This information was taken from the online event planner for the 2003 ALA Annual Conference <http://planner.ala.org/index_main.asp>. Please confirm all dates, times and locations on the final Conference program. This list is not intended to be comprehensive; OLAC meetings and the major cataloging meetings are listed, as well as AV meetings of long-standing or current popular interest. The size and broad scope of this list is a reflection of the increasing interest of OLAC members in database enrichment activities, demonstrated most materially by the growing membership in the NACO-AV Funnel Project. A few workshops requiring registration are listed as well; although they may well be full at this late date, it could yet be worth trying if interested.

Note that meetings are mostly entered by their direct names (task force, committee, subcommittee or other group name), not by their supporting organization (which is generally indicated parenthetically), unless the supporting organization is integral to the name. Please also note that this list will be updated on the OLAC Website until the Conference begins. If you have information on other meetings of interest or have information about the content of any of the meetings listed, please contact Sue Neumeister <neumeist@buffalo.edu> so she can add that information to the Website.

ONLINE AUDIOVISUAL CATALOGERS (OLAC) MEETINGS

Cataloging Policy Committee
Friday, 6/20, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Metro Toronto Convention Centre - 714B

Executive Board Meeting
Saturday, 6/21, 3:00-6:00 p.m.
Sutton Place Hotel - Edinburgh

Membership Meeting
Saturday, 6/21, 8:00-10:00 p.m.
Sutton Place Hotel - Royal Sutton C

ALA-MAGERT Cataloging & Classification Committee
Sunday, 6/22, 9:30-11:00 a.m.
Crowne Plaza - Caledon

ALCTS-CCS/MAGERT Cataloging Discussion Group
Sunday, 6/22, 8:00-9:00 a.m.
Delta Chelsea - Rosetti

CC:DA (2 meetings)
---> Saturday, 6/21, 2:00-5:30 p.m.
Westin Harbour Castle Metro - Ballroom East
---> Monday, 6/23, 8:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Westin Harbour Castle - Metro Ballroom East

CC:DA Task Force on Appendix of Major and Minor Changes
Sunday, 6/22, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Delta Chelsea - Galsworthy

CC:DA Task Force on Consistency Across Part 1 of AACR2
Friday, 6/20, 2:00-5:30 p.m.
Courtyard by Marriott - Bay

CC:DA Task Force on Reconceptualization of Chapter 9
Saturday, 6/21, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Westin Harbour Castle - Wellington

CC:DA Task Force on Rule 21.0D
Sunday, 6/22, 2:00-5:30 p.m.
Toronto Colony Hotel - St. George

Committee to Study Serials Cataloging (ALCTS-SS)
Monday, 6/23, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Sheraton Centre Toronto - Conference Room B/C

Committee to Study Serials Standards (ALCTS-SS)
Friday, 6/20, 8:00-10:00 p.m.
Sheraton Centre Toronto - Conference Room A

"Don't Be Dysfunctional:
How to Put The Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) in Your Future" (CC:DA)
Sunday, 6/22, 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Sheraton Centre Toronto - Dominion Ballroom

A number of models have the potential to influence the future development of information standards within the library community. Pre-eminent among these models is the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), a product of study by the International Federation of Library Associations and institutions, and the related Logical Structure of AACR2. The program is intended to acquaint technical services professionals, including the catalogers and systems librarians, with the implications of these models for cataloging rules, and to present MARC formats along with other emerging international standards for electronic technologies.

Speakers: Glenn Patton, OCLC; Vinod Chachra, President, VTLS, Inc.; Tom Delsey, National Library of Canada; Barbara Tillett, Chief, Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress.

Electronic Resources Discussion Group (ALCTS)
Saturday, 6/21, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Delta Chelsea - Rosetti

Julie Grob of the University of Houston will take you on a brief tour through three digital imaging projects created by Special Collections and Archives at the University of Houston Libraries. She will cover the nitty-gritty of setting up your own digital imaging program for rare and unique materials. Learn about selecting materials for digitization, deciding whether to scan or to photograph, tracking metadata, designing a website, and promoting your finished project.

Corey Harper of the University of Oregon will explore issues involved with digitizing a collection of glass plate negatives from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation. Expect to hear information about the technical issues of scanning and color management, development and implementaton of a descriptive and administrative metadata structure, and the identification of images to be archived at higher resolution than the ones made publicly available via the internet.

Lisa Robinson of Michigan State University will explore audio digitizing in a presentation that describes various aspects of an NSF-funded project to digitize audio files from Michigan State University's Vincent Voice Library. Lisa will focus on digitization standards for audio as well as the cataloging and descriptive standards used in the project.

Heads of Cataloging Departments Discussion Group (ALCTS-CCS)
Monday, 6/23, 9:30-11:00 a.m.
Hilton Toronto - Toronto Ballroom I

"ISBDs: International Standard Bibliographic Descriptions--Do We Still Need Them?"
Sunday, 6/22, 1:30-3:30
Delta Chelsea - Churchill BR

This ALCTS program celebrates the ISBDs which have served for over 30 years as the basis for national and international cataloging codes. Through their provisions covering the full array of library resources, libraries have been able to achieve compatible descriptive cataloging worldwide, which has aided the global exchange of bibliographic records. Now the ISBDs are confronting new challenges including competing metadata standards, new concepts such as "FRBR," and the revision of several chapters in Part I of AACR2. Where do the ISBDs fit in this picture? This program explains why the ISBDs are relevant and still needed.

Four experts will address the issues: John D. Byrum, Jr (LC).; Glenn Patton (OCLC); Olivia Madison (Iowa State University); Lynne C. Howarth (University of Toronto)

The program is co-sponsored by the ALCTS Cataloging and Classification Section and the ALCTS Networked Resources & Metadata Committee, with generous support from K. G. Saur.

MARBI (3 meetings)
---> Saturday, 6/21, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Westin Harbour Castle - Pier 5
---> Sunday, 6/22, 2:00-5:30 p.m.
Toronto Colony Hotel - Colony Ballroom Centre
---> Monday, 6/23, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Metro Toronto Convention Centre - 716A

Media Resources Committee (ALCTS)
Sunday, 6/22, 8:30-11:00 a.m.
Holiday Inn on King - Maple

Media Resources Discussion Group (ACRL)
Sunday, 6/22, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Fairmont Royal York - York

Media Resources Standards Subcommittee (ALCTS)
Monday, 6/23, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Novotel Toronto Centre - Suite #215

Metadata Enrichment Task Force (ALCTS)
Friday, 6/20, 8:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Holiday Inn on King - Birch

Networked Resources and Metadata Committee (ALCTS)
Friday, 6/20, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Sheraton Centre Toronto - VIP Room

OCLC - "Cataloging in a Cost-Conscious Environment: A Discussion on OCLC Cataloging Solutions"
Saturday, 6/21, 9:00-11:00 a.m.
Delta Chelsea - Rosetti

OCLC - Connexion Users Group Meeting
Sunday, 6/22, 9:30-11:00 a.m.
Sheraton Centre Toronto - Simcoe/Dufferin

OCLC - Enhance Sharing Session
Sunday, 6/22, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Metro Toronto Convention Centre - 201F

PCC - Participants Discussion Group Meeting
Sunday, 6/22, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Metro Toronto Convention Centre - 205C/D

PCC SACO Workshop A: "How to Propose Subject Headings for LCSH"
Friday, 6/20, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Toronto Marriott Eaton Centre - York

PCC SACO Workshop B: "Overview of Language and Literature Headings in LCSH" Friday, 6/20, 12:30-4:00 p.m.
Toronto Marriott Eaton Centre - York
(see <http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/saco/sacowkshop03a.html> for more information on these two PCC workshops)

SAC (Subject Analysis Committee)
Sunday, 6/22, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Delta Chelsea - Rosetti

SAC Subcommittee on Subject Analysis Training Materials
---> Friday, 6/20, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Sheraton Centre Toronto - Executive
---> Saturday, 6/21, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Hilton Toronto - Varley

"Training for Effective Subject Cataloging:
A Preview of an ALCTS-Program for Cooperative Cataloging Initiative" (ALCTS-CCS)
Sunday, 6/22, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Westin Harbour Castle - Metro Ballroom West

Subject cataloging is one of the most frequently requested topics in surveys of continuing education needs for catalogers. ALCTS and the Program for Cooperative Cataloging have developed a subject-cataloging workshop modeled on the highly successful Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program. This presentation will consist of a brief overview of the ALCTS-PCC collaboration and will feature a preview of the training module for applying LCSH subdivisions.

Speakers: William Garrison, Associate University Librarian for Technical Services, Syracuse University; Carol Hixson, Head, Catalog Department, University of Oregon; Lori Robare, Assistnat Head, Catalog Department, University of Oregon

"Unicode and Authority Control - Together at Last" (LITA)
Sunday, 6/22, 1:30-5:30 p.m.
Delta Chelsea - Mountbatten Salon

"What's New in Cartographic Materials Cataloging" (ALA-MAGERT; ALCTS-CCS)
Saturday, 6/21, 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Delta Chelsea - Wren

"Chapter 3-Twenty Years Later;" "Cartographic Materials, rev. ed.--Summary and Status;" "As the World Turns: Revolving Trends in Map Cataloging at LC;" "Cataloging Early Maps;" "Basics of Electronic Cartographic Materials"

Speakers: Barbara Story, Cataloging Team Leader, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress; Grace Welch, Map Librarian, University of Ottawa; Velma Parker, Stardards Officer, National Archives of Canada; Mary Laarsgard, Assistant Head, Map and Imagery Laboratory, UC-Santa Barbara; Elizabeth Mangan, (Retired) Head, Tech. Services Section, Geog. and Map Div., Library of Congress