Are you looking for a new way to get involved in ALA while representing the interests of the metadata community? Consider serving as the Metadata Interest Group liaison to the ALCTS/CaMMS/Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access!
CC:DA provides expertise on matters concerning descriptive cataloging in order to formulate official ALA positions on cataloging policies and standards and also to speak for ALA on issues related to descriptive cataloging. >From the CC:DA Orientation Doc <http://alcts.ala.org/ccdablog/?p=185>: The role of liaisons is to represent various cataloging communities by: (1) keeping the members of those communities informed of activities relating to descriptive cataloging; (2) consulting members of those communities on relevant issues that come before CC:DA; (3) contributing their knowledge and opinions, as well as the knowledge and opinions of the communities they represent to CC:DA discussions; and (4) participating on CC:DA Task Forces. The Metadata Interest Group liaison would provide a vital voice in bringing descriptive cataloging policy and practices into the linked data world. Liaisons are expected to attend two half-day meetings at both Midwinter and Annual (currently Saturday afternoon and Monday morning), with the necessary prep work of reviewing documents that will be presented and discussed at those meetings, plus following and participating in the Committee's online discussions during much of the rest of the year. Interested in learning more? Ready to volunteer? Please contact me <[email protected]> or Robert Rendall <[email protected]>, the chair of the CC:DA. More information about CC:DA can be found at <http://www.ala.org/alcts/mgrps/camms/cmtes/ats-ccscat>. And a huge thanks to Nathan Putnam for his time (4 years!) as the former Metadata Interest Group liaison to the CC:DA! -- Jennifer D. Miller Chair, Metadata Interest Group [email protected]
