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The Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group is inviting speakers to present at the ALCTS Virtual Interest Group Week this June. Our session will be held on June 10 at 2:00-3:00 PM Eastern Time 

We are seeking two presentations that are about 20 minutes long. Audience questions and discussion will follow the presentations. 

Theme: How cataloging can support changes and challenges affecting our libraries

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Cataloging projects in emergency situations like during COVID-19 pandemic

• Work-from-home ideas for catalogers and cataloging staff

• Addressing discovery layer functionality

• Maintaining cataloging efficiency for increasingly diverse collections

• Providing metadata insight for collection assessment

• Promoting the need for cataloging professionals

• Expanding metadata contribution

• Transforming metadata with APIs

• Adapting or developing metadata for digital collections 

• Ethical issues in subject analysis and biases in classification schemes, thesauri and other knowledge organization systems

• Thesauri in modern information retrieval and automatic text classification

• Communication and collaboration between technical services, digital initiatives and public services

• Working with library data in the linked data environment

Please email proposals to the Co-Chairs by Tuesday, May 26, 2020. We will make our selections and contact applicants by Friday, May 29. In your proposal, please include the following:

• Presentation title

• Abstract: 150-300 words

• Amount of time needed to make the presentation

• Names and positions of presenter(s)

• Email address(es) of presenter(s)

 We look forward to hearing from you!

CCRIG Co-Chairs, 2019-2020

Amy B. Bailey abbailey@indiana.edu 

Jianying Shou jianying.shou@duke.edu 

CCRIG Co-Vice Chairs, 2019-2020

Yukari Sugiyama yukari.sugiyama@yale.edu

Nerissa Lindsey nlindsey@sdsu.edu