Today's Topics:
1. ALA Midwinter: AMVIG Acquisitions Managers & Vendors Interest
Group - Midwinter Meeting (Elaine Franco)
2. ALA Midwinter: ALCTS/LITA Authority Control IG Meeting at ALA
Midwinter 2015 (Elaine Franco)
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Dear colleagues,
Please join us at ALA Midwinter in Chicago for a presentation and discussion
on how the increased availability and importance of usage information is
affecting library collecting and publishing decisions today.
ALCTS AS Acquisitions Managers and Vendors Interest Group (AMVIG)
Sunday, February 1, 2015
1:00pm-2:30pm
McCormick Place ? Rm. W176a
Using What We've Got - Analyzing Data in a Useful Way
Usage data has become more important than ever in collection development,
but how are librarians to use this information in a way that informs
collections thoughtfully? Our panelists will address such questions as:
Should historical usage drive collecting, and should collections be built
with maximum usage in mind? What kinds of decisions can be made based on
usage patterns? How does librarian selecting, approvals, and patron-driven
acquisitions fit together in today?s complicated environment? Where does a
usage-driven acquisitions model leave the underutilized, specialized book?
The panelists will speak on their libraries? practices in obtaining,
analyzing, and putting to use the myriad data available today.
Panelists:
? Leslie Button, Associate Director for Library Services, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst
? Krista Coulson, Digital Publishing Manager, University of Chicago
Press
? Daniel Dollar, Director of Collection Development, Yale University
Library
Please bring questions for the panel and join the discussion!
For more information, contact the AMVIG Co-chairs & Vice-chair:
? Laura Zusman (Chair), Collection Development Manager, YBP Library
Services, 603?770?0288, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
? Debra Falvey (Vice-Chair), Collections Procurement Librarian, Yale
University Library, 203-432-8386,
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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Greetings,
Below you will find an interesting mix of topics for the ALCTS/LITA
Authority Control Interest Group (ACIG) meeting at Midwinter.
Sunday, February 1
1:00 PM-3:00 PM (with a business meeting to follow)
McCormick Place West
Room W474b
Scheduler link: http://alamw15.ala.org/node/25803
We hope you can join us!
Nathan Putnam
2014-2015 ACIG Chair
Head, Metadata Services
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 0742
[email protected]
Janis L. Young (Senior Cataloging Policy Specialist, Policy and Standards
Division (PSD)) will be giving her regular semi-annual report from Library
of Congress, including updates on authorities projects, staffing changes at
Library of Congress, and updates to tables and documentation.
Ray Schmidt (Assistant Director for Discovery Services, Wellesley College,
and chair of the Music Library Association Authorities Subcommittee) will
discuss ways to advocate for the value of authority work. The MLA Statement
on Authority Control will be presented as a starting point for considering
the real-world situations in which the need for advocacy arises, and how
catalogers can prepare to demonstrate what library users "get" from
authority control.
Diane Hillmann (partner in the consulting firm Metadata Management
Associates LLC and previously Authorities Library at Cornell University
Libraries) will briefly discuss general issues and how vocabulary versioning
has been handled in the RDA Registry. She will demonstrate how those
principles and best practices can be used in other kinds of authority files.
Policies regarding change management in open or public vocabularies used in
the context of Linked Open Data have lagged behind those driving other
web-based communities of practice. The same can be said of Authority Files,
developed for use within a centralized data flow and centralized maintenance
policies, with contributions by a broadly distributed community. This
centralized control has been workable (if slow to evolve to incorporate new
needs) during the MARC years, so long as data distribution had also been
centralized, but this pattern of distribution has become more questionable
as a transition to the more open !
world of linked data begins to demonstrate the inflexibility of traditional
practices.
Jeremy Myntti (Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services, J. Willard Marriott
Library, University of Utah) and Nate Cothran (Vice President, Automated
Services, Backstage Library Works) will discuss the University of Utah's J.
Willard Marriott Library's and Backstage Library Works ideas to come up with
an automated solution for authorizing fields in digital library metadata to
provide consistency and to improve access to collections. This project was
originally presented at ALA Annual 2013 at the beginning of the project. We
have now completed processing the metadata for several digital collections.
This presentation will show the results from this project, including lessons
learned and future directions for the project to prepare this metadata for a
linked data environment.
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