Section: Conference News

More than 90 participants from different types of libraries, vendors, and library schools attended “Road Signs to the Future: What Trends Will Affect Your Library?” The program was held on Sunday, February 11, during the 2018 ALA Midwinter Meeting as part of the Symposium on the Future of Libraries. The interactive session was led by Dr. Sara Duvall, district chair of Secondary Library Services for Ann Arbor Public Schools.

The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Program Training took place at the 2018 ALA Midwinter Meeting on Friday, February 9. Representatives from several PCC committees as well as the Library of Congress (LC) provided updates. The session was chaired by Judith Cannan, head of the Cooperative and Instructional Programs Division at LC.

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.

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.

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.