All Sessions

The Acquisitions Managers and Vendors Interest Group meets to present topics of interest.

Business meeting to set strategy and plan 2012 annual conference programs.

Panelists will outline key cataloging changes related to RDA and steps being taken in preparation for implementation sometime after January 2013. Although there is at least a year before wide scale implementation of RDA, changes are already impacting workflow and data exchange.

In an effort to economize on speakers and room space and to add emphasis to this topic CaMMS is foregoing its Friday Forum to join with the TF in presenting this RDA Forum.

Scheduled presenters include: Beacher Wiggins (Library of Congress), Linda Barnhart (Chair PCC), Glenn Patton (OCLC), Sally McCallum (MARBI) and Troy Linker (ALA Publishing).

Large aggregated packages of journals that publishers offer to libraries for hefty subscription fees, otherwise known as the Big Deal, have become commonplace in libraries. While they offer the advantage of purchasing large numbers of titles at a discount, librarians have become increasingly disenchanted with them because of their high cost and the inability to add or drop titles from the package. Pay per view subscription models offer an alternative that allows librarians to pay only for those articles that their users view. This program examines the pay per view model from the perspective of both the publisher and of librarians who have implemented it. The advantages and disadvantages of per view are discussed along with an exploration of where the pay per view model is headed and what its long term prospects might be.

Discussions focus on management issues pertaining to library systems and consortia. Previous topics included advocacy, funding, member services, and innovative projects.

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.

Join a panel of OCLC member librarians and discover what they're dong to evolve their cataloging workflows. The panel will be followed by round table discussions to provide an opportunity to share and compare notes for all participants.

Meeting of the RUSA CODES/ALCTS CMS Collection Management in Public Libraries Interest Group. Issues relating to Collection Management will be discussed, particularly e-media and current trends in Collection Management.

With constant budget cuts libraries are focusing on digitizing their unique and special collections. More metadata is now being created in house by staff that formerly only did traditional cataloging. The panelists will discuss their approaches to transitioning staff away from traditional cataloging and towards metadata. Learn from this panel how libraries have trained traditional cataloging staff to create metadata for their digital collections as part of their normal cataloging workflows and any obstacles or lessons learned during the transition to this new type of cataloging. The digital collections discussed will include institutional repositories, oral histories, museum collections and archival collections of all shapes and sizes.