving Community-Created Digital Collections
Don’t see a session listed above that you think would be of interest to the ALCTS community? Send suggestions for reports on other ALA events to Chelcie, as well.
Thank you for helping to connect members of the ALCTS community with professional knowledge shared at Annual, even if they aren’t able to be there in person!
