Today's Topics: 1. Call for Discussion Topics: ALCTS Collection Development Issues for Practitioners IG at the ALA Annual (Elaine Franco) 2. Coding for Efficiencies in Cataloging and Metadata: an ALCTS preconference in San Francisco (Elaine Franco) 3. Call for Volunteers: Preservation Week Booth at ALA Annual (Elaine Franco)
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Forwarded to CLA TSIG list by Elaine Franco, Chair, ALCTS Affiliate Relations Committee, and Member, CLA TSIG Steering Committee. You are invited to send me the topics you would like to discuss at the ALCTS Collection Development Issues for Practitioners IG meeting at the 2015 ALA Annual Conference. Collection Development Issues for Practitioners IG is formed to make sure that the issues you are concerned about being addressed. Please send me a short description of the topics you'd like to discuss during the meeting. Also let me know whether you are interested in being one of the facilitators. If you would like to learn more about this interest group, feel free to contact me or visit: http://www.ala.org/alcts/mgrps/cms/grps/ats-cmdcolldevp Sherri and I will select and consolidate three primary topics to be discussed at the meeting. This IG meeting is going to be held on Saturday, June 2015 from 1 to 2:30 PM at Hilton San Francisco Union Square room 19 &20. Best, Irene Ke, IG Chair and Sherri Michaels, IG Vice-Chair ALCTS Collection Development Issues for Practitioners IG ------------------------------ Message: 2 CHICAGO - On Thursday, June 25, at the 2015 ALA Annual Conference, the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) brings you "Coding for Efficiencies in Cataloging and Metadata: Practical Applications of XML, XSLT, XQuery, and PyMarc for Library Data." This all day preconference, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., provides concrete examples and hands-on exercises for practical applications of coding with library data. Register through the 2015 ALA Annual Conference website. The price is: $219 for ALCTS members (use special code ALCTS2015); $269 ALA for members, $319 for non-members. Event Code: ALC2. Advance registration ends June 19. Session topics include: * XML and XSLT for streamlining and scaling up metadata and cataloging workflows * RDF/XML for serializing MODS-RDF and BIBFRAME * XQuery for extracting, manipulating, and constructing library metadata * PyMARC for accessing and manipulating MARC records. This preconference is intended for cataloging and metadata librarians or paraprofessionals and information science students having some familiarity with metadata creation and/or descriptive cataloging practices, and at least one or two formats such as MARC, Dublin Core, MODS, METS, or RDF. This preconference may also be useful for digital scholarship librarians and library technology staff. Sessions are oriented towards those who have some familiarity with the technologies covered, however it is not required. Attendees are encouraged to bring a computer with XML-aware and Python software as well as questions for group discussion. See the event page for complete instructions. This preconference is presented by Timothy W. Cole, Mathematics and Digital Content Access Librarian, University Library; Myung-Ja ("MJ") Han, Metadata Librarian, University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Christine Schwartz, Metadata Librarian and XML Database Administrator, Princeton Theological Seminary Library ; Heidi Frank, Electronic Resources & Special Formats Cataloging Librarian, New York University Libraries, Knowledge Access & Resources Management Services. For questions, contact Julie Reese in the ALCTS Office at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> or 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034. This preconference was developed by the ALCTS Technical Services Workflows Efficiency Interest Group and is cosponsored by the LITA Program Planning Committee and Online Audiovisual Catalogers, Inc. (OLAC). See the ALCTS conference web site (http://www.ala.org/alcts/events/ac) for information about other ALCTS events, including preconferences on best practices for cataloging videos, real world linked data, cataloging special formats for children's materials, and challenges with managing streaming media for academic libraries. ALCTS is a division of the American Library Association. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Help support Preservation Week. Preservation Week is going to be at the ALA Annual Conference Exhibit Hall for the first time and we need your help! We're looking for volunteers who can staff the exhibit hall booth in roughly 1-2 hour increments. You'll be provided with talking points and other information about Preservation Week, and you're certainly welcome to share your own experiences. The exhibit hall hours are below. Exhibits hours are: Friday, 5:30-7pm Saturday, 9am - 5pm Sunday, 9am - 4pm Monday, 9am - 2pm If you are interested in participating at ALA Annual or a future conference contact Miriam Nelson, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [_evergreen_PWlogo_color]<http://www.ala.org/alcts/preservationweek> Miriam Nelson Head of Preservation, Ohio University Libraries Hwa-Wei Lee Library Annex /Southeast Ohio Regional Depository 205 Columbus Road, Athens, OH 45701 740.593.0715 End of Tsig Digest, Vol 37, Issue 6 ***********************************
