ALCTS News

Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) At Large & Participants Meeting: 2018 Midwinter Meeting

June 1, 2018 Nathan Putnam ALA Midwinter Meeting, Conference News

The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) At Large Meeting and Participants Meeting at the 2018 ALA Midwinter Meeting were combined into one 90-minute session that took place on Sunday, February 11. Topics for this combined meeting included general updates on the PCC directory and the Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO), an overview of the new PCC Strategic Directions document, and a presentation on updates to Resource Description and Access (RDA) and the RDA Toolkit stemming from the RDA Restructure and Redesign (3R) Project.

Library of Congress BIBFRAME Update Forum

May 31, 2018 Joshua Hutchinson ALA Midwinter Meeting, Conference News

The Library of Congress BIBFRAME Update Forum took place at the 2018 ALA Midwinter Meeting on Sunday, February 11. With five speakers in total, this session provided a comprehensive overview of the state of BIBFRAME—the standard that will replace MARC—from the point of view of early adopters. Representatives from the Library of Congress (LC), Library Service Platform (LSP) providers, and linked open data projects discussed their experience using BIBFRAME and other frameworks.

Resource Access for the 21st Century

May 31, 2018 Robin Goodfellow (Puck) Malamud ALA Midwinter Meeting, Conference News

About thirty people traversed the bridge to the Sheraton Denver Downtown’s Silver room for the presentation on Resource Access for the 21st Century (RA21), a collaboration between the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM). The presentation took place during the 2018 ALA Midwinter Meeting on Sunday, February 11.

OCLC Research Update

May 30, 2018 Sofia Slutskaya ALA Midwinter Meeting, Conference News

The OCLC Research Update took place at the 2018 ALA Midwinter Meeting on Monday, February 12, addressing recent and upcoming collaborative projects, pilots, and published reports from OCLC Research, its Research Library Partnership (RLP), and WebJunction. A recording of the program, which was streamed live, is available on Facebook.

OCLC Linked Data Roundtable: Stories from the Front

May 30, 2018 Lisa Lorenzo ALA Midwinter Meeting, Conference News

The session “OCLC Linked Data Roundtable: Stories from the Front” took place during the 2018 ALA Midwinter Meeting on Saturday, February 10. Approximately 75 people were in attendance for the session, which included three 10-minute presentations on the topic of linked data implementations, followed by a Q&A period.