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Adrienne Aluzzo | 3 Feb 20:06
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ALA Midwinter Cataloging Norms Interest Group presentations available


Three presentations from the Midwinter ALCTS CCS Cataloging Norms Interest
Group are now available at the following sites:  

 
<http://presentations.ala.org/index.php?title=Saturday%2C_January_24#ALCTS_C
ataloging_Norms_Interest_Group>
http://presentations.ala.org/index.php?title=Saturday%2C_January_24#ALCTS_Ca
taloging_Norms_Interest_Group and
<http://wikis.ala.org/midwinter2009/index.php/ALCTS#ALCTS_CCS_Cataloging_Nor
ms_Interest_Group>
http://wikis.ala.org/midwinter2009/index.php/ALCTS#ALCTS_CCS_Cataloging_Norm
s_Interest_Group

   Title: Metadata in ARL Libraries (20 minutes)

   Presenter:  Jin Ma, Catalog/Metadata Librarian, Newman Library, Baruch
College, The City University of New York

   Title: How to improve interoperability of Unique Metadata Fields for
Special Collections (20 minutes)

   Presenters:  Myung-Ja Han, Metadata Librarian, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign and Christine Cho, MSLIS, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign

   Title: FRBRizing Legacy Data: Issues and Challenges (20 minutes)

   Presenters:  Yin Zhang, Associate Professor, School of Library and
Information Science, Kent State University; Athena Salaba, Assistant
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Kemp, Rebecca | 4 Feb 15:20
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Midwinter presentations available on ALA wikis: ALCTS Continuing Resources Section College & Research Libraries Interest Group

*Cross-posted*

The ALA Midwinter presentations from ALCTS CRS College & Research Libraries Interest Group
are now available here:

http://wikis.ala.org/midwinter2009/index.php/Interest_Groups#CRS_College_and_Research_Libraries_Interest_Group
(or http://tinyurl.com/aosoex)

And http://wikis.ala.org/midwinter2009/index.php/ALCTS#ALCTS_Continuing_Resources_Section_College_and_Research_Libraries_Interest_Group
(or http://tinyurl.com/bzwmop)

Presentations:

1.) Peter McCracken (Co-founder & Director of Research, Serials Solutions): A KBART Update - Improving
Patrons' Access to Electronic Resources.

2.) Beth R. Bernhardt (Electronic Resources Librarian, University of North Carolina Greensboro):
Dealing with Free E-Journals: Are they worth the effort?

3.) Nicole E. Engard (Open Source Evangelist, LibLime): Serials Management in KOHA's open source library software.

Thanks to the presenters and the attendees for a great session!

--Britta and Rebecca

Britta Santamauro, Chair, CRS C&RL IG
Co-Director of Library Services
Chase Collegiate School
Waterbury, CT 06708
bsantamauro <at> chasemail.org
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Qiang Jin | 5 Feb 17:34
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Re: Volunteer for ALCTS Committees!

Interested in serving on an ALCTS Division or Section Committee?

Concerned that limited funding may make it impossible for you to attend conferences?

Don’t worry. Volunteer anyway!

Keep in mind that many committees now do much of their work between conferences by e-mail and phone calls.
There are also some committees (such as award juries) that don’t meet at conference at all. And we do have
virtual members on committees. The ALCTS appointing officers are committed to working with volunteers
to find an appropriate spot for you. Just let us know your circumstances when you fill out the volunteer form.

Additional hints: Don’t select all committees. Tell us the top 3 or 4 you are interested in. And tell us as
much about yourself in terms of experiences and interests. We don’t know all of you personally at this
point and the information will help us determine a good fit.

Don’t forget, Volunteer Forms are due by March 1 to assure consideration.
< http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/mgrps/howto/volunteerform.cfm>

ALCTS Appointing Officers:
ALCTS – Mary Case (marycase <at> uic.edu)
AS (Acquisitions) – Katharine Farrell (kfarrell <at> princeton.edu)
CCS (Cataloging and Classification) – Qiang Jin (qiangjin <at> illinois.edu)
CRG (Council of Regional Groups) – Susan Mueller (smueller <at> uidaho.edu)
CRS (Continuing Resources) – Connie Foster (connie.foster <at> wku.edu)
CMDS (Collection Management and Development) – Kathy Tezla (ktezla <at> carleton.edu)
PARS (Preservation and Reformatting) – Karen Brown (kebrown <at> uamail.albany.edu)

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Qiang Jin
Senior Coordinating Cataloger
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Weinheimer Jim | 6 Feb 14:10

New Extend Search Option

All,

I thought others may be interested in some of the new functions of my catalog here at the American University
of Rome. Actually, it's only the interface that has changed, but I think it is much improved. It is based on
Koha 2.2.7 with several changes.

Go to: http://www.galileo.aur.it/cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl
and here you can search the catalog, plus you can see many other tools I have created. But, if you search
something, e.g. 
http://www.galileo.aur.it/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=2507

You can now select text from the record and use it to search other databases. Select the text, and a box pops up
that you can click on. Continue from there and I think it's fairly self-explanatory. There are also many
help links available. 

My earlier version of this functioned but was much more complex. This simplifies the "information
architecture" tremendously. 

I am still writing some help screens. And an overview of the tool is in my Wiki at: http://aurlibrary.wetpaint.com/page/Extending+the+Search?t=anon

Regards,
James Weinheimer
Director of Library and Information Services
The American University of Rome
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Ken Chad | 6 Feb 15:29
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Open Source in Libraries: Breaking the Barriers: conference in London in May

The full press release is on my website www.kenchadconsulting.com

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NEWS RELEASE: 3rd February 2009

‘Breaking the Barriers’.  Europe’s first conference on Open Source Software (OSS) solutions for
libraries. 18th May 2009. London

Ken Chad Consulting and PTFS Europe have partnered to present this ground breaking event in London on 18th
May 2009. Charles Leadbeater will present the keynote.

Open source software is firmly established in many markets and is rapidly gaining ground in libraries. 
Nevertheless misunderstandings abound about the nature and costs of Open Source Software (OSS)
solutions and how they can be best deployed. Open Source Library Management Systems are winning major
customers in Public, Further and Higher Education, Government and other libraries worldwide. However
in some countries such as the UK progress has been slow. This conference will enable senior staff working
in and for libraries to understand the wider context of OSS and its relevance and applicability to
libraries. There will be practical advice from people who have deployed major OSS solutions in libraries.

The conference keynote speaker will be Charles Leadbeater. Charles is a leading authority on innovation
and creativity. He has advised companies, cities and governments around the world on innovation
strategy and drawn on that experience in writing his 2008 book ‘We-think: the power of mass
creativity’, which charts the rise of mass, participative approaches to innovation from science and
open source software, to computer games and political campaigning. In 2005 Charles was ranked by
Accenture, the management consultancy, as one of the top management thinkers in the world. 

The conference will be held at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in London on Monday 18th May
2009. Registration will open in March. If you would like further information contact either.

Ken Chad, Ken Chad Consulting Ltd
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Shirley Lincicum | 10 Feb 21:11
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Does cataloging have value?

I just got out of a really frustrating meeting with the director of my
library. I'm left wondering, does anybody out there (other than
catalogers) value anything that catalogers do? Or are catalogers the
main thing holding libraries back in this day and age?

Thanks,

Shirley
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Pile, Joy | 10 Feb 21:17
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Re: Does cataloging have value?

Yes it still has value. In the digital age, well crafted metadata enables search engines to find items.
Traditional cataloging is using a set of rules to apply a standardized set of metadata so that people
looking fo a specific item, or information about a particular topic can find it.

  Joy Pile
  Reference and Instruction Librarian for Foreign Languages and Music
  110 Storrs Ave.
  Middlebury College
  Middlebury, VT 05753

  pile <at> middlebury.edu
  tel. 802-443-5140
  fax  802-443-2332

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Subject: [NGC4LIB] Does cataloging have value?

I just got out of a really frustrating meeting with the director of my
library. I'm left wondering, does anybody out there (other than
catalogers) value anything that catalogers do? Or are catalogers the
main thing holding libraries back in this day and age?

Thanks,

Shirley
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Tim Spalding | 10 Feb 21:18

Re: Does cataloging have value?

I value them a lot. They strike me as the one necessary function of a
library, and, at best, something of a force-multiplier for everything
else the library does. I also think they—or more properly the tools
and technologies of their profession—are holding libraries back.

Can you go into any more detail?

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Shirley Lincicum
<shirley.lincicum <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> I just got out of a really frustrating meeting with the director of my
> library. I'm left wondering, does anybody out there (other than
> catalogers) value anything that catalogers do? Or are catalogers the
> main thing holding libraries back in this day and age?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shirley
>

--

-- 
Check out my library at http://www.librarything.com/profile/timspalding
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Sharon Foster | 10 Feb 21:22
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Re: Does cataloging have value?

Yes. No.

Speaking as someone who works part-time at a reference desk, where
most of the inquiries start, "I can't find this book....." I do value
what catalogers do. I do wish that the location information for a
particular book could be more fine-grained. We have separate areas for
New Fiction, New Non-Fiction, and New Biographies, but they're not
listed that way. I don't think that's a cataloging problem as much as
it is the fact that no one wants to have to update the records when
new books get moved to the main collection.

On a larger scale, the issues of whether and how to open up the
library catalog to the rest of the Web is not just up to the
catalogers.

Sharon M. Foster, 91.7% Librarian
Speaker-to-Computers
http://www.vsa-software.com/mlsportfolio/

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Shirley Lincicum
<shirley.lincicum <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> I just got out of a really frustrating meeting with the director of my
> library. I'm left wondering, does anybody out there (other than
> catalogers) value anything that catalogers do? Or are catalogers the
> main thing holding libraries back in this day and age?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shirley
>
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Jonathan Rochkind | 10 Feb 21:28
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Re: Does cataloging have value?

In my opinion. Cataloging has a lot of value -- but the WAY cataloging 
is done NOW needs to be modified to get better cost benefit. But getting 
rid of human metadata control in libraries would be a shame -- although 
it would be a lot easier than what really needs to be done, which is 
changing the way cataloging is done.

Shirley Lincicum wrote:
> I just got out of a really frustrating meeting with the director of my
> library. I'm left wondering, does anybody out there (other than
> catalogers) value anything that catalogers do? Or are catalogers the
> main thing holding libraries back in this day and age?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shirley
>
>
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