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."
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Saturday |
Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
| 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 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
More on Peter Morville.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Commemorating the Past • Celebrating the Present • Creating the Future
