ACQflash: ALCTS webinar: Preparing copy catalogers for RDA

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Subject:  ALCTS webinar: Preparing copy catalogers for RDA
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Apologies for duplicate postings.

 

ALCTS webinar: Preparing copy catalogers for RDA

 

Date: April 6, 2011

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11am Pacific,  noon 
Mountain, 1pm Central, and 2pm Eastern Time.

 

Description: This webinar will address the pressing issue of training 
copy cataloging and acquisitions staff in the fundamentals of RDA. It 
will familiarize technical services managers with the crucial 
differences between AACR2 and RDA and will facilitate teaching the 
basics of RDA to their staff. It will provide guidance in navigating the 
shared cataloging environments like OCLC since now RDA records will 
increasingly populate both national and local databases. Based on the 
Columbia University Libraries experience some workflow suggestions will 
be discussed.

 

Audience: This webinar will be of interest to technical services 
managers, who will need to explain the essentials of RDA to support staff

 

Presenters: Irina Kandarasheva is a Copy Cataloging Unit Librarian in 
Monographs Processing Services Division at Columbia University 
Libraries. She is a copy cataloging manager and trainer with more than 
10 years experience in the field. She holds an MA in Art History in 
addition to an MLS from Queens College.

Mark Wilson is a Precataloging Unit Librarian and Eurasian Cataloger in 
Monographs Processing Services Division at Columbia University 
Libraries. He has more than 20 years experience cataloging a variety of 
Non-Roman languages and scripts, training copy catalogers and automating 
library systems. He holds an MLS from Queens College.

 

This is the fifth is a series of five webinars on RDA. The webinars 
included in the RDA series are:

February 2, 2011 - Changes from AACR2 to RDA. Part 1: Description
February 9, 2011 - Changes from AACR2 to RDA. Part 2: Access Points
March 2, 2011 - RDA and Serials Catalogers: Will Our Work Really Change?

March 16, 2011 - Linked library data: tuning library metadata for the 
Semantic Web

April 6, 2011 - Preparing copy catalogers for RDA

 

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To Register, complete the online registration form at 
http://www.ala.org/ala/onlinelearning/reg/webinar.cfm for the session 
you would like to attend.

 

Fees for individual webinars:

Group Rates - ALCTS Members & Non-Members: $99

Individuals - ALCTS Members: $39; Non-Members: $49

Participants outside the United States may register at the ALCTS member 
rate.

 

Pricing for RDA Series: (All 5 webinars)
Group Rates - ALCTS Members & Non-Members: $346
Individuals - ALCTS members: $120; Non-members: $160

Participants outside the United States may register at the ALCTS member 
rate.

 

ALCTS webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the 
recording shortly following the live event.

 

For questions about registration, contact Tom Ferren, ALA Senior 
Registration Coordinator at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4293 or 
tferren_at_ala.org. ALCTS webinar: For all other questions or comments 
related to the webinars, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at 
1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or jreese_at_ala.org.

 

Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.

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