ALCTS 2000 Preconference on Metadata - July 6-7, 2000 (Sally C. Tseng) Marcia Tuttle 30 Mar 2000 13:56 UTC
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:13:22 -0800 From: Sally C. Tseng <sctseng@SUN1.LIB.UCI.EDU> Subject: ALCTS 2000 Preconference on Metadata - July 6-7, 2000 Dear Colleagues: I am pleased to let you know that the ALCTS Preconference on Metadata will be held July 6 to 7, 2000 at the Palmer House in Chicago. Please register ASAP to reserve a seat! "Metadata: Libraries and the Web--Retooling AACR and MARC21 for Cataloging in the Twenty-first Century" is presented by the ALCTS Serials Section, Committee to Study Serials Cataloging, the CCS, CC:DA, Task Force on Metadata, and the ALCTS Networked Resources and Metadata Committee. This two-day preconference will be held on Thursday, July 6 from 7:45 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., and Friday, July 7 from 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Participants will learn the most effective and efficient options for providing users with access to Web resources. Topics range from library leaders' viewpoints on Web resources access to the how-to's of creating records. The emphasis of this preconference is on presenting the pros and cons, standards, and the practicalities of dealing with metadata for Web resources and a vision for the future, including DDI, Dublin Core, EAD, ISSN, MARC 21, RDF, TEI, XML, W3C and the new thoughts, rules, guidelines on seriality and AACR2. The preconference is designed for librarians in public, academic, and special libraries, who are responsible for providing users with access to electronic resources available over the Web and through on-going publications, whether by cataloging, by collecting, by designing subject-specific Web pages or by other means. Faculty Murtha Baca, Laura Bayard, Matthew Beacom, Vivian Bliss, Stanley Blum, Diane Boehr, Beth Camden, Brad Eden, William Fietzer, William Garrison, Michael Gorman, Rebecca Guenther, Diane Hillmann, Jean Hirons, Sheila Intner, Erik Jul, Kris Kiesling, Mary Larsgaard, Clifford Lynch, Norm Medeiros, Elizabeth Mangan, Lynn Marko, Constance Mayer, Eric Miller, Regina Reynolds, Carlos Rodriguez, Carlen Ruschoff, Brian E.C. Schottlaender, Wendy Treadwell, and Jennifer Younger. Registration fees for the preconference are $235 for ALCTS members, $285 for ALA members, and $335 for nonmembers. (ALCTS #3 on the ALA registration form) To register by mail: Send completed registration form with payment to: ALA Advance Registration, Dept. #77-6565, Chicago, Ill., 60678-6565; Fax: 312/944-7841; On-Line: Complete the on-line registration form located at http://www.ala.org/events/ac2000/online_reg.html For additional information is available on the ALCTS Web site: http://www.ala.org/alctsevents/preconf2000.html or, contact Charles Wilt, Deputy Executive Director, ALCTS, cwilt@ala.org, phone: 312/280-5030. See you in Chicago. Sally ******************************************************************** Sally Tseng, Co-Chair ALCTS Preconference on Metadata Head, Serials Cataloging Telephone: 949-824-6832 Science Library #331 Fax: 949-824-2059 University of California, Irvine P.O. Box 19557 email: sctseng@uci.edu Irvine, CA 92623 ********************************************************************