OLAC Outreach Summary
Reported at the ALA Midwinter Meeting
January 12, 2008
Submitted by Deborah Benrubi
Outreach-Advocacy Coordinator
In the second half of 2007 OLAC members and friends were busy promoting OLAC at conferences and workshops.
Sevim McCutcheon from Kent State University answered inquiries from prospective members, recommended the OLAC discussion list to cataloging students, and distributed brochures to cataloging teachers and librarians who give workshops at KSU.
Keri Cascio of the Missouri Library Network Corporation promoted OLAC and distributed brochures in several workshops and classes including "Cataloging Non-Print Materials", and "Cataloging Internet Resources".
Ruth Horie from the University of Hawaii at Manoa shared materials (with permission) from Paige Andrew's 2006 OLAC conference workshop with Pacific Island librarians, including a map cataloging workshop for the Pacific Islands Association of Libraries and Archives conference in Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands. Ruth distributed OLAC brochures at the workshop and in other classes and workshops at UH.
Lynnette Fields, Cataloging Trainer from the MARC of Quality distributed brochures at cataloging workshops at the Kentucky State Library.
Rebecca Lubas from MIT promoted OLAC and distributed brochures to a cataloging class at Simmons College.
Marcia S. Trauernicht from the Rochester Institute of Technology Libraries promoted OLAC with brochures at a workshop on cataloging electronic resources.
Dana Tonkonow from the Elihu Burritt Library, Central Connecticut State University distributed OLAC brochures at workshops in non-print cataloging.
Paige Andrew distributed OLAC brochures at the workshops at University of Georgia, Athens Library and Rutgers University.
Linda M. Gonzalez of the Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR) distributed OLAC brochures at workshops on cataloging sound recordings and visual media.
Jay Weitz of OCLC distributed brochures to attendees of a video cataloging preconference of the Indiana Library Federation in suburban Indianapolis.
As NMRT’s OLAC liason, Jennifer Anderson, from the Mary & Jeff Bell Library at Texas A&M University posted information from the OLAC list to the NMRT discussion list.
Susan Moore from the University of Northern Iowa promoted OLAC at a map cataloging workshop.
As well as answering several inquiries about membership, Deborah Benrubi sent brochures to cataloging instructors at several institutions and am doing another mailing for the spring semester.
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