Subject: Announcing ALCTS Webinars
From: pbluh_at_umaryland.edu
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:28:08 -0500 (EST)
ALCTS webinars coming soon:
Cataloging Icky Things, or, If you can catalog a book, you can catalog
anything
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 starting at 2pm Eastern, 1pm Central, noon
Mountain, and 11am Pacific time (session to last 1 hour)
Do you have “icky stuff” like kits, DVDs and models in a backroom that
you want to add to your collection but you can’t find a MARC record for
it? Has it been years since you have had to catalog anything and you
think you have forgotten how? Did you finish your cataloging class in
library school thinking you would never have to do that again but now
you have to? Well this webinar can help!
Starting with a quick review of how to catalog a book, this webinar will
then move to cataloging CDs and kits, DVDs and Playaways, and then
whatever else you may have hidden in that backroom. You will get tips
and cheats that will allow you to create a full-level MARC record so
that you can move things out of that backroom and into your collection.
Pamela J. Newberg is an Assistant Professor and Manager of Resource
Processing and Description (otherwise known as Cataloging) at the
University of Northern Colorado . In her previous life, Pam was the
Manager of the Cataloging Department for Follett Library Resources in
McHenry, Illinois . Pam holds a trio of higher education degrees,
including a MLS from Dominican University , a MM from DePaul University
and a MAT from National-Louis University . Pam has a unique array of
experience having worked as a cataloger, children’s librarian,
automation librarian and teacher in a number of settings including
school, public, academic and special libraries. Pam has been involved
with the Cataloging of Children’s Materials Committee of ALCTS for the
past twelve years as a vendor liaison, member, and, for 2008-2010, as chair.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010 starting at 2pm Eastern, 1pm Central, noon
Mountain, and 11am Pacific time (session to last one hour)
Selecting an IR Platform: Options, Approaches, and Implications,
presented by Bob Gerrity, Associate University Librarian for Systems and
Information Technology for the Boston College Libraries
This webinar will explore the basics of determining the "right" IR
platform for your institution.
* benefits and drawbacks of open-source vs. commercial platforms and
hosted vs local installations
* determining what level of local technical expertise is require for a
successful IR implementation
* understanding functional requirements of a platform.
The webinar is not intended to provide detailed information about any
specific IR platform, but rather to provide useful context for
evaluating and selecting a platform that will work.
Bob Gerrity has overseen the introduction of several new technologies to
the BC Libraries over the past ten years, including OpenURL-based
reference linking, federated searching, and the Libraries'
eScholarship_at_BC digital repository. Gerrity received his undergraduate
degree from Boston University . He holds a Master of Library and
Information Science from the State University of New York at Albany .
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010 starting at 2pm Eastern, 1pm Central, noon
Mountain, and 11am Pacific time (session to last 1 hour)
Making the Most of Your Descriptive Metadata: Planning, Creating, and
Re-using, presented by Marisa Ramirez and Nancy Fallgren
Metadata is essential for organizing, searching, and managing
information resources, particularly as libraries expand their efforts in
making their collections available on the web. Libraries are populating
institutional repositories with a myriad of resources, including
digitized special collections materials, finding aids, electronic
theses, peer-reviewed faculty work and other research, scholarship and
creative outputs. But what are libraries doing about the descriptive
metadata that allows users to search, find, and select these resources
in their repositories? What redundancies are created when libraries
engage in collecting, enhancing, or redistributing metadata in siloed
systems? Can redundant metadata generation efforts be streamlined? We
will discuss some current descriptive metadata practices in
institutional repositories, identify areas where redundant efforts may
occur, and discuss strategies to improve management, collection, and
re-use of descriptive metadata.
Marisa Ramirez is the Digital Repository Librarian, California
Polytechnic State University and Nancy Fallgren is the Metadata
Specialist Librarian at the National Library of Medicine. (Disclaimer:
This webinar was prepared in part by Nancy Fallgren in her private
capacity. The views expressed do not represent the view of or
endorsement by the United States Government or the National Library of
Medicine.)
Marisa is primarily responsible for the development and implementation
of the DigitalCommons_at_CalPoly, a digital repository that provides online
open access to scholarship and research produced by Cal Poly faculty and
students. She is collaborating with library and academic departments
across campus to bring new visibility to Cal Poly scholarly work. Her
current research interests include digital preservation and curation,
the role of technology in social networking exchanges, and the adoption
and use cycles of new information technologies.
Prior to joining Cal Poly, she was the digital repository coordinator
for the Arizona Memory Project (http://azmemory.lib.az.us), a digital
library initiative based out of the Arizona State Library, Archives and
Public Records Department. In this position, she led the initiative in
developing, implementing, monitoring and promoting the library’s
institutional repository. She has also been active with digital library
projects at University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill and Smithsonian
Institution Libraries.
In June 2009 Marisa and Michael D. Miller presented the ALCTS webinar
“Generating Buy-in for your IR.”
Nancy is a member of the National Library of Medicine’s Digital
Repository Implementation Group (DRIG), which is currently involved in
testing software and workflows toward implementation of a digital
repository at NLM. Nancy develops and tests descriptive metadata
generation and modification options for the DRIG pilot projects. She
also serves on NLM’s Digital Projects Technical Group, where she works
with others to develop requirements and guidelines, including
descriptive metadata, for digital project proposals.
Prior to joining the National Library of Medicine, Nancy was a Metadata
Librarian at Johns Hopkins University ’s Milton S. Eisenhower Library.
At JHU, Nancy was instrumental in developing descriptive metadata
generation strategies and workflows for digitization projects requiring
batch ingestion to JHU’s institutional repository, JScholarship, as well
as the transformation and transfer of metadata from JScholarship to the
Library’s ILS.
After many years of experience as a para-professional cataloger, Nancy
received her MLS in 2006 from the University of Maryland , where her
studies focused on knowledge organization and structures. Nancy also
served as a writer/consultant to the Library of Congress’ Working Group
on the Future of Bibliographic Control, which produced the report “On
the Record” in 2008.
For a link to registration, for additional details, and for information
on all of ALCTS continuing education offerings, see the ALCTS home page
at http://www.ala.org/alcts
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Pamela Bluh
Associate Director for Technical
Services & Administration
Thurgood Marshall Law Library
University of Maryland
School of Law
501 West Fayette Street
Baltimore, MD 21201-1768
410-706-2736
410-706-2372 FAX
pbluh_at_umaryland.edu
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