NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Barbara Vaughan, Column Editor
OLAC 2004 CONFERENCE WEBSITE
The Organizing Committee
for the OLAC 2004 Conference in Montréal is pleased to launch the Conference Website: <http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/bothmr/OLAC/>.
The site will be revised periodically between now and next September, with sections added or expanded as
planning work for the Conference progresses. Significant changes to the site will be announced on
OLAC-List and in the OLAC Newsletter as they occur.
Kudos to Bobby Bothmann, our Webmaster, for his great work in designing such an attractive site for the
Conference! We hope that OLAC members will visit it frequently during the coming year, and we look
forward to seeing you in Montréal in twelve months’time.
[originally posted by:]
Marc
Richard
McGill University Libraries
Co-Chair, OLAC 2004 Conference
NACO FUNNEL UPDATE - FALL 2003
Greetings from beautiful southern New England where the leaves are turning, the hurricanes have
hopefully passed, and the students are finally putting more clothes on.
I am pleased to let you
know that the NACO statistics for the (government) fiscal year are available at <http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/stats/total03.pdf>.
The OLAC NACO project once again had a terrific year, contributing 2,568 new headings, 5 new
series, and modifying 353 existing heading. Many of the St. Paul "class members" were among
those contributing to the totals.
Unfortunately, a number of formerly active members have
slipped from view, so I would like to publicly embarrass them a little (I will not mention names, you
know who you are!!) and remind them that your skills may be getting a little rusty and you should
contact me about contributing. When you joined the project you made a commitment to contribute;
we would all like to see you continue. Of course, there are a number of members who have moved on and
are officially "inactive."
Let’s have a virtual round of applause for all those who worked so hard contributing headings this year,
and think of them each time you are cataloging AV and use one of their records.
[originally posted by:]
Ann Caldwell
OLAC NACO Project Coordinator
Rockefeller Library
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
phone: (401) 863-3716
FAX: (401) 863-1272
e-mail: <E_Caldwell@brown.edu>
NEW EDITION OF CARTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS
For those OCLC members who catalog cartographic materials, the following will be of interest to you.
Cartographic Materials: A Manual of Interpretation for AACR2, 2002 Revision (2nd edition)
should be available from ALA the second week in October. It will be sold with a binder and dividers for
$100 ($90 for ALA members). Orders are currently be ing accepted by ALA.
It is listed in the latest ALA publications catalog, but does not appear to be on ALA’s Website
yet. Check <http://www.ala.org/> and click on the Products
& Publications link for its availability. The ISBN is 0-8389-3539-7 and the LCCN is 2003-14315.
After this new edition of Cartographic Materials is published, OCLC will update section 1.4 of
Bibliographic Formats and Standards by adding a citation for the 2nd edition and removing the
citation for the 1st edition.
[originally posted by:]
Ellen Caplan
OCLC Product Development Division
phone: (800) 848-5878 x6472
phone: (614) 764-6000 x6472
e-mail: <caplane@oclc.org>
2003 UPDATE TO AACR2 2002
Just a reminder that the 2003 Update to the AACR2 2002 is now available from the publishers of AACR2:
the American Library Association (ALA) <http://www.ala.org/>,
the Canadian Library Association (CLA) <http://www.cla.ca/marketplace/clabooks.htm>,
and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) <http://www.cilip.org.uk/index.html>.
[originally posted, Friday, October 17, 2003 on OCLC-CAT]
MIC UPDATE FOR FALL 2003
(AMIA has been progressing well with the MIC initiative, whose instigation and progress has been
covered extensively in the OLAC Newsletter over the past few years. In August, MIC’s ‘Call for
participation’) was posted to the OLAC-List, from which te abbreviated version below was derived:)
MIC: Moving Image Collections is now soliciting entries for its international online directory of moving
image repositories. Whether you are a moving image archive, or simply hold a few film titles as part of
a larger general collection, we invite you to register your organization with MIC. By listing your
institution, you join a groundbreaking initiative to provide access to moving images worldwide, and
contribute to further collaboration, research, and mentoring in the archival moving image community.
Any institution holding moving image materials is eligible for a Directory entry.
To complete an Archive Directory form with
- contact information
- services and collection descriptions
- cataloging and preservation activities
go to:<http://gondolin.rutgers.edu/MIC/text/how/directory_guidelines.htm>
Submit your form in hard copy using a PDF form (type or complete by hand, then mail), or complete it in
Word for easy emailing. Web input form coming soon.
We need a significant number of completed Directory entries in order to program the complex interactions
between the Directory, the Union Catalog, and the Website. Please participate in this critical area of
MIC development!
For more information, please contact MIC Project Coordinator Jane Johnson:
<jdj@ucla.edu>.
(In September, a message indicating how well the MIC was being received was posted to the
OLAC-List:)
There were a number of nice articles in the press last week about MIC: Moving Image Collections:
Business Wire, 9/3/03:
<http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/cb_headline.cgi?&story_file=bw.090303/232465575>
Computer World, 9/3/03:
<http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/software/story/0,10801,84580,00.html>
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Reporter, 9/3/03:
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/137751_archive03.html>
Other articles appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, PC World Magazine, Internet News.com, Enterprise IT Planet, Linux World.com, Byte & Switch, Cox News Service, Network World Fusion, and Government Computer News.
We welcome you to visit the MIC Website for the latest developments:
<http://gondolin.rutgers.edu/MIC/>. Note that
there will also be a panel about MIC at the AMIA Annual Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia,
November 18-22
<http://www.amianet.org/annual/past/2003/overview.html>.
[from items originally posted by:]
Jane D. Johnson, Project Coordinator
MIC: Moving Image Collections
A Library of Congress-AMIA Collaboration
Library of Congress
jdj@ucla.edu
A NEW CLIR PUBLICATION
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has published the following item and it is
available (full-text) on their site.
Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists by Fred R. Byers. (48
pages) ISBN: 1-932326-04-9 ($15.00).
Abstract: This report describes in non-technical language the various types of CDs and
DVDs now in use, how they are made, and how they work. It then distills current industry knowledge about
disc longevity, conditions that affect life expectancy, and how to care for optical media. The guide is
amply illustrated and includes a glossary and bibliography.
The guide’s author, Fred R. Byers, is a technical staff member in the Convergent Information Systems
Division of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST).
The guide was written for use by librarians and archivists; however, it will be equally useful to any
business or individual wishing to safeguard CD or DVD collections.
Abstract: <http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub121abst.html>
Full-Text (pdf): <http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub121/pub121.pdf>
An html version is available on the NIST site:
<hhttp://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/carefordisc/disccare.html>
[originally posted to the OLAC-List with this attribution:]
"Forwarded from web4lib Berkeley, with thanks to Naka Ishii at Amherst"
ANNOUNCEMENT OF UPCOMING WORKSHOP
Please mark your calendars for the 6th Annual SURA/ViDe Digital Video Workshop the week of March 22, 2004. Hold that date and plan to attend.
This workshop has become recognized as the essential annual learning venue in collaborative
videoconferencing, streaming video, and storing/serving video-on-demand. Workshop content will include
examples of digital video projects in the research and education community, how-to sessions, and
information on emerging technologies.
The 2004 workshop will be held at University Place Conference Center and Hotel, Indiana University
Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), in Indianapolis, Indiana <http://universityplace.iupui.edu>.
More details will become available at: <http://www.vide.net/conferences/spr2004>.
** Participation is welcome! **
Please see the workshop Website for information on submitting presentation proposals, exhibiting and sponsorship.
Do not miss this event of the year for video applications in the research and education community!
-- The ViDe 2004 Workshop Planning Committee
About ViDe
Formed in 1998, ViDe (Video Development Initiative <http://www.vide.net>) is an international organization with the
mission to promote the development and deployment of digital video technologies in research and higher
education. ViDe's working groups:
- developed the highly acclaimed Video Conferencing Cookbook, soon to be released in its fourth
revision
- led H.323 deployment in higher education with the Large Scale Video Network Prototype
- developed the globally deployed ViDeNet H.323 network
- provided the underlying architecture for the Internet2 Commons
- developed a metadata application profile for digital video description and access, the most recent
version using MPEG-7
- continue to provide H.323 leadership through their work in the development of video middleware (e.g.
the commObject LDAP schema for authentication, authorization, and directory services) including the
recent release of a new videoconferencing standard, ITU H.350, which provides a uniform way to store and
retrieve information related to video and voice over IP in enterprise directories. H.350 was developed
as a collaborative effort between ViDe and the Internet2 Middleware group and supports H.320, H.323,
session initiation protocol (SIP), and non-standard protocols for experimental technologies.
[originally posted by:]
Dan Kniesner
Oregon Health & Science University Library
Portland Oregon
phone: (503) 494-3216
e-mail: <kniesner@ohsu.edu>
(Note that there was a pre-conference workshop for the 5th Annual Conference of this group, reported
by Sueyoung Park-Primiano in v. 23,
no. 2 - Ed.)
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