[Yulcat-l] ALA Midwinter PCC Participants' Meeting

[Steven Arakawa]

In case you didn't get this from the PCC or AUTOCAT lists:

Date:         Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:04:54 -0600
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         Antony Robert David Franks <afra at loc.gov>
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From: Antony Robert David Franks <afra at loc.gov>
Subject: ALA MidWinter: PCC Participants' Meeting
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The PCC Participants' Meeting at ALA--Midwinter will be Sunday, 20 January
2006, 4:00--6:00 pm in the Gonzales Convention Center, 217B

Our program speaker, Karen Calhoun, AUL for Technical Services at Cornell
University Library, will speak on the future of catalogers, cataloging,
metadata, and metadata specialists.  Catalog librarians have the potential
to leverage their expertise to make enormous contributions to their
communities and to next-generation information discovery and delivery
systems, provided they focus on the needs that catalog librarians meet,
rather than the methods they use.

Library catalogers have justifiably taken pride in their role as the
creators of tools that connect their communities to the information they
need, thus contributing significantly to the saving of time and the
progress of science.  Yet in the increasingly interconnected world of the
Web, readers behave more and more self-sufficiently, choosing simple but
powerful search services like Google and moving well beyond library
catalogs in their pursuit of information. How can catalogers continue to
contribute to saving readers' time and advancing the state of knowledge in
this kind of world?

Antony Robert David Franks <afra at loc.gov>

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