Resuscitating the Catalog: Next-Generation Strategies for Keeping
the Catalog Relevant---ALA ALCTS Program:
From:"Safley, Ellen D" <safley_at_utdallas.edu>
For Immediate Release—June 2009
Resuscitating the Catalog: Next-Generation Strategies for Keeping
the Catalog Relevant
8:00 am, Monday, July 13th McCormick
Place West W-179
ALCTS CMDS
Cosponsored by RUSA RSS Catalog Use Committee and the PLA
Cataloging Needs of Public Libraries Committee
David Flaxbart, Chemistry Librarian, at UT Austin.
In 2007, the University of Texas at Austin became one of the last
ARL libraries to migrate from an aging home-grown library system
to a vendor-supplied integrated system (III Millennium). We
found there are certain benefits to bringing up the rear, and we
have been actively exploring ways to enhance the archaic vendor
interface with added features and tools that improve the user
experience and open the OPAC up to a world of content beyond
traditional library holdings, and doing so without buying
additional pieces of vendor software. This presentation will
describe some of these features and the evolutionary process that
must keep the catalog moving forward.
Renee Register, Global Product Manager for Cataloging
Partnering at OCLC.
Her presentation describes the challenges facing libraries and
the publisher supply-chain with the explosion of content and user
expectation of "get it now" and will outline the urgent need for
increased operability between publisher supply chain and library
metadata. The presentation reviews the concept, participants,
methodology and results of an OCLC pilot program called "Next
Generation Cataloging and Metadata Services" designed to further
interoperability of metadata through cross walks between MARC and
ONIX formats, metadata mining using FRBR principles and mapping
between terminologies and classification schema.
Beth Jefferson, President BiblioCommons
If we build it, will they use it? While many libraries have
begun adding "social" features to their online environments, are
they attracting active participants and fueling further
participation? In partnership with a number of libraries across
Canada, BiblioCommons has undertaken extensive research with
users (both pre-launch and post) trying to understand both
motivations to contribute in a library environment and potential
barriers. In this discussion, Beth will share key insights from
that research, and reflect on implications for user experience
design in online library environments.
Ellen Safley, Senior Associate Director at the University of
Texas at Dallas
Ellen will be moderating the session and will speak about her
experience with catalog focus groups and with developing her
library’s Encore interface.
Received on Thu Jun 18 2009 - 03:07:19 EDT