OUTREACH/ADVOCACY MEMBERSHIP ACTIVITIES
Report to OLAC Board
September 2002
Submitted by Ian Fairclough
Outreach/Advocacy Coordinator
Robert Ellett (Joint Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Va.) serves as contact person for the OCLC Members Council. He will be attending their meeting in Dublin, Ohio, Oct. 20-22, 2002. The Council's program has the theme, "Libraries, Their Present and Future Global Environments: The National Context". Further information is available at the Council Website:
David Bigwood (Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Tex.) reports:
I have mentioned OLAC, OLAC Web resources and the conference several times on Catalogablog. People can access them retrospectively at:
There is a search box on the right near the top. Or folks can find them on Google searching for OLAC catalogablog.
Sandra Roe (Minnesota State University, Mankato, Minn.) reports:
As news editor for Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, I am always happy to publish information related to OLAC in that column. The most recent example can be found in the Cataloging News in CCQ 33(2) and is the announcement from David Procházka about the Authority Tools website. These news columns are also available freely online and linked from their respective tables of contents. For this one, see:
In the column previous to that one, I received permission from Meredith Horan to include her announcement about the Powerpoint tutorial related to the Chapter 9 revisions. It appeared in the column published in CCQ 33(1).
After the Seattle OLAC meeting in 2000 I received permission to include the workshop write-ups (as long as they appeared first in the OLAC Newsletter) and hope to again.
Nancy B. Olson (retired, Mankato, Minn.) reports:
I hand out materials on OLAC at each workshop I teach, and talk some about the benefits of joining. So that would include at least 6 workshops, average 30 people each, so far this calendar year.
Susan Moore (University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls) reports the following presentations: "Map Cataloging Workshop" for the Bibliographic Center for Research (BCR) in Aurora, Colorado on May 15, 2002; Pre-Conference at ALA Annual in Atlanta, Georgia on June 13, 2002, entitled, "Map Cataloging: Learning to Describe Cartographic Materials".
Joanna Fountain (Georgetown, Texas) reports:
I hand out back issues of the OLAC Newsletter at workshops and when I meet with my online students face-to-face. These have been a nice added touch - nothing is quite as nice as having a paper copy of something to experience!
Robert B. Freeborn (Penn State University Libraries) reports:
OLAC members presented in the two following sessions--
- "The Revised Chapter 9 - What Copy Catalogers Need to Know", ALCTS CCS Copy Cataloging Discussion Group, ALA Midwinter Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 21, 2002. (Robert Freeborn, Gene Kinnaly (Library of Congress), Rebecca Lubas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Steven Miller (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
- "AACR2 Revisions and Electronic Resources: Chapters 9 and 12", ALCTS Electronic Resources Discussion Group, ALA Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, June 15, 2002. (Robert Freeborn, Rebecca Lubas, Steven Miller, and Steve Shadle (University of Washington).
Freeborn will also present, by himself, "The Revised Chapter 9", at the Technical Services Round Table, Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) Annual Conference, Independence, Ohio, November 1, 2002.
Ginny Boggs (Skokie Public Library, Skokie, Ill.) reports:
I was invited to present a 90-minute workshop at the Reaching Forward Conference for library support staff held April 12, 2002 at the Rosemont Convention Center near Chicago. The focus of my presentation, based upon a survey done last year, was cataloging videos and DVDs. I took time to speak about OLAC, its many benefits, and OLAC's upcoming September Conference. I provided each person (approximately 75) with an OLAC membership form and instructions for signing up to the OLAC List.
Sevim McCutcheon (Tuscarawas County Public Library, New Philadelphia, Ohio) reports:
I taught a video/DVD cataloging workshop last month with 6 participants. I explained what OLAC was, and gave instructions on subscribing to OLAC List.
Carrie Kerzner (Bridgeport Public Library, Bridgeport, Conn.) writes:
Thank you for bringing membership to our attention on the List. My check is in the mail ... I hope someday to be able to get to an ALA or OLAC conference. In the meantime, thank goodness for OLAC List ... Have a great conference!
Ruth Horie (University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii) reports:
I am attending my first OLAC because of the outreach of two OLAC members. I thought the training, the presentations and meeting kindred spirits were all very worthwhile. I will keep up on developments through the List and am already looking forward to the next meeting.
All OLAC members are respectfully requested to submit information about opportunities such as these in which you have promoted OLAC or will be doing so, for inclusion in the next report. In so doing, you help provide the OLAC Board with a panorama of outreach activity within the organization as they consider future initiatives. You also contribute to the historical record of OLAC’s promotion of Internet and audiovisual media cataloging. Contact the Outreach/Advocacy Coordinator at the address provided on the OLAC Website: <http://www.olacinc.org/>.
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