Subject: ALCTS e-forum: Beyond 2010 the Year of Cataloging Research
From: "Spidal, Debra" <dspidal_at_wsu.edu>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 08:46:57 -0800
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Beyond 2010 the Year of Cataloging Research
March 9-10, 2011
Hosted by Sherab Chen and Susan Massey
Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It’s free and open to everyone!
Registration information is at the end of the message.
Each day, sessions begin and end at:
* Pacific: 7am – 3pm
* Mountain: 8am – 4pm
* Central: 9am – 5pm
* Eastern: 10am – 6pm
Based on a motion initiated by the Implementation Group on the Library
of Congress Working Group Report, at ALA Midwinter 2010 the ALA and
ALCTS Boards of Directors passed a resolution designating 2010 as the
Year of Cataloging Research. The Report of the LC Working Group on the
Future of Bibliographic Control addressed several goals, including “Work
to develop a stronger, more rigorous culture of formal evaluation,
critique and validation, and build a cumulative research agenda and
evidence base. Encourage, highlight, reward and share best research
practice and results.” Two goals remain unmet at the end of 2010: to
build a cumulative research agenda and a solid evidence base to support
decisions for future cataloging.
How important is cataloging and classification research to your everyday
technical services decision-making? Do you find the library literature
useful in informing your policies and procedures? Are you producing
statistical studies that might help others in the field? How do you
disseminate your results? Do you find reviews of the literature helpful?
Do you have suggestions for future directions in cataloging research? Is
it time to develop formal dissemination forums for metadata research
that are separate from MARC cataloging?
Every once in a while it is useful to step back and reassess the
direction of our profession and its literature. These are the kinds of
questions we will consider and discuss in this e-forum. Bring your ideas
and share your thoughts and questions with us on future directions for
cataloging research.
Sherab Chen is currently the coordinator librarian for non-Roman
cataloging activities at the Ohio State University Libraries, Sherab
started his library career when he joined the School of Library and
Information Science program at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and
received his MLS there in 2004. He worked as the Program Assistant of
Library Technical Services, at the Center for Instructional Materials
and Computing, and as a part time East Asian language cataloger at the
Cataloging Department. He was also in a Ph.D. program in the track of
Religions of Asia, double majored with his MLS studies, and his
specialty is Tibetan Buddhist Studies. As a faculty librarian at Ohio
State, Sherab has taught library courses and is a joint faculty member
at the East Asian Studies Center. Sherab is chair of the ALCTS
Cataloging & Classification Research Interest Group.
Susan A. Massey is currently the Head of Cataloging at the University of
North Florida in Jacksonville. Susan earned her MLIS at Louisiana State
University in 1991and has worked in cataloging departments at the
Historic New Orleans Collection, the University of Alabama, Florida
Institute of Technology, Brevard Community College, and the University
of Texas at San Antonio. She frequently does research for day to day
decision-making and has published some of her findings in the library
literature. She also holds a Master of Divinity degree from New Orleans
Baptist Theological Seminary. Susan is the vice-chair of the ALCTS
Cataloging & Classification Research Interest Group.
*What is an e-forum?*
An ALCTS e-forum provides an opportunity for librarians to discuss
matters of interest, led by a moderator, through the e-forum discussion
list. The e-forum discussion list works like an email listserv: register
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list. Participation is free and open to anyone.
Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee
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