Member Community: Cataloging & Metadata Management Section (CaMMS)

MarcEdit: Past, Present, & Future

ALA Annual Conference, Conference News

The ALCTS Cataloging & Metadata Management Section (CaMMS) and the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) co-sponsored the forum “MarcEdit: Past, Present, and Future” at the 2019 ALA Annual Conference. The forum celebrated the twentieth anniversary of MarcEdit, a tool used by library workers to edit, create, and manipulate library metadata. Terry Reese, the creator of the MarcEdit, spoke to a packed room on the tool’s creation, development, and future directions. He was joined by Mike Monaco from the University of Akron Libraries and Bryan Baldus from OCLC, who presented on their individual use of the tool at their institutions.

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Treshani Perera: My Conference Experience

ALA Annual Conference, Conference News

I learned a lot about myself as a cataloger, early-career professional, and participant in large conferences while attending my first ALA Annual Conference in June 2018. As a specialist cataloger, I mostly attend subject-specific conferences, but as an early-career cataloging librarian, I wanted to attend Annual Conference in order to connect with the greater cataloging community.

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Intercultural Competence in Knowledge Representation

ALA Annual Conference, Conference News

The ALCTS Cataloging & Metadata Management Section (CaMMS) Forum took place at the 2018 ALA Annual Conference on Sunday, June 24. The session, titled “Intercultural Competence in Knowledge Representation,” featured Athena Salaba, associate professor at the Kent State University School of Information, presenting preliminary results of research she conducted into intercultural competency of knowledge organization professionals.

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CaMMS Forum: Cooperatively Conscientious Cataloging

ALA Midwinter Meeting, Conference News

The ALCTS Cataloging and Metadata Management Section (CaMMS) Forum took place at the 2018 ALA Midwinter Meeting on Sunday, February 11. The session, titled “Cooperatively Conscientious Cataloging,” provided a venue for attendees to share their ideas and concerns about the process now under way to develop a code of ethics for the cataloging community. Their feedback will be added to that garnered from prior CaMMS events, all of which will help determine the next steps that CaMMS takes toward the goal of developing an ethics guidelines document.

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