Today's Topics: 1. ALA Annual Program: Coming to Terms with the New LC Vocabularies (Elaine Franco) 2. FW: ALCTS/LITA ERM Interest Group Meeting at Annual (Elaine Franco) 3. ALCTS/LITA Authority Control IG Meeting at ALA Annual 2015 (Elaine Franco)
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Good afternoon, The ALCTS Cataloging and Metadata Management Section's Subject Analysis Committee would like to invite you to join us for a program at ALA Annual 2015 in San Francisco entitled *Coming to Terms with the New LC Vocabularies: Genre/Form (Literature, Music, General), Demographic Groups and Medium of Performance.* The Library of Congress, ALCTS/SAC and MLA have collaborated on new vocabularies to provide genre/form access to literature, music, and "general" works as well as controlled lists of demographic terms and medium of performance terms; new MARC fields are in place for attributes of works including audience, creator characteristics, and time period of creation. Leading contributors to this work will describe the context, development, and practical application of these new vocabularies and fields. Speakers will include *Janis L. Young*, Senior Cataloging Policy Specialist in the Library of Congress' Policy and Standards Division (PSD), *Adam Schiff*, Principal Cataloger at the University of Washington Libraries in Seattle, and *Hermine Vermeij*, Team Leader of the Subject Specialist Catalogers at UCLA. The program will take place on *Monday, June 29th, from 1:00-2:30 pm in the Moscone Convention Center, 2003 (W)* Thanks! -- Christopher Case Content Management Librarian Milton S. Eisenhower Library Johns Hopkins University ------------------------------ Message: 2 With ALA Annual kicking off, we invite you to the panel discussion "Meeting the E-Resources Challenge: Utilizing ERMS in Libraries," organized by the ALCTS Acquisitions Section's Acquisitions Technology Committee and hosted by the ALCTS/LITA Electronic Resources Management Interest Group. What: Presentations by librarians who have implemented and are using the E-Resource Management Systems CORAL (open source, created at Notre Dame) and Sierra (Innovative Interfaces), followed by interactive discussion. Learn about how these tools support the workflows of e-resource management. See the session in the scheduler at http://alaac15.ala.org/node/28706 (LITA Electronic Resources Management Interest Group). When: Saturday, June 27, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Where: Moscone Convention Center 232-234 (S) Please contact Robert Heaton ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) with any questions. We look forward to seeing you there! Kate Silton Electronic Resources Librarian/Assistant Professor F.D. Bluford Library North Carolina A&T State University [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 336.285.4256 ------------------------------ Message: 3 Good morning, Just a reminder that ACIG is looking for volunteers for several member-at-large positions as well as Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect and Secretary. More information can be found here: http://connect.ala.org/node/240667 If you won't be attending ALA Annual, but would like to participate, please send me an email ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>). Thanks! Nathan Putnam Chair, ACIG (2014-2015) From: Nathan B. Putnam Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 8:42 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: ALCTS/LITA Authority Control IG Meeting at ALA Annual 2015 Hello! Please join us for the ALCTS/LITA Authority Control Interest Group (ACIG) at ALA Annual in San Francisco (full program information below). Sunday, June 28 1:00-3:30 (business meeting to follow) Room 124 (N) in the Moscone Convention Center ALA Conference Scheduler: http://alaac15.ala.org/node/29319 ALA Connect: http://connect.ala.org/node/239804 We are also looking for volunteers to for several member-at-large positions as well as Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect and Secretary. More information can be found here: http://connect.ala.org/node/240667 Thanks! Nathan Putnam Chair, ACIG (2014-2015) Paul Frank (Library of Congress), Shana McDanold (Georgetown University), and Bob Maxwell (Brigham Young University) will discuss their thoughts on authority control. The hope is to spark ideas and discussions for future ACIG meetings (as we go into the next 30 years!). Janis L. Young (Library of Congress) will be giving her regular semi-annual and very popular report from the Library of Congress, including updates on authorities projects, staffing changes at Library of Congress, and updates to tables and documentation. Nancy Lorimer (Stanford University and Chair of MLA's Genre/Form Task Force) will discuss the February 2015 release of 600 genre/form terms for musical works, a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the Music Library Association. This is part of the larger project to expand the Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT) to new domains, She will review the music vocabulary, its origins, the decision-making processes during its development, the interaction of LCGFT terms with those of the Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus for Music (LCMPT), and explain areas of the vocabulary that are still being developed or are otherwise in flux. She will also provide several examples on its use of LCGFT music terms and provide an introduction to Provisional Best Practices for Using LCGFT for Music Resources, a document created by the Music Library Association Vocabularies Subcommittee and Genre/Form Task Force to provide te! mporary guidelines until official documentation is completed. Jeremy Myntti (University of Utah), Anna Neatrour (University of Utah), and Nate Cothran (Backstage Library Works) will discuss the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library work with Backstage Library Works to develop an automated solution for authority control in fields for digital library metadata to provide consistency and improve access to collections. An early version of this project was originally presented at ALA Annual 2013, and they have continued on to make improvements and refinements based on the initial work. They completed processing the metadata for several digital collections with Backstage. After this processing was completed, they started looking at ways to standardize the metadata values that Backstage was unable to match to an existing LC authority by using OpenRefine to add further improved values. This presentation will show the results from this project, including lessons learned and future directions for the project to prepare this metadata fo! r a linked data environment. End of Tsig Digest, Vol 38, Issue 33 ************************************
