Benjamin Abrahamse hosted the forum jointly sponsored by the ALCTS Continuing Resources Section (CRS) Cataloging Committee and Standards Committee. Abrahamse welcomed the audience and forum speakers, Dr. Gaëlle Béquet, Director, ISSN International Centre, and Regina Romano Reynolds, Director, U.S. ISSN Center and Head, ISSN Section, Library of Congress.
Continue readingThis year’s Preservation & Reformatting Section (PARS) Forum was held on Sunday, June 25, and featured reports on two innovative programs. The session was introduced by Chair Kris Kern, who briefly announced the two segments and their presenters. The first speaker was Katie Risseeuw, Preservation Librarian at Northwestern University, who led the second annual “Preservation in Action.” Tom Clareson, Director for the Performing Arts Readiness project, gave the second presentation.
Continue readingThe 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.
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