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ALCTS 50th Anniversary celebration web site: events at ALA's Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., June '07
ALCTS @ Annual
Open House Event
Friday, June 22, 7 to 9pm
Visit the ALCTS Booth #4147
Learn about ALCTS activities and opportunities. Pick up buttons, ribbons, and other give aways. Plus register for the daily raffles.
$50 for 50 years
| Fri 6.22 | Sat 6.23 | Sun 6.24 | Mon 6.25 |
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7 to 9 pm |
9am Exhibit Booth Opens: 1pm Exhibit Booth |
9am Exhibit Booth 12:15 Cake cutting for ALCTS 50th Anniversary @ ALA Pavilion (#2525) 1pm Exhibit Booth 4-5:30pm Awards Ceremony 5:30-7pm Member Reception |
9am no booth event--attend ALCTS President's Program Peter Morville, speaker sponsored by Elsevier 1pm ALCTS Authors: book signings ALCTS Forums TUESDAY Booth Session 9am-12pm |
ALCTS Exhibit Booth: Special Anniversary Events
Booth #4147
Celebration events will take place in the ALCTS booth. Watch this site for a schedule of book signings, author appearances, ALCTS award winners and ALCTS "all-stars."
| Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | |
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| 9 to 1 | Lead off with Leadership | Learning Continues: education and programs 12:15pm Celebrate the Anniversary at the ALA Pavilion |
Come to the President's Program 10:30-noon | Tech Services Hot Topics |
| 1 to 5 | Write On: Authors and Publishing | ALCTS Award Winners | Author book signings |
Your ALCTS Experience: An Open House
Friday 7-9 pm
Washington Conv. Ctr
Room 151A
This gathering will focus on taking a fresh approach to ALCTS, no matter what your perspective:
- conference newbies and other guests can learn about the opportunities ALCTS offers
- newer members who are not yet active can meet active members and learn where help is needed
- long-time, active members can interact with new faces and get new ideas
ALCTS Preconferences
Thursday & Friday, June 21 & 22 • all day;
Sponsored by ALCTS/CCS and the PCC
Comprehensive Series Training
This two-day preconference will present authoritative, standardized training in the decisions associated with series including all aspects of series use, both in the bibliographic record and in authority records. Lectures, discussion, and hands-on exercises will cover the need for control of series headings, treatment options, how to read the authority record, how to record series in bibliographic records, basic authority control workflow, and creating and maintaining series authority records.
Thursday & Friday, June 21 & 22 • all day
Basic Library of Congress Classification
Over two days, this preconference will present authoritative, standardized training in the principles of and practices of Library of Congress Classification (LCC) including background on the development and structure of LCC and on the elements that make up a call number, as well as guidance in the use of essential tools. Much of the workshop focuses on application of LCC in areas that would be most often used by generalists, including a special focus on schedules H, N, and P. The workshop concludes with a session on local decisions and on proposing new numbers through SACO.
Friday, June 22 • all day
What They Don’t Teach in Library School:
Competencies, Education, and Employer Expectations for a Career in Cataloging
Focusing on the disconnect between what you learn in library school and the reality of working in the field of cataloging, the panel members of this session will share their professional viewpoints and personal experiences related to the changing technical skills, education requirements, cataloging and bibliographic access competencies and employers’ expectations for catalog librarians in the 21st century.
Friday, June 22 • Morning
Managing the Multigenerational Workplace: Practical Techniques
Presentations and small-group brainstorming sessions will provide attendees with tips and techniques for enhancing intergenerational relationships in the library workplace the opportunity to discuss real-life scenarios and solutions applicable to unique workplaces. The future of libraries depends on “people” knowledge. Success depends on library workers and leaders having a people-savvy vision that nurtures collaboration and communication. This session building on the well-attended “Managing Across the Generations” program at ALA Annual 2005.
Friday, June 22 • afternoon
Workflow Analysis, Redesign, and Implementation: Integrating Electronic Resources
The proliferation of electronic content has created complex workflows that often cross organizations and involve individuals with a variety of skills and responsibilities. A systematically implemented workflow analysis and redesign can benefit any institution. Attendees willl learn about tools that have been proven to create dynamic, flexible workflows that save money, optimize productivity, and enhance access.
ALCTS Programs
Monday, June 25 • 10:30am
Renaissance
Grand Ballroom South
ALCTS President’s Program.
ambient Findability: Elegant Hacks for Our Future
A talk by Peter Morville. Morville is the author of Ambient Findability, O'Reilly, 2005, and co-author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites, O’Reilly, 2002 (2nd ed.). Morville is president and founder of Semantic Studios, an information architecture, user experience, and “findability” consultancy. He is a graduate of University of Michigan's School of Information, where he is an adjunct faculty member.
Bringing Order to Chaos: Managing Metadata for Digital Collections
Digital collections are increasingly sophisticated and complex. As more libraries build and host local digital collections, they face new challenges in managing these collections. One of the keys to building effective digital collections is quality metadata. This program will discuss how metadata is used to organize, manage, and provide access to modern digital collections. Metadata for bibliographic description will be discussed as well as emerging areas such as metadata for technical description, digital rights management, and preservation. The focus will be on practical issues surrounding the day-to-day management of digital collections in libraries.
Mentoring for Success: You Can Do It. ALCTS Can Help
Most library mentoring programs have more mentees than mentors. How best to meet this need? This program will show that you already have many of the skills, knowledge, and experience to be a mentor. Gain confidence to share your knowledge with others in a mentor-mentee relationship. Find out about the roles of mentors and mentees, characteristics of a good mentor, elements of a successful mentoring program, and how to begin mentoring in your own life.
The Future of MARC: An Empirical Approach
The program will provide a venue for reporting the results of a major research study on MARC, the MARC Content Designation Project, and an opportunity to discuss future directions for cataloging practices and machine-readable catalog records in the context of FRBR, RDA, and XML.
New Tools for Old Problems
Twenty-first century tools for twentieth century problems. Social software such as wikis, on the user/public services side of libraries, but we see them as a solution for some of the problems haunting acquisitions/technical services documentation of processes and procedures, using a wiki to record trouble-shooting electronic products, new book lists by RSS feed and more would be discussed.
Why Can’t Johnnie and Jane Get Published, Part 3: Research Survey Methods
In Part 3 of this popular series, which informs librarians how to get published, Johnnie and Jane (librarians) learn how to introduce the basics of survey methodology into their research. Led by a panel of experts, this program will provide an overview of the basic steps of survey research, show how to incorporate sampling into a library environment, demonstrate different types of sampling methods, present ways to analyze survey data, and, most importantly, reveal how to get the research findings published in a referred journal. The panel will include experts of survey methodology, editors of serials devoted to librarianship, and well-known authors who have incorporated survey research into their published articles. This program will be interactive. Similar to pass sessions, participants will have the opportunity to interact with the panel of experts and other members of the audience through group discussions, presentation of group discussions to the audience, and Questions & Answers sessions.
Cataloging Correctly for Kids: AV, E-Books, and More!
Learn how to handle the more difficult children’s items to catalog, such as DVDs, electronic books, and multi-part kits. Experts will cover both descriptive and subject cataloging of these materials. They will also address how to assign uniform titles, how to trace series statements, and when to create a new record. Subject cataloging will include the use of Juvenile fiction, Juvenile drama, and Juvenile literature as well as the annotated card program headings, character names, and genre headings. Descriptive cataloging will include use of notes, how to write a summary, what to do with accompanying materials, when to establish headings.
New Developments in Form/Genre Access
Many Library of Congress Subject Headings represent what materials are rather than what they are about, especially in the areas of literature, film, and music. Authority records for form/genre terms and use of the MARC 21 655 field will provide new opportunities for access to form headings in the library catalog. This program will highlight the first phase of implementation for music headings and explore implications for indexing.
Collecting for Institutional Repositories: All the News That’s Fit to Keep
So you have an institutional repository (IR)? Chances are your administration is excited; the publicity, marketing and development opportunities are apparent. But what should be deposited in an IR? Who should be soliciting and submitting items? How will you address issues of copyright and digital rights management? At this panel presentation discussion, you will hear from folks who have tackled these issues as they develop and evolve their collection policies and procedures for IR management.
Digital Asset Management: Implications for Preservation
Numerous issues are implied when an institution begins a digital preservation reformatting program. This session will convey what those issues are and how colleagues are addressing them. In particular, it will examine selection of materials, program infrastructure, reformatting quality guidelines, and innovative approaches to archiving digital masters, Our past practices addressed preservation concerns of analog materials well into their lifespan, In this digital age, however, we must address preservation concerns of digital materials upfront.
Saving Sound, Part 3: Audio Digitization and Preservation
This program, the third in a series attended by PARS members and other librarians responsible for audio collections, will focus on the use of new technology for audio preservation. The first speaker will cover digitization of audio materials, the second will discuss funding opportunities for audio digitization, and the final speakers play the roles of an audio preservation/digitization vendor and a client, and review key points from all three years of programs.
Two Thumbs Up! A Preservation Film Festival
New and classic films about library and archival preservation. Films will present preservation concerns, potential solutions and most importantly raise awareness about the importance of preserving collections.
Making E-Resource Infrastructure Work: Effective Metadata Exchange & Exposure
In a few very short years, we have built and now rely on an electronic resources access infrastructure largely based on the invention of the open URL, digital object identifiers, and data harvesting. This infrastructure is at the same time both robust and fragile, and is dependant on the cooperation of many players to make it work. This program will be a panel forum with representation from A&I producers (such as NLM or OVID), publishers or publishers’ platforms (such as Wiley or MetaPress), system providers (such as Ex Libris or Innovative), web search engines (such as Google), and librarians. This may include as many as 5 panelists, depending on availability, to help diversify the viewpoints presented.
Reflections on Cataloging Leadership
With the graying of the profession and looming retirements of baby-boomers, a new generation of cataloging leaders will be needed. How should we be mentoring potential leaders? What development paths could younger librarians follow to become the next generation of leaders? The speakers will reflect on their career paths, on leaders who influenced them, on their involvement in the Cataloging and Classification Section, and on how their experience might guide other librarians.