OUTREACH/ADVOCACY MEMBERSHIP ACTIVITIES
Submitted by Ian Fairclough
Interim Outreach/Advocacy Coordinator
January 2004
Ruth Horie (Hamilton Library, University of Hawaii at Manoa) reports: "I pitched OLAC and the CAPC guidelines for cataloging audiovisual materials and electronic resources to participants in my cataloging pre-conference workshop at the Pacific Islands Association of Libraries, Archives and Museums (PIALA) in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, November 3, 2003."
David Bigwood (Lunar & Planetary Institute, Houston) requested materials for distribution at the Houston program of the SLIS of the University of North Texas "Professional Organizations: An Avenue to Opportunities" session, October 11, 2003 <http://www.unt.edu/slis/slisvisits/houston.htm>. Bigwood operates a Weblog, "Catalogablog", with a readership of about 500, and frequently mentions OLAC. He once wrote: "OLAC is a most worthwhile organization. And membership is cheap, compared to the big library organizations. It is a Best Buy."
<http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/>
Linda Owen (University of California at Riverside) reports: "I presented a poster session at the ALIA Library Technicians conference held in Brisbane, Australia in September. Approximately 50 people actively participated in the 1/2 hour session and the posters and membership flyers were available for viewing for another 3 hours."
Susan Moore (Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa) did two map cataloging workshops: one in Columbia, Missouri at the end of August and one in Lawrence, Kansas at the beginning of September. "I list the OLAC Website as a resource in the handouts I give and talk about the organization as I go through the resource list in the workshop."
Neil Hughes (University of Georgia Libraries) reports: "I just got our new map cataloger to subscribe to OLAC-List. He has not committed to joining OLAC as yet. But I will keep gently urging him to join, stressing that OLAC is ‘more than just AV’ and has been a home for map folks in the library community for some time now."
Sandy Roe (Illinois State University, Normal), in her role as Cataloging News editor for Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, included workshop and session summaries from the 2002 OLAC Conference in CCQ’s v.36, no. 2.
Robert Freeborn (Penn State University Libraries) gave the presentation, "Cataloging Video Recordings: You Oughta Be in Pictures" with James Maccaferri (Clarion University) for the Technical Services Round Table at the Pennsylvania Library Association's Annual Conference, October 3, 2003, in Pittsburgh.
Joanna Fountain (Austin, Texas) continues to mention OLAC in her classes. She reports: "This past year I taught online for the graduate program at McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland, and online continuing education courses for the University of Texas at Austin."
Pam Spiegel (Production Editor, American Libraries) is not to my knowledge an OLAC member. But thanks to her, the OLAC’s 2004 Conference is now listed in ALA’'s Datebook, under "International Events" at:
<http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/datebook/datebook.htm>.
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