Section: Conference News

The Resource Description Access (RDA) Linked Data Forum took place at the 2018 ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana at the Morial Convention Center on Monday, June 25. Gordon Dunsire (chair of the RDA Steering Committee) delivered a presentation titled “RDA Linked Data and the New RDA Toolkit.” James Hennelly (director of ALA Digital Reference) introduced the session’s speaker and moderated the question and answer session following the presentation.

At ALA Annual 2018, Nadine Ellero (Auburn University Libraries), Erik Mitchell (University of California San Diego Library) and Michael Bolam (University of Pittsburgh Libraries) presented the results of the ALCTS Metadata Standards Committee’s survey on diversity, inclusion and accessibility in metadata schema design, implementation and use.

Christina D. Mune, information technology services director at San Jose State University’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, presented “Ready, Set, Search! Launching a Discovery Assessment Campaign” on Saturday, June 23, 2017 at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. The program was sponsored by the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA).

The session featured three librarians from the University of Virginia (UVA) Library discussing their efforts to create a toolkit for emergency digital collecting that can be adopted nationally. The speakers collectively highlighted crises at UVA and how the UVA Library responded to each crisis, but it was the “Unite the Right” rally in August 2017, an event that drew the most amount of national attention on the university, that forced the institution to look into a sustainable response plan when faced with emergency collecting priorities.