[Yulcat-l] FW: Program Announcement for ALA Annual 2008 -- ALCTS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group

[Arakawa, Steven]

ALA program of interest.

Steven Arakawa
Catalog Librarian for Training & Documentation
Catalog & Metadata Services, SML, Yale University
P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240
(203)432-8286 steven.arakawa at yale.edu

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Subject: Program Announcement for ALA Annual 2008 -- ALCTS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group

ALCTS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group
June 28, 2008, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Room Malibu, Hilton Anaheim Hotel

The meeting will begin with Jina Choi Wakimoto's (Faculty Director, Cataloging and Metadata Services Dept. University of Colorado at Boulder) "Scope of the Library Catalog in Time of Transition."
There has been a flurry of healthy discussions and debates about the future of cataloging and the catalog, from FRBR and RDA on cataloging rules (focus on content) to next-generation discovery interfaces on the catalog (focus on carrier).  A segment that is not receiving as much attention in the midst is the scope of the library catalog.  Library catalog can be viewed as the Web in the local context.  This presentation offers an opinion on the scope of the catalog in a research library, the role of the catalogers in this time of transition and some practical approaches catalogers can take to reposition the catalog.

Next, Elaine L. Westbrooks (Head of Metadata Services, Cornell University Libraries) will present "Access, Fear, and Change:  Bringing Catalogers along in the Non-MARC Metadata Arena." According to On the Record: Report of The Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, the future of cataloging will be shaped by the way in which we redefine bibliographic control and the bibliographic universe.  Redefining these critical concepts would require library administrators and catalogers to abandon the prevailing system of cataloging.  For administrators, the use of fear to instigate change (while ignoring the shortcomings of MARC encoding and the poorly constructed integrated library system) within technical services has been a widely implemented yet largely ineffective- hence a paradigm shift away from fear to use of positive incentives for change is necessary.  For the cataloger, the shift from perfecting the MARC record has taken place in many institutions however, the sense of accomplishment that could be gained from creating access and facilitating discovery require a paradigm shift that would highlight the connection between the cataloger and the end-user.  The purpose of this talk is to discuss methods by which this paradigm shift can be cultivated within research libraries to begin thinking about a new system of cataloging which can be less resource intensive and one that focuses on the user.
The final presentation will be "A California Adventure:  WorldCat Local and Next-Generation Cataloging," presented by John Riemer (Head, UCLA Library Catalogin & Metadata Center) and Linda Barnhart (Head, Metadata Services Department, UCSD Libraries). WorldCat Local implementation could bring major technological and sociological changes to cataloging work.  The University of California libraries released their union catalog on the WorldCat Local platform on May 19, 2008.  John and Linda will present some of the key lessons learned from the implementation process as well as their thoughts about how this new product moves the profession toward next-generation cataloging.

A question and answer session will follow the presentations.



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Lihong Zhu
Head, Bibliographic Control Department
Collections and Technical Services Division
Holland Library, Washington State University Libraries
P.O. Box 645610, Pullman, WA 99164-5610
E-mail: lzhu2 at wsu.edu
Phone: (509) 335-7769
Fax: (509) 335-9589


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