NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Barbara Vaughan, Column Editor
A PROPOSAL FOR PREPARING 21st CENTURY CATALOGERS
May 27, 2003 - ALCTS/ALISE Task Force Releases Proposal for Preparing 21st Century Catalogers
A Joint ALCTS/ALISE Task Force has responded to a call from the Library of Congress to recommend appropriate training and education for bibliographic control of Web resources. The Task Force report and recommendations are available at:
<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/CatalogingandMetadataEducation.pdf>.
An increasingly common notion is that libraries no longer need catalogers, and library and information schools no longer need to teach cataloging. Yet the need to organize information resources has become more pressing in the last ten years and the options for organizing digital resources have expanded. To address the challenge of cataloging
21st century library materials, the Library of Congress hosted a bicentennial conference on "Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium"
<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/>. John Byrum, chief of the Library of Congress Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division, remarking on the genesis of the conference said, "…libraries have witnessed an explosion in Web resources and they recognize the need to integrate them into their collections. The conference sought to enable an open discussion and the development of an action plan to pursue".
More than two dozen action items arose from the LC conference and two of them relate to education and training. Due to the strong commitment of ALCTS to the development of librarians engaged in bibliographic control, the Library of Congress asked that ALCTS take a lead role to accomplish these two action items.
As a first step, ALCTS appointed the joint ALCTS/ALISE Task Force, which also included partners from an OCLC regional network and the Library of Congress. The Task Force, which was chaired by Beth Picknally Camden of the University of Virginia, engaged principal investigator Ingrid Hsieh-Yee, associate professor of the School of Library and Information Science of the Catholic University of America, to survey ALA-accredited programs and to recommend fresh approaches. Camden notes, "Ingrid's survey results and recommendations make a significant contribution to the field. Her research is the foundation of our plan to assist educators and anyone who cares about cataloging and metadata education to prepare for teaching in this area."
The Joint Task Force proposes a five-part plan to help metadata and cataloging educators and trainers: to announce the Task Force's findings regarding the elements of bibliographic control expertise; to assemble a "metadata basics" package for use by faculty and workshop leaders; to create a listserv for sharing news; to set up a Web clearinghouse for pedagogical resources; and to hold a conference for educators and trainers to share expertise and ideas for integrating metadata topics into courses and workshops.
The next step is to carry out the Joint Task Force's plan. An implementation group has been appointed with members from ALCTS, ALISE, the Library of Congress, OCLC, and other organizations with a stake in supporting metadata and cataloging educators and trainers. Meanwhile a second ALCTS Task Force, chaired by Carol Hixson of the University of Oregon, is preparing recommendations for changes and additions to continuing education programs for catalogers. Hixson's Task Force expects to present its plan for approval at the 2003 ALA Annual Conference in Toronto.
The ALCTS/ALISE Joint Task Force was appointed by ALCTS--the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, a division of the American Library Association. ALISE--the Association for Library and Information Science Education--provides a forum for library and information science educators to share ideas and to seek solutions to common problems.
For more information, contact Diane Baden of NELINET <dbaden@nelinet.net>
or Olivia Frost of the University of Michigan <cfrost@si.umich.edu>.
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A CHAPTER 3 POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
FOR AACR2 REVISION 2002
Greetings!
The OLAC Cataloging Policy Committee Chapter 3 Task Force is proud to announce the availability of its new powerpoint presentation, AACR2 Revision 2002: Chapter 3, Cartographic Materials. The presentation highlights the changes made to Chapter 3 in December 2002.
The presentation can be downloaded at: <http://www.olacinc.org/capc/ch3.ppt>
The Task Force Members are:
Nancy Holcomb
Kay Johnson
Rebecca Lubas (Chair)
Susan Moore
We would like to thank map cataloging experts Paige Andrew and Mary Larsgaard and the members of CAPC for their review and suggestions.
In the near future, we will be adding an appendix to the presentation with the examples shown in MARC tagging.
We hope that you find the presentation beneficial!
Originally posted by:
Rebecca L. Lubas
Special Formats Cataloging Librarian
MIT Libraries
rll@mit.edu
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REVISED CONNEXION BROWSER TUTORIAL RELEASED
All modules have been revised to incorporate the February 2003 enhancements. A new module that describes controlling headings has been added. This tutorial provides both an introduction to Connexion and a workflow-oriented approach to searching and cataloging. Within the tutorial, you can print review pages and use them later for online practice or as job-aids.
In addition to the content revisions, the system requirements have been updated to support both the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and Sun Java runtime engine (JRE). The recommended browser is Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher with Small Fonts enabled. The Netscape browser is not supported for these tutorials.
We hope the tutorial is useful for you and your staff. Please feel free to contact me with your comments and suggestions. They are always welcome.
Originally posted by:
Kathy Kie
User Training Development
OCLC Online Computer Library Center
phone: 800-848-5878, extension 5183
FAX: 614-798-5728
e-mail: kathy_kie@oclc.org
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2002 OLAC CONFERENCE MEMORIES
Sue Neumeister has posted pictures from the 2002 OLAC Conference on the Web at:
<http://www.olacinc.org/conferences/2002/scrapbook/>
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2004 OLAC CONFERENCE
-- 3 MESSAGES --
I am very pleased to announce that the 2004 OLAC Conference will be held in Montreal, Canada, Sept. 30-Oct. 3. The conference hotel is the Crowne Plaza, Montreal: <http://www.crowneplaza-montreal.com>.
The Board was very impressed with the conference proposal. Hats off to Marc Richard for putting together an excellent conference team. Très bien! The committee Membership is as follows:
The following people have agreed to serve on the Local Arrangements Committee (both McGill and Concordia are located in downtown Montreal):
Marc Richard (McGill University) -- Chair
Laura May (Concordia University)
Sharon Rankin (McGill University)
Bobby Bothman (Minnesota State University, Mankato) -- Conference Website
Betsy Friesen (University of Minnesota) -- Roommate Matching
The following people have agreed to serve on the Programme Committee (the Chair has not yet been selected):
Pat Riva (McGill University)
Lisa O'Hara (University of Manitoba)
Elizabeth Icenhower (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Mary G. Curran (University of Ottawa)
Anne Draper (National Library of Canada)
Originally posted by:
Kay Johnson
OLAC President
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Planning work continues apace for the next OLAC Conference, which will be held in Montreal, Canada, September 30-October 3, 2004. The organizing committee is currently developing the conference theme, as well as the tentative list of planned speakers and sessions, which we aim to complete prior to this June's ALA/CLA Joint conference in Toronto.
Suggestions for interesting speakers and workshop topics are welcome, and will be very helpful in developing the conference programme. If you have any suggestions along these lines, please e-mail them either to Elizabeth Icenhower <eicenhow@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> or to me <marc.richard@mcgill.ca>.
An updated list of the members of the Local Arrangements Committee and the Programme Committee for OLAC 2004 can be found in the Conference section of the OLAC Website. Several of us are attending the ALA/CLA conference in June, and we look forward to meeting other OLAC members who will be there.
The planning committee membership page also includes a link to the hotel that will serve as the conference venue: the Crowne Plaza Montreal Centre hotel. Detailed information on booking accommodations for the conference will be provided on the OLAC 2004 Conference Website, which we hope to have up and running sometime during the next few months. If you have any questions in the meantime, please feel free to contact me.
Originally posted by:
Marc Richard
Chair, Local Arrangements Committee
OLAC 2004 Conference
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The Montreal 2004 Conference Planning Committee would love to hear your ideas regarding a Theme or workshop Topics.
It's still brainstorming time, so don't hesitate ... speak to us all ... or, respond to me and I will share your thoughts with the planning committee.
Originally posted by:
Liz Icenhower
eicenhow@mun.ca
Memorial University of Newfoundland
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VOLUNTEERS/NOMINATIONS NEEDED
FOR ALCTS ELECTRONIC RESOURCES DG POSITION
The ALCTS Electronic Resources Discussion Group is seeking volunteers or nominations for the position of Vice-Chair/Chair Elect. The position involves a 2-year term, with one year being served as Vice-Chair and the second as Chair of the group. The Chair for 2004 will be Susan Leister of Rice University in Texas.
Duties for the Vice-Chair and Chair include arranging for meeting space and equipment at ALA Annual and Midwinter conferences, leading discussions or arranging for guest presentations at meetings of the Discussion Group, and reporting to ALCTS about each meeting of the Discussion Group. The group typically meets at ALA Annual and Midwinter from 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. on Saturday.
If you are interested in becoming Vice-Chair/Chair Elect of the ALCTS Electronic Resources Discussion Group, please contact either the Chair or Vice-Chair at one of the e-mail addresses or phone numbers listed below.
Tina Shrader, Chair
Serials/Electronic Resources Cataloging Coordinator
Milton S. Eisenhower Library
Johns Hopkins University
e-mail: tshrader@mse.jhu.edu
phone: 410-516-7759
Susan Leister, Vice-Chair
Catalog Librarian
Rice University
e-mail: sleister@rice.edu
phone: 713-348-2604
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-- A SUMMER COURSE IN ITALY --
BUILDING A GEOSPATIAL DIGITAL LIBRARY
The course will take place at the D-Lib Center, Area della Ricerca, CNR, via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy on 20-21 June 2003.
For information on registration, please look at the following address:
<http://dlibcenter.iei.pi.cnr.it/>.
Abstract
This course will be of interest to individuals or institutions with geospatial digital content that they would like to publish for structured search and retrieval over the Web. The course is based on software developed by the Alexandria Digital Library Project (ADL; <http://webclient.alexandria.ucsb.edu>), which facilitates the creation and management of distributed digital library collections. ADL collections can operate stand-alone for use by individual users, or optionally and seamlessly switch into a distributed mode for Web-based information sharing and publication.
Geospatial collections are typically heterogeneous in content and can span items as diverse as maps, historical photographs, field data, remotely sensed images or archaeological data. The ADL software allows structured search and retrieval on such heterogeneous data collections, combining the simplicity of Dublin Core with the specificity of a full Boolean query language. The aim of the course is to familiarize participants with the overall technology and with the specific procedures and software involved in setting up a stand-alone or distributed ADL node. As a case study, we will focus on a collection of USGS Digital Raster Graphics (DRG) maps. However, the technology we present is much more general: it can be applied to collections of any geo-referenced library objects and, further, to collections of any objects to which a structured discovery technique can be applied. Based on Open Source components and open protocol standards (including Java, Tomcat, XML, JDBC, SQL), the ADL software is freely available and can be installed on all common software and hardware platforms.
Outline of course
In this course we cover the basic steps and procedures in creating a geospatial library node from existing content that may or may not yet be online. We also demonstrate how to integrate this node with other collections on the Internet to create distributed collections of complementary content. Using the example of a set of USGS Digital Raster Graphics (DRG) maps, we examine two case studies of users with very different needs, a) a user with content she wants to organize and publish, either for personal use or for public consumption, but no online metadata or collection objects yet; and b) an institution with a large existing online catalog in the form of a relational database (e.g., MARC, Oracle) as well as a mix of online and offline collection objects. The following outline provides a more detailed summary of the course content:
- Introduction and problem background
- Brief demonstration of existing digital library nodes based on ADL technology
- ADL at the California Digital Library, a production library node with approximately 2,500,000 geo-referenced collection items which demonstrates the scalability of the ADL technology
- A federated library of distributed nodes for combined access to the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, San Diego (3 collections: and historic photographs, oceanographic datasets, seamount geomorphology), and the Environmental Information Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2 collections of remotely sensed images, Landsat and MODIS).
- A stand-alone node on a laptop computer at the course site for search and retrieval of USGS Digital Raster maps.
- Overview of systems architecture
- Overall ADL architecture
- Server
- Middleware
- Client(s)
- Case study of a collection using USGS Digital Raster Graphics maps
- Create collection metadata
- Create metadata mappings
- Collection database design
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Populating collections.
- Populating metadata
- Access mapping
- Populating reports
- Software configuration
- Workflow of components the installer configures or with which s/he otherwise interacts
- Database selection and setup
- Middleware configuration
- Collection access modes
- Stand-alone operation, local access only
- Distributed operation
- Searching collections for digital objects.
- Viewing digital collection objects and metadata
originally posted by:
Francesca Borri
ISTI-CNR
(Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche)
Via G. Moruzzi 1
56124 Pisa - Italy
phone: +39 050 315 3470
fax: +39 050 315 3464
e-mail: francesca.borri@isti.cnr.it
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