The second annual Preservation in Action (PiA) event was held on Friday, June 23, 2017. The day-long preconference was sponsored by the American Library Association’s Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Preservation & Reformatting Section (PARS), and was held at Chicago’s Rebuild Foundation’s Stoney Island Arts Bank.
Continue readingIn this program speakers discussed how they are using APIs to improve and automate cataloging, acquisition, metadata enhancement, and holdings maintenance workflows in technical services.
Continue readingThe Library of Congress BIBFRAME (Bibliographic Framework Initiative) Update Forum was held on Sunday, June 25, 2017, at McCormick Place in Chicago. Five speakers from the Library of Congress, OCLC, Stanford University, and Zepheira gave attendees an update on the progress made in developing and implementing BIBFRAME.
Continue readingOn June 25, 2017, the LLAMA Technology Community of Practice sponsored the ALA Program, “ILS Migration Stories: Naked Data and Change Management.” This panel presentation was delivered by Elizabeth Novicki, Leland Deeds, Julene Jones, and John Sterbenz, Jr. Each panelist described the size of their library or libraries’ collections, the academic programs their libraries support, and the number of library employees at their respective institutions.
Continue readingThis year’s debate posed a statement to two teams, which took respectively “pro” and “con” positions on a topic. This year’s statement was: “The preservation of analog audiovisual media is the single most important preservation issue facing libraries (and archives and museums) in 2017.”
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