From:
"Spidal, Debra" <dspidal_at_wsu.edu>
*Apologies in advance for multiple postings.*
ALCTS webinar: Recommendations from the RDA Test: Where Do We Go From
Here?
Date: August 31, 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 review the findings and recommendations
concerning the implementation of RDA presented in the Report and
Recommendations of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee. Key
findings will be highlighted along with the basis for those findings.
The rationale behind the specific recommendations and timelines will be
discussed as well as what individuals and/or institutions can do to
prepare for the implementation of RDA.
Audience: Anyone wanting to learn about RDA.
Presenters: Barbara Bushman is the Assistant Head, Cataloging Section,
National Library of Medicine. Prior to coming to NLM in 2006 she held a
variety of positions at UCLA including Special Projects Cataloger at the
UCLA Law Library; Assistant Head, Catalog & Bindery Division, UCLA
Biomedical Library; and Sciences and Hebrew/Judaica Cataloger, UCLA
Cataloging & Metadata Center. Ms. Bushman serves as one of the NLM's
representatives on the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee. In addition
she is a member of the ALCTS CCS RDA Planning and Training Task Force
and previously served as the PCC liaison to the ALCTS RDA Implementation
Task Force. Ms. Bushman has previously presented on the U.S. RDA test
for the Special Libraries Association, the American Library Association,
and the Federal Library and Information Center Committee. . She received
her MLIS from UCLA.
Regina Romano Reynolds is ISSN Coordinator at the Library of Congress
and former head of the National Serials Data Program, now called the
U.S. ISSN Center. She has been trying to tame various e-serials beasts
since the late 1980's when they first began to seek ISSN. She co-chairs
an internal LC group coordinating the development of projects related to
the recommendations of LC's Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic
Control and is a member of the U.S. National Libraries RDA Test Steering
Committee. A frequent speaker at conferences and meetings held around
the world, she is the incoming co-chair of the working group which will
revise ISO 8:1977, the Presentation of Periodicals, and currently serves
on NISO's PIE-J Working Group, which is developing recommended practices
for the presentation and identification of e-journals. Reynolds was the
1999 recipient of the Ulrich's Serials Librarian Award and the 2004
winner of NASIG's Marcia Tuttle International Grant. Reynolds has an
A.M.L.S. (Beta Phi Mu) from the University of Michigan.
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session you would like to attend.
ALCTS webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the
recording shortly following the live event.
For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling
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<mailto:registration_at_ala.org>. 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
<MAILTO:jreese_at_ala.org>.
Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.
Received on Sat Aug 20 2011 - 03:02:26 EDT