All Sessions

Meeting of members of the RUSA CODES Collection Development Education Committee.

New to the Midwinter Meeting or ALA? Get a fun and informative introduction to the Midwinter Meeting. Learn to navigate the exhibits, to decipher the conference program, how ALA really works, and ways to get involved. NMRT provides tips from the pros and the opportunity for you to get your questions answered.

"Library of Congress Decisions for Copy Cataloging with RDA," Presented by Barbara B. Tillett, Chief Policy & Standards Divison, Library of Congress:

What's a cataloger to do if headings or the entire bibliographic record is coded as RDA? This presentation will review LC decisions for its own staff,and share information about the documentation and training materials that are available on LC's Web page relevant to copy cataloging with RDA.
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"CIP Metadata for E-books"

Karl Debus-López, Chief of the U.S. General Division and Acting Chief of the U.S. and Publisher Liaison Division at the Library of Congress, will present information on the Library of Congress’ new pilot project to create cataloging in publication metadata for electronic books that are simultaneously published with their print equivalents. The rationale for providing pre-publication metadata for electronic books will be discussed, as will the scope of the pilot and the process created by the Library of Congress to create the metadata. Library of Congress created CIP e-book pre-publication data for the pilot participants is currently available in OCLC for use by libraries and vendors as a source of copy cataloging.

An orientation for ALA Council members.

Committee charge: To provide oversight of the ECRR program including monitoring, promoting discussion and answering content questions on ECRR Facebook page; provide marketing and publication suggestions through existing ALA publications and educational events, including identification of external organizations; and recommend website updates to division staff. To provide advice on ECRR issues that may come to division staff and boards. To develop training opportunities in conjunction with division staff; update reading lists and early literacy activities as necessary; and to provide recommendations to the division boards on resources to maintain and enhance the project. http://everychildreadytoread.org/

Meeting of the LPSS Executive Committee; will also be available as a "blended meeting."

Executive committee for University Libraries Section

First meeting of the ACRL Instruction Section Executive Committee

Meeting of the officers and committee chairs of RUSA History Section

The Health Sciences Interest Group of ACRL will be having an informal discussion of information literacy competences related to the health sciences.

Discussion of topics related to information resources produced by international intergovernmental organizations, and foreign governments.