CONNEXION CLIENT 1.40 RELEASE DELAYED UNTIL JULY
Connexion Client 1.40 release has been moved from June to July. June will be a very busy month for many of us, including libraries still completing their migration, support staff at OCLC regional service providers and in OCLC Customer Support helping staff with migration issues. Moving the Client release from June to early July will help OCLC to complete migration before introducing the Client, so that support staff will be available to help with upgrades if needed.
For more information about the upcoming changes to Client 1.40, please see <http://www.oclc.org/connexion/interface/client/enhancements/future.htm>. The following updates have been made recently on this page:
Client 1.40 will now include:
The following enhancements were previously announced as "July-September", but they have now been updated to "July":
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ALCTS ANNOUNCES MARGARET MANN CITATION RECIPIENT
Dorothy McGarry, retired Head of the Cataloging Division of the UCLA Physical Sciences and Technology Libraries, is the recipient of the 2005 Margaret Mann Citation presented by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), Cataloging and Classification Section (CCS) of the American Library Association (ALA).
The award is a citation and a $2,000 scholarship donated in the recipient's honor by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., to the library school of the winner's choice. It recognizes outstanding professional achievement in cataloging or classification.
Dorothy McGarry is recognized for her multiple contributions to the practice of cataloging, in particular, her prolific involvement in professional association work at regional, national, and international levels. Her service within ALA encompasses a number of divisions and activities. She participated in the development and ongoing revision of several of the International Standard Bibliographic Descriptions (ISBDs) and in IFLA working groups on "Guidelines for Subject Authority Files", and "Principles Underlying Subject Heading Languages".
McGarry has made significant contributions to the cataloging of cartographic and scientific materials. She is a member of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Committee for Cartographic Materials, which prepared the second edition of Cartographic Materials: A Manual of Interpretation for AACR2, 2002.
Throughout Dorothy McGarry's career, she has served as a mentor and trainer to many catalogers, scholars and cataloging activists. The common thread in her professional life is the knowledge, expertise, dedication, and spirit of helpfulness she brings to whatever activity is being undertaken.
Dorothy McGarry holds a master's degree in library science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
The Margaret Mann Citation will be presented on June 26, 2005, at the ALCTS Awards Ceremony during the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago.
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PUBLICATION OF THE FINAL REPORT OF THE AMEGA PROJECT
The Library of Congress is pleased to announce publications of the final report for the AMeGA (Automatic Metadata Generation Applications) project.
Greenberg, J., Spurgin , K., and Crystal, A. Final Report for the AMeGA (Automatic Metadata Generation Applications) Project. Submitted to the Library of Congress, February, 17, 2005.The final report can also be found on the Library of Congress Website for the Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium at <http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/actionplan.html>, which seeks to provide leadership to libraries and other information centers in confronting the challenges of networked resources and the Web.
Available at <http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/lc_amega_final_report.pdf>.
Dr. Greenberg served as Principal Investigator (PI) for the AmeGA project, a research grant that lasted a full year. AMeGA stands for Automatic Metadata Generation Applications; the project's goal was to identify and recommend functionalities for applications supporting automatic metadata generation in the library/bibliographic control community. The project was conducted in connection Section 4.2 of the Library of Congress Bibliographic Control Action Plan. The Action Plan's charge for section 4.2 is to "Develop specifications for a tool that will enable libraries to extract [and harvest] metadata from Web-based resources in order to create catalog records and that will detect and report changes in resource content and bibliographic data in order to maintain those records. Communicate the specifications to the vendor community and encourage their adoption".
The AMeGA research project pursued three main goals:
The report acknowledges the contributions of the MGTF members for their participation and their expert advice. In addition, since the final report was based partially on survey data gathered from a variety of participants that were recruited via a number of listservs , Dr. Greenberg also expressed her gratitude for input of the survey participants, both for the quality and depth of their responses.
To find out more about the AMeGA project, please go to AMeGA Project Website at <http://ils.unc.edu/mrc/amega.htm>.
[originally posted by:]
Bernard L. Karon
Associate Professor, and Head, Technical Services
University of Minnesota Libraries -- Twin Cities
St. Paul Campus Central Library (Magrath)
phone: 612-624-6799
fax: 612-625-3134
e-mail: <b-karo@tc.umn.edu>
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AN UPCOMING PUBLICATION ON CATALOGING DIGITAL RESOURCES
Be on the lookout for a new book to appear soon: Cataloging and Organizing Digital Resources . Co-authors: Anne M. Mitchell and Brian E. Surratt. New York: Neal Schuman Publishing, 2005. LCCN 2005-903; OCLC 57626098.
Anne (my colleague here at Houston) says there is a chapter on cataloging e-books.
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A PUBLICATION ABOUT DIGITAL AUDIO OBJECTS
For any institution considering a digitization program, or for anyone looking for a reminder of basic principles, Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects (TC-04) is an essential introduction and outline of all of the key elements of the audio digitization process.
Published by the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA), Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects (TC-04) was prepared by IASA's renowned Technical Committee, and edited by Kevin Bradley of the National Library of Australia. The Guidelines present a structured summary of current thinking and best practices regarding the digitization and preservation of audio materials. Written in a clear precise manner, this publication will be invaluable for any archive, library, museum or organization faced with the challenges of digitizing audio materials.
These Guidelines have been endorsed by the Sub-Committee on Technology of the Memory of the World Programme of UNESCO. They were also praised and frequently cited at the 2005 Association for Recorded Sound Collections conference in Austin, Texas.
The Guidelines can be ordered through the IASA Website <http://www.iasa-web.org> at a cost of 35 Euro per copy plus 5 Euro for postage. Alternatively, it can be ordered via the North American distributor Nauck's Vintage Records <http://www.78rpm.com/> at a price of $50.00 (US) plus shipping. Nauck's accepts most major credit cards.
The Guidelines provide an excellent introduction to all aspects of digital reproduction including:
The discussion within each of these sections is comprehensive and includes such topics as selection of best copy, cleaning and carrier restoration, replay equipment, speed, replay equalization, various tape formats, alignment, noise reduction, practical aspects of data protection strategies, monitoring of data tape media, backup and migration, and, perhaps the most important of all, costs. There is also a bibliography.
For more information contact:
Ilse Assmann <assmanni@sabc.co.za>, Editor: IASA
or
Kurt Nauck <nauck@78rpm.com>
[originally posted by:]
Richard Green, IASA Vice-President
Acting Manager, Music Section
Library and Archives Canada
395 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0N4
phone: 613-995-3400
fax: 613-952-2895
e-mail: <richard.green@lac-bac.gc.ca>
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