Today's Topics: 1. Call for Proposals: ALCTS Metadata Interest Group Annual 2015 (Elaine Franco) 2. LRRT Mentorship Program: Calls for Mentees (Applications due June 10, 2015) (Elaine Franco) 3. CaMMS Faceted Subject Access IG ? ALA Annual 2015 (Elaine Franco)
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 The ALCTS Metadata Interest Group seeks proposals for presentations for our program at the ALA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California. The program is scheduled for Sunday, June 28, 2015 from 8:30AM to 10:30AM. Presentations are 30 minutes in total -- 20 minutes for the presentation, 10 minutes for questions. Proposal ideas could include: - Metadata consulting activities - Metadata training sessions, workshops, boot camps - Deployments of metadata expertise outside the library We would especially like to receive proposals for presentations about metadata failures, including case studies and resultant best practices. The deadline for proposals is June 9, 2015. Proposals may be submitted through this form: http://goo.gl/forms/VVTvccY5Fy If you have any difficulties with the form, please feel free to submit your proposals directly by email to [email protected] Thank you! ALCTS Metadata Interest Group Chair Jennifer D. Miller Houston TX ------------------------------ Message: 2 Thinking about or starting to work on a library-related research project? Could you use some help from an experienced scholar? Consider the Library Research Round Table (LRRT) Mentorship Program! Whatever your topic, your LRRT mentor will offer support and advice while you develop skills like creating research designs, conducting surveys, collecting and analyzing data, writing your paper and disseminating the results to both the research and practitioner library communities. Interested? You can learn more about the criteria for mentees, details about the mentors plus information about the LRRT Mentorship Program Forums at ALA Annual 2015 and 2016 on the LRRT Initiatives webpage: http://www.ala.org/lrrt/initiatives The introductory LRRT Mentorship Program Discussion Forum will be held at the ALA Annual Conference on Saturday, June 27, 2015 from 1:00pm - 2:30pm. If you are interested in becoming a mentee in the LRRT Program, please complete the mentee application by June 10, 2015 (application available here: http://goo.gl/forms/F1OJd6TWNj), and an LRRT Mentorship Program Committee member will contact you in June. Questions about the LRRT Mentorship Program? Contact Stephanie Alexander, LRRT Mentorship Program Subcommittee chair at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected] >. LRRT-MEM is the official discussion listserv of the ALA Library Research Round Table. The list's address is [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. When posting messages to this discussion list, please be sure they are sent from the email address recorded in your member profile. Messages intended for distribution to everyone on the discussion list should be sent to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. When responding to an individual please reply to that individual in order to reduce unnecessary email traffic for others on the discussion list. ------------------------------ Message: 3 CaMMS Faceted Subject Access Interest Group Program ? ALA Annual 2015 The Faceted Subject Access Interest Group provides a forum to discuss the theory and applications related to subject terminology intended for faceted application. In San Francisco the focus is on FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) with a lively session of lightning talks showcasing innovative uses of and interesting issues with FAST headings in archival, repository, and catalog settings. Please join us Saturday, June 27, 2015 in the Marriott Marquis San Francisco, Yerba Buena Salon 05 from 4:30-5:30 PM. (http://alaac15.ala.org/node/29209) Program: Speeding up Archival Description with FAST Mackenzie Brooks, Assistant Professor and Metadata Librarian, Washington and Lee University This lightning talk will outline the experience of batch-loading FAST headings into ArchivesSpace to speed up archival description and reduce cataloging backlog. At our small liberal arts university library, catalogers and Special Collections staff frequently fell behind in processing while trying to unite their distinct description priorities. Importing the FAST headings into ArchivesSpace minimized this barrier by providing Special Collections staff with a wide range of pre-approved headings. This presentation will briefly address technical implementation options and staff training strategies. ?Never the Time and the Place and the Topic All Together!?: Conceptualizing and Creating Chronological, Event, and Geographic Faceted Headings in an Archival-Management System Catherine Oliver, Metadata and Cataloging Services Librarian, Northern Michigan University In October of 2014, the Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives began transitioning to the ArchivesSpace archival-management system, a process which offered us an exciting opportunity to rethink our approach to metadata. The Archives has traditionally used the Library of Congress Subject Headings vocabulary to provide controlled subject access to its collections. We found, however, that our existing LCSH access points were not optimal for ArchivesSpace, which is a post-coordinated search environment designed to be navigated by faceted browsing. We have begun faceting our LCSH for use in ArchivesSpace, but have run into some issues with managing our chronological, event, and geographical headings. This talk will give an overview of our preliminary draft of best practices and outline our proposed survey of archives users (to be carried out in the fall of 2015). Implementing FAST in an Institutional Repository Brian Luna Lucero & Melanie Wacker, Columbia University Columbia University Libraries/Information Services began using FAST selectively in original cataloging of pamphlets in 2014 and also moved to using FAST in digital projects in early 2015. Based on these positive experiences, the decision was made to also use FAST in Columbia?s digital repository Academic Commons<http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/>. This lightning talk will address the unique challenges faced by the Academic Commons team to move a large scale MODS-based repository of over 15,000 items from the very high level ProQuest subject terms to the much more granular FAST headings -- both for new cataloging going forward as well as for the existing records. FAST Headings in the UNLV Libraries Catalog: A Laissez-Faire Approach! Carol Ou, Head of Discovery Services, & Marilyn Vent, Serials Cataloging Librarian, University of Nevada, Las Vegas The introduction of FAST headings in WorldCat records can pose new challenges to local catalogs and local cataloging practices. Like many other libraries, UNLV Libraries sources shelf-ready and other copy-cataloging records from WorldCat for a significant portion of our collection. Traditionally we do very little editing to the majority of these records, so when OCLC began systematically adding FAST headings to WorldCat records, FAST headings naturally began flowing into our local catalog. This presentation will briefly discuss our local approach to managing FAST headings and the display and indexing changes we have made to support FAST headings in our local catalog, as well as some issues surrounding the maintenance of these headings that we have yet to fully resolve. We will also hear an update from Dr. Diane Vizine-Goetz about OCLC?s work with FAST. Hope to see you there! Brian Falato & Susan Wynne, co-chairs of Faceted Subject Access Interest Group Susan C. Wynne Cataloging & Metadata Librarian Georgia State University 100 Decatur Street SE Atlanta, GA 30303 404-413-2729 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> _______________________________________________ End of Tsig Digest, Vol 37, Issue 18 ************************************
