OUTREACH/ADVOCACY MEMBERSHIP ACTIVITIES
MAY 2003
Submitted by Ian Fairclough, Outreach/Advocacy Coordinator
Notice was received about the following reviews of the Sept. 2002 OLAC Conference in St. Paul, Minnesota:
Hawaii Library Association:
Ruth Horie (University of Hawaii at Manoa) HLA Newsletter, v. 44 no. 3 (Fall 2002)
Ohio Library Council, Technical Services Division:
Kevin Furniss (Denison University), TechKNOW, v. 9, issue 1 (February 2003)
<http://www.olc.org/pdf/Techknow_Feb03.pdf>
Music Library Association:
Joan McGorman (Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, North Carolina) MLA Newsletter, no. 131 (November-December 2002)
<http://musiclibraryassoc.org/pdf/news131.pdf>
Linda J. Owen (University of California at Riverside) announces: "I will be presenting a poster session at the 12th ALIA National Library Technicians Conference in Brisbane Australia in September. There will be approximately 500 library technicians and librarians at the conference."
Susan Moore (University of Northern Iowa) gave a map cataloging workshop in Aurora, Co. in November where she spoke briefly about OLAC. The OLAC CAPC AACR2 Chapter 3 tutorial was discussed in a preconference (April 23) and panel session (April 24) for the Oregon Library Association annual meeting in Corvallis given in part by Susan Moore and Paige Andrew. Susan also mentioned the tutorials in a program session at the Iowa Library Association/Association of College and Research Libraries spring meeting in Dubuque.
Pat Riva (McGill University, Montreal, Quebec) reports: "This year the CLA (Canadian Library Association) Montreal Chapter (of which I am President) co-sponsored 2 workshops from the SCCTP programme: 'Electronic Serials Cataloguing' (February 17, 2003 and again on February 28) and 'Advanced Serials Cataloguing' (April 3-4, 2003). At all 3 sessions I spoke about how OLAC 2004 will be held in Montreal and encouraged all to attend and also to let colleagues know. Participants mainly came from Montreal and Ottawa, with a few from both eastern and western Canada. In June I hope to bring the same information to the CLA Technical Services Interest Group business meeting. The very process of putting together a planning committee for 2004 has also increased the profile of OLAC in Canada."
Ruth Horie (University of Hawaii at Manoa) made a presentation on "Pacific Islands Audiovisual Materials" as part of a session on Pacific Collections at the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO) annual meeting in Vancouver, B.C., February 11-15, 2003. The session focused on management of Pacific Islands grey literature and ephemera. Ruth's presentation, which included several examples from the University Library's collections, brought out the challenges of describing and providing bibliographic access to audiovisual materials from or about the Pacific Islands.
Linda Gonzalez (Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR), Aurora, Colorado) says: "I conduct four types of workshops on cataloging 'non-print' and include OLAC's Website in the bibliography of each workshop's manual. I make a point to talk a bit about OLAC as well. Since August 2002, I've had about 27 attendees in these. I cannot easily get stats on the year or so prior to that, but it is likely a similar figure. I have been at BCR since February 2002, but only began teaching in August of that year, as I recall. OLAC's CAPC Website on the 'Source of Title Note' is in the bibliography of the SCCTP E-Serials workshop. I have presented this to approximately 30 people since last Fall. I have not always talked about OLAC though, as it is a pretty full agenda. Jean Hirons at LC may keep attendance figures for all SCCTP trainers."
Ann Caldwell (Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island) spoke at the NETSL (New England Technical Services Librarians) meeting on Friday, April 4 at the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, Massachusetts). Everyone registered had a copy of the OLAC brochure and membership form. Ann pointed out some highlights from the Website including training tools, the upcoming meeting in Montreal, the NACO Funnel Project, and the Q&A from the OLAC Newsletter. Since Sheila Intner was the keynote speaker and also the recipient of the NETSL award, Ann also featured Professor Intner's role in the organization.
Meredith Horan (National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland) has organized a tour of the Toronto Public Library, 3 p.m., Friday, June 20, in conjunction with the forthcoming ALA/CLA joint conference.
Marlee Dorn (SOLINET, Atlanta, Georgia) writes: "I will be revising a couple of A/V cataloging courses for the Spring or Summer, and I will be sure to include information about OLAC as a resource."
Lynne LeGrow (Halifax Regional Library, Halifax, Nova Scotia) includes links to resources on the OLAC Website on her Web page, "Library Cataloguing Aids":
<http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/allegrow/cat.htm#A/V%20cataloguing>
Margaret Maurer (Kent State University Libraries and Media Services) has generously given her time and energy to support OLAC. On the electronic distribution list, TSLIBRARIANS, which she moderates, she announced OLAC's Guide to Cataloging DVDs using AARCR2r Chapters 7 and 9.
Maxine Sherman (Cuyahoga County Public Library, Parma, Ohio) reports: "I was at the ALA Cataloging of Children's Materials committee meeting in January 2003, and they were looking for someone to write/update their Cataloging for Kids book regarding AV materials. I suggested that they contact OLAC."
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