All Sessions

The PopTop Stage will focus on popular favorites including: Mystery, Romance and Story Telling. The PopTop Stage will feature readings, discussions and presentations. The PopTop Stage will be located in Exhibit Hall B of the Dallas Convention Center at the middle of the 2500 Aisle. (Schedule is subject to change.)
Each Panel will be followed by a book signing.

Don't Mess With Texas: Local authors
9:00 am -9:45 am
Rachel Brady, Robin Allen, Deborah Crombie, Laura Elvebak, moderator Harry Hunsicker

Remember the Alibi: Traditional mysteries, a roundtable chat with the Women of Jungle Red
10:00 am -10:45 am
Hank Phillippi Ryan, Lucy Burdette, Deborah Crombie and Rosemary Harris, moderator Carol Fitzgerald, www.jungleredwriters.com
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys...and P.I.s and ex-cops and reporters...
11:00 am -11:45 am
Denise Hamilton, Cara Black, Martin Limon, Laura Elvebak, Moderator: Bill Crider

Well, Slap My Knee: What's so funny about murder?
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
Joanna Slan, Rachel Brady, Maria Hudgins, Rosemary Harris, Moderator: Lucy Burdette

Brownbag Interview with Charles (Caroline) Todd with Hank Phillippi Ryan
1:00pm -1:45 pm

Don't Fence Me In: Mysteries Set in Foreign Countries
2:15 pm-3:00 pm
Cara Black, Deborah Crombie, Martin Limon,Charles (Caroline) Todd, Moderator: Maria Hudgins

Big Roundup: How to Find Out More about What's Happening in the Mystery Genre, Blogs, Websites, Conferences
3:15 pm -4:00 pm
Joanna Slan, Robin Allen, Harry Hunsicker, Denise Hamilton, Bill Crider, moderator Hank Phillippi Ryan

Join us for two fascinating presentations during the Games and Gaming Round Table's first ever forum/update.

Dave Pattern will talk about Lemon Tree (https://library.hud.ac.uk/lemontree/, http://library.hud.ac.uk/blogs/projects/lemontree/), a project to “gamify” the library experience at the University of Huddersfield (UK). The project is still in its infancy, but the aim is to make using the library fun and, by hooking into the social network of the players, to attract students who otherwise might not have engaged with the library. This session will also include findings from the Library Impact Data Project, which investigated the link between library usage and academic achievement at 8 academic universities in the UK.

ALA's National Gaming Day @ your library is a fairly new event created to promote the “educational, recreational, and social value of all types of games”. The University of North Texas Library has participated for two years and has organized their event to offer fun along with a focus on research and development opportunities available for people interested in all aspects of gaming. In this talk, Diane Robson and Bethany Ross will detail the planning and organization of NGD at an academic library.

Afterward, ALA staffer Jenny Levine will talk about changes coming to this year's NGD event.

The program will include presentations on enhancements made to catalog records at the College of New Jersey Library to improve the discovery of video materials and the impact of print withdrawal projects at Florida State University Libraries on catalog management activities. Discussion topics include the effect of patron driven acquisitions on library catalogs and quality control issues associated with vendor supplied record sets.Presentations and speakers:

• “A Little Breathing Room Please! Catalog Management Projects That Make a Difference” presented by Ruth S. Ziegler, who will cover the impact of print withdrawal projects on catalog management activities.

• “Separate, Merged, and Separate Once Again: Un-mulvering the Mulvered Records” presented by Lucas Mak, who will describe how he used XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) to automate the process of separating 7,400 single records for theses that described both the print and microform versions into separate records for each format.

• “Cooperative Quality Control for Cataloging: Initiatives in Error Handling” presented by Ian Fairclough, who will review cooperative initiatives he has undertaken with OCLC and electronic distribution lists he created to further the cooperative resolution of cataloging errors.

• “Towards Better Discovery of Video Materials” presented by Cathy Weng and Yuji Tosaka, who will illustrate how enhancements were made to catalog records to improve the discovery of video materials.

Are you ready to handle born-digital materials? We've talked about the future onslaught of these materials, and that future is now! Our speakers will present on-the-ground case studies of how two Texas institutions are dealing with the management of born-digital materials in special collections and archives. Dr. Patricia Galloway will discuss the work of graduate students in her Problems in the Permanent Retention of Electronic Records course, and talk about what skills are necessary for future digital archivists . Michele Reilly will talk about the process underway at the University of Houston to review existing workflows and develop new ones for born-digital material management. There will be time for discussion at the end of the presentations.

Patricia Galloway teaches courses on appraisal, digital archives, and museum studies at the School of Information, University of Texas-Austin. She holds PhDs in Comparative Literature and in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. From 1979 to 2000 she worked at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, where among other tasks she was the first manager of information systems and directed an NHPRC project to establish an electronic records program.

Michele Reilly earned her Masters Degree in Library Science degree from Indiana University in Bloomington (2005) with a concentration in collection development and library management. Throughout her library career she has concentrated on the preservation of digital materials, the future of digital technologies and how users are affected and interact with emerging technologies. She is the Head of Digital Services at the University of Houston Libraries.

Meeting of the ALCTS Metadata Interest Group to present issues for discussion.
This year’s meeting will feature presentations on metadata guidelines for digital video, including streaming services such as Kaltura. The exact presentation lineup is being finalized.

The PopTop Stage will focus on popular favorites including: Mystery, Romance and Story Telling. The PopTop Stage will feature readings, discussions and presentations. The PopTop Stage will be located in Exhibit Hall B of the Dallas Convention Center at the middle of the 2500 Aisle. (Schedule is subject to change.)
Each Panel will be followed by a book signing.

Historical Romance: From Dukes to Spies and Everything in Between
10:00 am – 10:45 am
Featuring: Elizabeth Essex and Lorraine Heath

From Sweet to Sexy: What’s Happening in Contemporary Romance
11:15 am – 12:00 pm
Featuring: Jane Graves, Emily March, Francis Ray, and Lori Wilde

Wild about YA Romance
12:30 pm – 1:15 pm
Featuring: Rosemary Clement-Moore, Trinity Faegen, and Rachel Hawthorne

Spotlight on Romantic Suspense
1:45 pm – 2:30 pm
Featuring: Jo Davis, Diane Kelly, and Kay Thomas

A Closer Look at Paranormal Romance
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Featuring: Shayla Black, Candace Havens, Kerrelyn Sparks, and J.D. Tyler

John Green, wildly popular among librarians, is well-known for his thoughtful, entertaining presentations. He'll address how social networking relates to literature and how librarians can reach patrons through fun and inventive social networking. An unparalleled social networker himself, Green has more than 1,125,000 Twitter followers while has vlogbrothers YouTube channel has 500,000 subscribers and almost 125 million downloads (http://youtube.com/user/vlogbrothers). It is in the Top 100 most subscribed channels of all time on YouTube and is consistently in the Top 100 most viewed daily videos. Green's appearance at Midwinter, sponsored by Penguin Young Readers, kicks off the tour for his upcoming book, The Fault in Our Stars (Dutton/January 2012), which has already received wide attention following his YouTube announcement that he would personally sign the entire first print run.

In the current economic climate, libraries must adopt cost-effective methods to facilitate access to collections. Vendor-provided records enable access to individual titles when batch-loaded into the catalog, but often have substantial quality issues. In this year’s meeting, CCRIG explores the benefits, challenges, and best practices for batch-loading vendor catalog records. Following the presentations, there will be an opportunity for audience questions and a panel discussion of issues by the presenters.

“Batchloading: Current Practices and Future Challenges: A Survey of Large Research Libraries,” presented by Rebecca L. Mugridge MacIntosh: A review of survey results showing how batchloading records for access to digital collections can impact staffing, budgets, workflow, and quality standards. The data also examines how batchloading activities are managed within libraries, how information technology issues support and/or hinder batchloading activities, and how libraries assess the effectiveness of batch loading.

“Quality Issues in Vendor-provided Records for E-books,” presented by Stacie Traill and Chew Chiat Naun: The University of Minnesota Libraries documented and analyzed types of errors in vendor-supplied batchloaded records for electronic book collections. This presentation describes specific error types detected and the methods developed for identifying and correcting errors, including use of the MARCEdit tool. It also discusses unresolved issues in quality control for batchloaded records, and proposes some potential larger-scale solutions.

“Fast, but Accurate? Pitfalls of Batch Metadata Editing,” presented by Kathryn Lybarger: A discussion of problems and inconsistencies in MARC records for electronic resource packages that may be unexpected and difficult to reconcile using batch processes. Includes tips on how to process record batches to help maintain an accurate catalog, while taking advantage of the efficiency enabled by batch editing.

We're hoping for a visit from Jon Voss, founder and organizer of the LOD-LAM movement, for a presentation on the current state of LOD-LAM.

This will be followed on by other updates and reports on Linked Data activities. We can also make time for a limited number of lightning talk style presentations of no longer than 5 minutes if you have projects or topics that you'd like to share. If you'd like to give a brief talk, please contact the interest group chairs. The remainder of the morning will be a business meeting, including updates from sub-groups formed at Annual in New Orleans, and planning for the Annaheim Preconference.

Meet with the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee to learn how you can turn your presentation or publication into a webinar.

You are invited to participate in a discussion of tools and techniques utilized to evaluate library collections.
There will be two presentations and plenty of time for questions and discussion.

Chan Li will describe a new value-based strategy used by the California Digital Library for the UC Libraries which involves using objective metrics to compare the value of scholarly journals, establish price containment targets, and identify titles to consider for potential cancellation. A key aspect of this new methodology is the use of a Weighted Value Algorithm to assess multiple vectors of value for each journal title under review.
Ruth Fischer will use examples from libraries to describe how the services and tools developed by SCS can assist librarians to draw down large collections of under-used print monographs when faced with limited space.

The theme for our discussion is “Developing Service-Oriented Models for Cataloging and Metadata,” and we are delighted to be joined by a distinguished panel of speakers.
• Jee Davis & Jina Wakimoto will present “Cataloging IS a Public Service: Repositioning Cataloging and Metadata Services”
• Teressa Keenan will present “Charting a Course with NOMAP: Integrating Metadata Workflows into a Traditional Cataloging Unit”
• Jennifer O’Brien Roper will present “Envisioning Culture Shift: Building a Strategic Framework for Service Oriented Cataloging”
• Sharon Wiles-Young will present “Technical Services Involvement with New Service: Are there Silos Within the Library?”
Presentations will be followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A. Please contact Christopher Cronin (croninc [at] uchicago.edu), Chair of the ALCTS Heads of Cataloging Interest Group, for more information.

The PopTop Stage will focus on popular favorites including: Mystery, Romance and Story Telling. The PopTop Stage will feature readings, discussions and presentations. The PopTop Stage will be located in Exhibit Hall B of the Dallas Convention Center at the middle of the 2500 Aisle. (Schedule is subject to change.)
Each Panel will be followed by a book signing.

Hosted by the National Storytelling Network
10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Schedule To Be Announced.