NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Barbara Vaughan, Column Editor
UPDATED CONNEXION BROWSER TUTORIAL
The Connexion Browser Tutorial has been updated to include the revised module on searching. This module now introduces the search enhancements that were released in November 2004. It covers Boolean searching, keyword and phrase searching, toggling between truncated and brief lists, and much more.
This section of the Tutorial will require Macromedia Flash Player to run. It is best viewed in 1024x768 screen resolution.
Enjoy!
[originally posted by:]
Linda Gabel
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
6565 Frantz Rd.
Dublin, OH 43017
phone: (800) 848-5878, x6374
FAX: (614) 718-7196
e-mail: gabell@oclc.org
SURA-ViDe 2005 DIGITAL VIDEO CONFERENCE
Registration is now open for the SURA-ViDe 2005 Digital Video Conference. This Conference has become a widely recognized event for learning about development and deployment, showcasing the growing promise of digital video technology. This year’s Conference will take place March 28-31 at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Conference begins on Monday afternoon, March 28, at 2 p.m. at the nearby Georgia Public Broadcasting building. On Monday evening there will be a reception at the hotel and the keynote address by Dr. Elizabeth Daley, Executive Director of University of Southern California’s Annenberg Center for Communication, and an expert on multimedia literacy. Two days of presentations and breakout sessions follow, covering a wide range of topics: instructional and research applications, usage in K-12, international initiatives, new technologies such as H.350, multicasting, data collaboration, managing digital collections, and HDTV over IP.
Post-conference workshops, with separate registration fees, are being offered Thursday, March 31st, providing an opportunity to extend the value of your time and travel.
- "Testing Your Bandwidth: Hands-On How-To for Big Video" - Explore the latest advances in interactive and on-demand applications, with an opportunity to gain hands-on experience with digital video software and hardware configurations. The session will include an overview of multicast, DVTS, DV/IP, HD/IP, costs, bandwidth requirements, and associated production considerations such as lighting and audio. ($150)
- "Moving Image Metadata" - Learn the basics of providing metadata for moving image resources and collections. Topics include the new metadata system MPEG-7, PB-Core (Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s enhancement of Dublin Core), the native data element set of the Moving Image Collections Project, METS (Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard), and digital rights management. The session will feature the Moving Image Collections Project, a joint project of the Association of Moving Image Archivists and the Library of Congress, and created and maintained at Rutgers University, Georgia Tech, and University of Washington. ($150)
- "Internet2 Commons Site Coordinator Training" - Become certified as an approved Site Coordinator for your institution to participate in the Internet2 Commons. ($200)
For more information and to register: <http://www.vide.net/conferences/spr2005>.
[adapted from a message originally posted by:]
Dan Kniesner
Oregon Health & Science University Library
3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Road
Portland Oregon 97239
e-mail: <kniesner@ohsu.edu>
phone: (503) 494-3216
MACHINE-GENERATED CONTENTS NOTES
A Library of Congress CDS Technical Notice
On February 1, 2005, the Library of Congress began enriching bibliographic records with scanned table of contents (TOC) data in field 505, adding information previously available only via 856 links. The 505 data is generated from the TOC information and supplied by computer program. The field will be preceded by the supplied label, "Machine-generated contents note:". The 505 indicators for these machine-generated notes are set to "8" (No display constant generated) and "blank" (Basic; single occurrence of subfield $a).
Since the scanned TOCs come in a wide variety of formats and structures, some errors are to be expected in the placement and configuration of the 505 textual strings. ISBD punctuation for delineation of topics ("space hyphen hyphen space") is inserted after each line break within the TOC. Chapter and page numbers appear as captured from the scanned TOC images. The 505 data will not undergo review for punctuation. The following is a sample 505:
505 8 $a Machine-generated contents note: PREFACE 1. Probability -- 1.1 Introduction 1 -- 1.2 Algebra of Sets 2 -- 1.3 Properties of Functions 5 -- 1.4 Matrix Algebra 13 -- 1.5 Three Approaches 16 -- 1.6 Conditional Probability and Independence of Events 39 -- 1.7 Geometric Probability 48 -- 1.8 Miscellaneous Examples 54 -- Exercises 73 2. Univariate Distribution -- 2.1 Random Variable 80 -- 2.2 Expectation, Variance and Moments 89 -- 2.3 Moment Generating Function 104 -- 2.4 Characteristic Function and Cumulants 106 -- 2.5 Some Standard Discrete Distributions 100 -- 2.6 Some Standard Continuous distributions 128 -- 2.7 Transformation of Variables 143 -- 2.8 Miscellaneous Examples 153 -- Exercises 175 3. Bivariate Distribution -- 3.1 Joint, Marginal and Conditional Distributions 188 -- 3.2 Moments, Conditional Moments 200 -- 3.3 Correlation and Regression 209 -- 3.4 Transformation of Variables 215 -- 3.5 Bivariate Normal Distribution 228 -- 3.6 Bivariate Dirichlet Distribution 235 -- 3.7 Miscellaneous Examples
LC records with existing 856 links to the TOC texts will be batch processed, modified and redistributed on a daily basis until all of the approximately 60,000 records containing links from the 856 to LC’s Web-based dTOC (digital table of contents) records are enhanced. The 856 links to the dTOCs will remain in the records.
This effort should make TOC information more readily available within MARC records and increase access to this valuable data. Questions or comments regarding the scope or data content of these records may be directed to:
John Byrum
Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division
Library of Congress
Washington, DC 20540-4380
e-mail: <jbyr@loc.gov>
phone: (202) 707-5196
As with all contents notes, these 505 fields will be available for editing by any library with a full-level (or higher) cataloging authorization. For anyone editing a machine- generated 505 field to conform to standard AACR2 practice, please change the indicator to "0" and remove the label, "Machine-generated contents note:" at the beginning of the field. See Technical Bulletin 246 for further information on "Database Enrichments": <http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/worldcat/tb/246/>.
[adapted from a message originally posted for the Library of Congress by:]
Brenda Block
OCLC Quality Control
e-mail: <blockb@oclc.org>
UPDATED AUTHORITY TOOLS
It is my pleasure to announce the new and improved Authority Tools for Audiovisual and Music Catalogers: An Annotated List of Useful Resources for 2005. Please visit this resource at <http://www.olacinc.org/capc/authtools.html>.
This resource compiles descriptions of pertinent information sources related to doing authority work for headings on audiovisual and music bibliographic records. All of these descriptions are written by librarians who use these sources. Annually we accept new additions and edit existing entries to keep them current. At the beginning of 2004 we added a counter and recorded 6,925 hits!
New for this year:
- The Da Capo Catalog of Classical Music Compositions by Jerzy Chwialkowski
- Mulheres compositoras by Nilcéa Cleide da Silva Baroncelli
- Enciclopédia da música brasileira : popular, erudita e folclórica. [the 4-volume version]
- The Encyclopedia of British Film edited by Brian McFarlane ; associate editor, Anthony Slide
- Quinlan’s Film Directors by David Quinlan
I want to thank all contributors and to welcome one new contributor this year: James L. Soe Nyun. I also want to thank Sue Neumeister, our tireless Webmaster.
[adapted from a message originally posted by:]
Robert Bratton
Cataloging Librarian
University of Maryland Libraries
ARLIS/NA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
The 33rd Annual Conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) will be held on April 1-6, 2005 at Houston, Texas. The Conference will bring together over half the membership of 1,200 art and architecture librarians, artists, educators, publishers, and visual-resource professionals, representing universities, museums, art schools, and public libraries. Joining them will be scores of exhibitors, booksellers, technology vendors, guest speakers, and local professors, librarians, and curators.
The theme of the 2005 Conference is: “Beyond Borders: Collaborative and Explorative Ventures in Arts Information”. The choice of city allows the program to draw on talent and expertise for sessions on Pre-Columbian and Latin American art, twentieth century architecture, collectors and the city’s own great museums. The plenary address will be delivered by Fred Heath (Director of the University of Texas Libraries) and John Lienhard of the University of Houston, (creator of “The Engines of Our Ingenuity”). The Conference program, along with guides to registration, hotel, and transportation, can be found at the Conference Website <http://www.arlis-txmx.org/arlisna2005/>.
For additional information, please contact:
ARLIS/NA Headquarters
329 March Road, Suite 232
Ottawa, Ontario K2K 2E1, Canada
phone: (800) 817-0621
e-mail: <arlisna@igs.net>
ARSC 2005 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
ARSC proudly announces its 39th Annual Conference, to be held in the "Live Music Capital of the World", Austin, Texas, March 30-April 2, 2005. Hosted by the University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with ARSC’s Texas Chapter, this Conference promises to be lively, enjoyable, and memorable--one you will not want to miss!
For further details about the Conference, visit
<http://arsc-audio.org/conference2005.html>.
ARSC is dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings--in all genres of music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods. The upcoming Conference will reflect this focus. Among the vast array of talks, topics will include:
- music producers and sellers in Austin
- music history and collections in Austin and Texas
- recording technology
- classical, folk, country and gospel music
- copyright issues
- digital preservation
Other exciting activities are being scheduled. The Conference will include tours of the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and the Austin City Limits studio at KLRU.
As a bonus, Conference registrants are likely to find many treasures at the Austin Record Convention. Advertised to be the largest sale of recorded music in the United States, the Convention will take place at the Crockett Event Center, during the weekend of the Conference.
For questions, please contact Kurt Nauck, ARSC Conference Manager, at <nauck@78rpm.com>.
[message originally posted by:]
Anna-Maria Manuel
ARSC Outreach Committee Chair
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP OF THE ARSC CONFERENCE
There will be a pre-conference Workshop held on March 30, 2005, the day before the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Annual Conference in Austin, Texas, March 31-April 2, 2005. The Workshop is jointly presented by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, Education and Training Committee and the Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin. The Workshop is called, "The Assessment, Preservation, and Access of Audio Collections in the Digital Age: an Archival Case Study", and will be held on Wednesday, March 30, 2005, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Detailed information and the registration form can be found at <http://arsc-audio.org/workshop05.html>.
[adapted from a message originally posted by:]
Nancy J. Seeger
Senior Sound Recordings Cataloger
Library of Congress
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Recorded Sound Section
Washington, DC 20540-4698
phone: (202) 707-5494
FAX: 202-707-8464
e-mail: <nsee@loc.gov>
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