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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 15:44:00 -0500
From: Ellen Crosby <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Announcing ALA Preconference on Metadata
Sender: Ellen Crosby <[log in to unmask]>


[with the usual apologies if you've already seen this--it's been sent to
several lists]

Metadata: Libraries and the Web--Retooling AACR and MARC21 for
Cataloging in the Twenty-first Century

an ALCTS Preconference to the ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois

For program and additional information, go to:
http://www.ala.org/alcts/events/metadata.html.

Thursday, July 6, 2000, 7:45 a.m.-5:30 p.m. and Friday, July 7, 2000,
8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Co-sponsored by: ALCTS Networked Resources and Metadata Committee; ALCTS
Serials Section, Committee to Study Serials Cataloging; and the ALCTS
CCS Task Force on 2000 Preconference, Committee on Cataloging:
Description and Access

Find out the most effective and the most efficient options for providing
your users with access to Web resources. Topics range from library
leaders' viewpoints on Web resources access to the how-to's of creating
records.

Emphasis is on presenting the pros and cons, standards, and especially
the practicalities, of dealing with metadata for Web resources, plus a
vision for the future - including DDI, Dublin Core, EAD, ISSN, MARC 21,
RDF, TEI, XML, W3C - and the new thoughts, rules, and guidelines on
seriality and AACR2.

Audience:
 Librarians
- in public academic, and special libraries
- who are responsible for providing users with access to electronic
resources available over the Web and through on-going publications,
whether by cataloging, by collecting, by designing subject-specific
Webpages or by other means.

Preconference Goals:

To present information on the techniques available for providing access
to Web resources, so that attendees upon their return to their
respective libraries have sufficient information to make informed
decisions as to what techniques will be the best for a given library's
users. Metadata and seriality for the purposes of this conference is
data that aids in description, identification and location of networked
electronic resources and on-going publications. In the dynamic
environment of education, research, study and teaching, librarians must
continually master a wide array of skills and tools so that they may
initiate innovations and changes, as well as respond to new challenges
in the 21st Century.

Faculty

Murtha Baca, Laura Bayard, Matthew Beacom, Vivian Bliss, Stanley Blum,
Diane Boehr, Beth Camden, Brad Eden, William Fietzer, William Garrison,
Michael Gorman, Rebecca Guenther, Diane Hillmann, Jean Hirons, Sheila
Intner, Erik Jul, Kris Kiesling, Clifford Lynch, Norm Medeiros,
Elizabeth Mangan, Lynn Marko, Constance Mayer, Eric Miller, Regina
Reynolds, Carlos Rodriguez, Carlen Ruschoff, Brian E.C. Schottlaender,
Wendy Treadwell, and Jennifer Younger.

Registration Fees

Registration fees for the preconference are $235 for ALCTS members, $285
for ALA members, and $335 for nonmembers.
To register, see February issue of the American Libraries, p. 77, ALCTS
#3.
ALA will have online registration at its Website sometime in March.


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Ellen Crosby, Head of Cataloging
Indiana Historical Society Library
450 W. Ohio St.
Indianapolis IN 46202
voice 317/234-0043 fax 317/234-0169
www.indianahistory.org
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