ALCTS MidWinter Symposium: The Administrator, RDA and the Future Catalog:
Issues, Viewpoints, Alternatives
*Apologies for multiple/cross postings*
ALCTS offers exciting Midwinter symposium for San Diego
Chicago – Dynamite topics and great speakers come together in San Diego for an
outstanding symposia from the Association for Library Collections & Technical
Services. On Thursday, you’ll hear about RDA, its impact on libraries and how
it might affect the future catalog. Join your colleagues for this exciting and
timely symposium from ALCTS on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011 just before the ALA
Midwinter Meeting in San Diego.
The Administrator, RDA and the Future Catalog: Issues, Viewpoints, Alternatives
Thursday, January 6, 2011
8:30am-5:00pm
RDA is on the horizon. How will you implement it? What are the issues you need
to pay attention to? Staffing? Budget? The catalog itself? Will RDA influence
the future catalog? What might the future catalog be? This one day symposium
examines the issues surrounding implementation of RDA and the future catalog. If
you’re a director, assistant director or department head or anyone interested in
the impact of RDA, you don’t want to miss this discussion.
Speakers include
Tim Strawn, Director, Information Resources & Archives, California Polytechnic
State University -San Luis Obispo; Olivia Madison, Dean of the Library, Iowa
State University; Linda Barnhart, Head of Metadata Services, University of
California – San Diego;
Molly Tamarkin, Associate University Librarian for Information Technology, Duke
University;
Tim Bucknall, Assistant Dean for Electronic Resources and Information
Technology, University of North Carolina – Greensboro; and
Chris Cole, Associate Director for Technical Services, National Agricultural Library
To attend, registration is $219 for ALCTS members, $269 for ALA members, $319
for non-members, and $99 for students and retired members. Registration
information for the ALCTS Midwinter symposia can be found on the ALA Midwinter
Meeting page.
http://www.ala.org/ala/conferencesevents/upcoming/midwinter/meetings/index.cfm#alcts
Please note that you do not have to register for ALA Midwinter in order to
attend the symposium.
For more information consult the events page on the ALCTS web site at
www.ala.org/alcts or contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager, at jreese_at_ala.org.
Posted on behalf of ALCTS.
Received on Mon Sep 20 2010 - 03:06:32 EDT