ALCTS News is seeking reporters for the ALCTS Virtual Preconference Diverse, Inclusive, and Equitable Metadata, which will be held June 6-7 from 1 pm to 2 pm. Ideally they’d like to have one reporter for each session. If you’d like to volunteer to write a report on one of these sessions, please contact Rebecca Mugridge, ALCTS News Editor, at rmugridge@albany.edu as soon as possible. Reports should summarize the information presented and any particularly interesting points raised. Report length can be in the range of 400-600 words, but this is flexible. Below please find the preconference description:

Session 1

Outreach and Inclusivity in Digital Libraries and Institutional Repositories

Tuesday, June 6, 2017, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. CT

• Presentation 1: Digital Project as Community Outreach: A New Way of Approaching Metadata
• Presentation 2: Doing Justice to the Humanities: Increasing Inclusivity with More Specific Subject Description

Session 2

Metadata Creation and Remediation in Zine and Digital Library Collections

Wednesday, June 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. CT

• Presentation 1: Towards Counter-Cultural Competencies: Mutual Metadata Creation and the Zine Union Catalog Project
• Presentation 2: We Don’t Use Those Words Anymore: Describing Yesterday’s News Today

Note: ALCTS News will be calling for reporters for ALCTS Preconferences and ALCTS Programs at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago later this week.