Subject: ALCTS E-Forum: Training for Resource Description and Access
From: ALCTS-CE Announce <alcts.ce.announce_at_gmail.com>
Date: 5/6/2013 5:41 AM
Training for Resource Description and Access
May 14-15, 2013
Hosted by Jennifer Erica Sweda and Sylva D. Hall-Ellis
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, discussion begins and ends at:
Pacific: 7am – 3pm
Mountain: 8am – 4pm
Central: 9am – 5pm
Eastern: 10am – 6pm
Description
Catalogers and technical services departments are now fully immersed in
training for Resource Description and Access. While some libraries may
have resources to bring in external trainers, many organizations are
taking on the training challenge in-house. Do you have the necessary
training skills and creative techniques to overcome challenges related
to your organization’s training and preparation for RDA? Come and share
your experiences and swap ideas with others managing or participating in
their organization’s RDA training efforts.
The e-forum will cover the training needs for those performing original
and copy cataloging, as well as those who handle and create records
outside of cataloging departments. Topics will include: deciding which
staff positions need what level of RDA training, creating/customizing
training materials and documentation, identifying in-house trainers,
balancing strain on personnel (both in terms of time and expertise), and
evaluating results.
We intend for this to be a productive dialog involving catalogers at all
levels, technical services librarians, and managers, to help us learn
how to teach ourselves and our staff how to create and incorporate the
increasing number of RDA records that populate national and local databases.
Jennifer Erica Sweda, MS, LIS (UIUC); MLA (UPenn), has been Social
Sciences Cataloging Librarian for the University of Pennsylvania
Libraries (Philadelphia, Pa.), for almost 20 years. She contributes
bibliographic (BIBCO) and name/subject authority (NACO/SACO) records
through LC’s Program for Cooperative Cataloging, and is a trainer for
LC’s Basic Subject Cataloging Using Library of Congress Subject Headings
workshop. She has presented research at the American Library Association
and Association for Information Science and Technology conferences, and
has contributed an article to Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front
(ed. K.R. Roberto). Her professional interests have grown to include
teaching and training (both inside and outside of libraries) and she is
currently coordinating Penn Libraries’ RDA training efforts.
Dr. Sylvia D. Hall-Ellis, MLS (North Texas), PhD (Pittsburgh) has been
teaching cataloging for more than 15 years. A member of professional
organizations and listed in several editions of regional and national
bibliographic volumes, she is active in ALCTS and served as a voting
member of CC:DA for four years. Her research focus is competencies and
technical skills for catalogers. She has published numerous technical
reports, articles, and five monographs and has conducted major
field-based research studies. She has more than 40 years of experience
working in libraries as an administrator, development officer and
project manager. Dr. Hall-Ellis is the Senior Grants Administrator for
the Morgridge College of Education at the University of Denver.
*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
your email address with the list, and then you will receive messages and
communicate with other participants through an email discussion. Most
e-forums last two to three days. Registration is necessary to
participate, but it's free. See a list of upcoming e-forums at:
http://bit.ly/upcomingeforum.
*To register:*
Instructions for registration are available at:
http://bit.ly/eforuminfo. Once you have registered for one e-forum, you
do not need to register again, unless you choose to leave the email
list. Participation is free and open to anyone.
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