ALA Midwinter-ALCTS CCS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group Birdie MacLennan 04 Jan 2008 18:02 UTC
ALCTS CCS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group The ALCTS/CCS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group cordially invites you to join our discussion group at Mid-Winter in Philadelphia to hear three presenters and their discussions of how three cataloging departments faced the challenges of growing interactions between cataloging and digital initiatives and changing norms. Date: Jan. 12, 2008 Time: 1:30-3:30 p.m. Location: Room 109B, Philadelphia Convention Center Our speakers are: Rebecca L. Lubas, Head of Cataloging & Metadata Services, MIT Libraries Speaking on: "Creating a Metadata Services Unit at MIT Libraries" In response to the changing needs of collections and users, the Cataloging Department at MIT created a Metadata Services Unit. We partnered with the OpenCourseWare (OCW) project, an effort to provide course materials for all of MITs courses online, free to anyone with Internet access. OCW has thousands of digital resources that need metadata for better searching and preservation. We participated in the testing and design of the content management system for OCW, and hired a Metadata Production Assistant and a Metadata Librarian. The new unit faced challenges that traditional cataloging work had not before, such as paying customers, evolving best practices, and dependence on non-librarians for bibliographic information. The presentation also addresses how catalogers? work and responsibilities changed. Charlene Chou, Catalog Librarian, Columbia University Libraries Speaking on: 'Expanding the Cataloger's Role in the Era of Global Digital Libraries" In response to the changing demands of next-generation catalogs and global digital libraries, the role of catalogers has been redefined and will change drastically in the coming years. Users need better catalogs. In addition to analyzing current developments, this presentation will give examples of current projects at Columbia University to illustrate how catalogers have used their specialized skills in languages and subject analysis to contribute to the formation of global digital libraries. With the development of Web 3.0 as a reference to the semantic Web, are catalogers ready for the next wave of challenges coming soon? Patricia Dragon, Cataloger, Cataloging Department, Joyner Library, East Carolina University Speaking on: "Authority Control Challenges Presented by Regional Cultural Heritage Digitization Projects" For many institutions, a key component of their digital library programs is the digitization of regional significant cultural heritage materials for a wider community as well as the academic community. Authority control adds value to a discovery tool and is traditionally performed by catalogers. At ECU?s Joyner Library, we view it as part of our information service to the region to perform authority work on regionally significant names for our digitization program and discovery tools. The addition of digital projects to the traditional library cataloging environment creates a number of challenges for authority control and catalogers to create and ensure a seamless discovery environment, and specifically, a quality federated search function across discovery tools. I will explore how (and why) to meet these challenges and solicit ideas from the audience. Contact Co-chairs Tatiana Barr <tatiana.barr@yale.edu> or Lihong Zhu <lzhu2@wsu.edu> for more information. -- Birdie MacLennan University of Vermont Vice co-chair, ALCTS CCS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group