(Apologies for any cross-posting)

Come join your colleagues at the ALCTS Toronto program:

   "ISBDs: INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS--
     DO WE STILL NEED THEM?"

Date: Sunday, June 22, 2003
Hotel: DEL (Delta Chelsea)
Room: Churchill BR
Time: 1:30-3:3:0 P.M.

Learn about the ISBDs from four experts!

John D. Byrum, Jr. --IFLA's program to produce and promote the ISBDs,
including  their origins,  purpose, adaptation, and continued relevance

Glenn Patton--How the ISBDs are evolving to meet the needs of catalogers
around the world, and how they are used directly or as principles that
underlie AACR and other cataloging codes

Olivia Madison--Conceptual synergy between the ISBD development and FRBR,
and the potential impact of the two standards on new access parameters in
the online bibliographic environment

Lynne C. Howarth--Putting the ISBDs in metadata. How IFLA is
incorporating
the ISBDs as a framework or model for the content, design, and
application
of a common metadata core for bibliographic control
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This program is co-sponsored by the ALCTS Cataloging and Classification
Section and the ALCTS  Networked Resources and Metadata Committee, with
generous support from K. G. Saur

Ann M. Sandberg-Fox and Mary Woodley, Program Co-chairs
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