Today's Topics: 1. ALCTS Copy Cataloging IG meeting @ ALA Annual 2016 (Elaine Franco) 2. Competencies and Education for a Career in Cataloging Interest Group Meeting at ALA (Elaine Franco) 3. Inviting volunteers: ALCTS PARS Digital Preservation Interest Group (Elaine Franco)
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 On Behalf Of Leanne Finnigan Please join us at the ALCTS CaMMS Copy Cataloging Interest Group meeting at ALA in Orlando! When: Saturday, June 25th 8:30a-10a Where: Orange County Convention Center, Room W206C *Vocabulary Development for Local Use* *Diane Hillmann, Metadata Management Associates LLC and blogger at "Metadata Matters"* Vocabulary management has become a hot topic, with lots of potential to meet local needs. As libraries and other cultural institutions examine how to move beyond the strictures of traditional data sharing, local vocabularies start looking like a sensible investment. Development, publishing and maintenance of standards-compliant vocabularies can be a daunting prospect for working librarians without a background in that area, but there are tools available to help. The presenter will address the decisions, tools, and strategies behind local vocabulary development, publishing and distribution. *Linked Data for Production: A New Production Workflow for Vendor Supplied Copy-Cataloging* *Philip E. Schreur, Stanford University* Linked Data for Production (LD4P) is a collaboration between six institutions (Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Library of Congress, Princeton, and Stanford) to begin the transition of technical services production workflows to ones based in Linked Open Data (LOD). As part of its institutional projects, Stanford will be looking at four key production workflows and redefining them as tracer bullets. According to the Agile Dictionary, a tracer bullet is a set of work where interfaces are developed from beginning to end of a process. These interfaces may be very simplified or may just pass through. The purpose of the tracer bullet is to examine how an end-to-end process will work and examine feasibility. Over 80% of Stanford's monographs come in with some sort of copy and the first production workflow we will redefine will originate with vendor-supplied copy. The entire production chain will be converted, from acquisitions to discovery, with potential benefits to our patrons noted a! s part of our discovery layer. *Here Lies: Issues in the Copy Cataloging of Holocaust Denial Literature* *Catherine Oliver, Northern Michigan University* Northern Michigan University?s Lydia M. Olson Library is well-known for its Holocaust Collection, which comprises books, films, sound recordings, and electronic resources that focus on Holocaust and genocide studies. Recently, the library decided to begin collecting Holocaust denial literature, an endeavor that has posed some copy-cataloging challenges. In this presentation, the speaker will discuss some of the issues faced while processing these materials, among them a dearth of good-quality records and confusion on appropriate classification numbers and subject headings. The latter is an especially difficult topic, as the Library of Congress Subject Headings ?Holocaust denial literature? and ?Holocaust denial? are frequently confused and there are ambiguities as to their application. -- Leanne Finnigan Database Management Librarian Cataloging & Metadata Services Temple University Libraries 215-204-3274 ------------------------------ Message: 2 On Behalf Of Jennifer Liss If you are attending ALA Annual in Orlando, please join us! The ALCTS CaMMS Competencies and Education for a Career in Cataloging Interest Group will meet on Friday, June 24 from 1:00-2:30pm in HYATT Regency Orlando, Room Bayhill 21. The interest group will host an open forum to discuss a new draft professional cataloging competencies document produced by the Cataloging Competencies Task Force. After a brief introduction to the methodology and rationale for the document?s construction, session attendees will have time to review and comment upon the draft. A link to the draft, as well as options for sending written feedback, will be announced closer to Annual. Sincerely, Jennifer Liss & Karen Snow, co-chairs of the Competencies & Education for a Career in Cataloging Interest Group Allison Yanos & Susan Rathbun-Grubb, co-vice chairs of the Competencies & Education for a Career in Cataloging Interest Group Jennifer A. Liss | Head, Monographic Image Cataloging INDIANA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES 1320 East Tenth Street | Bloomington, IN 47405-3907 phone 812.856.7859 | [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> blogs.libraries.iub.edu/metadata/<http://blogs.libraries.iub.edu/metadata/> ------------------------------ Message: 3 On Behalf Of Chad Garrett The ALCTS Digital Preservation Interest Group invites volunteers for a new co-chair to serve a two-year term, July 2016-June 2018. Co-chairs are responsible for planning programming on behalf of the Interest Group at the ALA Annual Conference and Midwinter Meeting, reporting to the ALCTS PARS Executive Committee on programs, and submitting meeting minutes to ALA Connect. The Digital Preservation Interest Group is charged with serving as a venue for discussing the preservation management of digital assets whether commercial, born-digital or converted e-resources. You can find more information at http://www.ala.org/alcts/mgrps/pars/grps/ats-pardgdigit The interest group would value your participation, so if you are interested in helping out, please contact Chad Garrett ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) or Frances aHarrell ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>). You can also join the interest group for two events at ALA Annual: * Interest Group Meeting, "Spotlight on Florida: Three Projects from the Sunshine State<http://connect.ala.org/node/253806>": Sunday, June 26 from 8:30-10:00 in Orange County Convention Center, Room W103A * "#BlackLivesMatter: Documenting a Digital Protest Movement<http://connect.ala.org/node/249294>": Sunday, June 26 from 1:00-2:30 in Orange County Convention Center, Room W203 Digital Preservation Interest Group Co-Chairs: Frances Harrell (Co-Chair, September 30, 2014, to June 30, 2016) Preservation Specialist Northeast Document Conservation Center Chad Garrett (Co-Chair, July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2017) Director of Technology and Digital Initiatives Collections and Archives University of Arkansas at Little Rock ------------------------------ End of Tsig Digest, Vol 50, Issue 19 ************************************ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. 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